algorithmae @ algorithmae @lemmy.one

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This is the reason my house has:

• mechanical locks
• mechanical windows
• routers using OpenWRT
• no smart home crap
• no Alexa/Google Assistant/...
• no internet connected thermostats

I came to college with an AP Calc 2 credit, and my counselor suggested I retake it for an "easy GPA boost"

Little did I know the only professor to teach Calc 2 was one of the worst teachers of all time, and everyone frequently got low grades in his class. It put my scholarship into jeopardy, and I had to go a long way up the chain and beg for a whole slew of overrides, to apply my old AP credit and avoid taking the same course with the same professor again.

So yeah, be careful as you might get a shit professor and hurt your GPA. You might be better off just getting study materials or tutoring from a 3rd party so it won't have a chance to negatively affect your academic standing

Oh THAT'S how you do it? That was one feature of Chrome that I couldn't figure out how to do with Firefox. Thanks!

That's neat and yeah around the same price point. Looks like it also has parametric functions too. I'll look more into it too, thank you!

I didn't look too far into it but that might be exactly what I need. I'm more focusing on one-off projects vs mass-produced products so I don't need a lot of the features of $$$$ CAD suites

Thank you very much for the recommendation! I haven't seen Plasticity yet in any "CAD shootout" comparisons and it looks super interesting.

$100 for a non-subscription commercial license is probably the most appealing part right out the gate.

They should personalize ads to my bank account balance

Yeah exactly. I forgot the context, but something came up in conversation with my friend Sandy about how she was the terminator... Boom instant Sandybot 3000 for great laughs all around

The only thing I've ever used AI for was to make a quick funny picture that never existed before. I guess it has its place sometimes.

For the uninitiated:

https://youtu.be/sY1iLJjPzbg?si=DtPYQa8RACY7bxmx

Yeah definitely depends on the application. I'd suggest something inert, heat, and moisture resistant, so fiberglass and sand would be good ideas.

So like epoxy resin, mixed with ground plastic and possibly other additives?

Yes. At the very minimum you can locate the GSM transmitter and snip a few circuit board traces. It's not simple by any means but as long as it's not integrated into a monolithic chip it will be possible.

No, it likely is sending your UUID to a sever and comparing it to a list to see if it's a duplicate

Rogue Legacy has this as its whole gimmick. The second one is pretty good!

Not everyone is interacting with ML on a frequent basis. If it's your first foray and you're running into issues, these would be good tips to try if you've never experienced it before.

That's a load of crock, I don't have any ads that wouldn't normally be in apps

Eh you get what you pay for. I have a "kamija" branded one that I use on my nightstand daily for about 5 years now. Has an aluminum base and weighs a ton. Looks like they didn't survive covid though, RIP

If you don't mind "dumbing down," the bulbs with an infrared or RF remote don't require any apps. I prefer those for that reason

I was pretty tolerant of YouTube ads up until a year ago, when they started playing unskippable food ads which I morally disagree with. No amount of "not relevant" made them go away so I'm hardcore ad-free now. I even tried YouTube premium until they decided to jack up the price on my second month of having it, so fuck em