I waited a full 9 months for my uconsole. They pitch it as a fantasy product, and I think that's fair. These are products with no target application. A standard MBA will suffice for all the specialized applications with the same weight and better screen using USB dongles. Maybe not 4G but who pays for service to run those modules rather than hotspot to a phone anyway?
This particular model has a very good color profile before that was common but all the units I got were literally falling apart or glitching. I really wanted to use one for vertical coding but in the end it became obvious every unit was defective in some way. QA must be non existent. Maybe they had a bad batch at Amazon, but the cs was the last straw. Took two weeks for a reply to a ticket and they were short, passing the buck and offering return procedures that would leave me without a unit for weeks. It was like they didn't believe me. The reviews mentioned getting faulty refurbs as replacements and I wasn't willing to accept that, so just returned through Amazon. Interestingly the boxes all looked trashed much like in the review. It was two years ago and I'm still really pissed off. What a waste of my valuable time. For some reason I got the impression Benq was a premium brand. If you look at their setup video they twice say not to apply pressure to the function bar. Must be built like lego from tacky plastic like the others. https://youtu.be/z1v_o4gXp-Q
Went through 4 monitors in 22 all with QC issues. One took out my macbook pro for not following the usb c spec over the built in unpowered hub. Was so angry and lost 2 months of productivity
Bought this model as well, hasn't arrived yet but expecting to return it. Their QC is terrible, their cs could care less and left me hanging and the specs are mediocre anyway. Don't buy Benq and if you do Amazon for a fast return.
They gave this guy a $700 monitor and he still couldn't recommend it. Benq makes shit.
yep navy cap was "illustrated" but not by the "artist".
afaics, although it would be so much more tragic if the artist actually created the image. just can't win
I can't imagine anyone going to a whiteboard back in the day to make a pair of sunglasses and walk away with any lesser of a design than Raybans. Give human ingenuity at least some credit. you can tie your shoes you can out design Raybans
What's up with Raybans? They make the cheapest looking vanilla generic glasses I've ever seen, put a tacky logo on the lens and sell for a fortune. Why does anyone buy them?
This attack vector applies to all modern electronics and privacy conscious consumers will take note. Not only are electronics almost certainly willingly backdoored for the government but now tomorrow if the need is great enough your phone becomes a remote IED. With configure-to-order now standard, all those on a watchlist get a little something extra in their stocking. Why stop there? How about a little cyanide for their prescription? This is a rather terrible precedent for the economy. That said, it was fair game.
Also this recent thread is worth revisiting I think;
I wonder how behavior is defined exactly. Will future societies track eye focus and build a profile over time attached to a facial recognition database? Inappropriate gazing
could they fix the gd coffee? I refuse to buy it. ashes in your mouth, clearly burnt and nauseating. I always go to Phils (not to be confused with Peets) for a good cup a' joe
the starbucks bathrooms are very nice. they should charge a dollar to use them and just give up on the coffee. in fact they could just charge by the hour to use the chairs and bathrooms and people would still go. at this point I think the customers are just buying the coffee out of guilt or to not be thrown out for being cheap. starbucks is a business with no real product
It's totally zero sum. AI art is far better. Where artists had starving wages they'll soon get nothing. Same for actors and musicians and well everyone else. But the starving artists are somewhat unique. They're vocal because they've had a preview of a profession where you either are the best at what you do or broke for life. That's our future. I want my meals cooked by cheap hygienic ultrafast robots with no wage. Human made food can be a once a month novelty, if that. Every product, service and job will fall to AI in the next decade. History suggests this type of abrupt disruptive change quickly leads to a war. That's why those billionaires are digging bunkers.
Emotiv did 24 channels for <500 if I recall and that was a decade ago. The raw data become accessible from a hack. Wonder what happened to them? Terrible customer service
"Under-11s we feel should not be given access to smartphones. They don't need the usage of a smartphone and, actually, a feature phone - or a dumb phone, as some people call them - is more suitable."
Who are these nobodies lecturing us how to parent? I could care less how they feel and there's a clear conflict of interest. It's a bad precedent when some policy maker crawls from under the rug to explain what is "suitable"
why don't they just scan it and release the images as a public archive? are we arguing over old paper now? what will we do with it in a museum? lock it in a glass case so no oily fingers can turn the pages? maybe scholars want to rub their faces all over the book cover at the weekends as a kink?
cores!=processors. a processor requires investment through fabrication. adding +3 or +640 (tenstorrent) less so. but Ok they are making progress fragmenting the ecosystem for no good reason. in 10 years we may have two competing architectures to confuse and frustrate everyone
There are 100 billion embedded ARM processors in operation now with estimated 230 billion total. RISC-V cant be more than a million so displaced is a bit rich. Someone bought a few. I don't think there is enough of an incentive for adoption for the end user. It's ARMs time now like it or not. RISC-V remains an academic novelty