> and those struggled with thermal management of the chips
An ironic mirror of the PowerPC era when every version of the G5 was struggling with high power consumption and heat generation when operated at any competitive frequency/performance level. The top end models like the 2.5GHz quad-G5 needed water cooling, consumed 250W when idle, and needed a 1kW PSU.
Intel's offering at the time was as revolutionary as the M-series chips.
Yep, it was a very similar situation where Apple wanted to keep their hardware cadence but were beholden to a third party on the chip roadmap.
These days they're still somewhat beholden to TSMC continuing to make progress on nodes etc, but I think they have a closer partnership and a lot more insight into that roadmap so they can keep their hardware plans in sync.
People who upgrade every year don't do it for technical needs. We're long past the times when phones were inadequate and yearly improvements were big leaps that made them less unusable.
Yearly phone upgrades are just to sport the latest model, symbolizes status. Or if there's some deal where you can do it for close to no cost, better than long upgrade cycles, but I don't think "free upgrades" are common.
> The video is privately analyzed by your home hub using on-device intelligence to determine if people, pets, or cars are present.
You can use a cloud provider's infrastructure without giving it access to your material. My devices generate the content, my devices do the processing and analysis, I consume the content. The cloud just coordinates the data in flight, and stores it at rest, all encrypted. It's possible but most companies don't bother because they have to put effort and their "payoff" is that they can't monetize your data anymore.
I have a bunch of cameras from various vendors, some with open FW, some with their original FW, all cut off from the internet. They used to be connected to Frigate but due to performance issues I offloaded the work to Scrypted on a RPi and an AppleTV and the setup works great. It was easy to set up and it's easier to use than any other app, assuming you are into the Apple Home ecosystem.
It's not really self hosted since it relies on Apple but it's the least evil at this point. Giving unencrypted video and audio to some company (if what OP says is right) would be way beyond my risk tolerance point.
> the life after parenting doesn't sound so appealing anymore, not when it starts at 50 instead of 36.
Even if you have kids at 18 you won’t be done with parenting at 36. Maybe they leave the home, maybe not, you will still have to do a lot of parenting for a while more. You’ll be well in your 40s before you can even think “I’m finally mostly done”.
At that age it depends on each person what they want to do with the life. A lot of my friends who had kids really early started focusing on career later in life. Exactly what they “missed”. Those who focused on career and travel when young, focused on kids later in life. I haven’t heard anyone really regretting the choice beyond “my back can’t really take it anymore”[0] because you can never know what you’re missing. You’ll never know how your life would have been otherwise and what you would have liked more or less.
[0] Me, after starting parenthood in my 40s and being lazy so my back isn’t what it could be.
Collect it directly at the audio jack and skip the water-bubble-light chain entirely. You won’t get out more than the energy of the sound wave you put in, you’ll get quite a bit less actually.
Yes, but it's not readable because clicking the small image doesn't do anything (for me anyway, in Firefox on Windows), so it's not even obvious that was the intention. It does open the lightbox view in Chrome.
An image doesn't seem to be a great way to present a text-based list though. No searchability.
> It literally remains stable for less time. Nine months instead of 5+ years, up to 12 if you pay them.
Isn't "stability" in this context a direct reference to feature set which stays stable? When a version is designated stable it stays stable. You're talking about support which can be longer or shorter regardless of feature set.
When they stop adding features, it's stable. Every old xx.04 and xx.10 version of Ubuntu is stable even today, no more features getting added to 12.10. When they stop offering support, it's unsupported. 14.04 LTS became unsupported last year but not less stable.
These are orthogonal. You can offer long term support for any possible feature combination (if you have the resources), and you can be stable with no support. In reality it's easier to freeze a feature set and support that snapshot for a long time then chase a moving target.
I can see where you're coming from, but I think I'd prefer to describe practically all stable software as living in an unstable equilibrium in the usable region of state-space. When the stabilizing force of security patches, certificate updates, updates to new hardware requirements, and so on and so forth disappears the software falls out of the usable region of space into the, I suppose stable equilibrium, of unusable software. And this fall happens quite rapidly in the case of a linux distribution.
Applying the word "stable" to things in the unusable region of state space seems technically, but only technically, correct.
I was thinking of your description of the situation before sv_pure. What you wrote sounded like "sure some people completely destroyed the game but you got to see some cool skins". Skins can't make up for wallhacks, and wallhacks won't let you enjoy the skins. It wasn't a tenable situation.
Well, both. I wish less servers had enabled sv_pure in extra strict mode, but it was a solution to the wallhacking and extra loud footsteps. It was also the start of the decline of being able to run your own mods.
An ironic mirror of the PowerPC era when every version of the G5 was struggling with high power consumption and heat generation when operated at any competitive frequency/performance level. The top end models like the 2.5GHz quad-G5 needed water cooling, consumed 250W when idle, and needed a 1kW PSU.
Intel's offering at the time was as revolutionary as the M-series chips.
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