The problem is that there is no true manufacturing nor repairability capacity for high density electronics in africa. Hell, our customer in SA asks us to buy spare components for them because getting parts there from our favourite distributors is a nightmare.
My parents are involved in an organization that helps developing parts of Togo. They helped build wells, structures (schools, bathrooms, .. ) and give material for agriculture and light manufacture, fund for tutoring, such things. All the electric and mechanical machinery they donated, including vehichles, are older models and the reason is simple: they must be serviced with the available technology, and they must be simple to service.
They made a conference in our town to showcase the project and i addressed the obvious elephant in the room: what about electricity? They are dependend on china for cheap panels and inverters, and they do not want to use alternative sources that require way less tech to operate: biofuel for example. They say it's not as efficient, and i concour, but i feel there is also a geopolitic issue, they do know they are making themselves dependent on china and there might be a small print condition for the cheap solar.. and they were elusive on the answers.
Also, not programs to train electronics technicians in the next future. If i ever get involved i'd like to help with setting up repair shops and train technicians. We'll see in the next few years what happens.
Are we really able to service solar panels and batteries in Europe either, for example? Or most of the time is just a game of moving refurbished devices to replace the broken ones, that are then shipped back to... China? to be refurbished once again?
I know that for more costly EV batteries there is some refurbishment capacity in Europe but what about the rest?
I always wonder why nobody have never released a framework mainboard with rockchip. There is even one with a - very - slow RISC-V for OS developer FFS.
It would have to be integrated with other components in the laptop. The RISC-V mainboard was not made by DeepComputing alone. For Framework it was intended as a pilot study in these kinds of partnerships.
1) Oh yes of course, here friend you just need a PC and the command line tools (unless soon you'll need to be a registered and VERIFIED developer) to install revanced or any open source app
2) Unless they decide to ban you (they can if you don't show any activity in the developer account for X months) and of course because you were verified you can't simply apply again and pay again, because you were banned!!!!
1) OP indicated his scenario was a self developed app he uses on his own personal device, not a hypothetical "friend". In terms of some unknown future scenario, speculative fear doesn't really provide anything in the ways of a constructive dialog.
2) In regards to inactive accounts, from Google's policy page:
>If you have never submitted an app for review and the account is more than one year old, it’s considered inactive.
>If you have apps, the account is considered inactive if it is more than one year old, all published apps have fewer than 1,000 combined lifetime installs, the required contact details are not verified, and you have not used Play Console in the last 180 days.
>Google sends warning emails at 60, 30, and 7 days before actual closure, allowing time to take corrective actions.
While you are correct that this would lose you access to the developer account, inactivity for a year and ignoring multiple warning messages over a 2 month period gives you an opportunity to weigh your options. It doesn't even require app updates, just activity in the Play console.
Articles like this make me wish i had enough points to downvode them into oblivion.
What a waste of time. I'm with the users that argue that if you need a "pretty please" explanation of what HEX values are, you shouldn't even begin to worry about the linux boot process.
A few years ago, i think 2018, i was in munich and as usual i went to see the mueum of technology.
They had this exibition about the future of surveillance as seen by cyberpunk artists and there was this part about hair style and makeup that would confuse face detection algorythms.
It was brillant, but i never managed to find it again.
I hope the hivemind here remembers or can point me in the right direction
I think the keywords you want are "cv dazzle". The ones I've seen are inspired by dazzle camouflage, but if you wear them out in public I think that people will be more likely to pay attention to you, even if ai camera systems are less likely to
It's not if it silently alters the file.
i do want GPS data for geolocation, so that when i import the images in the right places they are already placed where they should be on the map
Meh, i've had a macbook for 15 years, i'm on the league that thinks that snow leopard was the last good OS they made. Still get to use one almost daily at work, but honestly i prefer using windows for developing, if linux is not an option.
My 2012 MPB still lives on running debian (not ideal because some driver quirks, but miles better in terms of responsiveness and doing actual work on it than whatever OSX i could put on it)
I honestly agree with the parent. I'd love a macbook M because the hardware is simply fantastic, but if i can't put debian on it, then i'll pass
The "a" models haven't been 300€ for a good while now. Launch price for 9a was 549€. So I would set that as the floor price for any speculation about this.
Bullshit.
Examples are the best excuse to not write documentation.
I should be able to come up with an example by looking at the docs, not the other way around.
I just LOVE IT when i read a device datasheet, perform the steps and things don't work. Then i have to download a couple of GB or so of framework and configurator to generate a project that shows me all the details they forgot to put in the datasheet: order of operations, missing requirements, all that stuff.
Even better when the examples are not updated when the device / libraries / framework are updated
peripherals are a dumpster fire. I usually have to resort to bit-bang if i want to use the peripherals in a slightly different way than intended. Way easier than figuring out all the "drivers" thing to see if it's actually possible. Also, the couldn't make a decent ADC if their life depended on that. I use them for projects that require radio and GPIO, or slow PWM, or low accuracy ADC, or screens (but only with the preapproved screen controllers)
My parents are involved in an organization that helps developing parts of Togo. They helped build wells, structures (schools, bathrooms, .. ) and give material for agriculture and light manufacture, fund for tutoring, such things. All the electric and mechanical machinery they donated, including vehichles, are older models and the reason is simple: they must be serviced with the available technology, and they must be simple to service.
They made a conference in our town to showcase the project and i addressed the obvious elephant in the room: what about electricity? They are dependend on china for cheap panels and inverters, and they do not want to use alternative sources that require way less tech to operate: biofuel for example. They say it's not as efficient, and i concour, but i feel there is also a geopolitic issue, they do know they are making themselves dependent on china and there might be a small print condition for the cheap solar.. and they were elusive on the answers.
Also, not programs to train electronics technicians in the next future. If i ever get involved i'd like to help with setting up repair shops and train technicians. We'll see in the next few years what happens.