Teslas do. Mine is lower pitch and barely audible. Nothing above 20kph.

The most compelling thing about Tron for me was that it's a secret world contained within the computer, to be explored. A place where the rules are different, a landscape that only one man has ever seen.

It's what makes a lot of old video games compelling too. They don't look realistic, but inside them are these whole worlds, unlike our own but still feeling real and tangible.

The sequels mostly ignored that in favour of some fancy CGI, which these days doesn't count for much.

Why though? One of the best things about EVs is that they are quiet and you sail past the fossils as they grind away desperately trying to keep up.

Under GDPR it has to be explicit and clearly indicated, but yeah not everywhere is as good as that.

There might be a more benign reason for it. In GDPR countries, if you turn it off they will probably need to delete all the biometric data. If you then turn it back on again, it will have to regenerate all the biometic data and re-scan every photo. If people toggle it too often, it's going to consume a large amount of CPU time.

You can confirm it by using an open source facial recognition tool, like the one built into Immich. Importing photos takes much, much longer if you have face recognition turned on.

Of course a more sensible way to do it would be to allow the user to toggle it whenever they want, with the caveat that if the turn it back on, it might take a long time to start working, or might only apply to new photos after the initial back-catalogue freebie.

Or they could just be being dicks.

AMD has had the console market sewn up for many years now. I think everyone was burned by Nvidia and their dodgy self de-soldering chips back in the XBOX 360 days, and the fact that they can't be relied on to keep supplying chips even when a more lucrative bubble like AI comes along.

The chips in consoles are always behind the curve of PC graphics, but have the advantage of being a fixed target that developers can optimize for. That said the returns seem to be diminishing - games on the PS5 don't look that much better than the PS4 Pro, or even the original PS4.

They screwing themselves and future generations. Australia has massive amounts of solar and wind energy available, and is geographically positioned to export much of it. By delaying they are letting rivals overtake them, and once those international distribution networks are built with other countries, they aren't going to bother with ones to Australia.

Nice work. There is a solution for this now though. A Greaseweazel is a cheap device that you can connect most floppy drives to, and which can read pretty much any format. Rather than acting as a normal floppy drive controller, it just captures the raw flux transitions and then allows the computer to decode them. A typical disk ends up being about 50MB of data, but it captures everything perfectly, including copy protected disks.

I've been using one for a while. The only thing that could be improved is that is works off the digital output of the drive. For damaged disks it might be advantageous to capture the analogue signal. It's one of those projects I've been meaning to try for many years.

They deployed some in Japan, but it turned out that even the low temperature ones were not significantly cheaper or better than the rapidly improving Chinese lithium ion ones.

Toyota may be in the same position. They have been promising this for a long time, but if you look at their claims from a few years ago they aren't really any better than what CATL and BYD are shipping today. Theoretically longer lifespan perhaps, but batteries already outlast the rest of the car. BYD is selling cars that charge at 1000kW, so speed isn't really an issue. Modern chemistries are very hard to ignite. Chances are their tech will be expensive when it arrives, so not very competitive.

Are we really at the point where killing historic racists who would otherwise kill you is controversial?

It's probably just been delayed for about 5 years, for political reasons.

I'm not sure extension writers care all that much about Firefox now. Compatibility is nice to have, but given the tiny market share I think most of them are concentrating on Chrome-based browsers. I fear that ad-blockers will stagnate as a result.

This feature sounds useful until you realize that you can't trust the summary, so it's largely useless.

Many years ago someone contacted me about developing something like this, but with a gambling aspect. The idea was that you bought it, and if you could solve it you won a cash prize. It wasn't quite like a Rubik's cube, it worked a little differently, but looked similar.

I told them it was impossible to secure it against being hacked, and given that money was involved that was inevitable.

Seems unlikely they would be removed, at least until the land reaches a stable state where it can be farmed. But even then, it turns out that solar panels can be good for some crops and for food animals.

Even if their chips do turn out to be actually good, would you trust Intel? Their security has proven to be lacking, and they use a lot of abusive tactics like artificially limiting features and having short lived sockets.