All 3 of the major Japanese manufacturers (Casio, Seiko, Citizen) have solar-powered radio sync models, but so far Casio is the best in my experience, and has the widest range of models. The Casios tend to have an auto-DST setting that relies on an internal calendar as well as the time signal. I have a chonky Seiko solar-atomic pilot’s watch (with rotary slide-rule bezel!), but it doesn’t have auto-DST so I have to bounce it back and forth between time zones. And it also doesn’t seem to be as adept at receiving the WWVB signal as my Casios; it needs to be next to a window, while the Casios don’t seem to care as long as there’s not too much building mass to the east. I haven’t had a chance to try a Citizen yet, but they now have solar-atomic moon-phase watches, which is tempting.

I hope Yud doesn’t mind if I borrow Mr. Assi for my upcoming epic crossover fic, “Naruto and Batman Stop the Poo-Pocalypse”

Wait a minute, what do you mean, it’s not supposed to be that kind of ass?

Impending availability of fully-functional Casio ring watches:

https://newatlas.com/wearables/casio-g-shock-nano-watch-ring/

All humanity has to do is scale up those Chinese battery-pack ejection systems for EVs that have been making the rounds lately, bing bong so simple

Lightly concealing his identity behind a generated anime avatar may be the wisest thing that kid ever did

Kinda interesting that Google’s TPUs are back in the news. Seemed like they had fallen by the wayside for a while. Of course there are no technical details, just blah blah revenue blah blah, but that’s CNBC for you.

The failure to include Ruby/Rails would seem to indicate that. Or maybe the guy’s given up on framework development and he’s just a culture-war grievance blogger these days

Props to Lemmy for doing… something… with the katakana URL. Was still able to follow the link on Safari.

Even as someone herding along a few perpetually-in-progress Gentoo setups, piping curl into sh to install random stuff staggers me. I don’t see how this can be taken seriously; the software and the surrounding hype complex come off as a gimmick to catfish impressionable high-schoolers who don’t know any better. After reading this, I can only imagine that Omarchy is most frequently distributed out of a shoddy panel van parked at a judicially-mandated distance outside of school zones. “Hey kid, want to try some Linux?”

I propose a 450-foot-tall statue of the most famous parts of Kirk Johnson’s anatomy, facing southwest back towards the city

I hope it’s still going after 8 full years, if the company’s even still in business. Trust is only built back with accountability.

I also love that Walmart’s desperate rush to catch up in e-commerce has resulted in their website becoming just as much of a slop farm as Amazon. My friend who works there said this just piles even more on an already overstressed staff, as people come into the store not understanding that the website lists a whole lot of stuff that isn’t and never will be sold in the store. I doubt many people will come in asking for this piece of junk, tho.

Scal-Palin Skywalker, was that the guy 100 years in the future who kept smoking death sticks so Luke’s Force ghost would stop bothering him?

Agreed on pricing, but something this low-volume is always unfortunately going to struggle. The RockChip stuff is a current darling in the FOSS-compatible hardware scene, but I’m not super enthusiastic about it yet. If there isn’t an OS image you like, you’ve got to cobble one together with U-Boot and the DDR support blobs, which is a circa-1999 level of “fun”

Isn’t that how the Zizians got going? Or was that uni-hemispheric partial sleep or some such thing

(or, more realistically in both cases, simply escalating quantities of amphetamines)

Dissatisfyingly decontented, similar to the other Model Ys he’s selling

The underlying anxiety on exhibit here compels me to think that the rumors about the botched, ahem, enhancement surgery are substantially true

I’ve always said that he looks like a horse who, upon foaling, was promptly kicked in the face by another horse

Wayland protocols are an almost ideal way to create intentional incompatibilities and network effects. see also xlibre, which is building a weird fucked up ecosystem around itself even though it’s broken and pointless.

So in other words, they’re just cargo-culting “network effects” that they heard about in second-hand YCombinator propaganda and Zuckerberg biographies, and assuming that’s both a road to riches and a necessary part of a technical culture

I am often skeptical of tablet/keyboard hybrid designs (the PineTab 2 has not exactly been a roaring success for me) but that ShiftBook is straight-up a more visually appealing design than any Framework

Damn, when you get kicked off the Thiel grifter pipeline, you get straight punted. Not even the callous disregard and abandonment practiced by a certain outer-borough real estate hustler, instead it’s reverse apotheosis