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  • That would be great, but you can buy a $20 burner from a gas station that’s more powerful than those phones.

    The regular version uses the Allwinner A64 chip which retailed for $5 when it was released… Back in 2015.

    The Pro version uses the RK3399S, which is a custom lower binned version of the RK3399. Neither chip was made available retail, but the SK3399 was released in 2016 and only otherwise used in low-end Chromebooks and SBCs.








  • Death rate per 100,000,000 miles has been dropping a lot over time.

    In 1923, when it first started being tracked, it was standing at 21.65. 1970, it was 4.88. 1990, 2.21. In 2021, it was 1.5.

    It spiked recently, though, a tiny bit around 2015-2016 but then greatly in 2021. In 2014, the rate was 1.17.

    I do agree that the self-driving features are kinda pointless, especially right now, though. GM has gotten especially bad with their marketing, showing ads with people intentionally taking their hands off the wheel and not paying attention to the road while the car’s moving.



  • Same with my printer.

    On Linux, I had to configure CUPS. This meant finding out which of the 30+ different drivers for my printer model actually worked. Then it meant determining which of the dozen or so different “devices” would actually work. And until I got it working correctly, it randomly crashed.

    There are plenty of things Linux is better at but it isn’t that great at handling standard devices with any ease. I’m sure that I can do a lot more now with the Linux driver, but sometimes I just want to tell my computer that’s my printer and I just want this printed.


  • A large issue is that what would be one subreddit is now a dozen different communities. What would fix this is allowing communities to “federate”.

    Let’s say you had news@europe.site and europenews@lemmy.site.

    The mods could have the option to consolidate with each other. Each would have to agree to the move and could revoke that access at any time. If one instance goes down, the other still retains their posts. Both of them would still exist on their own, but anything made on one would automatically be published on the other.

    This could have multiple levels.

    At the most basic, posts are just automatically brought over between each community. The mods can take action that only affects their local instance.

    You can then add an option to federate with the other community and any community they federate with. Mods are presented with options to disallow some of those communities if they choose.

    Each community can then set moderation levels and permissions. There could be an option to retain moderation on federated posts made on the other instance for their local posts. IE if europenews@lemmy.site removes a post made on europenews@lemmy.site, news@europe.site can choose to have it removed there.

    You can also choose to grant full mod powers to other communities. So if europenews@lemmy.site removes any post, even one made on news@europe.site, it would automatically be removed from news@europe.site.

    This would alleviate the fractures caused by multiple communities without losing the benefits of federation.