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I would not say the PinePod project is that nebulous, it has been officially proposed in the "serious" post, and even discussion internally regarding software support is already being done apparently

I have always been amazed by how Wikipedia resists, in general, so well to coordinated, long-term vandalism while keeping essentially any IP able to edit most voices without login, a trust/feedback system or such. I guesss the secret is in its very active moderator community, which is often not seen?

Italian here - that's no excuse for compromising food safety, also from a legal perspective.

I might be wrong, but as rind is part of the cheese itself, you can't just embed random electronics in it (unless you apply it e.g. as an external, removable seal)

Honestly, this is how every unnecessarily techy project is advertised in my area - which happens to be the same as Parmigiano - just because most readers are so little skilled, that they will take whatever contains those as innovative.

In the end, I guess the same happens in other countries, but hearing the cliché "blockchain"+"industry4.0"+"ai" buzzwords is sadly common especially when trying to attract public funding.

Not only Miracast, but even Chromecast had >700ms latency in my experience :(

Tried Xpra ~2 years ago, but unfortunately it would not work for me, and it was Xorg-only at least at the time

> I have no doubt that there are also a lot of people who have taken one dubious questionnaire and self-diagnosed as autistic

Not to drop names, but sounds like El$n Mu$k.

As someone with close bonds with people diagnosed with "real" high-functioning autism, it is quite horrible to see random people (Mu$k claiming himself so[1], or mainstream newspapers attaching Asperger's to figures like Putin) being mislabeled as so for visibility, or because AS individuals have acquired this myth of being cool, quirky geniuses in popular culture.

Truth be told (correct me if I am wrong), the most common high-functioning autism symptoms are also present in other syndromes (especially the social ones), and even in neurotypical people, that (as should be obvious) without a proper assessment, such quick speculations or self-assessment are usually garbage.

[1] https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/elon-musk-aspergers-self-te..., ironic how the article starts suggesting readers to do an autism self-test

Writer here. I actually wrote (i.e., simply reported) about Precursor in the past: https://tuxphones.com/bunnie-studios-precursor-open-hardware...

Writer here, thanks for reporting! Not a native speaker, but I definitely meant "esoteric". Fixed

On the value side, I totally agree. Early 2000 offerings were just... sad, partly due to the over-digitalization (I own a Marantz from that time, which forces many optimizations, Dolby support and similar, but in the end sounds considerably worse than its cheaper predecessors).

For how I see it, in the last year there has been a huge increase of sound quality over price, probably partly due to the growing Chi-Fi competition (especially on headphones).

I bought some sad Sennheiser IEMs in 2015 for around €160, and in 2022 they sound like garbage compared to some €40 offerings from China IEM brands (KZ, TRN, ... whatever).

Also, awareness of Bluetooth and wireless sound quality has thankfully brought to something beyond extremely expensive devices that just sounded like excessive DSP and compression.

I am sorry, but I do not see the point in the article - Qt apps (whose development is unrelated to KDEs, and historically even slightly conflicting) might get ads, but it is not like KDE has stated any intention to do so, right?

This is mere, very wild speculation meant to drive clicks.

The crucial difference is that gaming is, at least theoretically, discouraging the user from it from an economical perspective, whereas for Bitcoin the more power you consume, the more positive your balance will get.

No matter how polluting, running around with a sports car will in some way counter most users' personal finance. But if using cars made free money, not only nearly everybody would be doing it, but there would be potentially no limit to "scaling up" the earnings, as long as one could cover the initial investment.

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Ah, yet another "turning air into an NFT" situation. Nothing to see here.

While this is tangently related to your point, with the extremization of data mining as the core of online experiences, I am moderately disappointed by how the pandemic turned most major tech companies even further to increase the addiction (reads "engagement") of users in their business models, explicitly aiming to replacing real-life experiences and maximizing screen time.

All of this, agreed, while the "web3" appearing everywhere does not particularly help to take this market and the competence of most long-time leaders seriously any longer.

Reading this comment and opening the video, for the first 30 seconds I thought this was some real island that some rich fanatic bought and tried to resell to crypto folks.

Turns out, it's just a plain old scam.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

Not really. The older BlackBerries were not powerful enough for any modern OS, whereas more recent ones (i.e., the many Android-based models) have permanently locked bootloaders, meaning that even while some form of Linux might run on them, it will not be able to without the keys.

I am sorry, but that is like expecting a medical community built for the most parts by experts to be "positive" and have every day in-depth discussion on astrology or homeopathy. We have just seen so much of this lately, and can spot the obvious flaws in the technical basis of this "concept" that is, let us be honest, nothing more than a contradictory "brand" that is being pushed to all media in the name of freedom and decentralization, neither of which it actually provides.

When there is just so much on a flawed concept, you cannot expect discussion to keep rehearsing the same old "Web3 is a scam" talk, and seeing its promoters discourages further from any healthy discussion.

At the risk of sounding cynical, I will say that anyone buying a router from Google should have known exactly what to expect.

That was the reason I sold (for a symbolic price) my Chromecast Audio years ago, the integration was getting increasingly unreliable in Android, and I was afraid that the next step would have been to shut down its servers entirely

Similarly, some models suggested have overpowered (or "illegal") engines, as subtly admitted. Going that fast on a bike is by no means safe, if anything because of tyres.

Is it?

To be fair, as a daily user and (to some extent) app developer, in my experience Flatpaks have solved the problem of library fragmentation and app distribution on Linux.

While my experience on Snaps was mostly negative (due to bugs, virtual "loop disks" per every app affecting the system performance, etc.), I found that Flatpak finally lets me install essentially any app on any distro.

For example, the Elementary OS "AppCenter" apps are now available in any other distribution, thanks to the Flatpak remote. Testing daily GNOME apps has become as easy as installing their Flatpak reference, and letting them update automatically.

Regarding memory, storage and power consumption:

- The base runtimes (which are the heaviest bit) are downloaded only once per system, e.g., one for the KDE Plasma ecosystem, one for Elementary, and so on. The first app you install will pull them, so I do not see it as much more bloaty than having an enormous bundle of system-wide dependencies (e.g. if you install a KDE app in a primarily GNOME environment) as would happen otherwise.

- Memory and CPU-wise, Flatpaks are very light containers (which do not require loop disks, or anything else) which should have almost no overhead. I never witnessed any loss of performance, at least.

- Bug and crash-wise, I experienced a tremendously stable and "flat" experience on Flatpaks. That is, if there is a bug in one app on one distribution, the bug will exist on all, or vice versa. This is not as common as it should be in containerized app install tools, and makes debugging overall much easier.

The only drawback are updates taking longer than on other platforms, probably because compressed deltas are not yet available unlike in other major package managers.

With this, I don't want to describe Flatpak as a panacea in everything, but at least for GUI apps, it solved a lot of distribution fragmentation issues in my case.

As a reminder, Crypto.com alone just spent $100M on an advertising campaign involving Matt Damon, urging people to buy currencies and comparing crypto buyers to colonizers of America, or the great generals of history, or something like that.

So the crypto space definitely has money to invest on advertising, if anything to remain up to their promises a bit longer.

I would argue it being even less trustworthy, with the vast majority of messages being stored in clear in closed-source servers.

To be fair, I hate to be distracted by screens even while driving. Even if the car could drive itself with 100% safety while I was operating the device, being forced to look at a screen for a long while just to find the equivalent of a physical switch (or, in the future, to watch a movie?) leaves me a bad taste.

The dashboard of a Tesla is covered with unused surface, so it makes very little sense to put no physical commands on it, and then over-fill a tablet UI with those in the strangest places. The "big tablet" trend just sounds like an interface for digital addicts.

On the other hand, Mazda's infotainment systems (https://m.faz.net/media1/ppmedia/aktuell/technik-motor/27493...) fix at least part of this, which makes me guess what my next car will be.

I am happy if that makes more sense to you than to me

No, I just saw the change after moving to another university for another degree (of course not for these reasons).

> Right! No body is forcing you

Kind of. Workplaces, schools, academic environments definitely force the usage of some tool over another, or spending more or less time on screens. I am thankful that my new university uses BigBlueButton and hybrid teaching, since I spent the past two years on Microsoft Teams.

Since when does stock value reflect the ethical concerns about a company?

In any case, best wishes.