ozymandias117
@ozymandias117@lemmy.world
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 6 hours ago:
The 99 pricing messes with me the other way…
I see like 399, and think it’s 400. Then when I think about whether I want it later, I remember the 4 and the 99 and believe it costs 500
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 2 days ago:
You can’t send group texts over SMS
I’d guess the group chat is stuck sending messages to RCS (basically Google Proprietary) rather than MMS
This is the same problem iPhone users have dealt with for a long time when switching to Android and their number is stuck in Apple’s I message system
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
It seems like a waste of space on the taskbar, to me
In the Start Menu/Finder/KRunner/wofi I want it to search, but I don’t need the text input box visible at all times taking space
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned…
Slack was taking a big market share over MS Lync
Microsoft rebranded to Teams and gave it away /for free/ to companies, getting them to decide “well, it covers enough basic features… We can save x million dollars/year”
Without thinking about what happens once Teams is the standard
- Comment on Inside Xiaomi’s near-fully automated factory that assembles a smartphone in 6 seconds 1 week ago:
Especially since it says 11 production lines…
11 lines = 57.8 million
57.8/~10 means their lines are down 38.5% of the time?!?!?
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 week ago:
Honestly, I would have expected worse than that
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong is the perfect example of the project management triangle. It's good, it's cheap, but boy it sure didn't release fast. 1 week ago:
Their point was Cyberpunk was announced in 2012, and the first playable build was 2.0 in 2023…
Although cyberpunk is certainly harder to implement being a 3d high res game vs a 2d platformer
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 2 weeks ago:
A cosmic bitflip is unlikely to lose all the data
In a video, you’ll get one frame of distortion (if it’s a key frame, it may be several seconds of distortion)
Similarly for a text file, picture, etc.
99.999% of the time you wouldn’t notice
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
The number of times I’ve been debugging something and a coworker messages “I asked CHATGPT and it said [obviously wrong thing]” makes me want to gouge my eyes out
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 2 weeks ago:
If the US really tried to take Greenland by force, I think China would see the opportunity and try to align with the remnants of NATO
Whether the other countries in NATO agree or not… Dunno
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 weeks ago:
They’re using the new SOCAMM standard, which current consumer hardware can’t use.
It’s a different physical interface.
Whether it will end up coming to consumer grade motherboards… 🤷♂️
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 4 weeks ago:
Hey, the last one is great.
Now when I get asked “what do you think about Copilot,” I can just say, “I prefer LibreOffice”
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 4 weeks ago:
Forgejo is a fork of gitea, because gitea was heading to the GitLab model
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 5 weeks ago:
Windows uses them by default for updates (they call it “Delivery Optimization”)
apt-p2p exists, but it’s not installed by default, so is unlikely to have enough peers to be useful
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 5 weeks ago:
Then you are using a feature phone, or a standard Android/iOS device with their tools preinstalled
If you try to use it with a free operating system, it’s not possible.
Here are the instructions for installing the bridge code on Graphene: grapheneos.org/usage#esim-support
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 5 weeks ago:
From the phone manufacturer, it’s fewer traces and less mechanical design work.
From the carrier side, it requires you to have their spyware installed to register the Sim
From a user perspective, someone can’t just steal your Sim and put it in another phone
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 5 weeks ago:
That really is how these companies think.
I’ve seen car companies selling $100,000+ cars sweating over whether we use a $0.10 more expensive part that would last 3x longer than the cheaper one
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s common for the antennas to contain both GPS and LTE. I think the fuse would power the whole fin?
On the head unit side, they’re generally separate cables
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 5 weeks ago:
That’s what most? cars used for a long time (there is also GENIVI)
Many manufacturers are switching to Android as the base OS so they can just hire app developers rather than developers that know other UI toolkits
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 5 weeks ago:
On most cars, it’s probably easier to unplug it on the head unit side. They’re generally designed to be accessed for repair
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 month ago:
As a listener, if a band I like is touring within 2 hours of where I live, I go see them live and get a shirt
I hope that’s helping them more than whether I listen to a scraped digital copy or not
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 month ago:
The high-res one also removes all the shadows, I assume the upscaling algorithm believed they were blur
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 month ago:
What this essentially means is that when the taskbar sits at the bottom, Windows and third-party apps know exactly how much horizontal space they have to work with.
Ah, so I assume they will remove support for any resolutions other than 1920x1080, since they need a consistent horizontal size, and that’s the most common.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
On Roku branded TVs, it sounds like that just means you can’t use it for anything
If it doesn’t connect, it won’t let you switch inputs or anything until you connect your account
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 1 month ago:
I’m sure all the Tesla apologist that kept saying “it only has to be safer than a human” whenever we pointed out how poorly the Tesla self-driving system works will change their tune now.
… Right?
Some of the lidar based systems might work, but Musk’s “humans only have eyes, so we only need cameras” is unlikely to ever work
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 1 month ago:
I put the curl command to update my duckdns IP in cron about 13 years ago, and have never needed to touch it once.
It’s just worked for me
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 1 month ago:
I’m not sure how you got to “cars bad” when it explicitly talks about an increase from 2009, and that it’s the largest increase of vehicle fatalities.
Modern cars have significantly larger blind spots than cars from 2009, which is part of what they’re suggesting is the cause.
I’ve also seen other reports pointing out that the taller hood height is more likely to kill a pedestrian, rather than just injure them, in the case of a collision
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 months ago:
Valve doesn’t have stocks
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 months ago:
It’s been a few years, I dont know if they ever fixed it…
However, at least as of 2022, Wells Fargo (the 4th largest bank), had case insensitive passwords.
If you made your password
hUnTer2, you could also log in withHUNTER2,hunter2,HUntEr2, etc. - Comment on If it's the lower jaw doing the biting, are we using underbite and overbite, backwards? 3 months ago:
Wait, you lost me. Which is on which horizontal plane?