"Most taxi drivers and many truck drivers own their own rigs, and although they may eventually replace themselves with robot rigs, they would continue to earn the revenue after doing so. They certainly have no incentive to fire themselves."

They won't be able to afford to replace themselves and will be outcompeted by a company that can afford a fleet.

Try living in the real world. Anodizing gets scratched off all the time because aluminum is soft and it deforms.

Long haul, local delivery, taxi, bus, you name a driving job and the ruling class will want to automate it.

People have different experiences and different infections are also different. I've had it at least three times (once before there was available testing but I had textbook symptoms, twice more confirmed by tests) and while the first time kicked my ass, the second time was not too bad and the third time I wouldn't have known it was COVID without a test, it was so mild.

If it doesn't move your icons, or the task bar etc., then it won't help with burn in.

Do they have a rationale for making the clock font smaller and harder to read on Windows 11? I can't read it without my glasses, and I got "upgraded" only about a week ago so aging isn't the cause.

xscreensaver has toasters, what more do you want?

"The video shows that everyday objects, like a coin or house key carried in the same pocket as the iPhone 17 Pro, can chip away at the anodized coating"

What kind of clown thinks keys won't scratch their phone? I am well known to disdain apple, but this is nonsense.

China has technical superiority in a number of areas. Not across the board, but in enough things that we should care. Battery technology is the primary example. Solar panel technology, they may not lead the world, but they certainly lead the US. Manufacturing of small items, they are years out ahead of us, we gave that up, we can only cost effectively build large items now.

That's how they became the #1 place to make those things, which in turn is how they became #1 in technology to make those things. They copied their way to understanding the tech. That saved them a lot of time and money. Now they lead in several areas. Pretending otherwise is foolish. A lot of goods sold around the world are now not only manufactured in China, they are designed there as well. Corporations in other countries are buying complete goods, not just parts, and having their logos put on them.

The blind do not want or need to be paying for a display they can't use. The non-display parts of the functionality may be compelling, but they need the device to speak to them, not to show them pictures they cannot see. Who fucking writes this shit?

It was, of course, fucking shit. And it was extremely non-obvious how to do it. It wasn't in the kind of obvious location that it's in now.

Frankly, it could still be more obvious.

Rendering from memory to the framebuffer is trivial. Decoding the video takes processing time, probably on the GPU these days. Otherwise you have to keep the whole uncompressed video in memory. For a short loop that might be viable, except that resolutions have been trending upwards over time, so the memory needed for that has been as well. Most non-gamers still have 16GB RAM or less so this is still an issue. It's smarter to do live backgrounds as animations using pixel shaders, then the power consumption is much lower. This is what's done on cellphones where this feature is used with "live backgrounds" and such. Shaders are cheap and there's no video decoding so it doesn't use CPU or GPU much, and it also doesn't need much memory.

You are 100% wrong. The Uber business plan has always been to shift to self-driving vehicles ASAP, and to use humans only until that is feasible. He is planning to cause a problem, not to have a problem.

Some of us understand how it works, you simply aren't among them, which is weird because I can see from your comment that you have all the puzzle pieces.

VCs are selling out our future by being unwilling to invest in anything without short-term returns. That means fundamental R&D expenditures get cut, and mass layoffs happen every year. The best and brightest leave for greener pastures, and the technology stagnates.

How can you understand this and yet not understand what it causes to happen?

Geographical mobility used to be much easier. In the age of credit scores and limited housing, it is extremely difficult to find a landlord who will admit you without a job, and much harder to find a job that will hire you without already being local.

Well, credit scores as we know them have been around since the 60's...so, not really that new.

There's PLENTY of housing....just depends on what part of the US you are in.

I see houses for sale all the time where I live (New Orleans area)....it may be scarce in NYC or west coast urban areas....but that is not the whole US.

In other parts of the US, there are homes...GOOD jobs, and cost of living is much less.

And those are regular W2 jobs.....if you jump into 1099 contracting....you can work wherever and very much often....remote.

I've done both....and if you have any job experience, you can get jobs before you moved.

I've never moved before having a job in that area....