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As I'm getting older now I've finally realized that I can't just keep putting off improving my health. As a teen I was fairly large and in my college years I hit my largest weight. Once I had my first child though and found running I really melted off the weight and hit my lowest weight and held it for many years. It was all in running though. I'm fairly strong and have no problems lifting items…
I saw a post today on Bubbles about enjoying sites for the design and how that can be lost in your RSS Feed Reader. I completely agree and while my site is not one of those I know many blogs that I enjoy for the content as well as the design. I would like to recommend an app for that situation although this is iOS/iPadOS and MacOS only so unfortunately for PC and Android users I don't have an…
With RAMaggedon in full swing and prices from Xbox, Steam Machine and even Apple going to all new levels as AI buys every RAM and SSD it can get its hands on I was thinking today what is the world of tech going to look like before this has a chance to get better. Current estimates put the end of this phase sometime in 2028 unless AI companies take a major tumble. Assuming AI does not implode and…
This morning I found an extension that tests for AI content in any web page and highlighted content. I did a few tests on the free version and quickly realized we've reached the breaking point. I tried a few posts at the top of the Bear Blog Discover page and they came up as showing high likelihood of being AI Written. I tested on sites I knew to be human written and it was able to identify those…
Starting this week I've left my phone disconnected from the car for CarPlay. I still have a bluetooth connection incase someone calls me, but otherwise my car is not "smart". The reason I've done this is I realize there are so many songs out there I've loved and just lost to the ether of streaming, but when I play a radio station through Apple Music I have no was to identify it (Shazam turns off…
Following up on some posts from RNOTTE and Living kindfully , but I've also noticed this cynicism as well in the world around me. I think I see a lot of this in regard to the entertainment we have pushed on us much to what RNOTTE was discussing. When was the last big comedy film? I guess The Naked Gun remake, but I just rewatched the original instead. Other than that comedy doesn't even go to the…
My bank uses a feature I've seen advertised so often now called Early Deposit. It's blatantly a pandering feature and doesn't do anything truly valuable. If you get paid early this week it just means your payday is always a day ahead, but that's just your new payday so if you always get paid on the 7th now you just always get paid on the 6th. Feels meaningful, but it's not. Sure it's nice in the…
I've been buying Vinyl Records for the last 10 years or so after not having owned any since the late 90's when I left for college and sold my dad's collection. I had moved on to CD's and soon Napster was a thing and I had everything I ever wanted so I figured it was time to move on. When I first started buying albums though a few years ago they always included a digital code. It was the start of…
This month's Bear Blog Carnival is "Your Favorite...in your niche hobby" . A a fairly avid Disc Golfer who can only play using a forehand I have one disc that is my favorite in all of Disc Golf and that is the Cinnamon made by Clash Discs. This disc is the perfect disc for my forehand and form. It stays flat and straight and with stats of 9/5/-1.5/2 it almost always ends up straight on aim with a…
So... I found this interesting tidbit from LJPUKs site . It looks like Swatch has decided to embrace the crap that is AI image generation. They are allowing you to "make any image you can imagine" for your watch design. I guess paying actual artists to design or license their designs is to expensive when you can have a slop machine produce it at will. It's a race to the bottom at this point and…
