When Apple, Google, and all ARM based things actually run something other than Angry Birds, Chinese Adware Strange Rope Hero and Pokemon ripoff games for babies with video and malware app adds and closed "walled garden" "app store" ecosystems where you have to pay $10 or more for even an mp3 or video player, let me know. Otherwise all this mysterious "performance" is even more useless than a 75mhz Pentium from 1996. When anyone can actually program for ARM without "licensing fees" also let me know.
Wow what a gross mischaracterization of macOS to say nothing of Android and iOS. If that’s all you think is on the app stores (which is not required on any of these OSes!), then you need to broaden your horizons and look around.
There are lots of great apps on all these platforms that do all kinds of excellent useful stuff.
Regarding programming for ARM, last I checked you can just specify the target architecture in Go or Rust and off it goes. For C and C++, it’s as easy as sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf
If you’re waiting for systems like this that can run FreeBSD, well, you’re in for a wait. How long is the actual point of my post - who knows when hardware of this caliber with open drivers will be available or common.
I work on these all the time. Problem is normally cheap charger. Try and find a ups that puts load on the batteries everyonce and a while. Good luck. This is hard and never done. We got sick of UPS sitting there for sometimes years and then when needed - batteries collapse and the whole thing comes crashing down.
I have worked on UPS that are in charge of maintaining power to DP systems. When they fail you get things like oil rigs pulling off station costing millions. The company I work for just finished putting batter powered thrusters on an oil rig. First one ever.
I somehow managed to get an almost invisible crack on the inside of the Gorilla glass a few years ago via a drop. Took it into an Apple Store for a screen replacement; they gave me a fresh out of the box phone for free (partially because they'd never seen that failure mode before, partially because they were busy and my slot got delayed 45 minutes.)
(Admittedly, the bloke next to me with the iPhone 4 arguing that the back glass had shattered "all on its own; I didn't drop it, honestly!" probably wasn't going to get a new phone for free...)
In the modern era, diamonds are not all that rare or hard to retrieve to begin with, and now we have mass-produced synthetic diamonds that are actually higher-quality (fewer flaws) than mined ones. The idea that a tiny pebble, however artfully cut, is rare and precious and worth thousands of dollars is 100% marketing.
When I was looking at diamond rings the synthetics available to me were at a high cost, not much less than a "traditional" diamond. Same goes for alternate stones such as Moissanite which HackerNews has discussed below. So, not being pro-diamond here, but simply stating it looks like marketing has brought up the prices of these alternate methods too.
Perhaps you were shopping with an unscrupulous jeweler then, because, all else the same, a Moissanite stone is significantly less expensive than a comparable diamond
It is rarer than many minerals, yes, but not enough to justify the astronomical prices. The global diamond supply chain is controlled by a handful of powerful companies that cooperate to maintain scarcity and keep prices high.
The idea that engagement rings "must" have a diamond only dates back to the '40s and is entirely down to De Beers' marketing. The same company spent a fortune promoting the idea that synthetic diamonds are somehow inferior and developing tests to distinguish them, even though they're chemically identical and the only way to tell them apart is that natural diamonds are lower-quality, with more flaws and less clarity.
Yes. While diamonds have always been valuable, in the 19th century, DeBeers bought most/all known large mines and exercised their monopoly position to control the market. They also launched massive marketing campaigns touting diamonds as the "best" stone for an engagement ring.
Good points. Just another tax that will be passed straight down to the consumer. Wonder why no wage growth for 10+ years? Will do nothing for the enviroment. "Better not go on that holiday because of the enviroment "
Your right itt would. I realised my phone was way more powerful when I bought my first Nexus. Besides they only used 2 decimal places to get to the moon.
