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darkevilmac , 3 days ago to Technology in Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones can fly even farther after FAA approval

The big issue with autonomous cars are the other cars that are driven by humans. As well as pedestrians and general rules of the road that need to be applied.

In theory drones have problems that are much easier to solve, because there's just less obstacles to deal with.

The big issues will likely be birds, wind, and rain.

darkevilmac , 3 days ago to Technology in [Gamers Nexus] ASUS Already On Government's Radar for Warranty Issues

MSI isn't great in my experience for fully built stuff, Lenovo is relatively solid in the higher mid range. HP is also good hardware wise usually, at least it seems like they're trying.

For components it depends what you need, gigabyte and asrock mobos are good. GPUs go for Sapphire or Zotac depending on your desired chip, or MSI if those aren't available.

darkevilmac , 4 days ago to Technology in Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection

Likely going in for the pedal recall to be completely fair.

Still wild that they managed to fuck that up by using glue and having the metal traction pad slide onto the pedal instead of latching or being crimped or screwed in.

They go through the trouble of having a second motor for the steer by wire in case of a failure, but they can't make a pedal apparently.

darkevilmac , 5 days ago to Technology in What's up with all the ads here?

Bots and lack of mods on different timezones most likely.

Would probably make sense to have an account age requirement and comment requirement before posting somehow.

darkevilmac , 11 days ago to Technology in Apple Patent Hints At Foldable iPhone With Self-healing Screen

I think the idea is that the tech will improve. The flaws aren't features, they're problems to work out.

darkevilmac , 19 days ago to Memes in Follow me for more budgeting tips

Yeah but I have a hot dog and you don't

darkevilmac , 19 days ago to Technology in Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle

Yeah Telus in Canada has been doing this recently as well. We're just back to cable packages except now you have like 4 different apps to worry about.

darkevilmac , 25 days ago to Technology in TikTok sues the US government over ban

The difference from the perspective of the US is that it's spyware from a potentially malicious foreign state. China bans US tech companies as well, TikTok took advantage of the US having a much more open market and the state decided that they were acting in bad faith.

darkevilmac , 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to 196 in Harm Reduction Rule

I could be wrong but I remember voting and they actually had it split into two questions. The first was whether you wanted to keep the current system, and the second was if no what system would you prefer. Unfortunately people just decided to stick to what they were familiar with even if it's a flawed system.

EDIT: Double checked and yeah, it was two questions the first of which was whether the system should change or not. 61% of voters opted to keep the existing system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_British_Columbia_electoral_reform_referendum

darkevilmac , 28 days ago to 196 in Harm Reduction Rule

It's frustrating for sure, I was even more annoyed when we had a referendum in BC and people opted to keep things the same.

darkevilmac , 30 days ago to Memes in Game difficulty

Or just let the developer decide what they think fits their game best? Not every product is for every person, and that's fine really. Trying to broaden appeal is good, but you don't want to spread resources so thin that you end up with a mess.

darkevilmac , 1 month ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Tesla owns over 50% of the electric car chargers in the US. It makes more sense for other companies to be compatible with the largest network than for the largest network to make itself work with everything else.

Whether you like Musk or Tesla or not, this just made more sense for the sake of adoption.

darkevilmac , 1 month ago to Technology in A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist

https://youtu.be/SBs455jwb8w

darkevilmac , 1 month ago to Technology in Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

Pretty sure last time around there were potential buyers. I think Walmart was one of them, and so was Oracle.

I imagine we'll see the same names pop up again.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago to Technology in Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU, as did Brave.

I believe part of the DMA means that they're allowed to use their own engines. Whether they have that ready right now I'm not sure, but I'm sure it's in the works.