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No, we absolutely don't need to give more power to Orbans and other corrupt selfish pricks across Europe to line their pockets at everyones expense and the future of Europe.

Meanwhile in a neighbouring conversation thread people are attacking Van Der Leyen as she's at fault for democratic member states torpedoing the good approach.

Apparently it's undemocratic when elected governments of their countries destroy a good solution and then blame others.

They couldn't fix the problem because they were a corrupt country refusing to face their reality and which leadership decided to blame EU for not pumping more money into their pockets instead of fixing the structural problems of their rotting country.

Destroying their peoples lives with inflation so they could continue the parade would be even worse for both Greece and EU as a whole.

Funny how this questioning of democracy never shows up in topics about USA, UK or any other country - it's always EU that gets assaulted by sudden political theorists despite mirroring pretty much every other democracy on the planet.

> Early version of Android Auto could transfer over USB 2.0 instead of Bluetooth, which works, but it's not near as high bandwidth.

This sentence doesn't make much sense - Auto (and CarPlay) still work in wired mode over USB 2.0 if the head unit supports it. They never worked over Bluetooth.

(And they use less than 15Mbps so USB 2.0s 480MBps are more than enough)

That's not really how latency works though.

> Did anyone compare these two side by side in real life for simple text?

Yes, I have - I have a Kobo Libra 2 (BW), Boox Go 7 II (Color - same screen as color Kobos) and Boox Note Air 3 (Color).

The issue isn't crispness really - when rendering B&W content the crispness is about the same. However, there's a massive issue with contrast - the Color screen background is very dark and they're basically unusable (for me) without driving them constantly at 80-100% backlight (even during the day). Even at 100% backlight, the page background is darker than the BW reader at like 30% backlight.

This makes the reader eat more battery while being less pleasant for text reading. Moreover, in dark mode (light text on black background) the color screens all show severe ghosting artifacts which don't appear as much on BW screens.

Having said that - reading comics and color books (e.g. programming books) looks great on the color screens. There's just something about that slightly less vibrant "papery" look that's very attractive.

Did clearing rate crater because there was a change or because the police is throwing a toddler tantrum strike and refuses to work?

Since outright refusal to do their jobs is more common than any real difficulty.

Or you can just plug things into HDMI port without dongles.

Yeah, because you're all using HarmonyOS aren't you?

Do you have problem accessing http://cs.android.com or what?

Which part of "because the device doesn't have a DP port" is not enough for you?

You can't picture such devices or what's the holdup?

Enough people that even great Apple got FOMO after this market.

So you're saying Google should stop open sourcing Android? That should like a bad incentive to make to defend Apple.

They also completely fail to ask for the reasons of better well-being and then the article just starts guessing.

Source code of which components is that? It's not very clear from the mastodon thread.

I mean, Windows has managed to fix a lot of gaming/GPU stuff like this lately as well. They properly support HDR, VRR and even VRR with bornderless mode on older games - all of which has been very buggy and broken on Linux for a long time. Not to mention actually working eGPU support - trying to use DaVinci on Linux with eGPU still ends up with "Not enough GPU" errors and constant crashes.

This goes especially when used with more powerful GPUs from nVidia - so perhaps arrogance here isn't warranted?

I work in performance optimization (I guess the cottage industry you're talking about?) and GC issues haven't been close to top 10 problems in any of the engines or OSes we've dealt with lately, so I'm wondering what you're on about there.

Can you quantify and elaborate more how much GC is an issue for something like Unreal engine?

Spec says about 30m (it's relayed via tank pod transmitter using sound).

No, they really don't, it's a ridiculous claim.

> Why would I pay $10-20K/mo to employ a software engineer and then balk at a $500, $1000, or even $2000 monthly AI bill, assuming they were even vaguely trying to use the tokens productively?

No idea, but companies refusing to buy a 2000$ laptop once every 3 years, a new mouse, keyboard, or screen for < 500$ are very common, more common than the other type.

So I'd expect those to not suddenly change into "let's waste money" companies.

Is it though? Is it really? Outside the HN rant circles which want to return back to times where you needed an adapter for every single laptop model or be shit out of luck for connecting your mouse or projector?

Do you have any source taking about GC caused performance issues in those engines?

Garmin literally made their highly successful wearable business around your requirements.

In reality it was because Always On Displays were deemed a better replacement.

I don't have a Pixel Watch, but I do have a Garmin one which I use for:

- Watch stuff (alarms, etc.)

- Health stats tracking (HRV, sleep, steps, training readiness)

- Offline navigation when hiking in the mountains (its really nice to have a route available right there on your wrist)

- Workout tracking - the watch can receive accurate HR data from my strap during swimming or other activities.

- Scuba diving - the Descent is a diving computer tracking nitrogen loading and making sure I don't get decompression sickness. It also receives tank pressure information from the air tank and calculates consumption and air time left. It can send messages to other divers and show their air status as well.

- I can read notifications so my phone is permanently set to silent.

- On the new models (sadly my Descent doesn't support that yet) you can call for help through Garmin's satellite network if you get hurt away from coverage.

I don't think these features are gimmicks - they make my sports activities safer, help me communicate with folks in dangerous environments and prod me to do more sports.

Why are you "assuming" when reading the fscking article would tell you you're wrong?

How about you actually read the topic in question before putting a bitch in?

Then you did a bad tradeoff. Was the bad tradeoff done here?

Yes.

Somehow MBAs, our champions of capitalism, completely forgot that capitalism only really works for society when free market competition takes place.

This is what's attractive about the "Mittlestand" - having a wide variety of companies competing in the same market so they push each other to improve services.

21st century consolidation is a direct opposite of that.