jack_arleth

HDMI 2.1 is basically blocked by the HDMI forum: "... This isn’t some unsolved mystery buried deep in kernel code. The issue sits with the HDMI Forum, which controls the HDMI 2.1 specification. To implement it fully, you need to agree to licensing terms that clash hard with open-source licenses like GPL. ..." Source: https://www.makeuseof.com/hdmi-forum-is-holding-back-linux-a...

So I can perfectly imagine a small hardware vendor like Framework being unable to get support for this. Perhaps DP is a better solution for your use-case?

The quip is on point, correct and highly timely.

Volkswagen tried to evolve to a more "touch" based HMI -that everybody hated- and is now touting it's abandoning that HMI as the largest redeeming factor of it's cars.

China is banning the ridiculous "innovations" on car handles and further "innovations" on steering wheels.

The Tesla software stack has few advantages: it's cheap and can be easily revised when the Beta-user discovers issues with it. So I have to pause and think to who's benefit it's made the way it is.

From an HMI perspective a Tesla is a nightmare, getting in and out one is constant question as to -why- these design choices were made. Especially after taking out "just doing things different" as a reason. A friend's first additions was loops to the physical door-releases so that passengers could actually get out should something happen and incapacitate the infuriating button-based door releases.

Luckily there is progress such as the recent Ferrari HMI that actually thinks about how the HMI will be used. The central screen even offers a palm-rest for when manipulating the screen. Integrating physical buttons and switches with the canvas of a screen is the logical way forward.

The car industry is soul-searching as we speak on what to do with technology and our interaction with it. But one thing is absolutely certain: whatever Tesla did is not the future.

Framework laptops have the same solution.

I had a similar issue and wanted a "Google Photos" like product. So a web-interface with a time-based list and an phone-application that automatically back-ups.

I'm currently using Synology Moments/Photos which comes for free with a Synology NAS.

I've recently been on a trip with random strangers sailing on a boat and I could easily request the others' photos, import them in an album and share it with the rest of the group.

I'm struggling to find a better alternative that is workable and is almost set-and-forget.

I understand your concerns and where you are coming from, but the privacy policy is refreshingly transparent, readable and clear: https://reclaimyourface.eu/privacy-policy/

Some key facts:

- "ECI signatories: your full first and last names, country of residence and date of signature. Depending on the signatory’s nationality, we will also collect a combination of the following data: residence (street, number, postal code, city, country), date of birth, national identity document type and national identity document number." This seems to indicate that the data requested is dependant on the country you live in. So blaming the organization is a bit unfair.

- "Your data will be stored by the group of organisers for a maximum retention period of one month after the submission of the initiative to the European Commission or 21 months after the beginning of the collection period, whichever is the earlier. It might be retained beyond these time limits in the case of administrative or legal proceedings, for a maximum of one month after the date of conclusion of these proceedings." They will remove your data whatever happens.

I've signed the petition and handed over my the equivalent of PESEL. I did that because I understand that if we want to enact change we have to be more than a signature on an online form, we have to be a living breathing person and not just another email-address in a database. They can sweep gme_diamondhands_6969@whatever.com under the rug rather easily but along with data that proves that I'm a citizen that becomes much harder to do.

As a Belgian, this is what we've heard and read:

- Pfizer stated on 15 Jan 2021 that they would produce 40% less (60.000 instead of 100.000 doses)

- This delay in production would we compensated in the weeks that follow. In February the production should be compensated.

- This was a temporary measure to scale up production after an extra order was made by the EU

The working group concerning the vaccine and it's distribution was to quote "not amused" by this news and wrote a sternly worded letter.

Source:https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/01/16/versnelde-inenting-z... Text in Dutch.

FYI, cpu-monkey.com states that the following CPU's have the following scores and TDP respectively:

- AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS: 11006 on 35W

- AMD Ryzen 9 4900U: 1279 on 15W

- AMD Ryzen 9 4900H: 11061 on 45W

- AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS: 10590 on 35W

- AMD Ryzen 7 4800U: 10156 on 15W

- AMD Ryzen 7 4800H: 10590 on 45W

- AMD Ryzen 5 4600HS: 8934 on 35W

- AMD Ryzen 5 4600U: 8044 on 15W

- AMD Ryzen 5 4600H: 8934 on 45W

And finally, just for spite: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X: 28641 on 105W

Disclaimers: 1) As TDP I've taken PL1 as that is undoubtedly the exact same thing that Apple is doing.

2) I don't know/care about Intel's unlimited refresh works, so can't tell you what Intel's products look like.

3) Data comes only from cpu-monkey.com, so take the numbers with a grain of salt unless they are verified.

Some comments have touched on some possible issues such as the swapping of key-frames of someone else's face and possible funky effects by introducing other faces and or objects into the camera image.

But I haven't seen anybody touch on the compute cost required to implement this. As I'm not in the machine learning field I don't have a good idea what the compute cost is for something like this. Can anybody chime in on that?

If this "codec" were to require a somewhat beefy gpu I don't see the benefits at all. Current H264 is usually done by hardware decode and sometimes even encode. In areas where bandwidth is constrained I would imagine a lack of computing resources, thus nullifying the entire premise. That said, in current times it would save a substantial amount of data transmitted. But I'm not sure if we should lock-in our entire videoconferencing system to nvidia just to save some bandwith.

You might already know this but you can actually swap the CTRL and FN key via the BIOS.

https://support.lenovo.com/nl/en/solutions/ht074187

I'm extremely interested to know in what part of Europe you live because this is the exact opposite as to how I see a close friend and his #EVlife. Allow me to elaborate.

My friend lives near Brussels, Belgium. I currently live in between the cities of Hasselt and Antwerp also Belgium. The distance covered in a single trip is 83.2 Km. He drives and I quote: "a full spec Nissan Leaf" whatever that may mean.

During winter times, my friend has to take a look at traffic flows because if he has a traffic jam he'll run his battery flat and be stranded.

During summer, he's hot because the car can't sustain AC and drive the distance without running his battery flat and be stranded.

When he arrives, he has to find a charging pole in the middle of the city centre. He checks this in advance on his application/website/... before he leaves because else, he is stranded.

If we go out in the evening he has to spend the night or his car isn't charged and he's stranded.

To start charging he has to select one of the three cables he has in his car because of "standards".

In the end, I pick him up in my ICE because he's not even at his destination.

We have done this dance for about 5 times now and I can assure you that -to me- the EV market seems to be doing everything it possibly can to make me as uninterested as possible in buying an EV.

I'd rather take Belgian public transportation than deal with this nonsense. A train might get cancelled, but at least I know I'll be home that same day.

Some things that come to mind on a quick reading of the website you linked:

- you can only sign up by using github. This is equally nonsensical as requiring a facebook account to sign up. I have neither. But I have e-mail, so why can't I play along?

- I legitimately cannot tell what platform this is on. Is it a webapp or is it a OSX/mac only local application?

- Does it exist on mobile?

I mean this as constructive criticism and I hope that somebody related to the project/company reads this and improves the information. But from what I can see this application is locked down for those on github and who operate macs. That makes it useless to a whole lot of people.

*edited for formatting

Though I'm willing to agree with this as a general idea, I would be cautious to state it as a fact.

I've encountered many Flemish Belgians who openly admit they can understand English but cannot speak it well. A member of my close familiy who works in aviation occasionally rants about "having to do everything in English", a position that I cannot begin to understand. Whereas I've worked for a Flemish Belgian company that also had Walloon Belgian customers who communicated not stubbornly in French (as the stereotype would suggest) but in professional English.

I believe that the language learning is affected by the generations. There has been a disregard, acceptance and now (what I believe) a new disregard of foreign languages in Flanders. Though I do not have any numbers to back that up. That said the news recently reported an all-time low for Flemish Belgian students with regard to reading and sciences (https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2019/12/03/_dutch-is-the-key-to...). So there might be a correlation between the two subjects.

It would be very interesting to have data on this subject as Belgium indeed is a great place to study this phenomenon.

A few places come to mind:

- Kusatsu Onsen (basically an onsen with the hot-watersource in the centre of the town)

- Hiroshima, I cannot stress how nice this city is.

- Arima Onsen (another onsen resort, the oldest of Japan)

- Nikko (the most lavishly decorated temples combined with mountains, touge, a beautiful lake and one of the highest waterfalls in the country)

Nikko is my absolute favorite place in all of Japan. I highly recommend it.

This has got to be one of the best quotes that illustrates what I believe to be wrong about everything related to Apple and it's products: the blatant and worrisome repackaging of ideas and words.

I'm not facetious at all when I say: Thank you for this quote. I'll save it and use it all the discussions I'll have on the subject from now on. It has really added a key-puzzle-piece to my understanding of the Apple-mindset.

The "notch" (Who came up with the term anyway? I don't believe Apple actually identifies it with a name.) is most definitely meant to be a notch: when applications are full-screen the notch will actually "eat" a part from your screen. This was shown since day 1 of the introduction where a phone was on display with the Wonder Woman movie full-screened and HDR activated. This is Apple's intended and expected behavior. It's Apple's choice to put the "notch" front and center, not to hide it with software and even set up guidelines to ignore it in application development.

Personally, I have an issue with notches and I will never own a device that has one. I find it a lazy, ugly and uninteresting way to increase the screen to body ratio of phones. But I'm somewhat glad with the current experimental designs that are being released by other manufacturers. It's refreshing to see different takes on the issue wether by popping up camera's, flipping over camera's or now even hiding camera's under the screen. Now that is innovation, that is design, that is actually looking for a solution for a very difficult problem. Instead Apple chose to put the "notch" front and center and to ignore it even going so far as to almost market it as a feature. Because look at all the high-tech stuff you get because of it. Sorry, I'm not buying it.

And this shows the incidious marketing that Apple partakes in. It redefines words and ideas on an active basis:

- A motherboard isn't a motherboard, it's a logic-board. It does exactly the same thing, it is exactly the same thing and even is produced in exactly the same way as motherboards. But somehow the brand on the shell makes it different.

- A Mac is different from a Personal Computer and as Louis Rossman has indicated a Mac can "regress" into becoming a PC. How is this possible, it does the exact same thing, is build in the same manner, uses the same technology and serves the exact same purpose.

- An "App" is basically a term that collects all the things that are software-y. A deamon? That's an app that runs in the background. A service? That's an app. A compiler? That's an app. A game? That's an app. A script? That's an app. A shell? That's an app. Etc...

- A repository with a gui suddely is an app-store. No, it's a software repo with included DRM for free.

- Durcing the introduction of the then new "earpod" design of the corded headphones that statement was made that they were engineered to guide audiowaves into your ears. Gee wiz Batman, what are all the other headphones doing then?

- The CE Iphones were "unapologetically plastic". So they are just plain and simple plastic. Just like all the other manufacturers out there.

- The famous "I'm a mac and I'm a PC" commercial is so obvious that it almost hurts. No, they both are PC's; they just look a little different.

This repackaging of words and ideas is a very worrisome trend. It muddies the water when it comes to definitions of words and it eventually will lead to the muddying of the truth. Not only that, but if we accept this sort of repackaging with our PC and phone hardware; why should we not accept it in other aspects of our lives? Why should there not be alternative-facts, when there are alternative PC's? It's a mechanism in our psyche that is prone to abuse and therefore we should not partake in it, even if it maximises profits.

It's all actually pretty simple, look at the definition of the word and if all of it applies; it sticks. How you feel about that does not matter.

As somebody who worked for a company selling domain-names and being responsible for the registration and renewal of domain names; this sadly enough is a very familiar situation.

ICANN in my humble opinion has no blame in this, they are simply following the rules that they set out and OP agreed with when he registered the .com domain name. As stated in other comments keeping your WHOIS information is the sole responsibility you have when owning a domain name. That and timely renewing the domain of course.

In my somewhat limited experience the WHOISGUARD system is something that only causes problems. It's a pain to work with when transferring or trading a domain name and upon expiration can result to the exact situation that OP currently in. To add, I'm somewhat weary of a site that hides it's owner. The whois data can create a certain form of trust and serve as a verification to ascertain the owner of the site is who he claims to be. I'm not sure why you would want to hide this data.

A .com domain has the option to register the domain in the name of a corporation, thus removing the personal data of the owner (name and email) and only showing the name of the company, it's data and a administrative e-mail address in a minimal setup. As OP has; and I quote; "about a hundred domain names", I'm not sure why no company has been formed to solve this problem for all these domain-names.

I personally think that the WHOIS system is one of the best ways to solve the problem that domain name registration poses. It's accessible for anyone, anywhere, in plaintext and without the need for special software. It's actually pretty great.

Edit: typo's

As a fellow Dvorak typer I'm a bit surprised that you've had such a negative experience with it. Therefore I'd like to share my own biased experience.

I'll agree with you on the issues with key-rebinding for gaming and copy/paste becoming more difficult. Going back to typing Azerty/Qwerty becomes a real hurdle and this might be a problem depending on your situation.

But the pain (tendinitis or carpal, I did not check with a doctor) that I experienced after only 2 hours of typing disappeared completely. That being the goal of my change I consider the change a successful one.

I managed to learn Dvorak in 2 months, with the keyboard feeling more natural and logical during the learning period. While it took me years to become proficient with Azerty (the Belgian keyboard-standard). I accelerated my learning process with a simple CLI based typing-trainer.

TL;DR: Dvorak is more difficult in regular life but it can solve pain issues. So I recommend changing to the layout for that purpose.

*edit: spelling