flabberghaster

flabberghaster wrote

Reply to I'm surprised neither Google nor Apple have come out with a dedicated digital camera by twovests

I think Google started making Android, specifically so that people would buy phones on which they could look at ads. And AOSP got adapted by hardware manufacturers in all kinds of weird and somewhat janky ways, so Android developed a reputation as the cheap, junky phone operating system for people who couldn't afford an iPhone. So, they made the pixel line which was intended to show Android close to stock on a decent phone and kind of guide the development of the ecosystem.

All of this is to say they only make this stuff so that people will give them data and look at ads.

I do not see them making a camera because it's harder to monetize it in that way. That is the only reason.

Apple's reasons for making phones are probably more along the "we just want to sell phones and services around them" rationale, but there's already camera makers out there they'd have to compete with and they usually only want to enter a market if they think there's something they can do that'll give them a big advantage; making standalone cameras seems like a bit of a tough market to break in to and a bit of a commoditized market, not a lot of hypergrowth to be had if I had to guess.

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to comment by 500poundsofnothing in You people are nerds. by 500poundsofnothing

CGNAT is carrier grade network address translation which basically means you get an IP address assigned to you when you initiate an outgoing connection, stable enough to do your daily tasks, but you do not get a fixed IP address that just sticks around. It will change a and requires steps in order to make it reachable from other computers on the internet.

You probably don't need to buy a new computer to run a small file server especially if you plan to make it nonpublic, accessible only to you and a few friends.

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to harry potter is not unique. i hate to tell you that most YA books were pretty bad if you go back and read them. this is why i can't read Animorphs by twovests

i do remember animorphs being pretty good actually. i haven't read it since i was a kid, but its politics didn't jump out at me as fucked and i've heard people who remember it better talking about it more fondly.

I read a ton of those books as a kid. A wrinkle in time too but I remember zippo about it.

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