There are at least three Technology Connections videos about kettles. Including one where he connects a 120V US kettle to his car charger to speed it up.

https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c

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Sometimes it’s faster than finding the mouse cursor when clicking a link or a button (and when filling in forms with check boxes), but probably my biggest use is if I’m browsing around Google maps or Earth.

Click-drag click-drag on the trackpad is just slow and frustrating compared to just dragging the on-screen image.

I use a macbook sometimes and it’s a bit infuriating when I try to drag the screen.

I don’t use it constantly but I’m used to having the choice whenever I decide it’s easier.

Rsync can. For instance, rename files instead of deleting them, so that your backup keeps old files in case they need recovering.

It can also make hard links to existing files so they you can create multiple backup directories that share unchanged files to save space.

Also check out rclone, a similar tool with a focus on supporting many target types, plus it can encrypt a remote location, then mount that backup to access the decrypted files.

Don’t assume that recognizing fakes is a younger generation thing. Maybe the people spotting them grew up reading snopes and alt.folklore.urban so that they have a good idea of how urban legends, hoaxes and clickbait are constructed.

I was wrong to think that, I tested bitwarden Android client in airplane mode and it worked, but I didn’t realize that had a “signed-in” state separate from unlocking the vault with the password.

The Bitwarden client works offline, syncing the database locally when online. So won’t that also happen with vaultwarden? Everyone would still have access to what was last synced.

Such as groups of 3 phrases

No CDN. No Cloudflare. No edge nodes.

It reads like a slick marketing pitch.

I guess the last one switched from “1 inch to 1 mile” to “2cm to 1km”, which is why it is slightly larger scale.

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Yeah, which key is em-dash?

It was nice to see my home city being represented on tv.

I don’t remember much about it other than thinking that a lot of people would be happy that the Town Hall extension (“egg box building”) was destroyed.

I didn’t watch it much past that point.

Strictly speaking, you’re really glad that you didn’t drop one of them.

Sorry, that was just using the share link in voyager. I hadn’t noticed it wasn’t a link to the post.

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A few days ago, me to Google home:

“Hey Google, turn on the light”

“Sorry, I can’t control powered devices.”

“Hey Google, turn on the light”

“Turning on the light.”

I had a similar experience getting it to summarize my maps info, it would alternate between correct answers and claiming it had no access to the data.

AI runs in the cloud because it needs a powerful server to run the biggest (i.e. “smartest”) models.

The cloud servers are doing nothing special that another powerful enough computer could do, just a huge amount of data processing.

You can run an ai chat on a steam deck or directly on a phone, if it’s not too demanding (“smarter” models are bigger data files, so won’t fit in the memory of a small device).

Today, for instance, I had a phone call from “Spectrum Internet support” and part-way through the call my phone blared an alarm and said “possible scam” on screen.

The phone itself interpreted the conversation as sus.

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/15654065?hl=en

For Pixel 9 and later devices: Scam Detection is powered by Gemini Nano on-device

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I watched a jumping spider video on Facebook, now the algorithm thinks I’m obsessed with them.

I do keep watching the videos though, they are cute.

Their behavior gives off a smart animal vibe, so they’re more relatable than the usual spider’s unpredictable scurrying.

It’s still Friday in parts of last week.