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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe for some models? IDK I haven't seen one but I've noticed there is a much smaller selection of matte protectors in general vs glossy.

I don't think there's any reason they can't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It does though. Installing a matte screen protector was one of the very first things I did after I got it.

Put a matte screen protector on my iPad a few years ago to cut down on the glare and that was it, everything had to be that way from then on.

Downside is you do lose some image crispness but it's so very worth it for the huge reduction in glare.

Also matte protectors aren't nearly as popular so there's a lot smaller selection to chose from.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Probably a full overlap with people that have fully functional keyboards.

I finally gave up and just set a wireless keyboard on top of the built in keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's room sized and sold to other companies it will rapidly be in multiple countries.

There wouldn't be any way to keep it to one company with it being public knowledge.

Like realistically I'd think any country would ignore whatever laws on the books and just outright sieze the tech as a matter of national security and duplicate it for their own use if they found out a company was hiding such a thing.

From there it'd again leak to all other major countries in short order.

If it's small and easy to duplicate, (can it replicate itself?) It would spread like wildfire and would like piracy be completely uncontainable.

I don't think there is anyway the tech could be either contained or kept secret any real length of time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't remember that bit but I think I only watched the first season of the Orville and that was years ago.

But yeah really depends on how difficult the equipment itself is to replicate.

If it's some massive machine the size of a room it's going to make some company extremely rich, they'd sell product for slightly less than normal market value taking over the market with perfectly consistent product and insane margins allowing legal capture.

Why feed everyone when you can almost literally print money?

If it's something small that can be easily transported and duplicated? Piracy. Nobody will give AF about patents and everyone will have them within a couple years no matter what laws they try to implement or how they try and prevent it.

This has actually already happened with media and this is exactly how it has played out and a lot of people still seem to be in denial.

They can complain and sick lawyers on as many people as they want but they can still make a million copies of something that cost 400 million to make for less than than the cost of a gumball.

The law surrounding it is completely broken and it's crazy that so many industries are trying to continue on like nothing has changed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Sometimes I wonder what they would do if you could make endless perfect copies of objects like you can mp3s.

Dududdo you wouldn't copy a car. You wouldn't copy a cheeseburger Copying is a crime.

Like remember it's only been recently that it became possible to make endless copies of media at effectively no cost.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lead poisoning, it used to be popular for plates and cups cuz it made the food taste better (because the lead leached in and lead has a sweet taste), then later indoor plumbing (sometimes with lead pipes) became common like a decade prior to the founding of the Republican party in the 1850s. We didn't get leaded gas until the 1920s

Anyone considered getting rid of leaded avgas yet?

Or testing food for lead more stringently?

Like they had children suffering from lead toxicity recently from contaminated applesauce packages and it takes a fuckton of lead to cause toxicity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as it seemed disingenuous to present both sides as equal

Because it is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

New York is a real place. Does that mean spiderman is real?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't he already present one? Just it was so bad it was going to cause something like 20 million people to lose their insurance? So he couldn't even get the republicans to vote for it?... Went back and checked https://www.npr.org/2017/05/24/529902300/cbo-republicans-ahca-would-leave-23-million-more-uninsured yeah that did actually happen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still can't figure out why their voters either don't see it or don't care.

Like at least prior to trump you could kinda see it but now you just have to be in outright denial of reality.

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

Yeah considering they didn't discover electricity until the 1700s then they didn't even invent one that lasted long enough to be practical until 1879.

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