I write code and mess with computers.
I got one instead of an EV, although I did want an electric motorcycle but it’s 2x for a subpar product.
Even my new mid/low end adventure bike is only $6200. You can find used street bikes sub-$2000. The cheaper, lower-powered ones usually have better mileage too. Mine has 68mpg running 91 octane (US).
If there’s snow on the street (enough to matter) I’m using my ancient car, but otherwise the proper gear and prep can handle my state weather fine (avg 30-85°F depending on time of year).
I used it for a while (a few years) before getting a VPN. I couldn’t stand the horrible download speeds mostly, but there were always bugs. Not to mention the Arch support randomly breaking for months(?).
Sometimes torrents just refused to download anything at all too, it was pretty annoying. Wouldn’t even pull metadata.
Maybe it’s improved since the year or so since I dropped it, but the dev team seems to be going off the deep end with weird crypto fair-share downloading even as the bug trackers keeps growing.
It’s a shame too because the idea of decentralized torrents is great.
I agree. Saved me a ton of time when I was importing an old iPod library that uses some crappy naming/folder scheme where they’re all named with random letters.
It was able to correctly figure out all but maybe 15 songs out of hundreds, and then using the acustic fingerprinting it found all but the last few, which I did manually.
https://libreelec.tv/ might be of some interest if you want a media Pi OS
Interesting. I currently run Jellyfin for myself & others, but would love to move to something that works a bit better.
The hard part is getting in to all the various app stores (smart tvs & smartphones mainly). I also couldn’t find much info on what features it actually supports. I use basically everything Jellyfin offers (live TV, recordings, web radio, media playback, multiple playback sources, etc.), so I’d like to know that.
Sure they could, but why bother? There’s already FOSS twitch-esque sites you can self-host.
Arguably, the real value in their site isn’t even the code, but the streamers and their dedicated viewers. Not to mention the brand recognition and amount of new viewers that stumble into their site daily through Twitch being so big.
That’s why Youtube and the now defunct Beam/Mixer always try/tried to buy up individual streamers - its where the real value is.
I run this on my home server. Useful for speed-testing your LAN on wired & wifi. Helped me find out my brand new TV gets approximately 10% the speed my phone from 2018 does, for whatever reason.
It’s not reliable past 1Gbps though, as noted in their issue tracker. Mine caps out at about 3Gbps on a 10Gbps-capable line.
Or if you’re into self-hosting https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
I thought they wrote their own STT engine? Guess it was a TTS though.
After looking it up I do see what you’re talking about though. They say they proxy everything so your IP doesn’t touch the Google servers. But I also see you can run your own Mozilla DeepSpeech & use that instead, which seems like a decent option. It’s just not the default.
Mycroft https://mycroft.ai/
I’ve been waiting to get the v2 model, but it’s taking so long I might make my own with a raspberry pi and their software.
https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/pulse/monthly this seems decently active? I don’t know anything about this program though.
The movement of a majority to gmail makes some sense. Android (and all other google services) basically forces users into making a google/gmail account. Not to mention people tend to flock to the same services once they start snowballing in popularity.
Before gmail, everyone (that I knew) was on AOL, which (probably) got its users from requiring accounts to use their network back in the day. I don’t remember it that well though, so I might be wrong there…
An echo chamber is a “safe space” where, in general, no one disagrees with some core idea/ideology. Thus with no differing opinion, people build on each other and strengthen their opinion that they are right.
Example: a nazi forum. Only nazis are allowed, anyone else gets banned. This removes the mere thought they could be wrong, and makes its nazi members more emboldened.
The same thing happens for all crap online - communists, leftists, white suppremists, pedophiles, dog fighters, BSD evangelists, whatever. Whether you are “right” isn’t important, just removing any alternatives closes off your mind to the possibility of more.
TLDR: groupthink bubbles bad. Interacting with people of differing opinions is good. It’s how we grow as people.
Most people are under some naieve assumption that devs could just all work on the same thing, instead of spreading efforts across many projects.
Sure we’d probably get further if we all joined hands and sang kumbayah, but it doesn’t work well in the real world. Lack of understanding, unfamiliarity with certain systems, no interest or desire, thinking the current system is a lost cause, etc. Many reasons it doesn’t work.
Where did you get that info? Their site says it’s 2 manufacturing defects in the battery.
Specifically it says
The problem consists of two LG manufacturing defects (a torn anode tab and folded separator) that, in rare circumstances, can simultaneously present in a single battery cell in the LG battery module.
Also, the Bolt does have battery heating/cooling last I checked. The Nissan Leaf, however, doesn’t.
I use neither as well, although I did use QtCreator for a few weeks once, and its RAD (and vim mode) was nice for Qt dev.
The main features are the same across all IDE’s - debugger, code completion, refactoring, linting, Git integration, and build systems support. I’m sure there’s more, but like I said I don’t use them so I can’t name more.
Obviously VSCode can use plugins to do all this, same as many other editors. The line between IDE & text editor get blurry with plugins.
I’ve had people surprised when I told them all plants have at least some protein. They really thought the only source is meat 🤷♂️