- heavyset_goMost server and embedded oriented software has been compiled for ARM 7 & 8 for a while now, but in my experience, software you'd use on a desktop might not have ARM builds unless it's popular with RPi or handheld gaming enthusiasts.
- You lose a lot of potential performance that comes with both efficient cooling and maintaining throughput in sustained loads.
Laptops are thermally inefficient and require throttling even with active cooling, meaning mobile chipsets are programmed to emit less heat over time. You might hit advertised boost speeds for a little bit, but you can sustain them on properly cooled desktops.
Then there's the fact that mobile chips are TDP capped at much lower rates than desktops, both to save power and to limit heat.
Theoretically, your mobile chipset has a better $/Wh rate, but you leave some performance on the table compared to desktops.
- Nvidia just released their Nemotron models, and in my testing, they are the best performing models on low-end consumer hardware in both terms of speed and accuracy.
- There is no law that mandates age verification for movies, any type of rating, or preventing anyone from watching any movie.
The MPAA rating system and adhering to it is completely voluntary.
- There is no law mandating this, theaters self-regulated. Movies don't have to be rated and anyone can watch them, as per the law.
That's a fundamental difference than the heavy handed approach of using the state to mandate KYC laws to post on the internet.
- In my state, they scan your ID and check it with the state's database. Store policy is usually to do it for everyone, even if they obviously are above the age of 21, and the state mandates ID checks for anyone suspected to be 27 or below.
- You can do this with EliteBooks, and HP replaced my battery for free.
- Hasn't been my experience with Lemmy and some closer knit communities on Mastodon. My interests are niche, though.
IMO if you were used to the smaller communities of the pre-social media internet, fediverse stuff feels familiar. You aren't going to get 256k upvotes like you will on Reddit, but you can have some interesting conversations.
- No, they did not implement mulitpoint Bluetooth as per the spec in AirPods, they are doing proprietary handoffs between their own devices, multipoint pairing is not implemented for Airpods outside of macOS and iOS.
- This is already part of the Bluetooth spec that Apple didn't implement: multipoint pairing.
- There actually was a time when Python dictionary keys weren't guaranteed to be in the order they were inserted, as implemented in CPython, and the order would not be preserved.
You could not reliably depend on that implementation detail until much later, when optimizations were implemented in CPython that just so happened to preserve dictionary key insertion order. Once that was realized, it was PEP'd and made part of the spec.
- I want to believe this is malicious compliance.
- Look up Play Integrity, it's the remote attestation framework Google uses to ensure apps only run on Google-blessed hardware and software. Apps that use it verify that both hardware and software are unmodified and blessed by Google before apps are allowed to run. Banking apps use it, the fucking McDonald's app uses it, public transit pass apps use it, etc.
If you want to use your phone like normal people do in 2025, and not relegate yourself to being a second-class citizen when it comes to simple things like paying for stuff, riding the subway, etc, your phone is either an iPhone or something that plays nicely with Play Services.
And that's just the remote attestation side. Many apps rely on Play Services themselves, and without access to them, will not work. Google gates access to Play Services through contracts, it is not open source or part of Android.
- "The bug", aka not implementing spec violating behavior, also exists in BlueZ, the Linux Bluetooth stack. Is the BlueZ team taking kickbacks to make sure earbuds don't work on Linux, too? They were Google Summer of Code partners, too, so this potentially goes pretty deep.
- Currently, on the AirPods side and not iOS side like the article covers, Apple breaks Bluetooth feature parity with other devices by not sticking to the Bluetooth spec with AirPods themselves.
For example, you need to root and patch your Bluetooth stack on your phone if you want to use all of your AirPods features on Android, and not because Android is doing something wrong, it's because the Android Bluetooth stack actually sticks to the spec and AirPods don't.
And even when you do that, you can't do native AAC streaming like you can with iOS/macOS. Even if you're listening to AAC encoded audio, it'll be transcoded again as 256kbps AAC over Bluetooth.
Even no name earbuds on Amazon manage to not break Bluetooth and can offer cross platform high quality audio over Bluetooth.
- > So if your job isn't rewarding financially
I don't know where you are, but some of the highest paid public employees in my state are police. In fact, median salaries for cops are higher than those of software engineers.
Add the fact that they get generous pensions + benefits, and can retire at 45 and draw from that pension until they die, they have it better than most of the people they police.
It's one of the only professions where you can make north of $250k+ a year doing overtime by sitting in your car playing Candy Crush all night.
- They've been crying wolf for nearly a decade now, they aren't suddenly going to have a change of heart and be honest now.
- Now do per capita emissions and consider where 90% of anything you buy is manufactured. The world launders its manufacturing emissions through China.
- When I was in school, the administration would work itself up into fits about "gangs infiltrating the schools" because an 11 year old wore a red or blue hat to class, clearly gang colors and a sign of the times.
This was in a wealthy suburb where people like that have to make up imaginary threats in order to feel something, and what better population to fret about than the kids.
- The idea that organized retail theft is significant or "most" is a myth[1]
[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/retail-theft-in-us-cities...