ryan @ ryan @the.coolest.zone

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Oh, if that's the case then it makes perfect sense why Wordpad is being deprecated, and I'm glad Microsoft is keeping things simple and sensible for average basic users. I've only ever used a corporate image for W11 so it didn't have those shortcuts.

Hey, it also has tabs on Windows 11, which is a very useful feature! It's the only thing I find myself missing when I move from my W11 work laptop back to my W10 home desktop.

So, I've been mulling this over. I know Microsoft Word web version is free and I suppose that's their replacement, but it needs to be more accessible if that's the case. Like, for my very Average Mom who buys a laptop, she actually was using Wordpad for years until I got her onto my M365 family plan because it was a built in program and she knows how to navigate the Start menu and open programs.

Assuming a parallel universe where she didn't have access to desktop Word, how does she know Microsoft Word Online is available to her? Is there a shortcut on the desktop, or directly from Edge? Should there be a start menu icon which opens it up directly? Has Microsoft considered this? I would hope they have.

I moved from a Moto X many years ago and I still miss the double flick to open the camera. I also miss how compact that phone was.

I'm a Boimler and I'm okay with that. Just happy to be here, doing my job, learning new things, occasionally having meltdowns about stupid stuff.

When these things were originally being tested, at least the Waymo ones I'm familiar with, there was a driver who could manually override in case of issues. Honestly, if these things still have issues with emergency situations (and other unexpected situations), they absolutely still need a driver with the ability to manually override the car. That way, they can still test the self-driving function while being able to actually maneuver the car out of the way of things like this.

Access logs, sure, but I'm thinking of like federated user logs. Because for example, you're not accessing the.coolest.zone, you're on lemmy.world. I wouldn't have your IP address, and even if you dipped over to the .zone I'd not be able to associate it with your account.

I assume what they mean by IP address collection is in fact access logs, as opposed to everything else which comes thru standard ActivityPub protocols. And, Meta being Meta, they probably have enough info and tracking pixels on us all to be able to correlate all that data together.

I realize we're all on the "fuck Meta" train (and yes, fuck 'em), but I will note that my kbin instance is also collecting all of that from y'all just due to how federation works (except for IP address I believe).

Social interaction. It would be nice to not just be so exhausted talking to people. It would be nice to not dread the idea of sending someone a text, like it's some insane mental effort and not the smallest thing. It would be nice to not be lonely but totally unwilling to do what it takes to correct it.

Apologies if I sounded flippant. The first part of the article made it sound to me like companies weren't developing this with any real urgency, hence why they had to do it themselves:

They knew that a fairly straightforward piece of software could make their lives much easier, but no companies were developing it quickly enough.

And I suppose what I meant by "basic medical care" is more that, at least to the extent I am aware of, the medical community is well-versed in how to manage the issue, and with the amount of people who suffer from T1 diabetes and the rapid rate of technological progression in society in general, these solutions should not only already be available but should be available to everyone, and shouldn't be as expensive to manage as it is. Near the end of the article is the comment:

A team at the University of Otago in New Zealand has run a successful early-stage clinical trial of an open-source insulin pump. The goal is to provide free-of-charge design plans to qualified manufacturers to build pumps for a fraction of the cost of current commercial ones.

I suppose it just upsets me in general that the goal of building low cost insulin pumps isn't a globally shared one across manufacturers.

Hell of a world where people have to build their own open source systems for basic medical care, but I'm all for it. It'll help the technologically savvy, and then for-profit med companies will race to catch up to maintain their dominance and the less tech-savvy will also have the improvements they need.

So we know Gorn capture other species, pit them against the Gorn and each other ala the strongest M&M copypasta, and then send the strongest M&M back to M&M Mars space. La'an was the strongest M&M, for example.

Maybe, originally on the Gorn home planet, the strongest just keep growing to fend off an ever increasing wave of hostile baby Gorn, becoming more cunning and intelligent on each subsequent generation. Maybe the spacefaring stuff was originally some Gorn thinking "wow this planet sucks, I need to get away from it so I'm not eaten by my own young."

And now, perhaps the Gorn do the same for their terrible cannibal babies - they get pitted against each other in the Baby Gorn Fighting Arena, Sponsored by M&M Mars, and the strongest are kept to become adult Gorn and to be used for breeding purposes and also for spacefaring stuff.

Maybe the Gorn are just trying to help other species become stronger. They are helping to select for the strongest M&M to send back to the factory for breeding purposes, and we just don't understand - cultural differences and all that.

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my mistake, he is now able to move and can thus be aware of his bodily movement

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he is pointing at a brick wall to indicate that he knows where he is in relation to it and will not walk face first into it

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Ah, gotcha, I may not have read carefully enough. I do see how an auditable decentralized trail of messages and any edits made might be useful for certain very sensitive communications then.

If the image link didn't come in: here you go.

There's also purchasable hardware that comes pre-installed with Home Assistant and has zigbee built-in, it looks like, which is neat (though expensive).

This is very true. It does look like they've made it much easier lately with pre-purchasable hardware though. I know that it's a steep price compared to Google Home, but the advantage is that you're not tied to a Google ecosystem which can just unexpectedly shut down at a moment's notice. (Listen y'all I'm still mad about Google Inbox.)

Here you go: https://www.home-assistant.io/

You would need to do some pre-planning before going ahead with this and it's not as simple as Google Home for sure. For example, my household went all in on Zigbee lights and switches so we had to get a Zigbee antenna to connect to our old laptop running Home Assistant and make sure all our cool LED smart lights and other cool gadgets were compatible, etc. I'm also tagging @ISometimesAdmin who did a lot of the networking stuff in case he wants to add anything.

I'm attaching an image of my dashboard setup for my room, just as an example of what can be accomplished. (This may not federate to Lemmy so I will self-reply with a link if necessary) This shows my and my household's location, the downstairs Sensi thermometer climate (which can be controlled), the light controls, temperature/pressure/humidity which is a little Aqara sensor from Amazon, and the Air Quality comes from my Winix air filter which can also be integrated to Home Assistant. You can really do a lot.

You've eloquently stated what I came in to reply. To hell with this unequal system that all but forces people to steal basic necessities to survive. I'm certainly not gonna say "oh boy let's shoplift for fun" but I'm also not going to condemn someone who's doing what they think they need to do to help them and their family get by.

We desperately need not only better healthcare (physical, mental, and dental), but a revamped welfare system (maybe to the level of UBI), a better low-income housing strategy, etc etc.

Very few kids say "oh boy, I'm going to be a petty criminal when I grow up." Society fails kids and they become desperate and jaded adults.