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What sources?

The article doesn’t list any. All it says is they reached a cooling temperature of -12°C, but has no information on the energy used to achieve that.

They are not new technology the idea has been around since at least the 1980s. There is a reason we don’t use them and it’s because they are mechanically complicated and inefficient. Those in terms of power use and maintenance requirements.

However with the move to renewable energy maybe that efficiency limitation isn’t as much of a problem as it used to be. Especially if it means you can get away from toxic compounds.

Although I have never seen a commercial grade implementation of the technology. It’s always just been demos that don’t really achieve enough cooling to be anything other than a curiosity.

I don’t think shape change materials are all that efficient. The problem being is you still need some mechanism to compress the material again, which obviously uses energy. As you say their main advantage is that they don’t use traditional refrigerants. But the trade-off for that is that they are mechanically more complicated and probably for any given amount of cooling will require more electricity.

You can trade those off with renewable energy sources of course so it may still be worth it but technically they are worse efficiency than traditional vacuum pumps.

That’s thermodynamically impossible but ok.

When you cool something you take heat energy out of it you have to do something with that heat energy you can’t just delete it.

Yes it’s a discworld quote

“There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’ ‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’ ‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

It will be rubbish but the problem is everyone’s doing it so there’s no options other than forking out half your mortgage to Apple for high spec MacBook.

If I have the money I would definitely get it just to try it out. I am going to get the keyboard though.

You’re just making numbers up now there’s no way that a $200 phone is going to be any good. Especially if it’s a niche product like a Linux phone.

Come on you got to be even moderately reasonable

Just out of interest how long do you keep a phone because I feel like 5 years is pretty much around the time everyone’s looking to get a new phone.

Yeah.

In their natural state humans are immortal, everyone knows that.

Even if you wanted to you can’t use AI the way these guys want, because it doesn’t work.

They obviously don’t pay him enough and that’s why he only has the one outfit.

It looks like he got a stern talking to and couldn’t take it.

I guess his flack jacket doesn’t protect against harsh words

I’m now older than both my parents were when I was born. The complaining about the lack of grandchildren has already started.

Is not in is it? Society won’t let me stay up and play Xbox until midnight anymore, I’m expected to go to work in the morning.

I found the concept of stolen code to be a bit weird. Code isn’t poetry, there is a correct way of doing things and then there is incorrect ways of doing things.

If everybody does things the correct way then the code will be the same for any given problem. So is it stolen?

It’s rather like how it’s almost impossible to play any set of chords and them not be from some prior work. It doesn’t mean that the music was stolen it just means that there is a limited number of ways you can combine notes and if you further limit it to combinations that sound good the set is even smaller.

Do you even know what we’re talking about? Have you ever played any of those games, they are very much in the style of what meta where trying to do.

If you took Meta’s description of what the “Metaverse” is and then looked at chatVR it’s basically the same product.

ChatVR, RecRoom, Roblox, BattleBit, Project Loom (Which Google killed for no reason, but it wasn’t because of lack of success), and of course the OG, Second Life.

Hell you could even make the arguement for Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen if they ever finish it.

Some of those projects haven’t just been successful they’re so successful that they are starting to affect government policy.

Clearly the idea isn’t done because there are other versions of the metaverse that work very well and are making money.

Assuming we ever actually get a price. Still no word on that.

I remember the iPhone keyboard being an embedded part of the OS so you couldn’t swap it out for a better one. But what exactly is bad about it?