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- Android 13 is here, bringing with it uh. (Thurrott.com)
Apparently you can stream certain things from a thing to another thing, and it has spatial audio support for headphones - it makes the sound feel like you're walking around in a room.
Okay.
I think the last Android release which was really a must-have was version 6 with adoptable storage. Of course, most of the major manufacturers - particularly Samsung and Sony - immediately broke adoptable storage and leave it broken to this day, and Google's own hardware can't support adoptable storage because it has no storage to adopt.
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- Linux 6.0 is here too. (The Register)
It doesn't bring any big changes either, but that's because they just flip the version number when it gets too unwieldy. No-one wants to remember whether they're running 5.20.21 or 5.21.20.
- Ryzen 7000 will cost around 10% more than Ryzen 5000. (Tom's Hardware)
At MSRP. Since Ryzen 5000 is now selling at well under MSRP - the $799 5950X is available on Amazon for $546 - this could lead to a street price gap of as much as 50%.
And the new chips will require new motherboards and more expensive DDR5 RAM, leaving Ryzen 5000 as a still attractive option for price/performance builds.
- It's only a model: Russia unveiled a model of its proposed taking-my-ball-and-going-home space station. (The Guardian)
It's no Lego Millennium Falcon, but it's okay, I guess.
- New Jersey police used a blood sample from a baby - taken to test for genetic issues - to pin a crime on its father. (Wired)
There are no federal laws against this and there are no state laws against it in New Jersey, but the problems are so obvious that even the ACLU is opposed to it.
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Guys, let's pretend like it's still 1959 when we design our space stations, okay? But not the 1959 that would have said our space stations are lame, let's go with the 1959 that would have said, "Hey, at least we actually have a space station. Sure it's not what they're drawing in the madcap comic books, but what do you want for 15 or 20 billion dollars? C'mon man!"
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, August 16 2022 09:26 PM (obo9H)
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I guess the thought is "the basic design still works" even if it's full of flaws, and they may not have the knowledge and ability at this point to come up with newer designs.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, August 17 2022 06:28 AM (BMUHC)
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I'm offended. It's just a larger tinkertoy Skylabâ„¢. This is the sort of space station that we throw up there to have "Something Up There". Well, now that we've established that, why can't we start making something that is actually designed to be something? Like, oh , I dunno, an honest attempt at a real, permanent living space in orbit. The ISS, and this Russian thing are rather obviously just generation 1.1. I've always pictured generation 2 as being the stuff from 2001. Rendezvous With Rama might be a few decades out, but let's us we us get going on this!
Reiterating: The Russians are showing models (dreams, if you will), and the models (again, dreams) are still the same old "Hey, we tried! Can we get our participation trophy and a head pat, please?"
Reiterating: The Russians are showing models (dreams, if you will), and the models (again, dreams) are still the same old "Hey, we tried! Can we get our participation trophy and a head pat, please?"
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, August 17 2022 10:07 AM (obo9H)
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