MrMetlHed (u/MrMetlHed)

MrMetlHed commented on Apple Watch with Android abishekmuthian.com/apple-... · Posted by u/Abishek_Muthian

draven · 8 months ago

Not OP but I have a Fenix 7x. What happens very infrequently is that I would wake up during the night, and then be absolutely still (I'm trying to go back to sleep) except for checking my watch every 15-20mn. This does not get detected as "awake" the following morning.

I don't really care because I got this watch so I can upload a track and follow it while recording various metrics during 5+ days, and for this it works perfectly.

MrMetlHed · 8 months ago

Same experience for me. If I wake up but lie still it's not nearly as accurate. What I do find useful is the Body Battery score, that generally maps well to how I feel the next day. And the Stress Score is an eerily good indicator of when I'm getting sick and when the illness is stopping.

MrMetlHed commented on Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf] drive.google.com/file/d/1... · Posted by u/sgbeal

assimpleaspossi · 9 months ago

Has anyone ever tried to look something up in a car manual? OMG!

MrMetlHed · 9 months ago

Power tool manuals are the worst.

Often times when I buy a kitchen appliance it has some basic info on all of the functionality and perhaps a nice recipe book. Vitamix stood out here, and Breville is mostly okay but could be better.

Power tools though. Dewalt has a folded up piece of paper in micro-font that has technical diagrams that are hard to read and understand. And forget about something like a "recipe" book for simple projects (even if it could be an upsell for another tool.)

MrMetlHed commented on Peloton to charge $95 activation fee for used bikes cnbc.com/2024/08/22/pelot... · Posted by u/speckx

matsemann · a year ago

If you want a more bike like experience, and not a spinning bike experience, what you want is a "direct drive trainer". You take off your back wheel and mount your normal bike and chain on that.

A trainer like that can be used with all kinds of software. Personally I like the social aspects of Zwift. Group rides, competitions, just biking along the map with other people around. For structured workouts Trainerroad is great, but it's also possible to do in Zwift. Other apps like Rouvy exist, probably apps for more traditional spinning sessions as well, or you can just make your own workout in any of the apps matching a YouTube video and put the video on.

MrMetlHed · a year ago

Zwift is pretty great for all of that. The biggest challenge I had with the whole ecosystem is finding something that doesn't have a monthly sub. I don't really do a lot of the racing / social aspects -- and I really only use it in the Phoenix summer when it's just too hot to go outside and hike. What I've found that works for me is cancelling Zwift in the cooler weather and using courses and workouts on my Garmin watch or Edge computer, which works and is free.

MrMetlHed commented on Peloton to charge $95 activation fee for used bikes cnbc.com/2024/08/22/pelot... · Posted by u/speckx

m4tthumphrey · a year ago

You can use the bike as is - ie without a sub. The sub is for the classes.

MrMetlHed · a year ago

But isn't the screen totally useless without a sub? I don't know enough about Peloton, but I thought you couldn't really do much with it other than ride the thing without subscribing. I guess a jailbreak for the screen (is it Android?) could be pretty useful if you want to put an entirely different UI on the thing and use it with alternatives.

MrMetlHed commented on Peloton to charge $95 activation fee for used bikes cnbc.com/2024/08/22/pelot... · Posted by u/speckx

maxglute · a year ago

Yeah that's the brand I was thinking, they had one where bikes tilt up/down to simulate hills. I'm hoping for one that also tilts side to side. Their software/game also looks kind of meh. But I don't really need exercise bike to "simulate" biking, throw it in MS flight simmulator and do multi axis ET bicycle flights, or at least some sort of twisted metal.

MrMetlHed · a year ago

Have I got a game for you: https://www.gtbikev.com/

MrMetlHed commented on Peloton to charge $95 activation fee for used bikes cnbc.com/2024/08/22/pelot... · Posted by u/speckx

Larrikin · a year ago

Is there something worth leaving to? I have my old subscription limping along because I do like the trainers, the music especially, and use the non cardio programs, but would like to switch to something that isn't actively making the product worse to make money. Yt dl came in handy before their cardio money grab.

MrMetlHed · a year ago

Zwift, maybe. But you need / should have a power meter to do that properly, and it works way better with a trainer that can adjust resistance on its own.

MrMetlHed commented on The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder lanceewing.github.io/blog... · Posted by u/smcameron

Exuma · a year ago

This game was such an insane strong part of my childhood that when I think about the present day many years later it feels like a dream. I try to imagine in my current life having the same sort of "connection" to a game and it just feels impossible. Everything around me feels like "just" a game, show, material object, whatever... but space quest 2,3,4 all feel like they are fundamentally part of my DNA, intertwined with it.

MrMetlHed · a year ago

I was just delighted that "free little dude" worked on rescuing the creature early on in that game. It's also the first game I've ever played of the sort (as like a ten-year-old) and I spent weeks and weeks with it.

MrMetlHed commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl

kelnos · a year ago

> However, the question of how much human voice space Scarlett can lay claim to remains unsettled

I don't think it's that unsettled, at least not legally. There seems to be precedent for this sort of thing (cf. cases involving Bette Midler or Tom Waits).

I think the hypothetical you create is more or less the same situation as what we have now. The difference is that there maybe isn't a paper trail for Johansson to use in a suit against EvilAI, whereas she'd have OpenAI dead to rights, given their communication history and Altman's moronic "Her" tweet.

> Does Scarlett own her own voice more than Nancy owns hers?

Legally, yes, I believe she does.

MrMetlHed · a year ago

There are other ways public figures are treated differently in the courts in the US. It's much more difficult for them to prove libel or slander, for instance. They have to prove actual malice and intent, whereas a private citizen just has to prove negligence. I imagine "owning" their likeness at a broader sense is the flip side of that coin.

MrMetlHed commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl

worstspotgain · a year ago

That's true. As I suggested, this case may well be open and shut. But what if it was Google's or Meta's voice that sounded exactly like Sky, i.e. without a history of failed negotiations? The amount of "likeness" would technically be identical.

Are companies better off not even trying to negotiate to begin with?

MrMetlHed · a year ago

It'd be fine to not negotiate if you weren't going to use a voice that sounded famous. If I were offering something that let you make any kind of voice you want, I would definitely not market any voice that sounded familiar in any way. Let the users do that (which would happen almost immediately after launch). I would use a generic employee in the example, or the CEO, or I'd go get the most famous person I could afford that would play ball. I would then make sure the marketing materials showed the person I was cloning and demonstrated just how awesome my tool was at getting a voice match.

What I wouldn't do is use anything that remotely sounds famous. And I would definitely not use someone that said "no thanks" beforehand. And I would under no circumstances send emails or messages suggesting staff create a voice that sounds like someone famous. Then, and only then, would I feel safe in marketing a fake voice.

MrMetlHed commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl

ml-anon · a year ago

She has no incentive to settle and actually could win big by being the figurehead of the creative industry against AI. It’s understandable why she accepted a settlement from Disney, but there’s no reason why she should settle with a random startup that has no other influence on her employability in Hollywood.

MrMetlHed · a year ago

And plenty of her peers have been fighting against AI content harvesting in their recent contract negotiations[1].

1. https://apnews.com/article/hollywood-ai-strike-wga-artificia...