douglasg14b
@douglasg14b@lemmy.world
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 1 day ago:
A knife generally tears, it separates the material in front, causing it to tear ahead of the blade.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 6 days ago:
I mean that applies to literally everything
Everything that you make an investment in has some measure of liquidity.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 1 week ago:
The amount of Labor that would go into it it really isn’t that high.
This is what distribution is for.
The company that owns the hardware is not the company that recycles it. The recycler can make a profit by reselling these components, they’re not allowed to.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 week ago:
Y’all need to read what CSAM is. Questionable or objectionable art isn’t CSAM in the same sense that drawing a murder isn’t murder, or drawing Noncon isn’t rape.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 week ago:
It seems a stretch to call (at least as far as I understand it), a naked (fictional) character riding a horse CSAM?
Or am I missing something here???
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 1 week ago:
I disagree.
I don’t necessarily know about new music, artists, or genres. I want to get a mixture of stuff I haven’t encountered.
Something like 60% of the music I listen to in a given month I had never heard of 12 months prior. I’ve found so much music that I vibe with by way of generated playlists.
This doesn’t mean I support Spotify, but it does mean I disagree with your stance.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 2 weeks ago:
All devices on the computer consume power.
The CPU being the largest in this context. Older processors usually don’t have as aggressive throttling as modern ones for low power scenarios.
Similarly, the “power per watt” of newer processors is incredibly high in comparison, meaning they can operate at much lower power levels while running the same workload.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 2 weeks ago:
In the fall/winter in northern areas it’s free! (Money that would already be spent on heating).
Summer is a negative though, as air conditioning needs to keep up. But the additional cost is ~1/3rd the heat output for most ACs (100w of heat require < 30w of refrigeration losses to move)
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 2 weeks ago:
I want to reduce wasteful power consumption.
But I also desire ECC for stability and data corruption avoidance, and hardware redundancy for failures (Which have actually happened!!)
Begrudgingly I’m using dell rack mount servers. For the most part they work really well, stupid easy to service, unified remote management, lotssss of room for memory, thick PCIe lane counts, stupid cheap 2nd hand RAM, and stable.
Still want to stop wasting ~100 watts of power per device though… That stuff ads up, even if we have incredibly cheap power.
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 2 weeks ago:
Naw, they will figure out how to target you specifically.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 2 weeks ago:
Will these ever be useful on the second hand market
Nope, not ever.
They will be disposed of (“recycled”), since that grants the largest asset depreciation tax break. The grand majority of all data center gear gets trashed instead of reused or repurposed through the second hand market.
Source: I used to work at a hardware recycling facility, where much of the perfectly good hardware was required to be shredded, down to the components, because of these stipulations. It’s such a waste.
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 2 weeks ago:
They wouldn’t though, large businesses see no consequences from laws that you and I would see consequences for.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
I should have used softer language which I have changed it to be.
Everyone’s experience with neurodiversity is different. If you have a system and that system works for you then that’s awesome. Developing systems that work for your needs can be a significant hurdle.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but they you gotta organize it, and garden it, and maintain it. Or it’s just another useless dump of probably useless information. This is difficult for folks with ADHD and similar.
Not to mention that many tabs are transient, they are not meant to be permanent. Making them permanent means they are out of sight out of mind and will pile up even more
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
Protip: Installing more ram makes for more convenience on keeping tabs alive forever
There’s a reason I plopped in another 32GB stick
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 3 weeks ago:
That is parallelized… I didn’t make mention of threading being the concern here.
The 100+ billion operations per second isn’t exactly easy.
4k 60fps = 498 million pixels per second
Each pixel takes a couple hundred logical operations with HEVC.
A modern high end 4GHz, 8 physical core CPU at 4 instructions per cycle, at maximum capacity, can handle 128 billion operations per second.
You probably wouldn’t even get your realtime framerate in this scenario.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, because of the ASICs built into them to enable that decoding.
Without that, a 4K HEVC video is in upwards of 100+ billion operations/s to decide on the CPU. Which limits you to high end CPUs getting capped out on something you essentially get for “free” otherwise
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t tech news, go post your Elon spam somewhere else
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 weeks ago:
Almost nothing you mentioned here has to do with accessibility and accessibility tooling.
I get the feeling that most of the people replying here and downvoting the folks that are right don’t actually know what accessibility means.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about being better than everything else.
It’s about literally maintaining the same capabilities that it had before that don’t alienate an entire class of users.
Accessibility apis are non-optional for accessibility tools that many individuals require in order to use their device effectively.
That’s a pretty big difference from what you seem to be thinking. We’re not talking about how the user interface looks here.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 weeks ago:
I mean if you rely on accessibility apis you’re not going to use it because it’s not there… You literally cannot use the OS because you require accessibility tools to use your computer effectively.
And implying that someone should just make it their own is kind of asinine. This is a big shift in the Linux Desktop ecosystem that one person cannot affect when decisions have already been made and contributions that go against project decisions are not necessarily welcome.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 weeks ago:
Accessibility apis on Windows and Mac actually work and are actually consistent.
They’re only consistent across Linux Desktop environments if you are using X11. Wayland kills that
I think most of the commenters that are replying to me or completely missing this point
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 weeks ago:
Too bad Linux completely abandoned accessibility with Wayland by putting accessibility API implementations up to the distros. Which, by far, don’t. And when they do it’s fragmented as fuck.
Making Linux an absolute no go for anyone that needs accessibility tools like Talon, which does work on X11 APIs. Since those were actually consistent.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 3 weeks ago:
Not a single one of the robot vacuums that I’ve bought in the last 2 years seem to be able to function without internet access.
It’s asinine.
Also they break down so freaking fast. It’s not even funny. Even worse when the part that’s broken is non-replaceable and it’s like a $3 part.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 4 weeks ago:
To other companies?
There is a lot movement opportunity for experienced developers still.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 5 weeks ago:
Honestly same thing here. They didn’t even do internships anymore.
They don’t seem to be hiring anyone that’s not a senior engineer either.
They also have been regularly laying off folks every year or more than once a year but not backfilling. So workloads are up.
Couple of this with them freezing promotions and now they’re risking high performers leaving because they aren’t being considered and rewarded for their contribution levels and engagement.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 5 weeks ago:
Other countries are doing it to themselves, no need to do anything explicitly.
I mean, look at the shit hole that is the U.S. now. They are u doing themselves just fine and giving victories to their adversaries.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
I mean, large corps like Meta get away with straight up piracy these days.
Laws only matter if you’re not part of the ruling class.
- Comment on Server notifications on fedi 1 month ago:
Development time and user support?
These are two pretty obvious reasons. It takes time and time is a limited resource. Therefore, time should be spent on solving impactful problems. Lemmy account login is extremely low impact, it’s not a bad thing, it’s just not something that improves immich for a large portion of its user base.
- Comment on OpenAI moves to allow “mature apps” on its platforms 1 month ago:
Yeah, but corpos get a pass on anything and everything.
The rest of us peons don’t