Isolated BS: tasty Pi, robot vacuums, and our saddest failure

Published: June 16, 2020, 6:22 a.m.

b'Computing \\n\\n

Not the sweet and sour delicious dessert, but the computing devices. Kodi, Smart Mirrors, retro arcade machines, and low-power cheap servers in the closet. Apple moving to ARM. The next generation of game consoles. SSDs.

\\n\\n \\n Raspberry Pi4 model B\\n\\n \\n\\n Michael Henzler / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 4.0\\n\\n \\n\\n YouTube \\n\\n

Chapter-markers. Auto-generated subtitles and \\u201cfree\\u201d transcription.

\\n\\n Memeseeks \\n\\n

The sad story of The Memeseeks Box. Learning how to frame what may be your \\u201cfailures.\\u201d

\\n\\n \\n The original Memeseeks Box logo art\\n\\n \\n\\n Nicholas Lowe, used with permission\\n\\n \\n\\n Robot vacuums \\n\\n

Both a cleaning tool and a defense against madness in the presence of eldritch horrors. \\u201cBecause they\\u2019re made of metal, and robots are strong.\\u201d Using the Roomba as a parenting tool. Deebot Ozmo.

\\n\\n Plastic Rain \\n\\n

It\\u2019s everywhere. Referring to our Wall-E episode with heaping portions of appreciation and concern for plastics.

\\n\\n Big tech \\n\\n

Withholding the sale of facial recognition tech from police. Bezos the nigh-trillionaire being able to afford his own ISS.

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\\u201cCartoon Room House\\u201d used in episode image background, by mixrobastudio/pixabay/CC-0

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