I've been down the artificial sunlight at home rabbit hole too (also inspired by the same DIY Perks video). Ultimately the solution I settled on was a much lower budget 300W equiv LED Corn style bulb (4000lm) with good CRI, and a 250w incandescent heat lamp (like you'd get for a reptile). I decided to focus on heat from the light source rather than the parallel rays. Total cost was around $75 (LEDs were $25 for 2, heat lamp was $10 for 2, plus $20 each for 2 lamp stands that clamp to a desk and can support 250 watts).
purely anecdotal: one thing I’ve noticed is that Waymo’s ALWAYS use their turn signal. that’s already gotta put them above a large portion of human drivers in terms of safety ;)
I would also be curious at the stats on people who have a laptop, but exclusively (or 99% of the time) use it at a desk. I had a macbook but when it came time to upgrade, I got a mac mini since it was cheaper than a similarly specced macbook by about $400, and performed slightly better, plus I could just use it with the existing peripherals that I was docking the macbook to anyway.
<tin foil hat time>
I guess it’s easier to add planned obsolescence to a laptop since the battery only lasts so long, keyboard tends to be more flimsy, thermals always running hot (though that’s less of a concern with the apple silicon mac’s)
</tin foil hat time>
It’s interesting because I have a 2 and 4 year old and they absolutely love Lego, play with them whatever chance they get. But neither of them are close to having the skill to master video games yet (I tried playing Mario kart with them on the mode where it auto-steers and auto-accelerates, and they tend to just steer it into the wall, they literally do better by not touching the controller.)
At some point this is gonna flip, they’re going to “get” video games, and it’s likely they’re going to play with Lego less, and video games more.
But this is gonna happen regardless of whether Lego makes a video game, so wouldn’t it make more sense for there to be a good Lego game so that they continue to make money?
I think a big challenge for them is going to be the advent of cheap and relatively easy to use 3D printers. My kid never really got into lego, but he took to using a 3D printer almost immediately. Most of the time it is pre-made models, but he is learning how to use things like tinkercad and even blender. At his age I was digging through buckets of random lego parts to try to find the "perfect" piece for something I was trying to build, and getting frustrated because I could never find it.
I’m confused, by your link “World Vision” has a 93%/4 star rating, suggesting they would be a good charity. (I have no opinion one way or the other regarding the specific charity in question, however)
The inherent fraud of not using funds for what donors intend and diverting money from a charitable organization to line private individual pockets can be surprisingly difficult to spot.
it’s very refreshing compared to those “free trials” you have to remember to cancel (pro tip: use virtual credit cards which you can lock for those so if you forget to cancel the charges are blocked)
however has anyone been able to find out from the website how much the license actually costs?
I mean scented markers are a thing (or are they gone now because they’re “too toxic”?) so scented (or flavored) printer toner doesn’t seem too far fetched
and yes I am one of those people who enjoyed the smell of freshly laser printed pages
Maybe offer unique toner scents to companies as part of their brand identity. Imagine all letters from Jack Wolfskin smelling like pine cones, or the acceptance letter from a surf school smelling like the ocean.
