I wouldn’t call them super cheap though they depreciate a lot from the new prices. Lots of quality ICE cars of similar age at lower prices, i.e. they are still expensive cars.

You can get fantastically good deals on used Fiskers. The company is bankrupt but there’s a lively community of owners and getting stuff like repair parts isn’t hard. I’m slightly tempted but only slightly. What I really want is an EV conversion for an old cargo van, so it would have very few computers inside.

Overall I think we’re going to see a much higher quality of software, ironically around the same level than before 2000 when the net became usable by everyone to download fixes. When the software had to be pressed to CDs or written to millions of floppies, it had to survive an amazing quantity of tests that are mostly neglected nowadays since updates are easy to distribute.

Finally someone else said that.

PIC64 is a product line now? And it’s Risc-V underneath? Interesting. PIC32 is/was MIPS-32 so I guess it fits.

These are services, nothing to do with source code, and most don’t release theirs.

Wong Kim Ark was itself a baffling decision imho. I read through it once. It seemed to me that it should have been 1 sentence, “Constitution says citizen, therefore he legally is one”. Instead it went through dozens of pages of nuanced and somewhat precarious reasoning to reach the same conclusion.

That the current SCOTUS took this case at all made it sound like they were inclined to overturn Wong Kim Ark, and decide that the Constitution really didn’t mean what it said.

I’ve self-hosted Gogs which is a predecessor of Forgejo and it used very few resources. A tiny VPS is plenty. Fossil (fossil-scm.org) is even smaller, but it’s a DVCS that’s not directly compatible with Git.

For personal projects you don’t really need a “forge”. I just use self-hosted git directly, with no web UI. Just “git pull” and so on. That’s what the Linux kernel devs do, so it’s obviously workable even for huge projects. There’s actually a web interface (gitweb) that comes with git, but it’s mostly to let other users browse your repo.

If you’re doing something of public interest, savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongnu.org might be worth looking into. They are curated, so you have to submit your project and they decide if they want host it. There’s lots of stuff there, it’s just not for random personal projects.

I don’t feel a need to use github. Github users can pull from non-github repos. If I’m not on github I don’t get to use their workflow but that’s ok. That’s a deficiency in github obviously, and it’s not my job to fix github.

I see, like putting the person on speaker phone. Not nice, but thanks!

I didn’t hear a mention of this watch being usable for phone calls but if that’s in the cards, then I guess that’s a legitimate application, though I don’t see how it would work. You hold your wrist up to your ear? Sounds painful. Is it somehow better than using an earbud? If you don’t want to walk around wearing an earbud like a Borg when you’re not on a call, maybe they could put an earbud holder onto the watchband. The watch could be shaped to accomodate the earbud and maybe even recharge it, if it’s shaped like an Airpod.

There’s a whole book about this, written (wow) all the way back in 1996. The Challenger Launch Decision, by Diane Vaughan. Technically a different incident, but it sounds like history repeats.

Yes and it’s a constant issue, and there is tons of security stuff in the phone to deal with the mic’s presence. I’ve elsewhere suggested making phones with no mics, so if you want to make a voice phone call you have to use an external mic. At least the phone has an important application that uses the mic.

The mic in this watch seems to have been added to the hardware just because they could. But as they say, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

This is about a watch, not a phone. It looks like they added the mic as an afterthought.

The crappy old Casio that I use now has no microphone and no wireless comms. Just an LCD and some pushbuttons.

Ugh, it has a microphone. Eavesdropping malware incoming. And it’s another big clonky smartwatch.

It’s nice that it has a blood oxygen sensor I guess. And there’s a 6d accelerometer. I don’t see mention of a temperature sensor either, though with the wireless connectivity and presumed frequent recharging, I guess you can keep correcting the time.

I still like the Sensorwatch (sensorwatch.net) better. Much more modest, smaller, etc. Runs for a year on a coin cell, has a temperature sensor which can used to correct the oscillator and give timing accuracy to within a few seconds a year, and other cool stuff.

See if you can get some time off. Sleep a lot and exercise during it.

This looks AI, or at least blithering.

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Go to settings > notifications and turn off unified push. It’s a bug, someone posted the gitlab link further up.

I know that one player (Koneru Humpy) withdrew because of safety concerns, and others seemed sympathetic. I don’t have a sense of how serious the concerns really are.

There’s no World Cup this year since the Candidates’ tournaments will take its place (https://candidates2026.fide.com/). The Candidates’ will be played in Cyprus from March 28 to April 16, assuming the venue isn’t blown up by then (it apparently came under some kind of bombing attack due to the Iran war).

The World Cup last year was held in Goa, India (https://worldcup2025.fide.com/) so travel to the US wasn’t an issue for either event. Travel FROM the US might be problematic for some people, depending on what the unpredictable US government does.