I rediscovered this weather app again (for Android and iOS) and am quite amazed that it now has a 4.9 out of 5 rating on the Google app store, and 5m+ downloads just on Android....
Unfortunately, it doesn’t allow me to use my nation’s weather service, so it doesn’t exactly matter how good the App is. There’s a choice of providers, but most of them are no-name aggregators.
Large tech companies only join protocols like this with the aim of killing them; any Mastodon instance worth its salt should defederate from Meta as soon as they go live with it.
I don’t think this particular video of his is the best fit for the category, but some of the others he has on VFDs and 7-Segment Displays are really interesting and very well presented.
For years, Google’s to-do list app Tasks was poorly integrated and underdeveloped. Recently, Google has combined all their reminder products into a single Google Tasks app that is accessible across Google products. While still lacking some advanced features, Google Tasks’ simplicity and integration make it easy to add tasks...
The British Government paid British slaveowners. The British government could have made ownership of slavery illegal without paying the slaveowners, but they chose to pay the slaveowners. None of that has anything to with reparations to the enslaved people. Also worth noting that in this case, Barbadians were enslaved by the British, not the Spanish or Dutch
It’s a 1:1 replacement for the lowest effort trash written by an un- or under-paid intern, but when companies start assuming (and they will) it can take over well-researched reporting, it’ll be crud for us all.
I’m a dev. I’ve been for a while. My boss does a lot technology watch. He brings in a lot of cool ideas and information. He’s down to earth. Cool guy. I like him, but he’s now convinced that AI LLMs are about to swallow the world and the pressure to inject this stuff everywhere in our org is driving me nuts....
A 30 minute charge for every 4 hours of driving is already practical for a long drive. Every safety organisation and fatigue management plan on the planet says you need to stop more often than that for fatigue anyway.
If some is regularly driving more than 200mi/320km in a day (more than the average car drives in a week) without a break on those trips, then a hybrid car is probably a better bet for the foreseeable future.
I am not a professional gamer nor do I have much time to invest into a game in one stretch. However I do enjoy the cumulative progress I make with each session I have with the games, specifically progress of acquiring loot, money, powers or in-game materials. Are there any games that try to match my interests?...
Outer Wilds. By it’s very nature, the game splits itself into 20 minute blocks.
You don’t make ‘materialistic progress’, but you’ll almost always make progress in the game; the progress you make is finding out new information. Yes, it starts over every time, but you aren’t losing progress. It’s also just, in general, an excellent game.
Well, yeah? Electric motors require more energy to go faster, and a petrol car has gearing to solve this problem. The slower you drive in an EV, the more range you get.
Weawow is a free and ad-free weather service with 4.9 ratings, choice of weather service, and highly customisable widgets (beehaw.org)
I rediscovered this weather app again (for Android and iOS) and am quite amazed that it now has a 4.9 out of 5 rating on the Google app store, and 5m+ downloads just on Android....
Reddit on iOS has an ugly new icon – and you have to pay to change it (9to5mac.com)
Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse (www.wired.com)
I almost can’t believe it, but Google Tasks is finally kind of good (www.theverge.com)
For years, Google’s to-do list app Tasks was poorly integrated and underdeveloped. Recently, Google has combined all their reminder products into a single Google Tasks app that is accessible across Google products. While still lacking some advanced features, Google Tasks’ simplicity and integration make it easy to add tasks...
Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)
Inside Barbados' Historic Push for Slavery Reparations (time.com)
‘AI’ Journalism Continues To Be A Lazy, Error-Prone Mess (www.techdirt.com)
I’m NOT excited about coding by AI [venting]
I’m a dev. I’ve been for a while. My boss does a lot technology watch. He brings in a lot of cool ideas and information. He’s down to earth. Cool guy. I like him, but he’s now convinced that AI LLMs are about to swallow the world and the pressure to inject this stuff everywhere in our org is driving me nuts....
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Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)
Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
Recommendations for short session games with materialistic progress made with each session
I am not a professional gamer nor do I have much time to invest into a game in one stretch. However I do enjoy the cumulative progress I make with each session I have with the games, specifically progress of acquiring loot, money, powers or in-game materials. Are there any games that try to match my interests?...
Batteries in electric vehicles have more mileage in city driving rather than highway driving (techxplore.com)