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Okay, too late to edit, but I decided to take a look. The latest version of P4V actually is using Qt6, so I guess I have to stand somewhat corrected. I'm just bitter about a couple…

I'd be more curious about that specific app. Niche bespoke commercial apps have this habit of being permanently stuck on old versions of Qt that don't handle these things as well a…

I'm personally not a fan of GitHub actions, because of those dependencies outside your control and more because they're a pain to debug. A lot of the time, it feels like I'm tinker…

And this is a case where there's a long tail of "niche issues" that they end up becoming major issues when taken in aggregate.

I recently upgraded to Pop_OS 24.04 because I was sick and tired of being stuck with an outdated base. But after trying the new Cosmic desktop, I basically ran screaming back to Gn…

Mostly some version of 2. Or more specifically, I have a lot of top-level note documents with somewhat clear titles and organizations. And then there are a lot of "thing to remembe…

Do I hoard notes/links? Yes. Do I struggle to turn them into actions? No. Do I struggle to keep them organized for later reference? All the time. Do I use Obsidian? No. I actually …

And I'm reading this article while sitting at an EMC/EMI test facility monitoring the test for one of my products. Certainly an interesting, and somewhat on-topic, read.

I still think there's a benefit to sticking with EVs from companies that are actually "all in" on EVs. Otherwise you're buying the product that the company (or really the sales/ser…

I'm very happy that the "base model" of cars now has a lot of the modern tech. Not because I'd personally buy a base model, but because its what you get whenever you travel and nee…

Its also useful for developers to have a way of bypassing customer support to have direct visibility into what issues the actual users are experiencing. This can come in the form o…

The last time I worked on a project that actually had all these roles, "architect" basically meant someone who sat in meetings all day and played very little role in the actual sof…

The Seawolf was kinda the first attempt at a next generation attack sub while we were still figuring out the technology, making it far too expensive. But it led to the Virginia cla…

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'll take a car infotainment system that doesn't need CarPlay/AndroidAuto to be usable (and lacks it) over one that requires a phone attache…

The endless list of "exception" cases is why I'm continuous skeptical about any sort of full-self-driving claims. Sure, you can cover everything they can think of. But there are so…

> There is nothing fun about sitting in traffic on your commute to/from work, and neither there is much fun in doing long-distance driving in a straight line on highway for hours o…

Oh, its definitely a dumpster fire. And they keep changing the parental controls to make it less obvious what's appropriate for what age. And then there's the constant begging for …

Just seeing that sentence fragment about "structures of power and violence" told me so much about the author. Its the sort of language that brings with it a whole host of stereotyp…

And yet nobody wants to actually offer a tape-based solution that's practical, easy to get, holds enough data, and doesn't cost a blithering fortune. Even if you are willing to spe…

Somehow I'm reminded of the Futurama parody documentary: "Don't Date Robots!"

I'm grateful they don't make truly stripped down models of cars anymore, because those were always what would end up in the rental car inventory. Every time I'd rent a car, it felt…

One thing about this period that kinda annoyed me in the tech press, is that it always felt like these companies were making new/better computers for "their existing customers" as …

Focus on farming also gives the issue a bi-partisan spin, which is something you really need to make any actual progress on issues in US politics these days.

This is an easy dodge. The problem is that when lack of repairability becomes the norm, the consumer no longer has that choice. Or they have to severely compromise their market cho…

It would result in a situation where nobody could depend on the expansion module, if they wanted their game to have the largest possible market. It would also cause a lot of confus…