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Comment Re: QuickShare next? (Score 1) 9

Email is okay for smaller files, but often there is a fairly low attachment size limit. With modern phones that have high pixel count cameras, and with movies, you quickly run into those limits.

I have this issue as my wife has an iPhone. She does at least have Google Photos, so most of the sharing is done that way.

Comment Re:What happened to the MetaVerse? (Score 1) 64

They haven't forgotten anything, quite the opposite, they support it. It sounds scary to you and me because billions is a big unfathomable number. But the reality is Zuck spent less on the metaverse (and actually spent less on R&D in general) than many peers in the tech industry. It's just not newsworthy when it's spent on existing markets but becomes shock and awe when it is spent in an emerging market.

What have they spent? $50bn all up. All the while making $120bn a year in revenue and returning $25-30bn in profit to shareholders year on year. As long as they are being paid why not let someone invest some "chump change" in terms of the business value in attempting to make a new market? New markets are kingmakers, it's what saved Apple (the smartphone market).

What did investors think about that? Well Meta's stock was at record high only 3 weeks ago.

On the flip side Musk is a weird one. He's not returning profits to shareholders in any meaningful way to justify his rhetoric, and that is reflected in the fact that his shareholders are constantly suing him. Unlike Meta who has huge operating profits, I'm genuinely surprised so many shareholders put up with Musk's shit, especially considering how often it works directly against their interest.

Capitalism needs discipline in the form of a market beat down when you get things wrong.

You're begging the question. Investing in a new market isn't "wrong" just because it doesn't work. Companies very much do go under. Capitalism here is working just fine. A tiny portion of revenue is invested in new opportunities. Just because the number is scary big to you and me doesn't mean it isn't actually sane when looked at in context.

Comment Re:bUt NuClEaR bAd (Score 1) 132

Coal is cheap and can often be mined domestically. The plants are simple and cheap, and can be built by domestic firms using domestic technology.

The only real way to beat it is cheaper renewables, but it would really help if we shared some tech so developing nations could manufacture some of it locally.

Comment Re:bUt NuClEaR bAd (Score 1) 132

If you look at which countries are using more coal, it's the ones where nuclear isn't a viable option. It's too expensive, it would take too long to build, and there are geo-political problems.

These are developing nations, and telling them "just put growth on hold for 20 years while you develop a nuclear industry and build the first plan" isn't going to work.

Many of them do have excellent renewable resources, but need help and encouragement to exploit them. Once those are in place the floodgates open like they have in China.

Comment Re:Been considering VR (Score 1) 17

For gaming it might be better to look at head tracking. Okay you don't get the stereoscopic 3D effect, but it's much lighter on your GPU, and much more comfortable.

Basically tracks the direction you are looking in and turns your in-game head by an exaggerated amount to match. Good for things like flight sims where you need to look around you. You get used to it pretty quickly.

Comment Re:with 70000 packages remaining... (Score 1) 39

This will help them flush out any x86 specific code in preparation for migration to RISC-V, if and when the time comes. It will probably be a long way off though, because right now RISC-V is not getting the amount of investment it needs to be competitive with ARM in terms of performance. Both raw compute performance, and compute per watt.

Comment Re:I use Win11 (Score 1) 23

To be fair Linus has improved but definitely was an insufferable arsehole. He even admitted that. The question isn't whether criticism was correct, the question is how that criticism is delivered. Linus has changed a *LOT* over the years. I'm not sure about Theo, I don't follow the OpenBSD world. Is Theo the Linus of 2025 or the Linus of 2010?

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