• 0 Posts
  • 12 Comments
Joined 1 month ago
cake
Cake day: November 20th, 2024

help-circle



  • Indeed, try switching your smartphone to airplane mode and see how far your voice commands get you.

    Did that (or rather disabled mobile data and WiFi, because airplane mode would still keep the WiFi on), and then I dictated this sentence after the parentheses. So Google’s voice input works offline just fine.

    Or do they mean something like a smart assistant? In that case fair, but it’s not like it will work with text input either.

    It is true, however, that Google Translate doesn’t do offline voice translation even if the language you’re trying to translate from is downloaded for system-wide voice recognition.







  • I would hope it’s a special, heavy-duty kind at least.

    I’ve seen an expensive microwave with a capacitive touch panel right above the door (and the door was the classic oven style, so attached by the bottom edge). If you ever had a phone with crappy moisture detection, you know where this is going.

    You put your food in the microwave. Turn it on and let it heat the food up. Open the door, take the food out and close the door again. Congratulations, your microwave has probably just turned itself back on, because it detected the humid hot air rising from the briefly opened door as you touching the screen. And because most of the touch screen is “touchable”, there’s a pretty good chance this gust of humid air can successfully pick a cooking/heating mode and confirm it.

    The microwave randomly navigating its own touch screen happened pretty much every time, passing all the menus and turning on was successful about 10% of the time.

    In short, I wouldn’t expect a microwave interface to have any thought put into it.



  • My two cents: the only time I had an issue with Btrfs, it refused to mount without using a FS repair tool (and was fine afterwards, and I knew which files needed to be checked for possible corruption). When I had an issue with ext4, I didn’t know about it until I tried to access an old file and it was 0 bytes - a completely silent corruption I found out probably months after it actually happened.

    Both filesystems failed, but one at least notified me about it, while the second just “pretended” everything was fine while it ate my data.