Hazdaz

@Hazdaz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immune to marketing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  never bought

  I’d call them a lying sack of shit, quite honestly, because the best marketing is subliminal and can create a desire that you might not notice for a while or in a different environment. You don’t have to click on an ad or immediately jump on Amazon to be affected by marketing. But the fact that you might remember the name of a certtain product when you go to the store and buy that type of cereal or simply yearning for a certain type of phone or shoes or car means that marketing is indeed working on that person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  training data.

  Wouldn’t that data be stored in some kind of database?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s exactly what I was thinking when these companies were making these claims… like HOW could they possibly handle this locally on a CPU or GPU when there must be a massive database that (I assume) is constantly being updated? Didn’t make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  blame it on the consumer

  Yeah. Blame it on the consumers indeed. Are you a adult or not? Put the tendies down and put your big boy pants on and realize that you need to take responsibility for at least some of your actions.

  Same goes for all those dopes that pre-order every game that gets released and then we all wonder why the industry releases so many unfinished games that need patches and updates. That’s because consumers are rewarding these game developers for releasing shitty software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immune to marketing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing is a $1/4 TRILLION industry in the US alone because it works. Thinking that you are immune to it for one reason or another is laughable. In fact those that think they are immune to it, probably are the most susceptible to it’s pull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand this. Hasn’t Intel or Nvidia (or someone else) been making claims about their next CPUs having AI functionality built-in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia seeks to rejoin UN's human rights council⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how they are just trying to normalize all this.

  “OH that? Oh, that’s nothing. Don’t worry about it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month "Tinder Select" Membership⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The most pathetic thing is that there are enough lonely dudes out there that some would actually consider this service.

  So corporations were thinking why should women be the only ones who can extort a bunch of money from lonely dudes… why not us too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only one way to find out, I guess. But still, a lot of this stuff comes from the high end that eventually trickles down, and I’ve never heard any discoveries that claim to have solved the problem. You’d think that since the military would be all over this tech, their limitless budgets would have stated they have sickness-free headsets. But in all these years, nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t a problem with screen technology or processing technology or anything like that. We aren’t going to “tech” our way out of this.
  It is a biological problem and as such, I think the appeal of VR will always be rather niche.

  Even the best selling VR headset that I found online was the Quest 2 and it “only” sold like 15M units (honestly way more than I ever expected) with everything else being considerably lower volume. Compare that to the number of Nintendo Switches sold (130M) and you start to see how small the VR market is. I am very curious to see how the Sony VR2 will end up selling. I would love to get a pair, but I think all these headsets will be short lived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you give them too much credit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … but, but, but all the zoomers in here like to act like they are savvy when it comes to scams and they always seem to think they know better than everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panos Panay Reportedly Quit Microsoft Due to Budget Cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  100% agree. Google has the same problem. They are like hyper 5 year olds chasing the next shiny ball that gets their attention and they forget about all the other cool toys they already have. Products take generations to get refined enough for non-early adopters to buy. But way too few products from these companies get a long enough life to get multiple generations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I might have to one of these days, but man do I doubt it’s UI is usable after being such hot garbage over so many years. Such a shame too because fuck everything about Autodesk and I know Blender has some incredibly powerful tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god. Please aim higher than that. Not saying that Blender ain’t powerful, because it clearly is, but it’s UI is just plain shit. (Unless there have been some massive improvements over the last few years.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else's favorite part of a buffet the soft serve machine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Geez I haven’t been to one in ages, but I always quite liked the chocolate milk station.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of framework and their methods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  (Almost) Everything is greenwashing because ultimately that’s what consumers want. They don’t really care about making something more environmentally friendly, they simply want to feel better with false claims and splashy marketing.

  The whole environmental angle that FW are taking seems OK, but if they are too expensive or don’t make a good product or fall behind the competition, then it simply won’t work. I just found out my old laptop shit the bed, so I would absolutely take a serious look at what FW offers.

  One of the things I absolutely hate about their marketing material is this idea that you can buy a module that adds a X port or Y connector to the laptop. Just build those ports into the goddamn laptop from the get go. Every extra module you add, every extra seam on the chassis, every extra cable there is, is an extra failure point in thw product and for something that is mobile, that’s not a great thing. I like the repairability angle they are pushing, but if all the extra modules introduce more failures then you won’t have happy customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is kodi something equivalent to retroach or something like that? Any good resources you have used that explain how to set It up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I putchase a 4-year-old nVidia TV Pro, another technology, or wait for next Gen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love my shield, so while ot is rather expensive and it seems like there won’t be future models, I still would have bought it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly bullshit because the ultimate goal of college isn’t to make you term basic facts which you need to graduate, instead the ultimate goal is to teach you how and where to learn about new developments in your field or where to look up Information which you don’t know or don’t remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journalist asks GM CEO Mary Barra about $29 million paycheck after UAW strike — On average, the Detroit Three's CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading some of these replies in here are cringe as fuck. Not because I don’t agree with the overall sentiment, but rather in the fact that you guys don’t know what language to use. In essence, you don’t know your audience. Speak in the language that your audience can relate to.

  When she says that her pay is dependent on the company performance, the reply isn’t to talk about worker this and worker that. The correct reply to that is to point out that GM stock has been essentially flat for the last 4 years. Her job as CEO is to increase value for stockholders. Stockholders haven’t seen a 40% increase in 4 years. So if shareholders haven’t seen a 40% increase in that time, then how is she justifying her pay increase.

  And ultimately, her pay isn’t determined by her. It’s determined by the board of directors. And there lies the problem with all these out of control CEO salaries… it doesn’t cost anything for a director to increase some CEO’s pay. It’s not taken out of their pocket. It doesn’t affect them directly in any way, so to them it’s like monopoly money. You get a raise, and you get a raise and you get a raise. Every CEO gets a raise because the director that approves one CEO’s pay might be the CEO of another company who’s director is the other CEO who just got a raise. You scratch my back, and you scratch mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for fucks sakes.

  Jebus christ people will sue over anything and everything. Whoever has the deepest pockets has crosshairs put on them because they might just throw these people a bone instead of wasting their time in court.

  It’s because of people like this that every little thing has a warning label on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are 100% correct, so it is especially funny seeing that almost 1/4 of the people downvoted you for no good reason. Holy fuck this site has a huge percentage of utterly clueless Lemmings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noise-canceling robots to 'mute' loud conversations in cafe | What if we told you that we can actually silence a noisy table right next to us in a café?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems soooo much more complex than simply using regular noise canceling technology which we’ve had for ages now. In my previous company it was amazing how well it worked. You could be maybe 5 feet away from someone you could hear them perfectly fine, but move 10 feet away and everything was just muted down. One day we had some electrical problems and the system was down, and that’s when you really could notice how well the system worked because you could hear people all the way from the other side of the building when before when the system was running those noises were totally gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Significant is the Quality Increase from "Toy" to "Real" Projectors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether real or a toy, you need a specific environment to get a good picture with them. It just doesn’t make a ton of sense to me to get a projector when TVs are so dirt cheap these days.

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

  Here is the problem with your argument.

  In a rather short time, EV’s won’t be a choice. Depending upon the state or country one lives in, a whole ton of places are setting 2030 or 2035 with when the sale of new ICE vehicles will be prohibited. And on top of that, almost all car makers have stated that they will end their ICE production around that time as well. OK, so you admit that not everyone has the same commute. On top of that, not everyone has a garage. Or even a parking space. Some live an hour away from civilization. Those groups individually might be a small percent of vehicle buyers, but together, they represent a fairly significant number of consumers. But if you outright ban the sale of EVs altogether, then what are those people going to do? You are claiming that even with a 10% drop you’ll be OK, but even with your full total range when new, it won’t work with some people’s lifestyles and living situations.

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

  This is all good news and all, but we need to keep from setting the bar too damn low. I do not consider 100,000 miles to be a huge benchmark. I understand the constraints of a study of EV batteries since most EVs simply haven’t been around long enough to study, but we as consumers should not be accepting EVs to be throw-away items like gadget-makers have turned most consumer electronics.

  Yeah 90% charge remaining is still a decent number, but your 200 mile range when new turned into only 180 mile max range in less than a decade. And since you typically are told to only charge to 80%, your real world range is only 144 miles or so. In the winter that will be down to less than 100 miles.

  People shouldn’t be falling for misinformation about batteries (like the repeated dismissed myth that they are worse for the environment), but there is also a lot of overly positive info out there that doesn’t reflect reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Microsoft Email Reveals Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Really Wants to Buy Nintendo -⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, I hope it doesn’t happen…BUT from a business perspective, it really could be amazing.

  Nintendo has always focused on the fun. Forget about the latest tech and the best specs. They don’t care about that, they’ve always focused on innovation, trying oddball things and focusing on fun games. If MS bought them, they have the pockets and know-how to do as cutting edge hardware as you can imagine.

  So applying Nintendo’s strengths with actually cutting edge hardware,I could see some good things getting released. Imagine a VirtuaBoy using HoloLens technology. Or a Switch 3 console that was 2x more powerful than Series X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cyberattack against Clorox last month that shut down factories has created a nationwide shortage of bleach and cat litter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think Ranch is as white as it is?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably. But I still find it funny how they were pushing so hard into making people believe there would be no more hardware generations.