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If the market weren’t in decline, maybe. But to pipedream a little:

A standardized control board (imagine if it were something like an RPi), with modular carriage (available in several sizes, including capable of 11x17” or A3), with changeable print heads (CMYK, or just a massive black, or hell, pen plotter).


Funny you use the word “shortsighted” - for screen readers to work right your web page had better be a bunch of text.


I detect a pun. _trombine_ is, according to Wiktionary anyway, a colloquial French word for _face_.


I think the bigger problem isn’t so much the traffic type as it is traffic destination. As long as there are only a few hosts or domains providing speed test services (and there always will be: upload speeds are expensive) ISPs will be able to whack-a-mole with their whitelists.

I’d say that this needs some sort of regulation, but as long as ISPs are the gatekeepers, they can cheese $Government all day long too. This word gets overused perhaps, but the closest I can come up with is a decentralized monitoring setup with random speed test hosts (especially hosted @home style). Care would have to be taken to avoid how-are-these-still-legal data caps though.


Just needs a bit of creativity. There are plenty of “bedpost caps” and “espresso tampers”.


This might be slow, but what about using the lift gas in a fuel cell with atmospheric O2 for extra efficiency? You reduce the lift gas in the bags, and if you store the water aboard then you get extra ballast. You could even “unload” the extra electricity for use groundside.

The corollary pipe dream here is to line the entire interior of the envelope as a fuel cell membrane and use the airship as a portable battery.


IIRC some military airships condensed water from their their engine exhaust to keep better control over their balance (the ship otherwise gets lighter as you burn fuel and you might have to release some of the irreplaceable lifting gas instead).


Let’s start with 3 and start suing stoplight manufacturers.


Oh it does come from the network region/cells. In fact in the old days when the phones were the size of an actual brick they were probably powered by a proper multi-cell battery. (Did I miss a joke?)


The Optimus Maximus keyboard showed why OLED was a bad choice for the keyboard. Chyrosran22 did a review of a used one that had severe burn in on all the keys.

It would be interesting if someone could make a screen key cap that was compatible with Cherry MX or Alps switches. The problem is with communication and power delivery, though. Could NFC power a tiny E-Ink display?

https://youtu.be/qj7GYU-wedo


I’m pretty sure I’ve seen NFC powered eink displays before! Here’s a random one after a quick Google search, https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/7-5-inch-e-ink-displ...


I think mini/micro LED displays are the future of making something like that work without burn in issues. They are small and flat enough that you could fit in whatever key you want to. There will be a lot more wires involved although, as each key cap will have a mini display in them in front of the switch, and I'd worry about that wire eventually breaking from the constant moving of that wire inside the keyboard key.


I’m curious what the new name will be. I want it to be International Cloud Business Machines (ICBM).


HAL


Clarke strenuously denied that HAL was one up on IBM.

Not entirely sure I believed him :-)


TIL: wow, H-A-L are the preceding letters of I-B-M.


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