So were actually supposed to give attention to the most basic day to day chores?

Believe it or not, yes. It can be massively beneficial to teach yourself to give more true attention to all things. The more we’re in our heads, the less likely we are to be in touch with reality. Thought can only take you so far and there’s no downside to being more alert in our daily lives.

Obviously, if your job is to be a theoretical mathematician, this doesn’t apply in the same way, but mindfulness is a very real thing that benefits all parts of life.

Edit: I’m not even kidding when I say this is both the core principle of what Alan Watts was teaching (here’s a clip from his famous “Overthinker” speech) and the moral behind the movie Click. They’re both saying the same thing in different ways.

What you’re describing is the opposite of mindfulness and is a great way to entirely lose yourself.

Sure autopilot has its uses, but if you’re relying on autopilot day in and day out as so many people are now doing in modern day, you are no longer yourself. You have become your autopilot. Like a gentle brainwash.

If you do this for long enough, this is how you end up with a mid-life crisis, because you’ll go through decades of your life on autopilot when one day your actual self shows up to take an assessment.

That’s when you realize that all the decisions, desires, pitfalls and relationships you’ve been having were also your autopilot and not you. If you’re not legitimately assessing your life and reflecting on it on a regular basis and constantly giving your life “input,” the world will leave you behind.

To your first edit, having been a user since 2010, I’ve tried it both ways and sometimes just giving in to a new distribution is easier than spending a week or more combing forums and getting ghosted while your display resolution is broken.

When it comes down to it, unless you’re using Linux as a hobby, I say distro hop away until something clicks in your first few months. When you finally get your hooks into one you feel you understand, that’s when you start putting the effort into perfecting it.

ReCaptcha was actually a positive effort with the goal being to help OCR tons of old books, so that’s worth something.

Don’t make mistakes! This is for my really important lawyer job and I could get in trouble!

It just dawned on me that no matter what, we have a wasted seat on self-driving taxis because we still put a wheel and pedals that are expected to go unused in the vehicle. I think this would help highlight just how unsafe this concept really is. With the wheel and pedals there, maybe it’s giving people more of an illusion of control or something, because I feel like having nothing there would make people a lot less comfortable, even though that’s the reality of the situation.

Edit: people keep bringing up ways this could be used, and that we do it for cost-cutting, but this still doesn’t detract from the reality of how they were actually deployed before these concerns were addressed. They’re not even commenting on it and letting the consumer fill in their PR’s gaps for them.

Just take their license. Driving is a privilege not a right. You are putting others in danger when you drive dangerously and just because you don’t like the laws and can afford it doesn’t mean you should be allowed to ignore them.

Of course, taking a license won’t stop them from getting in a car and driving it, but it will dramatically increase consequences for getting caught ignoring it.

I mentioned in a previous thread about this that car suspension behaves weird when you’re accelerating and it unexpectedly lets off. I believe it’s referred to as off-throttle oversteer. You also remove headroom for reacting to other drivers, even if you are a shitty one. This will only make those pushing the limits of these things even more dangerous.

Make easy money for the low price of spending lots of money!

I guarantee this will cost more and be less hackable than the offerings from ClockworkPi

You might actually look into embedded space like the ESP32. Plenty to learn there and the hardware is dirt cheap to get into.

They could federate with servers if only they had servers that wanted to federate with them.

I have one of the cheapest you can buy, a Relic. It’s been working great for me for over 10 years now.

I’m definitely in the second category for all my art in general. Minimal, decisive, meaningful.

The moron does not require a data center to give me wrong information.

See:

without any life experience

I’d rather ask a moron with a corporeal being than someone who thinks they know everything but has never lived.

The difference being is that you’re far less likely to be asked what someone should do to manage their coffee shop. Imagine a coffee shop manager asked you what they should do to improve their business.

People got it in their heads that AI is an expert in these fields, but at best, I’d guess it has high school + a couple years of Gen Ed college courses but without any of the applicable life experience. I wouldn’t ask that person a damn thing about a specialty and I certainly wouldn’t hire them to own or manage a business out the gate.

And with any number of them falling out of the sky in a few more years, maybe those two numbers will meet in short time.

Can’t you just disable sleep on close?

Most modern laptops have their air intake in the keyboard, which would cause them to overheat on a matter of minutes.

Edit: I may have been confidently incorrect here. I know I’ve seen this done before, but I guess it’s not common like I thought

Realistically, the ESP32. Their range has gotten decently powerful enough that many of them replace what once took a Raspberry Pi to accomplish.

Doesn’t even seem those are for sale anymore based on both their Amazon and AliExpress stores.