I've started using Microsoft's TROCR (another transformer OCR model) to read the cursive in my pocket journal (I have a habit of writing programs there first while I'm out and then typing them in manually, I just focus better that way.)

It's surprisingly accurate although you have to write your own program to segment the image into lines. I think with some fine tuning I could have the machine read my notebook with minimal corrections.

Have you looked into Craft or EAST for segmenting the image into lines? Those two work decently.

Software has also improved. Micropython is surprisingly good even on micro controllers.

It seems so wrong to use python in embedded but I know that's me being a turd sandwich.

But I do have to admit, arduinos and rpi zeros are in the same price point. I don't blame people not needing analog for going rpi even when it is gross overkill.

I'm just a minimalist. If I can do my project with 16kb of RAM, I'm not going to throw a GB at it.

That all said... This article is silly. No raspberry pis aren't popping or something. The biggest complaint I think most people have with them is you can't buy them anywhere. Constantly sold out. I would have bought two or three this year otherwise...

MicroPython is not really the same thing. It’s most comparable to an embedded Forth, which isn’t uncommon.

I know that's why I said I was being a turd sandwich.

The only "big tech bad" law that really makes sense would be making non-free software illegal.

At this point I'd rather die in my house. So much of it is obviously crap and it's so inconvenient and expensive I'd rather avoid doctors altogether.

If you’re on hospice, you can die at home while still making use of the US medical system.

Nah I don't want them involved.

Hospice’s amount of involvement is largely up to you. Also hospice doesn’t only help you, but also your family. That said, it is of course your own choice. I would personally want as as little involvement as possible from people outside the family.

I managed to log into the mail account I had when I set up gmail.

Their AI arbitrarily decided that still wasn't good enough and that was the end of the gmail account I had since I was 13 (yes, I got one of the early invites.) I'm absolutely never doing anything important on a Google service ever again. It doesn't matter if you set stuff like that up.

IMO: HAMs will likely be more helpful than these will. This is more of the result of professional confusion/processes etc.

A lot of important people where I work (something important you're probably using right now) were recently issued these as well.

Is there a reason you can't just use the normal OS package repo like everyone else?

No, but the average (read: casual) user isn’t comfortable using the command line to install packages from the command line (and I don’t think SteamOS comes with a package manager UI), so there’s a huge potential install base for users if they could install it via the UI.

It comes with Discover, the KDE Plasma GUI package manager. You can install Flatpaks using it on SteamOS.

I don't see how these are improvements over algae bioreactors. Capturing the CO2 without reducing it will lead to less oxygen in the atmosphere as well. Also at least with bioreactors you get useful products/energy. This just generates more waste products and consumes energy.

Removing ALL the CO2 in the atmosphere would be 1-2% the partial pressure of O2 in the atmosphere (barometric pressure where you live swings more than that). Of all the concerns, this one’s low on the list.

The justification for these things is that the oxygen is being converted to CO2 faster than CO2 is being reduced back to oxygen. So if you capture CO2 at a high rate eventually this would lead to you capturing all of the oxygen.

We’ll run out of CO2 through the natural version of this process (weathering) long before the O2 encounters this problem. At that point all the plants die, still with plenty of O2 in the air.

In other words, it’s the carbon content that’s more endangered over the next billion years than the oxygen.

The problem with this technology isn’t side effects like this, it’s prohibitive power requirements.