A lot of high-quality electronics ship from China. As a hobbyist I've directly felt the burn on IoT project type stuff that simply isn't made anywhere else. I've felt it on high-end Audio gear as well.

I don't know if it's the same policy being discussed, but I've also had the annoying experience ordering a cool pair of *sweatpants* from Canada -- charged the tarrif and a processing fee that combined cost more than the damn pants did.

Trump isn't clamping down on junk.

Usually I see a headline like this and I'm like "yeah, the original code sucked and would have been made faster by rewriting it in the original language too".

And I'm 100% confident that this is the case here too. But Lua is slow as fuck and I'm sure that transition did help considerably.

We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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Now lets hope Apple copies Microsoft and puts LE Audio on iOS.

At some point people will stop being distracted by wedge issue bullshit and notice how shitty exploitative rich people have made things, right?

Because where does it end? Everyone's working in company towns again? Better not piss off the boss.

You use a Pi 5 if you want GPIO and community support. Its appropriateness in other areas has rapidly shrunk, despite the price of the Pi being relatively stable (the 2GB model Pi 5 is like $10 more than the 2GB Pi 2).

The Pi 5 is too expensive to be used as a simple SFF PC. x86 gives you way better bang for buck but will use more power.

The Pi 5 also has a huge amount of competition as a GPIO-ready IoT dev board -- there are faster options, there are cheaper options, there are lower power options. So even in the IoT space, you're really choosing it because you want the strong community support.

The 500+ to me is perfect for a "GPIO-ready Linux dev box" ... I have a Pi 5 setup in desktop mode specifically for this and if this were available at the time, I probably would have just got this instead.

If you read the article carefully, they are talking about lenses THINNER than a hair. I see several of the posts here thinking the width/radius of the lenses is this small, a reasonable mistake given the way this was written. Having a radius that small would severely reduce their light gathering ability, requiring very bright light or very dim images or very long exposure times.

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Just waiting for $200/mo price tag to drop once VC money runs out.

Do you have a source for these things? This is fascinating!

My favorite there being that the revolutionary war was fought by the American ruling class and the general public didn't care much one way or the other.

No doubt the ruling class had the most to gain. But the general public not really caring isn't something I've heard before.

Also the volunteer soldiers they did have, which were few and far between, were also completely useless and the war was fought almost entirely with paid mercenaries.

I know the Brits used mercs but wasn't aware the States used them with any significance.

I assume this is kind of a way for a game to say "yeah, don't need all the clocks, thanks..." in a way that gives devs a testable max performance target that can be more aggressive than, say, just down/up-clocking the chips on demand based on heuristics (which is already happening today).

I can't imagine the average PS5 user will care about saving a few pennies a year by consuming a little less power, especially if it limits game functionality or makes the graphics worse. Even businesses displaying PS5s... I can't imagine the power ask is huge, but maybe it is?

Making it a setting with tradeoffs is the one thing that throws off my understanding. It seems like it should be automatic.

Indeed, the people complaining don't understand the niche this camera occupies.

Many photographers would probably want the a6700 or a7c if they need a fuller-featured camera.

This one is about being compact and simple. It occupies a similar slot as Leica's fixed-lens cameras, or for a less expensive variety, a Ricoh GR. You go with this camera when size is important, when you want to take a nice camera into a venue that doesn't allow interchangable lens cameras (concerts/etc.). Or, if you've got money to burn, simply having a nice sensor with a limiting feature set might aid creativity.

With a UID that low, you still haven't found the benefit of AI?

Your bubble is showing

Such a fucked up system that employment is now a pawn used by marketing to pretend AI is 'ready'.

That being said, ...

I have the same suspicions you and everyone else do, but my comment was more about consistency of outrage.

Challenge hipocrisy by stating clearly that there is no double standard divisive bullshit. I really dislike that I feel compelled to do so, but I just see so much of it and Slashdot is definitely no exception.