TenderfootGungi
@TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
And one of them (Match?) apparently hsd a decency algorithm that matched people on things like religion and politics, but was disabled after being bought out.
- Comment on Economics 4 months ago:
One of the scientific calculators has great business functions in a menu (ti83 maybe?). I prefered it to actual business calculators. And it could handle the science classes as well.
I don’t remember the exact model, though. Once out of school we use excel.
- Comment on New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video 6 months ago:
This memory has1/4 the bandwidth of M series Mac’s. It may be possible to match current memory with 4 chips. But that would take a lot of room. And that leaves little room for growth.
- Comment on What's inside the London Tower Bridge? 7 months ago:
The bridge was designed to allow using the elevated sidewalk when the drawbridge is up. It does not go up often anymore.
- Comment on Why is there no USB-C (female) to mini-B (male) adapter? 10 months ago:
They are not common because it is possible to use them incorrectly and cause a fire.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 10 months ago:
In the US we are seeing a lot of cheap products that are supposedly USB-C. Like the flashlight I got for Christmas. But they will only charge with a USB-A to USB-C cable. They are basically USB-A chargers with a different shaped plug. They will not charge with a real USB-C cable. Is this also true in the EU?
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 10 months ago:
But this law is going to make changing when a better standard should take over. Imagine if this was passed 5 years ago when the terrible one sided USB was common. The only group that will have the power in the future to update it is the USB group, and that is a group of manufacturers that have a driving goal of absolute cheapness at heart, not innovation. This is a terrible law.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
Those targets seem unrealistic even without driving off a core group of heavy users.
- Comment on Tesla recalls 120,000 vehicles over potentially faulty doors that could open in a crash 10 months ago:
And emergency crews carry the tool to cut them open if needed.
- Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate 10 months ago:
Ranked choice voting.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
True. But what if Tesla has to pay a billion for producing software that runs people over? They probably would not have beta software on the road.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
If you want to kill someone in the US with little consequences, run them over with a car.
- Comment on TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms | TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration. 11 months ago:
I didn’t think legal contract could contain “forever”? Which is why Disney’s contract has the death of the last living monarch.
- Comment on Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation 11 months ago:
Their terrible business practices is why I refuse to use Adobe. I have heard too many horror stories.
- Comment on Tesla's reputation slumps as GM, Ford climb - Tesla ranked 62nd by reputation among the 100 most visible brands, tumbling from 12th last year and 8th in 2021. 11 months ago:
They just updated one of them, I believe the 3. But that was possible when they had no competition.
- Comment on Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO 11 months ago:
I am not saying you are wrong, but when I was active on Reddit I rarely checked my mail. I still have like 12k unread messages.
- Comment on Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling 11 months ago:
I could really use a 20g 3080 in my gaming pc. How do I buy one?
- Comment on With no access to crypto, disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is now trading fish to pay for services in prison 11 months ago:
There is a book about extreme economies. The author discusses it here: econtalk.org/richard-davies-on-extreme-economies/
They go through how the mackerel as money came about. Also, that expired mackerel, i.e. fiat, have their own lower exchange rate.
- Comment on Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? 11 months ago:
My kids laptop has 4 IIRC. Getting a PC motherboard with more than one on rear and one connector for front of case was impossible last I looked. I generally keep my pc’s for about 5 years and wish to future proof somewhat. It is beyond ridiculous at this point. Although, I haven’t tried to buy one for a few months so perhaps this has changed.
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 1 year ago:
How is this legal in the US given the first sale doctrine?
- Comment on As an introvert you can't teach me how to be an extrovert but I can learn to like being around people. 1 year ago:
Introverts use energy being around other people and need downtime to recharge.
Extroverts gain energy being around other people.
- Comment on Perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs 1 year ago:
We need data privacy laws.
- Comment on Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android 1 year ago:
Microsoft gave up far too easily. We should have a Windows phone.
But the better alternate to iOS did not win. Google has the funds to push iAndroid forward, where WebOS did not.
- Comment on The new Outlook may give Microsoft access to third-party emails and logins - gHacks Tech News 1 year ago:
And linux is getting hood at gaming thanks to Steamdeck.
- Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests 1 year ago:
Apple loves under ramming (to give a word a new meaning) and forcing everyone to pay for upgrades. The problem is there are always people that buy the base.
- Comment on EU regulator says Apple should be on hook for €14.3 billion tax bill 1 year ago:
I usually agree, but in this case it sounds like they did. Ireland set a low tax to attract companies. So apple opened an office there and hired thousands of workers. And paid their taxes. But the EU did not think that was fair and demanded more after the fact.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Merged App to Launch Next Month, Bob Iger Says 1 year ago:
What a terrible idea.
- Comment on Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium 1 year ago:
BYD is supposedly bringing them to production.
- Comment on Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts 1 year ago:
Not at all. I realized the title was likely not clickbait. While I agree it was crafted to get clicks, the article does actually follow the title.
- Comment on 'Fortnite' maker Epic Games is battling Google in court over app-store fees 2 years after largely losing a similar case against Apple 1 year ago:
The fee is standard across many industries, including attorneys.