tias

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

There's nothing else like the Chromecast audio, and it's a crying shame that Google discontinued them. I have four and rely on them every day. I sure hope they will fix this issue.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 months ago

With a few exceptions, I haven't bought from Amazon in more than a decade. I never buy from them unless I absolutely can't find the thing I need anywhere else.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But isn't Servo funded by Mozilla

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've never gotten 'Hey Google" to work properly when the phone is locked. And my phone is always locked except when I'm already using it, in which case it's just easier and less awkward to hold down the activation button.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly. I don't think it's that there is "no hardware level support for dx11/9" - hardware isn't that drastically different depending on API. The problem is that they introduce an additional software-based emulation layer instead of natively implementing D3D 8/9/10/11 in the driver.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Intel has great hardware in the Intel Arc. The biggest problem is their shitty drivers.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, that's apparently for the courts to decide. In the meantime they have an executive order to contend with. Google has reclassified the U.S. as a "sensitive country" along with other authoritarian regimes and I'm convinced that this is partly out of concern for the safety of Google employees. Who knows what maga cultists might do if they don't comply.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Obviously that's not going to make one iota of difference. They're an American company and they have been ordered by the president of the country to do this. They already do similar things in other authoritarian countries like China and Turkey, because anything else would risk the safety of Google employees.

If you don't like it, change to a non-American product and/or vote for a different president.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

X has an estimated market cap of $9.4 billion, whereas Nestlé has a market cap of $219 billion. That's a corporate superpower with no qualms about monopolizing freshwater or bait- & switching breast milk formula from babies. And it's just one of the companies they're taking on, with a shitty case to boot. So yeah... if I was Elon I would keep my head down.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Because they work three jobs to get food on their table and have to remortgage their house to pay for an ambulance. Privacy is a first-world problem and the US is a third-world country.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Funny you should say that because Lenovo made a laptop with an e-ink screen (as graciously linked by someone else in this thread) about a year ago. But it never came to my market, and I suspect this rollable one won't either. I don't think they're serious about selling any of these, it's just marketing gimmicks.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 8 months ago (9 children)

I have a better idea: a laptop screen that is legible on a sunny day

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