Off-and-on trying out an account over at @[email protected] due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
I don’t know about stopping it if someone is sufficiently determined to get in, but if it’s a repeated problem, I suppose that you could put something that looks interesting to steal in the car with an AirTag-type tracking device or similar hidden in it and then provide the police with the thief’s track if they bite.
Putting visible cameras all over might deter some people.
I’d guess that parking in a garage would help, but you say elsewhere that that wasn’t an option here.
I want to clean my PC thoroughly to buy it a few more years.
Is it not working in its present state?
If it’s working all right, I’d just leave it be, and if you don’t want tar buildup in your next case, get a case that has an air filter on it that you can replace, or run an air purifier with a filter in the room.
I was under the vague impression that a number of Russian software companies had basically relocated to Armenia so as to not deal with sanctions stuff. Which was a good deal for Armenia, since they had a bunch of tech companies suddenly materialize.
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This is from 2023:
https://apri.institute/how-russian-migration-fuels-armenias-it-sector/
How Russian Migration Fuels Armenia’s IT Sector Growth
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to a significant influx of Russian IT specialists into Armenia, boosting the sector and contributing to the country’s economic recovery.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered a significant exodus of Russians; some left Russia for political reasons, as they were against the war, and many did not want to compromise their lives. Armenia became one of the primary destinations for Russian migrants due to several reasons. Armenia and Russia enjoy a visa-free regime, and there are many daily flights to Yerevan from multiple Russian cities. Armenia and Russia are members of the Eurasian Economic Union, allowing tariff-free export and import. Perhaps, most importantly, many Armenians have favorable views on Russians. Despite the growing criticism of Russia in Armenia due to its actions or inaction during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Azerbaijani incursions into Armenia in 2021 and 2022, and the military takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan in September 2023, this has not turned into resentment against Russians, as it has focused on the Russian state.
According to different estimates, up to 100,000 Russians have entered Armenia since February 2022, with two big waves, one in March-April and one in late September-October 2022, immediately after mobilization was declared in Russia. As of October 2023, up to 60,000 Russians remain in Armenia, primarily located in the capital, Yerevan, though a few Russians also live in Gyumri, the second biggest city of Armenia. Most Russians who migrated to Armenia are specialists in the IT sphere. The robust growth of the IT sector in Armenia played a role in influencing their choice, as Armenia can offer them developed infrastructure, including IT business centers and IT parks.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=AM
Looking at that chart, Armenia’s GDP-per-capita has roughly doubled since the start of the Russo-Ukranian War. Dunno how much of that is related to that movement, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were a factor.
Thanks, but was an error on my part; was trying to list stuff that didn’t have a sequel or remake. Hadn’t ever heard of them, but apparently there were two Indian film remakes and a television remake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men_(1957_film)
The 1986 Hindi film Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (“a pending decision”) and 2012 Kannada film Dashamukha (“ten faces”) are Indian remakes of the film, with almost identical storylines. The former has been adapted as another Indian Bengali film Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei which was released in January 2025.[71]
In 1997, a television remake of the film under the same title was directed by William Friedkin and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the newer version, the judge is a woman, four of the jurors are black, and the ninth juror is not the only senior citizen, but the overall plot remains intact. Modernizations include not smoking in the jury room, changes in references to pop culture and sports figures and income, references to execution by lethal injection as opposed to the electric chair, more race-related dialogue, and casual profanity.
I mean, there are plenty of highly-rated movies that don’t have a sequel (and probably that’s a good thing).
The Shawshank Redemption
12 Angry Men
Schindler’s List
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens says parts of Trump’s post are factually incorrect, as U.S. steel was used in the construction from the Michigan side of the river.
“It’s just insane,” Dilkens told CBC Power & Politics host David Cochrane on Monday evening.
“I really can’t believe what I’m reading,” Dilkens said. “The faster we can get to the midterms and hopefully see a change, the better for all of us.”
The midterms are the nearest big inflection point, and the Democrats will most likely take the House. However, unless there are angles that I don’t know about, the most important thing that the Democrats will be able to likely directly do in terms of Trump doing a lot of Executive Branch things after the midterms is threaten a government shutdown when the next budget rolls around (and it won’t be on a limited “hopefully the Republicans don’t just decide to end the fillibuster and take away our power to block the budget” basis a la last time). That’s a big gun, but it’s got limited usability, and they probably have a lot of things that they want to horse-trade on it already.
They can block more legislation from being passed, but that won’t really change the status quo, not unless something new and unexpected comes up in the second half of the term that the Trump administration really wants legislation on. The Republicans have a trifecta now, so they’ll try to pass whatever they want prior to the midterms.
The biggest politically-useful thing that I’m aware of that the Democrats get is that in both houses of Congress, investigations require a simple majority, and they’ll probably have at least the House. Trump has done about a zillion things that probably would be a pretty solid case for Congress to start investigations — that’s a big part of Congress’s job, to oversee the Executive Branch — and if you get a simple majority in either house of Congress, you can compel the Executive Branch to turn over a lot of information on what it’s been doing. So Trump and a number of other people from the administration might be spending a lot of the second half of Trump’s term sitting in front of Congressional investigations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_hearing#Investigative_hearings
Oversight hearings
Oversight hearings review or study a law, issue, or an activity, often focusing on the quality of federal programs and the performance of government officials. Hearings also ensure that the executive branch’s execution goes with legislative intent, while administrative policies reflect the public interest. Oversight hearings often seek to improve the efficiency, economy, and effectiveness of government operations. A significant part of a committee’s hearings workload is dedicated to oversight. For example, on a single day, May 8, 1996, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held an oversight hearing to look into a recent increase in gasoline prices; the Committee on Governmental Affairs held an oversight hearing on the Internal Revenue Service; the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held an oversight hearing on the implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act; and the Committee on Indian Affairs held an oversight hearing on the impact of a recent Supreme Court case involving Indian gaming. Many committees oversee existing programs in the context of hearings on related legislation, or routinely perform oversight when it is time to reauthorize a program, so oversight hearings may be combined with legislative hearings.
Investigative hearings
Investigative hearings share some of the characteristics of legislative and oversight hearings. The difference lies in Congress’s stated determination to investigate, usually when there is a suspicion of wrongdoing on the part of public officials acting in their official capacity, or private citizens whose activities suggest the need for a legislative remedy. Congress’s authority to investigate is broad and it has exercised this authority since the earliest days of the republic. The first such hearings were held by the House of Representatives in 1792 following St. Clair’s Defeat in the Battle of the Wabash.[11] Its most famous inquiries are benchmarks in American history: Credit Mobilier, Teapot Dome, Army-McCarthy, Watergate, and Iran-Contra. Investigative hearings often lead to legislation to address the problems uncovered. Judicial activities in the same area of Congress’s investigation may precede, run simultaneously with, or follow such inquiries.
Congress can pretty much shut down the President, or even remove him from office if he breaks a law, but it requires hefty supermajorities to do so, and unless the Democrats can turn up more-damning information via investigations or similar than they have so far, I doubt that they’d get enough Republican Congressmen to vote with them to do that to Trump.
Impeachment alone doesn’t do much; it’s just a formal accusation of wrongdoing. If the Democrats take the House, they can impeach Trump. The problem is that that just initiates the process to remove the President from office. You need a two-thirds supermajority in the Senate to convict, which is a very high bar, and the Democrats will not have that, so they’d need to convince at least some Republican senators to vote to convict in an impeachment trial. And this really requires a law to be broken; it’s a not a recall vote or a “you’re doing a bad job” remedy something like that, but to deal with lawbreaking.
Congress can pass new legislation over the President’s veto. However, it requires a two-thirds supermajority in both the House and the Senate to do so, so unless at least a significant number of Republicans get onboard, which I’m skeptical will happen, I doubt that they can pass laws requiring the bridge to be opened or whatever over a Trump veto.
There may be some more subtle things that might happen. So, the Supreme Court may decide not to block Executive Branch action due to the political question doctrine even if the President is likely acting outside his powers, if it’s not clear that there’s an actual disagreement between a majority in Congress and the President, over something like Trump using emergency power tariffs. That is, they may let the President do X if it looks like Congress is actually just fine with X and is just letting the President take the heat for doing X. But if the Democrats take the House and then clearly have a majority object, that might turn into SCOTUS ruling on the tariffs. That might address some things. However, I would bet that it’s probably within Presidential powers to prevent this bridge from being opened, though, so I don’t think that that would likely change due to the midterms.
My guess is that if Trump really wants to, and isn’t just posting to generate noise, he probably could block the opening of the bridge for the next three years.
If I’m traveling or I wipe my device or get a new one, I would have to add the new key to many servers as authorized keys,
So, I don’t want to get into a huge argument over the best way to deal with things, since everyone has their own use cases, but if that’s your only concern, you have a list of hosts that you want to put the key on, and you still have a key for another device, that shouldn’t be terribly difficult. Generate your new keypair for your new device. Then on a Linux machine, something like:
$ cat username-host-pairs.txt
me@host1
me@host2
me@host3
$ cat username-host-pairs.txt|xargs -n1 ssh-copy-id -i new-device-key-file-id_ed25519.pub
That should use your other device’s private key to authenticate to the servers in question and copy the new device’s pubkey to the accounts on the host in question. Won’t need password access enabled.
Pretty amazing to see the rest of the world lulled into a fantasy that Apaches aren’t the most terrifyingly effective and unpredictable weapon system on earth.
The problem with attack helicopters hasn’t been that they can’t do damage. The problem is that in several conflicts, they’ve also been very vulnerable. There are a lot of MANPADS and other low-altitude anti-aircraft weapons floating around the modern battlefield.
My understanding is that the modern role of the attack helicopter, at least in the US military, is generally seen as a deep strike role — slipping in behind lines and striking critical things, as opposed to Cold War doctrine, where it was more of a way to counter to rapidly move weapons to counter tank pushes, alongside the A-10.
Even in the first few hours of the Russo-Ukrainian war, which was probably the ideal time to use them, when Ukraine was essentially unprepared, Russian attack helicopters were already taking MANPADS losses, at the Battle for Hostomel Airport.
One prominent example where the Apache was used in the deep strike role and did not meet with success:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_attack_on_Karbala
The 2003 attack on Karbala was an unsuccessful strike on the Iraqi Republican Guard’s Medina Division by the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Medina Division was mostly deployed along the Karbala gap, west of the city of Karbala itself. The Iraqi division was targeted as it was the best equipped Iraqi unit, and its destruction would negatively affect Iraqi military morale. The Medina Division sustained only limited damage during the engagement.
The 31 AH-64 Apaches of the 11th Attack Helicopter Regiment took off from Tactical Assembly Area Vicksburg, which was inside Objective Rams. One Apache crashed immediately after takeoff when its pilot became disoriented. When the Apaches turned north toward Karbala, signals intelligence picked up over 50 Iraqi cell phone calls alerting the Iraqi forward units of their approach. As the helicopters came within range, the Iraqis signaled their troops to open fire by turning off the city’s power grid for several seconds. Ground troops then opened up with a barrage of PKM, NSV, ZU-23-2, and AZP S-60 fire.
The Apaches turned back for Tactical Assembly Area Vicksburg after a half-hour of combat. Most were without functioning navigation equipment. At least two narrowly avoided a mid-air collision.[3] Post-battle analysis indicated the American gunships were targeted in a deliberately planned ambush[11] with cannon fire, RPGs, and small-arms all emanating from camouflaged fire teams.
Of the 29 returning Apaches, all but one suffered serious damage. On average, each Apache had 15-20 bullet holes. One Apache took 29 hits. Sixteen main rotor blades, six tail blades, six engines, and five drive shafts were damaged beyond repair. In one squadron only a single helicopter was fit to fly. It took a month until the 11th Regiment was ready to fight again. The casualties sustained by the Apaches induced a change of tactics by placing significant restrictions on their use.[12] Attack helicopters would henceforth be used to reveal the location of enemy troops, allowing them to be destroyed by artillery and air strikes.[3]
That being said, I’m not personally some sort of opponent of the attack helicopter. First, I don’t know if the intended use has shifted again, as it did from the Cold War to the post-Cold War era. Many long-running, successful weapons platforms have drastically transformed in their intended use. The B-52 was originally intended to penetrate hostile, contested airspace. It stopped being able to do that many decades ago, but still has a role as an ALCM platform, or as a conventional bomber in uncontested airspace.
And second, I can think of successes, too. The Karbala ambush that I mentioned happened during the Gulf War. But Apaches also played an important and successful role in that war. Here’s a summary of the first day of the air war. The first damage done to Iraqi forces were by Apache gunships that slipped up, at low altitude, to radar installations and destroyed them, punching a hole immediately prior to the masses of other aircraft flying through the hole that had been created.
EDIT: In fairness, one quote in the article, from the Indian guy, suggests that they’re maybe more interested in being able to haul ATGMs to a given location and pop up from behind terrain to attack armor that shows up near the front lines, which is also a role in which Russian attack helicopters have been used successfuly in Ukraine.
The date on this is current, but I would swear that I saw something years back from some guy at the Royal Armory — I think this guy — doing a thing on Fallout weapons.
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Okay, I’m not crazy. Apparently he did do this before for Fallout: New Vegas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP7YVMBtEmU
And has done similar videos for other Fallouts and Fallout mods:
Fallout 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FVzcoRjoN4
Fallout: London:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmue3jeYLCc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMK0gdUH4a0
Not to mention some other video games.
alcohol is also an upper
Uppers are stimulants. Alcohol is a depressant, not a stimulant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol
As a psychoactive depressant, it is the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages, and the second most consumed drug globally behind caffeine.[13]
In fact, that’s generally what you want to do, since if one device gets lost or compromised, you just revoke access to the key for that device.
We have also produced treatments that work to some extent for some forms of cancer.
We don’t have a 100% reliable silver bullet that deals with everything with a simple five minute shot, but…
solving word hunger?
So, this was principally artificial selection to modify plants rather than genetic engineering (and I think that most people who say ‘biotech’ in 2026 mean genetic engineering), but there were a lot of people who did anticipate global famines until we made some substantial technological advancements with plants some decades back:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period during which technology transfer initiatives resulted in a significant increase in crop yields.[1][2] These changes in agriculture initially emerged in developed countries in the early 20th century and subsequently spread globally until the late 1980s.[3] In the late 1960s, farmers began incorporating new technologies, including high-yielding varieties of cereals, particularly dwarf wheat and rice, and the widespread use of chemical fertilizers (to produce their high yields, the new seeds require far more fertilizer than traditional varieties[4]), pesticides, and controlled irrigation.
At the same time, newer methods of cultivation, including mechanization, were adopted, often as a package of practices to replace traditional agricultural technology.[5] This was often in conjunction with loans conditional on policy changes being made by the developing nations adopting them, such as privatizing fertilizer manufacture and distribution.[4]
Both the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation were heavily involved in its initial development in Mexico.[6][7] A key leader was agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the “Father of the Green Revolution”, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. He is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.[8] Another important scientific figure was Yuan Longping, whose work on hybrid rice varieties is credited with saving at least as many lives.[9] The basic approach was the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers. As crops began to reach the maximum improvement possible through selective breeding, genetic modification technologies were developed to allow for continued efforts.[10][11]
Studies show that the Green Revolution contributed to widespread eradication of poverty, averted hunger for millions, raised incomes, increased greenhouse gas emissions, reduced land use for agriculture, and contributed to declines in infant mortality.[12][13][14][15][16][17][excessive citations]
I have a black and white laser printer — a Brother, FWIW — that works great. It sits there and when I print the occasional document, flips on and quietly and quickly does its thing. I remember printers in past decades. Paper jams. Continuous-tractor feed paper having the tractor feeds rip free in the printer. Slow printing. Loud printing. Prints that smeared. Clogging ink nozzles on inkjets.
It replaced a previous Apple black-and-white laser printer from…probably the early 1990s that I initially got used which also worked fine and worked until the day I threw it out — I just wanted more resolution, which current laser printers could do.
The only thing that I can really beat the Brother up for is maybe that, like many laser printers, to cut costs on the power supply, it has a huge power spike in what it consumes when it initially comes on; I’d rather just pay for a better power supply. But it’s not enough for me to care that much about it, and if I really want to, I can plug it into power regulation hardware.
It’s not a photo printer, and so if someone wants to print photos, I can appreciate that a laser printer isn’t ideal for that, but…I also never print photos, and if I did at some point, I’d probably just hit a print shop.
For some workloads, yes. I don’t think that the personal computer is going to go away.
But it also makes a lot of economic and technical sense for some of those workloads.
Historically — like, think up to about the late 1970s — useful computing hardware was very expensive. And most people didn’t have a requirement to keep computing hardware constantly loaded. In that kind of environment, we built datacenters and it was typical to time-share them. You’d use something like a teletype or some other kind of thin client to access a “real” computer to do your work.
What happened at the end of the 1970s was that prices came down enough and there was enough capability to do useful work to start putting personal computers in front of everyone. You had enough useful capability to do real computing work locally. They were still quite expensive compared to the great majority of today’s personal computers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
The original retail price of the computer was US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,700 in 2024)[18][19] with 4 KB of RAM and US$2,638 (equivalent to $13,700 in 2024) with the maximum 48 KB of RAM.
But they were getting down to the point where they weren’t an unreasonable expense for people who had a use for them.
At the time, telecommunications infrastructure was much more limited than it was today, so using a “real” computer remotely from many locations was a pain, which also made the PC make sense.
From about the late 1970s to today, the workloads that have dominated most software packages have been more-or-less serial computation. While “big iron” computers could do faster serial compute than personal computers, it wasn’t radically faster. Video games with dedicated 3D hardware were a notable exception, but those were latency sensitive and bandwidth intensive, especially relative to the available telecommunication infrastructure, so time-sharing remote “big iron” hardware just didn’t make a lot of sense.
And while we could — and to some extent, did — ramp up serial computational capacity by using more power, there were limits on the returns we could get.
However, what AI stuff represents has notable differences in workload characteristics. AI requires parallel processing. AI uses expensive hardware. We can throw a lot of power at things to get meaningful, useful increases in compute capability.
Just like in the 1970s, the hardware to do competitive AI stuff for many things that we want to do is expensive. Some of that is just short term, like the fact that we don’t have the memory manufacturing capacity in 2026 to meet need, so prices will rise to price out sufficient people that the available chips go to whoever the highest bidders are. That’ll resolve itself one way or another, like via buildout in memory capacity. But some of it is also that the quantities of memory are still pretty expensive. Even at pre-AI-boom prices, if you want the kind of memory that it’s useful to have available — hundreds of gigabytes — you’re going to be significantly increasing the price of a PC, and that’s before whatever the cost of the computation hardware is.
Power. Currently, we can usefully scale out parallel compute by using a lot more power. Under current regulations, a laptop that can go on an airline in the US can have an 100 Wh battery and a 100 Wh spare, separate battery. If you pull 100W on a sustained basis, you blow through a battery like that in an hour. A desktop can go further, but is limited by heat and cooling and is going to start running into a limit for US household circuits at something like 1800 W, and is going to be emitting a very considerable amount of heat dumped into a house at that point. Current NVidia hardware pulls over 1kW. A phone can’t do anything like any of the above. The power and cooling demands range from totally unreasonable to at least somewhat problematic. So even if we work out the cost issues, I think that it’s very likely that the power and cooling issues will be a fundamental bound.
In those conditions, it makes sense for many users to stick the hardware in a datacenter with strong cooling capability and time-share it.
Now, I personally really favor having local compute capability. I have a dedicated computer, a Framework Desktop, to do AI compute, and also have a 24GB GPU that I bought in significant part to do that. I’m not at all opposed to doing local compute. But at current prices, unless that kind of hardware can provide a lot more benefit than it currently does to most, most people are probably not going to buy local hardware.
If your workload keeps hardware active 1% of the time — and maybe use as a chatbot might do that — then it is something like a hundred times cheaper in terms of the hardware cost to have the hardware timeshared. If the hardware is expensive — and current Nvidia hardware runs tens of thousands of dollars, too rich for most people’s taste unless they’re getting Real Work done with the stuff — it looks a lot more appealing to time-share it.
There are some workloads for which there might be constant load, like maybe constantly analyzing speech, doing speech recognition. For those, then yeah, local hardware might make sense. But…if weaker hardware can sufficiently solve that problem, then we’re still back to the “expensive hardware in the datacenter” thing.
Now, a lot of Nvidia’s costs are going to be fixed, not variable. And assuming that AMD and so forth catch up, in a competitive market, will come down — with scale, one can spread fixed costs out, and only the variable costs will place a floor on hardware costs. So I can maybe buy that, if we hit limits that mean that buying a ton of memory isn’t very interesting, price will come down. But I am not at all sure that the “more electrical power provides more capability” aspect will change. And as long as that holds, it’s likely going to make a lot of sense to use “big iron” hardware remotely.
What you might see is a computer on the order of, say, a 2022 computer on everyone’s desk…but that a lot of parallel compute workloads are farmed out to datacenters, which have computers more-capable of doing parallel compute there.
Cloud gaming is a thing. I’m not at all sure that there the cloud will dominate, even though it can leverage parallel compute. There, latency and bandwidth are real issues. You’d have to put enough datacenters close enough to people to make that viable and run enough fiber. And I’m not sure that we’ll ever reach the point where it makes sense to do remote compute for cloud gaming for everyone. Maybe.
But for AI-type parallel compute workloads, where the bandwidth and latency requirements are a lot less severe, and the useful returns from throwing a lot of electricity at the thing significant…then it might make a lot more sense.
I’d also point out that my guess is that AI probably will not be the only major parallel-compute application moving forward. Unless we can find some new properties in physics or something like that, we just aren’t advancing serial compute very rapidly any more; things have slowed down for over 20 years now. If you want more performance, as a software developer, there will be ever-greater relative returns from parallelizing problems and running them on parallel hardware.
I don’t think that, a few years down the road, building a computer comparable to the one you might in 2024 is going to cost more than it did in 2024. I think that people will have PCs.
But those PCs might running software that will be doing an increasing amount of parallel compute in the cloud, as the years go by.
They exist — and in fact, I have an Android tablet in my backpack right now — but a lot of people felt that they were going to become a major computing paradigm, and that hasn’t happened.
In practice, the PC today is mostly a conventional laptop. Hybrid laptops with touchscreen exist, but they aren’t the norm.
Mobile OS tablets also exist, but they haven’t managed to take over from smartphones or approach their marketshare, and there are fewer options on the market than there were a few years back; “mobile OS” tablets today are mostly, as best I can tell, a specialized device to use for video-watching with a larger screen than exists on a phone, with a larger screen and better built-in speakers, but without the sensors and radio suite. Not all that much uptake.
Oh, nice catch, thanks. I read it as “safe, without exploitable backdoors”, but that’s not what he was saying.
Flying cars. The idea has intuitive appeal — just drive like normal, but most congestion problems go away!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car
We’ve made them, but the tradeoffs that you have to make to get a good road vehicle that is also a good aircraft are very large. The benefits of having a dual-mode vehicle are comparatively limited. I think that absent some kind of dramatic technological revolution, like, I don’t know, making the things out of nanites, we’ll just always be better off with dedicated vehicles of the first sort or the second.
Maybe we could have call-on-demand aircraft that could air-ferry ground vehicles, but I think that with something on the order of current technology, that’s probably as close as we’ll get.
Well, it depends on the frequency range you’re talking about. In common usage, “radiation” often means something like ionizing radiation, but technically, UV light is a frequency of electromagnetic radiation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation
In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) or electromagnetic wave (EMW) is a self-propagating wave of the electromagnetic field that carries momentum and radiant energy through space.[1][2] It encompasses a broad spectrum, classified by frequency (inversely proportional to wavelength), ranging from radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, to gamma rays.[3][4]
And if you include the ultraviolet frequency range, we did it decades ago:
Meet Mr Green Genes - the world’s first glow-in-the-dark cat
His eyes glow ghoulishly in the right light, just like any other cat’s - but so do his nostrils, gums and tongue.
Mr Green Genes of New Orleans in the U.S. is the country’s first ‘glow in the dark’ ginger tom.
In daylight he looks normal, but put him in a darkened room and switch on an ultraviolet light, and his face will beam out a bright green.
https://www.roadtovr.com/steam-frame-ram-shortage-release-date-price/
I’d actually rather see them just push the date back by, say, 1-3 years and then bump up the specs on it and launch in a more favorable price environment.
Once they start shipping, as with consoles, they’re kinda tied to the current generation of hardware for some years as developers target that hardware.