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I have used IP KVMs to manage remote machines over the years, yes. They are what you described.

The latency is adequate but not on par with a physical keyboard, and latency will depend on network performance.

IP KVMs can and do work with the MacBook trackpad, but as above, performance is not what you would expect from a wired, real-time connection, and you should not expect multi-finger gestures to work unless explicitly advertised.

You may want to consider an IP KVM for the Mac Mini, then.

They're getting small: https://www.ikoolcore.com/products/jetkvm

Not hardware solutions, but:

Universal Control: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102459

Synergy: https://symless.com/synergy

The Mac keyboard and trackpad do not have external connectors. A hardware solution would require opening the MacBook and wiring ports and a switch from those devices. There is not a plug and play solution.

Ah, yes, Etsy, the place where my wife placed orders months ago and now has to pay unexpected tariffs. American capitalism, huzzah!

(This is a true story.)

I'm just sitting here running Debian, watching distros come and go.

In twenty years, I'll just be sitting here running Debian, watching distros come and go.

(Twenty years ago, I was actually running Debian, watching distros come and go, although I had a dalliance with Gentoo, don't tell Deb or Ian.)

Will the word "enshittification" make anyone any money except for perhaps Cory Doctorow? No? There we have it.

Creators have the option to turn on auto-dubbing. Youtube doesn't do it automatically.

You have the option to turn it off under the gear icon in audio track.

If that's not it, feel free to post an offending video.

Tesla Model Y is number 3 in China so far this year. Model 3 is 8th. https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/what-were-best-s...

GEOS 2.0 was in fact released for the C128 in 1989. It did not spur continued interest in the machine, similar to how GEOS 1.x was not a primary driver for interest in the C64.

GEOS was also released for the Apple II and PC/GEOS for IBM PC compatibles in 1988 and 1990 respectively, even beating Windows 3.0 to the market. Neither version established any substantial market share.

There simply was never substantial demand for GEOS. While actual sales figures are hard to come by, it seems very likely there was substantially less interest in GEOS than in the Amiga platform. It would not have "saved" Commodore.

Didn't say that snow/lawn work was $10k/year, I indicated that was in addition to (more expensive, typically) housekeeping services.

My point was that Americans very much hire household assistants, but they're specialized and on-premises for a short time to maximize value and minimize costs. In the past week, I've had housekeepers, lawn service, a plumber and a handyman at my house. They were all great, and did better work than I would do, but I wouldn't have any of those people do the jobs of any of the others. Why pay $20k to a generalist 10 hours a week when I can get specialists who can do more in less time?

There just isn't a great need for non-specialized assistance at $20k/year. My housekeepers and lawn service are on auto-schedule and auto-pay, so they require a bare minimum of my time. I would have a hard time trusting a low-paid part-time personal assistant to facilitate and review plumbing and construction work beyond the most basic fixes.

Think about a single renter with a small to medium size apartment. They don't need groundswork or maintenance, that's included in the rent. How much housekeeping do they need in a small to mid-size apartment? They often get grocery/food delivery and/or just microwave stuff. There are plenty of delivery laundry services or apartments with washer/dryers en suite. How many errands do they need to run that they don't need to be personally present for? You can't send an assistant to the DMV, after all.

Think about dual high earners with kids. They're going to need child care, and that's going to take a huge bite of their income. They don't need a 10-hour-a-week assistant, they either need more than that at home (a nanny), or they're white-knuckling it to save for their kids' current or future school tuition.

Think about a single-earner couple. One of the couple can stay home and take care of the kids and all of the things that an assistant could do.

tl;dr: Americans absolutely hire human assistants, just not in the kind of generalist model you're thinking, because it's just not worth the kind of money it would take.

520 hours at $10k/year is only around $19/hour. This is minimum wage in some American cities like San Francisco, and fast-food starting salaries in many other large cities. You're simply not able to hire someone for bespoke meal prep, housecleaning and random errands for $19/hour in America - or if you can, they will either not be competent or move on quickly to higher paying jobs.

Having a housekeeping service come for an hour or so weekly and a lawn maintenance and snow clearing service every two weeks will cost around $10k a year total in many large or mid-size cities, and many upper middle class earners do in fact use those services.

The Walmart/Walmart.com TOS and Privacy Policy documents only say:

> We collect your personal information from technology we use in and outside of our stores. For example, our point-of-sale terminals process your credit card information when you complete your purchase [...]

Which is pretty obvious. Nothing about them explicitly tracking in-store purchase history via credit card numbers, which as above, they certainly do and allow you to disable in your account settings.

As another example, southern grocer H-E-B is famous for not having loyalty cards and tracking in-store customer behaviors via credit card number, regardless of whether you have an HEB.com account. They then sell that data to vendors. [0]

This NYT article from several years ago verifies that Target ties all credit card purchases to a unique "guest ID". [1]

Can you cite the US federal regulation or Visa/Mastercard TOS that prohibits tracking customer purchase behavior by credit card number without consent? There may be state or local statutes I'm unaware of, but I'm confident there's nothing on a country-wide level.

You are absolutely correct that Apple Pay and Android Pay do not allow tracking in this manner due to anonymous tokenizing. But that's nothing new - going back to the subject of the article, tracking generally isn't possible with cash transactions as well.

[0] https://www.pmidpi.com/blog/newsletter/h-e-b-releasing-custo...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

Here in the US, it's absolutely allowed.

Walmart, for example, will by default add in-store purchases using a credit card (and no other identifying information) to the purchase history on a Walmart.com account set up with the same credit card.

You can only disable this tracking by going into Account > Settings > Privacy > Data Sharing in your Walmart.com account, where you'll find an option that states "Allow us to automatically add store purchases to your purchase history using credit card."

For many, many years, decades now, I've been referring to Microsoft as "small and limp" and well, Elon can do whatever he wants but he can't take that away.

> Can Flipper Zero do anything at all?

Spoiler: Not really, but it sure looks fun. Maybe hack your '70s garage opener? Yeah, yeah.

You are relegated having a booth at AI World 2027 in Santa Monica. You will have to dress up in branded polo shirts and shout down passers-by with claims of your AI wares. You will have custom backdrops printed. You will break even on the marketing expenditure, but just barely.

Perhaps it's because marketing bullshit.

Outside of the hype machine, do the heavily EV-adopting nordic countries have 5 minute chargers? Oops, no, they don't. OK.

It's just hype. I hope it becomes an actual thing at some point.

Flipper Zero is just too thicc.

Hi! It me. I had a car with keyless entry years ago. It was great. I got another car, more recently, that had a physical key. I've hated having to use the physical key. I personally am asking for keyless entry. Sorry!

Also: Hyundai/Kia cars have physical keys and are known to be trivially hot-wired. Given the "kia boyz" I'd have a hard time moving to physical keys again. Again, sorry!

What in the world is wrong with GM and their lack of support for Android Auto and/or Carplay? Seriously, what is the deal? Certainly made me cross them right off the list.

You've never worn glasses, have you? Having something hanging from (or attached to) your head 1-2" from your eyes is quite a bit different than just looking down at things as one might do, including looking at a letter or one's phone.

If Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the future is "get everyone to wear glasses or visors" he's just gonna have a hard time.

I regret to inform you that water, fiber content and weight don't move the bar on satiety for those chronically overweight. If so, we all could just down green beans or Metamucil and feel totally full. (Narrator: they were still hungry.)

Similarly, we would all be eating pounds of cheesecake without feeling full. (Narrator: they did get full, but not after eating too much calorically.)

Satiety is not dictated by weight. Please don't.

1. Because we've tried LLMs for basic things

2. They told us something false or that didn't work

3. We tried LLMs again

4. They failed again by telling us something false or that didn't work

5. We lost trust in them, at least for the time being

I just want a job where I don't ever have to be on Slack after-hours, work only 8.5 hours a day, and don't have to pretend to use the boss' terrible AI-du-jour they're trying to replace me with.

Guess I'm out of a career.

I feel like SOUTHLAND TALES, a movie written and shot before the iPhone was released, is quite helpful here. The movie emphasizes all of our post-9/11 failings in American culture at a time before Facebook or Twitter or any of the social media nonsense people blame the current awfulness on. The problems we face as Americans are far deeper than "cell phones" or "the Internet".

The scissor-switch keyboards on most modern laptops are radically and wildly superior to the membrane keyboards from the '90s or the horrific butterfly Apple keyboards from 2016-2020.

Perhaps a niche, but it is strange how objectively bad keyboards got before literally anyone complained, even though in retrospect we all look back at those terrible keyboards with disgust.

I hoarded mechanical keyboards for years and years (and adapters to use these AT-connector and ADP devices with then-modern machines), and always wondered why people put up with the terrible membrane keyboards of the 90s and aughts. The answer then as now was always the same - the keyboard market is driven by price, and people wanted cheap keyboards.

Today, we all know that wasn't the case, as (often pricy) mechanical keyboards are (thankfully) back in vogue.

It was just lack of availability the whole time.

(Yes, my purchasing decisions are very keyboard-driven.)

I think my question here would be why there already isn't that kind of option on the market.

I'm OS agnostic - I don't have a strong preference and I'm productive in macOS, Windows and Linux. In the problematic 2016-2019 days of the terrible Apple butterfly keyboard, I auditioned several Windows/Linux laptops from different manufacturers as my "next" laptop. They were all sub-par in terms of build quality than my five year old pre-butterfly MBP.

I'm not a huge fan of macOS, and I'm certainly not a fan of iOS, but I use Apple gear these days because the build quality is so good. Would I buy a higher quality laptop than Apple's built in either China or the US? In a heartbeat. Even with a 20% markup! I find it bizarre nobody's pulled it off, regardless of country of manufacture.

The question isn't entirely whether one would pay more for a US-made computer, it's:

"Would you buy a Made In America computer from Anduril for 20% more than Chinese-manufactured options from Apple?"

I think there's absolutely a place for a high-end made-in-America Windows laptop that can compete with the quality of Apple's post 2020 laptops. Honestly, Dell and Lenovo's laptops are uninspiring and it's entirely possible that a competitor could eat their lunch. But whether I buy one? It's entirely contingent on the laptop's quality meeting or exceeding Apple's current standards.