More than a decade on, and it’s still one of the best kindles ever made, in my opinion.

You had physical buttons instead of a fiddly touch-screen, you could have music, have it read to you, and also go on the internet.

Plus it’s old enough it supports a bunch of formats, and registers as a mass storage device to a computer, so anything can use it.

Human drivers, if they could get LIDAR with their car, would probably also use it.

Why not aim for better than what humans can do?

According to the article linked in the article, it’s not that the operating system itself is more demanding, but more that the DE, and Browsers/Websites are more demanding now.

It feels like that Canonical basically needs to do the games thing of having a set of minimum specs for Ubuntu to run at all, and a recommend specs for Ubuntu to run well. Canonically basically bumped up the latter, but it’s being taken as the former.

It’s odd, since they used to have a rather nice HTML web interface specifically for low-peformance devices, but it’s since gone away.

This doesn’t seem so bad, though. 2 GB more in about 10 years is pretty reasonable in terms of an increase.

It’s not like they doubled it.

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If they had done a Google and sold GPU-compute cloud services, they could probably have made quite a tidy sum. Everyone wants compute.

A little confused, is this basically the same thing as Open Street Maps, just in app form?

Rocks don’t tend to destroy the air, only naughty children’s Christmas mornings.

It’s none too good for their lungs, either. Black Lung and all of that excitement.

Right, that’s all good. Now you have to get a couple of low-ranking servicemen to carry out every step of that hundred page manual to the letter on each of their several dozen machines, daily, after they’ve been deployed for an ongoing 10 months because their superiors are morons, and are further scheduled to become the longest running carrier deployment of all time at over a year of deploy time, because their superiors are morons.

On a ship where the toilets don’t work properly. Little wonder that people are half-arsing it if they’re stuck on a small metal box for months longer than expected, the toilets don’t work properly, and now part of the ship has also caught fire.

They wouldn’t need to do that much either. The sewerage system was a new vacuum-based system that was supposed to be more efficient, but ended up being very finicky/fragile, and on top of that, was undersized for the demands of the crew, since it was designed around the average usage on a ship, rather than the peak usage.

So when everyone decides they want to go to the WC and have a shower after a shift, the thing would back up because it couldn’t keep up.

Is that not on Krafton for buying Unknown Worlds for $500 million, and then offering an additional $250 million if they achieve particular goals?

If it was unrealistic, then don’t buy the company for that much, and provide a contract with those terms.

From Unknown Worlds’ perspective, it would have been irresponsible not to take the deal, assuming no other conditions.

That Krafton’s CEO got buyer’s remorse isn’t their problem to deal with. Caveat emptor and all that.

To be fair, $500 million is a lot of money.

You can barely blame them for not wanting to turn that down.

Should it pan out as planned, they’d get another quarter of a billion. That’s money enough that if you’re halfway sensible with it, you and your descendants would never have to work again.

Even when evenly divided across the entire company, it’s still a life-changing amount. ($1.6 - 2.3 million per person)

It’s also quite unexpected, given that it’s Apple, and they’ve traditionally made more expensive machines, with worse hardware. In my country, for example, it is nearly unheard of for a new Apple computer to cost less than four digits/US$800+.

Particularly at a time when it’s more typical to hear of new computer prices going up instead, due to shortages.

A projector might be an option, but they have their own problems, like with the contrast not being great.

Would it not make sense for them to? Since they make budget televisions, they have to subsidise the cost somehow.

Either that, or because they’re so budget, you’d expect them to cheap out on the electronics and not bother with anything that sophisticated compared to a bare-minimum chip.

It’s also pretty important infrastructure. Even before AI, one of the major providers datacentres going down would take out a solid chunk of modern internet.

I do wish that more games still had cheats. It does feel a bit like a lot of newer games have foregone them entirely. You can’t type plane into GTA V, and have a plane materialise, like you could in Vice City, for example.

You’d need to mod it in.

It might also be groundwork for more complicated things on their GPUs.

The article says nothing about nVidia actually planning to enter the desktop CPU market, only that a bunch of unrelated analysts compared the CPU performance, and said it was about equal to what’s on the market.

Quite surprised that they are pushing that, seeing as one of the biggest obstacles for Windows 11 getting adopted was that a lot of the existing hardware didn’t support the TPM requirements it put in place.

Doing it again so soon seems like a recipe to make people not want to use 12 at all. After all, Windows 11 works fine for them, why change so soon?