Do you... change your tires? Or just get a brand new car every year to avoid the hassle of dealing with car shops?
Problem with Smart TVs is they become obsolete super fast software wise. And basically, unsafe to connect to the internet in a few years.
Most TVs have CI+ ports. I can easily imagine an upgradable "smart module". Just buy a new compatible one (which, effectively could just connect for power and HDMI) and get the brand new stuff.
There is no bubble, smart TVs are a consumerist trap and it will require government intervention to fix because nobody has any incentives otherwise.
Gonna skip over your tyre comparison as I don't think it makes much sense sorry.
Having a switchable "compute" module that the user can upgrade without replacing the whole TV would be great but the truth is that is what a streaming box is doing just not integrated into the TV but connected via HDMI.
I treat my smart TVs like a dumb TV. It doesn't have internet access as I have explained elsewhere. I just use the TV OS to switch inputs and change picture settings but never use any of the built in apps.
Having said that my parents do use the apps and haven't reported any issues with them on their LG C8 from 2018. I have tried to get them to use a streaming box but they didn't see the point in complicating things to use the same streaming services. Maybe if the apps get slow or crappy they will change their mind rather than replace the TV.
Europe isn't a monolith. Have you read through the notes for countries with more restrictive regulations, particularly the yellow and blue labels? With reasonable-enough provisions to ensure equivalency to the public school system, it seems like most countries permit homeschooling.
> Note: Population estimates for 2022 were calculated using a variety of sources including Raber’s New American Almanac, reports by correspondents in Die Botschaft, The Budget, and The Diary, settlement directories, regional newsletters, and settlement informants. The data includes all Amish groups that use horse-and-buggy transportation, but excludes car-driving groups such as the Beachy Amish and Amish Mennonites.
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> To cite this page: “Amish Population Profile, 2022.” Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. http://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/amish-popula....
Well, it's hard to cite a page where somebody manually estimated some numbers from various sources without at least providing a table to see what the individual estimates were so at least some errors can be corrected.
In economics there is a concept called "search costs." And those costs need to be compensated if you want to encourage searching. But, of course, as you said, such compensation should not be in perpetuity. A patent, in this sense, is infinitely more reasonable than a land title as currently conceived.
Google App Engine was ahead of it’s time, but unfortunately not very good if you weren’t trying to write a webapp with the intention of scaling it on Google hosting.
A comment here. It seems to me insects are all over the place in abandoned land. But here we have most of the land alongside the road planted (and sprayed I guess). Which is to say, farmers are killing bugs near their plantation. So, no surprise there.
I re-read your post and while it's not overly aggressive it's the difference in tone and approach that get you. The original poster was like the hippie encouraging home-made yogurt and you were like the school principal saying 'this is bull, store yogurt has scientifically the same benefits'.
PS: I also learned while writing this I can't spell yogurt. Thanks spellchecker!
Sadly the topic of lactose intolerance is rife with misinfo, biases, and dogwhistles, hence my rapid-fire questions in the previous comment. Most commercial yogurt products sold in grocery stores today are heavily laden with sugar and so mildly fermented that their probiotic quanlities are nearly nullified. Commercial unflavoured kefir is slightly better, but the overall probiotic effect is still questionable since we don't have affirmative answers on how much of the microbes can survive through our stomach acid, or how much of them can establish in our guts vs. heading straight for the exit like passengers on a roller coaster.
The majority of nutritional science seems full of bullshit to be honest. I remember how we laughed at the Atkins diet when it first appeared as well all knew so well that the science told us fat was bad. Now Keto diet seems to be gaining a lot of acceptance, and refined sugar is the real enemy. Refined sugar being bad for you seems to be one of the few things that is agreed on. Will that change in another 20 years?
I don't think so—the RP2040 has a couple very slow Cortex-M0 cores, and it's not anywhere near the capability of the BCM2711.
I'd imagine if Raspberry Pi were to try their hand at their own SoC chip, it would be someday in the future when RISC-V designs have matured enough to make a suitable successor.
Otherwise, making a chip as complex as a modern SoC requires a lot of resources a smaller company like Raspberry Pi just doesn't have at their disposal.
And if TSMC pushes them from 40nm to 28nm the M0+ cores and SRAM should scale to even higher clock rates without drawing too much power. While the RP2040 is "only" specified at up to 133MHz it has been reported stable at over twice that. From the scattered reports at least the AHB-lite bus matrix, SRAM and CPU cores are stable up to ~400MHz which more than compensates for the lower per clock throughput on anything but floating point heavy code.
The RP2040 isn't perfect, but it's a good starting point for more capable/specialised chips e.g. variants with high speed USB, 100Mb/s MAC, just scaled up (four M0+ cores, 8way interleaved memory banks, additional PIO and DMA engines, dual QSPI).
Just upgrading to a good dual QSPI peripheral would make the chip more versatile allowing users to choose between different external memory configuration like SPI flash and PSRAM or higher combined flash read bandwidth.
Uh some of us here in the "real" embedded world read the RP2040's specs (dual Cortex-M0+ cores clocked at 133 MHz, bare chip cost is $1) and go "uh there's a typo here, they put THREE digits in the clock speed hahaha".
Not really, but you get my point. For the kinds of devices the RP2040 competes with, it is not slow.
The barrier to a PI SoC is the non CPU components - which are proprietary to companies like Broadcom. I’m sure that RPi could happily license an Arm core - indeed they have with the Pico - and the existence or otherwise of RISC-V cores is beside the point.
Problem with Smart TVs is they become obsolete super fast software wise. And basically, unsafe to connect to the internet in a few years.
Most TVs have CI+ ports. I can easily imagine an upgradable "smart module". Just buy a new compatible one (which, effectively could just connect for power and HDMI) and get the brand new stuff.
There is no bubble, smart TVs are a consumerist trap and it will require government intervention to fix because nobody has any incentives otherwise.