Hopefully it comes with some improvements to battery life. That’s been my man issue with the 26 releases so far.

Oh look, yet another reason to use an ad blocker.

Neat.

Reminds me a bit of some of the work of artist Simon J Curd.

I’ve always had a soft spot for this form factor. The HP Jornada line was fun, there was a Linux port for it too.

An enormous opportunity for the state to surveil and control the populace that is.

Many places have a “Challenge 30” policy or similar where they ask for ID if you look under 30.

If you still look youthful at 40 it’s possible to get ID’d.

I’ve heard rumours they are even going to call it the “Brit Card”.

Say no to Starmer Cards and the surveillance state.

Well, this will do nothing to hinder illegal migration. So the question is what do they want it for?

An open source smart glasses platform would be a much better direction.

But that only provides security assurances for the wearer of the glasses. Anyone else interacting with them doesn’t know how they are configured, and what is being recorded and/or shared.

The core technology is impressive, and has legitimate use cases.

But that doesn’t outweigh the enormous privacy concerns these devices raise. They aren’t being angled as an accessory for specific activities, but as everyday wearables. If smart glasses like these became common they would be unavoidable, creating leave of intrusion that’s concerning even without Meta being involved.

Yup, the UK once again creating a needlessly convoluted and harmful solution to an already solved problem.

I would laugh if I didn’t live here.

The figures are the averages for the full trial period.

So it’s possible they were making more queries at the start of the trial, but then mostly stopped when if they found using Copilot was more a hindrance than a help.

So far I just keep recipes in whatever I’m using for notes.

Some of these dedicated programs look interesting though. Thinking about it, it would be handy to have some dedicated cooking features, like being able to search for recipes by ingredients.

Yeah, that’s it. It’s already a legal requirement for employers to check eligibility for work. But the dodgy ones know they can get away with not bothering, because there is so little enforcement of the laws we have.

Claiming ID cards will do anything to reduce migration is nothing more than an excuse to further expand the surveillance state.

I think the options either that combination are limited. IKEA Zigbee devices use removable batteries, but they don’t have a temperature sensor. They do have a USB air quality sensor but it’s a bit more complex/expensive.

There are some good WiFi, Bluetooth or RF options with removable batteries but they won’t be Zigbee.

I’ve heard of some people modifying the coin cell devices to used a wired power supply, maybe that would be an option.

It’s not mentioned in the release notes anywhere, but the 2025.8 update has subtly changed the shade of blue used in the UI:

It’s been throwing me off a bit ever since I updated.

I think some parents feel a bit disempowered about how to actually make their kids healthier online.

All of the time restrictions (and more) being proposed can already be done with parental controls that are built into devices now, and have been for years.

The state setting digital curfews is a ridiculous level of overreach. The OSA and now this, we are heading in a dangerous direction.

Single player RTS games. Mega-lo-mania on the Amiga/Mega Drive was my introduction, and Command & Conquer really got me hooked.

Sadly the genre is a shadow of its former self now, and what’s left is mostly multiplayer focused. I miss the days of good long campaigns with slightly campy FMV cutscenes.

Video rental shops. Going into town to pick a movie for the weekend used to be a weekly thing for us.

We have a cheap and reliable black and white laser printer at home for convenient printing of stuff like return labels.

On the rare occasion colour of photo prints are needed, there’s a great little independent print and photo place in town that does prints for pennies.

Seems to be the best of both worlds.