> Much of the so-called "mystery" of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) comes from the lack of openly available, detailed evidence that would allow researchers to evaluate hypotheses and construct explanations.

No, much of the mystery comes from not talking with the locals (the Rapa Nui).

I have been to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and I highly recommend visiting.

Also, some of the mystery comes from podcasts that pretend to be authoritative and spew out falsities.

Cell phone companies like AT&T could offer kid-lines (with filtered Internet access) and Google and Apple could provide kid-modes on their phones that don't allow VPNs or apps to be installed that parents do not approve of.

Maybe there might already be ways to prevent VPNs/apps, but it doesn't seem to be easy and/or publicized.

Don't worry the kid mode is coming on all devices, one thing you wouldn't want kids doing is sideloading applications after all.

I think this is the wrong approach, an example is youtube kids. There seems to be a abundance of inappropriate content for kids on there. These companies don't actually care about you or your kids they care about profit.

Only (hopefully most) parents care about their kids. They have the power to push a solution as a collective so the solution should empower them to choose and not not take power away from them and others (for example adults without kids). The age verification mandated on a government level constitutes to limiting access to content, and in my eyes that is censorship.

Either a kid phone built on AOSP or a kid-focused MDM system, coupled with kid-focused apps, would seem to be sufficient. No need to go to the carriers.

Identity fraudsters beg to differ.

> what is texting their kid going to do?

Those parents don't realize it's going to get their kid shot when the kid is hiding and the gunman hears the ding or buzz of the notification.

Match what's been reported by some Bataclan attack survivors: not only you had to play dead, but your phone had to play dead too.

You can carry a small laptop in your pocket?

Source? Considering that not all cars for sale have all of those features, I'm pretty confident in saying that you're wrong.

Back-up cameras are required by law, so that requires a screen, but the law does not require that screen do double-duty as an infotainment screen.

The bathrooms at my workplace are fit for purpose too, but that doesn't stop people with bad hygiene from leaving a line of fecal matter at the rear of the seat (where the cheeks meet) and not wiping away sweat, lint, and hairs, or prevent them from missing and peeing on the floor.

I feel like a toilet, shower, and sink could be added to an efficiency apartment for 3m².

If people want to see how small a room could get, see ships, especially crew quarters. I could probably design something with a kitchen, bathroom, washer and dryer, bed, desk, and storage for 15m².

I'm looking for the quietest 6 bay NAS possible.

I have a beQuiet case and six 30TB HDDs, and I plan to put the Ubuntu with a Plex server on a NVME SSD and do a ZFS 4+2.

Can anyone point me to a better/quieter set-up? Thank you in advance.

Looks cool. At first I thought the numbers might have been the dollar amounts from the Price Is Right prize wheel.

If you ever mass produce these and the price is right, I might buy a D20 version.

Lol, Thanks! This small engineering upgrade ended up delivering a surprisingly huge improvement. The mass-production version will be priced under $100 — the precision is too high for stamping, so every part has to be CNC-machined. That makes it slightly more expensive than typical spinning rings, but in terms of smoothness and spin performance, there is literally no spinning ring on the market that can compete.

One problem I see is, people may not want to wait 20 seconds for a dice roll.

There is also the nostalgia of a D20. Just keep in mind that this will be a novelty and not a replacement. Unless people still D&D in steam tunnels and such?

Great point. It actually spins at about 10 rotations per second, so you can lightly stop it after 2–3 seconds and still get a perfectly random result. That said, some tabletop players raised another concern — in group play, someone could cheat by spinning it again after seeing the result. And that’s a fair point. But the ring is primarily designed as jewelry and a fidget piece. At only 2 mm thick, comfort and aesthetics come first. As a D20 tool, it’s best suited for solo TTRPG sessions where there's no dispute, and it works wonderfully in that context. So I completely agree it’s not a replacement for a traditional D20. It’s more of a D&D-themed accessory that happens to be functional in certain situations,Thank you so much!

Does any software have a survey for what users want? Instead of immediately pushing AI, they should have pushed a survey where AI was one of the choices/questions.

if they do that there's a risk of getting an answer they don't want

Showing a pop-up to a survey honestly seems more annoying than an unobtrusive “open LLM sidebar” context menu switch.

Firefox also collects usage data if individual features (which can also be disabled), so they’ll learn about the adoption soon enough.

It is either a fork or new software based on what a people really want or need. This is not an easy hill to climb.

Unfortunately, "configuration" is the survey. I detest both configuration and surveys. Modify the open source code and rip out the Artificial Inference code because Firefox is open source, or build software from scratch: servo, ladybird, your own web browser based on a survey.