It was marketed as $7 (I think), but it was never sold below $15 as far as I could find.

Also, since that price was without any profit margin, merchants only sold them in expensive bundles most of the time (with a case, SD card, etc).

Better marketing. It’s also easier to get a build pipeline for ARM than Xtensa and RISC-V.

I’m pretty sure it used to be easier with phones that didn’t have full disk encryption.

They didn’t need the army of lawyers to get license deals, so that’s not a fair comparison.

I’m using an R86S.

No, still the same.

Sticks don’t get clicks.

The problem is that fixing the loopholes most likely needs changes to the Act itself. That takes years, the first revision of the Digital Markets Act took three years.

Loophole-proofing means doing a revision to the DMA, which means that they need to go through all of the stages again. It took three years on the first round, and they’re probably going to need a few more revisions to get all of the holes fixed.

Some think that the EU won’t accept the terms that Apple set up for alternate marketplaces, but it’ll probably take a decade or more until the EU can get off its ass.

If the requirements are the same as for iPhones, this change is entirely inconsequential, because Apple can just add so many hurdles to sideloading to make this infeasible.

A full NTSB investigation for every single crash? I’m all for it!

The term autopilot comes from aviation, where the only kind of problem resolution an autopilot does is turning itself off.

Other than that, it just flies from checkpoint to checkpoint.

This is probably the best way to get up if your joints can fully rotate. If you look closely, the legs are exactly below the center of mass when they touch the ground, making it easy to push upwards without falling over.

Humans just have to make complicated contortions or jump up because our joints are inferior (there are no slip rings for blood vessels).

Well, the “robot” you’re referring to couldn’t exceed human performance by definition.

If you’re running batch files from your Rust code, you should rethink your architecture.

Might be intentional, recently Apple went the direction of silently dropping features in updates.

Isn’t that a textbook antitrust violation?

Depends on how much is copied, if it’s a small amount it’s fair use.

The only thing you can change is whether it’s centered or left justified, it’s not flexible at all.

The problem is that it takes up a significant amount of screen space for nothing.

I’ve tested that, the taskbar completely breaks when you do that. Visually it’s at the edge, but everything else assumes that it’s below. For example, opening the start menu opens it at the bottom.

The new task bar can’t be moved to a short edge, so it obstructs a significant part of the screen.

Windows 11 can be displayed on a ultra wide monitor, but it’s not designed to work on that aspect ratio.

Those tip rates are a US thing, because it’s a hidden way to increase prices without having to write it down anywhere.

I’m using AI in a very controlled manner, I don’t want somebody else to decide for me where it’s applied.

Also, Windows 11 doesn’t have support for ultrawide monitors, and I happen to have one.

Well, Microsoft is doing everything they can to get people to switch to Linux right now…

For a middle class person, that’s equivalent of being sued for €1000, with a good chance of getting away with €100 even when losing. When will fines for big multinationals ever be adequate?

Tunnels need to be large so they can have safety features like emergency walkways and air conducts. Musk’s tunnel is just large enough to contain a car, because every inch of diameter costs an enormous amount of money.

Before this project Musk boasted that his Boring company can do tunnels much cheaper than traditional companies, this tunnel showed how.

Perpetual, not irrevocable.

I generally agree, but I’m saying that it still had some early adopter issues.

btw, I had an iPhone 4 and used it for a long time.

iPhone 4, the one famous for “you’re holding it wrong”?

How would you define “accessible”? The web app I’m working on works in Firefox, but a few text labels are misaligned with their input controls due to slight CSS deviation from Chromium. It’s those things that are most of the problems for supporting both browsers, functionality-wise they’re very close (except newer features that Firefox hasn’t implemented yet or Google-specific features like WebUSB).

Or the trains in Poland that throw up phantom fault when started within certain geofences that happen to be located on the competition’s repair centers.

Holy shit there are some bootlickers in the comments on that article.

What were they even doing on a Nazi platform? Are they going to move to Truth Social now?

There is no mathematical definition of copyright, because it’s just based on feelings. That’s why every small problem has to be arbitrarily decided by a court.

Power can’t be generated anyways, only transformed.

He sold a few shares to get the money, besides also taking up loans and gifts from others in his billionaire club.

The customers are paying the price, not them.

No, this means something else in chip design. For example, an AVR microcontroller can be configured by blowing some fuses. Here is an introduction: https://www.ladyada.net/learn/avr/fuses.html

Fusion 360 is amazing in the Getting Shit Done^tm department, which is the weak point of FreeCAD. I have managed to steer through the byzantine UI of FreeCAD to create a CAD model, but it needed support by someone who has spent years in that application to get the more complex stuff, and even he didn’t exactly know how to achieve it, and that’s on top of me having participated in a 16 hour workshop on how to use FreeCAD. For Fusion 360, I’ve watched a few 5 minute videos on their official channel and that’s it, everything else I was able to accomplish through just looking at the UI.

I learned Fusion 360 before FreeCAD, so it’s not just that I had prior experience in another similar tool.

I think the basic problem with FreeCAD is that it’s a collection of tool benches written by different people who don’t talk to each other. They have overlapping responsibilities while still having vastly different feature sets and don’t integrate with each other most of the time. So, if you want to create a model, you first have to plan ahead to understand what kind of features it’s going to have, and based on that, you have to decide which collection of tool benches you have to pick. More than once I picked the wrong one in the start and then had to do everything all over again in the different one once I ran into a dead end.

Fusion 360 feels like it was written by a single team with a single vision, and everything fits together.