boonhet

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

For legal reasons it might be easier to take an existing car, throw out all the tech, and add your own. You won't own the chassis design, but you can at least use open source software everywhere.

Difference between getting a modification certified, vs a self build.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

The car screen is significantly bigger than the phone screen, making it quicker to glance at it for driving instructions.

But now we're just coming back to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. I just want a big screen with physically touchable controls for those. My previous car did exactly that, but now I've gone near two decades older so I now get a fancy screen with no functionality beyond FM radio and DVD video lol

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Two way alarm systems with remote start have been a thing for pretty long and don't all require cellular connection. Some are just super long distance key fobs.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Ah, if only car hardware was modular and standardized... And if you had access to your infotainment system beyond touching the pretty buttons...

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Upvoted you because I'm an euro and I still kinda agree with you. If Texas secedes, I have no idea what the implications are for legislation and court cases. It's like half the size of the UK by population and 3x as big by area.

Sure everyone heard of brexit, but I'm sure many outside of the EU don't know what it really is plus it took so damn long I honestly believed it might not even happen.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most laptops are actually getting harder to repair. And no, socketed CPUs aren't making a comeback either. Only Framework has decent repairability.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's peak laptop. Don't replace until dead.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The t450 is peak laptop in terms of build quality and repairability. Keep it around until it's dead for real

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was just making a joke about your username being a distro tbh

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's Puppy Linux, isn't it?

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Apple did the same again with their ARM migration and in my experience it worked great. I believe Microsoft also has a solution for running x86 software on ARM.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Freedom in games adds more surface for bugs.

Many of us have come to accept bugs in games that give you a lot of freedom. Sometimes they're even funny.

The real reason they get so many awards is that they actually put out a game that's fun, doesn't hound you to buy microtransactions, has good replayability, etc.

When it was released last year, there were articles saying "you shouldn't hold other RPGs to this standard because (insert whiny reason here)" because other devs were legitimately getting scared they'd have to start putting out better games...

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