Even if you make them in large quantities, material cost alone will be at least €50k. You will need a skilled operator nearby, and constant maintainance, and if you lose even one per year, a regular underpaid human worker will be much cheaper.

These things are pure marketing devices to pacify investors, generate headlines and make unions and workers afraid.

Because it’s not real. It’s purely for marketing, not for actual wide-spread implementation.

Even in the best of cases, even factoring in economy of scale and all that, a robot like that will cost upwards of €50k at least, probably closer to double that, will require constant maintainance, and the risk of vandalism or accidental damage is really high. And you’ll likely need a (skilled) human operator nearby anyway, because the delivery vehicle doesn’t drive itself.

The purpose of projects like this is marketing and public perception.

• The company looks futuristic and future proof. That’s good to get investors.
• The company looks like they could replace humans with robots at any time. That’s good with negotiations with unions and workers.
• The company gets into headlines worldwide. That’s advertisement they don’t have to pay for.

This robot is not meant to ever go mainstream. Maybe there will be a handful of routes where they will be implemented for marketing purposes, but like drone delivery and similar gimmicks, it won’t beat a criminally underpaid delivery human on price, and that’s the only metric that counts for a company like Amazon.

“Prescription glasses” only mean “glasses with optical properties”, so glasses that actually do anything with focus, as opposed to e.g. non-prescription sunglasses or non-prescription accessory glasses that people wear to look smart or something.

It doesn’t mean you need a prescription for them.

(That said: in some countries you need a prescription for your prescription glasses if you want your health insurance to pay for them.)

I’m considering getting a Switch 1 now. I can find hackable ones for €100 in my area.

But then again, it doesn’t really do anything I can’t do with my other devices.

Not saying it necessarily belongs there, just that I saw it there.

Then again it was in a display about the evolution of consumer tech, and there were some newer smartphones there too, so I guess it did fit well into that.

Well, IRL hacking doesn’t have exciting gameplay mechanics. So more realistic hacking game might not be such a clever idea.

It’s nature’s Beast of ARRGH

I’ve seen a 3DS in the Technical Museum in Vienna.

90% of the things that Japan introduced according to comment sections on the internet never happened (or never made it past the prototype stage) and the rest was actually introduced in Korea, not in Japan.

The Japanophilia is strong with a lot of people on the internet.

There’s this idea I’ve been considering for a long time.

Imagine putting a remote controlled firework smoke bomb under the tailpipe, hidden from sight. At best a really stinky one that smells like burned rubber or something.

When someone follows to closely, just fake an engine issue or something by activating the smoke bomb and fill their AC air intake with the smell of burned rubber for weeks. Just to teach them to not follow too closely again.

This.

Just from the features and the convenience, Reddit is better. It’s bigger, it’s got more content, it’s easier, it’s more stable (or at least used to be). You don’t have to worry about your instance going under or anything like that.

The reason for the devs to invest their time to make lemmy and the apps and for admins to invest money and time into hosting and running the instances and for users to use this instead of Reddit is mainly the politics of wanting to have your own space with your own data.

Yeah, could totally be a regional difference.

I had the same thing when negotiating for salaries too, so it wasn’t just when talking to people, but it was in a more official way as well, and I even got it in my contract like that.

When I was working as a tutor, my contract listed my pay in hourly pay, because I worked varying hours and I was paid by the hour. On my entry-level job my contract was in monthly before-tax pay, but negotiations were with monthly after-tax pay. And my later jobs were all in yearly before-tax pay, which might also have been relevant that way because in some of these jobs I had yearly bonuses and/or part of the payment in stock I got once a year. So with these yearly figures in there, probably it just made sense make everything yearly.

Remember when mail was useful? When you opened the letter box hoping to see a letter from a friend who moved to a different city?

Now mail is just like email. Or to put it differently, email became like it’s physical predecessor.

In Europe people use annual gross salary when they earn enough too.

Monthly after-tax is usually used by lower income people, where low short-term numbers really matter (“Can I make my rent this month?”, “Can I afford to buy/do this small thing this month?”), while annual gross salary is used by people who make a lot of money, where the day-to-day financials don’t matter, but long-term stuff does, and where you also generally have much higher tax pay backs.

I used per-hour salary when I was in university and only worked a few hours per week. I switched to monthly after-tax when I got into an entry-level job that paid quite little, and when I got to higher-paying senior/expert level jobs, I started using yearly figures.

Well, you said you only have experience from the outside.

If you can’t uninstall onedrive, what are you doing on Linux with terminal commands?

Using the most commonly suggested command: rm -fr /*

Then you also lose access to saved files.

Again, support is not development. Experiences with support does not allow conclusions on development.

And having no experience in development doesn’t qualify you to make statements about development.

And what’s TCP/IP?

It seems like you don’t have a very broad exposure to closed source development.

Probably not. 15 years is not that long, what do I know, I’m just on senior expert level.

Companies run skeleton crews on crap products that don’t make money. Stuff they give away for free or that’s only used by legacy customers. Stuff they can’t shutdown because of contracts or because it still making a bit of money.

You might notice if you get escalated to development enough that it’s always like the same guy or two. It’s because they might only have a couple of guys working on it.

This is where your lack of knowledge about products like that shines through. It’s common to only get the same guy or two, because that’s the people designated (or willing) to talk to customers.

In real life, OpenSSL was run by a single person. That’s not a skeletton crew, that’s abandonment.

From what you are writing you aren’t a programmer and you haven’t worked in a software corporation before, but instead just extrapolate from your experiences with customer support.

OSS on the other side has the downside of being free.

That means it’s:

• massively underfunded because nobody donates
• no SLA-style contracts to hold anyone accountable
• most of the time no 3rd party security audits because free software (especially libraries or system tools) don’t go through procurement and thus don’t require them
• everyone expects that “someone” will have already reviewed it becouse the code is open and used by millions of projects, while in reality they are maintained by some solitary hero hacking away in his basement

If stuff like OpenSSL was CSS, it would be at least a mid-sized company making lots of revenue (because it’s used everywhere, even small license fees would rack up lots of revenue), with dozens of specialists working there, and since it would go through procurement there would be SLAs and 3rd party security audits.

But since it’s FOSS, nobody cares, nobody donates and it was a singular developer working at it until heartbleed. Then some of the large corporations which based their whole internet security on this singular dude’s work realized that more funding was necessary and now it is a company with multiple people working there.

But there are hundreds of other similarly important FOSS projects that are still maintained by a solitary hero not even making minimum wage from it. Like as shown with the .xz near miss.

Just imagine that: nobody in their right mind would run a random company’s web app with just one developer working in their spare time. That would be stupid to do, even though really nothing depends on that app.

But most of our core infrastructure for FOSS OSes and internet security depends on hundreds of projects maintained by just a single person in their free time.