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The “actual funding” line is wildly out of date since there’s several Fusion Companies that have spent more than that each in the past few years.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

Not even close, both of these projects are wildly deficient for that kind of use and the effort required to solve those deficiencies would at least 10x if not 20x the cost.

That doesn’t mean they are useless, I can definitely see some eyebrow raising asymmetric possibilities.

If you’re seriously interested in this DIY Radar System I strongly suggest you grab a full copy from Github and put it on local storage as I doubt it’s going to remain up for long.

You’re not wrong but I was specifically referencing the ground based drones with my comment. Apologies that wasn’t clear.

China’s SPR is the largest in the world, by a lot, but it’s also the world 2nd largest consumer of oil and it imports almost 70% of what it uses.

The US SPR is about 1/3rd the size of China’s but it is also a net exporter with a surplus of around 2.4 Mbbl/s per day.

It’s generally accepted that China has a large enough SPR to cover about 120 days. The US is essentially limitless since, at least on paper, it produces more than it needs.

I viewed some analysis over the weekend proposing that China would run into petroleum problems in mid-June if something doesn’t change with the Iran situation.

Until the drones start getting used on civilians. Which is absolutely going to happen and soon.

Two States, California and Washington, are not “The US” any more than France and Germany are the European Union. They are important no doubt but they do not themselves represent the entire entity.