Unless there’s a recall, which I’m not sure there could be for an aftermarket device, they will remain mostly unpatched. Unless this becomes the next Kia boys thing and insurance companies look to mitigate their losses.

Hot water on tap. Refrigeration including air conditioning. Laundry machines. Bread. Beer. Fresh Air. The Sun!

Switch has MiG Flash. It doesn’t allow updating but most Nintendo consoles didn’t allow updating. So, you can play well-developed games but janky buggy games corrected after launch maybe not.

We know a lot more about when the mammoths died than we do about the construction of the pyramids.

Beer, Red Blood, Aloe Vera, and Tea

Wanna get wild? Try sunbathing during the morning or evening hours with no sunscreen. It feels good, and it’s good for you too. There’s almost no UV light at those times. Age will catch you with or without sunblock.

The trick is: don’t fantasize. Just be who you are right now and do what you enjoy. Ten years ago I was a long distance hiker. Twenty years ago I was drinking lots of beer. But neither of those would describe who I am now. And when I was living those other lives I didn’t yearn to be me now or me from the past. And now that I am me now I’m content with it, because it’s all I know how to be. I’m sure I’ll be different in 10 or 20 years. But I don’t sweat it even for a moment.

If you feel an itch, scratch it. Once the itch is scratched, stop, or it may lead to worse outcomes than an itch. It more itches keep popping up, maybe scratching isn’t the right strategy.

Give it to your parents and wait until they die, then collect it tax free.

At least with glasses cameras they aren’t filming anything they can’t already see

You don’t know shit about me bro. Creepers gonna creep. If they want to hide a camera they can do it in lapel pin or something. Being paranoid about it won’t stop anything. Making legislation to require a recording light will just de-tune the public’s vigilance when they don’t see a light. It won’t stop people from taking discrete photos. If you’re scared of having your photo taken, stay inside. There are a huge number of automatic license plate cameras owned by corporations logging your plates. They may also be capturing and analyzing your face. That is a lot more concerning to me than some dude wearing glasses.

Me neither. In fact regardless of what’s on their face they can fuck right off.

You caught me. I go around with my wife and daughter so I can get away with being a creep. Don’t tell the moms on the playground.

It was a bit self-satirical. But it would be really helpful for me, if it existed. I’m not about to buy a face camera but I can imagine some people in sales might like such a feature.

There is no privacy in public, by definition of those two words. I’m less concerned about a camera on somebodies face, and more concerned about the legality of doing facial recognition, and identifying and tracking of people without their explicit consent. See one is about the personal utility of camera-interfaced computing, and the other is corporate espionage. But unless lawmakers can draw that line and enforce it, we will probably just end up with spyware.

There are plenty of legit use cases for a camera. Traveling in a foreign place the glasses could overlay text in your language. Looking at a transit table it could highlight the correct route and time. And anytime you meet someone new it could store their name and face in a database.

Oh well soon enough we’ll have directed energy weapons and drones with hypodermic needles. Maybe someday bullets will be obsolete.

They should just require all ammunition to have serial numbers etched into the casing and the slug. When ammo is purchased, it is attached to an ID. People keep their ammo locked up to avoid being framed. People can shoot the ammo with any homemade contraption they want. Problem solved - until people learn to make their own ammo. Obviously possible for shotgun shells, but maybe not feasible for accurate rifling bullets.

If you want to measure your urine for whatever reason, there are a couple other options. One is you could just time your stream a few times along with total volume. Then you can use time as the surrogate for volume. Another more accurate way would be a precise digital scale. You just need to be weighed before and after, assume a specific gravity based on color, and you’ll have a pretty accurate measurement of volume. But why?

It’s not clear if the original adjusted for inflation. $5000 in todays money is $21,500

Neither. CDs are only useful as a digital copy and 700MB is a quick download, and many discs can fit as FLAC on a microSD the size of my pinky nail. It might even be cheaper nowadays for them to mass produce 512 MB micro SD cards to put FLAC albums on them. If anybody wanted physical albums. It would be hilarious to just have a QR code on a tiny cardboard envelope.

If we want analog music, which is a cool idea, we should replace vinyl with something better. We can still use an optical laser disc but encoding stereo audio tracks as analog laser etches rather than zeros and ones. That way we could reduce the cost, and increase the quality at the same time. Might even be able to print them on glass for longevity. Then you might have an audiophile quality LP that doesn’t need to be flipped. Also in terms of longevity - an analog laser recording could be reverse engineered and listened to after the apocalypse, while binary CD format is a bit more opaque.

I have a 2tb ssd for my media server. I haven’t filled it yet, but I do sometimes delete things. Don’t tell anyone.