Posts by Piro 2242 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Nov 2008
They can't ensure their maps are perfect at all times, it's a free service that's best effort.
There are two parties at fault here:
1) the driver, for not seeing a collapsed bridge in front of him.
2) the owners of the road, for not putting a jersey barrier on either side of the collapsed bridge, with signage a few yards before.
Google is a very distant third. It's not great their maps were inaccurate, but there can be no reasonable expectation of flawless mapping.
... and I'll be downvoted to oblivion, but I've always felt that the 2600 is just too old, too simple, to be truly enjoyable these days, and even as a child I remember it being extremely crude.
Maybe there's a reason everything crashed until a decade later when Nintendo and SEGA showed the way, with graphics that good enough that you don't need a fantastic imagination to read them.
Don't get me wrong, I've read Racing the Beam, and have respect for what was done with so little hardware, but that for me doesn't really translate in to an experience that I have much desire to re-live.
But for many it will be, so it's great that they're catered for.
Denmark. Minus the taxes.
The tax per kWh is the highest in Europe, but in the middle of the day, when the wind is blowing hard, the base price is often 0, sometimes negative.
And we only had to cover the country in eyesores that will have to be landfilled at end-of-life.
When the tax was reduced for a while, there were people who could use power and get paid for it. It happened a few times. That also meant those with solar panels PAID to put their energy in to the grid.
Ehh.. I highly doubt supporting Windows 7 would need any extra work. It's a business decision not to test any more.
But it could surely be forked, or even better, forked with an automated patch that ignored the OS check in some manner. Manually maintained forks can all too often be dead-ends and security nightmares.
The switching has provably worked fine as long as Teslas have existed, for over 10 years.
Look at USB these days, for years now we've had chargers that could deliver way higher than 5 V, when negiotated, but stay at 5 V if no handshake is done. Also has demonstrably been fine.
Using extra conductors consumes a lot of material, presumably copper, increasing the cost of the cables and connectors appreciably. All whilst increasing the likelihood the cables might be stolen.
Seems like definitions are hard to come by.
Opinions far from your own don't count.
Death threats and other direct threats on individuals would definitely count, and I guess you could build out a little from there.
As long as it doesn't just mean "opinions that are currently deemed unacceptable".
The USB-C rule was great, forcing Apple's hand, but this is even better, as it forces the whole industry away from horrendous device construction.
It feels so sketchy heating up devices with lithium-ion batteries in them just to be able to get them apart. And then the battery feels like it's epoxyed in place. Let's get away from that.
Nobody wanted to lose an SD card slot, 3.5mm jack or removable battery. Keyboard, yes, that's very niche, but there would be buyers if there were offerings.
Many decisions have been taken in the pursuit of getting you to buy extra crap (new phone because your battery died, wireless headphones because you can't plug yours in any more, more storage at a higher cost upfront because you can't expand). Don't confuse those decisions with ones people actually want.
For the record my phone has a removable battery, 3.5mm jack and microSD slot (dedicated, can still run dual SIM alongside).. but that's not an easy combo to get these days.
But what's the source image?
Whether we like it or not, the majority of photos are spat out of phones and cameras as standard JPEG.
Further lossy compression is always going to create unacceptable degradation. The idea JPEG XL can losslessly compress a standard JPEG further, saving diskspace and bandwidth, but also can reverse the process to serve JPEG XL naïve clients with standard JPEGs is something so useful that it basically renders any other reasons as being firmly secondary.
Better to follow the example of their neighbouring Finland instead, where they had a DAB switchoff in 2005.
There are a fair few that have switched off DAB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting#Countries_where_FM_to_DAB(+)_radio_transition_is_cancelled/postponed
My wife is still using hers, I just swapped the battery from a Cosmo that was faulty. Have an astro slide ordered, but Planet is very slow to deliver.
Their support is very poor and software release schedules unbelievably pathetic.
The hardware can be decent, but they just don't keep supporting it as it deserves.
Sadly, if you want a proper keyboard, nobody else is competing, so what can you do?
If you want to forget all about durability and serviceability (and dual SIMs WITH microSD, as on XCover), and you want to spend a lot more money, then there are two others the same size: ASUS ZenFone 9 (3.5mm jack) and Samsung Galaxy S23 (no 3.5mm jack).
But I'd rather not pay too much for my phone, and I'd like all the ports, with durability and serviceability. But smaller? Nope, as you said, that's the size floor these days.
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