Home PCs from big box stores have always been garbage compared to DIY. They don't spec them well because people who buy PCs from big box stores don't know the difference.
DVD drives are irrelevant to most people. I took mine out because all it was doing was reducing case front airflow. I have a USB DVD burner for the rare time when I need to deal with an optical disc. I have a USB floppy drive too for the same purpose. I scarcely use either. Maybe once a year or something.
platforms like Netflix can't offer content anywhere in the EU unless they hold the relevant licences for everywhere in the EU.
That's not really a problem, it will only require some adjustment. Nobody else will be able to, either, so the people who control the licenses will start providing licensing that permits such distribution. Otherwise they lose out on the sales entirely.
My interest ended when it was no longer possible for a single programmer (or a very small group) to make games anymore.
So you're still interested? Because there are tons and tons of indie games developed by one person or a small group. You're not going to get your game on a retail shelf, but you can sell it directly (or through just one middleman) and collect most of the profits yourself.
Not to disagree with your overall premise (I do agree with it), but in this case this also effects some of those boxes from your step #2.
While this is true, if you buy an unlocked box, you're in control. Even cheap Android sticks often have years of ROM support before they're abandoned for the next cheap stick. It's somewhat wasteful to be replacing them regularly, but they're small. Many of them will run a "real" Linux kernel, some of them even mainlined, so they can have a useful life after Android.
I'm just talking about multiseat with long HDMI cables and active USB cables. Even that is going to choke and stutter if the other users pound the hardware.
Any type of real work (i.e. "creation work") requires a desktop. Even accounting, writing, graphic design, documentation, and of course, programming. Touch-screen devices just aren't meant to be used that way. The mouse and keyboard are mandatory, as is the high resolution monitor.
Accounting, writing, and documentation could be done on a 4k TV with your phone and a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. They don't take much horsepower by modern standards, even if you're being fancy. But that other stuff takes RAM, and you're not getting enough of it in a phone. You need at least a laptop. But you can still use the 4k TV.
I once working on an ion beam microscope that had several PCs embedded in the hardware (one of which even booted off a floppy!); there is always a niche market for desktop hardware.
That niche is hopefully moving to Linux ARM SBCs. They have GPIO, so with some intermediate modules, they can do the job of both the control system and the PLC.
They're probably going to be a dominant form of autonomous vehicle. If you don't have to do the driving, and you can concentrate on something else, then it's not such a problem to let the vehicle slow down a bit during your commute. It's more efficient, since you're not fighting so much drag. A van is the best shape if you don't care what you look like, because of the usable space. Minivans are cheaper and easier to park, which is relevant even when the vehicle is self-parking — they just take up less space.
I prefer full-size vans because I'm a full-size person, but minivans have some real benefits. The biggest problem with them is that they're annoying to work on, but EVs don't need as much work. Electrification should help keep the minivan alive.
It's going to bottleneck and one person will easily be able to choke everyone else no matter how much you spend on it, but you can certainly multiseat out Linux to multiple displays, if that's what you're into. You can get a liquid cooling system and locate the radiators in a plenum to make the whole thing very quiet, but it won't change the fact that multiple PCs deliver a better experience, which is why we got where we are today with multiple PCs.
Rail costs more, but it also carries much more, and costs less to maintain. It's also much more efficient to use steel wheels on smooth rails than to use pneumatic rubber tires even on smooth pavement, let alone the roads we actually wind up with. Trains are also more compatible with mobile charging. They just make more sense for long-distance travel, and often for medium-range trips. Cars are still better for short ones. Buses on tarmac are a problem because heavy axles put high PSI loads on pavement. Trains spread out the load better, so the infrastructure is less self-damaging.
The Left is the one talking about being revolutionary, and toppling head-over-heals the existing societal structures, while conservatives are the ones trying to preserve it
The status quo is unfair. That's why Hillary Clinton couldn't get elected. Trump convinced people that he would change the status quo, while Clinton was the business-as-usual candidate. Of course, Trump's changes to the status quo have all been harmful. Parts of his base got a small tax cut once, but it's all downhill from here for all but the wealthiest of them. People do want the wealthiest among us to pay more, and justly so; the worker's share of the profits has been falling throughout history, even as their productivity has increased.
This has worked out until now because worker productivity has been increasing so much, but now their jobs are threatened by automation to a larger degree than they believed possible. Automated software agents are capable of badly doing jobs that humans previously were doing badly themselves. But all these people doing their jobs badly is due to a lack of education at a variety of levels, including on the job training.
Bombings and lynchings and cross-burnings were the staples of the Democrats; the KKK was a Democrat phenomenon;
First, were and are are not the same thing. Keep up with today. Second, the Democrats overall are not leftist, they are centrist and corporatist. Most of them are as bought-and-paid-for as the Republicans. The primary difference between them is that Democrats generally believe in the rights of the individual, and the Republicans generally believe in the rights of the rich white individual. They both take money in exchange for policy, but which specific policies they'll support differ in certain cases. As a human, I support the party which most supports human rights, but I don't consider myself a Democrat. I register as one so I can vote in the primary.
Does installing GNURoot Debian (or Termux) and XServer XSDL apps from Google Play Store give a user experience anywhere near what you suggest?
Haven't tried it on Android-x86 so I'm not sure. On a typical Android ARM device yes, but most of them don't have much RAM. I haven't explored Termux to that extent, but I have installed a userland for Linux (maybe Ubuntu, I forget) on an Android stick, and used it with an X server.
I refuse to hate an entire nation or religion because of some wrongdoing in the past. But I won't forget it either...
It's ridiculous not to abhor all religion based on what it's done in the past, given that it's not materially different today and can do all the same stuff again.
Religion teaches some people to feel superior to other people because they believe something stupid. As such, it is all harmful.
Religions which promote theocracy are especially bad, which is why Islam is particularly bad. It explicitly teaches that any laws not of god are inferior to those which are of god, and sets itself up as the voice of god. Theocracy always leads to abuse. ALWAYS.
Any religion can used for the basis of theocracy, so that's another bad thing about all religions. But religions which are deliberately theocratic are especially awful.
Saying religion is the root of all evil when it is actually just "humans" being evil just shows that you have a nasty bias that creates a serious deficit of intellectual honesty in your logic!
It's religion that has a serious deficit of intellectual honesty, and logic... and those deficits are inherent. Religion turns well-meaning people into evil people by giving them a sense of justness which they do not deserve. It teaches people to make decisions on specious bases, and to feel smug about them, which is why it's inherently harmful.
Are you sure it's not all those people living in rural areas who can't get broadband at any price?
They can already get satellite internet. AFAIK nobody meets the FCC definition of broadband, though. Exede (Viasat) gives 20MB/sec, I don't think any services are faster than that. They throttle video, but downloads are plenty fast. There's about a second of latency, though, which is a drag. LEO will help there. Right now LEO doesn't help much because the existing networks are low-bandwidth, but once we have high-bandwidth sats in LEO, we'll have more usable latencies on satellite networks.
Networks like these are what will finally get decent internet access to RVs. None of the GEO providers support RV users right now. You can get a self-aiming dish for watching TV, but not for internet access. I want the exact opposite:)
Dozens of celebrities' private photos were stolen from Apple's servers, didn't touch their stock price.
That's because it wasn't Apple's fault. Those celebrities were using bad passwords.
Sony deliberately installed malware on people's computers, and hardly anyone even heard of it at the time.
That was a bit more puzzling. I feel like a lot of nerds didn't do their job on that one, and make their non-nerd friends understand the repercussions.
According to the French government (quoted in the link) Twitter is not complying with the law at all, they are just doing it to try to force the government to back down.
And according to Twitter, they are complying with the law. Since neither Twitter nor the French government has any credibility with thinking people since they are both hypocritical AF, it's difficult to imagine what is gained by playing "he said, she said".
Seems all attempt to run Android Apps Windowed Android Apps To Desktop Linux are containerized and windowed. I would like to see uncontainerized or unwindowed ones.
Put Android-x86 in a VM, done. Or use the Android Device Simulator with the official SDK if you want ARM, done. What you want already exists. Seems like you haven't bothered to look.
As an android developer, I can see this is potentially quicker for testing than an emulator or a connected phone.
It's scarcely faster, and you still have to test in the emulator, if not on an actual phone. You can't count on the emulator providing accurate results, let alone something like this.
To me, Android seems like a closed toy system, an abomination that just takes advantage of Linux
To me, Android is a missed opportunity in the OSS community. There ought to be an Android/Linux distribution that merges Android and Linux out of the box, with the ability to flip between the Android GUI, a full Linux GUI, and console text mode, if not to integrate Android apps with Linux apps. If you have a rooted Android device you can already use Linux Deploy (or similar) to install a full Linux userland on Android. (On an unrooted device, you can get the ultra-light version by installing Termux, which is at least better than nothing.)
Why would anyone want this? Because Android is Linux underneath, but on top it's candy-coated, and we all know how nerds love candy. It's got all the power you know and love, plus the convenience of a prepackaged OS with sandboxed applications. You can fiddle around on the top, or you can dig as deeply as you want into the guts, because Android is Linux. Android security is based on selinux. Android boot is based on init. Android shell access is just a normal shell. Why complain? Embrace.
while it's likely that the number of accidents will go down. It's also true, all else being equal, that the number of car journey will increase. Is there anyone outside of the auto lobby that thinks, yep, what we need is more car journeys. That'll help with the obesity crisis, pollution and global warming. Really?
This is why we need to promote rail. Here in the USA, Trump is attacking national rail, probably on behalf of the oil and car companies. It's happened before that auto companies destroyed profitable public transportation lines to increase demand for their product (with the aid of oil and tire companies, who wanted the same for their products.)
The future of ride hailing is the use of a single app to manage an entire journey. A trip could involve an autonomous car showing up to take you to a train station, where you'd transfer (on one pass) to a train that would take you to an airport, where you'd transfer again, etc. If we are vigilant, that journey will make sense.
I'm pretty sure that if traffic was all cars we'd have self-driving cars by now, for the simple reason that cars are bound by traffic rules.
No. Those are laws and regulations, not rules. Rules are things like "don't crash" or "follow laws and regulations". The laws and regulations are complex in and of themselves, but actually following the rules of driving is orders of magnitude more complicated.
If traffic were all trains, we'd have self-driving transport by now. But since cars have to operate on tarmac (etc.) roads with pneumatic rubber tires, even if you had only passenger cars and they didn't have to mix with anything else, driving would still be very complicated.
if you're trying to be a dick like speed matching a car overtaking you close to 100% at fault. We're going to have to describe correct behavior better and then deal with the rest in court.
AVs won't do that shit at all. They will determine which vehicle can most efficiently get into a space, and then let that happen, because more road efficiency means more car efficiency. And they will be configured to be forgiving of other drivers, so a pushy human driver will be able to bully AVs out of the way... but they will also be automagically reported to the authorities by the AV coordination systems.
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Home PCs from big box stores have always been garbage compared to DIY. They don't spec them well because people who buy PCs from big box stores don't know the difference.
DVD drives are irrelevant to most people. I took mine out because all it was doing was reducing case front airflow. I have a USB DVD burner for the rare time when I need to deal with an optical disc. I have a USB floppy drive too for the same purpose. I scarcely use either. Maybe once a year or something.
platforms like Netflix can't offer content anywhere in the EU unless they hold the relevant licences for everywhere in the EU.
That's not really a problem, it will only require some adjustment. Nobody else will be able to, either, so the people who control the licenses will start providing licensing that permits such distribution. Otherwise they lose out on the sales entirely.
My interest ended when it was no longer possible for a single programmer (or a very small group) to make games anymore.
So you're still interested? Because there are tons and tons of indie games developed by one person or a small group. You're not going to get your game on a retail shelf, but you can sell it directly (or through just one middleman) and collect most of the profits yourself.
Android TV, not Android. It's a different OS.
No, it isn't. It's a different launcher. Android TV is Android.
Not to disagree with your overall premise (I do agree with it), but in this case this also effects some of those boxes from your step #2.
While this is true, if you buy an unlocked box, you're in control. Even cheap Android sticks often have years of ROM support before they're abandoned for the next cheap stick. It's somewhat wasteful to be replacing them regularly, but they're small. Many of them will run a "real" Linux kernel, some of them even mainlined, so they can have a useful life after Android.
I'm just talking about multiseat with long HDMI cables and active USB cables. Even that is going to choke and stutter if the other users pound the hardware.
Any type of real work (i.e. "creation work") requires a desktop. Even accounting, writing, graphic design, documentation, and of course, programming. Touch-screen devices just aren't meant to be used that way. The mouse and keyboard are mandatory, as is the high resolution monitor.
Accounting, writing, and documentation could be done on a 4k TV with your phone and a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. They don't take much horsepower by modern standards, even if you're being fancy. But that other stuff takes RAM, and you're not getting enough of it in a phone. You need at least a laptop. But you can still use the 4k TV.
I once working on an ion beam microscope that had several PCs embedded in the hardware (one of which even booted off a floppy!); there is always a niche market for desktop hardware.
That niche is hopefully moving to Linux ARM SBCs. They have GPIO, so with some intermediate modules, they can do the job of both the control system and the PLC.
minivans are dying out, actually.
They're probably going to be a dominant form of autonomous vehicle. If you don't have to do the driving, and you can concentrate on something else, then it's not such a problem to let the vehicle slow down a bit during your commute. It's more efficient, since you're not fighting so much drag. A van is the best shape if you don't care what you look like, because of the usable space. Minivans are cheaper and easier to park, which is relevant even when the vehicle is self-parking — they just take up less space.
I prefer full-size vans because I'm a full-size person, but minivans have some real benefits. The biggest problem with them is that they're annoying to work on, but EVs don't need as much work. Electrification should help keep the minivan alive.
It's going to bottleneck and one person will easily be able to choke everyone else no matter how much you spend on it, but you can certainly multiseat out Linux to multiple displays, if that's what you're into. You can get a liquid cooling system and locate the radiators in a plenum to make the whole thing very quiet, but it won't change the fact that multiple PCs deliver a better experience, which is why we got where we are today with multiple PCs.
Throw the baby out with the bath water much???
That's not a bath pan, it's a chamber pot.
Rail costs more, but it also carries much more, and costs less to maintain. It's also much more efficient to use steel wheels on smooth rails than to use pneumatic rubber tires even on smooth pavement, let alone the roads we actually wind up with. Trains are also more compatible with mobile charging. They just make more sense for long-distance travel, and often for medium-range trips. Cars are still better for short ones. Buses on tarmac are a problem because heavy axles put high PSI loads on pavement. Trains spread out the load better, so the infrastructure is less self-damaging.
The Left is the one talking about being revolutionary, and toppling head-over-heals the existing societal structures, while conservatives are the ones trying to preserve it
The status quo is unfair. That's why Hillary Clinton couldn't get elected. Trump convinced people that he would change the status quo, while Clinton was the business-as-usual candidate. Of course, Trump's changes to the status quo have all been harmful. Parts of his base got a small tax cut once, but it's all downhill from here for all but the wealthiest of them. People do want the wealthiest among us to pay more, and justly so; the worker's share of the profits has been falling throughout history, even as their productivity has increased.
This has worked out until now because worker productivity has been increasing so much, but now their jobs are threatened by automation to a larger degree than they believed possible. Automated software agents are capable of badly doing jobs that humans previously were doing badly themselves. But all these people doing their jobs badly is due to a lack of education at a variety of levels, including on the job training.
Bombings and lynchings and cross-burnings were the staples of the Democrats; the KKK was a Democrat phenomenon;
First, were and are are not the same thing. Keep up with today. Second, the Democrats overall are not leftist, they are centrist and corporatist. Most of them are as bought-and-paid-for as the Republicans. The primary difference between them is that Democrats generally believe in the rights of the individual, and the Republicans generally believe in the rights of the rich white individual. They both take money in exchange for policy, but which specific policies they'll support differ in certain cases. As a human, I support the party which most supports human rights, but I don't consider myself a Democrat. I register as one so I can vote in the primary.
Does installing GNURoot Debian (or Termux) and XServer XSDL apps from Google Play Store give a user experience anywhere near what you suggest?
Haven't tried it on Android-x86 so I'm not sure. On a typical Android ARM device yes, but most of them don't have much RAM. I haven't explored Termux to that extent, but I have installed a userland for Linux (maybe Ubuntu, I forget) on an Android stick, and used it with an X server.
Liberals organize protests when they don't want to hear something. Conservatives organize bombings, lynchings, cross-burnings...
I refuse to hate an entire nation or religion because of some wrongdoing in the past. But I won't forget it either...
It's ridiculous not to abhor all religion based on what it's done in the past, given that it's not materially different today and can do all the same stuff again.
Religion teaches some people to feel superior to other people because they believe something stupid. As such, it is all harmful.
Religions which promote theocracy are especially bad, which is why Islam is particularly bad. It explicitly teaches that any laws not of god are inferior to those which are of god, and sets itself up as the voice of god. Theocracy always leads to abuse. ALWAYS.
Any religion can used for the basis of theocracy, so that's another bad thing about all religions. But religions which are deliberately theocratic are especially awful.
Saying religion is the root of all evil when it is actually just "humans" being evil just shows that you have a nasty bias that creates a serious deficit of intellectual honesty in your logic!
It's religion that has a serious deficit of intellectual honesty, and logic... and those deficits are inherent. Religion turns well-meaning people into evil people by giving them a sense of justness which they do not deserve. It teaches people to make decisions on specious bases, and to feel smug about them, which is why it's inherently harmful.
Are you sure it's not all those people living in rural areas who can't get broadband at any price?
They can already get satellite internet. AFAIK nobody meets the FCC definition of broadband, though. Exede (Viasat) gives 20MB/sec, I don't think any services are faster than that. They throttle video, but downloads are plenty fast. There's about a second of latency, though, which is a drag. LEO will help there. Right now LEO doesn't help much because the existing networks are low-bandwidth, but once we have high-bandwidth sats in LEO, we'll have more usable latencies on satellite networks.
Networks like these are what will finally get decent internet access to RVs. None of the GEO providers support RV users right now. You can get a self-aiming dish for watching TV, but not for internet access. I want the exact opposite :)
Dozens of celebrities' private photos were stolen from Apple's servers, didn't touch their stock price.
That's because it wasn't Apple's fault. Those celebrities were using bad passwords.
Sony deliberately installed malware on people's computers, and hardly anyone even heard of it at the time.
That was a bit more puzzling. I feel like a lot of nerds didn't do their job on that one, and make their non-nerd friends understand the repercussions.
According to the French government (quoted in the link) Twitter is not complying with the law at all, they are just doing it to try to force the government to back down.
And according to Twitter, they are complying with the law. Since neither Twitter nor the French government has any credibility with thinking people since they are both hypocritical AF, it's difficult to imagine what is gained by playing "he said, she said".
Seems all attempt to run Android Apps Windowed Android Apps To Desktop Linux are containerized and windowed. I would like to see uncontainerized or unwindowed ones.
Put Android-x86 in a VM, done. Or use the Android Device Simulator with the official SDK if you want ARM, done. What you want already exists. Seems like you haven't bothered to look.
As an android developer, I can see this is potentially quicker for testing than an emulator or a connected phone.
It's scarcely faster, and you still have to test in the emulator, if not on an actual phone. You can't count on the emulator providing accurate results, let alone something like this.
To me, Android seems like a closed toy system, an abomination that just takes advantage of Linux
To me, Android is a missed opportunity in the OSS community. There ought to be an Android/Linux distribution that merges Android and Linux out of the box, with the ability to flip between the Android GUI, a full Linux GUI, and console text mode, if not to integrate Android apps with Linux apps. If you have a rooted Android device you can already use Linux Deploy (or similar) to install a full Linux userland on Android. (On an unrooted device, you can get the ultra-light version by installing Termux, which is at least better than nothing.)
Why would anyone want this? Because Android is Linux underneath, but on top it's candy-coated, and we all know how nerds love candy. It's got all the power you know and love, plus the convenience of a prepackaged OS with sandboxed applications. You can fiddle around on the top, or you can dig as deeply as you want into the guts, because Android is Linux. Android security is based on selinux. Android boot is based on init. Android shell access is just a normal shell. Why complain? Embrace.
while it's likely that the number of accidents will go down. It's also true, all else being equal, that the number of car journey will increase. Is there anyone outside of the auto lobby that thinks, yep, what we need is more car journeys. That'll help with the obesity crisis, pollution and global warming. Really?
This is why we need to promote rail. Here in the USA, Trump is attacking national rail, probably on behalf of the oil and car companies. It's happened before that auto companies destroyed profitable public transportation lines to increase demand for their product (with the aid of oil and tire companies, who wanted the same for their products.)
The future of ride hailing is the use of a single app to manage an entire journey. A trip could involve an autonomous car showing up to take you to a train station, where you'd transfer (on one pass) to a train that would take you to an airport, where you'd transfer again, etc. If we are vigilant, that journey will make sense.
I'm pretty sure that if traffic was all cars we'd have self-driving cars by now, for the simple reason that cars are bound by traffic rules.
No. Those are laws and regulations, not rules. Rules are things like "don't crash" or "follow laws and regulations". The laws and regulations are complex in and of themselves, but actually following the rules of driving is orders of magnitude more complicated.
If traffic were all trains, we'd have self-driving transport by now. But since cars have to operate on tarmac (etc.) roads with pneumatic rubber tires, even if you had only passenger cars and they didn't have to mix with anything else, driving would still be very complicated.
if you're trying to be a dick like speed matching a car overtaking you close to 100% at fault. We're going to have to describe correct behavior better and then deal with the rest in court.
AVs won't do that shit at all. They will determine which vehicle can most efficiently get into a space, and then let that happen, because more road efficiency means more car efficiency. And they will be configured to be forgiving of other drivers, so a pushy human driver will be able to bully AVs out of the way... but they will also be automagically reported to the authorities by the AV coordination systems.