[–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses do have a display. But in any case, these applications work almost just as fine with speakers as well, and the Ray-Ban glasses had those and supports reading documents, describing surrounds etc.

Plain glasses with camera come much cheaper. Though now that I looked it up, the Meta glasses are surprisingly affordable as well.

edit: scratch that, I don't know what I was looking.. For me Ray-Bans would be 500€ and Metas maybe 1000€.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Lack of imagination. One can easily imagine scenarios where glases can be useful outside filming other people. Simple tasks like getting a receipt and scanning it before throwing away, or getting dietary feedback on a menu items would be quite more easily achieved with smartglasses than otherwise. AR-assisted navigation in cities with to image data could be quite useful as well.

    Not to mention if one has sight issues; I can imagine describing environments or reading texts being wildly useful for some.

    Perhaps consider first banning devices that are designed for secret filming, e.g. "car key" cameras, watch cameras, pen cameras, powerback cameras, and yes, glass cameras... You can find them from Amazon for <100€, which is much more affordable option in the first place.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    ESP32-S3 seems rather properly sized computing power -wise for this kind of device. And it's quite low-power as well.

    Granted there are some tasks where even this kind device could use some computing, like extracting, indexing and rendering pdfs.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I thought the idea of digital sovereignty means you host services in the same legal domain or country, not that you literally "self host" things. For example, nobody is calling that the EU organization should self-host anything, only that they would use European cloud services.

    Or does "host it myself" actually mean that someone else would host it for you? I don't believe that's the common way to understand it.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I actually believe this is an unwinnable scenario for clients. Just whenever the block app/db updates, automatically check if ads are blocked. If they are, have an engineer or AI iterate until it no longer is the case.

    And the reason why blocking solutions can't do the same is that there's cery kittle money in it and not enough people working for free on it. Or that's atleast my hypothesis..

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    I went with the approach of giving it its own Google account, so that it can create docs and calendar events and then add me, rather than getting access to my Google account.

    I wonder though: if Google can link this account to you as its actual owner, I wonder if there's a risk if the bot does something against the ToS?

    I hope you have backups of your Google account..

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