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Dbrand has a really strong case here IMO, since they pretty heavily edit the internals and add a few easter eggs, which are still visible in Casetify’s final designs
Dbrand discovered Casetify allegedly copied 117 different designs, down to the many digital manipulations it made to the images. Dbrand says it holds registered copyrights for each of these products, all of which were registered before Casetify’s product launch.
Also, TIL:
Disclosure: The Verge recently collaborated with Dbrand on a series of skins and cases
Has there been a scenario where the technology itself is to blame? The contamination aspect of nuclear waste is well known and preventable, if costs are being cut on radioactive waste disposal (or in the case of a certain Japanese power company, ignoring warnings from the government on how to reduce ocean contamination in the event of an earthquake) a nuclear installation’s fate is sealed…
As far as I can see, the only downsides with nuclear IMO is that it takes multiple decades to decommission a single plant, the environmental impact on that plant’s land in the interim, and the initial cost to build the plant.
In comparison to Solar it sounds awful, but before solar, nuclear honestly would have made a lot of sense. I think it may even still be worth it in places that have a high demand for constant power generation, since Solar only generates while the sun’s about, and then you’re looking at overnight energy storage with lithium-based batteries, which have their own environmental and humanitarian challenges
The TMPE mod (to remove unwanted parking spaces, and ban car traffic on some roads) and bike lane roads made this possible for me. And some additional DLC that has the trams.
My busiest area has a tram arrive every 5-10 seconds (normal game speed), and they’re so busy that I’ve had to rebuild the ‘terminating’ train station stop a few times, learning new things along the way. Most recently relocated it and switched to a multiplatform metro station to shuffle cims to various parts of the map faster
Alstom has been building manufacturing facilities in America specifically for this project, (and other projects popping up across the US, making it a financially viable endeavor) however there are lots of urbanist communities on the net that explain this arrangement in much more detail.
The trains are very much of a European design, just most of the materials are sourced in the US and they’re manufactured in the US.
There is one truly domestic passenger train manufacturer in the US (sorry, can’t recall their name), and AFAIK they were not chosen because they don’t have both the experience or available capacity to make what Amtrak are after
Edit: also should mention some of the new trains have been parked in Amtrak’s yards for several years now, fully assembled. Occasionally you’ll hear a peep about them being used for testing but that’s it
While it is a shame the new trains are delayed, it’s very informative and unfortunate to discover their most profitable train line is using hardware from the 90s… that they can barely keep running… because the manufacturer went out of business.
There should be some deal in place for these manufacturers to transfer essential documentation to customers in the instance that they collapse IMO, like schematics for electronics, source code for hardware etc.
Personally I would be very uncomfortable as a director, knowing that the only cash cow is literally in the hands of thankless engineers doing the impossible with technology that is three decades old, with no documentation… and if anything goes wrong there’s no fallback plan apart from chopping up the old trains for more parts
Yepp, ASUS is continuing them as far as I know.
I have my doubts that the build quality and BIOS will hold up to an Intel-made device, but I hope i’m proven wrong once reviewers have spent some time with them. I vaguely remember something about Intel manufacturing NUC motherboards only, but I’m not sure if that applies to the arrangement with ASUS
I have the Celeron J3455 ones, can’t recall what idle consumption is but it’s really low. I stopped using the Pi for selfhosting several years back after realising my old atom netbook was faster at that time, and from there I scaled up to desktop systems, but now I’ve scaled right back down to the nucs lol.
I run HA, Plex, Zabbix and a bunch of other small stuff. Currently looking into a selfhosted markdown notes solution, since the hosted one I’m using at the moment (HackMD) is moving further into proprietary territory
I’ve found recent celeron/pentium and i3 nucs are really great for a balance of low power consumption (<13W) and reasonable performance. Their BIOS allows you to specifically set a power limit and customise other low level things like TAU etc, so you can tune the boost performance to your liking.
It’s a shame Intel discontinued them, the form factor itself was not the only thing setting them apart. The software was well thought out and the hardware just worked 😭
The (6th gen??) ones with programmable ring LEDs are extremely handy for telling system status at a glance, I’ve got three of them 🤫. If i’m not mistaken, a few nuc generations also had onboard GPIOs too?
They’d need a crap ton of money to throw at it lol, especially if the cheese makers decide to use Mifare NFC tech. That relies on the chips being signed using a write-once private key, and optionally also returning a kind of OTP that is only known to the NFC chip when it’s sent a special command or “challenge”.
Transit cards and contact less/chipped bank cards rely on something similar to prevent cloning (although Bank cards are actually running a Java-based OS, and can perform more complex calculations, or even just applications as programmed by the bank)
I’d be shocked if they picked some insecure type of nfc tech lol, or relied on the chip IDs which are easily cloneable
Their responses address commenters directly, with an apple-esque “you are doing it wrong” attitude, instead of focusing on the actual subject matter - the 3.5mm jack itself. It’s not really a discussion, it’s much more comparable to victim blaming and trolling 🤷♂️. People are looking for a discussion, not an attack thinly veiled as a “solution”. No point engaging IMO.
Regarding the actual topic though, I’m fully in agreement with you.
Here’s why I don’t feel as if bluetooth or dongles are an appropriate replacement: https://lemmy.one/comment/2684726
Since then I’ve also realised driver & codec support will slowly become a big issue as we move forward with dongles and bluetooth headphones, especially for people who prefer to keep their devices for longer
The FP2 battery dying quickly might be explained by Snapdragon’s non ideal SOCs around that time period, it was also a problem on the Galaxy S5 that I put up with firsthand.
The SOCs had the performance, but they ran hot and drank the battery as if there was an electricity drought.
I don’t think Android 9(?) is going to be particularly kind to that device either…
I have the older FP3+ model (last one with a headphone jack) - if you’ve got the S22 it’s definitely going to be a downgrade sadly.
My previous device was over half a decade old, so I got a boost in performance and better cameras, however I do find myself using Gcam if I want a point-and-shoot experience (particularly in the dark with Night Sight), and OpenCamera otherwise. The cameras are ok, just the apps don’t make the most of them IMO.
The FP4 I believe improves on these quite a bit, especially in the performance department, but it hasn’t got a headphone jack. There FP forums are really active with people discussing the device - there’s a thread dedicated to photos taken with the device if you want a better feel of the camera’s capabilities in particular
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp4-pictures-gallery/78667
As for my FP3 device in general, I really like it. It’s well supported by various custom ROMs, quite a few documented teardowns on the forum. I’ve replaced my vibration sensor, the last one burned out due to my love of haptic feedback 😅. I believe there’s also a PostmarketOS linux distro available for the device too. Taking it apart is really easy, all the screws are identical sizes and no special tools are needed.
I just wish Fairphone had additional resources to pour into the software side of things - the device supports partially charging the battery, and reducing the quick charge speed, but these are not options available the settings… You can only set these via the command line/Termux with a rooted device. Google has also been giving them a hassle over the fingerprint sensor and certification - as of Android 13 I believe the fingerprint sensor in my device no longer will work in most apps as it does now on Android 10
If you decide to stick with NewPipe, there’s a community for it here
Time flies man. I remember the hype for this game back in 2014 like it was yesterday