h3ndrik

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sure. In urban environments the cell tower should be able to determine your location down to a few meters or at least tens of meters. They know the angle from which antenna is in use. And I think I read an article or paper that newer technologies also compensate for the signal delay introduced by the speed of light and your distance... So the phone can hit the slot in the multiplexing correctly. So distance from the cell tower should be known to both parties somewhat precisely. No "active" positioning requests needed. I think requesting the location during an 112 / 911 call has also saved some lives already. I'm not sure if it pops up automatically for the dispatchers, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

They address that in the last paragraph. I wonder however if this does much. I mean it's just one of several modes and then certain requirements must be met, too. What would carriers send such requests for in non-emergency scenarios anyways?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow, 32GB + 32GB used up... Yeah, good guess 😅 Good luck fixing the issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds a bit overkill to make the "continuous power supply for at least 10 years" if your trip is just 6 weeks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Sounds like maybe a memory leak and your RAM getting used up and the system then swapping and becoming unresponsive due to that?! I'd keep an eye on the RAM usage for a start.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

LibreOffice

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Denke ich auch. Weiß ich gar nicht mal ob das unmöglich sein soll. Klar, personalisierte Werbung fällt damit weg. Aber Werbung ohne Tracking sollte weiterhin gut möglich sein. Gab es früher auch schon, dann muss man halt bei einer Tech-News Site Tech- Werbung schalten und bei Schminktipps-Videos andere... Und beim Ausspielen ebendieser verbieten Dinge über den individuellen Nutzer abzuspeichern.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Spotify, Netflix, a bunch of online services, old games, the update software of my car GPS...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, I agree with the premise. I've heard the analogy with cars replacing horses before. I think it fits. And it happened fast.

A few points where I strongly disagree:

As long as the computing power available for A.I. is a scarce resource [...]

That's the interesting question. Why brush over that?

And the point:

AI won't ever be better than humans.

I just skimmed the article. Couldn't find the claim. But I think this is obviously false. It already does in some niches. And even computers with or without AI far outperform humans at all sorts of tasks. Chess, Jeopardy, communicating information, calculating speed... Just to name a few. In factories, robots and machines outperform humans in strength, speed and being precise in repetitive tasks. All of that can be combined and yields systems that outperform humans. And they've been there for quite some time already.

I think AI has some potential to get us to a post-scarcity utopia. Or bring doom. For sure we're afraid it'll change the economy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

👌 Debian is a really good choice from my perspective. I've been using it for the last decade or so. Glad the community could be of some help. And you found some good use for that old machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well. Go ahead then. 4GB is enough.

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