Savaran

@Savaran@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially since how much ingested fiction is about this exact scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also is likely costs that are having to be done anyway because of web based sales or other distribution channels. So it’s even worse that Apple and Google act like they’re providing so much when they’re literally just preventing businesses from using their existing infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you do understand that this money isn’t just vanishing right? It’s being spent on people, manufacturing, materials. It doesn’t just vanish into nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie's Marathon reboot gets new director as part of creative leadership shakeup⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, maybe they’ll make a Marathon game then 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget the paycheck, employees really want a raise in emotional salary⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck that. Give me money, I can handle my own emotional business in my own time if I’m not stressed about bills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX is reportedly building a $1.8 billion network of spy satellites for US intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would rather they fund NASA to the fullest, and nationalize SpaceX under them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Foretold in episodes of Due South back in the 90s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam dropping support for macOS Mojave and by extension 32-bit games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind, the last PowerPC (G5) chipset used was 64bit, and all Intel chips used after late 2006 were 64bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to switch to buying my upgrades when I visit family in Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, because every time another one raises the price we cancel it. It’s working out quite well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If the comments don’t match the code then someone failed to properly review it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh agreed. I think (if I’m right, I’m not a lawyer just a programmer who reads all this from a highly Apple centric technical background) it would make for a much improved messaging experience. Like this with RCS, I don’t care if Apple implements it themselves. I do think the carriers apps should though and those messages should just show up like any others in Messages. Same with say WhatsApp providing its messages. Ideally they’d handle their own encryption/keys/requirements basically externally to Messages itself, like many of the other apps that provide system wide extensions do.

  Anyway here’s hoping 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People keep getting messages the app and iMessage the protocol confused. While never written that way (as far as naming goes), I’ve seen nothing to indicate that the EU isn’t just saying that Messages the app doesn’t just need hooks to allow third party apps to integrate into the one interface. It’s about adding more bubble colors as it were. So stuff like WhatsApp would just pop up in the same feed over whatever protocol it uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure a company with nearly a $3 TRILLON dollar market cap can afford to spend a few billion just trying things for kicks if they want. It doesn’t make it a failure, it makes it R&D.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2832: Urban Planning Opinion Progression⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So don’t live in a city. But for those of us who do, and enjoy doing so, our cities shouldn’t be built to cater to you, they should be built around catering to those of us who enjoy living in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EV batteries more reliable than predicted.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to be trying to lump all problems into a single one-size-fits-all solution. So let’s address things one at a time instead.

  If you drive more than my car’s range can handle in a day, don’t buy the same car as me. There are EVs with much higher ranges, or quicker charge times, and many other variables. There’s very likely one that has the range a given person needs (cost we’ll leave as a distinct other issue, but only because by the time ICE vehicles aren’t for sale any more the much higher ranges on EVs will also be much more affordable).

  If you live an hour away from civilization, then unless you also have no electricity (in which case, EVs are not for you… but as others have said, just keep the ICE vehicle you have, there’ll be a used market for decades), those folks are going to have an outlet or be able to install an outlet to do charging on. The “hour away from everyone else on the planet” people are not the same people as the “no garage, not even a parking space” people.

  If you live in a city (no garage or parking space, that likely means a urban environment), you’re going to have chargers you can swing by once a week to fast charge (city people rarely have the long commutes that rural folk have), heck in my own urban environment we have some cheap ($2/hr) city owned parking lots nearby that have fast chargers for free as part of parking there.

  By 2030, you’ll have a robust market of used EVs, and likely a few on that market that are both much more affordable, and can check off the boxes needed for a given individual. Will every EV work for every person? No of course not, but that’s not true of ICE vehicles either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EV batteries more reliable than predicted.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, and I’m sure I’m not alone in this, my EV (a Polestar 2) charged to 80% gets a theoretical 220’ish miles range (I’m basing this not on the EPA range, but the calculated range in the car based on my driving habits). Now I say theoretical because I’ve never tested it all the way with my largest trip since I’ve owned it being about 70 miles one way. My average “long” driving days are only 50 miles round trip, and an average day where we take the car out is only about 12 miles total in the day. I’ve had a single time where I haven’t charged in my garage at night (on a 110v nonetheless!) and that was the 70 mile road trip where I parked in a garage with a charger so figured I might as well.

  Now I bring all this up because I know I’m not alone in this. Sure my driving doesn’t represent everyone but it’s also not singularly unique. Even if this car loses 80% of its range it’s not going to affect my use of it. I know everyone thinks that everyone else does daily long commutes and huge yearly road trips, but that is only a subset of the population (maybe it’s you! I don’t know). But this constant discounting of EVs because they don’t meet some bar for certain groups is disingenuous. They already meet the bar for vast groups of people, and if your daily usage is super high odds are there’s an EV out there that can meet it, even after an 80% drop years down the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Is Computer Security Advice So Confusing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they live through the same pandemic I did? Because I distinctly remembering that “simple” advice apparently being too confusing for a huge portion of the population.

  The advice these days on computer security is simple too: Use a password manager and let it make a unique password for every site and don’t tell anyone your password.

  Of course in the tech world we immediately have a lot of sites that make that impossible, frequently starting with the ones that should be the most secure, your banks and your phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how they’d enforce that exactly since none of those companies are likely to have a contract with Unity that says they’d pay anything like that. Their distribution contracts are with the studios… and the studios, if they keep their subscriptions would be the ones contracted with Unity. Good luck telling MS or Sony that your little indie company bound them into a contract with your engine vendor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The reality is that we need laws that force them to either to continue to offer affordable support or publish all the specs and documentation when they drop support. Vendors shouldn’t be allowed to do otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab-grown Meat is not a Climate Change Solution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We probably would have fusion power if we’d funded it at the consistency we needed. Just like this, as long as it receives funding it will continue to make progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My own mail server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a similar boat. The only major issue I’ve found people are likely to run into is mass IP blocks from MS/Google. Where do you host it? Cloud provider these days or colo type place?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on them, now not only is there no reason to search for anything, but there’s no reason to go their site either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Subscribe to what you want to see?