Pointless Disconnected Blabs, Ramblings and Utterances

[nakedfrog]

I did my duty and provided a specimen for Cologuard this morning, my partner had some errands to run so I asked if she'd drop it off at UPS. So we've been making poop-related puns about it for some time now.

The keen-eyed observer might spot one in this very post.

 

[Kaido]

 

[igor_kavinski]

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Not a bad way to hide an ugly router.

 

[nakedfrog]

Gotta disagree, I think it is indeed a bad way to hide a router.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Gotta disagree, I think it is indeed a bad way to hide a router.

Nothing's stopping them from slapping on a nice photo on top of that. You can't really do that on a physical router hanging there

 

[nakedfrog]

Nothing's stopping them from slapping on a nice photo on top of that. You can't really do that on a physical router hanging there

Sure, but they have not done that, and something tells me they probably won't

 

[Kaido]

 

[Charmonium]

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I'd be more worried about any heat-intermittent chips, since that plastic coffin ain't doing no thing for ventilation. But really, who cares. Routers are the galley slaves of the web.

Router - Oh my, it's so hot. I can't take it. I think I might die
Admin - knock yourself out little buddy - I'll swap your ass out so fast, it'll rupture space-time. Bwahahahaha👺

 

[Kaido]

Ewwwwwwwww

Samsung’s very expensive Family Hub fridges will now treat you to ads on their displays

The move is part of a pilot program and Samsung says it adds “value” for its customers.

www.engadget.com

 

[sdifox]

LoL that is just perfect

 

[Charmonium]

a) what are they charging for those white elephants? Really?

b) I swear, I would tear its nascently sentient guts out and make the fridge eat them. Well, something along those lines anyway.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Ewwwwwwwww

Samsung’s very expensive Family Hub fridges will now treat you to ads on their displays

The move is part of a pilot program and Samsung says it adds “value” for its customers.

www.engadget.com

I hate that everything is going "smart" now. Wonder if it will eventually be like TVs where you can't buy just a normal one anymore unless you go commercial grade.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't feel like looking it up myself. Is there *anything* cool about a smart fridge? I can't think of a single thing I want out of a fridge except 'make things cold'. I don't even care about the actual temperature. I'm fine with 1-10. After a couple days, you get the temp right, and never have to touch it again. At least that's the way it used to be. Now, you get it set right, use it for a couple years, then buy a new fridge when the circuitboard goes up, cause it costs 80% of a new fridge :^/

 

[Red Squirrel]

There's cameras inside with AI so it can tell you what's inside, and if you run out of anything it will alert you or even auto order stuff.

Of course you can also do that by just opening the door and looking inside.

 

[sdifox]

I don't feel like looking it up myself. Is there *anything* cool about a smart fridge? I can't think of a single thing I want out of a fridge except 'make things cold'. I don't even care about the actual temperature. I'm fine with 1-10. After a couple days, you get the temp right, and never have to touch it again. At least that's the way it used to be. Now, you get it set right, use it for a couple years, then buy a new fridge when the circuitboard goes up, cause it costs 80% of a new fridge :^/

Dave, the sour cream you just ate had gone bad. Should I order more?

 

[Charmonium]

There's cameras inside with AI so it can tell you what's inside, and if you run out of anything it will alert you or even auto order stuff.

Of course you can also do that by just opening the door and looking inside.

You know, if I wanted someone to constantly nag me, well,, ok, maybe I don't have any other options. But is that really a problem?

We need to get the fridge to hook up with a chatbot and see if tries to send money to Mozambique.

 

[Charmonium]

besides the "normal" stuff that pops out of the quantum vacuum, I'm pretty sure it's now generating small insects. They're like zombies in TWD, they travel by worm hole and . . . then bang . . . instant zombie.

 

[Kaido]

I hate that everything is going "smart" now. Wonder if it will eventually be like TVs where you can't buy just a normal one anymore unless you go commercial grade.

Disney Parks AR glasses integration:

"Really cool" coupled with "how else can we get you to spend money at our park?" rofl

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968732170022727956

 

[Charmonium]

Somehow, I imagine Mickey walking up to patrons and do a sort of Sicilian elevator pitch.

Mickey with Tom Waite's voice saying 'nice Labradoodle ya got there. It'd be awful if, I dunno, he happened to fall in front of the train for Magic Mountain.'

Isn't that at Six Flags?

Does it matter, you look like a smart guy, you get what Iz sayin' here.

 

[Charmonium]

If you've ever watched Forged In Fire on History, you've heard of something called wootz steel.

All manner of researchers have been trying for hundreds of years to find out what made wootz so tough but strong. And the deeper down the rabbit hole they go, finding things like nanotubes and a bunch of other shit I won't remember, it seems that there's no end.

The famous Damascus blades used wootz, but most people identify them with the patterning you get from folding the steel hundreds of times.

But these aren't wootz blades. They're pretty, and stronger than most, but they're not the real deal.

 

[sdifox]

 

[sdifox]

 

[lxskllr]

Impressive engineering. All the talk was about ¥, nothing about the environment. Impressive engineering has a cost. I wonder what that is, and I don't mean ¥.

 

[sdifox]

Impressive engineering. All the talk was about ¥, nothing about the environment. Impressive engineering has a cost. I wonder what that is, and I don't mean ¥.

It's China. They can paint fields so the satellite imagery shows a crop LoL.