Well, I honestly tried (cf history). You’re neither addressing my remark about the fact from the article nor the bigger picture. Waste of time, blocked.

Unfortunately my model isn’t supported. I might look for a 2nd hand supported one with the USB adapter and try, as I do use and work with Linux on a daily basis.

Based on https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1jb2uvt/roomba_accidentally_saw_outside_and_now_i_cant/ I’d bet some models surely do.

That being said, I am NOT promoting Roomba or any other brand, I’m only highlighting that apps aren’t necessarily a requirement for the basic feature.

Finally, as others suggested if one genuinely does need such feature and is mindful about privacy, I’d check https://valetudo.cloud/ first then see what harder supports it, which sadly doesn’t seem to support Roomba or Roborock AFAICT. It does, lucky you, check https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html#roborock

Edit: apparently “Xiaomi V1 is made by Roborock” according to https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html so maybe there is way, worth investigating for you IMHO.

turns out you can use older GPUs in creative ways to get a lot more out of them than people realized

If that’s the point then that’s the entire GPU used for mining then ML revolution, thanks to CUDA mostly, that already happened in 2010 so that’s even older, that’d 15 yeas ago.

What I was highlighting anyway is that it’s hard to trust an article where simple facts are wrong.

What is this… “Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3090 GPU”? Are we in back in 2020? Half a decade ago? Is this a joke? Even then, it wasn’t the flagship, the 3090 Ti was.

Is there a Murena/Volla of vacuuming robots? Namely can one buy a working robot (new or reconditioned) with Valetudo pre-installed?

FWIW you can use a Roomba without an app. You… push the physical button on the robot, and voila. No app, no connection, still cleaning.

Sure you can’t schedule cleaning but honestly unless you have a version that can empty it’s own trash recipient and your house is always robot cleaning friendly (so… 0 cable on the way, chairs aside, etc) it’s rarely a huge efficiency gain.

Honestly I feel like 10y/o there was a lot of hype around vacuuming robot but it didn’t “explode” in popularity because it’s not really such a big difference.

Blocked, you’re just trying to be provocative instead of having a constructive discussion. I don’t have time to waste on that so don’t bother replying to my comments, I won’t see what you write anymore.

In case any parent is reading this and feels (somehow!) like “Oh no… my child will be left behind!” to the point of considering buying some BS humanoid or animaloid “pedagogical” robot, get yourself a (European designed) good “old” Lego set! They’ve been at it for decades (literally, since at least 1998 with Mindstorms) and they focus specifically on pedagogy at school with e.g. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-education-spike-essential-set-45345

Do NOT get a cheap piece of plastic that you do not understand, that behaves in “smart” ways you can’t explain and that passes data long you have no idea about!

“Timmy hugged his little robot friend before heading to bed. He doesn’t have a name for it – yet. “It’s like a little teacher or a little friend,” the boy said”

… it’s way WORST than a fail. How do you think this human will develop assuming friendship with a (commercial) product rather than another human being? My bet, but I’m no psychologist, is poorly.

That opening photo is so telling, a chess robot … while one could literally run https://lichess.org/ from ANY device (tablet, mobile phone, laptop, etc) and have a functionally equivalent experience for free (both open source and free of cost, no ad either), in fact arguably a much better one due 0 setup time (literally none, it’s all Web based!) to all the community, tutoring exercises, etc.

This is such a blatant fail.

IMHO that’s the linchpin, what’s the gap between what a leader (political or business) would claim to be true versus… what’s actually working, and beyond that, what’s actually useful then used in practice.

Working in innovation we called this the “marketing gap” and it’s quite a funnel, from broad claim that AI or any other emerging technology will “change everything” to what people, workers and consumers alike, actually use frequently and are wiling to pay for.

One needs bold claims, even if false, to get votes or funding money.

added AI to its products basically to receive government subsidies.

Damn, I opened this post bracing myself for BS comments praising AI slop but this was actually interesting, thanks for sharing! Do you have any references (in English ideally) where I could read about such trends there, not propaganda & tech marketing like that BBC piece?

FWIW since 2003 https://imec-publications.be/discover?scope=%2F&query=bismuth&submit=&rpp=10&sort_by=dc.date.issued_dt&order=asc

Again… I didn’t even read the article but “[redacted to remove bias] University researchers have developed [better] than leading [whatever].” is definitely interesting yet also pointless. Of course research is important, even fundamental, to the production process… but it’s not a fair comparison because production, at scale, and economically reliable requires a LOT more constraints!

So the research, regardless of the source, is welcomed but comparing to production rather than comparing to other research labs pushing limits on the same dimensions is not useful.

PS: for my starting “Again” see my post history.

Edit : AFAICT “outperforms the most advanced commercial chips from […] Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre.” IMEC doesn’t do commercial chips, just research.

with 9100 being 6nm

For historical context TSMC announced 7nm in 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process and 5nm in 2020, so 5 years ago.

China is now making their own chips domestically that are only a generation or two behind the bleeding edge.

Maybe I’m missing something here, which chips are you talking about? Are you talking about something other than Kirin 9000S and if so which ones please?

I let you read the comments from their source since you didn’t actually bother reading mine.

Edit: people can check my Lemmy history on the topic, I ask the same thing here every few months. Anyway also the moment to suggest Chips War (even though, as always, outdated) as a good book IMHO on the geopolitics of chips manufacturing.

Feels like we have news like that every quarter but not a lot of actual change. Does any foundry outside of China, e.g. TSMC, buying or even getting any partnership to test them? Without subsidies? What’s the yield relative to alternatives?

It does beg for a DeepSeek moment for hardware, namely actual competition stemmed from necessity, but again so far that race has been a lot of claims.

you probably don’t want the instance admins handling your payment info

Unfortunately centralized (but I don’t think it’s possible to do that with the traditional banking system due to gateways) but it’s actually very easy to integrate with Stripe.com , as you to integrate yourself might be a day of work at most (source : I did few integration with WebXR as prototypes) but if you, as a self-hosted admin of the platform instance, just want to make it work, you probably only need a working account (to receive the actual money) and you’d fill up only IDs and voila, working.

Now there is also the KYC challenge, not sure how that work as a platform intermediary. Honestly at that point, as someone else suggested with Belgium 2ememain.be better letter user handle that themselves and in Europe with IBAN it’s pretty trivial to pay online, no fee.

Might also be worth exploring https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Request_API