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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not looking for a player, I'm looking for a store

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

GP Music wasn't too bad. I wish Apple would bring an iTunes client to Android, or at least if there were a decent comparable product (that supports streaming+purchasing music as I actually prefer to buy the songs I like).

Locking people into the streaming model is lame

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But, but... what if we put solar panels on the windmills? ;-)

Actually I double checked and solar-assisted windmills are a thing though not likely what's shown in the picture. Actually now I'm wondering if you could also use solar to concentrate a local heat differential and power a wind turbine (though liquid is probably more efficient)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Robbin'Clients

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

X86 and AMD64 based stuff is fairly standard in terms of a motherboard with a BIOS/UEFI and peripheral busses. ARM has for a long time been kind of a mess in this regard, and there are several varieties of ARM architecture that don't play nicely with code compiled for others.

Don't get me wrong. ARM can be great for certain types of workloads. It's typically more efficient at lower power than X86, and better at various types of math. That's why we DO see it available on ARM for certain stuff like Lambda functions, but you probably won't be running full VM environments on it.

Last: notice how it's been hard to find certain varieties of Pi and various other stuff running ARM? There's shortages all over the place but I'm general Intel and AMD have been able to apply demand for their CPU's.

Yes, devs aren't tied to hardware, but there are efficiencies of scale to consider

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I still have one - though I don't really use it much - and the only issue I ever ran across was a bit of sound feedback as well, but that was caused by the shitty Dolby software. Disabled that and it was fine

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I'd hazard to say that they're probably the larger consumer of electronic sex toys as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm building a 3D scanning rig. Being able to do this with phones might make that a lot easier

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

LG and HTC. The Razor Phone 2 was also pretty cool but didn't sell well so they didn't make a third gen

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Given what is coming out about how the animal test subjects were treated, you'd be better off letting a random dentist poke at your brain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

AND it would probably break laws in other countries that actually value privacy or security. It's not like they'd be making a UK-only client for every fucking app or device that uses encrypted communications

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

Let fucking Musk be the next one to be chipped so he can prove how safe and comfortable it is

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