Mika Saastamoinen
mikashki.bsky.social
Mika Saastamoinen
@mikashki.bsky.social
IT pro, interests XR, gadgets, science, new tech, AI, foresight, innovation. Helsinki, Finland. Elsewhere mstdn [email protected] & @akindofmika on X
Nah, just kidding 😂 Goal was to go and have a break at Paloheinä cabin cafe, a nice cup of coffee and a chocolate bun. Purely recreational skiing for exercise... Or WAS IT...?! 🤔😉
January 25, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Still waiting for a supervolcano eruption, or a massive asteroid strike, or perhaps an alien invasion (3i/Atlas, hmm?) to finish off the game. That's what I did with the SimCity games back in the day... 3/3
January 18, 2026 at 7:04 AM
A pandemic (nah, boring, everyone just locked down), extreme weather events and climate change (nah, boring, too slow and localized), and brutal fascist dictatorships launching imperialistic wars of conquest (ok, looking better, should launch more of these...). 2/3
January 18, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Aside from the aerodynamics, the (in)efficiencies of the power train and cooling/heating of all the things have an impact too. But BMW's new iX3 SUV with 108kWh battery can do 600-800km (400-500miles, WLTP) on a charge and recently drove for a cool 1000km/620mi (slowly).
youtu.be/u0WZ1ZBQp2E?...
1,000 km challenge: Can the BMW iX3 complete it on a single charge? ⚡🏁
YouTube video by BMW Group
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
BMW has apparently driven their Neue Klasse iX3 SUV for a thousand kilometers (620 miles), in about 22 hours and at about 30mph avg speed. It's got an 108kWh battery I think. I'm guessing it's smaller than R1S or most other american EV SUVs, though.
youtu.be/u0WZ1ZBQp2E?... (subtitled in english)
1,000 km challenge: Can the BMW iX3 complete it on a single charge? ⚡🏁
YouTube video by BMW Group
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This AI cover songs thing is turning into a real rabbit hole for me. 😅 There's all kinds, 50s and 60s soul or jazz, 80s rock, "as reggae" and on and on variations of famous modern songs, e.g Billie Eilish's Bad Guy as 80s rock. Wow.
youtu.be/8XJF4iVZsmQ?...
If Billie Eilish made Rock? bad guy (80s Rock Cover)
YouTube video by Re:Sound
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
To add, Soapbox also has a neat mixed reality mode which enables you to place the artist right in your own room space, like a private concert performance in your own living room! Or you can switch to VR mode to view him/her on a virtual stage instead of your own messy room 😅
September 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
All three provide an immersive 3d way of distributing "live" (pre-recorded) performances of music artists, standup comedians, plays, or whatever performances. Movies and TV shows too ofc. All in your headset. Depends on content producers if they'll do more stuff this way ofc
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
And while I was at it, I checked a couple of other "immersive media" apps like SoapBox and AmazeVR, and found their ways of presenting 3D music performances very cool also. SoapBox does volumetric/photogrammetry based mesh-"videos" and AmazeVR looks to be stereoscopic 180 video.
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
What century (or millennium even) is he living in?? (Or what century are the cars he's talking about from...) The "radio" in modern cars is just a piece of circuitry and chips embedded somewhere in the vehicle and the radio UI is just software on the infotainment screen. Good luck stealing that. 😅
August 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I doubt our mowerbot is better than "western" bots, has no smart features like GPS positioning and mapping, intelligent cutting routing or anything fancy. This one just pingpongs randomly within the boundary wire area by clock schedule. But it gets the job done with daily consistent pingponging 😅
July 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Ours is some cheap and simple Chinese thing sold under Brücke brand here in Finland. Costs like 300€ as new, we bought it second-hand. But yeah, we just set it up and scheduled it to run daily for a couple of hours and that's it. It did stop running now in July for a couple of weeks, reason unknown
July 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM