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More AI hiking crap that will probably kill someone

So tired of this crap flooding the hiking community. Hiking communities are being bombarded by crap apps at the moment (particularly trip planning apps)

Do not trust this data.

The Mac Studio definitely shouldn't be.

My M2 studio was the only computer I ever owned that had issues with the USBC ports not working with certain cables (and for the price, it should have had better performance).

I've owned a M2 Mac Studio, PowerMac G5, Mac Pro. Every single one had flaws that you would consider inexcusable on PC Hardware priced half that amount.

The PowerMac G5 had terrible video cards (the liquid cooled ones also had issues with leaks, but ignoring that). The Mac Pro also had terrible Video cards (they were PCI-X), but also Fully Buffered ECC ram (which cost substantially more than any other ram)..

Apple still can't even manufacture a proper mouse (who the hell puts a USB C port at the bottom).

It's ridiculous..

If Linux distro's had a way to integrate Android as a first class citizen (like IOS is in MacOS), it would greatly boost the number of apps available in ecosystem, and have a huge impact on MacOS I feel. Waydroid is good, but, it still is too clunky (I'd like to see something more like Wine for Android, where its native)

They're not even moderating anymore

They also bought Dyn.com too. Not sure if that's new news, or just nobody reported it.

No idea why Oracle hasn't been split apart

I haven't seen any serious issues on any machines.. In all the csaes there were issues they were automatically rolled back by windows itself..

Have you disabled System restore or done anything like that?

I love firefox.. My big problem as a late though seems to be that sites stop loading intermittently, need to be refreshed or I need to wait (and I don't have this problem on Chrome).

Also, I got kind of annoyed when one of their leaders came begging for donations by email, but are getting paid FAR beyond normal wage.

Actually, back in early days, Linux was probably worse than Windows 98. A few things changed the landscape. Compositing on Xorg (to make the desktop modern finally), Pulseaudio (before then, Audio always had issues), DBUS and the rest of project Utopia. Steam also made a huge difference.

I think Linux will be the better option after: SNAP/Wayland goes mainstream and JACK becomes easier (Low latency Audio on Linux is still a nightmare compared to Windows and OSX).

But there are still a few rough edges. That being said, I use it for everything at home now, except for my Suunto GPS tracker, and Serato.

Instead of Ableton, you could use Bitwig which was developed my ex Ableton employees..

Since they did have the choice to switch jobs, I think the most they should be able to claim is councelling fees.

That still introduces other issues though. You will probably need larger than 200ms to be safe, which will make the setup annoying for applications such as gaming.

Or it would need great error correction. Either way, wifi equipment needs to accept interference (nothing you can do)

Great idea, but I'd say practical applications are limited..

Industrial sensors shouldn't rely on Wifi. Hospitals shouldn't rely on WiFi. In a car just run ethernet alongside power.

Since you can't guarentee wireless maximum latency on WiFi, I still wouldn't use it for multi-channel audio (only multi-room, which NTP is good enough for anyway probably). Especially a problem if you want to sync against Video.

So its a nice idea, but it will probably affect very few people..

The funny thing about 4K is that I do home AV installs, and its almost impossible not to have compatibility issues still.

To this day, I don't think we've had a single installation with 4K projector / Receiver / player working together of different brands without some kind of serious issue.

ARC is another disaster that we STILL are having trouble with, and thats been out for years. I really hope that more has been done in the way of standardisation to help iron out these issues

UPDATE: Looks like Openoffice doesn't support saving to OOXML anyway.

So seems the only reason OO implemented it, is to encourage people to save to their own standard. So, from one perspective, OpenOffice are trying to destroy standardisation too (they are trying to force people to use their own standard).

Really, the whole thing is a power struggle to become the dominant format anyway. Since their main competitors are doing dodgy stuff to help force people to move to their own standards, I'd say its hardly surprising Microsoft aren't willing to sacrifice functionality to help competitors.

If OpenOffice were serious about standardisation, they would add support for OOXML saving, but they haven't yet!

Yep, lets all make assumptions on beta-quality code.

Firstly, Microsoft aren't the only ones who don't play well with others. Openoffice, Abiword, iWork and every other office suite on the planet uses its own formats.

Secondly, is OpenOffice OOXML 100% Strict compliant yet?

Finally, it's easy for people to stand by on the sidelines and whinge that a year old bug isn't fixed, or a new feature isn't added. Developers often calculate an estimated time required for development in advance, and for all we know, perfect compliance with the standard now may have been pushed back because implementation would have forced other features to be dropped. From a business/development perspective, this often makes sense.

Next release if they aren't compliant with strict, then yes, its time to freakout. But from a business decision, it doesn't make sense to rewrite code many times before it becomes a standard. And when applications sometimes do so, the end result is a mess, because the browsers then often need to support their broken standard, and the correct standard, or risk breaking compatibility with some websites.

Microsoft had no way of knowing exactly when the standard would be approved, or how many changes would be made. I don't think this is overwhelming proof that they are going out of their way to destroy standardisation.