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I need a bedside espresso machine.
 

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I would probably knock it over. Same reason why I have very heavy lamps.
 
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When you purchase the espresso machine, pick up some furniture clamps to lock the sucker down with them.
 

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That's pretty much the only useful thing about them, other than asking it the weather and perhaps setting timers and alarms. The "show" models with the screen can do more...but why have one of those when a tablet you can MOVE and CARRY around is a thing.
Ah -- this makes me realize that I do, indeed, own a tablet (okay, yes, a few) and what I need is a wireless/Bluetooth speaker that will withstand the rigors of kitchen life.

Anyone had any luck with a plan like that?
 

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"Duct tape or cable ties?", use to drive my boss crazy asking that. He considered cable ties just a bit less tacky than duct tape, but after it took me an excessive amount of time to more cleanly mount a power strip to the side of a metal shelf unit with nuts and bolts he decided cable ties might not be so bad, though I'd often 'forget' to trim them off just to tweak him.
 

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I asked Alexa some really fucked up questions this morning. Will let y'all know when the Feds come for me.
 
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Breakdancers: "AI can't take out jobs."

The AI:
 
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I used to use Evernote for saving web pages but for reasons not worth going into I don't like it. I just found this chrome extension (Save Page WE) that works great for me for saving web pages. Perfect rendering on the few sites I have tried. It saves the entire page, images and all as an html file. Unlike evernote, it only saves locally. It is up to me to transfer the file to a public location but that isn't a problem for me.
 

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This is obviously vaporware (so much CGI in that video!). The concept version (?) in demonstration is only shown stretching itself, so wandering the Appalachian Trail (or leaping over crevasses on an ice glacier!) while sitting atop one of these is not happening any time soon. With the accomplishments of companies like Boston Dynamics, I can certainly imagine a future version of something like this hitting the market, but for now there's way too many technical hurdles.

Still. It feels like a needlessly, overly complicated version of a motorbike in comparison, but my desire for owning a rocket bike or jetpack may have been sidelined. Now I want a robot horse!
 

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Windows 11 users, this is important. A recent update added an empty folder with a vague name to the System folder, and a lot of people didn't know what it was for, so they just deleted it. That was not the right thing to do, and if you did it you should put it back because it's a vital part of a vulnerability fix. Explanation here.
 

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"Oh we have no idea how many independent implementations of the code that creates that folder exist so we'll punt."
 
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Soon, a battery you can squeeze in the crannies of your devices.

[R]esearchers in Sweden have developed a fluid battery that can be shaped into different forms. As detailed in a study published April 11 in the journal Science, the battery makes use of electrodes—key conductive materials in batteries—in fluid form. The novel soft structure paves the way for innovative designs of future battery-powered technology.

“Batteries are the largest component of all electronics. Today they are solid and quite bulky. But with a soft and conformable battery, there are no design limitations. It can be integrated into electronics in a completely different way and adapted to the user,” Aiman Rahmanudin, a co-author of the study, said in a university statement. “The texture is a bit like toothpaste. The material can, for instance, be used in a 3D printer to shape the battery as you please.”
The next goal is improving performance, basically requiring a quadrupling of voltage to reach Smartphone levels. They're currently a bit below that of standard AA batteries.
 

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Soon, a battery you can squeeze in the crannies of your devices.



The next goal is improving performance, basically requiring a quadrupling of voltage to reach Smartphone levels. They're currently a bit below that of standard AA batteries.
Very cool, but one can only hope that does not lead where these battery things so often lead: a) thing that wants to catch fire and/or b) thing that contains god-awful chemicals about which the less said the better.
 
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It seems like someone has decided to burn down 4chan.


Also apparently basically all the mod and janitor information has been leaked (emails, addresses, chat logs, names, etc.)
 
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