Likewise. Huge Opera Presto lover, Vivaldi users since beta.

I agree uBlock lite hasn't been much of a difference for me (but I also didn't do a lot of deep seeded rules). I can confirm I just used the element blocker to remove that annoying mongodb ad on another machine of mine that I haven't updated in months, and it worked fine. (Vivaldi + ublock lite)

Parkay.

You base this off of part of a twenty minute Youtube video. I have no interest in self driving cars personally, so I can't say I follow where the US is in this regard.

Aren't there self driving taxis in cities in the US? If they're killing pedestrians and people on scooters, I would assume that it would make the news. If they're killing people in China, it's less likely that we'd hear about it.

Not gonna lie, that is really cool. But that doesn't require self driving nor EV. I'd love to see that implemented in the US.

This is a trade show. I've worked in several industries and attended trade shows. Over half of what is shown at a trade show never happens. Much of what does make it to the public is not as cheap or as good as what was promised. Many things are just complete fantasy. I bought a Cadillac in the early 1980's that I finally got rid of after 360K miles. I could have kept driving it, but the AC stopped working at the same time it developed a leak in the sunroof and some other minor issues. There are Toyota's that have hit one million miles. Those aren't the norm though. I suspect those batteries aren't either, if they are real at all.

I find it amusing that people who doubt everything and anything that is said by the US government or US companies will believe anything said by their Chinese counterparts. I've worked in China and find there are a lot of parallels between the US in the 1950's and modern day China. Perception in China is a lot more important than reality in many cases.

I have friends in Russia, Australia, and other places that import Chinese cars. I've heard the same thing from most of them. Getting parts when something breaks is nigh impossible. Chinese car manufacturers refresh car models every 2ish years. Getting parts becomes impossible because they make a limited number of replacement parts even when a model is still in production, Once it's run comes to an end any parts that don't get carried over to the new model are no longer produced. That 800km battery is pointless if a steering wheel position sensor goes bad and the car won't move and there are no replacement parts available.

The reality is that China was really smart to jump on EV manufacturing. They saw that US, EU, Japanese, and Korean car manufacturers were too far ahead when it came to ICE engines. It made little sense to try to catch up on those as they had a 100 year heard start. Obviously environmental concerns also made EV's a smarter bet as well. Unfortunately having a car that has a better than zero percent chance of becoming disposable once it hits the 3 year mark isn't so good. Suddenly buying a $60k car that will last for ten years becomes a safer bet than a car that's half the price but may need to be replaced 2 or 3 times in that same period.

It's a shit situation, but why won't any of the surrounding countries take refugees from Gaza? I'll tell you why. Because every time a country has taken in Palestinian refugees they were thanked with armed revolt. In the Middle-East Palestinians are literally called "rats" by the people in other Arab nations. I found it shocking. But other people I've talked with heard the same thing.

Gaza was captured from Egypt by Israel in 1967. It was handed over to the Palestinians.in 2005. In 2006 Hamas was voted into power and that was the last time there were elections. Both Israel and Egypt have blockaded Gaza since 2007; after Hamas removed the Fatah government at gunpoint. Then they spent $1 billion over the following 15 years building tunnels to use in attacks against Israel. They spent another $200 to $300 million per year on rockets and later drones to attack Israel.

So the "Palestinians" who voted Hamas into power in 2006? Hamas, whose stated goal was the destruction of Israel? Hamas, the folks who brutally killed over 800 civilians on October 7? Hamas, the folks who don't wear uniforms and classify all of their combatants as civilians? Hamas, the wonderful people who hide their combatants and weapons in schools, mosques, hospitals, and any other civilian place they can?

It's a genocide when Israel kills combatants who are not in uniform? Israel should just sit on their ass when missiles and artillery are fired from civilian locations in Gaza at civilians in Israel? During that war Hamas stated they would rebuild their forces and attack Israel again once peace was declared.

Was Israel too heavy handed in some cases? Yes. Did some IDF soldiers commit war crimes? Yes. But those weren't supported or condoned by the Israeli government as far as I can tell. Was there collateral damage? Of course, this was a heavily populated area with non-uniformed combatants hiding among the civilians. If Israel wanted a genocide then they could have cluster bombed the shit out of the entire area. Your Wikipedia link states that 70K people were killed and half, 35K, of those were women and children. Yet the UN revised the numbers to 5K women and 8K children. It also states that the vast majority of deaths were civilians. How do we know? Hamas claims their own fighters are civilians. With no uniforms, we will never know the truth.

What genocide?

It has *much* more to do with the memory card's erase block size.

NTFS wants to use a 512 BYTE or 1kbyte allocation unit size. (Dont believe me? Right click your system volume, and choose properties. See what your allocation unit size is.)

This size was selected because it is 1:1 the sector size of original winchester style hard disk drives, which makes those sizes the most efficient to transfer to or from the disk controller.

Modern drives tend to favor 4kbyte sized sectors, but still emulate 512 BYTE ones.

FAT had cluster (allocation unit) sizes quite a bit larger than this. Usually between 4k and 16k, but 32k and 64k clusters are supported.

For early flash memory cards, 32k and 64k cluster sizes were 1:1 what the eraseblock sizes of the flash array were, meaning having the filesystem use that size gave the best possible efficiency with the device controller.

SDHC and SDXC devices though, have erase block sizes that (cough), 'greatly exceed' (cough) what FAT32 can support.

ExFAT however, happily lets you use cluster sizes in the MULTIPLE MEGABYTES size range, allowing the flash makers to still have 1:1 cluster->erase unit parity, and maximized device IO efficiency.

Your camera formats that card as ExFAT because that's what the SDCard Assn demands.

The SDCard Assn demands it, so that they can reliably claim the write speeds written on the top of the card.

NTFS will annihilate flash cards with write amplification, and have piss-poor io performance writing to them.

Yes, and no.

For PCs of the late 90s and early to mid 00s, yes. 'To promote NTFS.'

For Memory cards?

No.

That's much more closely tied to 'convenience of the memory card consortium'. Specifically, 'It's VERY convenient for the filesystem to have an allocation unit size that is a whole divisible factor of the erase unit size, with 1:1 being *oh so VERY convenient*!'

For devices up to about 32gb in size, this 'convenient coincidence!' Held. Larger devices however, have erase unit sizes far too large for FAT32 to be 'convenient' for.

This is, (among other reasons), my microsoft created ExFAT. It's 'FAT', with 'Absurdly large cluster sizes!'

Exactly what the memory card consortium THIRSTED for.

It also let mictosoft get a shiny new exclusive patent that *everyone* would need to get a license for, which is what *microsoft* THIRSTED for.

This marriage of convenience saw fat32 not having 'official' large volume support for ages.

I would not at all be surprised if this recent change coincides with ExFAT patent expiration.

came to make this comment, and is also one of many reasons I've used Vivaldi as my daily driver since the original Beta

I suppose this is "new" for 4K TV's But Sony's 2008 top end XBR models had "Triluminos" backlighting using full array RGB LED's with local dimming. The MSRP for the 55-inch was $7K.

If you're streaming, no. HDR isn't as dynamic due to compression from streaming. It may be noticeable if you're using a 4K BluRay player that is capable of it. But not even all of those do HDR properly.

Every time I see this argument made, I want to see the Neilson demography for the show.

I do NOT hear the young people we have at work talk about this show in a way that's good. They talk about the Orville (which is rarely), much more than they ever have about Academy.

Oh, Absolutely. Young people in a series can very much be a very important asset to that series.

The trap, is wanting to shoehorn them into the "Idiot teenager" mold, or the "Executive Producer's Shameless Self Insert" mold.

Both of those are pure poison. People coming to terms with the realities that what they learned in school is not sufficient to cope with what they encounter in life, and that the relationships they forge with colleagues are essential to not only their futures, but their survival as well, makes for a fantastic story.

But that requires actual story telling.

That's the drama majors.

Here's the thing-- The actual startrek universe is *generally peaceful*. (or rather, was meant to be.)

This is bad for dramatists. There is no conflict, thus no climax. Big bad terrorists? Pure candy for a dramatist. "We have been at peace with our neighbors for 200 years, and have a large interstellar, free-moving society of excess" however? That's really hard for them to work with, which is why you get stuff like Troi+Worf, because they are desperate for some source of friction.

The notion that *THE MESSAGE* of the show is that *WE CAN IN FACT HAVE SUCH A SOCIETY, IF WE TRY*, is wasted on the dramatists. They dont care about such messages, That's why they want to rip that idea down, and replace it with blackjack and hookers. Sometimes literally.

The worst part, is that this kind of 'candy drama' does in fact appeal to the target audience you mention.

The reason startrek is dead, is a combination of:

1) We suck at doing narrative drama that isn't pure sex, explosions, and badguys.

2) At least half (statistically) of the US public audience wants candy drama made of pure sex, explosions, sad cliche's and paper-thin badguys.

3) People dont value the idea of presenting a peaceful and productive future that has its shit together, filled with competent people that aren't assholes, and so dont push for better.

Throw in hollywood having some kind of weird fetish for teenagers trying to 'run things' on top, and you have the whole ensemble.

The same one that hollywood always seems to think exists, *EVERY SINGLE TIME* they make a series about "Teenagers, with Teenager problems, Dealing with a grownup's world" ?

You know, when they make the entire cast have the mindset of a 6 year old who never learned that they cant just eat candy, now with sex hormones, and a lack of oversight?

There seems to be some demographic in Hollywood that *really* wants that kind of show (or really wants that kind of show to be successful), since they keep trying this formula and having it fail.

You'd think that at some point "Young Idiots with more hormones than intelligence--THE SHOW!" not working out, and being a dismal failure each and every time they've tried it, would send a message. It's happened with pirate movies in the past, and with other genres that Hollywood has taken a sharp rebuke toward, but this one never seems to have that issue.

It really looks like the target audience is *Hollywood Executives*.