I’ll further prophesize that we’ll start seeing mixed on-device and cloud calling. Cloud for heavy thinking is probably in the books right now.
Next week your local tiny gemma4 will be feeding the cloud models with predicted tokens to speed up and reduce work for gemini. It only has to get it right 66% of the time for a 2x speed-up.
These gemma models are small enough to run on your laptop or phone. They’ll be bundling them with phones and Chromebooks anyway.
Might as well get some goodwill and let the horses run free before someone extracts them from the edge device anyway.
It can give them some plausible deniability if they just ship them off as tech-previews. I’m thinking for when that taking kitty app starts feeding into your delusions and telling you to hurt people.
I use both tempus and URL radio to stream HYPR demoscene radio with android auto.
Works with any live stream that does progressive MP3 like shoutcast/icecast.
A bit of a buffer battery is good.
I’ve got the opposite problem of lithium batteries freezing. But three NiMH batteries in series is close enoigh to drop-in. They’re ok with cold, maybe also heat?
Or, capacitor to even out the load. Or a super-capacitor if you want to last all night long. They’ll consume everything to charge up from empty, though.
Apparently it just affects certain batteries. Those affected can go boom.
I would not go back to the previous version.
At that price even ChromeOS would be a better option. You still have all your android apps, plus that little Linux container for most lf your other computing needs.
My wife avoids updating her devices for as long as possible, because “updates only break things”. I think I’ll keep this news to myself, because otherwise I’ll never hear the end of it.
I finally nudged her from a pixel 4a to an 8a for Christmas, so it is on its way to the retirement drawer.
“USB-adapter” in this context used to be quite a shitshow.
I’ve seen at least the bastardisations of the USB-c spec where manufacturers just repurpose a couple of pins for analog audio. One for samsung, one for Xiaomi etc.
I hope most have gone over to being proper USB soundcards with a DAC today.
When I was a kid, we played pacman. A literal puck who eats pixels and takes turns chasing ghosts. We turned out fine.
It’s not like that’s what caused us to go to rave parties, listen to beepy music and pop ecstacy pills.
The ‘translate what’s on my screen’ was a thing that google assistant could do around Android 8. I found it very handy when living abroad and not really knowing the language.
That one didn’t use OCR, but could only do text in UI elements. Don’t know why they killed it. Maybe some security reasons caused the API that reads another apps UI elements to be canned.
Knew several as I was wrapping up uni. Had lots of fun partying and doing local trips with them.
I married one and moved to her home country for a few years. Now we live together in a third country.
The EU has strict climate goals to push away from fossil fuels. The current goal is to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035.
The fuel here contains a bit more renewables, which also costs more o produce. Still, more than half of the cost of fuel is tax. They had a nice tax break for buying a new electric car for a while, but that window has passed.
Over in Sweden it would be hard to replicate these results. Gasoline is ~18SEK/l ($7.5 per gallon).
My electricity production cost changes by the hour, so I can steer my cost by charging when it’s costs are low. Taxes and transfer costs give me a minimum of about $0.07/kWh. A smart charger that picks when to charge based on price can probably average you a cost of $0.10/kWh over the year.
All rooms have their own thermostat. 19-21°C.
I’d go colder at night, but we have a newborn who doesn’t do blankets yet. Need to keep it kind of even for her sleeping bags.
I haven’t been following the lay of the land for the last 20 years, but it was the same problem then. Some things don’t change.
3d studio max was the big player. .3ds was proprietary, binary and undocumented. They had an ASCII export, but it was bugged. The guys at moppi had an improved ASCII export plugin that solved those issues.
Collada was just around the corner, but seemed quite over-engineered.
All I see is refitting sailboats and retro video game history.
Daisy Ridley. You’ve seen her in star wars.
Just about to go to bed with 2h51min screen time.
Baby won’t nap unless she’s in the stroller, so a lot of that is Pokémon Go while trying to get baby to go down for a nap.
I’m running gemma-4-e4b on my 8GB machine. I’ll drop down to e2b on CPU. It’s probably the best you’ll get. 140 languages, vision, decent at agentic work. Not great at code.