I live in Wyoming so I understand rural, however we are not the only folks with a “real” use for trucks. Plenty of reasons for a townie to own one.

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Then I mentioned the Uniphone S22

At least that one is flip phone so it’s closer but it’s still not running Linux, has a worse camera, no earphone jack, no FM radio, half the RAM, far less storage, worse CPU and so on.

Is all of that worth $350 $250? Depends on your use case I suppose but it’s absolutely not the same product.

but this product already exists for around $150 just with a crappier OS.

Qin doesn’t make a flip phone, they don’t use Linux, a worse camera, a shitty DAC, no headphone jack, and they’re all loaded with Google Apps / Spyware.

They aren’t the same product at all.

It had vaporware startup written all over it.

It can’t be “vaporware” when they are actually releasing products for purchase.

Irrelevant. Ali Rabii’s comment is public and available to read.

XBOX hardware is fine. It’s what they’ve done with it that’s the problem.

IIRC that chart only shows US Government investment / spending. A lot of other countries, such as South Korea, are spending on this and even here in the United States large sums are being spent on it by Venture Capitalists.

The “actual funding” line is wildly out of date since there’s several Fusion Companies that have spent more than that each in the past few years.

and now the courts are saying “fuck you”

It’s one Court and unsurprisingly it’s the Court located right there in town. I strongly suspect that the Third Court of Appeals is going to have a different take on this mess.

At least where I live you can’t wash away a deed restriction like this by transferring the property a couple times.

What specs? I’m in the market for 32Gb of DDR4…

Roku’s slide into corporatism kinda hurts. I really liked their product and their lead developer came from the Amiga Universe.

Is the recommended ONN streamer (see above) as good as the Roku at all the same shit?

I honestly don’t now. I haven’t owned a Google Streamer since the Asus days.

Baby toys with tiny parts, jewelry loaded with lead, and clothes covered in dangerous chemicals. Which do you think it is?

Nah, it’s a pittance. No one should be simping for a $50 billion dollar company, especially when that company is built around abusive labor practices and dangerous products.

I think I read that licensing for the transcoding or something was the hang up.

There’s several problems. Transcoding is one but there’s also issues with content providers requiring the use of their own apps along with Linux not (until very recently) being able to use any HDMI spec beyond 2.0.

I’ve been a ROKU user for over a decade but the last year has had me thinking more and more about boxing up my devices and sending them to their HQ with a note “Since you treat these like you own them I figured I’d just send them to you.”

I am really REALLY tired of them dicking with my boxes and updating / reconfiguring things however and whenever they see fit.

It wasn’t widely known to the general public. If you were / are new to the community it’s highly likely that you don’t / didn’t know.

As someone with a BL P2S I really appreciate other people helping with this fight. I won’t buy another BL product but I’d like to keep using the one I already have.

First the US isn’t mentioned in this article. Second this is NOTHING like Minority Report. Your comment is dumber than a bucket of hair.

It’s not enabled by default.

Since we’re whipping out credentials, I’ve been in IT almost 30 years and I can tell you it’s not going to work like that.

I’m not the person you were replying to but I’ve also been in tech since 1996 and lots of things have worked just like that. All successful technology starts off barely functional and improves over time until nearly all members of it’s intended audience can successfully use it.

As an example in 1996 setting up a router was a specialty task that required training, by 2016 any moron could buy one off the shelf and have it running in an hour. As another example basic HTML was a specialty skill in 1996 but by 2003 you could do it with Microsoft Word. Smartphones are another example, they went from barely functional Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices which required ridiculous amounts of back end skill to deliver email to iPhones and Androids that any numskull can use for nearly anything at all.

My point is this; too many people are stuck on the “What use is a newborn baby?” question without realizing that the infant is growing-up at blinding speed. It’s also the first technology to carry the promise, real or not, of self-improvement when it reaches sufficient maturity. Assuming that happens all further improvement will be increasingly automatic and happen even faster.

AI isn’t going away and it’s only going to get better as time goes on.

Yep it’s tiring but comment aged link milk because the very next day a bill was introduced to Congress.