Poorer schools are being lured into spending their limited funds on "AI" tech in the face of chronic understaffing.

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after 40 days of rain, the wet dog smell was incredible

I found this photo in an eBay listing for a batch of used pinball-machine balls in July of 2000.

I didn't bid, but I messaged the seller letting them know they absolutely made my day with this photo and they replied with gratitude. I even set it as the desktop image on a computer I used in the arcade workshop I worked in at the time.

It's been sitting on my hard drives for 26 years, and I no longer wish to keep it to myself.

I already sent it to my group chats and encourage you to do the same.

-A good operating system. (Sadly both Android and iOS are shit nowadays.) -Cheap price. I'm thinking.... $200 USD max! -Bend resistance. Bending (even non deformation) is insidious as those stresses can break electrical connections on PCBs and stuff. It's a big reason we use underfill. -Good security. Yes I consider me losing my data if I forget the password to be a green flag. Cryptography is a wonderful thing! -VoLTE support. -Headphone jack. -SIM card slot. (I hate how that's something I have to ask for now. What is this? 2005 where CDMA phones were still a sizable chunk of the masses?) -Two sdcard slots. One inside the sim tray. The other sits behind a flap. The one behind the flap is for shuffling files between places. -USB-C. With power delivery and video output. Probably wouldn't ever use the video output, but I have a USB-C dock with an HDMI port, you never know if I'd use it. -Trusted Platform Module. Or, well, on iOS devices it's called the "secure enclave". It's the hardened microcontroller core shoved inside the SOC that stores and manages cryptographic stuff. Like password keychains! And two factor authentication stuff! And it's hardened against hardware attacks! -Competant camera. Doesn't need to be anything wiz-bang. It needs to be able to produce usable photos under crappy levels of light. I take a lot of reference photos. I don't need that "The viewfinder looks crisp when you press the shutter but the resulting photo is blurred from the phone shifting slightly" crap. -Image stabilization for the cameras. I also kinda just have shakey hands. -Wireless charging. Not because I'd constantly use it, but because charging ports eventually wear out and fail. -Cold swappable batteries. -Unlockable bootloader.

......Imagine being a worker at a mobile phone service retailer. Most of the costumers who come in ask about reasonable stuff like nice screens and lots of storage.

And then one day some autistic trans woman comes in and she's inquirying about bootloaders, USB Video Device Class support, NAND encryption, etc. A bunch of hidden/mundane features. The "not flashy" stuff.

And the worker who's there is just like "By god what drugs is this woman on?"

I've built several cat trees and scratchers for our cats over the years, but despite my best efforts, they're always undersized for dusty.

So I put this together yesterday with crap I had in the garage. Honestly, given it was ~3 hours of work, I'm very very pleased with it.

The post has four screws through the base and two L-brackets. The carpet is attached with teeny 1" nails and was a pain in the ASS to attach to the circular base.

I'm most proud of the rope attachment points. I drilled a hole just big enough for the rope to pass through, then put a big brass wood screw next to it in the hole and drove it in. So the thinking is that, to restring it, it'll just be removing two screws.

A group of cyclists was winding its way through a wooded, two-lane road outside of Raleigh on Saturday morning when a car crossed the center line and plowed into them, killing one and injuring nearly two dozen, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said.

A North Carolina man faces several felony charges after allegedly hitting the group and driving away.

The cyclists were traveling together amid the fall colors along Optimist Farm Road, in Wake County, about 14 miles southwest of Raleigh, when an oncoming black passenger car crossed the center line and into the group, the highway patrol said.

The driver, later identified as 76-year-old Donald Robert Morris-Jones, continued driving before running off the left side of the roadway into a ditch, about a half-mile from where he hit the cyclists, authorities said.

Spyro in 1998 had no precision jump and no memorable villain. It had 12,000 gems and a glide that forgave almost everything. Is that what puts it above many “serious” 3D platformers?

Common theme with East Asia is the "population will shrink until society collapses"

Also I see this with the UK and Europe too, sometimes Canada. Always stuff like "something bad is gonna happen" with an image of stuff burning, as implying civil war because of reasons(?) 🤔

Seems kinda clickbaity

I see this on Youtube, Reddit, news, the internet in general.

Thousands across the U.S. have gotten involved to oppose data centers. One is a Maryland woman who'd been evicted after a pay cut and became a leader of a community effort that blocked a vast project.

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