mpd is the best music player on any system

I’ve started using Cantata as a graphical front end, though

Tape will be around until something better for archival purposes comes around

It lasts significantly longer sitting on the shelf than HDD or SSD by far

I doubt it’s being used for anything other than backups and archiving though

Maybe, but Android keeps rewriting its Bluetooth stack from scratch

Android’s current Bluetooth stack has only been around for like 2.5 years

So it’s also less battle tested, probably, although less likely to have memory corruption bugs

It seems somewhat damning that Google’s own browser had a workaround for this, though

The walled garden makes sense on the phone, but I’m not clear what you’re thinking of for macOS

I just went to videolan.org and libreoffice.org over Thanksgiving to download and install them on my cousin’s MacBook

Because an infotainment system isn’t considered safety critical…

Once they pass safety tests for this new battery, which will take many years, there might be an option for an after market modification, but as the other engineer in this thread tried to tell you, it’s kind of unlikely

I don’t know how else to explain to you that you have to have a street legal vehicle to sell from the factory.

You’re welcome to mod your car, and you probably won’t have issues, but that’s not how it works for new vehicles

The 2022-2027 model year of one of the biggest manufacturers is using a chipset from a phone from 2016 in their infotainment. Yeah, you’ll get some minor updates, but they’ve recently cancelled any more major updates since the chip is dead. And it’ll still go into cars until the next unit they designed last year enters production in 2028

If they had the ability to test it in a vehicle, they would be shouting about it from the hills rather than this “maybe it might be possible” report that keeps getting shared

It would be magic to get it into a vehicle in 2028. Every other car manufacturer has finalized their designs past that by now, and aren’t going to risk such a massive change this late in the design process

This is part of why the infotainment systems in cars tend to suck. They’re finalized about 6 years before the car goes to market

Then Toyota has some magic power that all the other car companies I work with don’t

I know Tesla plays fast and loose with NHTSA regulations, but I doubt Toyota will

This battery technology will have to pass safety inspections, just as Li-ion

They can’t bypass certifications

They’ve also been pushing hydrogen and not working on BEVs while everyone else was working on BEVs

I like your optimism, but this is just marketing fluff that won’t come to market on that timeline

I don’t know if the journalist didn’t understand, or Toyota lied, but it’s not happening by 2028

It requires years of test drives to go to market and get production quantities enough to sell

There is a 0% chance it’s available in 2028 if there isn’t a demo unit today.

It might be in some high end “we’ll sell 1,000 of these cars” by then

If there was any chance of this being viable by 2028, they would have a demo car today that works

Car production timelines are LONG

One of the articles yesterday stated he wasn’t at Microsoft yet. The MS CEO said he could either be reinstated or start an AI initiative at MS

Apparently he’s a big part of why MS bought 49% of OpenAI

A block isn’t a single transaction. It’s way too inefficient to scale that way

A block is a group of transactions

I mean, yes?

Making it harder for the average person to keep their identity separate from their Google account is the point…

They hadn’t done this in the past because they weren’t big enough to keep people on their service while degrading the service

It won’t allow you to log back in without adding a phone number, even though it had been used during those three years

They’re just trying to get rid of anonymous accounts

The downside is that Google won’t let you keep them active without jumping through hoops

There’s no chance. 30% of their revenue comes from EMEA

It might be cheaper to pay fines than taxes, though

These come from the fonts on your device - there isn’t some “official” image for each, just what code point is what

These come from the fonts on your device - there isn’t some “official” image for each, just what code point is what