Dr A @backofficeshow@qoto.org

@mfitzp alas unlike phones of yore if you hit it hard enough you can't get the bell inside to ring!

It feels so naked leaving the house without one. I'm hoping I've day to get decent LTE with my mobile provider so I can use some of the smart wearables with it, just to have that emergency option. It would not really be a hardship, I rarely use my phone when walking or running for anything other than music.

@mfitzp I do the same, but make the mistake of having the phone within arm's length.

I might just leave it in a different room, or in the hallway like the old wall phones were used to have, perhaps with a nice 3d printed bracket.

Unfortunately I have grown to be accustomed to having it on my person virtually 24/7 but for no good reason. Perhaps I need to go cold turkey for a week!

Out with the kids on a 5km forest walk and stopped of to make a little lunch (all this camping tech has come a long way ). While walking I thought how vibrant everything seems when you get to walk about in nature.

It's very easy to get hooked on our devices and see everything through an OLED screen. Think how much better things were when everything was not trying to grab our attention and sell us stuff.

Has anyone tried a device curfew? If so how did you find it?

@sad_electronics I agree. Also I suppose the ones in interested circuits and CPUs must be insanely tiny. Just when I was looking to get some sleep, destiny needs me to research this into the small hours

@sad_electronics I've seen smoller

@SusantaC Greetings fellow Software Engineer!

Not sure if anyone is interesting but I'm currently playing with the remarkably proceed UNI-T thermal imaging camera.

It could not quite focus on the kind of chips I was observing, but it was possible to obtain a 3D printed macro lens holder with a laser cutter lens fitted(no idea optically how these work, but definitely not plain glass).

Will be putting it though it's paces next week.

Curious to see if anyone hacks the software. It's trying to be a FLIR, but I think it can be so much more.

@maricela good luck on your JavaScript journey! Looking forward to seeing your observations

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@alexconley Hi Alex, I'm very much interested in this subject. After looking into it recently I was somewhat dismayed at seemingly how few options a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's has.

I couldn't resist trying this after (like half they planet) seeing so much about it on Twitter. But honestly I already see it as a vast improvement. When you compare how Twitter started to where it is today seems to be the trajectory for most advert supported platforms. You just do not get to see as much of the content you are actually interested in. YouTube is another culprit for that.

Removing the limits looks like it will really help develop some longer form communication - which in my field will definitely help. We cannot always summarise compress ideas into a few characters

Looking forward to seeing how this goes!