It sounds like you’re conflating Bitcoin with cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is power hungry. Not all crypto is proof-of-work, and actually, most aren’t. Not all crypto has insane transaction fees, that’s mostly a Bitcoin thing. These are massive issues with Bitcoin which is why I’m surprised anyone still values Bitcoin at all.
Or… One of the primary reasons decentralized cryptocurrency was invented
Trust me it’s not the designers choosing to do it this way. There’s management above them saying “hey this other company makes them put in their phone numbers, it must be for SOMETHING, we should too”
Who are these liberals and are they in the room with us right now?
This is memes not politics but also what the fuck are you talking about
99% chance they were going with Ender, but there’s that 1% chance they were going with Pigman and that’s what I’ll choose to believe
Tree isn’t necessarily US-based, it’s just hunting-based. Treeing an animal is just chasing it up a tree, often with dogs. I’d say that’s usually a more British thing than US tbh
For images with large blocks of solid colors and no gradients, frequently the opposite is true. Screenshots and avatars with solid(transparent) backgrounds are often smaller as png.
It drives me nuts seeing things like tweets (white and black text) being shared with crazy jpeg artifacting. They’d be so much smaller and so much less ugly as png
Creating diseases sounds horrendous but I haven’t read the article yet
And what is “the app” they refer to?
If they don’t get praised or promoted instead, yeah.
I have a benefit of the doubt thing here, not that any billionaire I’ve heard of deserves it. If I suddenly had a billion dollars, would I donate to an existing charity with an administration I don’t know and trust or would I think “hmm I can better choose what happens with this money” and start my own charitable enterprise? Like a bill/Miranda Gates situation.
I know if I had a billion dollars worth of shares of a company I wouldn’t necessarily liquidate it all for philanthropy either. Do I hold onto control of these stocks while attempting to guide the company in a more ethical way? Idk. It’s an interesting thought
What, you don’t shower with 800C steam?
Give us some examples? What goals are you being asked to give up on?
God I wish megacorps would stop being morons with NDA nonsense and just open up the possibilities for open source devs to actually use the hardware that’s out there
Yep I expect this to be used primarily as e.g. an Amazon echo or Google speaker. Generally you “cast” to those instead of directly connecting via Bluetooth
I never trust “oh that’ll come with a firmware update later”
If they have enough to confidently make that statement, it’d already be released. I’m not buying something with the vapor promise that it’ll get better later
I’m legally blind I cannot see apparently. I could have sworn I even searched for it
How exactly is moving away from centralized, controlled infrastructure “fascist”?