Author: Romano McBride
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Car Emissions Regulations Don’t Make Sense
Let me ask this provocative question: Why is it legal to drive a 30 year old diesel but when your 3year old, much cleaner car doesn’t pass the smog check, you’re not allowed to drive it?
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CarPlay and cellular infrastructure
CarPlay is a great concept, increasing the lifespan of vehicles by potentially running their infotainment apps through connected smartphones with ever evolving software. It’s been around for a while now and it’s installed in millions of vehicles from different manufacturers. But it’s still a gimmicky feature, because a major point has been left out in the…
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Users will reset their devices!
With software in consumer electronics it can be reasonable assumed that stuff will crash.
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Electric Car Charging Network Fragmentation
While I appreciate the development of charging infrastructure for electric cars, the development of proprietary networks is unsettling.
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Cheetah 3D Keyboard Bindings
Cheetah 3D has a place in my heart as the smoothest 3D package out there. Even though I also use Maya for procedural and scripting stuff and Blender for baking, nothing comes close to how polished and efficient Cheetah3D is. I would like to share my key bindings with fellow Cheetah3D users since Cheetah3D doesn’t come with a lot of…
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To get away with planned obsolescence, just call it DRM
The idea that customers just “license” software products instead of owning them has manifested and I see a daunting development in the consumer electronics world that could potentially lead to products becoming obsolete because the associated software is deemed obsolete by the manufacturer.
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BYTON M-Byte
The M-Byte is the first BYTON production vehicle, bringing the breakthrough Shared Experience Display of the concept car into production, along with a refined user experience.
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The Thing With SUV Crash Safety.
Unfortunately, it’s true that a heavier car (like an SUV) is often safer, simply because it’s heavier.
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Thunderbolt Target Boot Mode
Macs still have this incredibly useful, not very well-known feature: target disk and target boot mode. In combination, they allow you to boot one Mac using the boot partition of another Mac. Why is that useful? Well, here’s the number one use-case: If you have a MacBook – a portable work computer – but need…