We’re around with no plans to shut down!

Raised by Wolves… 🥲

Teenage Engineering is a hardware design firm that Nothing contracts with for hardware design. They aren’t a division of Nothing and they don’t work on just earbuds.

https://mutts.com/products/strip-101100?variant=41126280331421

You might be interested in the documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight” about the engineers who keep the Voyagers alive.

Google launched “Google Wallet” in 2011. Killed it in 2015 for “Android Pay”. Android Pay was killed for Google Pay. Then Google Pay was deprecated for the version of Google Wallet that you currently use.

What is that music app?

Beeper Mini registered your phone number with Apple and connected directly to the iMessage servers. That version was killed after three days of usage. The mac mini farm still works but that’s just through an apple ID email address.

iOS 17 uses a small gpt-2 based model for predictive text.

The layoffs are related to the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bandcamps-layoffs-songtradr-1235758123/

Babel sounds fantastic, I’m going to pick it up.

You should post a review in !printsf@literature.cafe when you finish. :)

I adore the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series but the books are so dense and I have heard multiple people struggle to get through the beginning third of the first and second books. I might be biased (definitely biased) but the story arc is worth the slogging pace.

Are you going to continue on and read the other series?

Finished the core Percy Jackson series and moved onto Heroes of Olympus. Hoping to get the series wrapped up before the new book launch.

Maybe my expectations were too high after just finishing Thistlefoot… haha.

Definitely agree that some stuff did not age well at all.

You inspired me to start listening to the series again before the new book next month. Looks like I’m almost caught up with you. What did you think about Sea of Monsters? I thought it was kind of bad the second time through and that was sad to me. I guess that’s the double edge knife of experiencing something with a lot of nostalgia.

I think someone mentioned Thistlefoot on last week’s thread so I picked it up this week and it’s sooooooo good. Holy shit I love it.

Great ideas thanks!

Oops! Maybe both. !printsf@literature.cafe (I think this is how you link?)

Love the instance you are creating, hope to help out as much as I can.

Considering spinning up an r/printsf clone on this instance instead of doing my actual work.