“As you are doubtlessly aware, many Indian citizens depend on WhatsApp to communicate in everyday life. It is not just problematic, but also irresponsible, for WhatsApp to leverage this position to impose unfair terms and conditions on Indian users, particularly those that discriminate against Indian users vis-à-vis users in Europe,” MeitY has stated in the letter.
These microfluidic devices have the potential to be an entire biology lab on your desk.
It's like a tiny robot to move droplets around, except that the actuation happens via electrostatic force instead of pipettes and grippers.
They have the added advantage of using vastly less fluids than micropipettes and are thus cheaper in their operation, additionally due to their small solid state form factor it is possible to stack millions of these in a server-room like structure with the experimentation capacity of the worlds biology / medicine grad students combined.
Also imagine this:
The year 2061 covid-60 has been spreading rapidly throughout the population thanks to cheap 30 minute point to point travel provided by SpaceX Starship.
Within a week various research organisations have provided the public with blueprints for a quick antibody test, which can be loaded onto your home microfluidic device. All you have to do is put a droplet of blood into the inlet port, and the device will synthesise the required components from a series of base consumable chemicals that can be refilled like an inkjet cartridge.
Two weeks later a novel mRNA vaccine is released and available for download. Due to massive parallel production the world population is vaccinated within a week.
Very cool. Now I would like you to describe "the Black Mirror scenario". That is, what is the cruelest, most despicable thing humanity can do with this tech, regardless of it's other more positive uses?
You could handle extremely dangerous material without human contact and at a really large diversity scale. So you can make a scenario where people use these to develop chemical or bio weapons.
Quite the opposite. You could handle material that can be handled by any other lab equipment (that's what lab equipment is for) at minuscule scales.
People have been producing Chemical- and Bioweapons already with stuff you can essentially order on amazon. If a large drug lab decided to do nerve agents they could probably do so.
Additionally you need surprisingly large amounts of these weapons to effectively target more than a couple people.
Fear of these things causing a doomsday movie like scenario where somebody combines the common cold with ebola in their garage are like fearing 3D printed guns when you might as well buy a fully automatic rifle at the next U.S. gun shop or E.U. criminal.
You misunderstood me I said the --diversity-- was large not the amounts. Also I was talking about screening scale, not production scale (I said develop).
I don't know for certain because I haven't ever let it run the whole way down. But I don't notice any difference than when the machine was running Windows 10.
My thought is, the work required to make Linux meet all of your bullet points will be so costly that you'll need a lot of $15/yr users. But it's definitely possible to get them.
> I guess my first reaction is what would be the value proposition over alternatives like System76 and Boxx?
Does their OS work equally well on non-System76 laptops? Because a lot of people would like a different laptop but would be fine using the System76 OS, that is, if it provides the same level of experience (battery life, performance) as laptops by System76.
Our focus would be on high-end laptops in the beginning. The timeline is when you'd expect things to be turn-key moving forward. The 2 years is just a guess.
I pay 50 to Google per year per machine to provide a ton of control and security over software and access. So the amount is not a problem, but I'd want to maintain the ability to remote manage with my Google Workplace capabilities. They provide his for several OSes, other vendors do as well. You'll want to be workable for that maybe, maybe your niche doesn't care.
Nvidia GPU support on Linux is great. I meant the lack of the support on Mac. Apps that are lacking and I frequently use off the top of my head is just Teams tbh.
But, as we know, Mac has great app support. The same level of polish and availability would be great. Just to have the options whenever the need arises. Currently finding good webapps is the best alternative.
The reason behind high-end is because it takes additional developer hours to support old computers.
Linux kernel does support all for free, but we want the booting, and the experience to be smooth. So we'll not use any code from Linux Kernel that slows the computer unless its absolutely needed by that small set of people.
The goal here is to make an opensource operating system that doesn't suck the way even ElementaryOS does. The battery life is bad unless you can spend 2 weeks optimizing every part of the kernel and OS. The experience is bad, lots of bugs spread around the distro.
