Hmm, the Borg internet (or intranet I guess) probably has a lot of entertainment material collected, but then we know that drone emotions are suppressed by implants so you wouldn’t actually be able to enjoy any of it…
“Homes” feels like a stretch… an alcove is worse than one of those sleeping pods in Japan, you don’t even get privacy.
I mean… the method is basically “join us or die”… I don’t think that’s particularly nice…
I don’t think enforced conformity through literal mind control counts as democracy.
Anything breaks, we’ll just replace it.
Including the brain. Especially the brain.
Hey, free healthcare!
Who pissed in your gene pool? ^it <sup>was</sup> <sup><sup>me</sup></sup>^
I want to watch this series.
Jesus the time traveler tells off assholes.
Say it ain’t so
Your bug is a heartbleeder
Say it ain’t so
My NIC is a bytetaker
Oh, yeah for removing the loose bark you probably want to do the steel wire first, then the nylon to remove any dust or small flakes. You could also do steel wool, but depending on how rough the surface is it might shred and leave little bits behind.
For an irregular surface like this you might also consider spray polyurethane for finishing, it will be easier to apply and the surface doesn’t have to be perfectly smooth.
What kind of cleaning are you trying to accomplish?
If you just want to remove dirt and debris, use a nylon bristle brush. If you want to remove loose splinters from the surface, use a brass wire brush. If you want to scrub the surface down to accept stain/finish without completely smoothing out the original texture, use a steel wire brush.
You can get brushes like these at any hardware store
If you do need to sand the surface smooth, consider a sanding sponge:
This will wrap around the curves and ride over the bumps and won’t tear up like sandpaper. You can also wet sand with it.
I am of two minds on this. I love repairing electronic equipment, it’s what I do for a living, and I buy old tech to fix up all the time.
Replaceable batteries seem like a good thing, in terms of reducing waste for devices that are otherwise still useful… theoretically.
Realistically, the charge management circuitry and the battery chemistry in phones has gotten so good today that most batteries have a useful lifespan that is longer than the useful life of the device. Three years is easily doable for any mid-range phone on the market.
At five years you’re probably going to be disappointed with the battery performance, but how many people are continuing to use a 5-year-old phone? At that point the internal technology has changed substantially and there might even be a new network standard that you want to use, so you’re probably replacing the whole device even if replacing only the battery is an option.
On top of that, giving the user access to the battery means the phone body can’t be fully sealed against moisture and dust, plus the access panel is a big mechanical weakpoint which means the body will be less rigid than a fully enclosed device and thus more prone to breaking when dropped or sat on. Adding those weaknesses back into mobile devices will make them more fragile and (I predict) will lead to more frequent failure and replacement of the entire device, which will offset any waste-saving benefit from the replaceable battery.
Plus, the addional space required to fit in the replaceable battery casing, the removable access panel and the contact points for the battery means either the whole device will have to be bulkier or the battery will have to be smaller (than it would otherwise be with a permanent internal battery).
Replaceable batteries made a lot more sense in 2010 when the batteries were shit (and sometimes still NiCad) and the charge management was basically nonexistent (so the battery cycling wore it out faster). Today it’s weight and bulk, plus fragility that will probably lead to equivalent or increased e-waste.
They want to be invaded! They’re practically Americans already!
The issue is more that trying to upgrade everything at the same time is a recipe for disaster and a troubleshooting nightmare. Once you have a few interdependent services/VMs/containers/environments/hosts running, what you want to do is upgrade them separately, one at a time, then restart that service and anything that connects to it and make sure everything still works, then move on to updating the next thing.
If you do this shotgun approach for the sake of expediency, what happens is something halfway through the stack of upgrades breaks connectivity with something else, and then you have to go digging through the logs trying to figure out which piece needs a rollback.
Even more fun if two things in the same environment have conflicting dependencies, and one of them upgrades and installs its new dependency version and breaks whatever manual fix you did to get them to play nice together before, and good luck remembering what you did to fix it in that one environment six months ago.
It’s not FUD, it’s experience.
This is also a great way to just break everything you’ve set up.
OK, so that’s a possibility, but when you start adding a ~$30 fee on top of the cost of the part and shipping from Fairphone you’re looking at about $100 per repair, which stops making sense pretty quickly. You’re better off spending a little more money on a good device that is dust- and moisture-sealed and taking care of it for a few years.
I really wanted to buy the Fairphone 5, but they don’t ship replacement parts to where I live which makes the entire concept pointless.
and you have to choose to boot into desktop mode to even mess with anything.
You say that like it’s a bad thing, but I think having the two separate modes is a fantastic setup. You get basically a console experience, smooth and straightforward and easy to use for just playing games, and you still have access to the underlying system anytime you want.
And this is why anyone who suggests that machine learning systems can be used to make social decisions of any kind should be laughed out of the room. Even when the system programs itself, its goals are set by people and it is trained on data generated and selected by people.