Buffalox

@Buffalox@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to use support for a product I bought recently, 3 times I had to call them, and every time I got through within 2 minutes! And my issues were quickly fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular,

  I have no idea what your problem is, I never claimed in any way it is wrong, I also showed that it used to be way more popular than it is today.
  I just state the reasons I think it kind of fell out of fashion.
  I have no idea why you would be butthurt about any of this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose you mean “minus” instead of minutes.
  I suspected something of that sort. Back then using teaspoons was considered somewhat casual.
  And now you find the old ways kind of neat. Yes the old cake fork has a slight advantage in that it can be used as a fork, and it typically has an edge to “cut” if it’s a proper one. But in reality those “advantages” don’t really matter, at least not for most people.
  A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well, and for most cakes the fork function doesn’t really work, and in my experience the fork is used as a spoon anyway.

  But hey, have fun. Do what you like. 😀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I must have missed that memo

  Maybe you are not old enough, such things used to be way more important half a century ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A small fork is generally considered the “correct” cutlery for cake in Denmark.
  Obviously a teaspoon serves the purpose just as well, and those are standard to have.
  And we are not a pretentious people, so many don’t even have the forks. Since they are pretty useless for anything else. So the small forks are basically superfluous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty sure I saw that HL3 was confirmed. 😜

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing that this is in UK, my guess is that if they try to take it to court, the court will simply throw the case out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Complete and utterly false, USA has that reputation because it’s true.

  USA has that reputation because it happens all the time, because it’s easy to make a lawsuit, even often finding a lawyer that will take the case it without payment, but take the fee as a percentage of the potential winnings. And because USA has insane rules of extremely high compensations.

  USA is not known for this because of a single anecdote, but because it’s very common, and because of the insane compensations, which is part of why it is so common to also try with what would be a frivolous suit in any other country.

  Point in case would also be the Apple lawsuit against Samsung, where part of the case was as simple as a tablet being a fucking tablet! When even Star Trek of the 60’s realized that it was a convenient form factor.
  Apple won on just about all points of the case, but in following years they were completely dismantled, with decisions that the case didn’t have a basis, and the patents were interpreted way to widely.
  This was a HUGE case that cost enormous amounts of money for both sides, and the only true winners are the lawyers. The US judicial system in this regard is completely rotten and that is being abused for frivolous cases that would be thrown out in other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok thanks, I assumed it was in USA, since Valve is American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like suing a grocery shop for selling the xyz branded milk for using their copyrighted font.

  I came here to make this exact point.
  The real reason they do it of course, is that Steam is big, and they can get more money from Steam if they win.
  Juries are very unpredictable in such cases. And that’s what they are playing on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the tiny brain will squish less under its own mass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Banking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree Russia is out of resources, and can’t afford to “waste” any.
  Still if Iran was still an important supplier as you claimed earlier, taking down a few Israeli missiles would go a long way to make Trump reconsider, and possibly to create more opposition in USA against the war.
  I maintain that Putin actually wants this to help the struggling Russian economy. And if Putin didn’t want it, he could have stopped Trump with a phone call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iran asked Russia for help,using the Russian S400 systems they have stationed in Syria, to help defend against Israeli missiles.
  The response from Russia, was to shut down the S400 systems, to prevent them from being a target.

  So very clearly no aid is coming from Russia, and I think part of the reason is that this is what Putin want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, that was a bad example,because Putin has criticized Trump before, it’s the other way around,Trump never criticizes Putin.
  But remember Putin is KGB, and he constantly plays a game of deceit. Also to his own population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So did he call Trump out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Trump is a compromat, and he is scared of Putin, and Putin wanted higher oil prices.
  Trump probably now hopes that a war will help his popularity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German battery recharges using sunlight, releases hydrogen on demand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  to combine with protons, thereby releasing hydrogen.

  Yes a hydrogen ion is the same as a proton.

  The article claims it is rechargeable, and release the energy as hydrogen. But after releasing hydrogen, where does the hydrogen come from for the next charge?

  This article explains nothing. Also you can’t just magically “change the PH value.” There needs to be a process that does that, and that process is in no way explained.
  This reeks of bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes time to scale up production, CATL is supposed to deliver in small scale production next year.
  That means the factories for it are already about to be built.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This too is false, great progress has been made on for instance solid state batteries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which was the purpose of Elon Musk buying it all along.
  The algorithms are fucking designed specifically for that purpose!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would recommend Linux also for people who can run Windows 10 or 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  all professional tasks” being done by AI. Most tasks that involve “sitting down at a computer” will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months,

  So does that include working in AI?

  Quite the blanket statement, and as always with blanket statements, they are probably false.
  Of course it could be true to a lesser degree, like maybe 20%, but “ALL” is ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But second, keep in mind that for a lot of people, most companies are still responsible members of society; “pillars of the community,” and generally worthy of trust. It’s not because they’re dumb, it’s because they’ve been propagandized into believing it.

  Oh boy that is so true, I was laughing my ass off during the financial crisis about how people were shocked that banks are businesses trying to maximize profits like any other business.

  They genuinely thought that banks were some sort of community institution that existed to help people with their finances, and not businesses that are selling products to make money.

  Still even if people are so ignorant that they are unaware of privacy issues, they have chosen to be willfully ignorant, because this issue has been talked about non stop for decades. For nothing to sieve in at some point, you have to be a special kind of willfully ignorant.
  Even people that are very low information on technology, know that the Internet is a source of potential surveillance, and having your info on the internet in any form is a potential for being surveilled. Everybody knows that all the big IT companies are trying to gather as much information as they can. And Amazon is right at the top among them.
  So to claim they were ignorant of Amazon possibly collecting and sharing their data is a bit far fetched IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Question is why they bought a Ring camera in the first place?
  There is no way they can have been unaware that these gadgets can be accessed from outside.
  But it was only when the evidence was put right in their face they finally connected the dots?

  So my answer is quite simple: Because they are stupid, and bought a sleazy product from a known sleazy company, and when they found out it was in fact as sleazy as could be expected, they figured that maybe they didn’t want to to be voluntarily surveilled anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a digital drum reader using Piezos on an Arduino with my wife some years ago, For that you need way more than 2 analogue pins.
  I don’t see why newer Raspberry Pies couldn’t have something like 12 analogue pins, it would be amazing for many things, and it’s dirt cheap to make today. The ESP32 has 18 AFAIK.
  In some ways ESP 32 has way better features than Raspberry Pi, but it is not nearly as user-friendly and it lacks audio. It’s also not a general purpose computer with the things that entail, but “just” an embedded system, although a very good one for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s strange that they haven’t extended the 40 pin IO capabilities. For instance analogue IO would be very welcome for many purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not the point, the point is that their new developments do not do for the community what the original products did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks to me they have lost focus on their original purpose. Which was to provide cheap and open compute opportunity for education and tinkering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.

  Unless the students are acting incredibly naive, it’s almost impossible for the anti-piracy group to lift the burden of proof here.
  In general all you have to do is to claim you know nothing about it. For instance having “evidence” that your IP address was used for download is not enough.

  Also the Anti Piracy group has a reputation of themselves working outside the law here, so maybe an investigation into this group could be a good idea.

  da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Schlüter

  Johan Schlüter was for many years the embodiment of anti piracy in Denmark forming “AntiPirat Gruppen” (Anti Piracy Group).

  I 2014 idømte en fransk domstol ham 18 måneders ubetinget fængsel

  Translation: In 2014 a French court gave him 18 months UNCONDITIONAL prison term!
  The case was followed up with a $5 million lawsuit. For the fraudulent handling of Charles Trenet copyrights.

  In 2015 he was reported to police for defrauding 100 million from copyright holders. The investigation found “inconsistencies” in 4 companies owned by Johan Schlüter. Later that year AntiPirat Gruppen" was declared bankrupt.

  i juni 2017 tiltale mod Schlüter og to andre advokater i Schlüters advokatfirma.

  In July 2017 cases were raised against Schlüter and 2 other lawyers in the company.

  So the people handling these copyright investigations and cases do not have the best reputation. In fact they are the real thieves stealing from copyright holders, embezzling their money through their judicial con job. Promising to help, but doing more harm than good, to a degree that Denmark is now basically protected against anti piracy lawyers immoral and illegal activities.