It’s not always the case. Sometimes people believe in truly vile and harmful political policies but are actually decent supportive parents.
Personally Hegseth doesn’t seem like that type to me, and seems like he’s probably also an off the hinge dick at home, but you never know.
Because most articles you see online are written to get clicks, not to actually inform you, and no one particularly cares to defend meta, so no one bothers correcting them.
But saying that meta spent $80B on the metaverse and is now shutting it down because they’re shutting down horizon worlds is flat out disingenuous.
First of all, let’s be clear, the $80B number is the accumulated losses of the entire Reality Labs division over the past 6 years. Reality Labs includes not just the Oculus teams that cover AR and VR, but also other teams like the cancelled Portal hardware / software, and their Facebook Spark AR (closer to snapchat filters).
Second of all, those losses include
Out of all of that, they have shut down just Horizon Worlds, and the VR studios / games they bought. All of the hardware and platform work is still ongoing.
And what does it buy them? The potential opportunity to be Google or Apple once AR glasses become light and powerful enough to be common place. Do you know how many billions of dollars Google and Apple have made from being the dominant mobile OS companies? Microsoft rode the Windows train for decades before switching to Azure. Meta is buying a chance at becoming that for AR.
Neither are they on the instances that defederate from them.
It’s also not like it’s an ideological thing. The instances that get defederate from are just filled with obnoxious tankies.
Good. Get off the internet and do anything else.x
This is literally how he always acts. There’s a reason that many instances do not federate with lemmy.ml, his instance.
He’s incredibly pro communist, pro Russia, pro China, and will ban you for even mentioning that something could be foreign propaganda.
At the end of the day, hopefully your instance builds their server code from source and inspects it to make sure there’s nothing nefarious. It would be nice to use a decentralized Reddit like platform not coded by him, but no one else has the time, resources, ability, and/or dedication, to step up.
I would still rather use Lemmy over Reddit, though I did switch to donating to piefed, the Canadian instance runners, over donating to him.
Literally every Samsung Android phone has come with their Dex desktop for like 10 years too.
I fucking hate Google at this point. They’re just an even shittier version of apple now. Locking down their shit for no reason, and claiming decades old innovations are actually new and theirs.
Let’s be clear, for a feature that Samsung phones have had for a decade at this point.
Self-Driving works decently in predictable environments but anything outside of those limits can make it literally crash and burn.
Public road transportation by individuals just has too many cases where real decision-making is required.
Despite all their resources, I think they’ve given up. All the brilliant engineers and scientists have given up, because they know what we’ve suspected for a long time.
I mean, Waymo is still actively expanding to new cities and expanding its coverage areas within cities.
Tesla may have given up on the consumer market for that reason if they were banking on a super llm based self driving system, or it could just be because they got burned when Elon rallied consumers against them.
Like, so much insanely cleaner than your food.
Sewers are the giant pipes with all that air at the top.
Your water pipes are filled almost the entire time, and the trunks are literally constantly flowing. There’s little to no air for anything to grow with, and at the very beginning there’s almost no bacteria since it’s treated water being pumped in. All on top of the that copper is a natural sterilizer.
Lmao. So how many “breakthroughs” happened in the US last year and how many “breakthroughs” happened in the UK?
And how are you measuring their relative significance and scale?
In case youre not aware, the overall point im making us that you have literally no idea how to measure innovation in a reliable or meaningful way.
So again, I would point you to overall outcomes, rather than chasing shiny buzz words. At the end of World War 2, the US was orders of magnitude wealthier per capita then virtually every single European country, and yet, today, Europeans are happier, healthier, and richer then Americans. So all those patents helped Americans how exactly?
I recognize that there are many Americans who believe a great deal in the benefits of standards and interoperability.
But on the whole, as a group, you’ve spent almost a century electing politicians who vow to do the opposite.
They love letting their companies do so.
How can they benefit from innovation that has been stifled?
a) how are you measuring “innovation”?
b) how are you measuring the “benefit”, and for who?
Regulations and standardization can hold back an existing company from trying a new idea, however, they are also the only thing that creates true, lasting, interoperability, and interoperability is what let’s new companies enter markets.
i.e. Theoretically, Apple may be held back if they want to innovate their charging port because they have to make it compatible with USB-C.
However, now new companies that aren’t apple that want to innovate on cables and chargers can enter the market, and they’ll benefit from a consistent specified interface and not having to design a million proprietary variants, and they’ll be able to plan their products in a stabler, longer term environment, that will make it easier to attract investment.
Standards are effectively a government created platform / framework for building and designing new ideas. True innovation often strives when you have some thoughtful constraints that lets everything work together predictably.
Oh encouraging to see they’re finally out there.
$340 CAD for the UGreen one is eye watering, but not insanely out of line compared to early 100W USB C docks…
The Framework one is a lot more reasonable, but sadly we’re not part of the EU yet.
100%.
Sony has continuously sought to make money on licensing royalties for proprietary formats whenever they can.
And then took 8 years to add it to their phones? And only did so kicking and screaming after being forced to by EU regulations? And whose USB C implementation is notably more finicky and less compatible then virtually every other manufacturers’?
This wouldn’t happen to be the same company that reversed the polarity on headphone jacks just to be a dick would it?
However, most of that is still part of advertising; producers proactively strive to get reviewed.
Reaching out to reviewers is still technically advertising in the broadest definition of the word, but it is distinct from commercial advertising where companies pay to broadcast their specific messages to users.
This distinction is also reflected in the way that most companies are operated these days: reaching out to reviewers with information and offering them review units would fall under the marketing / communications / strategy department, but wouldn’t be referred to as advertising unless they were paying the reviewer for a positive review, which isn’t even legal in some places.
Thank God for the EU.
If Apple and the Americans had their way, each of those would use a different proprietary connector.
The spec supports 240W, and there are lots of cables rated at that, but there are still no chargers on the market that can hit 240W.
Given Ubiquiti’s Russian connections, and TP Link’s Chinese connections, this honestly isn’t surprising.