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Seriously? The blinkers are on the touchscreen!?! 🤦‍♂️

This will be another nice side effect of Tesla shitting the bed. They were the ones that started this trend and now that they are out of fashion, it will become unfashionable again.

The mini is pretty cheap but unfortunately doesn’t have google cast.

The pro is still an excellent value as it has way better DACs than the google cast and a lot more format support. But yes, on an absolute cost perspective it’s not as cheap as the old chrome cast audios were.

But there’s still nothing available at this level of quality and features at this price , most comparible stuff is 2-3x the price.

The WiiM devices support google cast and many other protocols.

Did you read the article? Standard traffic cameras or sensors are all you need to implement this. And yes, most places have the technology already in place to do most of it. You just need to add the part to network them and control the lights.

China already “solved” it with the one child policy. They will have the most massive population decline ever in the coming decades. It will probably destroy their economy.

I would be happy for sensors at traffic lights that detect whether cars are there or not. I don’t consider that to be meaningful surveillance.

Then we can enslave humanity with the AI slave

This is exactly why I dropped out of college for computer science when I got my first IT job. 30 years later and I haven’t regretted it yet.

I use them. I use platforms more that have them. I leave platforms that don’t.

But to each their own I guess.

Bluesky’s main feed is totally algorithm free, it’s just the people you follow’s posts in chronological order, same as mastodon.

Starter kits are optional, but they allow you to get started in hours rather than months. For me, they made the difference between a vibrant and interesting feed well tailored towards my interests, and a very sparse feed that I didn’t use on Mastodon. For me they were the difference between a useful social network and a non-useful one.

Thanks for the update. Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It’s optional. The main feed has no algorithm, just who you follow.

Keyword blocking is a bit more sophisticated on Bluesky I think as they have a crowdsourced tagging system which allows you to opt in an out also of tagged words regardless of whether they appear in the body of the post.

As far as I can tell, the advantages of Mastodon over Bluesky are:

• Well implemented federation

Lemmy is still my favorite, I was never a huge fan of the Twitter model, but I enjoy taking part in the destruction of X.

Yeah I’d prefer Mastodon to implement all these features and win, but I understand why it’s not winning ATM.

There is at least some (admittedly subpar) federation possible. So if the need is great enough, someone may take up the challenge.

I’m on both and Mastodon is missing (at least in any easy to use way) most of the features that make Bluesky such a good destination:

• instant add subscribe lists
• subscribable block lists
• custom feeds/subscribable algorithms
• keyword/topic blocks
• nuclear block where you never see the blocked person again
• optional discover feed
• DM preferences

All these things (and more I’m sure I’m forgetting), make Bluesky very quick to get started with and very powerful for honing your feeds to be exactly how you want and free of harassment and trolling.

I am still trying with Mastodon, but it’s really slow going and I can fully understand why people wouldn’t bother. After a year I am way behind where I was in a week with Bluesky.

I can always bulk download whatever I want on the high seas.