reddig33
@reddig33@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap: It's more to do with automation and state-of-the art manufacturing processes than cheap labour. 7 hours ago:
- Comment on Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system” 7 hours ago:
Good way for Apple to say “Don’t come crying to us for a refund.”
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 1 week ago:
Don’t care. Like star trek, but this sounds like an awful idea and a flop that will just dilute the brand even further. The live version of her character and Quaid’s was great. I wish they would land back on SNW or something.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 1 week ago:
We don’t really need a “Star Trek Workplace Comedy” do we?
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 1 week ago:
Sounds like an expensive point of failure.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 1 week ago:
I don’t think AI is the new search. I think people are just dumping Google because its search results are so poor these days.
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 1 week ago:
Setting Microsoft Edge rate the same as DuckDuckGo on this chart makes me doubt the quality of this study.
- Comment on Tidal updates terms without explanation or opportunity to decline 1 week ago:
I’m amazed Tidal still exists.
- Comment on Dying satellites can drive climate change and ozone depletion, study finds 1 week ago:
Good thing starlink and Amazon have been littering the skies with internet satellites! 😒
- Comment on Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
How else am I supposed to waste color toner so I can overbill my clients?
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 week ago:
When are stockholders going to realize that the current Microsoft CEO is ruining Windows?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
Dude could have just let Facebook be Facebook and been successful. Instead he has all these weird, unnecessary ideas about how to manipulate people.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 1 week ago:
This says Xbox has over 60% of global market share:
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 1 week ago:
Apple doesn’t ban Mac users from downloading software outside the App Store.
Microsoft bans Xbox users from downloading unlicensed software.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 1 week ago:
Now do Xbox and PS5 stores.
- Comment on I cooked some food cubes. 2 weeks ago:
Still waiting for these to make an appearance on SNW. I’m hoping it’s some “efficiency upgrade” installed by Starfleet that the crew ends up hating.
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought too, but if you google it, w sound is classified as “open mouth” sound by the experts. To me it feels like lips vibrating as sound and breath come through (lips open/close/open as they vibrate).
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 2 weeks ago:
Electric vehicles can charge from a standard outlet. I would imagine if you gather enough of those panels that actually plug into a standard outlet, you could charge a car (though slowly). Your average EV can put on about 10 miles to its “tank” every hour of charging at 120 volts.
The alternative would be if the protagonist found a home with solar panels and backup batteries. These exist today, and are becoming more common.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 2 weeks ago:
Clever use of the technology. I wonder if any other businesses are looking into this?
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 2 weeks ago:
I think modern apocalypse movies should show someone grabbing solar panels off apartment balconies to recharge an abandoned electric car.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
That’s *always* the case.Maybe there’s a reason for that. The word “enshitification” doesn’t exist in a void.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 weeks ago:
They didn’t budge on Recall either. All of this is just driving away customers.
- Comment on Switzerland Unveils World’s First Operational Solar Railway Project 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if they could just add a caboose to every train that would clean off the panels as it travels over them.
- Comment on Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates 2 weeks ago:
I hope no one gets it. It should be its own separate company.
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 3 weeks ago:
Never had this problem with YouTube’s algorithm. If anything, it offers 20 more videos from the same channel after I watch just one.
Are you using the options where you tell it you don’t like this video/don’t recommend this channel/thumbs down the video? There are like three different ways to tell YouTube you’re not interested.
- Comment on With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster 3 weeks ago:
Still waiting on an enterprising social network to start detecting photoshopped and AI-generated images, and badging them as such. If AI can generate this slop, surely it can be used to detect it.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 3 weeks ago:
Disrespectful is telling people that didn’t like the show that they must not have gotten enough hugs from their father.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 3 weeks ago:
Saru and the backstory about his planet was the best part of Discovery.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 3 weeks ago:
Did you see the photo attached to the story? It pretty much validates Archangel’s comment.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t sound like a centralized system from the article. More like they want a third party like Verisign or something.
Something will have to be done as these platforms become more popular to cut down on fraud and disinformation. You don’t want people impersonating other people or organizations, or companies. Even if Bluesky starts federating to other platforms, just knowing that they have a blue sky blue check would be an improvement if you could display that check on other clients like mastodon posts.
ICANN has already made a mess of domain names so I don’t know if relying on the domain is enough. People are using non-Roman characters to trick people into thinking a website domain is the real thing. Others are buying up all these random domains so you get things like medicare.net and medicare.org and medicare.com etc etc.
I dunno what the answer is. Just rambling out loud in frustration.