My ideal would be a small "stick remote" with a mic button.

The AI listens as long as you hold the button, and the device is efficient enough to carry with you 24/7.

If "touch grass" was a hero's story

Or measure their mechanic's productivity by number of hours spent on the car

It's a misinterpretation of the work underpinning f.lux.

We went from "avoid blue light after sundown to help keep your natural circadian rhythm" to "blue light bad! Buy this product!"

Now we're too far down that path with customers specifically avoiding devices that give off blue light whether or not they understand why. Companies like that are just taking the safe bet by avoiding blue light

The sum of all physiological knowledge will end with watering plants with Brawndo because electrolytes.

I've heard that, but I still think the amber light is disgusting and gross, I'm not buying a device that only has that.

I even recently broke my old Kindle, I'd already heard of daylight computer tablets but the amber light was a main factor and why I just bought another Kindle. I would like high FPS and fully unlocked Android, but all I really needed was some way to read a bunch of digital books. The new Kindle also has an Amber mode, but I keep it off I like the blue light I think green would be better) fall asleep reading just fine.

“The best time to plant a tree is 25 years ago. The second best time is now.”

Wouldn’t the second-best time by that be 25 years ago less a second?

Why not a picosecond after the first one?

What is the smallest unit of time?

Does it even make sense when you get there?

Now I've got a headache.

Jumping in as I’ve enjoyed what we’ve had as well as wished for more.

Does your setup:

1. Back phone things up to the PC wirelessly? Not just photos but app data, documents, drawings, etc. Note: must all be in original quality/format

2. Allow your PC to update an app itself (in a way that can be scripted)?

3. Allow copy/paste between the desktop and the phone? (Though with LocalSend being decent this is less and less relevant)

4. Transfer edit history for photos, videos, and audio?

5. Allow you to install and debug your own apps wirelessly? (ok, this one is a gimmie bc linux to android does this natively through adb)

6. Allow your phone to mount drives from your PC so that you can access and transfer files wirelessly?

1. You can mount devices on each other so you can copy/backup as you wish.

2. Not sure, but you can setup scripts and run them. I only tried running scripts on my PC via my phone.

3. You can send the clipboard to another device.

4. Not sure what this means.

5. Not sure.

6. Yes.

Before someone argues that “this requires enough background technical knowledge to know which buttons to press to make it easy” there is a point there, but distro maintainers have had that point in front of them for decades.

There’s now only one prerequisite for new users: the willingness to format the hard drive. Everything else is trivial and for 9/10 distros the screens are welcoming, clear, refined, and non-technical.

Pushed (“recommended”) content is a type of ad

Apple has recommandations in their stores since the beginning, all the way back in 2001 for the iTunes Store.

Apple has ads in Apple News+, which is a terrible thing for something you’re paying for already.

Apple has recommandations in their subscription services of other things on their service. That’s not an ad. That’s a recommandation.

Is there something I’m missing?

A tall tree on my street was lost last year: it shows the shadow for it even though it’s not on the satellite image. Now I wonder where it gets the tree data from.

Similar situation here with a patch of trees.

From the About: "The shadows displayed by default are estimates gathered through indirect means like crowd sourcing and low resolution data."

Not sure what low resolution data they are using for the trees (I can't imagine mine were crowdsourced given I'm the only house around). Probably not worth it for me but apparently the premium version has more accurate/current data.

It's coming from public LIDAR data, which captures both trees and the ground below them (and is able to tell which is which).

Can you point to which LIDAR dataset? I did not see any openstreetmap datasets with the tree present.

It says it is using openstreetmap, so you can probably edit that tree if its added to OSM.

After reading this I went through all the OSM datasets I could see (including double-checking the layers) and none of them showed the tree. Now I’m even more curious.

One of my most-used apps is $2/yr and I’m very happy about it

One of mine is for $10/yr and is not too much but still... And do not have another choice