People who aren't you, but who are near you. They also matter. We all know quite well you don't care about those people, as you've let us know on numerous occasions, but they do matter.

The GP is not talking about LTE, they're talking about "voice over LTE" (VoLTE). The Bell compatibility checker they linked to seems like a fairly comprehensive list of phones that support it. Very old phones, like the iPhone 4 or original Pixel don't support it because the standard didn't exist when they were manufactured.

This article almost sounds like an ad to get people to buy things to keep the economy rolling rather than a serious discussion.

You've answered your question. "Productivity" in this case is GDP / capita. If an American buys something with American parts from an American retailer then they increase the GDP, which increases the productivity. It doesn't have to increase their personal productivity.

It might not even be necessary to fork much. Genuine Arduino hardware is so expensive most people use clones, lots of people use Platform IO instead of the Arduino IDE, and the Arduino core for the newer microcontrollers is not made by Arduino anyway.

I'm doing my part! (Every time I see a window and a conveniently-nearby rock, I throw the rock at the window.)

The point is to explicitly extend android to be more 'laptop/desktopy'. So it's still a linux distribution, and looks like it won't be *really* distinct from Android....

They might not have had a choice. The memory vendors getting sweetheart deals from AI supply chain might require other markets to increase their commitment or get nothing.

So the choices might be either stockpile or not have any supply at all for their mainstream product. It's worth a risk of overpaying for memory when you have no other viable option.

Suck them both.

"buildings won't be moved and created just because of your romantic notions. Juvenile delusions."

You just replied to a well known bot some clown has created by training a LLM on rsilvergun's posts. And you did it by saying something really stupid. Nice work there, sport.

I am not allowed to install software on my work machine and there's an approval process. IT can have a real text editor but I can't.

Granted this is partly a problem with my employer but it wasn't a problem until Microsoft ruined software I was using daily.

And why do they keep giving them?

At this point it's natural to conclude that B1zX is run by literal Nazis.

Some bitch came along and down modded my last three comments again. What a shock. It's too bad slashdot is now anti fact and anti science.

What is interesting to me is that my people in emergency comms are going to fail at some point. And they wouldn't fail if they were using either Linux or MacOS.

But there is another comm mode in use that is made only for Windows. I'm going to suggest that it be abandoned. Another Cassandra moment for me - the agencys heads will asplode when I do that.

Oh, for dialog it would suck. I'm thinking more about commanding 'sidekicks' to do certain things. Like voice command saying: "Bob, get up to that ledge (while pointing your crosshairs indicating the ledge) and provide cover with your sniper rifle". Today you can't direct non-human 'squad mates' with that level of specificity, so they do their specific scripted things or vaguely adjust their behavior in accordance to your vague command based on a press of a directional button. Natural language command of NPCs could open up possibilities to fix long-standing annoyances/limitations with NPCs trying to actively contribute to these situations.

For dialog, you lose the ability to be confident that the correct information has been conveyed to the player. So you can use it for background dialog for NPCs with no actionable info, but that dialog is going to be pretty pointless and particularly painful if it's hard to tell if an NPC is just background or has actual information for you.

Of course not. but it is the reality. Even for highly placed people. My SO, who was the VP and highest paid person in her company, noted how she was bored at times, and didn't get to do the "exciting" things I did.

My replies have always been "All jobs have good and bad in them - you are doing better than 90 percent of everyone working"

The part I didn't say was "You would freak at some of the things I've had to do. I was on extra hazardous insurance most of the time. Worked with hazardous materials, and in extremely dangerous places. Imagine being on a tiny ship in sea state 7, or crawling out on a board over a 100 foot drop to get a documentation photo where you had to put your head and face through an opening. That one was kind of funny. Because when you can't see where your body is you need something to ground you. I told my assistant to grab my ankles and squeeze any time I shifted to remind me I was on the board. "And please don't goose me." She really enjoyed sneaking up on me and grabbing my backside. I've had to deal with chemical fires. I've had to travel on short notice with an unknown return date. That part could be stressful, the wife got kind of anxious and a bit testy with me.

Then, back in a suit and tie, and presenting the results. Even that is stressful for many folk. On new engineer once hyperventilated and fainted. I managed to catch him and spent a couple minutes calming him.

Point is my work was intensely interesting. Not too many dull moments. Even my present work, which isn't dangerous, but most find it stressful, is seriously interesting. I'm too dumb to get stressed, I suppose.

The other point is that if you are going to do really interesting work, it might just not be what you actually wanted after getting it.

We should add an obligatory Jetson's comparison in addition to the automotive comparisons! 8^)

It is much more complex than that. Temperament and drive are important, and the ability to interact with others is as well. In my present work, I'm there because I not only have the technical chops, but I am really good at interacting with people, including stressed and difficult people. I have the ability to tell people to go to hell in a way they look forward to the trip. Previous people have either had the technical chops and lacked people skills, or were very sociable and hopeless technically.

And a little while back, I received an unasked for 50 percent raise.

You have to be flexible, and never stop learning. Also helps to assess the climate in your field. The opposite end of the spectrum from my gestalt is the guy I graduated with who had a really good career going in television repair. in 72, TV sets were still almost all tube, and needed repair pretty often. Then his work just disappeared. He had no plan, and by the time his market went away, his abilities were stuck in the vacuum tube era. Never did find out what happened to him. A decent guy, but he liked his stasis.