This phrase has been around for years, I know because it has always infuriated me.

They took a well-defined unit of time, which is relatively short, and made it mean “some unknown but very long period of time”.

So frustrating. /oldmanyellsatcloud

More than 300,000 years.

> When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Why would you even update? HDMI cables aren't really changing. No internet, ever.

The TV I had got updates for ARC, frame gen, brightness adjustment, etc.

Your statement is false. There are reasons to update.

The TV I had got updates for new ads and reduced speed

FWIW, I'd bet you'd never have noticed the difference.

You've got to be careful, though. Consider that they have non-deletable apps, tiny amounts of onboard storage, and that every "app" WILL bloat over time. So, with those updates installing the latest version of Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, Paramount, Tubi, LG Channels™ etc... it means it's filling your 4GB or whatever storage fuller and fuller. Eventually the storage will be nearly full, which shouldn't matter, except that it's a computer, and having storage nearly full makes it slow as shit to do everything, even "boot up" and "change inputs".

Exactly this. I've had ones for 10+ years that were never connected to the internet and they functioned perfectly well as dumb TVs.

You don't have to go back years, months will do.

There are more than you listed as well, like the raspberries https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbrea...

This comment confuses me a bit because Google Maps (at least in the US, in my experience) is really great about telling you what lane to be in.

> Google Maps (at least in the US, in my experience) is really great about telling you what lane to be in.

Having recently driven in Boston[1], the problem is that Google Maps tells you what lane you need to be in when the route divergence happens... it doesn't tell you what lane you need to be in to get to that lane.

So I would see guidance like be in the first or second lane (from the left) to make this left turn and all seemed well since I was in the second lane from the left. Then two more lanes merged in from the left and I had to get over two lanes and ended up on a two mile onramp for the highway to New Hampshire.

I see the same things locally, but it's not as obviously bad because I'm familiar with the local highways and also most of the local highways aren't as space constrained so there's almost always plenty of time to merge.

[1] I don't recommend it... we should have driven to the airport and returned our car and taken transit back to our hotel

I need to know what lane I'll need to be in next so I can plan in advance.

Yeah, there’s a tendency not to know with sufficient time, especially with heavy traffic.

Not every road owner in the world has provided how many lanes a road has. To tell you which lane to stay in, it need to know how many there are!

This information is all derived from overhead (satellite and aerial) imagery combined with street level imagery (like from Google street view). No road owners required.

Where in the world are these road owners, and do they really eve provide this kind of information to mapping companies?

Here in the States, most of the roads are "owned" by the people and our various thousands of governmental jurisdictions do not tell anyone about these kinds of details in any uniform way.

We just kind of figure it out on our own.

That's also where this map would help, it can definitely degrade gracefully. If I know I have two right-hand turns coming, I can take the decision for myself.

It fails the task as often as not on large East Coast highways. Not nearly as bad on the West Coast.

> Today, having a piece of furniture in our home depends on a massive production and supply chain; the "average" person no longer has the ability to build it themselves.

Tangential, but this is one of many reasons that I (and I suspect many others here) have taken up wood working.

I haven’t had printed symbols on any keyboard, split or not, in many years.

I tried this out this week and liked it but really wish this project had some form of auth. Opening the contents of every page you’ve ever visited, even to the local network, is not the best idea.

Hister supports token based, password based, and OIDC/OAuth authentications with optional multi-user handling. Details about user handling can be found here: https://hister.org/docs/user-handling

It also has a "public mode" where anyone can search the indexed content, but only authenticated users can add or modify it.

It seemed like the public mode was the default when I set it up. If so, that’s a fairly dangerous default as keeping a “clean” history with no secrets leaked seems neigh impossible.

The default configuration binds only to localhost, and a fresh installation starts with an empty database/index. Could you clarify which specific attack surface you are concerned about in that scenario?

I’m not concerned about an attack scenario. I’m just saying that using the docker image, if someone (or their agent) isn’t careful, they could expose their browsing history publicly fairly easily. It might just be nice to default to at least a user and pass login rather than just wide open.

I've set it up today with OIDC AuthN (Keycloak), removed the username/password fields & kept only OIDC, it's working flawless.

Also indexed data is persisted on a per-user basis, so you got this isolation and certainty that your searches will not be polluted by your family's

Everything in moderation, especially moderation.