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  • Nokia had quite a few, the E-line (e.g E6, E63, E71) being some of the most "blackberry" looking ones.

    BB didn't have a patent on the idea of a keyboard on a phone, but they did (do?) have a design patent for one of the most optimal layouts and dancing around it was tricky and risky. Or you can just be Typo, directly rip off a BB keyboard, and act surprised when you get sued.

  • My HTC Desire Z (aka T-Mobile G2) got many years of extra use as a dedicated emulation machine for exactly that reason.

  • You should definitely not try to find info on how to take your Kindle on a WinterBreak ;)

  • They are also frequency-hopping, meaning they constantly switch what part of the band they use, and there are a few rc radio protocols use a dual frequency system for redundancy. FRsky has one that does 2.4Ghz and 900Mhz at the same time.

    So to make sure you are jamming all (commercial) drones, you need to deafen everything from ~850Mhz up to 5.9Ghz.

  • Also Android has an option to allow numbers that call you twice in 15 minutes to get through as well, which they would do anyway if there is an actual emergency, and someone is really trying to reach you asap.

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  • Hey, it's just a quick special military operation to Kyiv, in and out in three days! Surely nothing can go wrong.

    IIRC there was talk after it went south that the yes-men around Putin had made him believe that not only would Ukraine not fight back, but the people would join the Russian troops in celebration for being "liberated" and help them, and that's why they didn't even think that failure was a possibility.

  • Because the United States Board on Geographic Names now says so, as demanded by Trump by Order No. 3423. They are the government body that defines what places are officially called.

    But unless you are a US federal employee, as Nick Fury once said, "I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

  • Yeah, out of all the generative AI fields, voice generation at this point is like 95% there in its capability of producing convincing speech even with consumer level tech like ElevenLabs. That last 5% might not even be solvable currently, as it's those moments it gets the feeling, intonation or pronunciation wrong when the only context you give it is a text input, which is why everything purely automated tends to fall apart quite fast.

    Especially voice cloning - the DRG Cortana Mission Control mod is one of the examples I like to use.

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  • "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that, and we didn't exactly have many friends to choose from.

  • First people didn't really understand computers, so we taught about them to children - back in late 90's when I was in school, we had a few school years of dedicated computer classes every week.
    People then started to assume kids just "know" computers ("digital native" and all that) and we stopped teaching them because hey, they know it already.

    And now we are suddenly surprised that kids don't know how to use computers.

  • Ha, olisikin 30%. Suomen hinnat yleensä lähempänä 300%.

  • £120 for 12 months means the price for every 1 hour is £0.014. I guess they could be generous and give and refund the entire day - a whopping £0.33 :p

  • From experience printing a bunch of different planters with varying settings and printers, without post-processing/sealing the answer is "not reliably". You can increase your chances by using many perimeters and surface layers, high heat, and thicc extrusions, but you are still just stacking swiss cheese slices on top of each other hoping the holes don't line up.

    With days submerged, even the tiniest of defects means water can and will seep in.

  • Accidents happen, there's no denying that, but that applies to literally everything that exists. Not setting your house on fire is a byproduct of not using candles, doesn't mean their purpose is arson.

    I personally have zero desire to hurt or kill anyone, human or animal (so much so I deliberately avoided the mandatory military conscription of Finland) but I really like target shooting. Most of the time I do it with air pistols/rifles because I can use them on my back yard, but the bows, crossbows and firearms I own are strictly for that exact same purpose as well.

  • LLM is a type of a machine learning model, which is a type of artificial intelligence.

    Saying LLMs aren't AI is just the AI Effect in action.

  • Something that pretends or looks like intelligence, but actually isn't at all is a perfectly valid interpretation of the word artificial - fake intelligence.