Wheelchairs are considered a class II medical device. Just because you are cheeky and say its "not a wheelchair", its still a wheelchair and is subject medical device regulation.
A wheelchair can cause a sorts of harm if not designed properly and built of high quality.
Humans haven't lived on the planet on geological timescales. All of human civilization only became possible because 10k years ago the climate cooled and stabilized enough for there to be agriculture.
Without agriculture there is no human civilization, no nation states, no institutions. We go back to being hunter gathers.
With an unstable climate agriculture disappears. Billions will dies, life expediencies will crater, the modern world you know will no longer exist.
Yes, the planet will be fine, at one point it was a giant snowball, humans are fucked.
> Humans haven't lived on the planet on geological timescales. All of human civilization only became possible because 10k years ago the climate cooled and stabilized enough for there to be agriculture.
The average global temperature in the Jurassic era was 16.5C, which is 2.5C higher than the current average global temperature. Average CO2 levels in the atmosphere were as high as 2000 ppm. The planet was teeming with life, an abundance of flora and fauna. While dinosaurs were the apex predators, mammals flourished as well.
> Without agriculture there is no human civilization, no nation states, no institutions. We go back to being hunter gathers.
Since the first part is false, the second part is moot. It also supposes we would have trouble adapting whereas humans are ingenious at finding ways to survive.
> With an unstable climate agriculture disappears. Billions will dies, life expediencies will crater, the modern world you know will no longer exist.
See previous argument.
> Yes, the planet will be fine, at one point it was a giant snowball, humans are fucked.
Yet here we are. Our ancestors survived the Ice Age. Their distant ancestors survived the Jurassic era. My bet is on humans.
CO2 was at that level with an entire planet covered in a healthy ecosystem. If that happened now, we would probably witness the entire global collapse of the ecology. It took hundreds of millions of years to cool down that much, and we’ve turned it back up in a century. Animals (humans included) do not have the time to adapt.
Have you ever been in a stuffy meeting where brain fog sets in or you start to feel tired? That’s around 2k ppm where that sets in. Humans don’t like that much co2. No offense, but your argument doesn’t seem thought through.
I'm all for lower emissions, I own an EV. But its silly to go after Cobb which only has 81k sales over 20 years while Ford sells 750k F-150s a year. Yes I know what Cobb is doing is illegal and F-150s are legal, but in the grand scheme of things...
edit: see reply, cobb got hit for gas tuners, not diesel, and cobb tuners are 1:1 per car
81k tuners which can each flash any number of trucks, and a full emissions delete on a diesel pickup emits ~300x the pollution of an unmodified vehicle. Further, those 750k trucks are providing astronomically more utility relative to their pollution than diesel drivers are getting out of their +XX HP or +X MPG.
> 81k tuners which can each flash any number of trucks
Cobb hardware has a 1:1 "marriage" system with a given vehicle.
> a full emissions delete on a diesel pickup emits ~300x the pollution of an unmodified vehicle
This is gasoline tuning.
I agree that diesel defeat tuning is awful and should be aggressively destroyed. This isn't that. The calculus for gas tuning is dramatically different from diesel; the fundamental reason is basically that the operating range for a gas engine is tighter and they simply can't be made as dirty as a diesel (plus, the engines are generally physically smaller and just can't pump as much pollutant out no matter how hard you try).
Ahh thanks for the correction, I mixed this up/assumed it was part of the EPA diesel tuning case from last week. You're totally right, gas tuning is definitely not a big deal by comparison although they definitely shouldn't have been facilitating the sale of cat deletes. A cat delete alone causes a 10x-100x increase in pollutants before tuning.
Cobb doesn't sell full emissions delete. They sell performance maps which, yes, increases emissions slightly, not 300x. These aren't the devices you buy to roll coal. And its mostly 1-1 sales.
750k F-150s getting sub 20MPG is the bigger problem than the niche tuner market.
Crank doesn't scale. The project is a binary file. You can't have multiple people developing screens. Its fine for small projects, anything big and it falls apart.
510ks have a 90 day timeline. The FDA can "stop the clock" to ask for more information and clarification. Buts its 90 days from submital to approval or rejection if your paperwork is in order.
Novel devices have a different path.
Once cleared the FDA can and will come by at anytime and do an audit of your processes and if they aren't up to snuff they can shutdown sales.
Not exactly. A novel device has a higher bar to get clearance. If you are developing something that already exists i.e. a hearing aid then you can go the 510k route.
Every model has to go through the same rigor with design controls and get clearance through the 510k process. There is a lot of process and documentation, and as a medical device you can't just update firmware and swap components as they go end of life. And you can't just discontinue a product. When you submit for approval you have to define the lifetime of the product and how you plan to support it through that lifetime.
I imagine Apple will keep the AirPods Pro 2 around for about a decade as their hearing aid device.
GPU passthrough should work for a lot of cases. The games that are most likely to have problems are the ones with draconian drm or anti cheat. I avoid those, so protón tends to work for me anyway, so I don’t bother with windows.
This isn’t technically required, but does make things easier (search “single gpu passthrough). However, an integrated gpu for the host + separate gpu for guest for games is also an option and many modern AMD systems come with an integrated gpu.
> A monitor with two inputs or multiple monitors.
That’s not really necessary, you can use a hdmi splitter or just plug the active gpu in (I mean, if you’re dual booting you can only access one system at a time, so shouldn’t be an issue — you can plug an extension cable into your monitor so that and have a dedicated cable for each gpu, that way you don’t need to mess with plugs at the devices — I actually did this for a while to share my monitor with a games console)
Yes, it’s not the simplest thing to set up, but it does avoid the issues down the OP while still allowing gaming.
Personally, I never bothered because everything I want to play works on proton.
Most allow some sort of bridge mode, and allow you to turn off the WiFi. Its not ideal, but it works well enough.
I have AT&T and they allow this, I have all traffic pointed to a custom Debian router with AdGuard, Firewalld, and OpenVPN. My phone and laptop then have OpenVPN and all traffic goes through my home network.
Its absolutly great. I see no ads and can watch streaming while I travel.
Yeah there was a bridge mode on the combo ONT + router we got during the previous food install, ~7 years ago. Worked fine.
The new place I recently moved to had an ONT unit in the house. Verizon sent us a router (cr1000a, godforsakenly DNS server but otherwise pretty good) but just unplugging it and plugging in our own world fine.
Wheelchairs are considered a class II medical device. Just because you are cheeky and say its "not a wheelchair", its still a wheelchair and is subject medical device regulation.
A wheelchair can cause a sorts of harm if not designed properly and built of high quality.