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Anywhere that has an actual supply chain instead of website that’s just a front for individual resellers. Places like best buy, or if you could get shipped from microcenter.

Yeah this stuff is why i never buy tech from Amazon, you never know if you’re gonna get a counterfeit item

Great list! And according to your list I’m right. BBSes aren’t internet, and usenet is a synonym for newsgroups

It’s old but it’s not even close to the OG. I believe the OG is newsgroups, and after that was p2p file sharing apps like limewire and napster, and only then did torrenting become a big thing

I can verify personally that that’s true. I put sugar in my gas tank and i was amazed how much better my car ran!

I just looked it up and I’m fairly certain it wouldn’t work. Every time the output waveform gets too low then the led would turn off, which is what creates the flicker. An led needs a constant current to stay on constantly.

This makes no sense to me. If you don’t like glare on your phone then just get a matte screen protector. If you specifically want e-ink then just get a small ebook device that’s a similar size to this case.

I just don’t see a use case

That’s what’s so stupid about the whole problem - the solution is known and easy but it costs a tiny bit more to make so lots of manufacturers don’t do it. It just needs to run off DC instead of AC. Simple.

Did he ignore flicker problems again like last year? Because flicker ruins lights for a lot of us

Almost no one buys a super expensive phone that has a totally new form factor without trying it out in real life before buying it

This is a very cool piece of technology. The comments here naysaying about it seem odd to me. If it’s not for you that’s fine, but many millions of foldables have been bought over the past few years, and they continue to sell very well today

When i long press on it and copy link address, this is the address in the link:

https://fedia.io/m/linux@programming.dev/t/3084735/Trying-to-learn-Linux-coming-from-windows/comment/linuxupskillchallenge.org

Your link just reloads this exact lemmy page

Source?

Your comment needs to be at the top

It does, but it still has the same inabilities as the screen interface has

It isn’t listed anywhere on their homepage or example demos or anywhere listing its capabilities, so i did a web search to find it and I found that it sorta just kinda can do Spotify, but (1.) that isn’t listed anywhere on the home assistant abilities listing pages, which shows just how not ready for the mass market it is, and (2.) takes a ridiculous amount of very techie setup just to get it to work

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/spotify/

And also, out of the box can i ask it to:

• tell me the weather?

• set a timer?

• set an alarm?

I don’t see anything on the website that says it can do these things. And even if it can (which doesn’t appear to be the case from their website) then the fact that the website doesn’t say it can do these things is a problem in itself that shows it isn’t ready for the mass market

Just look at the webpage for Alexa vs. Home Assistant and it’s clear that Alexa has a very wide variety of abilities and is designed to be easy to use by anyone, while the home assistant website only shows it doing smart device automation and looks like it’s not for regular folks

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCCNHWV5

https://www.home-assistant.io/

I would LOVE to replace my Alexa devices with a local FOSS system, but unfortunately home assistant isn’t close to being able to do that yet

No, home assistant very much is not ready to replace an Alexa device. Home assistant mainly only does automation of smart devices, and as far as i can see from their website it does nothing else. One of the main things people use Alexa for is to play music from services like Spotify, and home assistant doesn’t appear to do that.

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Stadia is good from a tech standpoint, the only problem was it was run by google