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katbyte··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
But this is why the eu case made more sense? It went after Apple for not allowing side loading of app stores vs this one which seems to be going after what Apple does on its own store?
katbyte··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
The eu case seemed to make more sense and was pro consumer: open up messaging / App Store and switch to usb c.

This one seems different at first glance,

katbyte··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
I use apple products because of the software and consider it better then the alternatives.
katbyte··on Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them
It’s easier to kill animals and destroy their habit when you think less of them and presume them to have little to no intelligence or emotion (or so little it doesn’t count)
katbyte··on YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI
While you may think it didn’t have an effect a recent 99pi episode covered it and it sounds like it has definitely motivated many companies to remove chemicals from their products.

It’s not perfect but it has had a positive effect https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/warning-this-podcast-...

katbyte··on Why are most sofas so bad?
I think there are still quality products out there, but they are rare and expensive and you have to spend forever researching to figure out which products are :/

still are as so many see to be purchased and then running the ground for short term profits

katbyte··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
I refuse to get any more switch games because you cannot do offline backups of your saves like PlayStation (and I presume Xbox)
katbyte··on Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
And Canada already did this with immobilizes. We also used to do bait cars.

Both these things helped a ton, until the new wave of weak car security

Iirc the Kai stealing spree didn’t hit Canada as hard because of said immobilizer law too

katbyte··on Why Tesla's Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting
Pretty sure it’s more the steel grade in a cybertruck (301) is < the grade in most kitchen sinks (304)
katbyte··on Why Tesla's Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting
Different types / grades of stainless steel

There isn’t just one “stainless steel” everyone uses there are a vast number of grades and types for all applications and rust resistance is only one attribute

Iirc kitchen sinks are 304 and the cyber truck is a special 301 Tesla formulated. Marine is 316

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_steel_grades

There are also different ways to “finish” it citric vs nitric acid baths for instance

katbyte··on Home Assistant: Three years later
Fwiw it is rather trivial and reliable to passthrough individual usb devices in Proxmox - point and click even
katbyte··on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
I have tried Optical usb cable to kvm to dac, audio over hdmi, and audio over rdp. All have the same crackle
katbyte··on Home Assistant: Three years later
Put it inside a vm, set updates to manual, once every few months snapshot/backup and upgrade. If it fails rollback.
katbyte··on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
I recently gave this a go as I’d not had a windows desktop for a long time, have a beefy Proxmox server and wanted to play some windows only games - works shockingly well with an a4000 and 35m optical hdmi cables! - however I’m getting random audio crackling and popping and I’ve yet to figure out what’s causing it.

First I thought it was hardware related in a Remote Desktop session leading me to think some weird audio driver thing

have you encountered anything like this at all?

katbyte··on Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV
And the law does actually not define “zero emissions” as a car that makes no emissions lol hybrids are permitted by how it defines them
katbyte··on Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV
that is the exact same language used for the canadian law. "zero emission" includes hybrid

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/cars-and-light-tr...

katbyte··on A rural ski slope caught up in an international scam
i mean it sure seems like it is? if the intent was to prop up businesses that did not plan for a black swan event so people could keep their jobs.
katbyte··on Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV
no? it seems to be the exact same rules as canada?

> new cars sold in 2035 and beyond are zero-emission vehicles which includes battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles.

katbyte··on Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV
a hybrid is still a hybrid that you can just keep filling up with gas and never plug-in.
katbyte··on Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV
That’s literally the one I was talking about, it will still permit hybrid and there is no requirement for everything to be a BEV
katbyte··on A rural ski slope caught up in an international scam
And yet businesses still laid off people, people lost their job, homes and struggled to feed themselves.

propping up failed businesses is preventing the capitalism/the market from working. Why save for a rainy day or ensure your business can weather a storm when you can just do stock buybacks abs shovel money to the shareholders and the Goverment will prop you up?

It’s better to just ensure people’s needs are taken care of then this weird “trickle down middleman” plan that literally never works.

katbyte··on Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV
If it’s anything like Canada it still allows for hybrid. Banning everything but BEV will never happen because Bev will never work for a small subset of users
katbyte··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
The fact companies and people can make money of prisoners created an incentive to imprison more people for longer. That’s the problem.
katbyte··on Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete
Movies and shows are pulled from steaming services never to be seen again. Sometimes really good shows. Sucks for fans AND the people who created them
katbyte··on Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
I'm not sure, its all hidden behind the garmin software but i presume its just data (and the SMS function is also just using data and the backend handles SMS)

you get a link you can share with people that brings up a map showing your location & track

katbyte··on Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
if by historic you think this statement is somehow extremely wrong, i don't think you realize how big canada is, how many cell towers it takes to get good coverages in mountainous areas, and how many small communities exist in the middle of nowhere and how remote they are - many of these towns don't even have cell coverage.

Cell coverage is simply is never going to happen for these areas and the roads to get to them as the telecommunication company will never recoup their costs.

katbyte··on Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
But a garmin inreach mini, pair your phone, and then start texting people via it’s app :)
katbyte··on Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
I would be quite happy with texting or very slow internet tbh
katbyte··on Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
I essentially pay a bunch of money to garmin so i can text people while camping and offroading and send tiny amounts of data to update my position on a map.

I got a iPhone 14 for a backup satellite sos method.

In Canada there are 100s of km of roads between towns with zero cellphone service, often for hours at a time. Having space based communication in a cellphone to fall back on would be extreme valuable and life saving to many. I know I already pay a bundle for it and many of my outdoorsy friends do the same. I can be driving to a friends house a few hours away and be out of signal for half of it, being able to call for help if I encounter or get into an accident is pretty important and building cell towers would be far more expensive then some satellites

katbyte··on Intel's Humbling
I’m not so sure, he made a choice purely on “will it make money now” not “well let’s take a chance and see if this pays of big and if not we’ll loose a little money”

It’s not like they couldn’t afford it and taking chances is important

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