You have a smartphone that can pick up analog television and play cassettes? That’s fantastic!

But seriously, this was cutting-edge stuff for 1980.

I’ll wager this thing has at least 5 PCBs crammed in there , each chock-full of discrete components.

Before the celebrity chef craze?

The craze that made the cheap cuts of meat expensive?

Ohhh, now it’s “traditional comfort food” and everyone wants it, so let’s triple the price of that literal offcut.

it is really more useful than Katie from Sales getting skin cancer on a beach in Thailand or that…

A large chunk of air transport is also freight. And business. And regular domestic travel for people going from A to B, travel that doesn’t include holidays for Kate or that drunk dude in Mallorca.

And when you look at those uses, AI is still running a pretty distant second place.

It seems that every new release adds another layer of indirection (misdirection?) between you and the useful stuff you need to access. I use a third party utility to manage IP settings, and it’s one click from its menu to get to the network adapter page. It takes me about 5 minutes of angry clicking around in stock standard win11 before I get to the same place.

The main one I use is the network adaptor settings, where you can enable/disable protocols and most importantly for me, where you can easily add multiple IP addresses on a network adaptor.

The Win 8+ network settings page is an absolute trainwreck. I particularly like how it doesn’t warn about conflicting IP addresses now and just silently accepts your given address and provides an auto-assigned 169.254 address instead if it sees even the smallest hint of another computer out there using the address you want to use.

Guaranteed fun and confusion trying to access/ping things until you finally check the status of the network adaptor and discover the auto assigned address, thanks Microsoft.

Not everyone wants to use dhcp, which is clearly their preferred direction, and there have been bugs where Cisco devices trigger that flip to auto assigned addresses even if things are fine.

Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.

Which is why if you dig deep enough into Settings you’ll see WinXP Control Panel UI elements. You know, the elements that are actually useful for power users.

Which is worse?

• Entire driver written in a non memory safe language?
• The interface to the rest of the kernel is marked as unsafe and then the other X percent is safe from memory corruption?

Surely if X > 0 then this is still a net improvement?

each driving for one hour per day with a computer consuming 840 watts

This entirely depends on what energy source we end up using in 2050.

IF , you assume that by 2050 home solar and batteries are a common item, and consumer electric vehicles are predominantly charged at home via those sources , then claims of emissions becoming a concern are moot. Seeing that home solar/batteries are becoming more common now, with 25 years to go, this is not a huge stretch of the imagination.

Each individual vehicle has daily energy requirements that can be sourced relatively easily by local renewables, unlike datacentres which have huge energy requirements requiring energy to be piped in from sources elsewhere.

Apart from that , the 0.8kWh/day usage of the computer hardware is entirely dwarfed by the (handwave guess) ~20kWh/day usage of the actual electric drive system, where trivial improvements in efficiency can compensate for the 0.8kWh/day usage of the computers. Hell, improvements in efficiency because of the adoption of autonomous driving instead of leadfoot humans at the wheel might end up making all this a net positive.

It’s a 1/4 wave antenna with a groundplane. Physics dictates the size.

Compared to the PCB antenna in your average USB dongle, this would have at least two to three times the range, and likely more than that, because you can put it somewhere more optimal than just poking out the back of your device.

I don’t see that at all. Perhaps you are just projecting your own issues onto Lemmy at large. I think you need to have a good hard look at yourself and your internal biases and then come back and apologise to all of us.

they’re presented in the time and place you’re more likely to interact with them.

Normally about 4 to 6 days late so you’re “forced” to urgently like or comment after " missing out" on something in their life.

As is tradition.

Search engines should have an off button for ai,

Techbros won’t let that happen, because they’re all terrified that consumers will just shut off all the AI being crammed into everything and all their money will evaporate.

If you’re just simulating the temperature there’s pretty much just three options:

• The thermostat will simply command the HVAC system to maximum cooling, just like with any temperature well above the setpoint.
• The thermostat will treat that value as a faulty sensor, report “error faulty sensor”, and not do much in particular.
• The thermostat will crash due to an overflow of some sort as its software was never tested with inputs like that.

Personally, I’d go with, “error faulty sensor” as the most likely outcome.

(Edit: you can stimulate the temperature by setting your house on fire. Better to just simulate it)

Somewhere, a grizzled old sub-editor’s eye is twitching over that title.

The gains compound a bit too, 20 percent less weight equals proportionally less battery capacity required to shift the now-lighter vehicle from point A to point B.

So then you can cut the size of the battery while maintaining the same range, and that’s where you start to get significant overall weight and cost savings.

The only extra moon I’m willing to accommodate is a blue moon. All the rest are just social media wankery, especially “supermoons” that are merely a few percent larger than usual due to the minor eccentricity of the moon’s orbit.

Personally, I’m holding out for the Electric Twizzler Platinum Edition Supermoon Series 9000, I hear it’s going to be the best one yet.

Can it be disabled?

Sure! There’ll be a dialog box that comes up every single time that you wake your PC saying:

“Do you want to activate AwesomeAI™ now? 98 percent of the functions of this OS are crippled or unusable until you activate AwesomeAI™ so Microsoft recommends doing so immediately.”

And the two options will be “OMG Yes!” , or “Maybe Later”.