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bdavbdav
·7 days ago·discuss
It’s also just a much greater cost per head of build / management / maintenance/ transacting to hit a much smaller proportion of users. Build an app for iOS, deal with Apple (or Google…), you’re hitting many many nore people for that effort.
bdavbdav
·8 days ago·discuss
The frustrating thing is I bet they’re still tracking and collecting this when you stop paying for the tracking / telematics.
bdavbdav
·8 days ago·discuss
I use CarPlay all the time in my car and love it.

I rent quite a lot of cars. I’d rather CarPlay was taken from my car and left in all the rental cars than the other way around.

The car manufacturers are awful with their interface design, and being able to get into a new car at 9pm in the dark, and have a familiar interface while navigating some unknown city is invaluable. Consistency is safety and comfort in this situation.
bdavbdav
·8 days ago·discuss
My car supports multitouch in factory nav but not CarPlay (24 plate VAG).
bdavbdav
·8 days ago·discuss
Would this not be an issue with any interface if the screen is that small?
bdavbdav
·8 days ago·discuss
Not only does it irritate me not having it in a practical sense, it’s also an arrogance on behalf of the manufacturer. “We can do it better than iOS/Android”, or “We have a better reason to do it”. No, and No.
bdavbdav
·14 days ago·discuss
Same principle here - 2.5GBE dock on the desk, and UniFi WiFi 7 everywhere else. Though switching to the WiFi 7, which hits 1gb+ just about everywhere in the house, I generally feel less inclination to hit the desk
bdavbdav
·15 days ago·discuss
Then dock it - these things have USB4 / TB, may as well get a TS5 and cover all your bases in one wire.
bdavbdav
·15 days ago·discuss
I'm not sure why you want to either really. I can't see many scenarios where the absolute portability of having a 10GBE adapter in the laptop is really necessary. I suspect the general use of these kind of things is for people docked at a desk, at which point its best served by a well cooled dongle or a chunky dock like a TS5
bdavbdav
·16 days ago·discuss
Not heard "Boffin" used in years.
bdavbdav
·17 days ago·discuss
It’s nice that it doesn’t need the WiFi stack or host side configuration though. This would be great for headless machines.
bdavbdav
·18 days ago·discuss
That’s a beast for €676. Good buy.
bdavbdav
·18 days ago·discuss
I get the impression that this is not where it’s aimed.
bdavbdav
·18 days ago·discuss
I’m not sure they need any more distractions
bdavbdav
·last month·discuss
I’m not sure that’s strictly true. I think you’ve got to go a long way up the salary ladder until you’re in a situation where you can command more complicated arrangements (certainly when working for larger companies)
bdavbdav
·last month·discuss
That’s government. They’re notoriously underpaid.
bdavbdav
·last month·discuss
In defence of Apple Maps, I find it a lot better in terms of routing and traffic than Google now (especially in the UK).
bdavbdav
·last month·discuss
Huh? What keyless car doesn’t have this (except Tesla, but they’re an odd one, and I guess not an incumbent manufacturer…)
bdavbdav
·last month·discuss
Yeah a few of us who used to LAN together picked up on this article independently. We all came to the conclusion most of us are on Macs now, and GFN seemed like the path of least resistance.
bdavbdav
·last month·discuss
Yeah a few of us who used to LAN together picked up on this article independently. We all came to the conclusion most of us are on Macs now, and GFN seemed like the path of least resistance.