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Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 189

Younger generations gave up on radio because it sucks.

I'm gen X, and I despise radio so much that every time I've ever replaced a head unit, I've left the antenna disconnected. If radio was just music I could probably tolerate it, but I can't handle the ads and pretend DJ's.

For emergency purposes there are portable wind up radios in the emergency kits. Completely unused, in original packaging, because where I live the closest thing we have to natural disasters is winter storms that shut down the roads.

Comment Re: Not Flock (Score 1) 93

That's not how it works, Flock identifies a suspected vehicle, detective (the one that gets paid to think) has to check the provided evidence before asking for an arrestwarrant, and in the end the patrolofficers just execute the warrant, they have to rely on the person issuing it to do their job properly and not having to question the warrant.

Comment Re: Not Flock (Score 1) 93

And that's the whole point yeah, Flock isn't to blame, any false arrest due to tye use of flock cameras is up to the police for not doing their job, checking the images/videos provided by flock these flock cameras or any data provided by any automated system. It's just plain incompetence if they don't check properly before doing any arrest.

Comment Re:There's different types of video (Score 0, Troll) 85

I would think that Teslas get stolen far less often because they are difficult to sell and difficult to turn into parts and, on top of that, you have to do a lot of work to disable all the electronics in there. Hence not an effect that would transfer to any external cameras.

Also, who would want a bad-quality space-NAZI car anyways?

Comment Re:Shrug (Score 2) 65

For special-purpose, there are better things. For example, for teaching the Big Blue Button is quite a bit superior IMO. I have used it last semester with no issues at all. But it is not really suitable for more general use. For example, it requires you to schedule meetings and upload your slides before. That is fine for teaching, but does not work so well in many other situations. It also uses LibreOffice to convert PP slides to PDF, but since my teaching slides are LibreOffice anyways, I had zero problems.

That said, a Teams replacement does not have to be better. It just has to be about equal or not too much worse and it has to not be made by an US company or a company beholden to any other authoritarian regime.

Comment Re:Great idea! (Score 1) 24

That depends. For example, a Linux kernel basically clears everything out and does everything itself. Hence the drivers for most hardware can be taken from that. Also note that for booting you only need a small part of the "full range of modern hardware" to work and there are quite a few standardized interfaces for storage.

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