It helps me. If I expect it to take like an hour, I may save it for some time when I have the time to sit and digest it. And the estimate is more usually accurate than just looking at how small the scroll bar is.

I generally don’t like reading things in chunks throughout the day, so I don’t want to crack a long article when I’m just sitting on the toilet for a few minutes or whatever.

More likely than not they just pulled the history off his home computer or phone.

It would also be kind of nice for everyone to see what these people had on them and maybe how they got it.

I feel like this would fit in some unexpected areas of mobile computing. Music, interfacing with other equipment (e.g. industrial computing), or other places where people might normally take a full laptop where that’s kind of overkill.

I’m not really sure, and I kind of wish I had a need for one.

ELI5 headscale?

I do believe Home Assistant supports Matter devices. So if it gets this badge it’s likely to work with HA.

Many people said the same things about the ISS, I’m sure.

The article doesn’t debunk anything. All it really says is it can’t definitively say either way. You just choose to focus on the PR response because it supports what you want.

I shared it. Of course I read it. It’s also the statement from their public relations department after the fact to try and quell the public backlash.

That sure was their rationale after the fact, wasn’t it?

Guess you forgot about the time he shut down Starlink to stop a Ukrainian assault?

Even ignoring the track record of Starlink, he’s also buddy buddy with Putin.

Yeah, they’re just cameras. And they have to be intentional. Pretty different from having all reflective surfaces reflecting what’s really going on in the scene.

That why I said I’m looking forward to it.

Damn, nobody in here is excited for the future of graphics? Guess I’ll be the outlier.

I’m looking forward to ray tracing being commonly available. Having actual reflections in game really improves that subconscious immersion and even could open up strategy in some cases. Imagine using a mirror the see someone coming around the corner.

Every time I walk into a bathroom and the mirror is just some generic gray texture it pulls me out.

Realistic lighting, textures, and character models are also pretty great. I want to see the pores on the protagonist’s face.

That said, obviously the game needs to be fun more than have good graphics, but man do I love the immersion of high quality visuals.

It is very privacy friendly […]

What makes you believe that? The most information I could find about this is that it doesn’t “save your session data.” The Orbit privacy policy also seems a bit bare, and I can’t decide if that’s a good thing or not.

Either way, you’re still sending data to a third party service to process. Might be worth it for some people.