OpenNebula is still pitched as a commercial service even if it runs some open source tools and provides a community edition. The community edition likely requires people to pay for their own cloud / private backend to provide VMs. In subscription form it might still be significantly cheaper than VMWare which is a major incentive but the "we're using open source" angle probably isn't what convinces people to try it.

A historian doesn't want to "talk" with an LLM that regurgitates superficially useful answers but is incapable of seeing the ambiguity, nuance, bias, contradiction and falsehoods in the texts that were shoveled into it.

Well if you were a manager serious about managing then you would at least read his words as he wrote them, not some regurgitation.

I'm sure it will be superficially convincing as it expounds regurgitated glorified markov chains of wisdom from a guy who died 35 years ago. But so what? It's an LLM trapped in the past that has no life experience of its own, no way to elaborate on points that were mentioned, no understanding of context outside of what was written, no capacity to learn, no empathy to the subjects of the books or the person it is talking to. It's a simulacrum, nothing more.

Maybe read what I said huh?

Most of these are "quick apps" which is a fancy way to say they're a webapp which has been repackaged for their OS. I wouldn't be surprised if Huawei fired up a script that scraped them off websites converted them to their own format and dumped them on the store. I wonder if the sites / authors even consented to this. The number of actual native apps is going to be a very small fraction of this headline figure.

Anyhow, I'm sure this OS will be more successful in China where it can be forced on people, and perhaps in other authoritarian regimes. I doubt it will cause a ripple outside of those markets.

No you want them to fuck off and not come back. Much cheaper than a redundancies.

You don't want this shit in your head if whatever software that controls it is shut down because Elon had a tantrum.

Slow chargers make sense in homes, on streets and carparks where cars spend a long time idle. Think of people whose routine mostly revolves around driving between home, office, mall and places like that with the car sat there for 22 hours of the day. Fast chargers can go where people are doing longer trips - along highways for example.

So the sensible option would be to oblige all new road & building to install slow charging infrastructure & renewables via regulations and to incentive what already exists to retrofit it.

Also, and probably more important is a single, national database of ALL public chargers with live status, rates etc. that any app or in-car system can access. And with it, a unified, non-discriminatory payment system that does not require people roll up to a station and discover they need to install a fucking app to proceed.

... make it illegal for any car to upsell, promote, or maintain shortcuts to any service that a use hasn't explicitly consented to be in their vehicle. And do not penalise them for their choice either.

Too many infotainment systems have a dogshit link to something people don't want and there is no way to remove or hide it.

Head up displays are projecting information on infinity, i.e. no parallax. They tend to have a limited field of view and an "eyebox" where your eyes have to be positioned & facing to see an image. So if you were to replace left, right, centre mirrors with such a system you'd have to project this info forwards of the driver because it is unlikely someone's head is going to be positioned in a way that they can look down the parallax tube and see everything if they were split to the left, right and center. It's not like a mirror that way.

Seems to me like a massive expense when low-tech mirrors are a simpler and more usable system. I might add that even some fighter jets use mirrors to see behind them even if there is a HUD or SVS for other purposes.

Most enterprise software gets sold on the number of ticks on the feature list rather than whether the system is a steaming heap of shit or not. Once it is purchased for millions (with support contract on top) it is NEVER coming out no matter how terrible it is. And it because will be terrible there will a secondary market for consultants, dedicated IT staff and hardware vendors charging exorbitant rates to make this hot garbage semi fit for purpose.

Cars that have cameras instead of wing mirrors still have cameras mounted out the side, just smaller and more aerodynamic. And that might make them more dangerous in a way for anyone smacked in a head because the energy of the impact is concentrated into a smaller area.

When you look in a mirror you're getting 3d dimensional information which is not the case with a camera. You're also far more likely to see bright lights, such as from bicycles since a screen will restrict the peak brightness. There is also an increased latency which could affect response times. And if it's raining, snowing or dark then you might have restricted visibility compared to a mirror.

So it's hardly surprising that any time a car replaces a mirror with a camera, the reception is decidedly mixed or negative. That doesn't mean cameras completely suck, but they are better suited for where mirrors cannot be used - blind spots, 360 views, collision avoidance systems etc.

I expect that's exactly the same on large vehicles like buses. A better solution might be to raise the driver position (and therefore the mirrors), or make the mirror casing of softer material and sacrificial so if they do hit somebody they are less likely to cause harm.

Some of their "enterprise" code is under a commercial license. And use of AGPLv3 basically shuts out the competition (and prospective customers) from using the code without risking infecting their own code.

I'm sure from their perspective it makes sense to not have some cloud provider or vendor repackage their code and sell it, but the flipside is as a customer, the fact that is open source is irrelevant if the only way of using it safely is to pay money for a commercial license, or engaging in shenanigans to isolate that code in its own container or something.