PonyOfWar

Source? In Germany at least that’s not the case, it’s mainly the conservatives who push for it. In the original vote, only the greens clearly opposed it. Later on, SPD (center-left) and FDP (liberal) changed course to also oppose it. Couldn’t find results for other countries though, so I’m genuinely curious.

Either way they can just give it a new name and change some details to propose it again. Like how they made it “voluntary” this time (but you can only send text if you don’t agree).

Nice. I guess they didn’t expect to get a majority to support it anymore. Definitely a win for now, but I’m sure they’ll try again.

If you have a short-ish email address, someone might have just set it as their recovery address by mistake. I also have a pretty old, short gmail address and people have registered it as their recovery address before, so I would get mails whenever they logged in on a new device etc. Don’t think those were phishing attempts, just people being technologically inept.

Sources state Glance will not capture data, but will instead leverage a user’s “patterns” to offer recommendations.

Those “patterns” are literally data. What a nonsensical sentence.

I suppose a better way to phrase it is- why is an NPU necessary? What does it enable these machines to do that a Surface sans NPU can’t?

It can basically handle neural network/AI tasks more efficiently than a regular CPU/GPU can.

And yes, these are business-oriented. But my question remains the same - is built-in AI a feature that businesses, as consumers of this product, are asking for?

Yes, deserved or not, AI is currently on everyone’s mind in the business world. Working as a software dev, every client these days asks if we “do AI”, so we pretty much have to reluctantly learn and use it. And many of those clients are very protective of their data and don’t just want to put them on some web service, like OpenAI. So there’s certainly demand for locally running AI tasks.

Like the article states: it contains an NPU. It’s also not targeted at consumers.

Good to know that there is now a testing branch for a wifi driver. That wasn’t the case when I wrote the original comment I was talking about. Still, this took almost a year of selling a tablet with no working wifi. There is inconvenience and then there is a product just being in an unfinished, effectively unusable state. I don’t really see how having no wifi driver is “freedom”. The freedom to code my own driver? I guess, but that doesn’t make for an actually usable device.

I was downvoted before for suggesting the Pinetab is not a viable Android or iPad replacement. That thing doesn’t even have a working wifi driver yet, you have to plug in a dongle just to connect to wifi. I’d love to have good smart devices running Linux one day, but we’re not there yet.

Odd that it’s an obscure Basque instance though. Wonder why it shows that instead of something like world or ml.

Worst example I’ve ever seen is 3dVista - a fucking facebook group. Discord would have been amazing in comparison.

It seems, at the very least, deceitful. If you don’t want to give money, just don’t and don’t pretend otherwise.

“Freedom from porn” as ol’ Steve put it. I’m surprised that Apple users are surprised.

The trailers never really showed the survival aspect much. But it is at its core a survival game, mixed with the monster catching from Pokemon Legends: Arceus, movement mechanics from Zelda BotW (Climbing, gliding etc), real time battles and a kind of Satisfactory-lite automation (where you get your Pals to do tasks for you around your base).

In my opinion, yes. I get bored of most survival games very quickly, but this one really managed to hook me. The combination of survival, monster collecting and automation somehow works extremely well.

Well, we know who won in 2016. If we’re back to those numbers, or maybe even below those numbers, that seems like a bit of a problem to me.

It’s tough. A 2-party system where one party wants to end democracy feels like it’s already not much of a democracy at all. I can understand the frustration of having to vote the mediocre technocrat as “the lesser evil” each election. On the other hand, the prospect of a second Trump presidency is horrifying and would be a disaster for far more countries than just the US, so I’d still vote for Biden every time if I could.

The problem won’t be people voting for republicans instead of Biden, but people choosing not to vote.

VVVVVV is pretty great.

I was actually considering a Pinetab 2 for my next tablet a few months ago, but the fact that they didn’t even have a working wifi driver (and AFAIK still don’t!) gave me the distinct impression that Linux tablets are currently still far from being suitable for regular users.