My main problem with the current crop of Linux phones is, or at least it’s my impression - is that they still struggle with the basic phone part. As in network connectivity (at least in the US), making and receiving calls, SMS & MMS, and VoLTE support. If there’s a Linux phone where that stuff is solid and works, I’d buy one. I don’t really care about the whole app ecosystem - I barely have any apps on my Android phone now.
That’s also why they tend to have cellular modems that have poor support for US frequencies.
Interesting. I’ve not heard of FuriOS, but if it is a Linux phone that actually can be used with US carriers, makes calls and supports SMS/MMS, and can do VoLTE that’s a actually a pretty big deal.
While pretty neat, I’d have a hard time even calling the WiPhone a phone if it doesn’t have a cellular modem. You’re entirely dependent on having a wifi connection. I suppose it could serve as a replacement for a landline, but that’s about it.
Chevy still makes a regular cab, 8’ bed version of the Silverado in the entry-level “WT” (work truck) trim, which at least theoretically is available to non-fleet buyers. Good luck finding one though.
You can certainly 3D print a building, but can you really 3D print a house? Can it 3d print doors and windows that can open and close and be locked? Can it 3D print the plumbing and wiring and have it be safe and functional? Can it 3D print the foundation? What about bathroom fixtures, kitchen cabinets, and things like carpet?
It’s actually not a bad metaphor. You can use a 3D printer to help with building a house, and to 3D print some of fixtures and bits and pieces that go into the house. Using a 3D printer would automate a fair amount of the manual labor that goes into building a house today (at least how it is done in the US). But you’re still going to need people who know what they are doing put it all together to transform the building to a functional home. We’re still a fair ways away from just being able to 3D print a house, just like we’re fair ways away from having a LLM write a large, complex piece of software.
Every salary job I’ve worked is 8 hours a day of work with a 1 hour unpaid lunch. So it’s something like 08:00-17:00 or 09:00-18:00 as your work hours. That’s what is called 40 hours a week around here. You could consider that 45 hours a week. As lunch is unpaid that’s considered your time to do whatever you want including leaving the job site for that hour.
Some shift-work places will do something like 09:00 to 17:00 with a paid 30 minute lunch. Since lunch is paid time, they can require you stay on the job site. This is isn’t as common now as it used to be, but some places like factories that run a 24 hours a day schedule still do things like that.
Depends on the setup. For a binary system, there’s really only two setups. One with two stars close together, and the planet you’re on orbiting the center of mass of the two stars. Tatooine from Star Wars is like this. So it would be mostly like Earth, just with two glowing orbs in the sky next to each other during the day instead of just one glowing orb.
The other configuration would be two stars further apart, and the planet orbiting one of them. For example if one of the gas giants in our solar system was heavy enough to start nuclear fusion. Such as what happened to Jupiter in the 2001 universe (Jupiter actually gets turned into a star in the sequel, 2010). Now, the outer star will revolve around the main star, but much slower than the inner planet revolves the main star. So like Jupiter it will rise and set at approximately the same time tomorrow as it does today. But at least as far as Earth and Jupiter goes, the outer star (Jupiter) will rise about 3-4 minutes earlier tomorrow, and then 3-4 minutes earlier the day after tomorrow, etc., which means over roughly a year it will drift from being in sync with the main star, to being completely out of sync with the main star, and everything in between in terms of outer star sunrise and outer star sunset. Since Jupiter takes about 12 years to go around the Sun, it will actually take about 13 months on Earth for the cycle to repeat.
She’s actually too old to be a boomer. Pelosi is silent generation.
While your average early/mid 2000’s CRT TV is certainly not stylish, I do appreciate the buttons and convenient access to a set of inputs and the headphone jack. Today’s TVs are all form over function, which is especially annoying since the form is just a black slab.
This time it was a willful and intentional leak (at least if you believe the article’s version of the events), whereas the guy who left the prototype at the bar was a complete accident. It’s not surprising to me that Apple would fire someone who intentionally leaked something. As for the guy who left the phone at the bar, I guess it depends on how careless and negligent you think that was.
I avoid buying from Amazon as much as possible, but good luck doing anything online and avoiding AWS.
The other problem with moving manufacturing due to tariffs is that tariffs can always be changed, whereas moving manufacturing is a longer term investment that can cost millions, if not billions when it comes to things like chip fabs. No one wants to make an investment like that, only to have their investment suddenly become worthless because some politician decided to change how the tariffs work.
Trump’s idiotic and constant flip-flopping on these tariffs have completely destroyed any chance of them actually accomplishing anything (not that they really had a great chance of that in the first place, but anyway…), because no one is going to move a factory to the US when Trump can and will change his mind based upon a whim or whoever is whispering in his ear that moment.
Excel is a spreadsheet, and spreadsheets like Excel are first and foremost aimed at accounting sort of tasks. Whether they actually need Excel versus something like Google Docs or Libreoffice is another thing. The big thing with Excel is that it gets used (and abused) to do things that it’s not really intended for doing such as those spreadsheets that are full of macros trying to be an application, or those spreadsheets that are trying to be a database, and so forth.
From an engineering perspective, I find Excel to be annoying because it’s clearly first and foremost an accounting tool, and some of its behaviors like the way it rounds numbers and tries to turn everything into a date is downright obnoxious. I still use it from time to time for quick and dirty things like whipping up a couple of plots quickly (and this doesn’t really need Excel… but at work all the computers have Excel), but otherwise for anything more complicated I’d probably switch to something else.
The size increase in hard drives around that time was insane. Compared to the mid-90’s which was just a decade ago, hard drives capacities increased around 100 times. On average, drive capacities were doubling every year.
Then things slowed down. In the past 20 years, we’ve maybe increased the capacities 30-40 times for hard drives.
Flash memory, on the other hand, is a different story. Sometime around 2002-3 or so I paid something like $45 for my first USB flash drive - a whole 128MB of storage. Today I can buy one that’s literally 1000 times larger, for around a third of that price. (I still have that drive, and it still works too!)
That chart doesn’t really show the recent price hike. Late last year, I bought an 8TB Samsung SATA SSD for $350. If I wanted to buy that same drive today, it would be $630.
The Samsung monitors we get at the office still appear to be just dumb screens. No remote or anything like that. But that’s from their business lineup of monitors. Wouldn’t surprise me too much if their consumer/gamer lineup would be different.
I have to say, they really should come up with a different name. Searching and finding the website for a company named “Why!” is pretty much impossible with today’s search engines.
It probably has to do with whether the driver’s license is Real ID compliant or not. Here in Minnesota, you have the option of getting the Real ID license that can be used as a federal ID card for things like flying, or the regular old driver’s license which soon will really only be good for showing you’re allowed to drive a car.
I only have the regular driver’s license so I don’t know what all getting the Read ID involves, but having your biometric data scanned and stored seems like something they’d require.
That every other version thing hasn’t been true for a while now. Every version after Windows 7 has been terrible.