evatronic
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- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 2 days ago:
No lie … if they could make a chip that like … Shuts off cognition while I’m at the gym so I don’t have to experience it … I’d consider it.
I really hate working out.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
Nothing. They’re behaving quite rationally.
You just have to understand that their motivation is not “successful governing” or “making the world better” but rather, “getting more money.”
When you view their actions through the lens of self-enrichment, they’re behaving quite normally.
- Comment on Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students 2 weeks ago:
It’s a contract.
They give you some money now, and, instead of an interest rate and a term for repayment, they get a percentage of your future income for some period of time.
Particularly shitty ones continue even if you repay the original loan amount.
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 1 month ago:
I’m glad I’m not the only person that doesn’t really understand the whole Thing behind Twitter / Mastodon feed thing.
- Comment on HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It 1 month ago:
The mere fact that HP is demonstrating they can do this, even if they pinky swear they won’t do it for corporate or business clients means that any business worth their salt will avoid buying HP products.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 2 months ago:
That sub was mostly cops just repeating their own bad interpretation of the law. Terrible.
- Comment on What's stopping you from coding like this ? 2 months ago:
Even as a big fat homo, and presuming I could get into that position, I don’t want to stare at my own dick all day.
- Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” 2 months ago:
Funny how so much recent talk has emerged yet again about how companies like Microsoft want to get rid of disc drives on their next Xbox… […]
While I will freely admit that the lack of a physical drive is a huge way to drive downloaded (and licensed, revokable) content controlled by the company, it’s worth noting that physical media is really not all that great a medium for transferring things like games or movies anymore. Blu-ray discs can hold, in ideal situations, around 50GB of data. A lot of games – especially AAA games, are well beyond that. I think Spider Man 2 came in at like 85GB? The internet says Hogwarts Legacy is ~75GB on XBox.
Network connectivity, and downloading content to our devices is almost certainly going to be the way a lot of the world works going forward. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to back our content up elsewhere, or offload it to some other device.
Your right in noting that the laws and regulations need to keep up and protect consumers’ right to the content they’ve purchased.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 2 months ago:
It’s an uncomfortable way to watch porn.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
Well that’s what I see.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
Also, I wonder how that works if you’re colorblind?
It’s orange, blue, and yellow fyi.
- Comment on Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue 2 months ago:
Recall for a font. A fucking font.
Really this is just further proof that software developers should be no where near automotive design.
- Comment on Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7 3 months ago:
They’re apparently for things that are already heavily tested in prior models and haven’t changed.
Like the cockpit door is the same in a bunch of planes, or something, no need to test it in every plane model, etc.
- Comment on ifn't 3 months ago:
Where do you think PHP stole it from?
- Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click 3 months ago:
Shit, Comcast has a pretty decent change of charging you for the hardware even if you do return it.
- Comment on How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. 3 months ago:
It’s always been this way. We’re just old enough now to see the cycle for what it is.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 3 months ago:
Based on the planet’s climate trajectory, humanity may not rule it forever, but we’re aiming to be the last.
- Comment on How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 4 months ago:
I learned the “Don’t be a mod for free” lesson back in the IRC days. It’s not worth the mental strain, even if it’s for a community you love.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 4 months ago:
I’ve got the next week off, migrating from Plex to Jellyfin is on my todo list, but I really like the pipeline I have set up now for … my sailing habit. arrr
- Comment on GM Says It's Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety 4 months ago:
As if I needed another reason to not buy a GM.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 4 months ago:
“cum.salon” sounds thrilling. I both want it to be exactly what it says it is, but also, something completely different.
- Comment on Just like old times, eh, Harry? 4 months ago:
The Harry that made it home wasn’t even the original – he was a quantum duplicate. The original Harry died for realsies.
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 4 months ago:
Pocket Casts has both an Android and iOS version. If you pay for their “subscription” their web app also works, though I’ve never used it I’ve heard good things.
- Comment on Steam Workshop Has added support for paid mods 5 months ago:
Paid mods is almost never a good thing for the game itself.
Almost every mod out there is addressing some (real or perceived) deficiency in the base game. Good game studios look at what’s popular and either pull those features into the base game, or work with the modder to do the same.
Adding a paid mod system changes that cooperative relationship into an adversarial one, where modders see their revenue stream attacked by the game maker.
(Except maybe the make everyone nude mods)
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Patch Notes 5 months ago:
Legit, the 2.x update has been amazing. It’s a whole new game.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 5 months ago:
I think a bigger effect is familiarity.
Bingo. It’s not about making you buy something right now, it’s about brand recognition and such.
To wit, if you listen to podcasts, do a little thought experiment. Name a VPN company.
Was it “Nord VPN”? Ads work.
- Comment on Report: Apple to end partnership with bank that backs Apple Card, savings accounts 5 months ago:
That is a LOT harder done than said. Apple might have the resources, but they don’t have the time or focus to become an actual bank.
They’ll just go to some other bank, willing to take on the shittier client risk. Probably Citi or the GE/Synchrony bank. Capital One if they smile real nice and bring flowers.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 5 months ago:
This is why I have a hybrid and not an EV.
- Comment on What is your favourite font for code ? 5 months ago:
fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro
Source code pro for quite some time.
- Comment on Does Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes” 5 months ago:
Seventh time’s the charm.