pokemaster787 @ pokemaster787 @ani.social

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You might appreciate the work done by purism to give us more control over our devices.

Based off this line I'm pretty sure you're trolling, Purism barely manages to ship a product in 5 years.

has over 5x the sodium of beef

I'm curious, I've never cooked with Impossible meat before, is the "meat" just already salted/seasoned well? When I make a burger I definitely add quite a bit of salt while cooking, wondering if that sodium is just it being pre-seasoned or if that's before a (needed) good pinch of salt

we have more empty houses than homeless people

This is true, but very few of those houses exist where homelessness is a major problem. Location plays a huge role in someone's life and we can't just ship everyone that's homeless or struggling to a dying small town in the US.

I feel like it's 100% a "they don't care," the vast majority of social media users couldn't give less of a shit who runs the service, just what the service does for them.

The average person didn't quit Facebook because it was a gross invasion of privacy and FB was caught doing plenty of suspect shit - Facebook declined because it wasn't "cool" anymore and that's it. People on Lemmy are more likely to care about who's behind the service, but the average user certainly isn't going to care much or at all.

Technically you can drop bandages for other players regardless of your class, but actually coordinating that in most cases wouldn't be worth it.

HP makes calculators still, actually. Can't say I have any love for their printers but the HP Prime blows any TI equivalent out of the water, easily the best calculator I've ever used.

There’s no reason that standard should be MATLAB though.

I can't speak to OP's field, but in my field (automotive and electrical engineering) and even within my company, MATLAB and Simulink are heavily used. The reason it's the standard is that it's an industry standard. MATLAB on my resume almost certainly got me the foot in the door for my first job.

YMMV on if you could get an employer to let you use a different software, but big companies tend to be very protective of IP and are wary of that.

Read the article, this isn't talking about consumer-owned vehicles but the Cruise Origin robo-taxi service. They're small autonomous shuttle-style cars.

Basically GM reinvented the bus but made it smaller.

So to answer "How does it park at Walmart" - it takes the passenger to the front and drops them off then continues on its way. I believe the intent/current trials using Bolts have an app similar to Uber, you put in your current location + destination, then it comes and gets you, then drops you off.

Almost 0 value in removing a steering wheel or any kind of input to a consumer-owned car like that, makes some amount of sense for robo-taxis. (They specifically wanted passengers sharing the ride to face eachother to ease safety concerns, and they probably don't want random Joe getting up at the emergency controls and driving it off road)

And no way can GM beat Apple or Android at a car interface.

Poor marketing from GM, Google, and most automakers. A lot of the interfaces are still gonna be Android-based, they're dropping Android Auto not Android Automotive. Android Automotive being the actual OS that most car infotainment displays come with these days, and is made by Google. Android Auto is just the ability to connect your phone and project it to the display.

Still a shit move, but GM has nowhere near the capability to actually build a good infotainment OS from the ground up.

I can't speak for the licensing costs of Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, I have no idea what they are.

But I do work in the automotive industry as an engineer. The sentiment is very much that it's about getting customer subscriptions and customer data, to build recurring revenue streams that wouldn't be possible if people are able to just use their phone and its apps on their infotainment display.

GM at least I know is sticking to Android Automotive, which is built by Google and they pay for anyway. Android Auto and Carplay are just additional functionality built on top of Android Automotive (the naming is bad - Android Automotive is the Google Android-based OS for car displays, Android Auto is the projection tech/api), they're quite literally removing existing features on a product they're already paying for.

I highly doubt Google is giving them a huge discount to cut those features, and if they are getting any it's dwarfed by how much they want to make through subscription services to use your car.

Integrating Android Auto into Android Automotive is even easier than CarPlay, and GM is dropping it as well. It's quite literally a built-in feature of Android Automotive that has to be actively removed.

(Just to keep the distinction clear: Android Automotive == A Google Android-based interface for car infotainment, Android Auto == An API for projecting your phone screen and relevant apps to an infotainment display)

It's 100% about extracting revenue from customers by forcing them to use the manufacturer's infotainment ecosystem and charge for recurring subscriptions to things your phone will do for free (and in an actually upgradeable manner).

I found what really helps Jellyfin on my Chromecast is setting the player manually. There's a setting to make it ask which player to use when starting a show and if one doesn't work, 99% of the time the other one works fine.

Sometimes switching players doesn't fix subtitles for me, in those situations I usually have to toggle subs a few times or restart the stream and they actually work.

In my opinion it's a minor enough inconvenience given Jellyfin is 100% free and open source, whereas Plex is tracking you and charging you. But of course maybe your media is in some more difficult format than mine.