You can now buy lamps with speakers you can control remotely: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/symfonisk-table-lamp-with-wifi-speaker-black-50357592/
I imagine we'll see home devices integrating smart speakers rather than separate devices eventually.
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I travelled recently with six electronic devices, and every single one used USB-C for charging. It was wonderful, and not an experience I've had before.
I find it really interesting how some areas of tech are widely expected to improve radically (e.g. LLMs and smart home tech), others gradually (CPU speed, battery capacity) and others very slowly (e.g. compiler optimisations).
Predicting the future is hard.
I find it odd that people recommend Docker for sandboxing agentic coding tools. Isn't it easier to just create a separate user account on the machine?
It's an established security boundary, and viewing output is easy (just make the user's home directory world readable).