No huge risk at the minute. While I’m all for you doing whatever you want with your DNA it doesn’t make uploading it to everywhere that will take it a particularly good idea.

I mean at the current exchange rate that’s closer to $2MM

Jeez, did not know that! Thanks.

Kudos where it’s due, but Philips is not a great poster boy(or gal) for a good corp. Outside of the medical field they basically license their name to other companies and make very little themselves.

Yeah pretty much from what I’ve come across this far. I may regret this lol. There’s a couple of videos on YouTube, one’s in silence and the other’s in Chinese.

There definitely seems to be a few in the wild built by English speakers so there might be a few people I can tap up for advice.

I’ll do my best! I’ve gone for the parts kit from triangle labs. I figure worst case it can probably be persuaded to work with something a bit less proprietary down the line. 20-30 day lead time on parts, $75 - I think I’m going to need some Bambu parts in addition, but I’ll do my best to document it as I go.

Welp, I’ve pulled the trigger, let’s see where this one leads.

You think countries are going to wholesale give up control of monetary policy?

Sounds awesome!

Can I plug in an hdmi cable/keyboard/mouse and use it like a desktop and is there some way I can mount the android storage? (Eg can I get access to docs/pics/downloads)

I’ve got a helmet like that, only works on women though…

Mid century capitalism was certainly more worker focussed. CEOs salaries were more like single digit/low double digit multiples of average worker salaries. Profit got reinvested into development. Companies would literally brag about how well their employees were paid. This is the era that saw the US become a powerhouse globally.

Then Jack fucking Welch came along. He’s the motherfucker that started this crap with closing marginally profitable departments because it increased the overall profitability of the company as a %, which increased the stock price.

Showing my ignorance here, but would genuinely like an explanation - aren’t/weren’t compromised exit nodes a thing?

Don’t say that, I’ve just bought an ancient HTC vive, give me time to at least play through HL Alyx and then dump it back on the market before you crash the prices.

Yeah, in hindsight, if I were a billionaire I’d be in my garage with some nice machine tools making stuff or coding for fun or any number of things I enjoy more than business.

Solid explorer on android is pretty useful too, it can access the SMB share. I use nextcloud for photo backup, but usually solid explorer for one off file transfers.

Think I’d be the other way. All meetings before noon and then give me the afternoon to do shit I enjoy.

Definitely! Check out AliExpress, Moyu do some really reasonably priced cubes up to ~11x11 - 13x13, starts to get really pricey at 15x15 and above (although tbh there’s not much new after a 7x7/9x9). Megaminx is fun because you can pretty much use knowledge from cubes to get you to maybe the last 3 steps you just have to rethink how you apply the algos you know!

The other interesting thing with big cubes for me was realising I’d essentially forgotten how to solve a 3x3, because I couldn’t finger trick/abuse the cube in the same way it forced me to think about which algos I wanted to apply and I realised I was solving the 3x3 on pretty much muscle memory alone 😂

Love the idea of the challenge, my issue would be lack of a validator tool to confirm I’d completed the challenge - any suggestions?

Haha, when I first learned beginner we were switching cores on 2-3 different no brand Chinese cubes! I’ve not gone for a signature cube yet, but basic GAN/moyu/yuxin cubes today are just so much better it’s unbelievable! Yeah, it’s probably mostly prioritising cubing Vs other things and then when I do put the time aside I get tempted by bigger cubes/megaminx puzzles. Honestly 9x9 or teraminx can be a lot less intense!

The fact we’re the same age might spur me on a bit again. Drilling algos for muscle memory I’m fine with - I probably just need to dedicate a month to the cross, it was just so so much easier when I could sit for 4-5 hours straight with no real responsibility and drill cube lol.