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Absurdly, that was the actual motivation behind the resolution. How embarrassing for all involved.
Choosing maps for political reasons is nothing new, of course. The UN's own emblem features a azimuthal equidistant projection, which is meant to present a balanced depiction of all the nations. It is strange to see them now pick one in order to promote a nakedly africa-centric message.
Fluxer is another discord clone that is AGPL, self-hostalbe, etc. How does that compare with Armada?
That is, the thing that people are actually talking about when they use that term: The means for companies and governments to usurp the ownership of consumer devices.
Apparently companies can just kill kids to turn parents into their biggest advocates.
The incentives here should probably go in the other direction.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
The problem is third parties using TPM/SecureBoot/etc as a weapon against the owner via remote attestation, by preventing them from configuring their own device, with the threat of being cut off from critical services.
Having the upside without the downside would be nice, but how could it work? Is a technical solution feasible, or would it need a law/regulation?
Contact lenses having the capability of a headset? That's just magical thinking.
For example, consider field of view, which is a critical measurement of these displays. Typical specs are 120 degrees for headsets, 40 for glasses.
Headsets also perform very high performance rendering compared to glasses. The tiny <1Wh batteries in glasses are insufficient for that amount of work.
Glasses can't be expected to compete with headsets, much less eliminate them from the market entirely within a few years. It makes more sense to think of VR headsets and AR glasses as completely unrelated product categories.
But I wonder if they have run afoul of the EU Radio Equipment Directive in this case, by refusing to receive power from some devices.
If that doesn't sound very useful, well...
The existence of terms like this make any discussion of the other terms look pretty silly.
Their policy is simply that they do whatever they want, and that hasn't changed.
None of that matters in the slightest. They're dealing with an indifferent, capricious, unaccountable company. And trying to do it without enough leverage to even get a response.
It seems like it's about to end the way it was always going to.
The people using this stuff want plausible deniability. If there's a problem with the slop, the computer did it, not me.
Screening it is contrary to that, so they won't do it.
True, and applies to many other things as well. Anyone claiming otherwise is shirking responsibility for their own actions. Every single sibling comment here suffers from this.
Arguments in the form of "other people do it, so I must also" are unpersuasive and pathetic.
This article calls it "a genius move".
Repulsive.
Is it good to automatically record, transcribe, analyze, and censor all private conversations? Is their goal even censorship, or is that a false 'child safety' justification for mass surveillance?
452 MW nameplate * optimistic 0.3 capacity factor = 135.6 MW
8760 hours annually * 135.6 MW = 1187856 MWh
1187856 MWh / 14.112 MWh per Texas home = 84173 homes powered
190000 / 84173 = 2.257 lying factor
Indeed, but not because phones have gotten any closer to desktop work.
What good is a phone, today, when using multiple monitors for 3d modelling, video editing, programming, spreadsheets, flight sims, or some such? None whatsoever.
And there's no apparent trend toward it, so it doesn't make much sense to predict when it will be reached.
Desktop usage will likely continue to decline as phones, tablets, VR, and whatever other devices continue to supplant them _in certain areas_, but that's insufficient to render them obsolete.
This situation hasn't changed in the slightest during the last 10 years. Is there any reason to think it will change during the next 10 years? Even if a future phone could be used in the place of a tower to run a set of desktop peripherals, how is that even useful?