Its pretty remarkable what happened as soon as the regulation was loosened. In Alberta it feels as though these companies bought every single ad spot available. I can’t walk, drive, browse in any direction without seeing a gambling ad somewhere. Its not uncommon for me to see them in two or three places simultaneously. A real boring dystopia.
Likewise in Ontario, almost every ad I see on streaming services is for online gambling sites. We're new parents, and I'm surprised the baby gear companies rolling in money that are surely targeting us can't outspend these sites.
If I watch a hockey game on the regional broadcasters, I'll typically see 2-3 different apps marketed on each commercial break, followed by another handful of gambling-related entities marketed on the dynamic signage boards during the game, followed by another gambling app which sponsors the intermission panels. It's quite brutal.
The gambling business is a license to print money and the biggest obstacle is having users. Every dollar spent on ads to acquire more users will be worth it monetarily.
I'm in Australia and I've never worked for a bookie before, but certainly the ads are all targeted at men, and I remember seeing an app designed specifically for women looking to bet on horses (you entered your star sign, favourite colours etc, shook your phone and it chose some horse numbers).
I have $6 free credits from Google. The hoops you have to jump through are insane. $200 free credits from Anthropic are stupid simple to use. I know which one I’m using…
That seems to be entirely the purpose of this device. Instead of just a larger display, it's meant to provide a "second monitor" for multitasking or more context.
With terminal emulators, tailscale, local and remote agents, there's never been so much computing capability accessible from your pocket before.
I would love it if I could use it as a second monitor when working in a coffee shop or library. Unfortunately universal control was pretty solid at launch and then just completely left to die
There’s no particular reason it’s not OSS, but my main interest is collecting a lot of data on different athletes and publishing original research. Most weightlifting studies are small n and over a short amount of time. My particular interest is how volume, load, and fatigue are related to strength, endurance, and compliance over time. My intention is to run it for a while, look at the data to generate some hypotheses, pre-register them, then run some experiments (and by that I mean just keep collecting data). If someone else was particularly interested in this goal, I would definitely invite them to the project. That’s why it was important for me to design it to be hosted for just the cost of the domain name, because I don’t really intend to make money from it, I’m just interested in the data.
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