If they make decisions based in data, you should be in the data stream.
Going blind to the big data is like not voting in my opinion. I also cherish those Islands but I see it as a place in which you put data which shouldn't be in the bug data pool or at least in a different category and not traceable back to you...
Is there a way to mimic the experience on a "normal" android phone? Making everything b/w with monochrome setting is easy. But reducing framerate and maybe also reducing resolution? Maybe even put a filter over it? Anybody tried that?
You can reduce render resolution easily, it's available as the unrooted ABD command `adb shell wm size 1080x1920`. You don't need a computer for it either, you can use an app like Bugjaeger to create a loopback connection on most Wi-Fi networks.
It's really not the same. Eink is a completely different screen technology that physically moves ink particles around. The screen doesn't emit light, only reflects ambient light like paper.
The point is to reduce your desire to watch addictive videos, not to do something with display technology per se. I actually considered that a startup idea - Android fork targeted to restrain addictive content consumption via artificially lowered refresh rates, some color filters and targeted software.
Just in case you're in a position to change anything about the housing market where you live:
Change zoning rules. Incentives for co-living. Reduce flat sizes. Rebuilt office spaces. Or look to Vienna: a big stock of goverment-owned flats with low prices which makes it hard to charge more than those.
What kind of policies you believe would affect rents in the short to medium term? Progressive cities have tried all kinds of things, with little in terms of results.
Short and medium? That's probably a tough ask besides subsidiaries. But also allow fast redevelopment of office space. In Germany there was and is the "Munich" effect. Zone too many office districts so office space is cheap and companies move there. So also more mixed use zoning for white color work places for short commutes
The current market still suffers from other forms of government regulation. The Mietendeckel still exists in some form via the Mietenspiegel, and basically the entire city under what Americans understand as rent-control.
How does it suffer to make it illegal to charge 10% more or less than the average for comparable housing? It seems to make it more stable and less volatile.
But how does the market suffer from that? It implies that the Mietenspiegel is a bad policy. It only protects from price gauging or price dumping. If you are living in Berlin I would highly recommend looking up if you're paying too much.
Lines of 50 people to see an apartment sounds like a huge waste of man hours, which cost money to economy. This waste also grows quadratically: more people searching for longer.
Which government policies exactly would you suggest that don't involve building more houses or convincing people to move elsewhere?
Remember, this is Switzerland, so you need to convince the population that this is a good idea otherwise they will block it with a popular vote. So confiscation of property or forced labour or increased taxes are all out of the question.
I agree I should have written a more constructive comment with more details. But I thought it was clear how policy can help in the short/medium/long-term. Please read the answers I wrote to the commenters below/above
So what? government just orders lower rents for current renters? That might work short term, but in the longer one it will simply destroy the local property market. No one will be willing to build housing anymore, as it won't be profitable. The city will slowly gentrify and die.
As I posted below and also public transport as mentioned in other comments
Change zoning rules. Incentives for co-living. Reduce flat sizes. Rebuilt office spaces. Or look to Vienna: a big stock of goverment-owned flats with low prices which makes it hard to charge more than those.
Geothermal is not good for global warming bc it is an additional source of energy which would normally be contained. The sun gives such amount of wattage and the earth can give so much wattage back to the universe. Nuclear, geothermal and fusion is stored energy like fossil fuel which adds to the heat in the atmosphere. Today that only amounts to 5% of global warming but if it's the only source of energy it could add more. CO2 is the focus right now bc it is continuous warming potential but the other energy forms have it too. Wind and solar is just "saving" sun energy from being instantly converted into heat and can be so used for our pleasure as it doesn't add to the input/output equation.
Heat waste is absolutely miniscule compared to the amount of energy the Earth receives from the Sun. As in, the Earth is continuously bombarded by 173 petawatts of solar radiation. So you can see why it would be worth trading some waste heat to reduce the retention of solar energy in the atmosphere.
This doesn't make too much sense in this case, the geothermal energy is being stored in chemical bonds in the carbon sequestration process and returned underground
Do you have any sources on those informations? I find it really hard to find stuff for what you describe. Also do you know about the detail of producing those Asics? Are they CMOS or flash (in-memory-compute?)
All current AI accelerators (that aren't a research project) are ordinary CMOS. Google published some papers about TPUv3. You should read them if you want to know more about the architecture of these kinds of chips.
I totally agree with you, but would also add that electro and techno kind of have the same meaning to me now. If someone ask about it I would reply back what their favourite guitar music is, because it's not a genre anymore but style how to make music. Namely electronic or technology focused
my money is on information overload... just one day to the other so much content is created that there is no way to know what's right or wrong. You can find everything and everything has the same production. so there is no way to tell truth from fake. sex possible tomorrow, content overflow today
A very common thought in speculative Design. Eben if it is a bit true event in the future, an imagined event can change the present as the perception of the past. See utopias and dystopia as example. If we say this known known in the future it already affected the present and also the past. It gets interesting for the unknowns unknowns if those will change the past and present. But already accepting that there unknown unknowns changes the present.
There is great research being done by Marina Proske on why and when smartphone are being replaced. Recommend this talk (unfortunately in German) https://youtu.be/Hen7by8oo7g
The two or whatever year cycle certainly shouldn't be forced by design.
I'm personally comfortable with it because I'm sold on newer and better features and my current phone is starting to get dog eared by then.
Probably the "right" thing to do would be to have a new "durable" tier for those who value lifespan and do not feel tempted by increases in hardware capabilities.
I also buy mid range. I can imagine being sour if I'm buying the high end over $1000 devices and see the same cycle
Going blind to the big data is like not voting in my opinion. I also cherish those Islands but I see it as a place in which you put data which shouldn't be in the bug data pool or at least in a different category and not traceable back to you...