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Screenless smartphones could totally be viable as a product, especially for visually impaired folks. The problem is only one: PROPRIETARY APPLICATIONS Could you write a custom and …

and who's designing and manufacturing and programming the accelerators needed for those algorithms to perform close to real time?

Your post is only partially correct. Even with completely open firmware, or at least a documented interface, the biggest roadblock would become be abysmal state of OSS digital imag…

Why not have 8 billion entries for each and every one of us? If you remove any popularity boundary then this is the only logical conclusion

It boggles your mind that people find surprise and adventure exciting? Do you also think digital painting has superseded actual brushes?

The world is ready, perhaps too ready, to solve their problems with a pill. The real question is, is the world ready for fixing our lifestyles instead of searching for a panacea of…

I already told you this is not what I asked. Your replies are all over the place and I sincerely am not understanding them. [EDIT] wow, you edited your whole long form reply and ju…

You told me human endeavors in which "diversity" (which again, means nothing) fosters innovation. But that wasn't my question. I asked what kind of diversity fosters innovation, no…

Didn't know skin pigment contributed to innovation. "Diversity" is empty HR speak, please specify which kind of diversity fosters innovation.

what has emulation got to do with not paying for the games?

Well, seems like this is a clear path for improvement: a decent UI tool for migration between instances

Problem is: they can't watch movies in their browser because they can only leech from people who are seeding from a webtorrent client. Let's say I have a movie I want to let other …

Still no support for webtorrents, making it impossible to use it for helping to lighten the load of my favorite peertube VODs :(

*look down to pay respects*

correlation is not causation, unless you have an agenda

A) group 1 gets an omnivore diet, group 2 gets the same diet but substitutes all the meat with "meat replacements" B) group 1 gets an omnivore diet, group 2 gets a vegan diet those…

That's not what the abstract says. They're specifically talking about foods which are claimed to be meat replacements. If you have an all-encompassing and well varied vegan diet th…

And every time people are advised to keep a local copy. I have a bunch of stuff on an Amazon Glacier account for convenience, but I still keep an HDD in the closet

You should make noise because, unless you signed some particular contract, the code is your intellectual property and it's illegal to just take it away from you. I bought Stadia an…

I don't beg for my hobbies, that sounds more like an addiction

You're getting old and you don't know about the Muppets?

Try "bumping the font size up" in Thunderbird and tell me how nicely it scales on your TV

>Let us be fair here Why even say this if you immediately proceed by not being fair? Pocketable computers are not a "fantasy" in the sense that there aren't any devices capable of …

How is the presence of an antenna in any way demonstrative of the general purpose computing capabilities of the N900 as opposed to "not pocketable PC" Androids? I believe that if I…