My man, have you heard of Bazzite?

We live in an age where the voice can be processed locally on the phone (we’ve had on-device speech-to-text since the late 90s…), and it’s already listening for a wake word, meaning mic is always hot. It doesn’t need to be streamed and use bandwidth; it can fire off 4K of JSON every few hours and relay more than enough information.

Just program whole dictionary of key phrases and scan the wake word buffer like you are already doing. Easy, stealthy, encrypted. Every voice assistant from a major tech company could (and likely IS) doing this.

This also provides ample opportunity for domestic (or even foreign!) spying my state actors, too.

Apple is the one who got caught so far

If you think Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Samsung et al aren’t doing this, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

100%.

Also, we have two of these.

Oh sick I didn’t even think about romhacks, that’s probably a much easier/better way to do it!

This is correct. It has nothing to do with the underlying screen tech (it does NOT require an electron gun), but on the refresh timing.

If your emulator can tune the gun read to the screen lag, you theoretically could interrupt emulation during the blackout frames to give the gunna chance to see them, although this would almost certainly reveal the effect to the player.

You do, they just don’t see much activity and therefore people assume they do not exist.

Discoverability is becoming a big issue for niche communities within Lemmy.

I almost wish that the community model was more like a tag, and there was just one single “plumbing” for all instances, for example. I realize though that this idea raises hell for moderation/what do you do when someone takes over a name for hateful purposes/where does the sidebar exist/etc.

Having separate comms on separate instances just results in the biggest instance hosting all the communities; at what point is that any better than Reddit?

There’s a way to change that

This is not a junk drawer! This is a cooking utensil (mostly baking) that has no other good place drawer!

The junk drawer got like, loose screws and scotch tape and batteries and scrap paper and whatnot

You still have to wear the turtle shell underneath