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When corners aren't cut building the planes, and Boeing has never cut corn... oh, crud.
It's about 2TB in zstd compression, so finding the needles will be interesting - but it'll probably be much easier years from now.
--- In one of Gazzaniga’s experiments, researchers presented the word “walk” to a patient’s right brain only. The patient immediately responded to the request and stood up and started to leave the van in which the testing was taking place. When the patient’s left brain, which is responsible for language, was asked why he got up to walk, the interpreter came up with a plausible but completely incorrect explanation: “I’m going into the house to get a Coke.”
In another exercise, the word “laugh” was presented to the right brain and the patient complied. When asked why she was laughing, her left brain responded by cracking a joke: “You guys come up and test us each month. What a way to make a living!” Remember, the correct answer here would have been, “I got up because you asked me to,” and “I laughed because you asked me to,” but since the left brain didn’t have access to these requests, it made up an answer and believed it rather than saying, “I don’t know why I just did that.” ---
Aside from interfacing with ISA cards emulation is probably better - an old mid/high end phone with a portable bluetooth keyboard and limbo x86 (via f-droid) sounds promising.
For laptops, there are some lovely cheap little Chromebooks out there that are near/past their update expiration date and if you want a slight challenge you can get an ARM one like the Asus C101P.
But there's something about having real hardware to do things like this...
I'd rather have a revised Spark EV with rear wheel drive and 200mi range myself.
TL;DR the puck should get there very soon, not just Really Soon Now.
If it was actually opt-in and helped people make better snaps...
(I'm well outside their key demo now, but their push messages seem out of touch even taking that into account. No, I'm not interested in lenses or adding people I've never had any reason to hear of...)
edit: Thinking about it a bit more, after their initial thing they've generally been missing boats... they could have made a nice TikTok clone with the snap map as a bonus - but most of the vaguely interesting snaps on the map don't have user info, and subscribing to the interesting users seems bugged on top of that.
There are too many actually useful things coming out of this for a true winter. And for there not to be a bubble.
Also the later generation thin clients (i.e. Dell/Wyse 5060, 5070) are cheaper still and also pretty good. They're reasonably responsive for desktop tasks and can even drive 4k60 over DisplayPort.