the manufacturer must produce credible testing evidence to quality

Well sort of, because this testing and validation is allowed to be done by themselves without 3rd party oversight. So it still all relies on trust in the manufacturer.

Edit: there’s also the loophole that you can assume your product is CE compliant if you only use CE certified components. You don’t even have to document you’re using them correctly or within specs.

if you’re in Europe, only buy CE certified products.

Two things to remember here:

1. there is also the counterfeit CE (“China Export”) marking on some cheap products. So some noname super cheap brands are not necessarily actually CE marked despite having a “CE” label.

2. CE marking is a just self a certification. It’s basically the manufacturer pinky promising that they’ve totally built something according to CE specs. Only trust it from a reputable brand, because there’s a shit load of wiggle room within CE specs.

The only thing that benefits from cpu is that modern substitute for a carburetor

There are several things in modern cars that benefit from having CPUs in them, safety features like ABS, ESP and AEB comes to mind off the top of my head.

Why bother wasting manufacturing on consumer GPUs, that market is worth pennies compared to the AI and data center markets.

Just check the Portuguese job market and housing situation, they’ve got plenty of psychopathy and narcissism.

Small data really fast, big data slow

That kind of bullshit thinking is why I have to do shitty half-assed solutions because I need to work around unsupported equipment that’s 50 years old and was EOL’ed three decades ago. At some point you absolutely should upgrade even if it isn’t broken.

Because they didn’t upgrade their systems in time while deep knowledge of these systems were intact and would have made upgrading seamlessly much easier. Now they have black boxes that no one truly understands anymore, so they’re paralyzed by fear and that’s what’s keeping them trapped in these old systems.

But also, remove bright ad boards…not for the robots though, but for the people.

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Can you trust it will deliver updates 5 years from now?

My gut says no, because the company probably doesn’t exist in 5 years.

You’re comparing apples to oranges here, because your internet connection is not something you have control over or can do anything about. Checking that your headphones are fully charged before running a marathon is absolutely something you can (and should) do something about, and you know in advance if your device has issues and should plan accordingly with a contingency. Anything less is you planning badly.

…but being surprised that Comcast is a highly unreliable ISP really is on you, that is almost common knowledge these days.

Eeey, it’s Mr. Dong Lover

Yeah, it seems more like he’s just doesn’t understand how bullet proof glass works and thought it means “indestructible”

bullet proof glass shattering

Bullet proof glass is supposed to shatter? That’s part of how it absorbs the energy from the bullets…

Not checking and double checking, and/or knowingly choosing gear with issues (low battery life or inconsistent performance) are great examples of user error. These are nothing but examples of you making the wrong decisions leading up to something (presumably) important. It’s the equivalent of complaining that wired earbuds are shit because you chose a pair with a bad wire/mini jack.

when I’m on mile 7 of a marathon or even a half and my headphones die

That’s a user error though, and only your own fault. Most BT headphones will outlast even slow marathon runners these days, so if yours die at mile 7, you’re the cause because you came unprepared by not charging your gear.

Having a wire dangling down your body for a HM or marathon would be absolute hell for me though.

USB port is invariably at the center of the bottom side, there’s no industry standard but it’s a popular convention. Which means it’s inconvenient to hold a charging phone with either right or left hand.

This I actually don’t agree with. I don’t often charge my phone when i also need it (usually I’m sleeping when it charges), but on the rare occasion that i do, it’s not in the way and I can’t really see why it would be? How are you holding your phone since it’s inconvenient? Standing in your palm??

Well if there at one point is no reasonably priced smartphone for graphene I’ll either go lineage or dumb phone.

Get a used pixel 9a for 1/7 the cost, or a new pixel 10a for around 1/4 of the cost