prongletown

The branding is confusing. It gets worse, the deeper you get into car technology.

Because Audi views themselves as a performance brand over a luxury brand. They're also hungrier and thus more responsive to consumer demand.

BMW allows carplay with a monthly subscription to the rest of their services, largely because they believe that as long as you're getting the full benefit of a connected car, you'll be attached to the value - strategically, it makes no sense for them to give it away from free.

The other thing? These companies are starting to change their mind as consumers demand it as a feature.

My comment is based on my interpretation of the original point.

But I feel like you're pointlessly nitpicking, which is against the hn rules, so please read those.

I think you may be confusing Android Auto with Android for Cars. The former is the mobile app and headunit-only integration (audio controls) via video stream, which requires minimal integration with the vehicle. The other is Android repurposed for headunits, with full car integration, such as Volvo's integration.

Car manufacturers of luxury cars shy away from Android Auto partially because they believe it turns one of their main selling points and silos (advanced technology) into yet another commodity.

Not true. Depending on the state, many laws still apply, including:

- Accessible Parking

- Unlicensed driving (for example, shared private spaces such as parking lots)

- Drunk driving

>eat well raised cow meat

It takes significantly more feed to raise a cow. The calories extracted from cow meat is extremely inefficient considering the high number of calories in (feed) and water. So, you could not use feed (vegetable death-per-calorie!) because it's something like a 8:1 calorie ratio for feed to a pound of beef. You'd have to pasture raise the cows.

There is no feasible way to ensure that all food is pasture-grazing cow meat at a price point accessible to most Americans.

There is currently no cruelty free-way to have cheap, accessible calories. If you really wanted the lowest death-per-calorie, one of the most feasible approaches would be consuming large amounts of rice.

I don't think anyone would want to subsist exclusively on a diet of rice, beans, and dietary supplements.

>We need to break their grip on the desktop/server/laptop market.

I'm curious as to why you think this "needs" to happen?

I have my own reasons, for example, openness of ISA and IP from up top at the browser all the way down to the firmware on the chip; however, I'm curious to hear yours.

Well, the point of the jungle is that we need to form a socialist worker's state. Instead, everyone freaked out about sausages.

He had a quote along the lines of "I aimed for the heart and hit the stomach"

edit: > "I aimed for the public's heart," Sinclair later wrote, "and by accident hit it in the stomach."

I've been a vegetarian for a few years. Part of the impetus for my choice was the lack of regulation and health code standards in this country.

Recent news that the federal government is reducing inspection of meat really does scare me. How many people need to die (like in the early 1900s) before we re-realize the importance of these regulations on public life? When will the next Upton Sinclair come along?

People have been harping on "staying woke" and "cancel culture" as a way of criticizing changing values about sexual abuse and positions of power.

When you dig into every case where you see this, there's almost always reasonable context.

This is not an issue of "staying woke". Arguing that statutory rape is "absurd" is not "staying woke". Stallman said some things that were deeply troubling to a lot of people, myself included. That aside...

His judgement in making these statements, in a public way, was extremely poor. As a representative of FSF and MIT, he stepped far out of the boundary of what's considered reasonable. Leadership means knowing how to lead, and that includes not demoralizing your organization with controversy.

He didn't step down. He was fired with the option of keeping his dignity.

Apple is well documented (for it being a secret project) as throwing tons of resources into compelling AR products.

I'm not saying they're going to succeed, but they're certainly trying - unlike Nokia, who was in the middle of a massive internal war over Symbian when the first iPhone hit.

Apple has the resources, the install base, and (crucially) the data to make it happen.

The "iPhone of AR" is probably going to be an iPhone.

I'm not making a moral judgement (FB is a big yikes), just technical. They'd have to:

- build lists of every phone, including carrier variant and internal revisions (pretty common!), to make sure they could be sure they had a complete library

- rely on the manufacturer to publicly post the ROM (cheaper mfg wont do this) (or somehow retrieve the URL from the update mechanism, said URL not easily accessible from userspace)

- handle the multiple different packaging mechanisms that android phones, especially older versions use (Google has gone a long way in remediating this but FB has to support billions of devices that don't adhere to best practices).

- For ROM packages that are encrypted, they'd need to acquire the keys from real devices.

- and they still would not have visibility into non-posted firmware, such as factory versions with day 1 upgrades (aka many many devices)

OR

- grab the files and send 'em

>This wouldn't be possible in Linux, right?

If you have read access, then yes. Conventional desktop and server linux distributions would allow this behavior. As does android. Good luck using dylibs without it, anyways.

Since the android market is so fragmented and customized, this probably saves them from having to buy lots of phones when diagnosing crashes.

The knee-jerk reaction is to feel uncomfortable but these are system files, shipped with the phone, that are accessible to anyone who purchases the phone. This saves FB the trouble of spending $200 every time a new OS update comes out. Personally, with that knowledge, I don't have a problem with this - however, I have a ton of problems with other stuff FB does so I'm happy to keep not using their service.