Car manufacturers ended up being a bit conservative with their estimates about how batteries would degrade, since there wasn't a lot of good data on it. They were not predicting that vehicles would get 80-90% of the same range 10-15 years later. They projected more degradation than that.

I know some of the FUD suggested people would need to replace them completely well before 10 years was up (at nearly the cost of a vehicle), Some was deliberate anti-EV nonsense, and some was people comparing it to their phone batteries and not understanding that they're not the same thing.

The online versions will continue to gain parity with the desktop versions, or if that does not happen, the desktop versions will get crippled and/or be replaced by the web versions in a thin EdgeView wrapper (like Outlook, Teams, etc).

It almost seems like utilities infrastructure should be a public utility instead of a private monopoly.

For the open source world it'd be better if it could open and import OOXML formats, but the default formats for new documents should be ODT.

However, I imagine they'd get complaints when they start sending around ODT files that a lot of people can't open.

"... confirms that there's real appetite for premium quality at accessible prices"

Gee, who would've thought? Did Dell really need Apple to release a laptop to figure out that little nugget of information?

https://c.tenor.com/LpXwdwaxq1...

We're now in an era where you can ask a question in plain language and get a good response. Back when it debuted, computers really struggled with that.

Bingo. Until recently, vendors implementing exFAT required licensing from Microsoft. Now that those patents have expired, there is no reason to arbitrarily limit FAT32 anymore.

From a science perspective, this orbit provided a lot more. They were far enough from the surface that they could orient themselves, allowing them to make observations of key areas that scientists wished to collect data on.

Because they could see the whole moon rather than the small portion near them, they also got to experience a solar eclipse.

Except that it wouldn't be unpaid work for TDF. LibreOffice code is part of Collabora's product, so they'd be contributing code to their own software.

Now they could choose to fork the code, but then they're taking on a bunch of project infrastructure and maintenance themselves. Plus the two projects could still grab code from one another since they'd still be under the same licenses. They can't really take their ball and go home since the ball is open source.

Sometimes it is cheaper for groups to collaborate even when they're not getting along.

Best I can do is a browser written in WebAssembly, running inside of another WebView control.

Just recently there was an editorial from a tech author who prefers OpenOffice precisely because it isn't changing. It is stable and works, and the UI won't get redone.

That is great if you want a desktop client that just works. Not as great for the EuroOffice folks who want it in a web browser.

LibreOffice only just recently restarted their online version, though they only provide the software and not a hosting mechanism. Perhaps that software could've been a base for EuroOffice, but it isn't in production state yet. OnlyOffice is quite a bit ahead there.

I think one of the reasons LibreOffice hadn't been working on their online version before is that Collabora is a major contributor to LibreOffice and they already have a product that does what LibreOffice online will do.

They will soon have console hardware too (Steam Machine), though the current silliness with component pricing and availability is going to disrupt their launch. They already have handheld hardware.

The move fast and break stuff mantra of many web developers has left us with a lot of broken stuff.

To clarify, OS X was descended from NeXTSTEP, which was built on Mach and BSD.