It’s a “win” & a “peace”.

Yes, good points, but what can make financial sense doesn’t need to make economical sense.

Perhaps in such events we can transition to smaller, maybe RISK-V boards with components from various manufacturers.

But yes, I too keep hoping consumers would speak up & stop bs practices. Then again, if we kill a consumer industry you can’t just bring it back in a year, and megacorps can weather in the meantime by offering consumers short-term incentives if they make the switch. It’s how all the personal data collection by private corps started, why eg Google had free services (and no ads) & yet was already being valued in the billions.

Goodbye local Windows with Linux having a 3% market share means entirely different market & society too, regardless of our Linux desktops that can’t get new parts.

After 20 years when your CPUs, RAMs, and at least SSDs don’t work anymore, and the PC supply never came back - how are you going to show/trick the government that you are a patriot that uses & supports one of the three big USA private AIs?

This isn’t uncommon, even I have that option at work. None of this is new tech.

It’s just a long existing tech now used to close down on freedom & paywall all the things.

Enough capital can reshape even a somewhat free market into a non-free one - if we, the demand, have basically no other choice (except revolt, but we forgot/got that erased from our consciousness) we usually just try to survive.

The mythos about how things are getting better for each generation of humans is false.

I hope that future happens, but I’m scared.

On my first car I used my phone for that (some Symbian Nokia maybe?), but only a few times.

It didn’t have the battery for it really, and a bit of lag on them old GPS dedicated chips (it fit the dashboard nicely tho), but it proved the concept beautifully.

Exactly.

This is tech from the 50s (and you can find concept pics of it used in cars), it’s simple, cheap, and improves road safety a lot. I struggle when I have to drive a car without hud (I’ve first seen it irl around I guess 2005, yet not much changed till today, you still either have to pay extra or buy one of the top specs). Govs should just mandate it as a standard.

Even weirder, when talking to ppl irl they mostly just say “oh that’s stupid” or “I don’t need that” (my father used to be one of those ppl too, and when he recently took his car to the shop & they gave him a temporary car without hud he bitched about it all the time how he doesn’t know how fast he is going (without looking away from the street)).

(There is loads of such tech that work as good as 20 or 30 years ago, are generally cheap in terms of production costs, yet they remain a rarity - adaptive/radar cruise control, adaptive high mean beams, self-levelling low beams, cornering lights, IR cameras spotting & beaming nearby pedestrians and animals, etc. At least EU mandated assisted emergency braking so that the crashes occur at lower speeds or not at all. Megacorps just have to much influence/power/profits.)

Nissan Silvia & 240 used this basic hud in 1988:

Oldsmobile, also 1988:

It’s like planes & cars with HUDs on transparent windshields (only the driver can really see it):

Abolish ICE McAbolishICEface

No Tumbleweed fans? :/

They (openSUSE) make a lot of default decisions for you, but it’s really close to 0 maintenance if you lack the time (or just cannot even for months at a time) & still a rolling release, zypper, etc.

Ok, but how hilarious would it be if a series of vulnerabilities (software & hardware) would be discovered that wound allow just that (set fire to the battery), lol.

Should have brought an ice shiv to an ICE fight? :D

I bet no LARPer is paid that good.

Do you think they can claim PTSD extra pension from the mean girls baking oinking noises at them?

Between the constant presence of (armed??) cops, flag allegiance thing, the sus history lessons, and Chrome laptops … idk man, feels freen’t & it saddens me when I think about it.

All the hi5s when he got back prob packed some punch.

Also, lmao, I know it’s a thing over there, but I still did not expect security & cops at the scene by default (def did expect them be quick about protecting the ICE enthusiast).

(Also bonus funny double-take - it’s Lake Zurich, Illinois.)

I’m sure the switch was a profit driven enterprise evey step of the way, so it worked perfectly, and additionally created more malleable servants.