Thanks for the suggestion, but I really, really dislike voice to text input.

I use Microsoft SwiftKey for the same reasons, find it hard to switch or get used to anything else.

Having used SwiftKey since before Microsoft acquired them, I’m a little annoyed at all the shit they’ve tacked onto the keyboard (like no, I don’t need Bing and ChatGPT in my keyboard, thank you very much). But nothing else let’s me mix languages in the same way as SwiftKey.

I don’t mind this. It’s unreasonable to expect them to provide a free service forever without any kind of monetization.

Except that Spez can’t convert those options until some time after IPO and probably only in a staggered way.

Man these are all things I’d love to see, don’t feed me this kind of hopium BEFORE Barcelona.

I can only recommend it.

I went to Spa this year with a few friends, with a standing only ticket. We had to walk over an hour to get to the spot we wanted to go. We then had to shovel the folding chairs we carried into the rocky hillside, and sit in the rain every day. We had to wake up at 6 every day to have a decent spot.

But I’d be lying if it wasn’t the best weekend of my year so far.

Because everyone is there, loving the same thing you do, sitting through the same rain.

When the cars went behind the trees and out of our view, we could see them go round the track because the rain splashed into the air over three times higher than the trees.

We had a big screen to follow the TV broadcast across the track from us, and local commentators describing the race in 4 languages on the tracks dedicated FM radio station.

We watched all the events - F1, F2, F3, Porsche cup, historical demos. We learned to identify the different F1 cars by sound. It was almost a magical experience for me.

I want to do a Monza road trip one of the next years.

Isn’t that what FedNow is?

Just a nitpick: it’s not always 19 more laps. It’s the fewest amount of laps that puts the sprint race over 100km (about 62 miles). At COTA, that’s 19 laps. Next time at Interlagos, it’s 24.

Watching the race, Alonso and Stroll were pretty close. Not sure if Stroll found a reason to drive, or if it was the floor. But before Alonso retired, they had been 2-4s apart for a while, and even a pitstop before they were pretty neck and neck.

Just give him a big raise & furlough him for 50% of the time, with the tacit understanding that he will hire some freelance help and work on a new regs car on his own dime and time.

Why not? It costs nothing, appart from transforming the old format into something the current site can work with, or more likely, have the old site support tbe old format.

Seeing the runaway succes of others like Nvidia, Apple, Mediatek, do you think any meaningful new entries are going to deviate from their playbook?

Being a good citizen with regards to transparency in firmware and Linux support is not a proven differentiator for these vendors and shown time and time again not to be a requirement for success.

I don’t understand what you mean. Why does ARM hardware become obsolete after a few years? Lacking ongoing software support and no mainline Linux?

What does that have to do with the instruction set license? If you think RISC-V implementors who actually make the damn chips won’t ship locked hardware that only run signed and encrypted binary blobs, you are in for a disappointing ride.

Major adopters, like WD and Nvidia didn’t pick RISC-V over arm for our freedoms. They were testing the waters to see if they could stop paying the ARM tax. All the other stuff will stay the same.

You give him far too much credit. Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

Given how little spotify gives to artists, I can’t imagine this being a cost effective way to launder your money at all.

I’m not a fan of Apple, but what makes you say they are “genuinely awful”?

Just curious.

Afaik you can get an Apple TV app and subscription on Android, Android TV, and from your browser. Never tried the service myself though.

It’s hard to supress the automatic Internet zombie inside of me sometimes. I’d be waiting in line at the bakery, or sitting in the sofa and just out of habit open up an app.

My social media apps are web based though, so reinstalling is really easy and I’m still logged in when I do.

Prior to reddit imploding, I used a parental control app to lock myself out of my reddit and youtube apps on race days.

I always remove Lemmy and other social media from my phone on race day, since I always watch delayed. I highly recommend it.

You can’t expect everyone to accomodate you in these kinds of things.

Well, if your mac address changes every time you connect to a different network, Unity would be detecting and billing for a lot of false positives, so it would be a bad method to identify unique devices.