Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn’t like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn’t like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
Thanks for the advice; I’ll check into that. It’s probably 6 meters at most if I run the cable behind things. My keyboard and mouse might work but it might be tight depending upon which version of bluetooth their dongles run (I don’t have bluetooth on the motherboard).
I haven’t gotten this yet. Not sure if my TV is too old (2017 IIRC) or because I’m in Japan. I plan to just move my current PC into the living room when I can afford to upgrade but RAM prices just went nuts and video cards are still very expensive here (relative to wages but also because PC gaming is a niche hobby). I hate it.
I don’t use a smartphone enough to worry about it. If I am using my phone, most of the time it’s either Anki, Google Maps, or, like you mention, banking/government stuff.
Texting via SMS (or whatever it is these days) isn’t really a thing in Japan, either, which makes things more difficult especially as I despise talking on the phone. If, for example, I’m at the supermarket and wife remembers something she needs, getting that message is good
I was redhat/mandrake of which neither worked well on my PC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and mint (playing with distros like LoaF at various points).
I got started on Linux at home from the valley of despair on early-2000s Gentoo. It wasn’t that bad, but I did have a lot more time on my hands being too poor to go out most of the time.
I just put mint on a laptop yesterday; got no time for it anymore
My company thankfully still employs simultaneous interpreters for meetings and has one translator on staff. I think, at least in part, because of how bad translation tools can be from EN <> JA.
Both BYD and Tesla have announced humanoid robots for around $10k starting next year.
I can’t speak to BYD, but Tesla has claimed all kinds of things that never materialize or are not what they claimed to be.
That aside, I don’t think most people have $10k laying around. Most couldn’t even afford a $1k expense (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-money-emergency-expenses-2025/), so I don’t think we’ll be seeing any widespread adoption at that price in the near future (which is what I took your comment to mean, but maybe that’s not what you meant).
For clarity, I’m not someone who’s just anti-AI, I’m just someone who thinks it’s way over-hyped, is being shoved in places it doesn’t need to be (especially in a half-baked state), is an environmental disaster, and has many other problems.
Computer vision to track inventory and expiration of food in a refrigerator could be useful for busy households
I don’t think this is a problem in a lot of the world. Commercial kitchens already have rules and inventory management systems. The only thing I could think of where it might be useful is looking for mold on things, but I suspect most people are using containers into which something couldn’t clearly see.
A dishwasher could cut its cycle short if it sees that dishes are clean, saving water and energy.
Maybe? It would still need to learn all the dishes the person has and what clean and nonclean versions are. That training and calling the model has its own environmental impacts and I don’t know that implementing it would save energy over the life of the appliance due to the extra costs in energy to train and call it.
My washer has settings for heavier and lighter washes based on what’s going in (as does my clothes washer)
In addition, robots are home appliances that require AI
They do not.
Robotic vacuum cleaners learn their surroundings and navigate using machine learning
This could all be done with sensors and rules and, in fact, was. Unless we’re being super loose with what “machine learning” means here. We’ve been teaching robots to semi-autonomously navigate courses and return for ages.
We’re also likely to see humanoid robots(or similarly flexible platforms) becoming household appliances in the near future.
That’s so gross to me personally that I don’t want to think about it. Both from a security as well as environmental perspective. I also disagree that it’s close, at least for how I think you’re using “close” here.
As a software engineer, hard disagree. There is no need for any AI in any of that. The device will have gone through various testing. If they wanted to implement this, they could use what they learnt in all the testing to set threshold values and run occasional diagnostics, all on-board with no internet, to know about such things. The only internet even required might be updates to those tables of values (or if a user wanted to opt in to sharing their data for whatever reason).
Fewer hurricanes out there, and other natural disasters as well. I don’t know how tuscon is seismically, but otherwise it has a lot of lowere risks from nature, probably
I dropped mine as a new rider in a parking lot due to two contradicting signs (yay construction). Break light sensor on rear break getting in a weird state was the only issue, thankfully.
Dropped it in my garage a couple of weeks ago. Thought the stand was down but I guess it sprung back up. No damage to the bike, a bruise and soreness for me. I wanted to get out of the high heat and humidity so probably wasn’t being as careful as I should have been.
What’s interesting is that, at least at the place I went, we had to be able to pick up the bike to take license classes so I just assumed everywhere did that.
I didn’t like Lemmy at first, possibly because it had this weird auto-refresh thing and other issues. I found mbin instead and have been with it since. I may check out Piefed at some point. My instance recently has been struggling with donations and I can’t really help right now.
I don’t use an app for mbin, just browser. The one thing I will say is that images are broken on mobile (Android) as there is no X to close the image, annoyingly.
Function > durability > cost > tons of other things > “interestingness”
We have a lot of non-management whom are all-in and drinking the kool-ade. I’m still highly put off for a number of reasons, but an outlier.
Although insta has been making inroads, it was the default in Japan for a long time for govt info, shop notifications (bars, art galleries, you name it), as well as other customer interaction.
As someone who owns a Kawasaki motorcycle and has been very pleased with their sales and service staff: won’t touch that thing. I don’t even know how/where one would refuel the thing; I’ve not seen hydrogen Stations anywhere here in japanJapan so far despite various automakers talking about it.
I borrowed one (I can’t even tell you what the make/model was) in the early 2000s. The pics were OK, but the thing took forever to save; there was no quick shooting by pressing the button again.
I really liked unless in perl; especially as I get older !length or something makes that bang really easy to miss. I use !(length) or something instead to visually set it aside. unless made this much more visually clear.
I could be connected to the internet but unable to route to something so there may be cases where an internet connection does not strictly mean the internet is working properly
I’m a US citizen and my wife is not. My grandparents are not long for this world. If one of them pass, I will be going to the US alone because I am terrified my wife, who speaks little English, will end up in some ICE camp. It’s horrifying and heartbreaking.