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It’s not the navigation that requires the server but the processing of the mapping data.

Which in itself is BS because most of these vacuums come with hardware roughly equivalent of a top of the line smartphone from about 5-6 years ago. They can easily do the raw data to map conversion, even if it’s a bit slow and takes 20-30 seconds.

Also if you read the article it specifies that the damn thing is already running Google Cartographer which is a SLAM 3D map builder software - one of the better pro-grade mapping software suites, mind you. So the whole claim of cloud needed for processing is BS.

Well, the loss of traffic is a knock-on effect of the misrepresentation. So is the fact that every other portal will try to sling shit at the ones affected by it.

I was hoping the sarcasm in the first sentence was dripping enough to be noticeable :)

Apple had to turn it off for their sunmary mode after backlash, even though the option always had the “these summaries are generated by AI and can be inaccurate” warnings placed prominently.

Google doing this shit without warning or notice will get them in shit water. News portals and reporters are generally not too fond of their articles being completely misrepresented.

Oh no the local library is closed today, what do I do with my need for reliable information?

Dunno mate, have you tried asking Hitler?

I liked movie Hammond too, don’t get me wrong. It’s just a completely different story because of the character shift.

The movie really dumbed Hammond down to “overly optimistic money guy with a vision”. Which was a bit distasteful if you’ve read the books. Just a bit.

The EU pushing USB-C (and other standardised charging protocols) does actually help every country - because for most manufacturers it will be cheaper to swallow that extra $1-2 cost (at most, incl. design changes for products already in planning) than to set up two separate product lines.

Also included in this: the thousands upon thousands of mobile games that are literally the same exact game with minor asset switching.

Like, 99% of those “town/castle/whatever building” games that have fixed locations for buildings etc., they’re all based on maybe 2-3 white label game “engines” that are ready to be re-labelled with new assets, new logos, new story (even though the story events driving it are the same, the “side dish” storytelling changes minimally).

This also goes for pretty much any game format that becomes trending. You can bet your tushie that the moment a game format is even just borderline popular… there will be a dozen or so Chinese software houses copying the mechanics and looks and behaviour, and within a week you can buy a white label version of it for a few thousand dollars.

Yes.

More and more common personal things are being electronised - toothbrushes, shavers/razors, water picks, just to name a few from the bathroom, but there’s also the tons of various nightstand bits, kitchen utilities (I actually have a handheld stick blender/whisk that uses USB-C, as well as a milk frother), the list goes on.

If it’s a low power device (sub-100W charging/supply), USB-C should be mandatory for it.

Yes I know USB-C can now do 240W but it’s not widespread yet and people would be annoyed by the fact their €5 10W charging brick can’t make their 200W thingie work.

To streaming?

Never.

Streaming is a finite market that is already covered. The moment old money (aka existing media companies) jumped on it, it was done for.

And 18350s and 13400 (very common in “disposable” vapes), and a bunch of other sizes.

The issue with 18650 is honestly that it’s too big for most applications, especially when you look at what currently uses disposable batteries - remotes etc. - and their sizes.

Also, for li-ion, a cylinder isn’t an optimal shape, for a number of reasons, first being physics - the rolled up layers result in gaps that reduces the per volume capacity. The form factor also requires a very strong can, is prone to shorts, and doesn’t allow for easy addition of protective electronics.

For household purposes I think the best approach would’ve been utilising Nokia’s standardised battery formats (BL-5 family is still ubiquitous even though Nokia hasn’t made a phone that uses it in nearly 15 years), scaling them as necessary, while keeping a standardised pinout - with Li-Ion you kinda need more data than just the two poles can provide on a cylinder battery (temperature, internal resistance, etc.).

It’s almost like the EU is not a homogeneous bloc…

At this point, can we call the duck, that walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and shits like a duck, a duck?

Specifically, all these twatwaffles are traitors and should be treated so. The European Union might not have the death sentence for traitors (and I’m not saying we should have it), but that doesn’t make the fact that these morons want to bend over and beg Putin to arsefuck them, after Russia conducted a number of attacks against a number of EU countries (mostly digital warfare but there were quite a few political murders that had very clear direct ties back to the Kremlin).

I found most Japanese whiskey to be too sweet for my taste. GJ has that balance of smoothness while keeping the sweetness at bay.

Plus I’m not that big of a fan of non-scotch whisky anyway.

By the way if you want something truly smooth, and not too sweet, the cheaper Mackinlay’s Shackleton remake, usually around £20 a bottle (should be around $25-30 in the US), is an amazing choice.

There’s two products of Jack Daniels that I do appreciate:

• their BBQ sauce (I know there are better ones but none of them reached the UK yet, sadly, it’s a “good enough” substitute at a good price)
• Gentleman Jack - pretty much the only commercial bourbon I find drinkable, albeit not worth the price

Except every single MacBook you can buy right now (directly, from Apple, not second hand) directly beats pretty much every other device in its price range - unless you go super crazy with the specs and want to do 128GB RAM with an M5 Max and 8TB storage.

So it’s hardly overpriced.

Not exactly fresh meat but if you want some old school proper mobile gaming experience, before it got enshittified…

Galaxy On Fire.

The first game sadly never got the HD treatment but it is still playable - that is if you can find an Android device that can still run 32bit apps, or a patched APK.

The second game got an HD release but didn’t get the “big screen” treatment, at least on iOS. But at least the game is available from the App and Play Stores.

The third game sadly got its servers pulled in 2020, though I have heard about modded APKs floating around that can work without the servers… but to be honest that game was quite the let-down compared to previous instances.

The developers of these games went on to work on CHORVS and Everspace 2, but to me neither game gave back that OG GoF feeling.

They look like badly rolled cigarettes that someone mistook for tampons for a moment, and tried to insert them all, but just the tip