I’ve been wishing to use an old feature phone for that one’s advertised purpose. This one is more interesting than refurbishing a hopelessly outdated phone because it’s going to actually work.

In any work setting where it is common to have a work phone and a personal phone, this would make an ideal work phone

Yeah, gotta make the environmental factors financially important to them while they’re deciding what to do, which is unfortunately a very hard thing to do

An antique mechanical typewriter is the best thing I’ve found for writing. Useless for coding, so there’s the product above for that

Yes. They can pay to build their own sources of power of their own choosing. Or put more resources into doing data centers more efficiently, their choice.

Even the advertisers?

When the job requirements are so unsustainable and the safety is so sketchy that they plan for a high turnover rate, robots are the better option.

Yes, people have paid their bills because of these jobs. But I have a hard time believing that the money makes it worth the damage to their health that will follow the worker through their career. There are many other jobs like this that are better left to a machine or else lower the expectations per worker to improve working conditions

This is great news!

If it looks like the example photos, it’s a more elegant solution. I’m not fully sold on the paper rolls vs the standard reams of paper, but being able to package the printer like that looks amazing

It is. Some of them are getting snapped up to help with powering factories.

I think this is car companies using the incoming battery packs from replacing worn out packs. Time to look it up…

https://www.autoblog.com/news/toyota-just-found-a-clever-new-use-for-old-ev-batteries

This is the article I was thinking of. It’s more of an idea than a common use case to use old packs to help power factories.

Yes, more specialized robots for now. When it’s harder to build for a human to do the job, build for a robot to do the job.

At some point in the future, it makes sense to combine the features of different types of robots into one form that can step in to human jobs

So it’s more of a milestone to catch early battery degradation rather than a cutoff point below which the battery is labeled useless?

What’s so bad about 80% of the original capacity? Wouldn’t there be a lot of use cases for a car with 80% of the range?

I’m glad to see any second use for these batteries before recycling. Gotta combat the narrative that “an EV battery is trash after 5 years!”

For home charging to keep up with a commute, a normal wall outlet all night long is fine. It just needs to be installed where the car is parked, and it should have some protection from weather while the car is plugged in.

And take it one step further so that whoever wants to check on it will see the ads playing even though no ads are playing.

Gemini simplified it to this:

“Algorithmic Sabotage” is a new idea about tech rebellion and fighting bad technology. It’s not against tech itself, but about people pushing back together. It wants to break down profit-driven power in the online world, help us do what’s right, and stop computer rules from controlling too much. This is a political stand, not just a tech one, rooted in fairness for everyone, everyone being treated the same, and people helping each other. It goes against how tech makes things unfair and gives some too much control. It’s all about groups of people managing bad tech and building a different, collective way of thinking through art and action. For example, it could mean making artificial intelligence act unexpectedly or looking at how tech is used to create misleading appearances or exert influence.

Using some of the incoming power to run the AC seems reasonable. Especially when the battery is above 75% charged. It would be interesting if the AC would go harder for more minutes per hour as the charge level gets higher.

Has anyone found the places where the navigators work to see how it goes? Has a navigator shared their experience on the web somewhere?

I am very curious as to what they are asked to do and for how many cars And for how much money

Packaging the job as a video game side quest is genius. Make so the gamer has to do several simulated runs before they connect to an actual car, and give in-game expensive consequences for messing it up

Thanks, I hate it (Suno song generator)

https://suno.com/song/c8b746e7-95ab-496a-b5fe-f079112059cb

Power saving mode. The maximum power saving mode allows for just a few apps to run at all, so picking out the apps that are for communication gets the outcome you’re looking for, as long as you keep the phone on that maximum power saving mode.

I had a phone with a physical keyboard that small. Surprisingly easy to work with.