Having been tought the use of Word in school I have made many of the same arguments in college. Unfortunately some word processors do start to exhibit "What you see isn't actually what you get, once you export it to pdf", suddenly those vector graphics are badly compressed jpegs or text is converted to images. And for collaborative works you better hope everyone is using the version of the same tool, or suddenly you'll have to worry about different interpretations of the stuff they hide from you.
Also there are plenty of specialized Latex editors offering side-by-side views, you don't actually have to use Emacs.
China is already banned from buying many of ASML's machines, which is why China doesn't have any leading edge fabs. They probably will be able to replicate the research and solve the manufacturing issues eventually but it took a global effort and many failed tries to get it working the first time.
>The open driver is great under linux because it bypasses AMD's craptacular support. But AMD doesn't support consumer GPUs in ROCm under Linux, and de-facto they don't seem to support ROCm on the open driver in the first place anyway, you have to use AMDGPU-PRO (according to geohot's investigations).
While they don't officially support any consumer GPU aside from 7900XT(X) and VII, I haven't encountered any issues using it on a 6700XT with the open source drivers, pretty much the only tinkering required was to export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0. It was quite a pleasant surprise after never getting my RX480 to work even though it was officially supported back in the day.
Thing is their VPN isn't great on Linux either (or in general for tech savvy users). Needing a VPN and wanting to support Mozilla I did subscribe to their service, only to find you needed a special program to use their VPN, which you'll have to build yourself if you're using any distribution other than Ubuntu. If you manage to build it you'll find their selection of servers is more restricted than Mullvad's own offerings. At least their 30-day money back guarantee is working.
So far I haven't encountered ans issues with banking apps using MicroG in Germany. Could be our banking apps are even more backward though. Also given PSD2 there is always the option of someone developing 3rd party banking apps.
> Also given PSD2 there is always the option of someone developing 3rd party banking apps.
1. From what I've seen, the PSD2 APIs haven't really been created with end users in mind – there are non-trivial accreditation requirements on people/entities wishing to make use of those APIs, the expectation being that only professional middlemen will dally with those APIs.
2. The PSD2 APIs don't necessarily cover the full functionality of a bank's online banking functionality.
3. While you can probably still get quite far with "just" the ability to query the current account data and recent transactions, as well as being able to initiate payments, this doesn't sidestep the bank's authorisation requirements – meaning that unless you can use a hardware TAN generator or something like that, you're still dependent on the bank's app for payment and account access authorisation.
I think those numbers lump the emissions from goods produced in china and exported to other countries in with the emissions from domestic consumption. So they are inflated by China's vast exports. Yet even if you use consumption based emissions, China was around Spain's numbers in 2016 and by now probably has overtaken quite a few of the European countries.
The EU does public consultations, usually years in advance. If those regulations are affecting your business it might be worthwhile to check their site every once in a while.
Do you know by first-hand experience if these public consultations actually make any difference? I once attended one from the local gov, and everything was already predetermined and the debate was just a dance.
The proposed laws usually change before they are adopted. I can not ascertain how much of an impact the public consultation has. It is online though so the barrier of entry is pretty low. And even if it's completely useless it is still a good way to stay informed if the changes might impact someones business.
Most of these stories are probably from when the RPi cost <40$. For most of its existence it was significantly cheaper, used significantly less power and space than comparable x86 boxes.
I built one at the time. Imo the lack of auto-focus was a plus, as I'm not moving that much and hate the complete blur to refocus some cameras do occasionally.
Back then you needed a Pi Zero for USB device mode and a specific software version for this to be supported other than that it just worked.
I have the exact same experience with mine. I have been running a specialised software build on my pi zero that I found somewhere and have been very happy with it.
While yes, Germany profits from the European grid to offset some of its over or under production, it doesn't really affect Germany's or France's nuclear energy production.
As you can see even at time when wind provides more than half of Germany's total energy production, the red nuclear bar remains nearly unchanged.
Also there are plenty of specialized Latex editors offering side-by-side views, you don't actually have to use Emacs.