Theoretically possible but someone would have to reverse engineer the protocol and write a new service that works based on that
There are some projects but all that I’ve seen are open source head units that either: are terrible and aren’t android auto/carplay (eg they only have the most basic of integration, can show notifications and play music via Bluetooth) or they emulate android auto/carplay without the necessary licensing/hardware (so you still ultimately rely on google/apple)
one week till vol 16 comes out, what do you think the extra chapter will be?
My bet is on Tsukuyomi doing a monologue that is ultimately meaningless
It was a mid ending. The concept overall was fine but the pacing was horrible, it felt terribly rushed after arcs that moved fairly slowly.
Like kaguyas ending was ridiculous, he wrote himself into a corner and needed a kind of deus ex machina with the helicopter moment, but in the overall context of that work it was mostly fine because it was a gag manga that for some reason needed to get super serious for 10+ volumes
This was different. The ending was overall structured okay. I think he was hammering home the whole “entertainment industry is deception built on destruction” theme but unlike kaguya, or onk previous arcs, that had time to flesh out, he apparently decided that he was ready to move on and pushed this ending through quickly. As a result there’s a bunch of unsatisfying bits where we don’t get much emotional processing in lieu of just quick montages of characters reacting (mengo pulling more weight in this final arc than ever tbh), we get tons of unresolved plot lines and plot holes (what was on rubys dvd/why did she need a separate dvd? What was the significance of the brackets around the titles which was actually something that aka said would make sense by the end? Etc). The entire nature of aqua dying ends up with plot holes; why couldn’t he have solved this any of a million other ways that are fairly obvious with even mild scrutiny
The theme itself, aqua dying, etc, aren’t bad though. Those parts can all work, but they would only work in a scenario where the ending was written with more care and not rushed out so aka could take a longer break before he starts his new manga next spring.
That all said it was also doomed to be received poorly because all the waifu nerds were only going to approve an ending that validated their pick and aka seemed pretty hellbent on the “aqua dies” route, which invalidates all of them. I do wonder if that was a factor as well. Just based on the nature of his work he clearly has struggled with online criticism and if you read the commentary about onk during its run the waifu wars were hardly complimentary to him. It’s not a good look but I wouldn’t be shocked if he was like “fuck this fanbase, I’m done with this shit” because onk twitter was pretty toxic at times, especially to mengo
This is a regularly done conservative tactic. Attack research because it’s frequently stupid sounding. But sometimes stupid sounding research leads to incredible things.
Sometimes you research the mating habits of red eyed tree frogs and you learn a lot for conservation efforts and stuff about the species. Conservatives love this because they can hand wave and go “who cares about this thing I personally don’t care about that most people aren’t personally impacted by”
But those science nerds sometimes do stuff like researching gila venom in the 70s which eventually led to ozempic now, one of the potential major treatments for t2 diabetes, a scourge of our morbidly obese modern society. This has gigantic positive implications for public health and financial benefits
The whole point is you can’t know until you’re done what will be groundbreaking
A school district spends $180,000 (hyperbole, I don’t know actual numbers) of taxpayer money deploying this system between the actual hardware costs, maintenance costs to install the hardware, it costs to implement it into their network, and probably an ongoing contact with this dummy’s company. Maybe only for support but with the way things are now I’m sure they built this app to phone home to their servers (introducing a huge potential security risk over simply running it locally on the schools existing network infrastructure in a docker or something), calling it “cloud based”, and charging the district 1k/month to run the devices the district now owns and should be able to operate without the company. The company then talks about how they’ll back up records and safeguard data so you don’t have to worry about that (that it dept you pay is pointless!)
Three months after deployment it turns out the sensors can be tripped by many things not related to vaping, maybe increases in heat, mouthwash breath, etc. the false positives are due to a hardware flaw and cannot be fixed with a patch. Feel free to upgrade to sensor version 2.0, now with improved accuracy! (read: the problem still exists but isn’t as bad). Only another 40k to buy the new hardware, rip out the old hardware (which is now worthless), install the new stuff, and configure the software for everything (again, maintenance and IT costs)
9 months after deployment the company is doing poorly because their product is stupid and only a few idiots actually bought it (way to go idiot). There’s concerns because they sent a new Eula that outlines data sharing policies. They are potentially finding ways to harvest the data they agreed to safely store to try and create a new revenue stream to right their sinking ship. District counsel says fighting the Eula change will be expensive and there’s not much precedent for it, plus they state they will anonymize data before sharing so it’s not a ferpa violation, technically. It feels scummy but you can’t do anything about it. You also don’t really trust them to only sell anonymized data but you can’t prove they aren’t crossing that line so whatever, I guess
15 months after deployment they get hacked because they’ve run out of vc cash, never could get an actual profit stream going (turns out they’re spending 750,000/yr on salaries for 5 people and they’re all kitted out with sick work computers for what is basically coding a web app, but I digress). security of their servers was one of the budgetary constraints they chose to make to right the ship (but had to keep the $1800 office chairs and the 15-20k/mo rent loft they use as an office in a hcol area). The contract says this may happen and they’re not responsible unless there’s gross negligence on their part, which you can’t prove, and that they do some bare minimum reactionary shit after the fact to mitigate damage. So they’re legally blameless and now you get to notify your community their children’s data was leaked to god knows who, whoops
22 months after the fact they go out of business officially. You get a form email about the company’s journey and the difficult decision they had to make to stop fucking around on a dumb project that sucks because no dumbass vc will give them fun bucks anymore to keep playing tech bro billionaire. All the sensors stop working because they require a connection to the servers, which they shut off immediately without a sunset period. You’re reminded every day when you log in to the schools admin panel and get 350 “sensor not connected” error messages and your students bitch about the “sensor not connected: server not available” error pop up showing up on their classroom console. It takes IT a few days to remove their shit from the network and that costs you even more money in wasting your IT staff time when they should be fixing the broken computers in the computer lab or whatever.
Now your school has a bunch of weird boxes on the wall. Sometimes people ask you about them and you go “oh those don’t do anything” and remember that they cost taxpayers in your community tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars and wasted hundreds of hours of your supports staffs time that they could’ve been using to improve the school
But then you scroll on instagram and see there’s this new thing that will detect when kids are bullying each other. You just have to put a camera in each classroom. It’s okay, it won’t record. It will just use the power of AI and machine learning. You’re sold right there and the cycle starts again
More like sponsored ”Product” for the first 8 results
I read it wrong at first and thought it was an actual irl theme park based on mars attacks, which would be a strange ip to choose for such an endeavor but I would still welcome it
That shit goes back way before reddit. It was a problem on digg, on 4chan, somethingawful and other vbulletin forums, Usenet, etc. it will be a problem here and every place that comes after
It’s easier to just agree with the group than do critical thinking. It’s easier to just repost the same stupid tired joke someone else just made than to be clever. etc
That’s the recipe, eat 1.5 cups of ap flour
One guy I knew had a picture of himself giving finger guns as his background and whenever he unlocked his phone he would smirk at it like “oh you”
It wasn’t his lock screen either, just the home screen, so he knew it looked sketch