The key takeaway from this imo should be to only use password managers with a secret key like 1Password.

And transferring money from a bank or brokerage account takes time. Enough time that anyone paying attention should be able to report the transfer as fraudulent before it completes and have the account frozen.

It depends. In UK a transfer is instant. In most of EU it happens the same day, many times in hours.

EU is mostly instant too,IBAN at least.

Check out the Boox Palma 2. I love mine and it has an actual operating system (Android 13).

The Palma 2 doesn't have writing support does it?

I have been looking at the Boox Go 7... I have a Boox Note Air and generally like it a lot after the major software upgrade it got when Air 2 was released and also particularly running Android has been quite handy (for syncing journal articles with Zotero). But I am also very curious about Supernote Nomad and may go that way if I decide backlight doesn't matter. I do like backlight for reading in be without bothering my wife...

And so I keep spinning in indecision...

The Palma 2 doesn't have stylus support. I seriously considered the Supernote Nomad, the modular design is neat, but went with the Palma 2 for the backlight and the Boox software, which seems to be superior to Supernote for everything but writing and notes. If my primary use case were note-taking rather than reading, I would have gone with the Supernote Nomad.

Heh I saw that mentioned on a review of this unit, but running Android makes it a nonstarter. The price point is much more reasonable though.

What’s wrong with android? I enjoy that it makes boox devices more expandable. For instance I installed termux and used a bluetooth keyboard for a very interesting development environment (vim + c compiler)

You won't be able to install anything soon once Google puts its thumb on sideloading. Investing in Android in mid 2025 is a lost cause.

Why would Boox disable sideloading on their own Android build? Your comment makes as much sense as saying Google is going to disable sideloading on LineageOS and GrapheneOS. Boox doesn't give a flying shit about Google's Android certification program. Google has no claws on devices that have to sideload Play Store.

Is that true for people building off of open source android components (like Boox is doing)? What would you recommend as an alternative? As others have said, I doubt Google can disable sideloading when google play must be sideloaded on the device.

I'm fine with Android, but not Android (or any other OS) from 2022.

at least you can sideload what you want

Check out the Boox Palma 2. It has been an excellent Kindle replacement for me and is in the same smartphone form factor as the Paper Pro Move.

The funny thing is that the performance of a 12MB WASM blob is probably superior to most Shiny apps with more than light traffic.

They have been doing this slowly over the past several years. I decided to move from macOS to Linux the day settings turned into a scrolling iOS-style list rather than an actual settings menu.

Depends on how you define real. I would argue that GPT-2 was a real LLM and it almost certainly cost a lot less than a billion. I'm sure there are much better examples.

Can you imagine Builder.ai using a model that argues with their clients or discriminates against them? I don't think so. GPT-2 is like bringing a knife to a gunfight in 2025.

If you want to compete with the likes of GPT-4, Claude, or Gemini today, you're looking at billions, just for training, not counting infra, data pipelines, evals, red teaming, and everything else that comes with it.

Builder.ai wasn't able to use GenAI to actually build software. And when the money ran out and no model was ever announced, investors lost trust and clients lost patience.

Don't buy a dob to do untracked astrophotography. It will be hard, and you will be disappointed with the results. I would pick between visual observation and astrophotography. They are almost separate hobbies that require separate kits. Get the Apertura AD8 for visual or a smart telescope like the Seestar S50 or S30 for astrophotography. The dob would provide great views of the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and decent views of some deep sky objects. The smart telescopes provide decent images of the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and great images of many deep-sky objects with image stacking build into the software. The smart telescopes are automated, and the dob requires learning the sky for manual tracking.

I mostly want it for visual observation, but if photography with it is possible - then why not try it. It's not the primary goal.

Here is the arXiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15806

By "small number (about 10-20) objects in our solar system of this size" you are referring to the class of objects of a similar size rather than the largest objects in the solar system?