tony
@tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
- Comment on I can barely tell the difference between 60 and 165 hz on my monitor 7 months ago:
I’ve really upset the gamer bros here…
- Comment on I can barely tell the difference between 60 and 165 hz on my monitor 7 months ago:
It’s mostly marketing. Films are perfect at 24fps and gamer bros think they can see framerates ten times that.
- Comment on I can barely tell the difference between 60 and 165 hz on my monitor 7 months ago:
I’ve never seen any difference with the top two with that test. My monitor is 144hz and TBH I might as well have saved my money and got 60Hz ones.
We’re not all hardcore gamers trained to see miniscule differences.
- Comment on Lemmy disproves the stereotype that Germans lack a sense of humor 7 months ago:
Happens with americans too… they seem to completely miss sarcasm sometimes. Humour is very cultural (and often plays into things a native of the country would know but someone outside sometimes wouldn’t).
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 7 months ago:
There’s a lag between human activity and climate change. Rolling out nuclear might have helped a bit, but whether we’d have seen the results today I’m not sure… the benefits would be in the future.
I doubt cars could have evolved any faster though… so it might not have had much impact at all.
- Comment on Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December 7 months ago:
androidpolice have had lots of articles about ad blocking and picking the best one etc.
Then they won’t let anyone view the site when they follow that advice…
- Comment on Key EU parliament comitee took stance towards protecting end-to-end encryption, and no device scanning. A possible win for privacy 7 months ago:
That one is a lost battle, alas. We’ll have to hack our browsers to make them secure, or download them via VPNs from the US.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Merged App to Launch Next Month, Bob Iger Says 7 months ago:
TIL… I thought it was some low budget channel they’d bought the catalogue of
- Comment on TikTok permanently banned account for posting a few videos about the Israel- Palestine situation. 7 months ago:
Ad floods happen semi regularly… they get banned fairly quickly though.
- Comment on First Online Safety Act guidance for tech platforms targets grooming 7 months ago:
It’s 1000 pages apparently, and applies equally to lemmy/mastodon servers.
So unless you’re into reading lots of legal text, running a server in the UK just got a whole lot messier.
- Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform 7 months ago:
I presume apple users do occasionally…
I guess this is a way for google to force apple to open the protocol since they can’t just open it in the EU, so it affects the US too. But the EU don’t have to listen to google… if imessage is such a minor player they may just leave it alone.
- Comment on The SEO world is up in arms after a story said they're 'ruining the internet.' Here's the spicy drama. 7 months ago:
I’m surprised stackoverflow haven’t sued some of them… they literally steal the content and stick their own name on it.
- Comment on Chinese Tesla rival Nio cuts 10% of workforce as CEO predicts 'intense competition' 7 months ago:
They’re more a BYD rival, being chinese.
- Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline 7 months ago:
The daily express isn’t exactly known for it’s accurate insightful reporting. The headline is mostly about scaring people, mostly elderly (their main readership) that their computer is about to stop working.
- Comment on Bots copy pasting Reddit - is there a method to block them all? 7 months ago:
There are some well known ones, like L4sbot, that copy everything but they’re upfront about it with bit in their name.
There are a few others more sneaky.
- Comment on Plans to launch 111-style hotline to nudge millions of long term sick back to work 7 months ago:
‘nudge’ sure…
‘Unless you regrow that limb we’ll cut you off and take your house’
That kind of nudge.
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 7 months ago:
That’s literally what they teach you about basic economics at school…
The standard graph of price increasing on one side and customer demand decreasing on the other, and how companies try to find the crossover point.
- Comment on How's everyone's pets doing tonight? 7 months ago:
Do it young is the biggest thing… once they’re adults it’s much harder because you’re overcoming existing fear.
You only get a few days a year but we took them outside and let them watch, showed them we weren’t scared… they both find the pretty lights fascinating, and being able to see what is making the whistles and bangs helps I think.
Sometimes need to reinforce it with the younger one, although this year he’s been mostly fine. The older one doesn’t GAF.
- Comment on How's everyone's pets doing tonight? 7 months ago:
We made a point of giving our dogs firework training when they were young and it’s paid off… they’re currently both asleep, completely uninterested in whatever the humans are up to.
- Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. 7 months ago:
Find out what happened to Dasani in the UK
Bad publicity can destroy a brand.
- Comment on Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather 7 months ago:
I’ve successfully used autopark twice since 2019.
All the other times, if it sees a parking space at all (which is very rare) it has either aborted immediately or tried to reverse into an obstacle.
- Comment on Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather 7 months ago:
Compare something like an MG4… £27k, so about $33k. Model 3 base model is £39k, so $48k.
US Tesla price is subsidised like crazy…
- Comment on Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather 7 months ago:
That’s been evident for years. Like the 3 that when it was released hadn’t been tested in rain so when you opened the back door all water poured into the car…
- Comment on Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather 7 months ago:
Camera fogging has been an issue since at least 2019… Tesla forums usually have threads from new owners surprised by this each year…
It was 100% predictable that ‘vision only’ would fail in these circumstances.
- Comment on When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco | As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution. 7 months ago:
We have alot of rules wrt. ventilation for gas appliances in the EU. Gas boilers for example have to vent outside away from doorways… I’m not sure if gas cookers need hoods these days or extractor fans are enough.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 7 months ago:
In theory an ad blocker could retrieve the ads in the background and simply not display them… I’m not sure any actually do currently, but if advertisers are silly enough to pay simply through network traffic it’s an option.
- Comment on Mastodon Clients and Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and the Web 7 months ago:
Or Fedilab…
- Comment on YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers 7 months ago:
Hmm…
“last month saw a record number of ad blockers uninstalled—and also a record for new ad blocker installs”
So… they simply switched to UBlock Origin?
- Comment on YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. 7 months ago:
I can’t see the value in using youtube for music… it’s not like I can watch music videos in my car. That’s worth $0 to me, and I imagine the majority.
- Comment on YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. 7 months ago:
Yeah, no… it’s already overpriced.
Paramount + £6.99 Netflix £10.99 (standard) Youtube £12
Makes no sense… they don’t have anything like the production overheads. Stuff like Star Trek and Stranger Things are expensive. ‘10 greatest cat videos’ is not.