A quick Google says the install base of Quest 3 is about 900k to 1.5 million units. But another article says it might not even be 500k. Apparently Meta isn't releasing numbers and it's really hard to judge.

That's not really that high. Compared to other products like game consoles that are actually mainstream, and it's really just a drop in the bucket.

As a comparison, the Ouya sold about 200K units, which kind of shows the scale. If the quest 3 is only a little more popular than the Ouya, why would anyone think it was any kind of success

I think it really depends on the source of the copied text. If I'm copying from a web page, I don't want to maintain any of the formatting from the original webpage. But if I'm copying from one part of a document to another part of the document, then it should probably keep the formatting it had when I originally copied it.

Even at $400 is more expensive than a lot of Android Phones. And that $400 will only get you 64 GB of storage and a 4.7" screen with big bezels and a single camera lens.

A lot better deals with stuff like the Samsung A54 for instance. Maybe the iPhone SE has more horsepower, but the A54 has more than what most people need.

Also, even "normies" like to be free to do what they want with their phone. Just better customization and not being quite as locked in.

I read so many contradicting numbers. Stuff like this where Apple apparently has close to 60% of market share in the US, but then reading the article in this post says new activiations are around 33%.

Why such a big discrepancy?

As far as I'm aware TPM is a function of the motherboard, not the processor. My motherboard has a TPM header, so I'm assuming if I installed one it would fulfill that requirement. The processor list that they support is a whole different list.

Not sure why the requirements on CPU are so restrictive. I've go a desktop from 2015 with an AMD A8-7600 APU and it's not on their list of supported CPUs for some reason, so I've never had it ask me to upgrade. I'm not sure where they came up with the compatibility requirements.

Why would someone ever type their password for another system into ChatGPT? What could that possibly accomplish. If you're going to send your password around to other random systems, don't be surprised when it get compromised.

It would honestly be so much better if they had more sports. We need to change the way sports are broadcast. So many of them are kept behind an exclusive subscription and even further restricted by things like local blackouts. They are losing their fan base because they make it so difficult to watch the games.

I find the combination of the ads and the DJs much more annoying than ads on Spotify. But I also just pay for a spotify subscription as I find it to be worth it.

I'm Canadian and this is why I've just never been a fan of radio. There was only ever couple stations where I was from, even in town, and the radio mostly sucked. I found it so strange when I moved to a larger city and found that so many people listened to the radio. People still listen to the radio in the city, even with ubiquitous availability of internet or the ability to just have thousands of hours of audio stored on your phone. There's basically no reason to listen to the radio, and yet people do it all the time.

In grade 9 at my school, every student had to take a tech class in which we did a little bit of woodworking, machine shop, drafting, and some other tech stuff.

Something like this should be mandatory for all students. We shouldn't need students to have a full CS course, but a single course at the beginning of highschool as an intro to all the electives so that everyone can try out thing and maybe get a feeling for what they are like.

Personally I find them a little annoying. For instance, somehow, without fail, I always end up somehow going to the PWA for CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) whenever I read news articles. I don't ever remember selecting to use this, but somehow they think it's a better experiece then just going to the website. I don't find it to be useful at all. I think that PWA could be a good thing for some cases, but it should be something that the user has to specifically opt into using, and it should also be able to be uninstalled or disabled with minimal efford

Something like that would be trivially easy to get right. Just look up an existing solution on the web. No professional programmer ever writes their own sorting code anyway because every programming environment already has this included, and writing your own code would just possibly result in more bugs, or at worst, just wasted time. The whole reason why AI would fail at writing code in the modern world is that most of the problems programmers are solving is writing new stuff that hasn't been written already, and that the people asking for the code have no way of giving enough detail to get a working result out of it. Programmers are basically intermediaries between people who don't know how to write speficications and the computer. They have to read between the lines to determine what the customer actually wants and be able to see problems with their logic and tell them why what they are asking for doesn't even make logical sense. If you just blindly implement what people ask for, you will end up with an un-working mess or something that has now logical consistency.

Sometimes I wonder why the legal profession has not done that also.

It's interesting because the whole legal system is set up in many countries basically completely in reverse to how it should be. Someone (or a group) writes a law, passes the law, and then judges and lawyers have to interpret it after the fact to figure out exactly what it means and how it should be applied. There is no formal logic and rigor applied to writing laws. Often it seems like they leave gaps in the laws specifically so that laws can be circumvented or manipulated.

Ideally the phone would have variable refresh rate up to 120 Hz. The feature is available on Android phones already. If you're watching something at 60 FPS, then it will refresh at 60 Hz. If you're watching at 30 FPS, it will refresh at 30 Hz. If you are sitting on the home screen with no movement going on, it can refresh at 1 Hz. If you are in some kind of game that's actually pumping out 120 FPS, then it will refresh at that speed. There's also options to limit it if you don't want to use the higher refresh rates.