You can't move the compute away in a headset. I have worked for an XR OEM, and when you are designing a headset, you want the compute to be as close as possible from the cameras and displays, to achieve the lowest possible latency and avoid motion sickness for the users.

Even moving the compute to the back of the headset was not considered viable by our HW team. And we haven't spoken about the bandwidth required for all those cameras and UHD displays.

A better way to reduce the weight of the AVP would have been to remove the (useless IMO) front holographic screen, and to replace most of the glass and metal by plastic. And maybe move the battery pack to the back, to get a more balanced headset.

> $12 on the front. Whole-network compromise on the back.

Too bad since the topic on its own seems very interesting.

So I bought an Android auto / Car play module that integrates with the car touch screen. Now I have up to date maps and navigation for ever. :)

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A great thing is that it's almost fully compatible with Github actions, so migrating an existing CI/CD should not be too painful. If you plan to move, make sure to read this first: https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/comparison#missing-feat...

For sure, it requires a bit of maintenance, mainly for updates, but that's all.

Those are much more meaningful to me than those giant stadiums where you watch the band on giant screens. These thoughts will seem obvious, but smaller spaces with a limited audience are really warmer. You feel much closer to the artists, you are sharing emotions, sometimes the artist comes playing or singing in the middle of the audience. Things happen! A guitar string breaks, a drum falls, the singer goes out of tune. This is real live music!

It seems that the terminology as evolved, as we speak more broadly of frontends and backends.

So, I'm wondering if Bison and Flex (or equivalent tools) are still in use by the modern compilers? Or are they built directly in GCC, LLVM, ...?

Open source communities should help each other, and work together, not fight.

Sorry for this rant, but hell, the web, the apps, everything is so sloooow and bloated. Make it instant! I just want to do my things, not to wait for drawings to draw!

This seems pretty nice in terms of features, but would probably need a bit of polish.

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It saved my work a couple of times.

A good friend of mine works for a manufacturer that make watches running on Android Wear, and closed-source system updates pushed by Google turn OS-level regressions (like battery consumption issues) into nightmares. So they are switching back to their own AOSP-based OS.

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Regarding WhatsApp, I would say that 35 engineers is OK. Not so much, but not so few also.

>The race is on to decarbonize road transport and get drivers to switch to electric vehicles (EVs).

Actually the race is on to decarbonize all the things (at least here in France). My wife works at RTE (Réseau de Transport d'Electricité), which is the grid company here. She makes studies for customers that require more power, so she basically see where new power lines could be placed, whether a new high voltage station is required, etc.

These last years, she noticed a rise for such demands, as the whole heavy industry has been decarbonizing their processes: chemicals, metallurgy... Coal and other fuels (used for heat production for instance) are being replaced either by electricity, or by green hydrogen (so even more electricity).

Romain is truly a talented developer, and deserves the success of scrcpy. If I remember correctly, scrcpy was also bundled with Genydeploy (an Android device provisioning solution) at the time.

Kudos Romain for your work!