

I have been wearing glasses for over half a century and I’ve never seen rust on my glasses. Gunk on the nose supports, sure, rust, never.
As for the nose bits, you can buy glasses where they are part of the frame, no more gunk.
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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I have been wearing glasses for over half a century and I’ve never seen rust on my glasses. Gunk on the nose supports, sure, rust, never.
As for the nose bits, you can buy glasses where they are part of the frame, no more gunk.
No, I put soap on my hands and rub the glasses, then rinse under the shower and put them on the ledge.
After the shower I have a hand towel that is only used to dry my glasses which I use to pat the excess water.
Good as new.
If you have to absolutely, positively, immediately, reply right now for reasons … don’t.
You forgot favourite colour, name of your first pet, place of birth, name of your primary school and bank account number.
Be prepared?
To the horror and disgust of my optometrist I wash my glasses in the shower daily. I’ve been doing so for decades.
Not just children … I can think of a few adults who would steal this idea … be right back.
Use a mobile phone instead.
You know this is fake. A real therapist would say:
“How does that make you feel?”
The thing about Severance is that from a sci-fi perspective it’s a horrifically believable story that has more than shades of Stephen King about it.
I am not a fan of horror and never have been.
In this case as an experienced sci-fi reader and technology professional, it’s ringing a little too close to home.
Can you spell Neuralink?
When I next subscribe for a month so my partner can binge watch the latest season of Severance I’ll take a look, but the disappointment with the first season of Foundation was not something I will soon forget.
The sheer volume of spam that arrives every day is probably the single largest obstacle to doing this.
Coupled with the fact that an absurd amount of effort is required to get legitimate mail actually delivered and the security issues associated with running any service on the internet today makes for more than a full-time job in maintaining infrastructure alone, never mind getting paid to do actual work.
I cannot see myself going back to self hosting anything anytime soon.
I watched Season 1 of Foundation.
As a long time Isaac Asimov reader and owner of most of his sci-fi books, I was appalled at the series. It manages to completely negate the scope of the Foundation book series by ignoring the time constraints on a human lifetime, mashing in a completely different storyline involving Hari Seldon and completely murdering the whole intentions of the book series.
This was not why I think that Apple TV+ is poor value for money. It does however speak to the cultural values that Apple represents.
I have absolutely no desire to have autocorrect on steroids actively participating in either my private or professional life.
The whole concept of the LLM is flawed. There is fundamentally no distinction between data and instruction, so a malicious document or email can be processed as legitimate input without the user ever being aware of it.
The level of ignorance in the general public around issues like this is absolutely gobsmacking and the behaviour of the breathless reporting by ignorant “journalists” is in my opinion borderline criminal.
I didn’t ask for Gemini, I didn’t want Gemini, I couldn’t disable it without jumping through hoops and there is no way for me to roll back any access it’s had over the past 25 days. Access I did not consent to, neither as an end user, nor as the administrator of my account.
Having paid for Apple TV+ (and been “given” “free” access by paying for a new computer), I can tell you that it’s the least bang for buck streaming service available in Australia.
It has a miniscule library which it disguises at every opportunity by mixing in content that is available from Apple, but not included in the subscription. It makes it worse by showing content from other streaming services that require their own subscription, which it’s happy to take your money for.
The entire library list fits on a web page:
In my opinion, value for money this is not.
Edit: Added link to page listing the entire library.
The email address?
That looks a lot like ground and congealed SPAM.
I hate to break it to you, but have you heard the phrase:
Rearranging the deckchairs whilst the ship is sinking.
Whilst breaking the law is as natural as breathing to these individuals, I’d suggest that you have bigger problems on your hands and expressing dissatisfaction with their lack of process here gives a certain dopamine rush, you might instead consider directing your limited personal resources to more effective forms of protest.
I have a Google Workspace account. As administrator you can disable Gemini for both the App and the Workspace.
To disable it for the Workspace requires that you disable it for each service in your Workspace.
If you have a starter or classroom edition, this functionality is not available, but Google support can make it visible.
As Administrator, click on Help, fight your way through the bot. I asked to “disable Gemini” and kept clicking “this does not help” when it came back.
Eventually you can start a chat with support.
It helps if you have a screenshot of the Gemini Workspace screen that shows there are no controls. Upload the screenshot into the chat.
The agent enabled the controls within a few minutes, so I could disable Gemini for each service. It’s now finally gone from Gmail on the web and my phone.
Be prepared to be told that Gemini can help you with your job … which I declined to engage with.
Source: I did this an hour ago after trying many times over the past three weeks.
I’ve just created a web page describing how to disable this:
Edit: Added link
There are a few online regex testing tools that will analyse your efforts and give you the opportunity to provide sample data.