How do you handle remote control with such a setup?

There's really cheap bluetooth remotes available on aliexpress, most also come with a usb dongle.

I bought one for $5 and was surprised by the quality. It has an accelerometer to control the mouse as well. Great for presentations. It's a G20S Pro BT but there were lots of other alternatives.

I'm not using that setup, but I just don't use remote control at all. The TV control is done through the "single-button interface". I guess you could say XBox controllers are remote controls.

This isn't a real answer.

You need an HDMI CEC dongle or a USB remote plugged into the computer.

Yes, this guy’s whole life and workflow for teaching to a large class was based around his iPad having a basic feature. If you don’t lecture to students using an iPad, probably you do have different problems.

Try storyteller. It’s an awesome app that does the whispersync thing where you get the audiobook and ebook together, can switch between the two and not lose place, can read both at the same time where the ebook underlines what’s being said. All self hosted though so you need to have a way to…obtain drm free e/audio books.

Only 200$? That’s way less than they charge me!

What are you talking about? Plenty of countries have socialized healthcare and education.

I’m on tirzepatide right now from Eli lily, and I’ve been very interested in Reta, but I can’t say that I jump at the chance to inject something into myself that hasn’t been tested directly on the actual thing I’m about to put into my body. I know there are testing companies that will test certain sources but it’s not like they’ve tested the vial you get. If there’s some kind of pathogen or bacteria or whatever in the vial you get, well, there’s no recourse: it was “for research use only”. That seems like an unacceptable risk, but I see so many people on the internet claiming miraculous results. Maybe if I knew someone in real life, but I know those biohacking subreddits and such are astroturfed to no end by companies looking to sell sketchy peptides.

> I know there are testing companies that will test certain sources but it’s not like they’ve tested the vial you get.

It's why you order a decent amount of it (e.g. 2 years supply, it lasts forever in a freezer) and pay for your own randomized testing of the batch you got. You go direct to the source, not via the middle men selling it for 10x markup on a per-vial basis.

Certainly not perfect, and it adds significant cost - but still way cheaper than the regular sources via pharmacy for Zepbound.

I'm not convinced reta really shows that greater of results than tirz though. YMMV significantly here. Tirz is already so effective you are chasing marginal gains for the most part.

It causes less muscle loss/wasting which is a huge benefit over Tirz.

That's a common and very acceptable concern and there's not great answers for it. Mostly a place will do multi-vail testing for purity, sterility, endotoxin and heavy metals. The idea is that the sample is sufficient to show safety. Many are rightfully dubious of this but still thousand and thousands of people taking it.

I'm using reta myself, but honestly it's because sema/tirz isn't allowed for me either. If you have medical tirz available, you should have some serious reasons to jump into the unregulated shark tank.

A lot of us in tech have CVS Caremark as our pharmacy benefit manager and they will cover Zepbound (tirzepatide) for weight loss in the Fall.

The problem is I'm too skinny now to get it!

How has it been treating you? Do you keep muscle mass without having to hit 1g/lb of protein intake daily?

Haven't measured it exactly, but haven't noticed a reduction in my lifts either.

I do have a home gym, throttled my marathon training and try my best with Skyr and protein shakes though.

Any idea if a pill form will be available in the future?

Pill form is only available for regular GLP-1, not the double (tirzepatide) and triple agonist (retatrutide).

So far my experience has been management shoving ai haphazardly down the throats of any semi technical person across the board, resulting in a fragmented hodgepodge of vibe coded frameworks and “ai apps” that pile on more requirements for more human attention to make those apps at least look superficially functional to management, than actual reductions in man hours saved by those vibe coded crApps.

I believe wholeheartedly that things like Claude code bring immense value but to management types they aren’t visible enough to prove their “ai first” narratives resulting in a bunch of crap they have us build that look and seem smart but in fact are just slop we have to deal with the consequences of. Good for job security I guess, but I’m getting pretty tired of it all.

So far I'm finding that in a good subset of my regular work Claude can be pretty useful and will speed me up. But I also drive it with a heavy hand. Strong expectations, I know what I want, what success looks like, and I steer it to give me that.

Conversely, the product guys I work with are adept at producing proof-of-concept tools that look really good. Fake data, runs entirely in a browser, but conveys their goals way more specifically than Balsamiq ever good. And I think this is a great use case for Claude.

But what ain't happening here is product guys producing code that would go directly into production. And even if it could, they're not in a position to provide tech support or debugging when it breaks, so they don't want to be in that position anyway.

Nobody can really predict the future very well, it seems, but my personal best guess is that we end up moving the boundaries of what we work on and how, but the need for humans isn't going to go down. As magic as LLMs look sometimes, I constantly run into reminders of how much it relies on how I phrase a prompt when it delivers any kind of answer. That influence really drives how satisfying the results are.