Wander
@Wander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure 2 weeks ago:
Brits are really weird in the sense they think everything about technology should be controlled to some terrorist and shit. They have no worry about what that level of informational control could do.
1984 should be read in school.
There are only 2 things British people care about 1 is GPS tracking on cars. People hate hate hate the idea that they cannot speed, doesn’t matter how many lives it saves they are a good driver and they are always late. Second is ID cards for some really weird reason, passports are find but having an optional ID card is a massive no. I even spoke to people about it and said okay how would it work in practise, what are you scared of? “Well the corrupt police could arrest me and make me show them ID and I couldn’t refuse.” “So let’s say a corrupt police office just came in now arrested you and took you wallet. Are you telling me they couldn’t work out who you are from what’s in you wallet right now?” “Well they could but I don’t NEED all that, I could just be carrying cash” “But you aren’t and you never are”
People hate the idea of it. But government want to spy on your conversations, images, location, contacts, what you read, porn. Oh yea go ahead if it means people don’t have to turn on the adult filter on the WiFi or on the phone data which come as standard then go ahead. Easy.
- Comment on ‘Suddenly energy independence feels practical’: Europeans are building mini solar farms at home 2 weeks ago:
Grid going down?
I think the last time I experienced that was 15 years ago. Even then it was only for a couple of hours.
Like it’s such a non event as to not even bother trying to fix it.
- Comment on California utility PG&E is piloting two devices that strategically throttle power use so that new EVs and heat pumps don’t mean costly home and grid upgrades. 4 weeks ago:
Here is a goof technology connection video about why at peak time no own would need there car to charge, stove to heat up, hot water tank to run and the air conditioning. But you can totally see them all coming on at the same time in a typical household.
- Comment on [Precision Fermentation] Healthier Comforts, The Every Co Roll Out Animal-Free Egg White Protein Powder 5 weeks ago:
I was wondering that myself.
Maybe it’s not digital tech so people don’t care? Maybe they think it’s an add.
I was just surprised/ happy it is a commercial reality.
- Comment on [Precision Fermentation] Healthier Comforts, The Every Co Roll Out Animal-Free Egg White Protein Powder 5 weeks ago:
This could be used in bulk in the manufacture of foods.
Great futuristic way to get egg whites without the killing and ecological harm.
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- Comment on 2022 was a bleak year 😢 5 weeks ago:
Quorn are bigger and better I think.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yes. So many of these threads read like Elon is stupid for trying to put humanoid robots in a factory from 1945 when he could just use a robotic arm or specialised machinery.
No, robotic arms and specialised machinery have replaced most labour, at least when compared to total output, already. If they didn’t do that they would have been shutdown a long time ago for lack of productivity and high costs. It’s not 1945 anymore, factories have spent 80 years trying to replace workers and humanoid robots and AI might (eventually) be the final piece.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It seems to me we agree on everything except scale.
You don’t see humanoid robots being good enough and cheap enough to replace humans in any job. I do. I think it will start slow and progress overtime. Same how robotic arms started slow and then reaching more factories and more types of work.
The price people are saying these robots will cost is way less that what it costs to keep humans around.
The reason a humanoid robot will be used over a robotic arm is the same reason humans are used over a robotic arm that’s flexibility. The reason a humanoid robot will be used over a human is cost.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
All the work done by humans right now.
Tends to be either stuff that is difficult to automate or work that is so short as to not be cost effective to buy a robot that only does that one job.
Humans aren’t good at doing most thing. But they are very very good at doing a lot of things.
Flexibility is the main thing that employs people in factories right now.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The majority of work that can be done by simple arm robots has been replaced with simple arm robots.
The humanoid robots are not going to fulfill that niche.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 1 month ago:
Yea agree.
I personally don’t even like the NFL because the games so bloody slow and commercialised. But it still seems like a good crack.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 1 month ago:
People are so sad and edgy on this site.
Community, fun, drinks, going out of the house and doing something. That sounds awful.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 month ago:
They trying to make them with work with either memory alloys or with magnetic materials.
Same principle have something can go hot and cold based on some external control. But they will be done on solid materials not fluids.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 month ago:
Sometimes things just get horrifically cheap.
Could be pencils or shoes or lightbulbs or books a million one other things. Onetime they was rare and capitalism made them so common practically everyone into he world can have them.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 2 months ago:
Is that Chiwetel Ejiofor?
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 2 months ago:
People have lost the plot on what is morbidly obese.
To most people obese is healthy and health is dangerously underweight.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 2 months ago:
Thanks for trying but you’re pissing into the wind in this place.
- Comment on aspirations 2 months ago:
Gooning is the least bad thing about that generation.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 2 months ago:
If you get the train downtown then you are already downtown. You don’t need a self driving car at all. You need a way to get from your house to the train station by self driving car.
Or you have a lot more demand responsive transport. Everyone gets on a mini bus in the suburbs and you all get dropped off at the stores or locations you want one by one.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 2 months ago:
55% of trips in Sweden are cars. I’d call that the default.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 2 months ago:
I think self driving cars will help tbh. Only way it will happen.
Less parking. Solves last mile problem.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 2 months ago:
No. Not really.
- Comment on Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02] 4 months ago:
I watched a good video on tool quality.
It basically said the exact same old tool is better than the new tool now. But the new tool is priced much much less. When they compared it to a modern tool that was the same price or less it performed the same or better.
People just want cheap things and companies want to make money. People need to buy quality and companies will get an incentive to build quality.
- Comment on Had to look this up 4 months ago:
Americans seem to miss that the IRA (Irish Republican Army) were terrorists. Lots of people were killed including children.
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