Newer Samsungs (at least 2019, maybe even older) have a microphone in the remote. It’s opt-in to give it that permission (you have to agree to a bunch of legalese), but it being Samsung, I just assume they’re listening anyway.

Uhhhhhhhhhh

How many of those listings are code for something?

Huh, I just went to the website to try and it worked for me

CVEs lol

What’s funny to me is that you could say Apple is the reason for this.

Apple’s had longer OS support for their phones than any Android manufacturer for a while, but then Google started catching up when they got their own chips and now Samsung and the others are pushing Qualcomm to quit their bullshit.

I do use an iPhone myself currently, but if Qualcomm opens their shit up enough that OEMs can provide at LEAST 5 years of software updates to their flagships, I might go back to Androidland (though I’m not sure what to even consider, I dislike Samsung and OnePlus disappointed me so hard with the OxygenOS->ColorOS switch that it’s literally the reason I went to iOS.

I suppose any Android phone would be good if I ran a custom ROM like I used to, but a couple of years ago bank apps in my country started checking the integrity of the bootloader and whatever. I couldn’t find any way around it back then, but maybe there’s something now?

I don’t think Windows uses a microkernel. Hybrid kernel is the term I’ve heard used.

Hosting services behind a VPN I suppose

Wouldn’t that be UPS?

I feel that if Apple could have soldered the RAM back then, they would have.

Apple used to ship repair and upgrade kits with guides on how to apply them. Not sure they were as anti-repair then as they are now.

I myself recently went from a '19 car with 220k km to a ‘05 one with 460k km because I realized my car’s getting driven so much recently, the depreciation is killing its’ value. For context, in 2022 when I acquired the '19 car, it had 140k on it.

I’ll have to do some wheel bearings, brake pads, belts and pulleys, etc, on the old beater, but all that is way cheaper than the depreciation on a newer car.

To be clear, I don’t advocate most people do this, I already knew beforehand what the engine and transmission are capable of. And if need be, I’ll even do engine repairs or get the transmission refurbished. The ONLY thing I’m afraid of is bodywork because I can’t paint for shit lol

It’s not all Kazakhstan either. I’m in Estonia and half of those “200k km” German cars that get imported here have had their odometer rewinded.

Plenty of countries out there with lower income levels than the US, including much of Europe tbh.

Lots of people BUY their cars with 300k miles.

I’ve done that once. Then I made the mistake of updating past the Android version it came with. Suddenly it was no better than most of the cheap androids I’d owned before that. It was the Oneplus 7 Pro and it just started lagging like hell 2 years in.

I’m now 2 years into my iPhone 13 mini, have also kept up with software updates and it hasn’t slowed down at all.

I’m actually looking at something else for my first bike, but it does have a forum because it seems to have a huge fan base - I’m looking at older Ducati Monsters, particularly the 620.

Nah, the Complex instructions are ridiculously complex and the Reduced ones can still do a lot of stuff.

ARM and RISC-V are entirely different in that neither one is based on the other, but what they have in common is that they’re both RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) architectures. RISC is what makes ARM CPUs (in your phone, etc) so efficient and hopefully RISC-V will get there too.

x86 by comparison is Complex Instruction Set Computing, which allows for more performance in some cases, but isn’t as efficient.

You set out a container of water and wait for it to heat to 50C

But to be fair, the evaporation will cool it too much for this to work

Cars too. Lots of marque or model specific forums still kicking it.

I’m hoping entire custom campaigns.

Back in the day, Operation Flashpoint, the predecessor of ArmA, had a mod community that built mods that came with huge new maps, new equipment and actually decently written campaigns. All because of the official mod tooling, which even came with tutorials.

Direct Rendering Manager I believe