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Re: Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

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Post by ExoticPearTree »

embedding-shape wrote: post #34
haunter wrote: post #25

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Mac Mini will be made in Houston (they already make their own servers there) https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/apple-accelerates-us-...

Is it common in American factories to have US flags hanging on the walls similar to how dictators like to hang their portraits in factories? Never seen that in the (admitted small amount) of factories I've visited around in Europe, but tends to also give off a bit of "too much nationalism" vibe around here unless there is a special event, the US flag seems to be treated differently in the US so maybe it's a common si…

If you dig a little you will find that the US is a very nationalistic country, more so than even communist countries.

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Post by ExoticPearTree »

jodrellblank wrote: post #300
arcbyte wrote: post #70

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In general, we Americans really, really love our country. Our flag still represents values tied closely to our revolutionary war and and independence. Obviously the flag gets wrapped around all sorts of causes, even contradictory ones, but that core kernel of shared values is truly universal. So as individuals we choose to fly the flag a lot.

> " but that core kernel of shared values is truly universal. " Which values? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." does not seem to be upheld very strongly in the USA. What about women's rights and abortion upturned by the current government, wh…

> How can you claim a "core kernel of universal shared values" without nation-wide universal health care, workers rights, liveable minimum wage, things that demonstrate a fundamental belief in equality and shared values??

Because the US shared values are not your values. Everything you mentioned are socialist pipe dreams, especially the equality one. None of us are equal to each other. Some of us are good at something, others at something else. This equality crap needs to die rather sooner than later.

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Post by CWuestefeld »

overfeed wrote: post #338
microtonal wrote: post #250

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The Coros watches are less than half the price, have 22 days of battery life in smartwatch mode (in the Nomad) and render maps extremely fast. If they added solar, they could probably also last a month (the Coros Apex 4 does 24 days, also without solar). The funniest thing is that earlier versions of the Coros even used the Garmin map format (though as many small files and not a single/small number of .img). Though t…

> The Coros watches are less than half the price, have 22 days of battery life in smartwatch mode Garmin gets almost 30% more battery life in exchange of not being as fast (30 days) > I think you can only reach Garmin's stated time if you disable a lot of functionality. Turning off always-on Pulse ox gets you there. Turning everything off except telling time gets you 2.5x the battery life (69-71 days)

My Instinct 3 Solar shows 34 days remaining in the battery. I charged it sometime last week, so we're talking about upper 30s at least.

That's with running activity tracking including GPS for about an hour a day, and continuous heart rate monitoring.

At least on my device (and my body) the spo2 sensor is very finicky, requiring absolution stillness, and even at that I don't think it's accurate. So I don't use that.

I also discovered recently that simply using a custom watchface - even one built with an eye toward efficiency - lowers my battery life to about 2 weeks. The native faces enjoy privileged operations and are thus highly efficient. But custom-coded stuff apparently runs in a sandbox that has the effect of costing much more power. That's unfortunate, because my custom face used custom high-legibility fonts (derived from what's on interstate signage), making it noticeably easier on my aging eyes. The built-in fonts aren't great for this.

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Post by tomaskafka »

Gigachad wrote: post #415
tomaskafka wrote: post #258

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Hue also peaks at 20 W sources which leave even small room in the dark (for comparison, I have 70 W of LED lighting in the kitchen central light).

Ideally for good lighting you do want multiple lower power lights than a single mini sun

Half of the sun shines upwards, to brighten up the ceiling and corners, but yes, I agree.

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UltraSane wrote: post #411
faitswulff wrote: post #335

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That simplistic characterization is still essentially "China-bad." The CCP is the same government responsible for lifting historically unprecedented numbers of people out of abject poverty. Does it make up for other human rights violations? No. But "CCP bad" flattens a complex and powerful political organization into a fairy tale boogeyman.

The worst part of the CCP is it's hatred for free speech https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/hong-kong-book... Five arrested in Hong Kong bookstore raids in ‘seditious’ materials crackdown Third round of arrests linked to independent bookshops widely regarded as clampdown on dissent in territory

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Post by esseph »

baby wrote: post #220
haunter wrote: post #39

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I'm not american but afaik it's very common. The US is on a different level though, see the flags in the suburbia, the pledge of allegiance in school's every morning etc. But I'd say it's not "too much nationalism" rather the average american is defintiely more patriotic than an average european (who can then again be anyone from the UK to Poland to Moldova) but you get my point

If the current events don't make you think it's not nationalism, then I'm wondering what nationalism even is

Nationalism is just one of the many vehicles here used to try and grow power and influence by people that seek it. For many in power it's not even real nationalism - it's not love for the country and the people in it, it's a type of tribal drum beat. It's just a symbol to attach to.

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Post by esseph »

GenerWork wrote: post #405
baby wrote: post #218

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The US is weird about its flag, I think because nationalism wasn't seen as a bad thing up until recently. These days it's much weirder to see an American flag, and usually you know it has something to do with MAGAs. The weird thing to me is how you see one massive one in the luggage retrieval area when you arrive in JFK (in New York). Always makes me sigh

>These days it's much weirder to see an American flag, and usually you know it has something to do with MAGAs. The weird thing to me is how you see one massive one in the luggage retrieval area when you arrive in JFK (in New York). Always makes me sigh This has to be a troll post. Associating the US flag with MAGA? Sighing because a major international airport has a large flag hanging over the baggage area? Come on.

Yes. The right wing in the US has spent a lot of money and time co-opting the flag as a signal.

To not realize this to me means you either haven't been paying attention, or very much live in a bubble. This is not new.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/02/...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-changing-meani...

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/some-trump-supporters-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/style/donald-trump-americ...

More than half of US independent voters and more than 70% of Democrats believe the flag has right wing, negative connotations now. Only 26-27% of Democrats believe flying the flag would be seen in a positive light now.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/05/poll-patriotism-pol...

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Post by hmokiguess »

Mawr wrote: post #275
hmokiguess wrote: post #182

I bought my first GoPro for a scuba diving trip in Mexico once. Was super excited, it was my first scuba diving experience too. As soon as we hit deeper waters the capture button pressed itself down due the pressure and it wouldn’t come back up. That, unfortunately happened in a way that I couldn’t start a capture. Lost the entire thing, despite the camera being perfectly fine after we came back to surface. Hated the…

Hahahah. Do you seriously just take random objects deep underwater and expect them to be designed to withstand that sort of an environment? Was the GoPro you bought rated up to that depth or something? After a cursory look online, they're only rated down to 10m, which is about what I'd expect.

It was rated 30m, I went down less than that, and I used their enclosing thingy. Yes, I did expect it to work as their marketing team managed to convince me of such.

It wasn't a random object, it was a camera marketed for such environment.

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Post by hmokiguess »

werdnapk wrote: post #278
hmokiguess wrote: post #182

I bought my first GoPro for a scuba diving trip in Mexico once. Was super excited, it was my first scuba diving experience too. As soon as we hit deeper waters the capture button pressed itself down due the pressure and it wouldn’t come back up. That, unfortunately happened in a way that I couldn’t start a capture. Lost the entire thing, despite the camera being perfectly fine after we came back to surface. Hated the…

GoPros (at least the early generations) required a special housing for use in water. My first GoPro was a 2 I believe and I bought it for scuba and it was terrible. Then the newer models came out promising better performance for diving, so I upgraded... and it was terrible as well. Gave up on GoPros after being sucked in twice and not getting the results I was hoping for. It was ok for other things, but anything invo…

Totally, I had the 4th generation one, and I used their water case enclosing. It was less than 30m deep, and within their safe range.

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Post by lokar »

Robotbeat wrote: post #418
inigyou wrote: post #318

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Why doesn't America do that too? It seems to work really really well.

America does that for aerospace & some defense stuff. But the reason not to is that the industrial policy needed to do it like China does has the effect of reduced wages, longer work hours, and lower quality of life.

The US (and EU/UK) subsidies defense, but imo that’s different. First, it’s more understandable to want domestic arms production. Second, they are not seeking to subsidize to undercut foreign suppliers and drive them out of business.

The US is not pushing subsidized F35 fighters all over the world to drive other producers under.

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