Oh man, I’ve thought about this many many times. I don’t know shit about real pinball tables so I had no idea if it were actually possible, but I leaned more towards probably not. The physics didn’t seem recreateable. I even thought about how I’d probably put a small vacuum pump for the gravity hole in the center!
I hope they succeed and I hope it feels as authentic as possible.
Depends on which part? Tldr; mostly no.
The user facing software can do everything including control all the exotic hardware components like the dispenser module and knows how to talk to the atm or bank network to do transactions. That thing is closed.
The operating system can vary from linux based to windows based. I’ve seen machines which boot into the desktop and just start the app. If you had a keyboard, you could alt tab back to the desktop lol. They’re often made in Java.
The drivers and control software for the mechanical components (dispenser, card reader…) are also proprietary. There’s a specification for how communication between software and these devices is done, called WS/XFS. Not open source, but you can get it and read it to understand better how the software communicates with the hardware.
Thanks other me. I know me when I see me.
I’ve never listened to a podcast like that. It sounds like low effort reality TV style content.
This kinda kills the value proposition of a deck. Its a good machine, but struggles with high end titles. Were the performance or battery life better, I’d have overlooked the price but its still the same machine. A more powerful successor would fit this price point, not the original machine.
As long as alternatives or similar products exist at current prices, the deck will be a hard sell.
My use cases are:
For home networked devices, I don’t care about security that much. I try to lock it down on the router level and by using VLANs for less secure devices. I connect via IP directly (or .local domain).
Jellyfin runs under its own user with read access to a media library.
For devices on the internet, I have jellyfin exposed on a specific url path of my domain - through a reverse proxy all through 443. A bit of security through obscurity here. I’m proxied through cloudflare on the DNS side with very restrictive IP rules.
I think this is enough for the security flaws jellyfin does have. I’d sleep better at night if it had client certificate support, but Its not a big deal imo. If security flaws allowing remote code execution are found, I’ll shut it down and allow access through wireguard only and lose access from some devices on the internet where I cant use VPNs. Not a bit deal either.
That blog post is pure hilarity.
I did and expected to find an image in the article. See, had I posted this on lemmy, I’d have posted an article closer to the source, with the photos. I assumed others would do the same. I assume too much, sorry.
Why no photo?
Seems like a photo of a pipe dislodging black sludge next to a photo of a tesla factory in a news page would instill a better sense of “evil corporation” to me.
If they know how much I owe, why don’t they send me a bill?
The last time I read about this, it was said that they don’t actually know. They do statistical analysis and audit you if you are an outlier and didn’t pay what people in your similar position payed. I don’t know which metrics they look at though. Theoretically, this means if everyone decided to pay a fixed sum less, the data would work out and they wouldn’t know who didn’t pay enough. Don’t take my word for it though.
Totally recall…
How useful is this in the grand scheme of things if the applications themselves don’t have a 10ft UI? I guess you’d need to limit yourself and find apps specifically made to be shown on a TV… within a repository that caters desktop apps. Blending TV’s and desktops is hard…
My bank account and accomplishments say I’m 25. Check & mate.
Why say lot word when few word do trick?
It may have been a donation. Donating your body to science can result in you becoming a classroom skeleton, or blown up in the sky with a rocket. If you’re lucky enough, they put you in a field and let your body rot, while observing the process. You don’t really get a say in it, but cadavers are used for all sorts of things.
Are people really doing this @grok?
Oh wow! Switzerland! How did you get so big!?