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Comment It's simple to fix this (Score 1) 71

Put stereo controls on the steering wheel, even cheap cars often offer this as an option now anyway. Put physical climate controls below the screen. You might need to look to grab the knob, but you can look at the road while you turn it. With some of these screen-only climate control systems they have sliders or other stupid controls that require a lot of attention. And also a button to activate the camera since every vehicle has poor rear visibility now.

Comment Re:Whatever (Score 1) 52

Mine's an MNT Reform. Even fully loaded, its performances are lackluster at best. Think entry-level laptop from 5 years ago kind of perforrmances. Or maybe top-of-the-line Raspberry Pi. But performance is not the point of this machine.

Still, sluggish though it is, it's quick enough for 95% of what I do. And since I'm not into modern games, it works fine for me for gaming too.

Comment Re: Sure (Score 1, Interesting) 64

"Europe" didn't invent the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee invented the basic principles and the CERN's page was the first one, but "Europe" (I imagine you refer to the european union) never capitalized on it

The WWW is older than the EU, though the general public became aware of it in the same year the Maastricht Treaty was signed. The principle of hypertext is older than the WWW, though. I had hypertext software on DOS, it "only" didn't link to other computers. That's an obvious extension, though. And it literally is obvious, because people were doing similar things with Unix, via rcp and uucp. For example, there were automated UUCP info gateways. You'd send them mail and they'd send you dynamic data.

Comment Re: Finally! (Score 1) 34

For me, the game I cannot play is Rust. Yes you can run it just fine, and yes there are maybe a couple of servers you can play on, and they have anticheat disabled. There are popular anticheat systems which work on Linux, EAC being one of them, and I've got a lot of games with online components and anticheat which do work very well. I was surprised by the percentage of my various game libraries* which could be easily installed via Lutris and work just fine. Most of them have very good performance as well.

A handful of Steam games don't run and more don't run well without Proton-GE, but a lot of games work without any addons at all. And speaking of addons, they are mostly easy to manage using steamtinkerlaunch, which supports both Vortex and MO2. There are definitely game mods which don't work well with Wine or Proton, mostly ones which have very specific runtime requirements. Some of those don't run well even with the runtimes installed with wine/protontricks.

* For a while there, Humble Bundles were awesome, and a lot of those games were on services which I never would have otherwise patronized.

Comment Re:Journalism died decades ago (Score 1) 169

No? I'd argue that Qanon and the anti-vax movement are a direct result of your curated "news".

They undermined their own integrity, so people went looking elsewhere.

Do you remember the CNN reporting standing in front of burning buildings and calling it "mostly peaceful protests"? You could then turn to social media and get real data from real reporters about what was actually happening. You don't think that kind of behavior doesn't lead to things like qanon?

Comment Re:partially true (Score 1) 69

Could the model not be trained to be nearly deterministic in it's outputs?

No. The technology doesn't do that. Instead of whatever ineffable process we use to correlate things in ways that make sense, it only and solely correlates things in ways which look like they make sense. You cannot train your way out of this problem, an entirely new technology is needed. Maybe to replace this, maybe only to augment it, but still fundamentally different.

Comment Re:No, that's what it is NOW. (Score 1) 58

Now?
Idevices have always been limited compared to their competition, deliberately so.

Yes, now is part of always. Why is this even part of the discussion?

However they're starting to need that artificial limitation more than ever as they kill OSX without wanting to kill the cash cow that is the Mac user, so your IDevice will be deliberately hobbled so they can sell you a slightly less hobbled Mac labelled IDevice for more money than it's worth.

Starting to? This is how it's always worked.

Are you stuck in a time loop or something? That might explain your confusion over these words...

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