Yeah exempting underwear, socks, and significant change in body size I’d likely be good for a few decades

M&M’s, Reese’s, skittles

All in the same bowl

This happens in other countries as well. I’ve been told to speak the local (non-English) language when visiting friends overseas when having a private conversation.

Generally, it seems to be nosy old people who are upset about not being able to eavesdrop

If you want pretty good color screen, try the Boox Tab Mini C

Anyone pushing you to do something you don’t understand, or understand poorly. I could see an actual security researcher pushing for a code update to fix a vulnerability.

Heck, even as an occasional contributor I take some pride in seeing my fixes etc make it into the mainline codestream.

But yeah, you definitely need to be wary of somebody you only know from online pushing a change that doesn’t make sense or you don’t understand.

Yeah, so I can kinda understand Haier’s position here though they probably could have just set/quoted some ToC’s on using their cloud services.

It also means that IMO the plugins weren’t offering much other than integration, and this probably would have been a product I’d have avoided even before they started acting like dicks.

Local control or bust (or ability to reprogrammed with FOSS firmware)

From what I read, this project does help integrate with HA to avoid using the Haier app, but still uses Haier’s cloud. Can anyone confirm if this was true?

Yeah I had similar issues. My old laptop (back venue I swore off HP, and one of the contributing reasons) had an issue where if you loaded an app and it needed memory that spanned both RAM chips… it would power cycle. Most users at the time reported the issue using Photoshop at the time so HP released a patch… that fixed it for Photoshop.

The actual issue lay in the Northbridge of he laptop and was a defect. HP refused to refund the laptop even though it was fairly early within the warranty period. Best I could do was run with one - slightly larger - stick of RAM than what the thing shipped with.

Given a rant like this I wouldn’t be trusting his code. Admin access to a backend and ability to write to the underlying filesystem+configs are two different layers. Yeah in many cases they may be the same admin, but not necessarily. It also means a compromised admin UI user can modify the underlying system to hide their tracks.

It’s like saying it’s ok to have a hypervisor breakout because it requires you to have root in the underlying VM to exploit and only trusted admins have root…

Still, they’d likely have to separate out impurities from mined sodium deposits as well, so it sounds like a good use of the by-product from the desalination process where possible

Yeah, and also Edge or an older version of Chrome etc just to be sure.

Easy enough to test though. Load the page with a UA changer and see if it still shows up when Firefox pretends to be Chrome

Yeah. I up a DVD set on Amazon and they were fairly believable except for the party where they wouldn’t actually play on i.e. a PlayStation, and the disc title when inserted into a PC ended in .ISO

Money doesn’t come from the users, it comes from the advertisers. The platform is already in the hole but it’s getting worse over time

I hope that in the future, AI tools like this can assist indie game devs, so somebody with the idea for a decent plot and gameplay can generate environments, some models, and voiced characters with a generative engine. These tools could also be a cool evolution for games that use generated worlds already: think Minecraft but less blocky.

I fear that it will be used by big studios to supplant or replace human talent, leading to endless titles of same-same dreck without the spark of inspiration or uniqueness that a human developer, artist, or story-boarder can come up with.

Or to paraphrase how somebody else put it: “We thought that computers would do the boring or unpleasant work so that humans could spend more time making art and expanding culture, instead the computers are making the art and we’re still doing the shit work”

I’ve tried to report up fake sites to Google regarding spoofing well-established business, including that of my employer. All the twists seem to go to a black hole

I’ve always seen it as “they tried to monetize a platform before they had a platform that anyone wanted to use”

Basically, the thing was made from the start to have a bunch of ways to make money, but that didn’t actually put a lot of effort into thinking on what would make it fun it attractive to users.

Whoa cool down there Adolph. Nobody should be whether another group/culture/society/country should exist.

You can choose not to do business or interact with them, but that’s about it.

What’s the material? It looks pretty cool

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