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boatsie commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener

I want to create a "gaming streaming platform" like Stadia as a weekend project, does anyone know where to get started? Basically where the input device and the game are in different machines.

boatsie · a month ago

Moonlight does this if you are just looking for a solution.

boatsie commented on Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes sixthtone.com/news/101707... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

boatsie · 8 months ago

Google already has the daily trip data on a huge percentage of people and could just create and recommend bus and transit routes and times based on people’s existing commutes. Sure privacy issues exist for allowing them to do this but people have given up more personal information for less benefit.

boatsie commented on Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format theregister.com/2024/02/0... · Posted by u/DaveFlater

DaveFlater · 2 years ago

What makes it seem probable that it is patent-encumbered? Is there something specific I can read about or is it just the track record of previous standards (starting with arithmetic encoding in the first JPEG)?

boatsie · 2 years ago

Pretty much all modern video/audio/image codecs are, look at HEIC for example.

boatsie commented on Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format theregister.com/2024/02/0... · Posted by u/DaveFlater

boatsie · 2 years ago

This isn’t some conspiracy, it’s about money. JPEG XL is likely patent encumbered and this including it may require paying licensing fees. The companies involved can’t admit that because if they do, they’d be willfully infringing if they do end up including it at some point…

boatsie commented on Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right repair.eu/news/the-price-... · Posted by u/acqbu

boatsie · 2 years ago

Another issue with this is that the part that fails often is poorly designed or not durable in the first place. So you spend money and time to replace it and then it will just fail again. Zero incentive to improve the part by the manufacturer. I think the solution is requiring manufacturers to sell warranties that cover full labor and materials or replacement. Then at least you could see if a manufacturer selling something cheaply has a very high “full warranty” price, it’s likely because it has a high failure rate. This would be the only way to incentivize fewer failures and repairs.

boatsie commented on Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right repair.eu/news/the-price-... · Posted by u/acqbu

MostlyStable · 2 years ago

I know that relative to the size of the whole market, the number of consumers interested enough in repairing their stuff to consider it when purchasing is small, but does anyone know of any places that actually include both ease of repair and availability of parts in their review system?

iFixit it does it for a small subset of electronics, but I'd love to be able to find the equivalent for things like power tools, kitchen tools, appliances, etc.

Does Consumer Reports check this? I know they do reliability, but do they include repair? I think I'd be willing to pay if there was a reputable place I could check. Especially if it was possible to see if there are particular brands that are generally good about this (which might help decide in the case that a specific product isn't yet assessed).

boatsie · 2 years ago

I think the best way to find repairable and long lived products is to buy commercial grade when possible or look at what gets used by contractors. The types of things that get used in commercial settings or pro use tend to be a lot more repairable and durable than the consumer equivalents. Definitely more expensive though.

boatsie commented on EVs have more reliability problems than gas cars, says Consumer Reports arstechnica.com/cars/2023... · Posted by u/rntn

adrianN · 2 years ago

The existing power grid basically with maybe some local improvements. An ev the charges while parked averages to less power than an electric kettle.

boatsie · 2 years ago

A charging EV can draw 30-50 amps @220V, much more than a kettle…

boatsie commented on My experience taking Tesla to court about FSD teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/t... · Posted by u/nixass

eichin · 2 years ago

As of 5 or so years ago, the lidar used for this on the research side of things started at US$10k per unit (and for "surveying" you can do ok with one-on-top but for navigating you need something smaller and not sticking out of the roof, so then the car itself is a blind spot so you want 2x or 4x units.)

As a robot developer, I was really hoping that high-volume self-driving would lead to lidar mass production (and thus price drops), and there was one promising non-mechanical lidar that was aiming for $1000/unit for an self-driving-grade sensor, but I've lost track of it...

boatsie · 2 years ago

I think at least the ultrasonic parking sensors that are on pretty much every other car are pretty cheap.

boatsie commented on Car showed pop-up while driving glitterkitten.co.uk/@ella... · Posted by u/cpach

samtho · 2 years ago

Instead of legislating pop over messages to happen (looking at cookie messages), we just need to legislate these trash interruptions away. I didn’t begin using the device I purchased to be interrupted by something that had literally no bearing on my life, I cannot effectively use the device if I decline, and the existence of such can cause harm if I am working with something sensitive.

boatsie · 2 years ago

on that note, is anyone ever voluntarily, knowingly clicking the “accept all” other than to dismiss these? Like why not just legislate that you can’t do the kind of tracking they are asking because I’m pretty sure literally nobody wants it…

boatsie commented on Study: U.S. dietary recommendations for protein intake are too low bigthink.com/health/us-di... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

laweijfmvo · 2 years ago

I have noticed a lot of inconsistency on (US) "nutrition facts" labels. I've seen anywhere from 5g being 3% of the daily recommended amount (~150g per day) to 15g being 33% of the daily amount (~50g per day).

boatsie · 2 years ago

The USDA doesn’t have a recommendation for protein (yet does for added sugar is if some is “needed”), that’s a big part of the problem.