realitista

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

Fortunately it's a free market and I'd take them elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, that's what they strive for today but generally are not able to achieve. Better accuracy on the tracker would allow better accuracy on the room tracking, since to do that you essentially need quite accurate triangulation. You've got to multiply the innacuracy of 3 trackers together and that's the innacuracy of the whole system. If each can be off by one meter, then you have a ~3 meter circle in which the thing can actually track you with confidence. Which is not enough to reliably say which room you are in. a 3cm circle would definitely be enough. Probably you could get by with up to 5-10 cm and still do pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Very nice for home automation- have your music and lights follow you around the house for example. Check out Room Assistant

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I only buy stuff that runs on standards and is accessible by FOSS or open protocols. I've never had to retire something because of the decision of a tech company.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's the lack of anti trust enforcement in the USA that causes this. There is little to no competition left in many markets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's when you need a reasonable amount of RAM or disk that they really bend you over.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

With Trump the grift is usually that the people who buy in think they are funding his campagn whereas he uses much of the money for other stuff like his personal lawsuits for business fraud and the like.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Accurate assessment from what I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I can't wait to see the level of grifts that will come when they really start to get desperate.

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

They wouldn't need to run the ad business. Downsize and replace it with taxpayer dollars.

The reason to nationalize something existing in these spheres rather than build something new is because the network effects of these platforms make it near impossible for something competing to get a foothold. And if anyone could fail to compete against big tech, no one could fail better than the government.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Best would be if they nationalized these systems and then migrated them to their FOSS alternatives over time.

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