#like the model just doesn’t compute with the new software updates so you deal with the super old software

[inkstainedhandswithrings]

today my dad hit me with the “y’know your tattoos are permanent right”

so I hit him back with the “wait rlly”

[logiclitz]

Unleashing the Power of DevOps

What is Devin? The AI software engineer everyone is talking about

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Devin is like a super-smart robot that knows how to code. It's made to help with building and improving software, which is a big deal for people who make apps and websites.

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Devin is a big deal because it's the first AI that can do the job of a software engineer all by itself. It's really good at figuring out how to solve coding problems and can even teach other AI how to do specific tasks. This is a big step forward in how smart AI is becoming. Here's what makes Devin so important: - Makes work faster: Devin can do a lot of the regular coding work, which means the human coders can spend more time on coming up with new ideas. This could make the whole team get more done. - New ways to work together: Having an AI like Devin on the team means people can think of new ways to work with AI. It's like having a super smart helper that's always ready. - Speeds up making software: Devin can do coding, testing, and putting software out there much quicker. This means we can see new apps and websites faster than before. - Easier for everyone: Devin can make it easier for people who don't know how to code to make their own software. It's kind of like having a coding helper that does the hard work for you. - Changing jobs: As AI like Devin gets better, we might need to think differently about what it means to be a software engineer. There might be more jobs for people who know how to work with AI developers. Devin starting to work like a real software engineer is exciting because it could change how we make software. While some people are worried about jobs changing, Devin also offers a lot of good things, like making it easier to create new technology.

Are software engineers worried about AI?

Yes, some coders are concerned that AI might do a lot of their job in the future, which could mean fewer jobs for them. However, AI is also expected to create new types of jobs, like specialists in AI apps, data experts, and roles focused on making sure AI is used responsibly. Being open to learning new things will be important. Read the full article

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[artnerd1123]

Among Us: CR3WM8TS

Updates Required (part 1)

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With the ship launched and crew settled, it’s time to get to work. Which, for Bunbun, means updating. How smoothly that goes depends on the crewmates in charge... Bunbun’s hoping she’s in good company. 

Featuring appearances by River and Lemon! 

Among Us archive/askblog Fic chapters post

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Ok so originally I wanted to keep all this together, but decided it’d be better to chop it into pieces. That way I can keep my momentum, keep posting for y’all, and still intro y’all to the crew as things get moving! Hope u guys enjoy!!!

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Mission Log 2

Ship Model: SKELD D34-H120 Designation: SUPPLY TRANSPORT, EXPLORATION AND DOCUMENTATION OF SECTOR G PLANETS Crewmate Count: 9 Crewmate Colors: DARK GREEN, WHITE, PURPLE, DARK BLUE, YELLOW, RED, LIME, BLACK, PINK

Location: SECTOR E Ship Status: JUST LAUNCHED Course: PLANET 326-OCE-894 - SECTOR G Systems:

Navigation: COURSE INLAID / STABLE

Engines: UPPER - ONLINE, TANK FULL / LOWER - ONLINE, TANK FULL / OUTPUT ALIGNED

Reactor: ONLINE / FUNCTIONING OPTIMAL

O2: STABLE

Electrical: STABLE

Communications: ONLINE

Shields: ONLINE / FUNCTIONING OPTIMAL

Weapons: ONLINE / FUNCTIONING OPTIMAL

Security: CAMERAS ONLINE / ALL FUNCTIONAL

Administration: MAP ONLINE / CONNECTION SECURE / SHIP FILES UP TO DATE / ALL CREW ACCOUNTED FOR

Medbay: EQUIPMENT ONLINE / FUNCTIONAL / CREW FILES UP TO DATE

Supplies: FULL

Storage Chutes: CLEAR

Vents: CLEAR

Notes: crewmate PINK settled quickly. Launch was successful, no issues of note. Supplies loaded, all systems functioning optimally. PINK noted many systems need updated - updates will be performed in transit. All crew accounted for

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Mission Log 3

Ship Model: SKELD D34-H120 Designation: SUPPLY TRANSPORT, EXPLORATION AND DOCUMENTATION OF SECTOR G PLANETS Crewmate Count: 9 Crewmate Colors: DARK GREEN, WHITE, PURPLE, DARK BLUE, YELLOW, RED, LIME, BLACK, PINK

Location: SECTOR F Ship Status: IN TRANSIT Course: PLANET 326-OCE-894 - SECTOR G Systems:

Navigation: COURSE INLAID / STABLE / UPDATES NEEDED

Engines: UPPER - ONLINE, TANK 0.98 / LOWER - ONLINE, TANK 0.97 / ALIGNMENT UPDATES NEEDED

Reactor: OFFLINE - UPDATES NEEDED / RESERVE POWER FUNCTIONAL

O2: STABLE

Electrical: CALIBRATOR OFFLINE

Communications: ONLINE / UPDATES NEEDED

Shields: ONLINE / FUNCTIONING OPTIMAL

Weapons: ONLINE / FUNCTIONING OPTIMAL

Security: CAMERAS OFFLINE - UPDATES NEEDED

Administration: MAP OFFLINE - UPDATES NEEDED / CONNECTION SECURE / SHIP FILES UP TO DATE / ALL CREW ACCOUNTED FOR

Medbay: EQUIPMENT OFFLINE - UPDATES NEEDED / FUNCTIONAL / CREW FILES UP TO DATE

Supplies: FULL

Storage Chutes: CLEAR

Vents: CLEAR

Notes: travel into sector F uneventful. Many systems functioning on reserve power temporarily, as updates are needed. PINK identified systems in need of updates. Updates will be performed today under DARK BLUE supervision. Other crew performing normal activities.

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Bunbun stood in the hall next to security, foot tapping nervously. If her hands weren’t clutched tight around her tablet, they’d be caught up in her hair, or fidgeting with her bandanna. It was just a routine ship update. Yes, most of the systems needed it. Yes, she was being supervised by a stranger. But it was nothing she hadn’t done before. She knew the ship layout. So did her new crewmate. It was just… extra precautionary measures. Nobody quite knew who they were dealing with nowadays. It didn’t seem like the door to security was about to spring open. It had been closed for all ten minutes she’d stood there. Captain Groud said it was nothing to worry about. Dark blue- or River, as the crew called him- often shut himself into security. At least, he seemed to do it a lot. If the doors are faulty, we’ll know soon enough, Bunbun thought ruefully. She tapped on her tablet screen, sighing softly at its  comforting glow. Her task list was still updating. She watched the number in the upper left tick slowly upward. Yeah. She’d be busy alright. A quick glance at the map confirmed what she already knew- the ship had a standard SKELD layout. A little pink icon stood right outside security. Crew Locator and Tablet Sync are working just fine, she thought. Good. Swiping to the right, the live feed of ship’s systems now lit up her screen. The amount of “OFFLINE” and “UPDATES NEEDED” made her snort. “HQ really doesn’t take care of their older ships, huh?” she muttered. Scrolling down, her eyes swiftly located the vent status. “CLEAR,” declared the system. “Clear,” Bunbun echoed, sighing. For now, at least, she could quell any suspicions of River. 

Speaking of which, the telltale clunk and hiss of an opening door announced his presence. Bunbun straightened up quickly, standing to attention as the door split and slid into the wall. A crewmate in a dark blue suit stood in the doorway. A faded blue security cap was jammed down low over his unkempt ashy blonde hair. His green eyes were ringed with a raccoon’s mask. All in all, he looked like a standard security crewmate. Though his bored look and slouched posture said he might be a little put out by his recent assignment. Bunbun tried for a smile and wave. She opened her mouth to speak, voice a little shaky. “Um, hi, I’m-” “Bunbun, right? The new crewmate?” River interjected, a brow raised. “Yeah. Guessed as much. Haven’t had a pink around here for awhile.” “Er- right,” Bunbun stammered, a little taken aback. Interrupting? And… ‘a pink’? Someone was a little annoyed. “I’m… I’m here for the-” “Yeah, the updates, I know,” River said bluntly. Bun’s face reddened a bit. Was she overexplaining? Or was he just in a bad mood? She wasn’t quite sure. Yawning, River made a shooing motion. “Let’s get this over with, ok? I’ve got cams to watch, and I can’t do that if they’re all offline.” “Of-of course, sir. I’ll get on it,” she twittered. She quickly scooted around him, eyes downcast. Talk about a tough crowd, she thought grimly. 

She took quick stock of the room as she entered. The monitors on the far wall were all dark. The desk along the back had piles of unorganized papers. Records that needed to go to HQ, she’d guess. The vent lay dusty and undisturbed in the back. With the maintenance panel closed and no other ideas, she wandered over to the flashing bulbs near the monitors. The bulbs were blinking red intermittently. Though, from what she saw, she was surprised anything was happening at all. The lights were indicators on an old, massive computer system, split between two shelves. Bunbun hadn’t seen a system like this since her academy trip to the ship tech museum. She gave a low whistle as she hooked up her tablet. Wait till everyone learns I worked with one of the old old models… “You really think you can update that thing?” River called from the doorway. He was leaned against it, arms crossed and gaze impatient. “Or anything here, really. This bucket of junk has been outta the loop for years. It’d probably short circuit with new input.” Bunbun looked back at him a little indignantly. She could understand being irritated with new crew members. It happens. New recruits often get things backwards, or bite off more than she could chew. But she wasn’t new. Her recommendation was high enough to have her bouncing all over. And doubting her skill? The one thing they brought her here for? That was going too far. Standing a little straighter, she held her tablet like a manager with a clipboard. “Even if things go a little haywire, this ship hasn’t dealt with me yet,” she replied. “I’ll get it running.” “Is that so?” River snorted. “I could make ship software run on a half dead toaster.” “Yeah yeah. I bet you could.” Bunbun didn’t miss his eye roll. She just shook her head. Fine. If he wanted to be difficult, he could. But she was going to do her job whether River thought it possible or not.

Raising her tablet, she tilted her head at the screen. She’d never been so relieved to keep the same tablet regardless of assignment. Working with a new one after being used to her personal upgrades would be a nightmare. The data whizzed past at an astonishing speed. Her gaze picked out the important stuff. The camera system was still functioning well, it just had a couple minor bugs. That was an easy fix. First off, the camera movement program had become a little glitchy. Old camera feed confirmed this- the cameras just jerked around sharply instead of sliding smoothly in circles. It only took a moment to find the problem code, pulling and replacing it with a patch she’d worked out years ago. Just for the fun of it, she slid in an extra bit of code. Just to keep the camera movement unexpected. Made the feed edges much harder to track from the outside, even if the cameras weren’t physically going anywhere. After that, she did a little survey of the feed record system. A few more patches here and there, and it was running properly again. 

Bunbun smiled to herself as she closed out the security system, booting up the cameras on her way out. The monitors flickered back to life as she unplugged her tablet. And it had only been eight minutes. Bunbun looked over at River just in time to see him wiping an impressed look off his face. Her smug smile just earned another eye roll. “Ok. Maybe you know what you’re doing. But we got a lot more to get to,” he grumbled, “so you better be just as quick.” “Repair can’t be rushed,” Bunbun pointed out, “but I’ll do what I can.” “Good.” With that, River turned on his heel and left. Bunbun had to run to catch up with him. Despite supposedly sitting around in security all day, the guy moved fast. What was he in a hurry for? “You coming?” he called, standing in the middle of the reactor room. “Yes- yes, sorry-” she stammered, slowing to a stop in the doorway. The reactor towered over her in the back of the room. Glowing pulses slid from the main machine to cables inlaid in the floor. The whole place was awe inspiring.  And very scary. Things could go very wrong very fast if she wasn’t careful. 

“Well…?” River prompted, gesturing around him. “You gonna do your thing?” “Of… of course,” Bun replied, nervously striding over to the control panel. “It’s just been awhile since I’ve worked with the reactor.” That’s usually left to the experts. “Well, let’s hope you know what you’re doing,” River grumbled. As he wandered away to lean on the wall, Bunbun nervously eyed the control panel. The startup mechanism was just as she remembered it. An older model, sure, but the light up cube pattern and well worn keypad looked about the same. Glad I’ve got that going for me, she thought ruefully. As for updating the thing, though, she… didn’t have a clue. Looking around for a place to plug in her tablet was unsuccessful. It didn’t look like it had a touch interface either. Not besides the keypad, anyway. She didn’t want to try wrangling code with that. The only other options she had were with the manifolds- not wise, as fiddling with those could cause a meltdown- or with one of the hand scanners. Her memory told her those wouldn’t do. They were for biological input, not technical. Bunbun bit her lip, looking back down at the control panel. What to do, what to do…? “Ay, what’s the holdup?” River called, making her jump. His shadowed eyes were narrowed, and his arms held tight across his chest. She stammered for a minute as she tried to compose herself. “I- I’m sorry, I’m, u-um, not used to working with reactor equipment- I- I can’t f-find where to, u-um, plug in my t-tablet-” “For the love of- ghhhhhhhhhh-” River strode quickly to her side. Gesturing to the control panel, he gave her a withering look. “You got my cams working in two seconds. What’s so hard about this? You just take the tablet, get it hooked up-” “B-but if I don’t find the r-right place-” “You try again, and you get to work-” “B-but the reactor is delicate-” “So be careful then!” Bunbun was cowering behind her tablet by now. She didn’t know what to do, River was not helping, and she wished she could just get out of-

“HEY! What’s the big idea?!” A voice shouted from the door. 

It made Bunbun jump, and River freeze. She took the opportunity to take a step back and turn towards the doorway. In it stood a crewmate with a bright yellow suit. His short, shocking red hair was rather unkempt, a pair of repairman’s goggles managing to keep the longer locks on top from his hazel eyes. A couple bandages poked out from under his rectangle glasses and stuck to his cheek, and a pair of black hoop earrings hung from his ears. A pale coating of stubble surrounded his downturned mouth, brows furrowed in a very displeased scowl. 

Uh oh.

Bunbun went right back to cowering behind her tablet as the man strode over. One angry crewmate was enough to deal with, but two? No thank you. Fortunately, he walked right past her to stand toe-to-toe with River. Jabbing a finger into his chest, the newcomer spoke again. “What EXACTLY do you think you’re doing, wandering in and putting bad vibes in MY reactor room?!” he growled. River took a step back, looking quite put out. “Geez- dude, calm down, I’m just watching the new crewmate,” River grumbled, hands up. “I wasn’t even gonna be in here long. What’s the problem?” “You, obviously,” the newcomer huffed, “you should know better than to rush the artists. Speaking of which-” Turning to Bunbun, a soft grin replaced his broody scowl. “Hello there, stardust! Glad to have you aboard! What’s your name?” he bubbled, holding out a hand. Bunbun blinked in surprise. Artists? This guy was… certainly interesting. But it was a good kind of interesting. The kind she knew pretty well. She let her shoulders relax just a bit. Taking his hand, she gave it a gentle shake. “Hello,” she said softly, “I’m, um, Bunbun…” “Bunbun! That’s a fine n’ dandy name. I like it!” he grinned. “I’m Lemon, in case orientation memories are hazy. Glad to finally be workin with ya!” “Y-you too,” she smiled shakily. A glance at River said he was subdued for now. Summoning her courage, Bunbun turned her attention back to Lemon. Time to see if the interests really matched. “Um, so, I take it you’re the reactor caretaker?” “Thaaaat’s me!” Lemon drawled chipperly. “Well, me and my son, but you’ll meet him later.” He waved a hand as if brushing the thought away. “But that’s- eheh- for later. I take it you need somethin’ from me?” Bunbun nodded shyly. “I’ve got a couple updates for the reactor,” she explained, “nothing drastic, don’t worry- just to keep it running up to HQ standards.” “Understandable,” Lemon nodded. “And uh- lemme guess-” he gestured to the control panel- “you can’t find the interaction interface?” Bunbun nodded again, relieved she didn’t have to explain. “If it’s not too much trouble, could you…?” “Of course, Miss Bun! Don’t you worry your fluffy lil head!” Lemon hummed. Gently nudging her to the side, he stood before the control panel. Bunbun watched in silence as he tapped out a complex code with surprising speed. With a beep and a click, the panel slid to the side, revealing… “Hey! That’s the update interface!” Bunbun beamed. “Correct! ‘S a lil hidden here, but it’s all for safety’s sake,” Lemon explained. He took a step back, waving her towards it. “Reactor’s all yours. Just treat my baby like you treat your tablet, m’kay?” “Makes sense. And of course! I’ll have her running smoothly in just a few,” Bunbun smiled knowingly. Seems her intuition had been right. She settled in front of the control panel happily. 

Within a handful of minutes, the updates were once again finished. She stepped back to let Lemon close up the reactor, thanking him silently with her eyes. From his tiny nod and gentle glance, he’d caught onto her gratitude. “You done in there?” River huffed from the doorway. Bunbun’s shoulders slumped a bit. She’d nearly forgotten he was there. “Yeah, yeah, don’t get your leg stuck in a wormhole,” Lemon shot back. Giving Bun a pat on the shoulder, he led her over to River. “You two should head to upper engine next. My son was headed up there to do some alignments, last I heard.” “Ok! Thanks, Lemon,” Bunbun said shyly. He held up his hand- er- fist, smiling at her. It took her a moment to realize what he wanted. With a soft ‘oh!’ she bumped her fist against his. He laughed again, giving her a pat on the back. “Of course, Bun!” he beamed. “You’re welcome here anytime.” “Let’s get going,” River grumbled, turning back to the hall. 

As Bunbun trailed after him, she could hear Lemon’s call of “don’t be a stranger!” I most certainly won’t, she thought happily.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Why I won't buy an Ipad: ten years later

Ten years ago, Apple released the Ipad. I was in a hotel room in Seattle, jetlagged and awake at 4AM while my wife and daughter slept.

I had been thinking about Apple's impending Ipad release and what a reversal it meant for everything I loved about tech: taking away your right to decide whose code you'd run -- even your right to change the battery! I wrote about my feelings and many people read it. It even rated a mention in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs.

A decade later, the Ipad is ten years old and Apple has killed 20 state Right to Repair bills, in part to lock out third parties who might change you batteries for you.

I just reread that piece, and I still stand by it.

Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)

I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them. Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from experimentalist amateurs. These people were able to make stuff and put it in the public's eye and even sell it without having to submit to the whims of a single company that had declared itself gatekeeper for your phone and other personal technology.

Danny O'Brien does a very good job of explaining why I'm completely uninterested in buying an iPad -- it really feels like the second coming of the CD-ROM "revolution" in which "content" people proclaimed that they were going to remake media by producing expensive (to make and to buy) products. I was a CD-ROM programmer at the start of my tech career, and I felt that excitement, too, and lived through it to see how wrong I was, how open platforms and experimental amateurs would eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros.

I remember the early days of the web -- and the last days of CD ROM -- when there was this mainstream consensus that the web and PCs were too durned geeky and difficult and unpredictable for "my mom" (it's amazing how many tech people have an incredibly low opinion of their mothers). If I had a share of AOL for every time someone told me that the web would die because AOL was so easy and the web was full of garbage, I'd have a lot of AOL shares.

And they wouldn't be worth much.

Incumbents made bad revolutionaries Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.

I mean, look at that Marvel app (just look at it). I was a comic-book kid, and I'm a comic-book grownup, and the thing that made comics for me was sharing them. If there was ever a medium that relied on kids swapping their purchases around to build an audience, it was comics. And the used market for comics! It was -- and is -- huge, and vital. I can't even count how many times I've gone spelunking in the used comic-bins at a great and musty store to find back issues that I'd missed, or sample new titles on the cheap. (It's part of a multigenerational tradition in my family -- my mom's father used to take her and her sibs down to Dragon Lady Comics on Queen Street in Toronto every weekend to swap their old comics for credit and get new ones).

So what does Marvel do to "enhance" its comics? They take away the right to give, sell or loan your comics. What an improvement. Way to take the joyous, marvellous sharing and bonding experience of comic reading and turn it into a passive, lonely undertaking that isolates, rather than unites. Nice one, Misney.

Infantalizing hardware Then there's the device itself: clearly there's a lot of thoughtfulness and smarts that went into the design. But there's also a palpable contempt for the owner. I believe -- really believe -- in the stirring words of the Maker Manifesto: if you can't open it, you don't own it. Screws not glue. The original Apple ][+ came with schematics for the circuit boards, and birthed a generation of hardware and software hackers who upended the world for the better. If you wanted your kid to grow up to be a confident, entrepreneurial, and firmly in the camp that believes that you should forever be rearranging the world to make it better, you bought her an Apple ][+.

But with the iPad, it seems like Apple's model customer is that same stupid stereotype of a technophobic, timid, scatterbrained mother as appears in a billion renditions of "that's too complicated for my mom" (listen to the pundits extol the virtues of the iPad and time how long it takes for them to explain that here, finally, is something that isn't too complicated for their poor old mothers).

The model of interaction with the iPad is to be a "consumer," what William Gibson memorably described as "something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth... no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote."

The way you improve your iPad isn't to figure out how it works and making it better. The way you improve the iPad is to buy iApps. Buying an iPad for your kids isn't a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it's a way of telling your offspring that even changing the batteries is something you have to leave to the professionals.

Dale Dougherty's piece on Hypercard and its influence on a generation of young hackers is a must-read on this. I got my start as a Hypercard programmer, and it was Hypercard's gentle and intuitive introduction to the idea of remaking the world that made me consider a career in computers.

Wal-Martization of the software channel And let's look at the iStore. For a company whose CEO professes a hatred of DRM, Apple sure has made DRM its alpha and omega. Having gotten into business with the two industries that most believe that you shouldn't be able to modify your hardware, load your own software on it, write software for it, override instructions given to it by the mothership (the entertainment industry and the phone companies), Apple has defined its business around these principles. It uses DRM to control what can run on your devices, which means that Apple's customers can't take their "iContent" with them to competing devices, and Apple developers can't sell on their own terms.

The iStore lock-in doesn't make life better for Apple's customers or Apple's developers. As an adult, I want to be able to choose whose stuff I buy and whom I trust to evaluate that stuff. I don't want my universe of apps constrained to the stuff that the Cupertino Politburo decides to allow for its platform. And as a copyright holder and creator, I don't want a single, Wal-Mart-like channel that controls access to my audience and dictates what is and is not acceptable material for me to create. The last time I posted about this, we got a string of apologies for Apple's abusive contractual terms for developers, but the best one was, "Did you think that access to a platform where you can make a fortune would come without strings attached?" I read it in Don Corleone's voice and it sounded just right. Of course I believe in a market where competition can take place without bending my knee to a company that has erected a drawbridge between me and my customers!

Journalism is looking for a daddy figure I think that the press has been all over the iPad because Apple puts on a good show, and because everyone in journalism-land is looking for a daddy figure who'll promise them that their audience will go back to paying for their stuff. The reason people have stopped paying for a lot of "content" isn't just that they can get it for free, though: it's that they can get lots of competing stuff for free, too. The open platform has allowed for an explosion of new material, some of it rough-hewn, some of it slick as the pros, most of it targetted more narrowly than the old media ever managed. Rupert Murdoch can rattle his saber all he likes about taking his content out of Google, but I say do it, Rupert. We'll miss your fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the Web so little that we'll hardly notice it, and we'll have no trouble finding material to fill the void.

Just like the gadget press is full of devices that gadget bloggers need (and that no one else cares about), the mainstream press is full of stories that affirm the internal media consensus. Yesterday's empires do something sacred and vital and most of all grown up, and that other adults will eventually come along to move us all away from the kids' playground that is the wild web, with its amateur content and lack of proprietary channels where exclusive deals can be made. We'll move back into the walled gardens that best return shareholder value to the investors who haven't updated their portfolios since before eTrade came online.

But the real economics of iPad publishing tell a different story: even a stellar iPad sales performance isn't going to do much to stanch the bleeding from traditional publishing. Wishful thinking and a nostalgia for the good old days of lockdown won't bring customers back through the door.

Gadgets come and gadgets go Gadgets come and gadgets go. The iPad you buy today will be e-waste in a year or two (less, if you decide not to pay to have the battery changed for you). The real issue isn't the capabilities of the piece of plastic you unwrap today, but the technical and social infrastructure that accompanies it.

If you want to live in the creative universe where anyone with a cool idea can make it and give it to you to run on your hardware, the iPad isn't for you.

If you want to live in the fair world where you get to keep (or give away) the stuff you buy, the iPad isn't for you.

If you want to write code for a platform where the only thing that determines whether you're going to succeed with it is whether your audience loves it, the iPad isn't for you.

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/27/nascent-boulangism.html

[industrialrobots01]

Industrial Robots

Robot sales to automotive producers increased by 22 p.c to a brand new peak of almost a hundred twenty five,seven hundred models. Carmakers remained the biggest prospects for industrial robots last year – just – with a one-third share of the total supply. Innovators have created robots that mimic the movements of dogs, cats, insects, and people with eerie precision. In industrial settings, these advances are letting firms transfer a few of the most tough, harmful, and time-consuming duties from workers to robots. As this trend accelerates, each traders and robotic-component manufacturers are in strong positions to entry profit swimming pools.

Collaborative industrial robots are designed to carry out duties in collaboration with employees in industrial sectors. The International Federation of Robotics defines two forms of industrial robots designed for collaborative use. The different group covers robots designed for collaborative use that do not satisfy the requirements of ISO.

Since grippers and EOATs account for around 3 p.c of the total price of automation, the selection of a high-priced supplier could have relatively little impact on a company’s manufacturing-line prices. As China builds its robotic installed base, it's going to see a 25 % annual increase in demand for end effectors from 2018 by way of 2023. That determine represents about 45 % of the whole market growth expected over those years, and it’s greater than the mixed contribution of Europe and North America. Of the $5.1 billion in market worth for grippers and EOATs in 2023, greater than $1 billion will come from China. If your business isn’t listed on this listing, it doesn’t imply that you can’t use robots in your business. In reality, lots of the hottest robotic functions are applicable to almost any business.

Increased use of robots can be enabling firms in high value nations to ‘re-shore’ or bring again to their home base components of the supply chain that they have beforehand outsourced to sources of cheaper labor. This implies that even small-quantity productions can effectively be automated in areas similar to components welding and slicing, versatile assembly and packaging and palletizing. Robot investments have gotten more and more worthwhile and hence turn out to be increasingly widespread within business. The robotic’s actions are directed by a mixture of programming software and controls. Their automated performance allows them to function around the clock and on weekends—in addition to with hazardous supplies and in difficult environments—releasing personnel to carry out other duties.

The International Federation of Robotics has predicted a worldwide enhance in adoption of industrial robots and so they estimated 1.7 million new robot installations in factories worldwide by 2020 . Using knowledge from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, NIOSH and its state companions have investigated four robot-associated fatalities beneath the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program. In addition the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has investigated dozens of robot-associated deaths and accidents, which could be reviewed at OSHA Accident Search page. Injuries and fatalities could increase over time because of the rising number of collaborative and co-existing robots, powered exoskeletons, and autonomous automobiles into the work environment.

ISO 9283 specifies that accuracy and repeatability should be measured at most velocity and at maximum payload. But this ends in pessimistic values whereas the robot could be rather more accurate and repeatable at gentle loads and speeds. Repeatability in an industrial process is also topic to the accuracy of the end effector, for instance a gripper, and even to the design of the 'fingers' that match the gripper to the item being grasped. For instance, if a robot picks a screw by its head, the screw might be at a random angle. A subsequent try and insert the screw into a gap could simply fail.

In the year 2020, an estimated 1.64 million industrial robots have been in operation worldwide according to International Federation of Robotics . Industrial robots are automated, programmable and capable of motion on three or more axes. The most commonly used robot configurations for industrial automation, include articulated robots, SCARA robots and gantry robots. The IFR forecasts continued annual industrial robot growth of 5 percent in Germany over the subsequent three years. IFR forecast US industrial robot development of 5 percent this year, rising to 10 percent between 2019 and 2021.

The enthusiasm and funding weren't at all times matched with understanding. General Motors Corporation spent greater than $40 billion on new technology in the 1980's, but a lack of know-how led to expensive robotic fiascos. In 1988, robots at the Hamtramck Michigan plant wreaked havoc - smashing home windows andpaintingone one other. Unfortunately, the premature introduction of robotics began to create monetary instability. The Silver Arm was created by MIT's David Silver to perform exact meeting using touch and pressure sensors and a microcomputer.

The International Federation of Robotics has published its annual report on the state of the commercial robotics market worldwide. Companies usually buy finish effectors once they automate a brand new manufacturing line or when they determine to transform or overhaul their existing production tools, together with robotic arms. Likewise, corporations may purchase grippers and EOATs after they must retool their manufacturing strains to support the introduction of new or updated products or once they introduce a variant, similar to a hybrid version of a automotive. Although companies additionally buy robotic elements because of general wear and tear, this isn’t a substantial source of revenue for suppliers of end effectors, since most parts are covered beneath lengthy warranties. End effectors also tend to final for much longer than the expected lifetime outlined in their specs. Despite the rising demand for grippers and EOATs, little analysis is available on this crucial market phase.

However a computer is commonly used to 'supervise' the robotic and any peripherals, or to offer further storage for entry to quite a few complicated paths and routines. A robotic and a set of machines or peripherals is known as a workcell, or cell. A typical cell might contain a elements feeder, a molding machine and a robotic. The varied machines are 'integrated' and managed by a single pc or PLC.

ABB Robotics is a pioneer in robotics, machine automation and digital companies, providing progressive solutions for a diverse range of industries, from automotive to electronics to logistics. As one of many world’s leading robotics and machine automation suppliers, ABB Robotics employs greater than 11,000 folks in fifty three international locations and has shipped greater than 500,000 robotic options. Sensors and vision systems allow robots to reply to their exterior setting in real-time, increasing the range of duties the robotic can perform - such as choosing and putting unsorted parts - and expanding robotic mobility. Mobile robots are key to enabling versatile manufacturing, in which production is split into discrete processes and manufacturing cells working in parallel. Collaborative and conventional industrial robots © IFR International Federation of Robotics For more info, please check with the IFR Positioning Paper on Demystifying Collaborative Robots. In 2019, about 4.eight% industrial robots installed, had been cobots, an increase of 11% over 2018.

In 1969 Victor Scheinman at Stanford University invented the Stanford arm, an all-electrical, 6-axis articulated robotic designed to allow an arm resolution. This allowed it accurately to comply with arbitrary paths in space and widened the potential use of the robotic to more sophisticated purposes similar to meeting and welding. Other robots are far more versatile as to the orientation of the object on which they are operating or even the task that has to be performed on the object itself, which the robotic may even have to determine.

Often known as ‘cobots’, these robots are designed with quite a lot of technical options that ensure they do not cause harm when a employee comes into direct contact, either deliberately or accidentally. In the context of common robotics, most types of industrial robots would fall into the class of robot arms. Elsewhere in Europe, robot investments increased by 19 percent to a new record of 7,seven hundred units last 12 months in Italy.

Many of probably the most oppressive and routine office chores—these which are soiled, dull, or dangerous—are actually totally within the robotic realm. But thanks to current technologic advances, robots are also handling extra complex operations that require excessive precision. For example, robots with laser-vision systems can fit doorways exactly to car bodies. These improvements, combined with several economic forces, are prompting corporations to contemplate industrial robots more critically.

With 18 sequence of fashions, FANUC offers the widest range of industrial robots on the planet. Covering a various vary of functions and industries, FANUC machines are simple to operate and supply complete flexibility. With greater than one hundred models, FANUC provides the widest vary of commercial robots in the world. FANUC offers the widest collection vary of commercial robots in the world.

For examples of how this may look in well-liked robot languages see industrial robotic programming. The most important robot peripheral is the top effector, or end-of-arm-tooling . End effectors are regularly highly advanced, made to match the handled product and often able to picking up an array of merchandise at one time. They might utilize numerous sensors to aid the robotic system in finding, dealing with, and positioning products. Manufacturing impartial robotic programming instruments are a relatively new however flexible method to program robot applications. Using a graphical consumer interface the programming is completed through drag and drop of predefined template/building blocks.

This consists of following a security-licensed growth course of for safety-crucial system components. An experienced companion with intensive information about robotics – from the system as a whole to every final drive and sensor – is crucial to a project’s success. A big selection of parts flows into an industrial robot design to create a seamlessly functioning system. Each robotic usually includes three main parts, a control box, a manipulator and a selected software, mounted on the highest of the robotic’s arm.

Of course, major technologic advances might disrupt the robotic-part business, as they've carried out in other sectors, and shift demand in surprising directions. It’s hard to predict whether or not such disruptions will materialize—or anticipate the time-frame over which they might occur—however industry stakeholders might want to monitor all technologic developments closely. The robotic installed base will see robust global growth, however rising markets will account for the best enhance. China, in particular, will see automation surge, partly in response to the government’s Made in China 2025 plan. Introduced in 2015, the plan goals to transform the country into the world’s high manufacturing powerhouse by bettering product high quality via larger automation.

Including the cost of software, peripherals and techniques engineering, the annual turnover for robot systems is estimated to be US$48.zero billion in 2018. This is a wrist about which the three axes of the wrist, controlling yaw, pitch, and roll, all pass by way of a common point. An instance of a wrist singularity is when the path by way of which the robot is traveling causes the primary and third axes of the robotic's wrist (i.e. robotic's axes 4 and 6) to line up. The second wrist axis then attempts to spin 180° in zero time to keep up the orientation of the top effector. The result of a singularity may be fairly dramatic and may have antagonistic effects on the robot arm, the top effector, and the process. Some industrial robotic producers have tried to side-step the situation by slightly altering the robot's path to stop this situation.

With more than 250 software capabilities for enhanced intelligence, motion, security and productiveness and a wide variety of FANUC top quality equipment, we have a solution for nearly each conceivable application. Introducing the high rigidity robotic M-900iB/280 The M-900iB/280 is FANUC’s new specialist for purposes that demand maximum rigidity from the robotic. With more than 20,000 painting robots put in worldwide, ABB’s many years of expertise have culminated in PC software designed with the customer’s wants in thoughts. Get even more accurate search results via payload analyses with KUKA Compose.

The cylindrical coordinate robots are characterized by their rotary joint at the base and at least one prismatic joint connecting its hyperlinks. The compact effector design permits the robotic to succeed in tight workspaces without any lack of speed. Cartesian robots, additionally known as rectilinear, gantry robots, and x-y-z robots have three prismatic joints for the motion of the software and three rotary joints for its orientation in space. Receive the latest IoT news and analysis in your trade, straight to your inbox. Robot gross sales to the /electronics trade worldwide have been significantly up since 2013 and are now virtually at the same level because the automotive business. Compared to Germany and Japan , the gap is exceptional – particularly since Japan had the world’s highest robotic density in 2009.

While it’s definitely true that robots are becoming ever extra well-liked, some industries are extra affected than others. The invention of the Numerically Controlled machines, the recognition of the computer , and the built-in circuit all helped to make it possible to begin to develop the very first, but simple, industrial robot. Discover what your industrial robotic project can obtain when you partner with us. We sit up for listening to from you – and to studying extra about your design.

To have the ability to move and orient the effector organ in all directions, such a robotic wants 6 axes . In a 2-dimensional environment, three axes are enough, two for displacement and one for orientation.

It additionally presents robotic density, i.e. the number of robots per 10,000 staff, as a measure for the degree of automation. The setup or programming of motions and sequences for an industrial robotic is typically taught by linking the robotic controller to a laptop, desktop laptop or community. Power source – some robots use electrical motors, others use hydraulic actuators. Nowadays, it's extremely unlikely to see any hydraulic robots available in the market. Additional sealings, brushless electrical motors and spark-proof protection eased the development of units which might be in a position to work in the environment with an explosive environment.

There, robotic installations elevated considerably between 2012 and 2017, by 26 p.c a yr on average. That figure represents development of 31 p.c, but the IFR forecasts that UK gross sales will now develop at a modest three p.c a yr till 2021. Robot installations within the US increased to a brand new peak of 33,192 units in 2017 – the seventh successive 12 months of development, and 6 p.c larger than in 2016. Since 2010, the main driver of this development has been the need to strengthen US industries at house and abroad. But China is far from the leading country by way of robotic density – the number of robots per 10,000 employees, IFR’s most popular measurement for comparing the relative sizes of the market in different economies. Since 2013, China has been the world’s biggest robot market with “continued dynamic development” and a 36 percent share of the world’s complete supply in 2017.

Repeatability is then quantified utilizing the usual deviation of these samples in all three dimensions. A typical robotic can, of course make a positional error exceeding that and that could possibly be an issue for the process. Moreover, the repeatability is completely different in numerous parts of the working envelope and in addition modifications with speed and payload.

The capacity to preview the habits of a robotic system in a virtual world permits for a variety of mechanisms, gadgets, configurations and controllers to be tried and examined earlier than being applied to a "real world" system. Robotics simulators have the flexibility to provide actual-time computing of the simulated movement of an industrial robotic using both geometric modeling and kinematics modeling. Offline programming is where the complete cell, the robotic and all of the machines or devices in the workspace are mapped graphically. A robotics simulator is used to create embedded applications for a robotic, with out depending on the physical operation of the robotic arm and end effector. The benefits of robotics simulation is that it saves time in the design of robotics functions.

For instance, for more exact steering, robots usually include machine vision sub-techniques performing as their visual sensors, linked to powerful computers or controllers. Artificial intelligence, or what passes for it, is turning into an more and more necessary factor within the trendy industrial robotic. Serial architectures a.k.a Serial manipulators are the most common industrial robots and they are designed as a sequence of links related by motor-actuated joints that extend from a base to an finish-effector.

[breezethegame]

Dev Log #1-ish?

Seeing how I missed like two weeks of mini blog posts, I’m deeming this one an actual “Devlog” (fanfare and such yada yada). I'm just going to call it a Dev Log.

So much has gone on the last few weeks that I’m struggling to piece it all together, so here is an attempt:

Computer Adventures:

So, I don’t haven’t built a dev machine from the ground up for years now, (maybe since college?) and typically just upgrade parts as I see fit (graphics card, ram, processor, etc).

Well, my motherboard has been giving me problems for close to a year now, where it occasionally decides “yeah, don’t really care about your boot device today”, as well as other miscellaneous things that required me to do things like removing the CMOS battery or main drive. I was also running out of upgrade options, so I got a bit fed up and decided it might be time to replace it.

I wasn't going to be cost-effective to get another LGA1150 board and CPU, and I try to build computers with future-proofing in mind. I was also looking to get a smaller case too. I already had a nice GPU (GTX 1070) that I got a couple years ago before cryptocurrency “did the thing” and graphics card's prices got ridiculous, so didn’t have to worry about replacing that.

Ultimately, I decided to do a "completely new" build.

I’ve been building computers for friends and family for many years, so I literally woke up the next day and said, “I’m about to build this thing blind”.

Well, kinda learned the hard way of the hassle of going at it that way (along with committing a couple noobish mistakes)...

Shopping Time!

Lesson 1: Double check store inventory before heading to a store that's 20 miles away

Well, I choose the nearest Fry's Electronics (it was Saturday, and I really wanted to get a machine built the same day). I get there and start looking for all of the cases and motherboards (severally disappointed that they only had one Micro ATX board in stock, something I was looking to get for the more compact build, but not as restrictive as a Mini-ITX, which they had several of). Impatient as ever, I decided I was going to pick it up.

While looking at other things, I hear another customer talking to sales rep, and the rep mentions that they don’t have a certain CPU in stock. After listening even more (I’m noisy, sorry), he mentions that they have NO Intel CPUs in stock. I decided that I had to get in on this convo.

He informs up that as of late, their store may receive like, 10 at a time, and also mentions that their other location doesn’t have any either (both of these locations are 20+ miles away from me in Dallas).

I also find out that they don’t have the specific ram I was looking for either (I ended up getting something a little pricier). He ends up informing me that the Micro Center 10 minutes away from where we were should have some CPUs.

So I end up at the Micro Center and they did have the CPUs, as well as a case that caught my attention. They also had a lot of other nice things too! Kind of wished I would have known to go to Micro Center first, despite it being much farther from home.

Building Time!?

Lesson Two: Get a head-start of figuring out your plan for wire management and how pieces will fit in your new case

I got home and was ready to build. I spent a lot of time trying to get the interior wire management together since it’s a much smaller case than my last one. I ended up spending a couple of hours getting it just right (I don’t intend to go back into this machine once it’s complete since I’m nearly maxing it out spec wise for now), before moving out to everything else.

Getting my old water-cooling radiator in was a bit tough (a very tight squeeze), but after that, adding in the ram, etc was a Breeze.

Hours went by, I installed Windows, software, etc…

I go to shut it down (after having done several restarts for the software installs prior), and it doesn’t want to power off. After 10 minutes of waiting, I manually power it off. Whatever, I’m super tired at this point.

The next day (Last Sunday), I’ve encountered several other smaller issues. Updating the BIOS didn’t help either. Great…

Okay, Building Time For Real

Lesson 3: Kinda make sure things boot up and work before you get too early to clean/tighten things down in your build

After taking the whole thing apart, I ended up swapping out that mobo for another of the same kind (since Frys didn’t have any others), but then ended up ordering different board on Amazon. So waited another day or so and the new board arrived (it’s now Tuesday evening).

I rewired/rebuilt the computer once again, installed the software, etc. I spent most of Wednesday day checking in with the team and catching up with emails and such. Then Thursday as I was beginning to do some work, I noticed that the computer was saying that my Windows wasn’t activated. I go to my Microsoft account to retrieve my key, and the page wouldn’t load to provide me the key and would only show the transaction.

Lesson 4: Make sure to keep your activation key(s) somewhere other than online/digital if you can

It’s super late and the option to speak to someone was obviously closed, but they had a chat option, so I reached someone through there. After back and forth for a while, and him remoting into the machine to check the activation status, he tells me that the key might not be showing up because it was an “upgrade”, so I would need to buy another copy of Windows 10 again.

Lesson 5: Tell "Aaron" from Microsoft no over and over, and don't fall for possibly sketchy things like sales pitches that come out of nowhere

I originally bought Windows Home and upgraded it to Pro on the same day back in 2015, so I told him that and he kept insisting that I buy Windows 10 again. I refused and told him that I wouldn’t and that I’d take care of this in the morning, and he then offered that I could pay a smaller fee to reactivate my Windows 10, but it would be a one time fee of like, $40. (I refused again).

When I go to end the remote session, he then informs me that he “Really wants to help me out” and ends up activating it anyway. (This whole thing seemly suspicious, I ended up recording it). I watched him activate Windows for over 10 minutes through some manual process (it's almost 2am, and I had work in the morning). He eventually finishes and thanks/apologies. Not sure why I even had to go through all that, but whatever...

I ended up spending Friday wrapping up installs and doing a fresh system backup afterward, before moving along with pulling down the Breeze project from source control, and reminding myself of where I left off…

Anyway, long story short, I tried to get a system built in a day, and it ends up taking almost a week!

Okay, but did you get any dev done these last two weeks?

Yeah, somehow!

Health Bar and Health System:

First thing the team and I did was evaluate a few things that are critical, but we’ve been bouncing back and forth on: The Health System

(WIP of a concept we're working on for his health bar)

The reason for this is mostly for game balancing purposes:

Is this a game that focuses on having Breeze (the player) overwhelm his opponents with an array of abilities (think Devil May Cry/Bayonetta, Kingdom Hearts, God of War?)

Or is this a game where Breeze must focus on finding openings to deal damage and avoid an onslaught of danger (think Hollow Knight, Ori, Megaman, pretty much most NES/SNES platformers)

Game design… is hard at times. Sometimes you think something will work well in theory, but when you get down into the specifics, you begin to question how certain things will balance out.

You’d think something like designing a health bar isn’t too trivial, until you realize that the Health bar represents the player’s health, and the player’s health influences the character’s survivability, which is then tied to other factors: what options does the player have to “survive” and what threatens that?

Anyway, not going to get too deep into that because I lack the PhD.

Basically, there was a bit of a rift in the UI design process that led to really evaluating game design items, and I’ve been working towards seeing what Breeze’s options are and how to limit them in areas, or how I can build the world and it’s inhabitants in a way that will make this all work out.

It’s not going to be something that will likely be answered quickly, but nevertheless, that’s Game Design™ sometimes...  

Frame Data:

[Insert Craig of the Creek frame data meme here]

I used to have a really convoluted way of tackling this in which I would have events in the animation that if given an ID, it will look for a set of “Frame Data” and then look for a specific frame and then load that information up.

It would then pass that frame information into the active hitbox and if something is in it, math and physics and stuff would happen.

I didn’t change this up too much, but I did reduce the setup process by allowing you to just drop the FrameData right into the frame of the animation (no more extra array and ID lookup stuff!)

New Particles:

We’ve got new particles! There’s one for jumping/landing/dashing dust, as well as one for wall sliding.

In the last update, I added a feature that generates “points” at the edges of a character’s collider box (as well as other “checks”), so this helped in making sure that the particles are created in the right place. This was especially challenging with the wall sliding particle.

Also, with the wall sliding particle, I needed to implement a way to have a “looping” particle effect, as well as making sure the particle effect follows Breeze as he’s moving down the wall

Developing Sprite Model Sheets

We've got models sheets completed for just about all of the cast members, though, since there's several artists on the project, as well as animators (including I), I wanted to get some sheets together that would work as a base for animators to use, and to eliminate elements that aren't needed in the sprites (minor details that would be seen in promotional art or more detailed art in general), as well as get a proper size for the characters in-game.

Misc. Features

I’ve done various other quality of life code changes to make it easier to do certain things, like creating new attacks, making the screen pause/slow-mo when Breeze changes forms, and updated my Debugging Manager so that I can hide/show certain debug messages.

I’ve also been working on a RoomManager, and writing features to look handle what happens when the player enters a room (like starting a cutscene, showing UI, spawning things, etc)

I’ve also been looking into updating the game’s Music Handler, mostly for how to handle looping a song after it's intro plays, as well as finding ways to add effects to tracks!

Other Breeze things:

I’ve been working on getting shirts done through Teespring, and I would have loved to show off some of the shirts I ordered, but Teespring shipped them using DHL, and somewhere between DHL and USPS, my shirts have been sitting in shipping limbo for 5-6 days, despite being like a city or two away from me… Maybe tomorrow ~

Also, working on a couple of enamel pin designs! Haven’t figured out the maker yet, but designs are coming along nicely!

Quick Test Build Coming

So, a week or two ago, I planned on releasing a quick build for the Drop Tier backers and above. There was a lot of features and such that I wanted to get done... before my computer stuff happened. Our goal was to have one out before the end up March, so....

I’m going to release one anyway. Maybe tomorrow?

I’ll be creating a post for those in the eligible tiers once I’m done compiling/building it! Please keep in mind that this build will be very minimal and exists to test out controls/physics. I wanted to make a strong first impression, but I'll chill on the whole "striving for perfection" thing for now!

Also, I'm on vacation this week, so I'll be cramming on Breeze stuff this whole week to make up for lost time!

[canonkiller]

laptop update - bad news + need help!

because nothing in life is easy, their approximation for fixing it (150) was not accurate and it will, in fact, be $700~ to repair my existing laptop. which is more expensive than just buying a new laptop, and is more money than i have seen in the past two years, so that fucking sucks! 

apparently the manufacturer is willing to offer a 'deal' on the 'step up' from that laptop for $350 plus my old unit. the specs for the new one are slightly above my current laptop (will list them below) but i don't know how that matches up in price range / usability with current models.

if any of you know ANYTHING about computer technical stats / price ranges / compatibility / etc, i would GREATLY appreciate comments with recommendations or advice, because while i have a vague sense of what these words mean i don't know how they apply to a computer's function. technical info for those who can help is below the break!

if you can, please consider pledging to my patreon, buying merch from redbubble, or donating directly to my paypal - this is a lot of money that i don’t have, and being disabled with art as my income, i can’t make money until i have a laptop again!

new laptop’s stats as given to me by the help desk (they didn’t have the actual model name / number) and how they compare to the old:

dell (old was hp)

15.6in screen (old was the same)

intel i5 processor (old was amda 10)

4 processing cores (same as old)

processor speed 2.3 (old was 2.1)

cache of 3mbs (same as old)

memory is 1tb (old was 750 units not specificed but presumably mb)

8gb ram (same as old)

amb radiant a5 - i believe this was the graphics card but i. didnt write that down. googling reveals it was probably amd radeon a5 (old was just the amd radeon, or whatever the actual name was without the number)

1 usb 3.0, 2 usb 1.0 (same as old)

hdmi port (same as old)

windows 10 eng (i BELIEVE my old laptop was a version of 8 )

what i need / want from a replacement:

windows

reliable! it doesn't have to be pretty or top of the line, i'd just like to have it for as long as possible before replacing becomes practically mandatory

has to be able to run most drawing programs (clip studio paint a MAJOR priority)

ideally, could run obs / other streaming software without overheating (this is probably easy for most modern laptops that dont have secret heat sink issues)

would be ideal if it could run games, things like portal, mass effect, stardew valley, skyrim. for reference, my old laptop managed to run portal and portal 2 for practically 48 hours straight with heat sink and fan issues, apparently, and while it did eventually do an overheat shutdown it started back up fine right after, so i don't think this is a difficult goal to meet for anything newer

wifi, obviously. dual broadband would be nice but is in no way mandatory, as my old doesn't have it and our signal isn't good enough to make a huge difference

i really don't have high standards here, ive been using a laptop from 2013

ideally not a touch screen. i just don't like them much, even though thats probably dumb

if it comes in nice colors, that is an added bonus

i have absolutely no idea how that stacks up to current competitors and their pricing! the 350 + old model for the step up is a deal apparently being offered until tomorrow at 4pm, approximately 24 hours from now, so advice is again greatly helpful! as previously mentioned, i don't know the actual model of the step up, but my model was an hp pavilion - though i don't know the number, it's from 2013.

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Title: All I Want Is You

Fandom: Hunter x Hunter

Characters: Silva, Hisoka, OC

Relationships: Silva/OC, Hisoka/OC

Tags: Sci-Fi AU, Marriage AU, Romance, Light Angst, Valentine’s Day Fic, HxHBB19 Mini V-Day fic

Words: 2,449

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Yana sits next to her best friend, Maeve, on a space train traveling to a planet called Stargaze from their home planet, Minx. There are ten cars; three are business class, two are first class, and the rest is economy class. They sit in the middle row in first class next to a large window that has a beautiful view of space. Various advertisements are projected on a hologram underneath the window.

Yana and Maeve wear a red skintight spacesuit that has advanced technology built in it. Their space helmet has a small screen in the corner for video calling, displaying a GPS, and connecting to the internet using voice command. A cooling system regulates the temperature inside the spacesuit to prevent it from overheating or becoming too cold and a SOS beacon activates when the system shuts down.

Maeve checks the GPS to see how much time is left until they reach the planet. The ETA is fifteen minutes. It gives her time to think about a Valentine’s Day gift for her husband. She had forgotten to buy something in Minx because she was focus on making it to the train station on time. She has a habit of showing up late to things, except work.

“What are you going to do when you see, Hisoka?” Yana asks.

Maeve makes a humming noise. “I’m not sure. We haven’t seen each other in a year.” She looks at Yana, grinning a little. “What are you going to do when you see, Silva?”

“Eat, watch a movie, and have a lot of sex,” Yana says playfully, nudging Maeve in the side with her elbow. Maeve nudges her back, rolling her eyes. “I can’t believe it’s been a year since we’ve seen them.”

“Yana, you know the deal was the only way to see them.”

Yana nods her head. “I know, but”-she clasps her hands together. Inside the gloves, they are dry, rough, and have some cuts and bruises on them from all the hard work of building computers and installing them inside of spaceships for large organizations. Sometimes she wishes she didn’t have a job in IT, but it pays well and keeps the lights on. “I’m just tired of seeing them once a year. Something has to give.”

“It’s better than a prison cell,” Maeve says, flicking off some dust from her leg. Yana’s posture stiffens. “The galaxy police still want to arrest us for hacking into the galaxy’s database.”

“We weren’t involved,” Yana reminds Maeve.

“We know that, but the galaxy doesn’t,” Maeve says angrily.

Yana grows quiet and looks outside the window at a cluster of asteroids moving toward a small planet in the distance. She tries to remember what its name is but draws a blank. It starts with an E, or maybe it starts with a G. Her memory has been hazy ever since they were arrested and bailed out of jail three years ago for a crime they didn’t commit. The galaxy police had tried to arrest them for infiltrating the government’s database and selling sensitive documents on the black market. Yana’s cousin, Wing, had presented evidence in court to prove their innocence.  

Even though they were cleared of the crime, the galaxy police are still trying to find evidence to prosecute them again since they are unable to find the actual cyber criminals. Until the cyber criminals are caught, Yana and Maeve are forbidden from living with and living on the same planet as their husbands. Visitation is once a year and it has to be on a planet in the same star system. The deal isn’t fair, but it’s better than spending fifty years in a maximum-security prison that doesn’t allow visitors.

The space train swerves around small asteroids and picks up speed as it races toward Stargaze. The large planet becomes bigger as it approaches and eventually, it slows down and stops in front of a space station that has a sign with flashing neon letters that says Welcome to Stargaze. A boarding bridge extends from the spaceship to the space train’s door, locking in place, making a large clicking noise. The doors open and the passenger exit one by one.

“Well, here we go,” Yana says, standing up.

Maeve stands up and exits the train, followed by Yana. They take off their helmets and take a sidewalk escalator down the boarding bridge to the space station. Inside are ten floors that have stores, restaurants, and hotels. In the middle are five elevators, but one has a sign that says Out of Order. A robot, wearing a baseball cap and a baseball uniform, hoovers in front of it.

There are crowds of people walking in different directions. Everyone wears a spacesuit and holds their helmet in their hand as they bump into each other. Jazz music blasts in the air, and there is some trash on the floor. Kiosks and vendors line the walls, selling various things, such as spacesuits, jewelry, and food.

Maeve and Yana search the crowd for their husbands and find them standing near a kiosk that sells maps. They fight their way through a swarm of people moving in different directions and embrace their lovers tightly, never letting go as if it is the last time to see them. In some ways, it does feel like the last time since they are allowed to meet once a year.

Silva kisses Yana passionately and breaks the kiss to look at her face. He smiles when he doesn’t see sleeping bags underneath her eyes; a sign that she has been getting enough sleep. “I’ve missed you so much. How was your trip?”

“It was fine,” she says, moving closer to him so that people can get by behind her. “How was your trip?”

“It was long, but very entertaining,” Silva says, before he kisses her and looks at Hisoka who is kissing Maeve. “He really knows how to stay positive in a bad situation.” He pauses for a few moments and looks back at Yana, searching her face to make sure she wasn’t offended by his answer. She nods her head and smiles. “How is work?”

“It’s good,” she takes his hand and leads him out of the crowd to an area less crowded. There are large holograms on the wall, showing various domes to visit on the planet. A couple stands in front of one, exchanging Valentine Day cards. She looks away from the couple, feeling embarrassed that she didn’t buy anything for Silva. She was busy at work and didn’t have time. “I’m sorry, I didn’t get you anything for Valentine’s Day.”

Silva hugs Yana and rests his chin on top of her head. “It’s just a holiday. Don’t worry about it.”

“I know, but I wanted to buy you something,” Yana says, feeling like she failed him. Valentine’s Day on Stargaze is a major holiday but it’s not on Minx. “I can stop by the store and pick up something.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Silva reassures her. “It’s fine.”

Hisoka and Maeve break their kiss and join Yana and Silva. Hisoka wears a tight spacesuit like Silva, except his is magenta and Silva’s is navy blue. Their helmets are attached to a belt around their waist and their shoes light up when they walk. The built-in technology isn’t as advanced, but it functions correctly and the software is updated frequently.

“We are heading out to the hotel. Call me if you need anything,” Maeve says, taking a step forward but stops when Hisoka places his hand on her shoulder.

“We booked a room at the same hotel since we have to return to work in two days,” Hisoka says sadly.

Maeve’s stomach drops. “Oh, I thought you guys were able to take the week off.”

Silva shakes his head. “Since we are the only researchers on this planet, they need us to work extra hours until more arrive.” He takes Yana’s hand and holds it firmly. “I’m really sorry. We just found out thirty minutes before you had arrived.” He takes off her glove and kisses the back of her hand. “I promise to make the best out of the time we have together.”

Yana sighs a little, wishing things were different, but she can’t change anything. She doesn’t have a time machine to travel to the past and she can’t call his job and ask to give him a week off. It won’t work.  

“Let’s go since we don’t have a lot of time,” Maeve says cheerfully, even though she wants to curl up underneath a blanket and cry. Life isn’t fair. She shouldn’t have to spend two days with her husband and leave to never see him again for a year. But that’s the deal she had accepted in order to stay out of prison. “What floor are we staying on? Do we have to pay to use the appliances?”

“I’m not sure,” Hisoka whispers in Maeve’s ear.

They take an elevator to the ninth floor and turn down a narrow hallway that leads to a glass door at the end. The doors open automatically and they enter a small lobby, expecting to be greeted by a human but instead, they are greeted by a robot wearing a cowboy hat and a tux. It doesn’t have any eyes, but it does have a mouth that stays lightly open. It bows elegantly and hooves over to a small table that has a tablet on it and touches the screen, bringing up a menu.

“Welcome to the Stargaze Hotel. Are you here to check-in or meet a guest?” the robot asks in a country accent.

“Check in,” Silva says, holding Yana close to him. He has heard stories about robots going rouge and killing people. Lately, the incidents have been occurring frequently. Perhaps, their software is corrupted with malware. “The room is under Zoldyck.”

“And you?” the robot looks at Hisoka.

“It’s under Morrow,” Hisoka replies.

The robot makes a humming noise and doesn’t say anything for a few moments as it processes information. Yana raises an eyebrow and looks at Maeve because she has never seen this robot’s model before. The models on Minx are new and don’t wear clothes. They are painted gold and wear purple visor glasses.

The robot eventually makes a dinging noise that sounds like a bell and speaks again.

“Mr. Zoldyck and Mr. Morrow, your room is located on the fifth floor. Please, follow me to the elevator,” the robot says, hoovering over to an elevator in the corner of the lobby. It presses a button and the doors open. “Please, step inside.”

Everyone enters the elevator and it ascends to the fifth floor without the robot having to do anything. Once it reaches the floor, the robot leads everyone down a hallway that has cheap crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and pictures of abstract paintings on the wall. The robot stops in front of a door and waves its hand, or what looks like a hand, in front of a panel, causing the door to open up.

“Welcome to your room. You will be charged the full amount when you check out in two days. Enjoy your stay,” the robot says before hoovering away.

Hisoka and Silva look at each other confused. Maeve and Yana enter the room and look around to see if there is a door that leads to an extra room but don’t see anything. There are two queen size beds that have rose petals and chocolate on it, a flat screen TV on the wall, a desk, and a bathroom. There aren’t any windows and the ceiling light flickers.

“Uh, babe, how much did you pay for this room?” Yana asks Silva, as he shuts the door, locks it, and pokes his head inside the bathroom. She places her space helmet on the bed, but doesn’t sit down. What if it has bed bugs or a dead body in the mattress? “Did you check the hotel rating?”

“No, I was in a rush and choose the first one that I found online,” Silva replies, as he turns on the light in the bathroom. There are a few cockroaches near the toilet and pubic hair in the tub. The mirror is cracked and there is some rust inside the sink. “I probably should have read the reviews.”

“I think so too,” Maeve says, tip toeing over stains on the floor. There is a large stain in between the beds and a few stains on the walls. “I’m going to see if there are any vacant rooms in the other hotels.”

“Every hotel is full,” Hisoka says.

Yana groans a little. “What are we going to do? I’m not staying in this room.” She looks at Silva as he closes the bathroom and takes of his gloves. “How long will it take to reach your condo?”

Silva thinks about it for a few moments. “Eight hours by ship to reach my dome and ten hours to reach Hisoka’s dome.”

“That isn’t enough time,” Maeve says, rubbing her eyes. “Isn’t there a capsule hotel here?”

“Yes, but it’s full,” Hisoka says, trying not to give a negative answer that will upset his wife and her best friend. “Why don’t we buy some sheets and sleep on the floor?”

“I guess that could work,” Yana says, dropping her shoulders. Time is short and their options are limited. She only has two days with her husband. “The next time we meet up, please don’t book a room at a bad hotel.”

“I’ll do research next time,” Silva says, turning off the light in the room. He takes a jewelry box out of a side pocket on his spacesuit, Hisoka does the same, and opens it up. Inside is a titanium wedding band that has a micro chip and micro camera built in it. A small hologram projects from the camera, showing a moving image of Yana and Maeve dancing with their husbands on their wedding day. It changes to a moving image of them sitting on the beach as the sun sets in the distance. “Happy Valentine’s Day.”

“Happy Valentine’s Day,” Hisoka repeats, moving closer to Maeve. She looks at the moving images for a few moments and cries. He hugs her and whispers into her. “I’m sorry about the hotel room. I love you so much.”

“It’s fine,” Maeve squeaks out, continuing to cry. She buries her face in his chest. “I love you too. Thank you.”

Yana wipes tears off her face and hugs Silva. “It’s beautiful. I love you.”

Silva places the jewelry box on the desk behind him and embraces Yana. “I love you too.”

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The Do This, Get That Guide On Gaming

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