Miscellaneous Tech News
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Amazon attempts less creepy delivery by placing packages in your garage
Amazon's still trying to get customers to open up part of their homes for deliveries.
Amazon isn't giving up on its Key home delivery service. Rather than letting couriers in through your front door, Amazon wants you to open up your garage. The company announced its new Key for Garage expansion at CES, a new variation on its home delivery service that allows couriers to securely deliver packages where you park your cars or keep all your junk.
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Razer announces a gaming monitor, haptic feedback PC gaming peripherals
And did we mention RGB? So, so much RGB.
At this year's CES, it sometimes seems like consumer electronics announcements are dominated by two trends: gaming gear and digital voice assistants. Gaming brand Razer made announcements related to both this week.
Arguably the most notable are HyperSense—a haptic feedback platform that makes PC peripherals like headphones, gaming chairs, and mice provide gaming controller-like feedback along with the audio in games—and the Raptor, Razer's first gaming monitor designed in-house.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon attempts less creepy delivery by placing packages in your garage
Amazon's still trying to get customers to open up part of their homes for deliveries.
Amazon isn't giving up on its Key home delivery service. Rather than letting couriers in through your front door, Amazon wants you to open up your garage. The company announced its new Key for Garage expansion at CES, a new variation on its home delivery service that allows couriers to securely deliver packages where you park your cars or keep all your junk.
Sigh... Why aren't they just going with a lockbox on the porch? be done with it already.
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Sigh... Why aren't they just going with a lockbox on the porch? be done with it already.
According to Forbes, more than half of Americans have Amazon delivery. Figure in bulk, you can put a secure lock box on someone's porch (and what about apartments) for less than $50, which I doubt... with 126 million households in the US, that would be north of a $3 billion investment. Until they lose more than that in 2 years there is no way they'll do it.
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@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Sigh... Why aren't they just going with a lockbox on the porch? be done with it already.
According to Forbes, more than half of Americans have Amazon delivery. Figure in bulk, you can put a secure lock box on someone's porch (and what about apartments) for less than $50, which I doubt... with 126 million households in the US, that would be north of a $3 billion investment. Until they lose more than that in 2 years there is no way they'll do it.
Keep your fancy real math out of this!
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I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
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@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
I wouldn't, but yes, some would.
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@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
Lag bolts.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
Lag bolts.
Into concrete maybe. But if it is attached to a normal house, they'll just cut off whatever it is attached to.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
Lag bolts.
30,000 volts only disabled with the right code.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
We're forgetting about Amazon Lockers. The giant kiosks that are located at gas stations and such. People go to a locker, scan their phone or receipt, and a door automatically opens. The customer tells Amazon which locker they want to go to based on an arbitrary name that Amazon has setup. Once the item is delivered to the locker, the customer gets a notification to pick it up.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
Lag bolts.
Into concrete maybe. But if it is attached to a normal house, they'll just cut off whatever it is attached to.
Most package theft is opportunity based though. That's premeditation and a lot of time to cut wood or lag bolts....
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what happens when the package is too large for said lockbox, or there is too many items? I purchase a lot of stuff all at once from amazon and it's not uncommon for me to get a small pallet worth of boxes.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
Lag bolts.
Into concrete maybe. But if it is attached to a normal house, they'll just cut off whatever it is attached to.
Most package theft is opportunity based though. That's premeditation and a lot of time to cut wood or lag bolts....
The perpetrator would need to know the value of the contents before making such a risky move.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
Lag bolts.
30,000 volts only disabled with the right code.
That would be a funny joke, go around making people's new electronics from Amazon get fried all of the time.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
We're forgetting about Amazon Lockers. The giant kiosks that are located at gas stations and such. People go to a locker, scan their phone or receipt, and a door automatically opens. The customer tells Amazon which locker they want to go to based on an arbitrary name that Amazon has setup. Once the item is delivered to the locker, the customer gets a notification to pick it up.
Yup, we have those here down at West End Station.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@pchiodo said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I suppose they could come up with something like "Amazon Secure" which is a premium over Prime that includes the lock box. But would people pay for it??
How would you secure the lockbox from being carried off?
Lag bolts.
Into concrete maybe. But if it is attached to a normal house, they'll just cut off whatever it is attached to.
Most package theft is opportunity based though. That's premeditation and a lot of time to cut wood or lag bolts....
The perpetrator would need to know the value of the contents before making such a risky move.
Not really, they could make a fortune selling lock boxes.
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Chromium on Fedora finally gets VAAPI support!
Chromium web browser available in Fedora gets a Video Acceleration API support.
Chromium with a VAAPI patch was already available on other distributions. But this was not the case with Fedora. I really want hardware acceleration. But my love for Fedora was holding me back. Then with sheer willpower, I joined Fedora and started maintaining a package in COPR.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Chromium on Fedora finally gets VAAPI support!
Chromium web browser available in Fedora gets a Video Acceleration API support.
Chromium with a VAAPI patch was already available on other distributions. But this was not the case with Fedora. I really want hardware acceleration. But my love for Femlnewsdora was holding me back. Then with sheer willpower, I joined Fedora and started maintaining a package in COPR.
Darn you mlnews trying to change the subject!
