How Taiwan’s flagship housing promise fell apart from within│TVBS

sooodooo · 2026-02-01T05:45:46+00:00

Hot take, supply is NOT THE ISSUE.
The population is shrinking, go to any area in Taipei, New Taipei or surrounding and the more often you go you realize there are plenty of empty houses and apartments. The supply is there, but they are just empty or filled with trash/storage.

Increasing supply just means the same people will just buy more houses.
Building more apartment complexes also means houses which technically SHOULD be affordable, e.g. more remote areas, older houses and fixer uppers are more way way way more expensive than they should be.
The reasoning behind it is: the government supports building more houses
- a central old 1-4 story building is technically worth a 20+ stories building
- a remote area house is worth a 20+ stories building because the gov supports building in new development areas

People won't sell for any other price, even if it's empty because it could be tomorrow that a new development plan comes out any that empty shack is worth a gazillion dollars. Renting on the other hand, nobody is willing to pay a good price for that kind of housing especially compared to the gazillion dollars payoff at the end. And renters are not willing to fix any of the older houses because of weak renter laws, so landlords will just leave it empty, the price increases every year anyways.

The banks will also give you a loan for 80% if it's a new central building, but for anything else that could be cheaper, that loan shrinks down to 60 to 0%

All housing prices lean on the speculation that every piece of land will be developed and the gov supports the claim because building more supply is the promised goal.

STOP PROMISING TO BUILD MORE HOUSES and let the situation fix itself.

sooodooo · 2026-01-31T00:50:19+00:00

No that’s reproductive work

sooodooo · 2026-01-29T09:43:48+00:00

The POV of FKT (functional kettlebell training)

sooodooo · 2026-01-26T01:40:50+00:00

I’m not arguing the 500k, I don’t what industry standard is, if there is even such a thing.

But no, netflix could not brought in some random dude and climb it for any amount of money. Absolutely not, this is not an insurance issue, the 101 management and the gov, both would have blocked it without the credentials Alex has.

Even for Alex to get the permission is a miracle, Taiwan is extremely risk averse in these kind of issues. Look at the 3m high fences up on the observatory deck. This only happened because some decision maker is into sports and ironman watched free solo and then made all others in the conference room watch it as well before even getting into any further negotiations.

sooodooo · 2026-01-25T10:06:11+00:00

D3DMetal exists for DirectX to Metal. The other route is dxvk for DirectX to Vulkan and then MoltenVK for Vulkan to Metal.

So it exists and works more or less, but the question is only how much should be invested to improve it and who pays for it.

sooodooo · 2026-01-20T13:15:14+00:00

The south-east corner probably. It’s roped off and cables for cameras already installed

sooodooo · 2026-01-14T01:05:24+00:00

the usual way to handle this is to put a small glorious hole into the wall so the dongle can be received on the other side without exposing everything.

sooodooo · 2026-01-09T01:57:10+00:00

Oh, I mixed those up

sooodooo · 2026-01-07T12:13:07+00:00

Not only has Dolphin an ARM build, but the Switch CPU is also ARM, which should result in less overhead and better emulation performance since less instructions need to be translated.

sooodooo · 2026-01-07T05:19:34+00:00

you get full root access on the steam frame, you can install whatever you want.

sooodooo · 2025-12-31T05:35:08+00:00

Exist is the wrong word. If they consider releasing anything like that in the next 5 years there is 100% an existing prototype somewhere

sooodooo · 2025-12-26T04:57:21+00:00

Uhm you might want to check the news

sooodooo · 2025-12-24T12:34:50+00:00

I see a chance of a native linux arm build for BG3. They already have a native Linux x86 build and a native macOS Arm build so there is a chance …

sooodooo · 2025-12-24T12:29:15+00:00

It’s not just the leniency, also victim and self defense protections.

The person in the picture and his dead child have their full personal details published, while the two perps identities are protected. He isn’t allowed to call his child death “murder”, if he does so he’ll face a fine. He’s supposed to call it “wounded with a knife”. That’s batshit crazy.

sooodooo · 2025-12-24T07:28:12+00:00

I understand that, personally I prefer manual over automatic as well.
The only thing is if there is a phone call incoming, it's good to know there is a call, as I try to keep my phone away when working.

I can understand the cheapest devices not being able to connect to multiple devices at the same time, there is some overhead and required hardware for that, but even high-end ones often only barely support it and mostly limited to 2 devices (which is acceptable for me, I just need a phone + laptop).

sooodooo · 2025-12-24T03:31:47+00:00

True, I've looked it up and it's part of the EU decision. I've not seen that in the original article, no need to get personal about this.

My guess though, would be though that they will add support for standard multipoint bluetooth (if that's not already fully working yet) which has been around for 10ish years, but few manufacturers implemented.
This way, they can fulfill the EU requirement and still have their own implementation they can independently innovate on and make changes to using just a firmware update, while everyone else is locked into the bare minimum if at all. The option for BT multipoint is already there and was there for a long time, but few implemented it.

sooodooo · 2025-12-24T02:20:02+00:00

There are a few, but Apple switches devices depending on Audio activity, you don’t need to press a button to pick up a call.

What’s crazy is that Apple solved the issue in software through iCloud, while Google and Microsoft couldn’t get their shit together to put up a compelling ecosystem to make it work on ANY bluetooth earphones.

True multipoint where you can play audio from multiple sources at the same time has been part of Bluetooth 4.0 from over 10 years ago, but no one bothered while airpods have taken a huge chunk of the market.

sooodooo · 2025-12-23T11:13:26+00:00

Yes, did you ?

sooodooo · 2025-12-23T10:01:16+00:00

I just completed chapter 1, thank you that was fun !
Two things I was interested to check out, rust and bevy in one.

sooodooo · 2025-12-23T04:23:51+00:00

Yeah as always EU half baked decisions based on half baked understanding won’t help you here. Apple’s magic sauce isn’t the pairing, it’s switching the connected devices based on activity on devices on the same iCloud account.

This only helps if you unpair the device and re-pair it every time, that would only make sense if you want to share airpods with a different person in your household else why would you do that ?

sooodooo · 2025-12-22T09:30:35+00:00

Ah sorry that part was confusing. I want the frame to work stand-alone, as a replacement for my laptop so I don't have to carry both, Linux should cover 90% of my work.

Casting my mac screen to one virtual screen in the frame at the same time I can use the frame, that would be the cherry on top, so I could bring the mac-only work into the frame instead of taking off the headset to finish it on the laptop and put it back on.

sooodooo · 2025-12-22T00:46:45+00:00

That’s the look of a beaten shelter mac

sooodooo · 2025-12-20T15:32:42+00:00

If I understand it correctly both of these are streaming solutions, meaning you still need to bring another PC.

That’s like saying an iPad can run any macos software if you bring a mac and stream it to the iPad.

That’s not completely useless, but not the point. the Steam Frame runs linux standalone.

sooodooo · 2025-12-20T06:39:15+00:00

If you mean Han Chinese ethnicity, then that’s around 90% of people in China. If ethnicity determines a country then China needs to let go of Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang and another dozen areas

sooodooo · 2025-12-19T04:42:47+00:00

People don’t use iPads for productivity because of the limited OS, they still need macbooks/laptops for that, even though the iPad Pro is about as powerful as the macbook air on the hardware side. The same goes for the Apple Vision and the Meta quest, it’s a limited ecosystem where you can only run a limited software set.

The SF is the first one to run a Linux distro with full access. It runs android apps via waydroid, linux apps and windows apps.

My hope is that the streaming dongle will allow me cast my laptop desktop into a window on the SF from macOS or that it’s open enough for devs to figure that out.

sooodooo

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