How's the battery life? Can you replace the battery if/when it gets old?
That looks like something I could buy. I've really wanted a tiny console PC with RS232 and ethernet for a long time now. I thought about building one into a custom keyboard using something like a raspberry pi but I haven't had the time to follow through. This thing looks like it could make my diy project unnecessary.
I also haven't found phones particularly appealing.. mine gets 5-6 days on a charge because it's mostly just an alarm clock. Any time I try to do anything with it, I get frustrated by how clumsy it is compared to an actual computer. I do like being able to look at maps or make a call in an emergency, and it's handy having a camera always in the pocket, but that's pretty much where the appeal ends.
Battery life is a solid 7 to 8 hours with real-world, screen-on usage, provided you're not compiling software or pushing the thing really hard. I've turned the TDP down on mine because I almost always prefer it to be cool rather than fast. You could probably drain the battery in a 2 or 3 hours if you really went for it.
Battery replacement is a matter of unscrewing the case. It's glued to the interior, but I've seen teardown videos of people just peeling it off so it's not a big deal. In lieu of hot-swapping batteries, I sometimes carry a USB-C PD power bank - although the Micro PC is low power enough that it will actually charge off a regular phone charger.
Rubber seals for doors and windows seem to be a constant pain, and if they are available they tend to be really expensive. Regardless of make and brand.
Old Land Rovers, late 70s onwards, are a dream to get parts for. At least from the UK, and given you can live with aftermarket parts.
Yeah weatherstripping is horrible, but there is an aftermarket for that, too.
Dorman (USA) makes a lot of these kits, you can often get all sorts of surprising parts from them, but they sell out their runs, too.
Thing about that kind of part is there aren't a lot of sales. There usually isn't millions of people out there ready to buy the weatherstripping, so the aftermarket often won't do a production run for it as it can be rather unprofitable.
Now and then a supplier will start making something crazy though, a few years ago I was looking for body sheet metal repair parts for a w123 300d--and found them! Uro production body sheet metal was available domestically for this 35year old jalopy.
Can't find the parts anymore I believe (I haven't tried) but there were so many of those w123 and w124 globally that people wanted to glue em' back together. Basically 100% of them have serious rust problems, seems to be mainly because of the way the sunroof is designed. I digress.
Same for body panels for old Land Rovers and Range Rovers. The portions that tend to rot are readily available. I bolted in two new front inner wings in mine.
Heck, even weatherstripping and carpets are getting available again! Quite expensive so. Still cheaper in some cases then simple repairs in more modern cars. If you can do the work yourself that is.
There's also some low-hanging fruit if someone wants to contribute. E.g. the developer docs are rather outdated. I recently implemented AMD FSR as a Gimp plugin but all the docs led to code that resulted in a slew of deprecation warnings. Also poor performance and some thing just not working right at all (tile cache). I kinda got frustrated with it and dropped the gimp parts altogether, but if I had more time, it shouldn't be hard to figure out and maybe improve the docs or write an up to date tutorial.
I think you're not the first person facing this issue. If you feel like it, organizing a hackathon around it, so that you and others can update the docs and polish your respective plugins would be a huge contribution! Speaking as someone who is not a GIMP contributor myself.
> If we want top-grade products to remain available without a direct monetary transaction
Fantasy world. These products do not exist, as far as I'm aware. The reality is trash products. I couldn't care less if all that trash just vanishes from the internet.
I trust Google to randomly lock me out because their stupid AI determined that I'm a suspicious geek instead of a normal person. It's happened before, it will happen again.
> You could say a human is laundering GPL code if they learned programming from looking at Github repositories.
I don't have photographic memory, so I largely don't memorize code. I learn general techniques, and memorize simple facts such as APIs. I can memorize some short snippets of code, but these probably aren't enough to be copyrightable anyway.
> The type of model they use isn't retrieving
How do we know? It think it's very likely that it is largely just retrieving code that it memoized, and doing minor adjustment to make the retrieved pieces fit the context. That wouldn't differ much from finding code that matches the problem (whether on SO or Github), copy pasting the interesting bits, and fixing it until it satisfies the constraints of the surrounding code. It's impressive that AI can do that, but it doesn't sound like it's producing code.
I think the alternative to retrieving would actually require a higher level understanding of the world, and the ability to reason from first principles; that would be much closer to AGI.
For example, if I want to implement a linked list, I'm not going to retrieve an implementation from memory (although given that linked lists are so simple, I probably could). I know what a linked list is and how it works, and therefore I can produce working code from scratch.. for any programming language, even ones for which no prior implementations exist. I doubt co-pilot has anything remotely as advanced as this ability. No, it fully reliant on just retrieving and reshaping a pieces of memoized code; it needs a large corpus of code to memoize before it can do anything at all.
I don't need a large corpus of examples to copy, because I use my ability to reason in conjunction with some memoized general techniques and common APIs in order to produce original code.
I'm with you on this. The system is blatantly broken, and one way to get something done about it is to get everyone to abuse the hell out of it so that the system gets removed or fixed.
Is it really or is it just in the SV bubble? Or is this a case of "it's not interesting if it's not in SV"?
Sometimes reading HN gives me the feeling that there is no "tech" other than FAANG in the US. Or somehow every little "tech" company is just making FU money, which sounds hard to believe.
No it's not [0]. I know HN is a bubble, a rich and successful one, but it's crazy how detached from reality some comments are. It borders between an extreme 'fake it till you make it' mentality and sheer trolling.
For reference, in my G7 country $5k are 3 to 4 months wage.
> Or is this a case of "it's not interesting if it's not in SV"
This is a case of "get deep knowledge about something which can not be replicated by googling your way out".
Become a recognized expert in compilers, OS internals, or similar areas and suddenly you get $250-300k anywhere in US/Canada. Europe tech salaries are much lower.
That looks like something I could buy. I've really wanted a tiny console PC with RS232 and ethernet for a long time now. I thought about building one into a custom keyboard using something like a raspberry pi but I haven't had the time to follow through. This thing looks like it could make my diy project unnecessary.
I also haven't found phones particularly appealing.. mine gets 5-6 days on a charge because it's mostly just an alarm clock. Any time I try to do anything with it, I get frustrated by how clumsy it is compared to an actual computer. I do like being able to look at maps or make a call in an emergency, and it's handy having a camera always in the pocket, but that's pretty much where the appeal ends.