PonyOfWar

Source? In Germany at least that’s not the case, it’s mainly the conservatives who push for it. In the original vote, only the greens clearly opposed it. Later on, SPD (center-left) and FDP (liberal) changed course to also oppose it. Couldn’t find results for other countries though, so I’m genuinely curious.

Either way they can just give it a new name and change some details to propose it again. Like how they made it “voluntary” this time (but you can only send text if you don’t agree).

Nice. I guess they didn’t expect to get a majority to support it anymore. Definitely a win for now, but I’m sure they’ll try again.

If you have a short-ish email address, someone might have just set it as their recovery address by mistake. I also have a pretty old, short gmail address and people have registered it as their recovery address before, so I would get mails whenever they logged in on a new device etc. Don’t think those were phishing attempts, just people being technologically inept.

It’s not new, nor is it AI. Predictive text suggestions have been in Android for ages now.

Some of the better ones have removable cables. You’ll usually just yank them out or worst case if the cable is damaged you can easily replace it.

Ah, indeed I did.

The thing about wired earbuds and headphones is that they’re already pretty sustainable. A good pair can last you decades, while wireless buds are usually throwaway products. So I think it’s pretty cool that they’re doing something about that for those that want wireless earbuds.

The workers literally get paid bonuses for each phone that gets made. The phone’s parts all get certified for sustainability. They need to find manufacturers willing to fulfill their requirements, for which they will obviously charge more.

I’m not saying that they’re for everyone or should be free from criticism. I personally decided against buying one due to the size, performance and camera. But if you’re complaining about a sustainable product costing more than a regular one, you’re missing the point and were never in the target audience in the first place.

The high prices at least should be obvious, a product using fairly sourced components will always be more expensive.

I suppose a better way to phrase it is- why is an NPU necessary? What does it enable these machines to do that a Surface sans NPU can’t?

It can basically handle neural network/AI tasks more efficiently than a regular CPU/GPU can.

And yes, these are business-oriented. But my question remains the same - is built-in AI a feature that businesses, as consumers of this product, are asking for?

Yes, deserved or not, AI is currently on everyone’s mind in the business world. Working as a software dev, every client these days asks if we “do AI”, so we pretty much have to reluctantly learn and use it. And many of those clients are very protective of their data and don’t just want to put them on some web service, like OpenAI. So there’s certainly demand for locally running AI tasks.

Like the article states: it contains an NPU. It’s also not targeted at consumers.

“Freedom from porn” as ol’ Steve put it. I’m surprised that Apple users are surprised.

I have the base model for my iOS builds (my main development PC is a Windows machine). It works fine for that purpose. The SSD space runs out immediately though, so I had my company buy an external drive. Also wouldn’t want to do any prolonged development sessions on it personally, just owing to the small screen, keyboard, lack of ports etc. That could be fixed with external screens and adapters though.