[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure about ATMs, they often ran OS/2.

Windows CE often ran media centres or UI panels in things like John Deere tractors or the Fiat 500.

It was also the OS that ran the Dreamcasts UI.

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That guy builds drones like no-one else's business.

I wish Australia and more countries would invest into small businesses that can build these kind of drones.

The cost to to effectiveness ratio of these is just insane. Ukraine has proven the effectiveness of loitering munitions.

Edit: Fixed typo and grammar.

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The question is, who's responsible?

The deep state? Karen? Vaccines? Maybe their bones don't ring because of 5g?!

Isn't the deep state responsible for the latter 2 anyway?

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Finally supporting PWAs on Desktop? Bringing back battery APIs and Network APIs so we can develop powerful apps than run on firefox.

  • You can add a permission request prompt for APIs of concern. Make Firefox a kick-ass browser again.

Edit fixed typos.

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

mRNA? Oh boy the anti vaxxers are going have have their heads explode.

Great news though as that's a pretty common cancer.

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Been there as a kid in the 90s. Sitting in the back my my parents Toyota Carina with my 2 siblings, while we were towing a caravan.

That car had a 2l, 4 cylinder petrol and got through the Alps and Pyrenees. Iwas more comfortable touring that way than going by tent only. Now I'm in Australia where I'm gobsmacked by how much shit people "need" to go camping. All while I'm exploring the same locations and actually spending more time camping in the bush as I tour on a tiny, economical 125cc motorcycle.

Almost to prove a point, I took that little thing to Cape York and will take it RTW next year, partly to show that you don't need much.

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indonesia is just bizarre. They've got the most draconian and nonsensical laws. The only step up is a full on fascist country like China or russia.

Other than being cheap, I don't understand why so many digi nomads want to live there.

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Louis posted a video on a much bigger problem that Google has with ads. These campaigns seem to completely neglect.

https://youtu.be/hWJrsz_cmas

In short: it's fake views. That's were advertisers pay for viewed ads, but the view happened to a bot. Ad block at least doesn't discourage advertisers since they don't pay for unviewed ads.

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Hungary, have you finally over-stepped it?

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Maybe doubling down will help . . . Getting this platform to disappear 100%!

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Reading through the comments, almost everyone missed the elephant in the room. The big problem with long term support is not on the phone or chip manufacturers.

...::: It's GOOGLE! :::... Just compare the history of Android with Windows. Windows 10 is still supported for another 2 years, yet it was released in mid 2015. Every Windows 10 capable device is still receiving updates till then.

Contrast that with Android. Android 6.0 came out in October 2015. Yet very few devices from that era are supportable today. Why? A large part of that is based on Google's never ending -> breaking changes <- and random new requirements that make older devices incompatible.

This got me personally when I bought a Sony Z3 with the intention of having a "future proof" phone. It was openly advertised as being a dev device for Android 7, so much so that a preview release was downloadable for it.

Only for Google to drop a new requirement for the GPU to have minimum OpenGL ES 3.1, while the GPU only had the instructions for 3.0. WTF?! I might add, the specification for 3.1 was only released to the public 2 years prior.

I seriously hope that some alternative to Android will establish itself again. We had Windows phone, which Microsoft utterly butchered. IOS is not an alternative as that's tied to one manufacturer.

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It lasted nearly 2 weeks longer than I had anticipated. First it slowed and now it's finally dead. "Error 429 - Too many requests" is the message I'm greeted with.

Thanks Ruben for your work. I wish I had known the Boost app earlier.

Im now eagerly awaiting Boost for Lemmy.

[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your efforts. I know that Lemmy was put in place rather quickly as a Reddit alternative. But I'm genuinely hopeful that this will be a good alternative.

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