“Spare batteries, including power banks:
must not be recharged on board the aircraft;
should not be used to charge portable electronic devices on board the aircraft;
the number carried is limited to a maximum of two per person.”
I’ve been using split boards since the original Microsoft Natural Keyboard, the one with the awful number pad. Then a Kinesis Advantage, then the 360. The DIY boards like a Lily58, Corne and a similar custom are mostly for travel.
Switching to split or ortholinear takes time. Doing both together is a significant and slightly annoying adjustment and takes a few weeks to feel normal. The payoff is when you lean into it. Home row mods so the home keys become ctrl shift alt meta when held, plus a thumb layer for navigation so you get vim-style movement everywhere, and a symbols layer for the stuff not on the top row.
Two thumb keys per side works well. Layer on both sides, enter on one thumb, space on the other. About 6x4 per side is the sweet spot for me. A function row on things like the Advantage 2 or Glove80 can be handy.
If you want to try it in steps, the Kinesis mWave is a decent bridge. Split but not ortholinear, full keyset so you don’t have to relearn everything at once, mechanical, runs ZMK, and in US pricing it’s very cheap for what it is, roughly $120.
“Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility".
There should be an IKEA for medical devices relying on scale to absorb design, testing and regulatory compliance.
The AirPod hearing aid feature and other OTC hearing aids from headphone manufacturers demonstrate it’s possible to leverage modern consumer electronics improvements for devices with a higher engineering barrier to entry than a wheelchair.
I think paying a premium for anything via insurance is detrimental to markets and only benefits bottom feeding bandits and deferring or deflecting the cost.
When combined with the rate limiting on 365 email api and ultimately removing imap access this seems like a strategic goal to capture our data.
The dark patterns pushing content to one drive from office apps and web access opening attachments and keeping them in one drive is another example of this data grab.
It’s an example of shareholder value trumping customer value, the primary purpose of cloud is to make you pay more without having to provide more in return.
| quality regulations have been reduced (see: Grenfell where that literally killed people.
Grenfell was a horrible tragedy. It was built as social housing in the 50’s or 60’s to a much higher standard (in terms of space and utility) than the so called luxury apartments of Canary Wharf.
The installation of cladding to modernise the building to meet modern energy efficiency standards and the apparent failure to make sure that work was completed within the regulations seems to be the cause of the catastrophic spread of the fire.
London planning is a complete mess.
We waste millions on poorly executed projects to modernise social housing to save on CO2 emissions and at the same time we have the wealthy living in Victorian and older houses that are not allowed to install double glazing in order “to preserve the character of the property”.
Canary Wharf is surrounded by poverty in a brown field redevelopment that has been a permanent construction site for over thirty years. It is not really representative of London.
London is an expensive city, you’ll need several million pounds for a decent family home but if you can afford it it’s an absolutely fantastic place to live.
Unfortunately the lack of affordable housing makes it less likely to be so in the long term.
Arguably it is developments like Canary Wharf and the associated planning concessions that have fuelled the London property market to make it practically unaffordable for the vast majority of people that do the real work.
It is perhaps a sign of how pervasive the assumption that a subscriber is an asset rather than a stakeholder that they have thought it is reasonable for a commercial communication service to claim copyright on private communications of their subscribers.
Can you imagine the response to telephone company saying they can use your voicemail messages for their own purposes.
I think the influx of very low cost Chinese mini PCs makes the NUC, Asus PN and Asrock devices a bit less attractive. Also thelow power AMD APU has been very good for the form factor. Maybe the margins are too tight for Intel. Another take maybe that the NUC came in when low power Arm desktops looked viable and Intel needed a low power small form factor to defend against that.
The Minisforum, Beelink and the generic aliexpress units are incredibly cheap.
There are celeron based fanless models with 4 2.5gbe NICs available for less than $200 on Amazon.
Personally I have been using the AMD 15w Ryzen variants it’s a nice balance for performance. I have several, my daily driver is an Asus PN50 with 2Tb nvme disk and 64GB ram driving 3 sceeens at 2560x1440 in a completely silent Akasa case.
As long as you are prepared to fiddle and potentially destroy the original case rhe Akasa cases are fantastic.
Interesting that the selection of branches includes Belgravia and Notting Hill Gate, two of the most expensive areas in the UK
The branch list does not include Camden Town where there are homeless people sleeping in the streets near HSBC.
The underlying issue here is that Covid has accelerated the transition to cashless digital first transactions that are controlled by private entities that have their own agenda.
ICAO Technical Instructions (Part 8, Table 8-1 amendment):
“Spare batteries, including power banks: must not be recharged on board the aircraft; should not be used to charge portable electronic devices on board the aircraft; the number carried is limited to a maximum of two per person.”