As a corollary, I think they'd be much more useful if there were direct interoperability of things like the GPIO pins. As far as I can tell, there could exist a compatibility shim for software using wiringpi and wiring etc. from the RPi world, but trying to set it up is a software/kernel nightmare for anyone not working professionally in this space.

I gave it a shot about a year ago using LLMs, but haven't revisited it since.

For me it's the asteroids. Having space being so densely populated with procedural asteroids is immediately, irreversibly immersion breaking for me. Like... space would be opaque and life on these plants would immediately cease in a cataclysm of bombardment.

This was also one of many gripes I had with Starfield.

I think you gotta set aside some of that to enjoy both as Sci-Fi games, not space sim games. In Sci-Fi, asteroids are close together and you can shoot them for resources or lose an enemy in them like a dark forest, because those things are fun. IRL, they are ridiculously far apart and not nearly as fun.

It's always a potential danger to one's enjoyment to know too much about something though. :)

I mean, I do, but there's a reason KSP is so popular despite all the flaws.

Well this update fixes your asteroid complaint then

Adds persistent asteroid belts, asteroid mining, and base building on asteroids

Go wild

These systems aren't perfect recognition oracles - there are lots of errors, especially as you scale up the technology. At the end of the day, it's a probabilistic identification correlated to a stream with a mix of of reported or suspected crimes. Your framing completely misses the reality. I'd argue that the OP's language is a much better fit.

Can that kind of clause really be enforceable? It really doesn't seem legal in any jurisdiction I'm aware of. (not a lawyer)

These (and other TOS agreements) fall under the category of "adhesion contracts".

Because the buyer has no real ability to negotiate, any ambiguity is resolved in their favor. A judge can also strike provisions that a reasonable buyer would not expect, or that are unconscionable. So it's up to the judge's judgment.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/adhesion-contract.asp

The cool thing is that they make you go into forced arbitration rather than through the legal system.

The cooler thing is that if a substantial amount of the 216M TV owners tried to arbitrate across the country/world, they'd cave so fast. Arbitration is cheaper than an individual law suit, but much much more expensive than a class-action.

^claim to — this type of legalese (shrink wrap, clickwrap, liability waivers, etc.) is a bluff (when in doubt: sue)

lawyers hope to trap / trick people that are smart enough to read, but not legally smart enough to understand enforceability.

LG probably can't sue you for failing to get consent from a guest, but the guest can sue you, not LG, for being recorded.

> Have a meeting with the executives of LG in their office

> Sue them for not telling you the TV is recording you

LG's purpose is to avoid being sued by the guest, not to be able to sue the customer.

I’m sure this would not work under GDPR. The host surely isn’t a data processor.

are state's attourney's general going to go after them? eh.

you ask if they're enforceable but that's the wrong question, the real question is will anyone do anything to stop them?

This is the kind of thing that states need to make explicitly illegal.

Would be even better if the federal government made it illegal.

Would be even better to have a judge declare that they already are illegal.

Easy to forget, judges determine the legality of things. It is literally their job

This is one of my favorite things about it. Very pleasant to use.

Couple that with the climate crisis and political breakdown, and you've got a stew going.

Ready to join the revolution, comrades?

There are some options under the debug menu which look relevant, but I wasn't able to get it to enroll.

Fun fact, they'd already need one if they weren't buying the data from private companies. This is because both the courts and legislature have been busy desecrating and burying the fourth amendment for decades.

Once I started leaving just the ones with parasitoid wasp eggs on their backs in the garden, I completely stopped having problems with these guys.

Agreed, the xda forum thing is a huge security smell. "Here, download this big binary from a random forum user and put it on a device you carry with you everywhere which is equipped with internet, camera, microphone, and GPS. You're welcome!"

The GrapheneOS setup seems a lot better (though it has more limited support).

They reduce their need for involvement by being very opinionated about what the project offers.

More projects should strive to establish a culture like GrapheneOS has.

currently on GraphineOS for those very reasons. There is some amazing stuff in XDA forums but ultimately it's just some random guy posting some random ROM.

Only way I was able to get Cyanogenmod on stuff back in the day, was to use shady hacks from XDA, but man it was super slow and seemed to use a ton of bandwidth...