There are even military grade phone cases, whatever that means.

Sounds like meditation to me.

It's meditation, but on the internet!

The next billion-dollar idea.

Adapter causes unnecessary wear on the charging port.

Recently had a phone go bad when the thunderbolt port stopped working due to the same port being used repeatedly for charging and for audio adapter.

So when I updated the phone I grudgingly decided to get a BT earbud.

One of my iPhone SE's died an untimely death because of failure of the lightning port, so I'm strongly sympathetic.

I also am a hardcore 3.5mm headphone user. Wireless headphones are garbage.

I did get my mind changed on USB-C DACs by way of inductive charging. Using an USB-C DAC and still being able to inductively charge seems at least somewaht reasonable to me.

On the newest round of phones for my wife and me I've tried to make sure we're inductively charging >90% of the time.

Mine was also SE that went bad.

Need to dig deeper into inductive charging as it seems to heat the battery more especially if the phone is in a case. So yet another tradeoff to consider.

Good thing is that if the port goes bad it can still be charged.

I use a MagSafe cord for charging. Much more convenient especially when using my phone while it’s charging

> I've generally found an inverse correlation between "understands AI" and "exuberance for AI".

Few years ago I had this exact observation regarding self driving cars. Non/semi engineers who worked in the tech industry were very bullish about self driving cars, believing every and ETA spewed by Musk, engineers were cautious optimistically or pessimistically depending on their understanding of AI, LiDAR, etc.

At $249/month the market adoption will crash resulting in somewhere in the middle pricing that the market can bear

Competition and local SLMs will also provide a counter to massive price increase

> At $249/month the market adoption will crash resulting in somewhere in the middle pricing that the market can bear

Or much like what is going to happen with Alexa, it just dies because the cost of the service is never going to align with “what the market can bear”. Even at $75/mo, the average person will probably stop being lazy and just go back to doing 10 minutes worth of searching to find answers to basic questions.

This is what I believe will happen. Once pricing is raised to sustainable levels (regardless of profit) I think the customer base will drop off.

That is also a possibility

India is the biggest market for WhatsApp, not sure about FB. I doubt general population cares about privacy or even understands what it means.

Serious question: if the research itself is valid and human conducted, what is the problem with AI generated (or at least AI assisted) report?

Many of the researchers may not have native command of English and even if, AI can help in writing in general.

Obviously I’m not referring to pure AI generated BS.

Another alternate to Tauri is Wails if one prefers Go to Rust. I’m currently using Wails for something and it’s working out well so far.

There are some pro/cons but Wails and Tauri seems to be similar in principal. Tauri can also target mobile platforms it seems which Wails can’t is one big difference.

What would you say is the best one to start with, say for a young middle schooler? Maybe best 3, in order?

I don't think it matters all that much. Any specific opinions are going to be more a natter of personal taste.

Get one aimed at rhythm/percussion, one that has some bass/lowend sounds, and something to make melodies.

I have a PO12, PO14, and PO16. If I was going to buy another one it'd be a toss up between the PO33 and the PO35. If I were starting from scratch I think I'd still get the PO14, I might get a PO24 or PO32 instead of the PO12, and I might get a PO28 instead of the 16. Or if said young middle schooler has access to sounds they can sample easily enough (like, say, Garageband on an iPad_ maybe jump straight to one of the sampling ones (PO33 or 35) for the lead/melody sounds.

What would be the best way/source to get these printed , I mean framing and display worthy?

I’m assuming most home printers won’t be useful here.

I've gotten a couple of posters and shirt from this store: https://mcescher.com/shop/