JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yet it is.

You can go to a company and ask to buy their office building. Or the name trademark. Or staff. Or customer database. Or website. And you continue this until you've acquired literally everything the company has except the actual company itself - it's called an "asset acquisition" - so you get all the stuff, but because the original company technically still exists it's left with most of the liabilities.
Most, because some liabilities thankfully do transfer.

In this instance:

According to VPNSecure’s owners, their acquisition netted them “the tech, the brand, and the infrastructure/technology—but none of the company, contracts, payments, or obligations from the previous owners.”

...how you can claim not to have gotten the contracts, yet be in a position to cancel them sound a bit of a, well, lie.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup.
I've spent a good while running Deck in desktop mode compared to my laptop running Manjaro, and so far the only thing I've noticed is that the Deck has that handy "add to steam" context menu item that automatically sets a 3rd party game to run in proton through steam.
And there's an AUR package for that.

So unless there's something major I've managed to miss, Manjaro + that package gets you the entire desktop SteamOS experience on any device.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

100kg-125kg (220-275lbs) are fairly common weight ratings yeah. Half of it is because the frame needs to handle you dropping a curb without snapping like a pretzel, but the other half is because gravity is a bitch and trying to go up even a small hill takes a lot of power.
Most escooters promise 25-30% climb capability, but hauling 300lbs up a 30% grade at just 10mph requires 2200 watts, while most smaller escooters max out at 500-1000W.
Even that 1000W is only enough for ~4.5mph.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We are going to hit an interesting spot in a few years when the processes run out of numbers to use - because the "x nm process" hasn't been talking about the actual sizes for almost three decades (the 250nm process back in 1997 was one of the last ones).

The "2nm" process for example has a gate pitch of 45nm, and metal pitch of 20nm. Once they go below 42 and 16 - 1nm values - is it going to be the 0nm process? And -1nm after that?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Maximum GDPR fine is 4% of your revenue. For Lufthansa, that would be ~$1.4 billion, Air France ~$650 million, both of which are roughly their entire net income for one year.

Not sure if anyone has been hit with the maximum ever though, as everyone just keeps track of the dollars and not percentage of revenue.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fully driverless cars are not legally allowed yet - they all need to have a driver in the drivers seat supervising

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymos-self-driving-cars-are-in-a-growing-number-of-cities-heres-everything-to-know/

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

I'm fairly certain he pays every last cent he government asks of him.
The problem is that the government has been unwilling to ask for more, and the current one certainly won't.

He has been advocating for higher taxes for while though, like backing the Washington Income Tax initiative with his father:

Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft Corp. co-founder, and about two dozen other supporters of Initiative 1098 turned in 350,000 petition signatures Thursday in Olympia, many more than the roughly 241,000 required to get on the ballot. The campaign says it will turn in an additional 20,000 Friday. Gates said that it was time “to make our tax code fair for the middle class and small businesses.”

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So then, Bill isn't a billionaire, by definition?

But honestly it does kinda fit, someone like Elon Musk is a billionaire with the sole goal of gaining more useless wealth at any costs, while Gates kinda realised over three decades ago that he has so much already he doesn't have a need to actually get more.
He's already given around $100 billion in donations, and probably actually would have ran out of money by now if not for the fact that even though he has sold off his Microsoft stock from the initial 45% down to just around 1%, that 1% has been growing like crazy -15 years ago, it would have been worth around $2.5 billion, today it's over $40 billion.

That original 45% would be worth 1.5 trillion today, btw.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

FSD (Supervised) is not for situations where there is no driver - it’s for situations where the driver wants to just supervise while the car drives itself.

The "(Supervised) Full Self Driving" isn't for situations where the car is Full Self Driving, because Tesla has no functionality that meets SAE level 3/4/5 requirements for Full Self Driving. If you must supervise the driving, then it's not full self driving.
Not a confusing naming at all.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

But still down 20% from the start of the year, when Trump was supposed to make it soar.
It's not going to survive this high for long with the abysmal sales figures coming from the rest of the world, even if the Musk cult currently still keeps pretending everything is going great.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Supervised self driving would be fine. "Full self driving" means SAE level 4 or 5, which the Tesla autopilot isn't, and they don't need "supervised" in the name as they are specifically for a situations where there simply is no driver - like a robotaxi - so there can be no supervision.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Russian sure is the more commonly known language than Ukrainian, but the russian invasion of Ukraine has lately boosted the idea that maybe we should start using the Ukranian transliterations instead, especially when talking about places and people from Ukraine - Kyiv/Kiev, Chornobyl/Chernobyl, Zeleskyy/Zelensky, and so on, instead of the way the russian say those names.

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