Yes, but these new smart fridges are just classic fridges with a general purpose computer attached. Do you think Samsung is going to offer a replacement/upgrade kit for the embedded tablet, or do you think they’ll use it as leverage to sell you a new fridge?

Microsoft just basically tried to force most everyone using a Windows 10 system to purchase a new system, ostensibly over a flaw/shortcoming in the TPM module.

Samsung just started pushing advertisements into their fridge’s Android displays.

Apple and the mobile ISPs have been pushing a ‘replace every two years’ agenda for well over a decade.

I think the ‘short life span’ here has more to do with the ‘modern CPU fridge controller’ “failing” due to planned obsolescence, and not as such the mechanics of the refrigerant systems themselves.

Perhaps it only took 90 minutes, but it felt like days went by, just like many meetings.

Thank you. I seriously looked over the image and my eye caught the weird compression artifacts, but didn’t see the other things despite well trying. (Also, my client apparently doesn’t show web banners - the heart LLM is a pretty strong hint) I appreciate you sharing what you saw.

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What makes you say this was made with AI? Not exactly doubting you, but curious about your methods.

Back at the beginning of the modern LGBT umbrella, gays were given the stereotype of all being hookup obsessed kinky motorcycle enthusiasts, the ‘leather daddy and boi’ look. It’s good to look tough when protesting for your right to exist.

Around the 90s the jazzercise fit athletic picky eater gay became a trope on television - your classic twink.

The problem with both those poster boy stereotypes is they’re both positioned as kinda in-your-face and combative, so gays that just wanted to live life emerged - fat, unthreatening, and likely to invite you to their BBQ - the modern bear.

Meanwhile, the internet is just becoming a thing and in the early days ‘nobody on the internet knows if you’re a dog’ as the expression goes. Without a corporal body as reference, people are reduced to their chosen name/handle, their profile pic and whatever thoughts they posted. Internet culture filled the gaps with anime girls and cats - creating the perfect culture for mascot suiting to evolve into a new niche.

Finally, pup play stems from the biker boi kink of gimp play (sensory deprivation), someone stitched leather ears onto a gimp hood to reduce a (consensual adult) person to ‘just an obedient animal’ with the original look meant to dehumanize and anonymize. Ironically this play has gone through radical transformations and softened as most modern pup hoods are colorful expressions of individuality. Today pup play is a great sampler platter of kinks and adult activities in general (including many that are family friendly). It’s a great way for stressed adults to step away from adulting for an evening and just play.

Also, don’t take my description as fully gospel, all of these movements are complicated with regional variations, and since these are generally voluntary labels and useful stereotypes, you’ll find plenty of people who see these differently or wish to gatekeep, etc. So take this all with grains of salt

Yeah, I’m being tongue in cheek pretending that pup, furry, and bear aren’t often just the same type of person in different moods.

They could be a furry. A wholly different thing. 😅

Bubba?

Sata Clausen

Ain’t that the naked truth?

Hindsight is…

I’m not sure what to tell ya. A cheap ARM device is the CanaKit 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 starter kit costs $110, but the JetKVM I recommended above including the ATX adapter is also $110

https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-4GB-Starter-Kit/dp/B07V2B4W63/

https://www.wisdpi.com/products/jetkvm

https://www.wisdpi.com/products/atx-extension-board

The only setup I can imagine that’s technically cheaper is an esp32 flashed with firmware, as discussed by another user (you already replied to it): https://lemmy.world/comment/20842145

But the esp32 (regardless of if you use a wire to simulate a button press, or have the device generate the WoL packet) is gonna be a pain to setup and flash by comparison to the other options.

If you already have a pi, it just needs to be flashed with Raspbian and install the app etherwake ‘sudo apt-get install etherwake’ and run it with ‘sudo etherwake [target MAC]’.

For the average PC user, the (modern) Steam Machine is a mediocre 3rd-party prebuilt system with the interesting quirk of being Linux native with no Microsoft licensing.

For the average gamer, the Steam Machine is a console-like experience to a game library stretching back to nearly the dawn of gaming with little worry that the next release will have you purchasing your favorite titles again.

For the average game developer, the new lineup is excellent reference hardware. Having something real to target helps combat scope creep, whereby a game has fancy features that look nice until you realize the game only runs properly on a $15K machine for example.

For Valve, they are in a life or death battle to sever their dependency on Microsoft. Their hardware is mostly an excuse to build out their platform capabilities

• The 2013 Steam Machine coincided with releasing a Linux native version of their client.
• The OG Steam controller encourages devs to implement their Steam Input virtual control package.
• The Steam Link upgraded their remote play capabilities.
• The Steam Deck coincided with the deployment of Proton, so they can make their back-catalog run outside windows on any x86_64 machine. It also served as a testbed for improving their power efficiency and standby mode operations.
• With the Steam Frame, they’re implementing both FEX and Lepton:
  • FEX runs x86_64 games on ARM devices (meaning that it can run any windows game on any average smartphone/tablet/etc if it’s powerful enough)
  • Lepton is based on Waydroid to run Android apps on Linux, allowing game developers for Android and the Quest to easily import their titles into the Steam platform
• The Box is an important accessory to the Frame, as the headset is going to be lightweight system comparatively.

For a reliable and useful remote control solution, you’re looking for an IPKVM with ATX power control. To setup the power control, you effectively set up a parallel circuit where your power switch connects to the motherboard, letting the KVM effectively press the power button ‘normally’. As a bonus, you can connect to the video and data of the KVM for even more remote control options, like be able to troubleshoot boot issues or load a virtual CD/DVD to upgrade the OS.

For tinkerers, I recommend the PiKVM, either DIY or Preassembled. It’s important to know that a RaspberryPi is energy efficient compared to an x86. This guy crunched the numbers

If you’re looking for a product instead of a project, I’d recommend JetKVM.

I’m making popcorn for the first time CoPilot is credibly accused of spending a user’s money (large new purchase or subscription) (and the first case of “nobody agreed to the terms and conditions, the AI did it”)

Lost Room was right in sci-fi’s mini-series phase, which I thought was a great format. Basically 6 hours to tell the story, in 3 2-hour chunks. A made-for-TV movie trilogy ☺️

Writers strike decimated the show for sure. The scab writers wrecked the whole arc. 😅

Oh well. At least we got Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog from the strike.

Heroes (Season 1)

Ya beat me to it. 😝 Take my upvote and shove it in your piehole