Ahh, yes I am. 26.5

I just found the theory referenced on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/1tsts...

> A redditor who's wife and her friend were on the flight said that the 16yo boy next to wife's friend admitted to naming his speaker "Bomb" long enough ago that he had forgotten he'd named it that. Wife's friend got to hear the questioning

That is also stated clearly in the comments.

Reddit really wants to run with the default speaker name theory, though.

> long enough ago that he had forgotten he'd named it that

Actually sounds a lot like "that was the default name but now that everyone's making a big deal about it I'm assuming I must have named it that". I wouldn't assume that this "confession" means that reddit's theory is at all incorrect.

Witnesses are terribly inaccurate sources of information, unfortunately.

(Not to say the alternative also couldn't be the case)

Renaming a Bluetooth device like a speaker permanently for everyone (as opposed to a nickname you give it in your phone or whatever) is difficult if possible at all and usually requires firmware or hardware changes, unless the option is given by the device or its companion app (which is very rare).

So your assumption seems the most likely. I highly doubt a 16 year old kid is firmware hacking a cheap speaker just to rename it for a "joke"

It’s commonplace for Bluetooth speakers to allow changing their Wi-Fi name (SSID) using the related app. Everyone being able to identify each other’s Bluetooth speakers is exactly one purpose of that.

Bluetooth speakers don’t typically have WiFi or SSIDs. The Bluetooth advertising name is changeable on some newer higher end devices, but the vast majority of cheap speakers do not implement this from a practical standpoint. Changing the name on your device only changes the alias that you see, at least on most devices, but it might be possible to hook that on some OSs ?

An, sorry, yes, I confused with Wi-Fi for some reason. Nevertheless, they allow changing the name they broadcast, in the sense that other devices that see it for the first time see the changed name.

Again, very rarely. Highly unlikely this particular one does.

It seems like some newer speakers allow it. I really wanna know what speaker he actually had.

Don't believe anything on Reddit, ever.

Also, who carries a Bluetooth speaker on a plane? And for what purpose?

Most BT speakers have a battery, which means it has to be in carry-on luggage. Why it would be powered on is the question, but this could have happened inadvertently by getting knocked around in a bag.

Sometimes I see my BT speaker broadcasting BLE info when it is turned off. Most things do not really 'turn off' these days.

Which is actually really useful, in this case – this lets me turn it on from across the room from my phone without having to get up!

I do, because I want to listen to music when I travel. Not in the plane, but at my destination.

If you want it at your destination you are kind of forced to as you can't transport batteries in your checked luggage.

Speaker in carry on luggage to be used in vacation. They were flying to Malaga

Not Malaga according to the article — destination was Palma de Mallorca.

"bare beating"

It's not extremely far fetched that someone would call a speaker "bomb". Especially if it's loud and has a lot of bass.

We used to call such devices "boomboxes". And a bomb makes "boom".

Wiktionary also has this meaning listed for bomb: "9. Something highly effective or attractive."

I can't explain why, but the top comment is the funniest thing in this whole episode to me:

Removed for violating Rule #6: Must be a kid and must be stupid.

Common reasons for this remove include but not limited to:

Teens are not considered kids as its a different kind of stupid.

Based on the title I was really hoping to see how this was used for gaming, but they just ran an LLM on it

I don't think that is even possible, every piece of silicon on that chip that is required to do gaming is ripped out in favor of more compute cores.

They said in the beginning that it doesn't even have a video out, so you cannot do gaming.

I've seen things where you have multiple video cards and can use one gpu to render to a framebuffer which is transferred to the other video card to output. I'm sure it adds latency, and it's probably unsupported... But no output doesn't mean can't do gaming... It just means gaming will be iffy.

There's some virtualized desktop server stuff too. Run a bunch of desktop sessions on a beefy computer and send a video stream to desktop players. With the right codec settings, the latency is probably ok for many games.

I thought you could run games by rendering on one GPU and outputting on another? Usually comes up with dual iGPU/dGPU setups, but could work here

I'm actually surprised there hasn't been a dedicated effort to support display offload to, say, the CPU's iGPU.

I'm sure manufacturers would love saving a dollar per card, and OEMs would appreciate eliminating the support calls from "I just bought a new $2500 gaming PC and no video" because they plugged the monitor into the iGPU instead of dGPU.

This is exactly what "Optimus" and "hybrid graphics" is, the issue is that you need to configure that - laptops will provide information to OS "hey, this card has no video output" or "hey, there's an output MUX connected to output X on iGPU and output Y on dGPU", and drivers pick that up and know they have to setup transferring frames between the two or trigger the mux etc.

nVidia has also used the datacenter cards to run GeForce Now, at least for some lines of the cards, plus some of them come with license (or you can buy it extra?) for nVidia GRID that provides more flexibility for multi-instancing etc to run in virtual desktop

I have occasionally wondered the same thing.

Thinking about it more, on my setup I have a DVI port on the motherboard that I would be happy to use with a DVI cable, but I instead need to buy a DisplayPort <-> DVI converter cable to plug directly into my video card...

Yeah, seems like an obvious thing for some motherboard providers to want to provide.

Never a problem. RemoteFX does (did) everything you'd want. Make your OS, log in remotely through an accelerated client. The real problem is Microsoft did something around Windows Server 2008 R2 that killed performance (literally halved it) for RemoteFX. You're only now reobtaining the virtualized video performance we used to have back in 2008.

Same. With no new NVIDIA gaming GPUs this year, seems like an interesting problem to solve.

> ... they won’t want rich people to vote.

I think it might be more than that

Yes, I truly believe that GitHub is recommended by an LLM orders of magnitude more frequently than any other forge

I think it’s much more than 80%, it’s probably the default recommendation and folks who aren’t technical would just accept it. Probably closer to 95% or more

I think probably actually. The fittest people back then probably weren't as fit as people today with specialized diets and medical science, and surely those findings were a result of better equipment, which were a result of better tooling to manufacture that equipment.

Introducing a machine to a manufacturing role obviously makes the manufacturer less fit, but it enables society to break through fitness barriers in general

If your point is that it's not orders of magnitude fitter, that's a good one. I don't think people will be much more intelligent in the future than they are today but they'll probably just be more specialized and have deeper knowledge

I am no expert, just a guy reading the Internet. And it seems like there are two opposing factors. The increased access to nutritious food has dramatically increased health, shown in the increased average height. The exception to this is the first 50 years, 1830-1880 when widespread dietary deprivation and severe inequality caused a decrease in height (take this as a warning I guess).

The other factor is that we all get significantly less physical activity than before, and obesity is a increasing problem.

And while the first effect is a effect of the machines, it is the latter effect I think most easily maps onto today's situation.

Personally I am quite certain that if you could teleport 100 random 20-year old from 1820 they would be better than 100 random 20-year old today at most physical tests, especially if you gave them food first.

But what about average person, not a professional athlete? In past people suffered from malnourishment, but today they suffer from obesity.

We also know that testosterone levels (which are connected with muscle mass, recovery etc.) are lower today than even few decades back.

It definitely doesn’t hold true for the average person, I was only thinking of the fittest today.

I’m not sure what it means if we want the average person to be fitter, it seems like we’d have to reinstitute manual labour if that was the goal.

Which is maybe a good analogy for not using AI in the classroom and forcing kids to use their minds

Considering developed societies with access to those specialized diets and medical science, the median person is definitely not stronger than the median person from a pre-industrial society, even taking malnutrition and injury into account. It seems you've never tried to arm-wrestle a farmer before.

Have you tried to arm-wrestle a subsistence farmer who saw multiple bad harvests growing up?

I've arm-wrestled office workers; I stand by my assertion.

There’s a few sites that do what I think you’re asking for, not navigation though. This is one I’ve used recently: https://shademap.app/

I’m pretty sure I heard the same quote at my high school and university graduation ceremonies, and those were many years before AI. It’s a standard way to inspire new grads, right?

I think yes, it just doesn't feel in good taste given the topic of his speech. It feels like the speech makes it imply icky things.

Reminds me of this short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVl0NS0vu8