SaltySalamander
@SaltySalamander@kbin.social
- Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st 5 months ago:
What a myopic view of the world.
- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 months ago:
Not very many people want dumb phones, actually. Certainly not enough for anyone to mass produce the things.
- Comment on Sounds like Haier is opening the door! 9 months ago:
This news wasn't limited to Lemmy, you know.
- Comment on Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report 9 months ago:
It's comical how much you think you know but how little you actually know.
- Comment on This console generation seems skippable 10 months ago:
Because most people don't have their gaming PC in the living room.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
Thanks mate. Fixed it right up.
- Comment on Nvidia did the unthinkable with the RTX 4080 Super. 10 months ago:
Not when you compare the actual performance.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
This is the Proxmox console on any of my VMs or LXCs in Firefox. Works just peachy in any Chromium-based browser.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
This is the Proxmox console on any of my VMs or LXCs in Firefox. Works just peachy in a Chromium-based browser.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 10 months ago:
My Prime membership is up in March. I've already decided to not renew it, since they decided to cancel The Peripheral. Had I not already made that decision, this change would have made it for me anyway.
- Comment on VPN on TMobile home 5G internet calyx 10 months ago:
This is categorically false. You can even request a static (IPv4) IP if you have their business 5g router.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
They only sell games that have no DRM at all
This isn't really true anymore.
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 11 months ago:
*billions
- Comment on Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. 11 months ago:
Imgur is owned by MediaLab. Reddit is owned by Advance Publications.
- Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app 11 months ago:
There's dollars to be extracted.
- Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app 11 months ago:
Chile citizens are called Chileans.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Naa, I'd just pirate it.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Did you intentionally misunderstand the comment you replied to?
- Comment on Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
It's a wonderful way to be permanently locked out of your Google account, that's for sure.
- Comment on Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
The satellite office of the company I work for isn't even listed on Apple Maps at all. It's been there for over 10 years. Fuck Apple Maps.
- Comment on The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill 11 months ago:
This is 5g, sitting inside a house with aluminum siding in the very spot where I never saw above 5mbit with 4g. Far from hype.
- Comment on The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill 11 months ago:
The promises of massive speed boosts were met. 5g is insanely fast compared to 4g in my area, and I don't live in a massive metropolitan area.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI' trailer drops with 2025 release date 11 months ago:
Fuck Rockstar, and fuck GTA.
- Comment on Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs 11 months ago:
Oh, hey, look at that. I just axed Spotify to save myself money. Fuck Spotify.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Buy a domain from Cloudflare and use your firewall (pfSense, OPNsense, etc) to do the dynamic DNS updates for you.
- Comment on Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages 11 months ago:
Citation needed.
- Comment on Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages 11 months ago:
I like how someone downvoted you yet had no real retort, because you're right.
- Comment on ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites 11 months ago:
they asked me my government number ID, pretty standard
How very dystopian.
- Comment on Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it 11 months ago:
Via which mechanism exactly?
- Comment on Would anything get you to use Google Chat with friends? 11 months ago:
I currently use it with friends, and have been using it since it was called Google Talk.
