> Verbatim, who owns M-Disc, doesn't even manufacture discs anymore. They just slap their brand on other peoples discs. They're owned by one of the other disc manufacturers (CMC Magnetics), so I think they're…
I agree with all of this, but I also feel like it describes nearly every other big tech company over the same time period.
Colleges with key punches? Probably pretty close to zero. My point was more that, I think it's incorrect to assert that it's necessary for kids to directly use a computer in order to effectively learn about them. We…
I think that can be done without having them sit in front of a computer or even really using a computer, though. Lots of kids have stories about wandering over to a college campus when they were in middle school,…
They should probably explain that, though, since right now they've simply got a link to the website that's hawking the current version.
It's limited to "younger students", and keeping younger students away from computers also isn't a bad idea IMO.
> Google may just be getting ready to follow suit. That may well be, but it's a regression for the time being, since Advanced Protection mode presumably no longer uses MTE (or a replacement for MTE), whereas it did on…
AFAIK the other Pixel devices, going back to the 8, do use MTE in the stock OS. Some MTE features are only enabled when "Advanced Protection" is turned on in the OS settings, but the stock OS on those devices does make…
Unfortunately, the headline is somewhat optimistic compared to the reality, I think. The thread makes it sound like it could have been disabled due to errata or performance issues. Basically, it looks like the software…
Is 2010 when people started to like it? I remember, in 2008, being in a computer science course at university when Chrome launched. It was not liked at that time, at least within the computer users I knew. I remember it…
> not clear at all if there will ever be cheap Motorolas They've indicated that support will eventually be added for midrange Motorola devices, which I believe are historically price-competitive with the a-series Pixels.
> Well the current Motorola Signature (2026) is 3 times the price of a Pixel. I understand the sentiment, certainly, but the price difference depends a lot on which model we're comparing to. The Signature will be the…
> If "thinning down the population" was the intent, shouldn't the US reverse their anti-abortion bullshit laws? Their can be more than one motivation, of course. Also, it's very possible that outlawing abortion can…
I wonder if practices will change any of there's ever a device that ships with GOS. Right now, many companies are happy to shrug off GOS, because they don't support "modified devices". If any of the Motorola devices…
I think the point is that they didn't charge developers anything specifically to be developers or sell apps. They just needed the same hardware and software as everybody else, which, yes, they probably had to buy.
Fairphone also had the publicly available test key flagged as trusted by the boot loader at one point, which probably discourages projects like GOS, since it makes it harder to trust the hardware to not be a weak link…
There's a lot of good troubleshooting and tech info on there, though. I've run into multiple tech issues over the years that aren't documented in bug reports, change logs, etc., but some random person on Reddit will…
I actually remembered more about this after my initial post. I ended up with two copies of Quake (one is the original shareware release and one is a later release of the full game), and one of them has the PRE flag set…
IIRC, it's actually debatable if the pre-emphasis flag is supposed to be set. I don't remember the exact details anymore, but I think it was discovered that there multiple releases with bit-identical audio tracks, but…
I use Google Photos on GrapheneOS, and Google Photos is blocked from network access (via the network permission exposed on GOS). That must prevent this popup from occurring, because I've never seen it.
Maybe this is the straw that broke the camel's back. It seems like a lot of reforms start by acknowledging basically what you're pointing out here, that something is common practice, but people are finally disgusted…
> I was optimistic, but once I had it wired up to one of my projects, instead of making magical hands-off progress on my todo list it spent nearly my entire $20 worth of “ona compute units”, whatever those are,…
One of my issues with this is that the market is often pretty slow. With a lot of things, it feels like the market won't have resolved it until I've been dead for 150 years, and, to me, that's just about as good as not…
I was curious about this, so I looked it up just now. It looks like the project providing UEFI for the Raspberry Pi 5 is abandoned, and compatibility with newer board revisions is reported to be broken (if I correctly…
I assume these would be batteries that are relatively robust in terms of cycle count, like LiFePO4.
> Verbatim, who owns M-Disc, doesn't even manufacture discs anymore. They just slap their brand on other peoples discs. They're owned by one of the other disc manufacturers (CMC Magnetics), so I think they're…
I agree with all of this, but I also feel like it describes nearly every other big tech company over the same time period.
Colleges with key punches? Probably pretty close to zero. My point was more that, I think it's incorrect to assert that it's necessary for kids to directly use a computer in order to effectively learn about them. We…
I think that can be done without having them sit in front of a computer or even really using a computer, though. Lots of kids have stories about wandering over to a college campus when they were in middle school,…
They should probably explain that, though, since right now they've simply got a link to the website that's hawking the current version.
It's limited to "younger students", and keeping younger students away from computers also isn't a bad idea IMO.
> Google may just be getting ready to follow suit. That may well be, but it's a regression for the time being, since Advanced Protection mode presumably no longer uses MTE (or a replacement for MTE), whereas it did on…
AFAIK the other Pixel devices, going back to the 8, do use MTE in the stock OS. Some MTE features are only enabled when "Advanced Protection" is turned on in the OS settings, but the stock OS on those devices does make…
Unfortunately, the headline is somewhat optimistic compared to the reality, I think. The thread makes it sound like it could have been disabled due to errata or performance issues. Basically, it looks like the software…
Is 2010 when people started to like it? I remember, in 2008, being in a computer science course at university when Chrome launched. It was not liked at that time, at least within the computer users I knew. I remember it…
> not clear at all if there will ever be cheap Motorolas They've indicated that support will eventually be added for midrange Motorola devices, which I believe are historically price-competitive with the a-series Pixels.
> Well the current Motorola Signature (2026) is 3 times the price of a Pixel. I understand the sentiment, certainly, but the price difference depends a lot on which model we're comparing to. The Signature will be the…
> If "thinning down the population" was the intent, shouldn't the US reverse their anti-abortion bullshit laws? Their can be more than one motivation, of course. Also, it's very possible that outlawing abortion can…
I wonder if practices will change any of there's ever a device that ships with GOS. Right now, many companies are happy to shrug off GOS, because they don't support "modified devices". If any of the Motorola devices…
I think the point is that they didn't charge developers anything specifically to be developers or sell apps. They just needed the same hardware and software as everybody else, which, yes, they probably had to buy.
Fairphone also had the publicly available test key flagged as trusted by the boot loader at one point, which probably discourages projects like GOS, since it makes it harder to trust the hardware to not be a weak link…
There's a lot of good troubleshooting and tech info on there, though. I've run into multiple tech issues over the years that aren't documented in bug reports, change logs, etc., but some random person on Reddit will…
I actually remembered more about this after my initial post. I ended up with two copies of Quake (one is the original shareware release and one is a later release of the full game), and one of them has the PRE flag set…
IIRC, it's actually debatable if the pre-emphasis flag is supposed to be set. I don't remember the exact details anymore, but I think it was discovered that there multiple releases with bit-identical audio tracks, but…
I use Google Photos on GrapheneOS, and Google Photos is blocked from network access (via the network permission exposed on GOS). That must prevent this popup from occurring, because I've never seen it.
Maybe this is the straw that broke the camel's back. It seems like a lot of reforms start by acknowledging basically what you're pointing out here, that something is common practice, but people are finally disgusted…
> I was optimistic, but once I had it wired up to one of my projects, instead of making magical hands-off progress on my todo list it spent nearly my entire $20 worth of “ona compute units”, whatever those are,…
One of my issues with this is that the market is often pretty slow. With a lot of things, it feels like the market won't have resolved it until I've been dead for 150 years, and, to me, that's just about as good as not…
I was curious about this, so I looked it up just now. It looks like the project providing UEFI for the Raspberry Pi 5 is abandoned, and compatibility with newer board revisions is reported to be broken (if I correctly…
I assume these would be batteries that are relatively robust in terms of cycle count, like LiFePO4.