Oh you wanted proof, quick search says here Ardupilot firmware could handle 1 motor loss with 5+ rotors in 2018: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/handling-motor-loss/32359

And a seven years old video of a home made hexacopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap8ngQqt7s8

I don’t know man, you should ask Toyota engineers who just payed $500M for this flying coffin. They should be really stupid for doing that,

I’m so old that I remember when youtube raised the upload limit from 10 to 15 minutes for all videos in 2010. Now the length of a Short is a third of what a Long video was originally.

A car with four wheels can get puncture in four wheels, so you have more points of failure than a motorcycle.

We can build helicopters with one engine. Adding five more engines doesn’t necessarily 5 points of failures but 5 backup engines. I tried to point out that your example is not exactly right in this case.

During autorotation you also can’t steer, just want to get down safely. It’s an emergency situation, you don’t want to fly nicely, just land and not die.

Power compensation is a software/math problem. They can design bigger engines to compensate for the failure of some engines. Again in a situation like that you don’t want a super pleasant flight you just want to survive.

(Following your logic, a motorcycle is more safe than a car, because it has only 2 wheels)

The point is we don’t know, and it’s not impossible. I guess Toyota has some engineers who could help in the decision.

The most common incident cause in aviation is engine failure. Drones like these have separate engines for each rotor. 6 engines have to fail at the same time, I guess the chance for that is small. Also they use DC engines, which are much more simpler and reliable than internal combustion engines.

I’m not saying this will be definitely safer, but simply the lack of ability to glide or autorotate does not make them automatically super unsafe.

Yes, the overlap between privacy conscious people and deliberately non GMS users are very big.

I read the article because I was interested how they would do it, and how I can disable it. I was just disappointed, that there is no magic, just lazy tech writers are mixing up different things again.

The title is misleading. Article says, currently location sharing is a Google Maps feature and it will become a Google Play Services feature, not an Android feature.

Google Play Services is NOT the only way you can use Android.

Please correct me if I’m wrong I haven’t used Google Maps nor Play Services for years. MicroG is good enough for me.

I guess they don’t disclose it because they change it frequently. If whatever new arm chip became discounted, they just switch to that.

I noticed this a long time ago, Asus did this with their entry level routers frequently, but they at least disclosed it. You had to be careful, the same router with the same name could be totally different inside, only the revision number changed.

While I see DXVK was important, Valve’s history with Linux is much older. I would place “anime girl thighs” on the second domino

SteamOS was first released in 2013, just before they released there first hardware running Linux, the duly forgotten Steam Machines in 2015.

Xiaomi’s reasoning was they produce different phones for Chinese internal and for global market. A lot of scalpers bought the Chinese version, took it outside China, flashed a global rom and sold it. Chinese versions have limited frequency support and sometimes different chipsets, the problem was buyers of these phones nagged to Xiaomi’s support and left bad reviews, even though it wasn’t Xiaomi’s fault.

Yes, it sounds bullshit, I’m just illustrating, that if you ask companies for reasons, they can tell you some similar stories.

The good part, is that bootloader opening workflow was not the best, but at least acceptable for me compared to Asus’. You had to register your IMEI with a Xiaomi account, than wait a week and you could open it (This was the workflow like 5 years ago, and I still have the same phone, I don’t know if they changed it). This way they could slow down the scalpers, and they could see if someone want to mass open a lot of phones at the same time.

PR open since February: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/pull/1481

You can get a relatively understandable tldr with well segmented text like this, if you read only the first sentence/few words of each paragraphs.

Harmony Os exists because of the US trade embargoes, they would put Google Play Services on their phone if they could. I don’t know if Lemmy is blocked in China (I guess it is), so if you could write that comment it means you are not even the target audience.

With Gnome this extension works really well: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2236/night-theme-switcher/

Fully offline “proplus” is still office and fortunately that’s the only one I had to deal with since this change, so I’m not 100% familiar with their newer offerings

No, it’s just remote. Remote desktop is now also called Windows, also the operating system you are connecting to is called Windows.

Gnome has relatively good rdp support, so with this you could use Windows (the app) on Windows (the os) to connect to you Linux machine running Gnome.

It seems deliberately confusing naming is working as expected, Microsoft marketing team should get extra raise.

It’s a remote desktop client, so it won’t. OP read only the title of the article

They love to do this. 2 years ago they renamed Office (the online, browser based version) to Microsoft 365 https://www.computerworld.com/article/1614302/office-to-be-rebranded-microsoft-365.html

They can present the “new” apps to shareholders

No it’s an RDP (Remote desktop) client