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I'm excited about the M1 Macs and the fact they do have bootloaders which can be unlocked. This doesn't change the fact that there are a large magnitude more iPhones that exist that will never be used for their full potential.

Everyone is buying a magical teleporter but it'll only take you down to the corner store. Doesn't matter if 95% would only use it for that anyway, the fact the other 5% can't is what makes me sad.

While seeing these deep dives on A series processors is fascinating I find how powerful they are to be highly disappointing.

Here you have undoubtedly some of the finest processor technology available, manufactured in the hundreds of millions, wasted by the constraints of its platform. If the Pi foundation had access to cores, processes, and even pieces of this level of technology the overall computing world would be so much more capable.

Even beyond that, the iPhones themselves? Severely limited by the I/O they possess. As these devices age they could have several recycled general computing purposes but they're constrained by the single lighting port. iPhone use NVMe storage, they have PCIe lanes!

All this work, effort and engineering for a platform who simply seeks to make more off of the revenue of whales in their app stores.

Edit: I think my comment around Pis is a little misleading. What I meant is the general educational Linux community. Not specifically the Pi foundation. If after X years Apple unlocked the bootloader and you could install other operating systems to better leverage the hardware I'd feel better about the state of it.

I do wonder how much of the modern app or second hand selling community is based on grift and stolen goods. On my local OfferUp in Philadelphia it looks like 30-40% scams(Giving away for free for my birthday text at XXX) 30-40% obviously stolen goods(iCloud locked devices). The small remaining posts are clothes and other items, finding a legitimate item for sale can be a real struggle.

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Can you compile and run the sample project and have something to walk around in?

Is there a demo you can "build" with UE5 or just UE projects in general?

As someone in DevOps I'm wondering what the build process and pipeline looks like for games.

Seems to be paywalled? Even if this was the best idea executed at the highest level it wouldn't matter. This is all politics.

Any time the franchisees try and circumvent the system of corporate it brings massive amounts of force to the table. Mcdonald's 100% intolerant of any kind of franchisee revolt or action against their direction. It's got nothing to do with the mission and everything to do with it being "outside the system".

It's a minor but important part of the profitability picture. While this is much less true today, one of the core concepts was always that McDonald's could execute things at scale no one else could.

Now there's a ton of competition and specialty shops, but in the past this wasn't always the case. A small town might only have one other location where you can get "fresh" ice cream. If you can execute on this machine properly and you have the market to support it they can be huge profit makers.

As I've tried to express elsewhere, it's really not difficult. Anyone can do it given a few hours training.

Suggesting the franchise owner do it or even the store manager is far off from how these operations work in my experience.

Franchisees (Owners) have so much to do. They never "have" to work a single shift after they complete onboarding. While this can take around 9-12 months once most are done they never look back. Owners are tasked with running and growing the business, focusing on their local community and the people element. Any equipment work is not considered a good use of their time.

While I understand this viewpoint and I don't necessarily disagree with it, this one piece of equipment is unique and that's why I think it is so often "broken".

No other piece of equipment has the mix of complexity and niche impact on the restaurant. Even the brand new at the time espresso machines are mostly self cleaning. There's no other object that requires this(minor IMO) skill level to operate. So it's just left undone. It's widely regarded that while it's a high profit machine most of the time you can run a highly successful business without it.

I had access to both. We did not pay for any of it. In fact the Taylor facility in our local market offered free “training” days once a year specifically for McDonald’s employees.

McDonald’s is much more political than people think. The franchise I worked for was very well connected and well represented. It’s possible that this access was something they pushed for or is not well known.

There’s no real certification. Usually you’d watch the training materials, then shadow someone once, then do it live with someone who trained watching. It’s not hard you just need to have done it a few times.

There’s no admin reset or anything like that. There is a maintenance menu and an admin menu but even in the higher level “secret” menus changing this was never an option. I’ve seen people try and short the main board with a screwdriver to get it to “reset” the date.

It’s a very intelligent machine and when it’s cleaned you need to go through the cleaning “process” in the menu. Wash, rinse, sanitize etc. it monitors the process with various sensors and it being flushed so many times. Faking it isn’t an option, I’ve seen too many people try.

I always had access to a Taylor manual and a Taylor technician via phone at no cost. Even with machines that were far out of warranty. Troubleshooting was never an issue for me.

I never worked anywhere else with a Taylor machine. Perhaps other companies have better deals or easier to use equipment. I would like to know if Wendy's and others machines operate using the same food safety standards.

They aren't "broken". It's operations failures. The basic fact of

1. Keeping the machine full of the right amount of product to complete it's nightly heat cycle

2. Have someone trained to fully clean the machine every 14 days

Is a burden too great for many franchisees to bear. The turnover is too high and investment in people too low to keep them operational. Nothing about them is "broken"

As someone who worked in stores for years, this isn’t entirely accurate. The machine isn’t just being an asshole to drive up service calls.

The machines are filled with a dairy product which makes the “ice cream”. This is boiled nightly to keep the mixture free of bacteria. If the nightly heat cycle fails to complete for one of a dozen reasons the machine locks out. Those unaware of the process usually end up calling for service even if it’s a operations error(not enough product to boil successfully)

Every two weeks the machine must be torn down and cleaned. It’s slightly complex but all well documented. Once the 14 day marker has been passed the machine is inoperable. It must be cleaned for food safety reasons. If your “cleaner” is out or you just have poor operations you’ll end up placing service calls out of confusion.

If the heat phase fails or the 14 day timer has expired the machine "locks out" and becomes inoperable. This is where the vast majority of service calls come from.

I never had an issue with a machine that was less than 20 years old. Taylor makes good equipments you just need the most basic level of operations proficiency.

My point of reference here is from this twitter thread.

https://twitter.com/RaveofRavendale/status/13094734056039096...

"With Nowhere Prophet, it was an interesting case because we were also launching on Xbox Game Pass at the same time, which had essentially already secured financial success for the console versions"

Not exclusive, still got a significant chunk of cash.

There was recently an article about Stadia where a developer from a decent sized studio claimed they were approached by Google for Stadia. What did Google offer for the developer to bring the game to Stadia? Almost nothing. The figure was in the tens of thousands.

For reference when Microsoft/Epic approaches the studios for games on their platforms they front the entire development cost. Sometimes millions of dollars. Google is just cheap and won’t invest in their own platform.

Direct quote: "We were approached by the Stadia team," one prominent indie developer told me. "Usually with that kind of thing, they lead with some kind of offer that would give you an incentive to go with them." But the incentive "was kind of non-existent," they said. "That's the short of it."

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-so-few-games-on-goog...

FIOS Here in the Philadelphia area, having issues hitting AWS as well.

This spoils any optimism I may have had for Intel. Reading that this came due to a search for "Strategic alternatives" is damning. Intel is like Boeing. They make one thing and they used to make it very well, silicon. If Boeing told you they were looking into alternatives to making planes would you be optimistic?

It feels like they're throwing in the towel on being the leader, giving up on trying to catch up process wise and will look to maximize their existing revenue. RIP

What's your experience with YNAB? I use Mint for balances and USAA's forecasting tool to see the future, but I'm not terribly happy with either.

Seconded, this seems highly disingenuous. Raspberry Pi models are generally speaking highly available for the advertised price if not less!

I believe several different manufacturers will attempt to connect to any open Wi-Fi in the area.

I was curious what drove the decision to deploy that way. I was under the impression most new applications being developed today would choose a more modern deployment method. There’s a lot to maintain in a VM image like that, containers just seem easier to me. Helm chart or otherwise

Out of curiosity why did you decide to deploy your application as a VM image? Is there a reason you didn't go with a Helm chart or other container native deployment?

This is exactly my issue with Qualcomm. They don't compete in device support or performance metrics. They literally offer nothing competitive. They only exist because of the way the market is segmented.

I'm not sure I agree with the price, but I agree with the sentiment.

Nvidia spent their years refining their drivers and building out a legitimately useful platform of tools that utilize their GPUs. At times AMDs base functionality in their drivers can be buggy and unreliable. Even if they can compute similarly AMD has so much ecosystem ground to try and make up.

I found this incredibly interesting. A series of old potential IBM prototypes with no records of ever existing? It’s amazing the things that have been built and forgotten already.

This is a nice simple concept, one I agree with. How do I actually make the shift away from excess consumption?

I blow my proverbial load on technical thinking at work. I spend time exercising and meditating to try and maximize my "production" time but there's just not much left for after hours. This leads to an abundance of consumption on mental breaks during the day and after hours.

I'd love to be the perpetual creativity machine. Constantly churning out art and technical production but I don't see how it's actually feasible without suffering from extreme burn out.

Exactly, they shouldn't be designed to be major profit product. They should be sold at cost to support their ecosystem.

If they wanted to stem the ARM tide they would do exactly this. Unfortunately they don't seem to be able to see the value in anything beyond direct profit ventures. The Pi foundation has deep ties to Broadcom, so Intel would have to start something from the ground up. I still think it would be immensely worth it.