Good thing movements reclaiming streets back for citizens already exist. In fact even businesses who initially opposed this actually realize it’s better for them too.

Looks at photos of Amsterdam and Paris just decades ago. It’s like smoking in planes.

We as a society try, fail, learn, and overcome BS.

Fueled by FSD SpaceX xAI. /$

I bet someone from HN is already “generating” that brilliant idea thanks to their SOTA meta-harness right now using Claude Fable. Or something.

A VR headset is basically a phone with lenses, so yes. That’s why cardboard and free promotional gifts of lenses snapping on phones work.

My point though isn’t about the technical abilities but rather about the social expectations. If you buy a device that does something intrusive but you know that in order to deliver the main value it will do that, it’s OK. It’s part of the social contract. If somehow though a device is intrusive but it’s not expected, either because it was thought to be impossible to do or unrelated to it’s original purpose or both, then it’s a big problem, a breach of the social contract.

Arguably that’s a bit difference because to do that you have to explicitly do it (room setup) and you view the result (visual preview with semi-transparent triangles over your place). You can also read the ToS and I believe in some case specify if you allow the information to be sent back to the Meta. I’m not saying it’s OK, only that it’s explicit and it’s part of the “normal” usage of the device.

Sousveillance

Yep. In fact I wrote a blob somewhere (will link back if I find it) that for most users I believe we reached “peak good-enough” compute few years ago already.

Sure for some very VERY specific use cases, it’s never enough (e.g. super high res video editing, photo realistic rendering, weather simulations) but for the average Joe with normal eyes… at some point you just browse Website that show photos and text, even 4K videos… you don’t NEED 8K or a more powerful CPU when you are jolting down your 5 family holiday options. We got into a habit that year after year we would get significantly better hardware but… you can store your entire life of text, photos, documents, etc in a microSD that fits in your wallet and costs you the price of a meal.

It’s weird that we needed the AI bubble to realize it but that’s OK.

But… it’ll NEVER cost less!

This is such a weird take because we are comparing apple and oranges, again. It’s like saying a ruler is more precise than using your own thumbs. Sure, that’s technically correct, but you still need people to use that ruler to measure stuff.

We ALWAYS use better tools. Even in mass production we automatize the heck out of everything… and yet you still need staff to maintain it, design improvements, etc.

So… I don’t get this kind of comparisons.

Starting to worry we’re talking past each other.

Yes, RISC-V isn’t used at scale in data centers. Now though that NEW criteria are taking into account, namely sovereignty, they precisely might despite their limitations, including performances. If though it’s just political signalling without any actual will and subsequent advantage and in reality only performance matters, they still won’t be used.

Because those components are (theoretically) sold as equivalent. If you sell me cycles in a data center, one for 10e/h and another for 100e/h (because it’s 10x slower and thus must have ~10x more instances) and you don’t give me any details on why, I’ll take the 10e and of course it won’t be competitive. FWIW I do buy compute time in data centers and I’m also aware (but not involved with) https://www.top500.org/ and how none of them are RISC-V based, it’s not my point. My point is that the metrics to compare will never make it competitive if we exclude its raison d’etre. RISC-V was never proposed to be the most efficient and powerful architecture (even though of course it’d be nice if it’d be).

It’s like apple versus orange then complaining that the apple doesn’t taste orange-like enough. Sure, that’s correct, but also pointless.

Edit : it’s not an “anecdote” it’s a proof of existence, again RISC-V works today. It’s not set of blueprints. It does compute, easy as that.

Depends entirely on the metrics you use for comparison. In terms of performances yes of course it’s slower than others, nobody is contesting that. In terms of openness it fairs better than most. My point was solely that it’s usable for some use cases and thus that it’s not a theoretical architecture in 2026. It works. Yes it’s slow but for use use cases it doesn’t matter.

If you don’t care for openness then it’s not competitive. Being competitive depends entirely on your constraints.

Damn, the same way Tesla reaches FSD next year, thanks Elon for saving the World one promise at a time! /$

Nothing because it depends on the workload? I mean if you run a static Website to few people it’s more than enough. If you’re trying to predict weather or render high definition 3D graphics in real-time it’s not… but also nothing is so…

Was it a rhetorical question and if so what were you implying?

reverse engineer American technology

Like what? Which technology are you talking about?

RISC-V is decades away

Eh… what? I have a RISC-V SBC and it just works, running Debian on it in minutes of setup and it cost me peanuts.

Sure it’s not a state of the art CPU … and if I wanted to run anything demanding on it, I’d have to be patient. Heck it’s not even made in the EU but in China… but it works, today, it just depends on what your workload is. So yes it’s not the fastest or has the best efficiency but still, it exists already.

it’s so easy to install apps on smartphones right now

Providing choice as a default is precisely about people who are influenced by defaults. It’s NOT about how feasible something technically is.

Perfect, I might even set my UA for reddit to mobile then, I need an “excuse” to keep on using it less. I still browse it without an account but I should lose the habit.

Because Linux phones with proper hardware are sold at 1k and hundreds of people want to but that, not thousands or millions and thus they don’t actually get built. Couple of attempts just lasttear didn’t pan out.

if you love in the US

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To be honest I don’t know what the solution is. What I’m convinced of though is that if we don’t push back, at the very least signify that it is actually a problem, then it silently becomes the new norm.

Edit : related in school context https://lemmy.ml/post/46392253/25351905

FWIW I had to use an equivalent which didn’t work on my setup. I emailed the company, they said try this, try that, which I did, still no dice. They emailed me a form to print, sign, take a photo of, and email them back. I did and the 3rd party that relied on their service was notified.

So… it’s OK to be “annoying” with this kind of services if it doesn’t work respective of your setup itself respective of your concerns.

I’m not saying it will also work, or that it’s efficient, just that it’s a possibility.