There are definitely things the Spotify Car Thing could’ve done.
It’s a potato, sure, but there are still uses. Displaying some PC information, weather information, using it as a macro-pad (someone actually did that one)… or doing the thing it was designed to do: show some album art and the song you’re playing, and giving play/pause, skip buttons.
Shit, even a desk clock would be better than nothing.
E: ah, I see you said unlike, not like. Never mind.
10 series there was backlash over them advertising an MSRP and getting reviewers to assess the cards at that value, but having “founders pricing”, where the initial run of cards (that IIRC were Nvidia reference cards only) were far more than the MSRP.
20 series they ramped up prices despite small performance gains, saying that it’s due to ray tracing, and that when new ray tracing games came out the difference would be incredible. Ray traced games didn’t actually come out until long after, and the RT performance was straight up unplayable on any card. But enough time had went past that people couldn’t return the cards by the time that was known.
30 series there was the supply issues, 3090s and 3080s melting in a few games (most prominently in New Dawn), outrageously fake MSRPs (Nvidia was actually selling the GPUs to partners for more than the MSRP!), and really bad levels of VRAM that caused issues (8GB on the 3070/3070 Ti)
Brave is just Chrome with added crypto and homophobia
No, it’s still 100% owned and 100% controlled by Google.
The Linux Foundation is just making it easier for people outside of Google to submit work to it.
Cynically, you could say that Google is just trying to get free contributions while retaining all the control. Optimistically you could say this is the first step in Google giving up control of Chromium in the far future, although currently they’ve given zero verbal or written indicators that they plan to do that.
There’s the FXtech Pro-1, with a slide out keyboard, apparently the hinge is very good.
But it’s pretty ancient by now and there’s still no successor… I doubt it sold well.
Did they? There have been a few cases, sure, but in general they’ve not been good in this regard.
They’re a publicly-traded company.
All of them, without any exceptions, place profit above literally anything.
A private company at least can place some things above profit, if the owner has principles. But when you’re a public company with countless shareholders, any stated or perceived ethics or morals are only there for the PR to drive profits higher or because it’s enforced by law. No exceptions.
MGU-H works very well, and they’re only getting rid of it in 2026. Mainly to keep new upcoming F1 engine manufacturers happy as they don’t have experience in MGU-H systems.
The software is open source now, so hopefully there are multiple options for PebbleOS devices.
It’s not reallyyyy open source . But I suppose neither is almost any LLM.
The OSI (Open Source Initiative) definition mandates that training data be disclosed and open.
Hydrogen cannot supplant batteries in mass market cars. It doesn’t make sense, primarily for reasons concerning the laws of physics.
It takes a tremendous amount more energy to power a hydrogen car.
Use a lot of electricity to split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, force the oxygen to react with another substance leaving pure hydrogen, siphon it away, spend more energy compressing it to bomb-like pressures (or alternatively cooling it until it becomes a liquid, at great energy cost), transport it to hydrogen stations, pump it into cars, do reverse hydrolysis (also incurring a large energy loss) to turn it back into electricity to charge a battery to power an electric motor. [Bonus: since the battery is tiny, it can’t supply a huge amount of power instantaneously - making hydrogen cars far slower than a typical EV.]
OR:
Take that electricity, send it over some wires with over 95% energy efficiency, charge a battery that powers an electric motor.
Then there’s the safety considerations for the cars because they have highly compressed hydrogen on board, the same is true for hydrogen fueling stations which cost a fortune and have an unbelievable amount of red tape. Meanwhile it’s easy and cheap to add charging points everywhere, because practically everywhere already has electricity.
Their range isn’t even much better, because not only is the energy density really bad compared to petrol or diesel, you’re also compromised on fuel tank size due to it having to be small, spherical, unlikely to be struck in a crash (ie must be put in an inconvenient place re: car packaging) and phenomenally structurally strong, all to prevent it from exploding like compressed hydrogen likes to do.
There’s a reason why despite every manufacturer toying with hydrogen vehicles for decades, there’s basically only the Mirai that you can actually buy, for an awful price, and it’s a shit car, while there are several hundred EVs out there right now. One is a viable car technology, and one is basically an EV with a long list of compromises.
I can’t find a gif of it, so I’d just like everyone to imagine that I posted that scene from the SpongeBob Movie where a worker sprays a can of hair onto King Neptune’s eyes.
Some blue tick twitter account probably told him that healthy living is woke or something
He’s like Henry Ford, apart from the being good at building cars part.
I’m sorry my corrections to all your many errors are bothering you.
You got a pro managing it?
\sigh
Spaces before a full stop? Really?
Fair question.
That user goes around issuing weird and pointless corrections to other people’s comments, even sometimes to the point of personally insulting people who make grammatical or spelling errors – often common ones that non-native speakers make, so I thought it’d be funny to do the same in turn, since their comment history is filled with much of the same.
I wouldn’t usually do it, it’s a pointless exercise IMO.
Yeah, so they have some use