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- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 6 days ago:
So we would have come full circle. That actually has a retro appeal to it that it could catch on!
- Comment on MicroJournal is a distraction-free writing tool with Cherry MX hot-swap keys - Liliputing 1 week ago:
I never thought I’d see a keyboard that has less of a spacebar then the ZX Spectrum.
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 1 month ago:
I find it really frustrating to not have a touchscreen on a laptop (e.g. scrolling and zooming Google maps).
I don’t understand what I’m getting for the price difference compared to a similar windows laptop.
I don’t like how the Ctrl/Fn/Alt/Cmd keys are used, but that’s just because I’m used to Windows. (Remapping then doesn’t help because commands are divided differently been those modifiers).
I do like that it has a native bash shell instead of having WSL with its separate filesystem. But I doubt that that is a common reason people choose macs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Is it not possible to switch back? I refused the Gemini offer when it appeared.
I was tempted to try it if it appeared again, but I need assistant to perform basic functions more than I need it to have a conversation.
- Comment on Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: 1 month ago:
This page (and podcast) mentions cars part-way through, saying 80% of outgassing happens in the first three months.
There are references at the end.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 1 month ago:
Some phones and PDAs from decades ago had a “jog dial” on the side, like a mouse scroll wheel.
It was so easy to roll through menus and just push it to click.
The separate roller and button arrangement this has seems such a poor choice in comparison.
- Comment on LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming 1 month ago:
Clearly a keyboard shortcut designed for humans by an AI.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
Ubuntu is in the Microsoft Store. Maybe there will be an ad for that.
- Comment on Traveling personal cloud options? 2 months ago:
Some travel routers have a USB socket for media.
They’re usually used to make connecting to hotel Wi-Fi easier (you connect your devices to its ssid, then connect to its admin page and connect it to the wifi, or just plug it in to the lan).
Tp-link ac750, for example
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 2 months ago:
I’ve seen Proton services mentioned so much here and in communities such as selfhosted that I went to their website today to check what they offer.
- Comment on Looking for a good, cheap backup solution. 2 months ago:
Rsync.net has a discounted “Borg” account www.rsync.net/products/borg.html Which seems to be basically no support and no zfs versioning.
- Comment on Proton Pass breaks prowlarr on firefox since today 3 months ago:
Someone said
Does bitwarden allow me to automatically create a new randomized email address for every new saved login
And I’m questioning that based on the page in the “yes” link reply, suggesting that the provided page is not evidence that they do.
I don’t follow how your reply relates to that.
- Comment on Proton Pass breaks prowlarr on firefox since today 3 months ago:
I’m referring to the link to bitwarden.
- Comment on Proton Pass breaks prowlarr on firefox since today 3 months ago:
From looking over that page, it looks like they explain how to use such aliases, but don’t provide an alias service themselves, which it looks like Proton Pass does.
- Comment on VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits 3 months ago:
Well if you’d played Vader Immortal in VR, you would.
- Comment on Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform 3 months ago:
Right. Some people believed that they would somehow get a free phone after two years, so were extra pissed over it.
But all it really was was that you could start the program again and get another phone that you would pay off over the next two years.
- Comment on Microsoft advertising Copilot on lock screens 3 months ago:
I wonder how it can be worth the extra cost on CPU/GPU time, compared to search of mail.
I might type “best value Jacuzzi” into Google, but “write a python script to sort numbers”, or “write a message sounding like I’m actually sorry to not go to someone’s party”, or “this sentence is a lie” into an AI.
I can only see one of those being valuable.
- Comment on Microsoft advertising Copilot on lock screens 3 months ago:
Why is there this push to use AI everywhere when it’s so resource-heavy? What do Google, MS etc gain?
- Comment on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried 3 months ago:
Aaannnd I get to post this m.xkcd.com/2897/
- Comment on Google Fi increasing the price of Simply Unlimited plans with 3+ lines 3 months ago:
Google Fi doesn’t sell locked phones, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
They do have various deals that require staying on the Fi plan for some time (I’m getting the full price of a Pixel 7 back in discounts spread over 2 years), but I read that they’re delaying this increase for anyone on a promo (probably because a change of plan would allow people to exit the deal).
It’s sad for anyone who has to pay more now, but it was pretty strange that the price was actually the same for 4 lines as 2 (taxes and fees excluded).
- Comment on Dude, where’s my self-driving car? The many, many missed deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicular future. 4 months ago:
A Star Trek Strange New Worlds episode had two crew members meeting someone from the future:
Ortegas: Hey, what’s the future like? Do you have jet packs or what? Chapel: We have jet packs now. Ortegas: I know, but, like, smaller jet packs.
- Comment on All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why 4 months ago:
My eyes couldn’t roll any harder.
But if they were actually just eyes displayed on a screen over your face, then, with the right app, they could.
- Comment on The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true. 4 months ago:
- Comment on What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)? 4 months ago:
Oh, one really cool thing, newsreader programs would usually show you which message threads had new messages, so it was easy to keep up with interesting conversations.
- Comment on What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)? 4 months ago:
What it looked like was an email program with a list of subject names like mail folders, each containing subject lines of conversation threads. The threads were fully branched, replies under the correct messages, like Lemmy. Not a simple list, like email.
Also unlike email, the messages were posted publicly instead of to you.
There was a list of newsgroup names for different subjects, you’d pick which of those to get messages from to appear as the “mail folders”.
The names were in a hierarchy, so computer subjects were comp.something, hobbies/recreation were rec.something etc. a bit like website names, only back to front, general to more specific, e.g uk.rec.sheds, alt.startrek.fanfic , rec.humor, rec.humor.funny.
You’d download messages from (and upload your replies to) a server and it would share messages with other servers, like Lemmy federation. So each group would be a merge of all messages from all around the world. Effectively there would only be ONE alt.folklore.urban for instance.
Usually your isp would run a server and you’d use that.
At first it wasn’t mainly used as a way to share binary files encoded as text messages, but eventually that took over, isps dropped having servers and big paid ones took over.
- Comment on Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast' 4 months ago:
Back in the day we had to just use VU-3D.
- Comment on Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon 5 months ago:
I always have to look at this one after that.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 5 months ago:
Do your research. This has been possible with Oculus for some time: imgur.com/Kfmt88E
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I remember “Find my iPhone” just stopped working on older iPods at one point, when it had been fully functional before.
- Comment on bash.org is gone 5 months ago:
Ctrl-D to pay respects.