You need a discrete video card on ARM exactly as much as you do on x86.

The GPU is independent of the CPU architecture, so if you don’t like x86 iGPU performance expect to not like ARM iGPU performance either.

Of course you can dump a full desktop dGPU into the same package as your CPU, like Apple did with the M4 Max, but again this can be done on x86 as well. None of that is dependent on the ISA.

Friend plugged his screen into the onboard graphics card output and hasn’t figured out how to setup pass-through.

Amazing song!

They are obnoxious, but I have a soft spot in my heart for those things.

It’s not nice calling tourists things.

Do you think there is such a thing as a “gifted musician”? Someone with a “talent for arts” or design? Someone who’s just “naturally good with people”? Someone who’s “naturally really good with organization”?

That’s all the same. Yes, there are people who are naturally good in all sorts of fields. And yes, it still takes a ton of work to keep on top. A “gifted musician” still has to put in hundreds or thousands of hours of practice to actually be able to make good music. But someone who has no talent for music can put in infinite hours of practice and it will still amount to nothing.

But there’s another important distinction in regards to tech and IT: people in these fields tend to think that their high level of skills should be default and anyone who doesn’t have that skill level must be automatically stupid and lazy. It’s almost seen as a moral failing to not be good with tech. Terms like “tech illiterate” reinforce that.

We don’t talk about “musically illiterate”, “arts illiterate” or “medically illiterate” when someone isn’t a great musician, artist or pharmacologist.

Are you really good in every single field that exists? Are you justifying not putting work into e.g. your plumbing or car maintainance skills? Why aren’t you fixing the plumbing or the electric wireing in your house yourself?

People have different specializations and there’s no shame in not knowing everything.

(Btw, if someone tells you “It’s really impressive what you can do, you must be so smart, I couldn’t do that”, they are doing that as a compliment. If you then give them a sassy retort, that’s not exactly nice.)

Anything is a better idea than this. An unpowered LED in a regular room will generate more electricity from light shining at it. An unpowered speaker in a normal environment generates more electricity from the sound waves that fall on it. A phone’s antenna will harvest more energy from the signal it receives.

All of these options are horrendously bad and inefficient ways to generate electricity, and still all of them are orders of magnitude more effective than that thing.

This.

That thing is at best a sensor, certainly not a power generation device.

The antenna in my phone likely “harvests” orders of magnitude more electricity when receiving signal.

This. If it was as great as promised it would also work if done legally.

Intelligence is a often-misunderstood concept. It’s kinda like height in basketball.

A person that’s 1.50m tall will have little chance becoming a successful professional basketball player, but that doesn’t mean that a person that’s 2m tall is guaranteed to be great at basketball without practice.

It takes both. And a 1.50m tall person who has played a lot of basketball will likely be better than a 2m person who hasn’t, but if the 2m person starts practicing they will overtake the 1.5m person quite quickly.

Smart people like to claim that “it’s all just hard work”, mostly as a kind of humble-brag (“I am not something special, but I work really hard”), but it’s not true. Accomplishing things in intelligence-based fields is a combination of being smart and working hard.

Usain Bolt isn’t such an amazing runner only because he works hard, but he has the right genetics for the task. But if he didn’t work hard, he wouldn’t be such an amazing runner either.

A big one for me is choice of apps. Only apps made for Android Auto are available, and that’s not a lot. Especially pretty much nothing from F-Droid. Open source apps for Android Auto are very limited.

Sideloading is not a thing for Android Auto either. So I can’t even choose to work around the limitations as I can on the phone itself.

The ancient Android Assistant sucks. It constantly doesn’t understand what I ask it and so far I haven’t figured out when exactly it can do a google search for me and when not. Especially considering how far LLMs have come in terms of answering simple questions (e.g. if a name comes up in a podcast and I want to know a little bit of background information to that person). And when they finally add LLM support it will be Gemini only with no choice past that.

Then there’s stupid design decisions in apps, e.g. that Google Maps doesn’t show GPS speed when in Android Auto mode. I also hate that Google Maps decided in an update a year or so ago that speed camera warnings (which are illegal in some of the countries I frequently drive in) can not only not be disabled but are so important that they need to take up half the screen and hide the navigation directions while they are up. This is especially crappy when I come up to a busy highway intersection where I have to get off and suddenly there’s no navigation on my screen but a stupid warning I don’t care about because I obey speedlimits anyway.

And lastly (that’s likely down to the implementation in my car or my phone), there’s constant connection issues.

Lemmy. The rather lax moderation is an advantage and a disadvantage at the same time. Combined with the fact that a lot of people who got banned on Reddit are using Lemmy as an alternative.

Dacia’s implementation isn’t bad. The only safety limits in there are the ones imposed by Android Auto.

But I totally agree with you, when your car/android auto/phone combo acts dumb, finger pointing to who is at fault hardly matters, because it doesn’t work and that’s all that matters (except for knowing which manufacturer to avoid the next time).

It’s so painful, because it could really be good. But they went out of their way to make it suck…

Btw, did you read your link about disengagement?

For a disengage call to be valid, it must not be accompanied by other arguments on the existing topic.

You violated that.

Also, no, nothing you did was polite, and “politely cussing people out” doesn’t exist. Cussing people out is by definition not polite.

Kind of strange that basic rules of communication like that need to be explained.

Sod off. Fuck off. Cisfuck

Yes, that is hateful.

That’s a really good way to put it. Too many people around here who fit in that category.

It’s kinda strong of you to use hateful language and cusswords all the way through the discussion and then call on the mods.

Are you sure you want to do that?

Being a bigot has absolutely nothing to do with your sexual orientation, your sexual preferences or your fetishes.

Yes, you can be a bigot and using bigot language like “cisfuck” proves that you are one. The worst kind of bigots are those who think they cannot be bigots because they like to have sex with people they are bigoted against.

It’s literally the same as a right-wing extremist claming he cannot be racist because he sourced his wife from the Philipines.

Don’t kink shame!

I’m not in the same boat and don’t claim to be.

I use a phone with a keyboard attachment and thus my phone is too large to fit many man’s trouser pockets either.

So now when I shop for trousers, I intentionally check whether my phone fits the pockets and weigh large pockets over looks.

It would be interesting if there’s at least some women’s trousers with large enough pockets. If there are and women in large numbers actually buy these and reject small-pocket trousers no matter the looks, I think that could get some traction.

If there’s really not a single pair of trousers available, even via online shopping, that has decently sized pockets, then of course that wouldn’t work.

I would guess (and this is decidedly an uneducated guess based on maybe a dozen or so women I talked with about that topic), many women do dislike small pockets, but dislike bad style, bad fit or bad looks more.

Interesting, didn’t hear of that yet. Apparently, Apple changed their stance on emulators in summer 2024. Before that they had emulators banned completely from the iOS store. Now it appears that they allow them, at least Retroarch.