The glasses will include cameras, microphones, and speakers for real-time interaction, allowing users to make calls, get directions, enjoy music, and benefit from live translations.

I can do all that with my AirPods already. What would I need those glasses for?

Despite “AR” features being absent, do they at least have a simple display in them - similar to the Even Realities G1?

Yeah, I can’t imagine they do this single piece of glass approach they came up with in those designs…

Same here. It’s probably easier to print out the QR code(s) for your home wifi network(s) on a piece of paper and hand that to guests when they come over…

It was exactly this and people were furiously pointing it out in the comments.

Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace

I loved that book!

No, the LIDAR is an infrared laser. Invisible and harmless to the human eye, but a phone’s camera can pick it up. And due to the intensity, if going too close, it’ll burn out the pixels of the camera sensor leaving permanent damage.

Here’s a great demonstration: https://x.com/niccruzpatane/status/1924485047580586294

You mean cyclists?

Looks very much like KDE Plasma. Not sure which distro, though.

Just wanted to throw Kate into the mix of suggestions…

Well… https://lemmy.ml/post/30395990

Why do you prefer Discord? What do I miss?

I’ve had a discussion with someone about this. Apparently, there are people that enjoy the social contact. Some seem to like sitting in a Discord chat all day long and answering the same questions over and over again. Others like to “just ask” someone instead of looking for a solution themselves.

That there’s no clear structure of all the solutions provided via Discord and thus people have to ask the same things, nor a proper way of backing everything up in case Discord goes rogue seems to be blissfully ignored.

It’s probably part of the same phenomenon that, nowadays, people seem unable to write or read a few lines of documentation and instead create/watch 20 minutes on YouTube.

Which Pi did you try? Since the Pi4/CM4 (can even work with SAS drives) and especially with the Pi5 you can build some nicely performing NASes.

Not sure whether Cmacked still works…

There are some passively cooled (i.e. no spinning fan) SFF Desktops (HP, DELL, etc.) or you could get a Raspberry Pi 5 and stick it into a Geekworm case. Power consumption with these devices should hover around 5W, maybe slightly higher under load. The Desktops most probably support WoL. The Raspberry Pi doesn’t.

Same with audiobooks. The “classic” way is to have several MP3 files - 1 for each chapter. This allows them to be played even on dumb MP3 players.

However, the M4B format allows for more modern AAC and HE-AAC encoding and adds metadata such as chapters directly into the file. This results in the whole audiobook being contained in just one single file and with much better compression than MP3. But you’ll need a compatible player to listen to them.

(I’ve transcoded most of my audiobooks to M4B as a collection of 320kbps Stereo MP3s doesn’t make sense for just spoken content.)

To add to that: The “sharing” part is what’s prohibited in German law. (Remember: when torrenting you also upload chunks of the data to others.) The pure download is kind of a grey area and won’t be prosecuted.

The version I had played around with about 10 years ago could.

There’s also The Dude - although it’s a Windows-only application. But the visualisation is great.

I’m running SpotWeb to browse spots. It’s kind of a curated list of NZBs. So, most things you can find a spot for, are still actually available to download.

It was heavily used by the Dutch to distribute movies with baked-in (“ingebakken”) Dutch subtitles for older media players.

If you like to checkin manually to places, there’s PrivateSquare which will query places around you from Foursquare (so, 4sq will still see whereabout you are), but store the actual checkin in a local database.

If you want some automated tracking, I’m mostly happy with OwnTracks which logs to my DaWarIch instance. (I’ve previously used Traccar and php-owntracks-recorder.)

While I don’t see any battery usage from OwnTracks, my only gripe is that it can’t increase the amount of points logged when it detects movement because of Apple iOS limitations.

(For iOS, there’s also Geory which will log into a local database and CAN increase the logging by spawning a Live Activity. It gives me the most accurate logs so far. But they have to be exported manually to be stored elsewhere and the author wants to keep the app simple and doesn’t want to implement logging to external systems.)