Probably not visually, you could poke a hole in it and see if there is liquid inside. X-ray imaging may be sufficient to differentiate from conventional cell designs.

I used the CRT HV powersupply to make a little electronic hovering thing back in high school http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm

hmm, I didn't know about the BOSL2, I was struggling with fillets and chamfers, you basically had to figure out how to define them somehow which isn't really straightforward. Been using FreeCAD mostly which still has weird issues with fillets sometimes.

Would be even slower as the light will travel slower in the optical fiber and there will be time associated with each repeater as well.

I think it was fine 20 odd years ago. I had a Thinkpad T41p in 2004 and it was a great laptop. Even my Sony Vaio Z was nice in 2008 compared to the competition (although it had serious issues with the screen flexibility causing it to fail multiple times).

Since 2012 I've had 3 Macs, a 2012 Air, a 2020 M1 (this was a massive upgrade and the nicest laptop I ever used, even compared to my relatively new work thinkpad). I just cracked the screen on my M1 so bought a discounted M4 air on black friday. I can't tell the difference other than I like having magsafe back and only miss the touch bar slightly.

Can you elaborate? Are you never reading papers directly but only using Gemini to reformat or combine/summarize?

I mean that when a computer can visually understand a document and reformat and reinterpret it in any imaginable way, who cares how it’s stored? When a png or a pdf or a markdown doc can all be be read and reinterpreted into an infographic or a database or an audiobook or an interactive infographic the original format won’t matter.

I used to print papers, probably stopped about 10 years ago. I now read everything in Zotero where I can highlight and save my annotations and sync my library between devices. You can also seamlessly archive html and pdfs. I don't see people printing papers in my workplace that often unless you need to read them in a wet lab where the computer is not convenient.

I found Jellyfin was super easy but I came from XBMC/Kodi which was a big struggle.

I think what trips people up with jellyfin is making sure they aren’t exposing their network. Getting it to work at home is one thing, getting it to work outside your home is a different beast

Ah, I have no use/interest in remote access to my library. I just have one tv in the house with an NVidia shield that accesses the Jellfin library on a miniPC on the network.

I got kids so accessing it when traveling is pretty critical, as is the ability to quickly locally download to a tablet lol

isn't Plex literally an XBMC fork? And Jellyfin a Kodi fork? Something like that.

Yes, I think Plex was an XBMC fork and Kodi is the new name of XBMC. Jellyfin forked from Emby, I think when it became closed source. I never used Emby. Plex always seemed to cost money in confusing ways and that turned me off. My initial TV just used NFS shares on a unix machine and a Netgear NeoTV box (~2009) but eventually the codec support was too poor so I moved to XBMC on the Shield and then a number of years later to Jellyfin server on Linux with Jellyfin client on the Shield.

Plex used to routinely offer lifetime pass for like $80 at Black Friday until recently, so that was just an obvious decision if you even remotely used it. If you’re only planning on using it on your local network you don’t need to pay for anything.

Jellyfin is a fork of Emby. Can't speak for Plex.

CT scanning is widely used for analysis of batteries to determine safety and failure analysis.

This is basically good marketing content for Lumafield that sell the CT scanners. Cost to them is almost nothing, just opportunity cost of doing something else on the tool.