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111 years after sinking, Titanic claims 5 more lives: OceanGate’s tourist sub ‘Titan’ implodes, debris found near the wreck of old ship

Phew, I wonder if the rich people really understood the dangers.

The CEO/Pilot won't get much compassion from me, I think he was told be enough people that the vehicle wasn't safe for the job.
Not sure how much of that was communicated to the passengers though.
I know they had to sign a waiver, but you have to do that for a lot of things that are much more safe.

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Are we committed to Lemmy? or would we move if something better comes along?

I'd assume people move when something better comes around.
But "better, more functional" is a relative term. Not sure that many here would be willing to forgo federation, and thus the independence from corporations, which especially don't like piracy.

Btw, have you specifically told people what about the UI/UX you find problematic, so that it could be improved?
And has kbin the same issue for you (as it federates as well, you can travel this community through kbin just fine)

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Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly

basically just elaborating on this twitter thread.

And because Kotaku decided to play a >1min video ad while i was trying to read:

tl;dr:
According to Circana's PlayerPulse:
47% of console video game players are female (+1% vs YA)
50% of PC video game players are female (+1% vs YA)
54% of mobile video game players are female (+1% vs YA)

41% of PS5s in the US are female owned
45% of Xbox Series consoles are female owned
52% of Swich consoles are female owned
50% of gaming PCs are female owned

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I mean, it's not like theres really anything stopping the big providers to implement PGP on top of Email.
They just don't, because users don't care. So you have to do it yourself, in a plugin or whatever.
Still works, just more cumbersome, but I wouldn't blame the protocol... at all.

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Breaking News! AMD is open sourcing the API for the x86 bootloader

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did it really?
I feel like they are largely similar in performance and performance per watt as the competition on the same processor node
Apple usually is the first to pay for the next node shrink, which just gives them the performance benefit of one generation...
for example, Apple M1 GPU vs Steam Deck GPU, Apple has a ~60% lead, but they are TSMC N5, whereas the Steam Deck GPU is built on the N7 node, (and there was the N6 node in between those two!)
The A12 is Apples N7 SoC, and draws up to ~6W, and the GPU has roughly 1/3rd of AMD Steam Deck compute, pretty in line with power draw.
Watt for Watt, Node for Node pure performance seems just good to me, not really surpassing anything else by a lot.

/e: btw, I don't want to be knocking Apples achievement here!
M1 is really impressive, they matched established manufacturers on the first try (see Intel for what happens when you don't), and managed to bake some translation to x86 into their ARM hardware as far as I understand. That's really cool.
It's just that I've been told to death how insanely much more power-efficient than x86 their architecture is, and I haven't really found the data to support it. When X86 is used efficiently (i.e. not in Desktop parts, where power consumption "doesn't matter") and on the same node, performance per watt is usually similar. That seems true for the

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Difference between F-Droid clients

Fdroid can share Apps from people with Fdroid near it.
Fdroid basic can't do that, but with Android 13+ you don't need root (and jump through hoops) do do automatic updates with it. Fdroid needs you to confirm every single file to be installed (without things like privileged extension)

Android <13: Fdroid
Android >13, Generally Fdroid Basic, and Fdroid for edge-cases where Fdroid Basic crashes, or the Internet is down but you really want to install a new app that your buddy has.

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WHAATTTT???? NOOOOO!!!!!

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I mean, you still need object detection and recognition with lidar, don't want to stamp on the brakes for a leaf.
And using only the primary sense of humans does kinda make sense.

still think it's tough call. Would be great if you don't need it. And don't know how expensive it would have been, especially at the start for all the people needing the hardware but not actually getting the use out of it.

otoh the only really successfull company in the space - waymo - uses it, that seems like a really strong sign

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limit what applications they can launch
what websites they can visit
how much screen time they spend in an app or category of apps
disable in app purchases
disable pop up advertisements in app
require approval from parent account for any app download (including free)
remove ability to delete apps or change specific settings

Google family link gives you controls over:

Android app activity and limits
Filters on Chrome, including custom black and whitelisting for websites
SafeSearch to remove sexually explicit and violet results in Google Search
Usage limits, including individual app limits
Google Play purchases, content restrictions, approval for app installs
Google Assistant app access and voice matching
Location tracking to find your child's device
Account info
Google Photo sharing
Google account sign in controls across new devices
Activity control such as web and YouTube history

source Seems like rather similar options to me?
But I have to admit to never having used either anyway.

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Privacy friendly home security camera

Quite a while ago, I used motion.
It's fairly basic, but did all that I needed. It's standalone, so no integration with home-assistant, at least not to my memory.

I seem to remember that there is something that builds up on motion, and I dimly remember a web-interface, but can't find the package right now.

Maybe an okay starting point, if no-one points out something better