just_another_person
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- Comment on Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies 1 day ago:
Well…yeah. That’s their bread and butter.
- Comment on How do Superheroes or villians get their suits on is there like a magical zipper or something? Or how do they do it? 4 days ago:
They don’t.
They aren’t real.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 4 days ago:
Worst mobile app on the planet with SO many bugs, but dammit if they aren’t a clean platform otherwise.
- Comment on We have heard time and time again Hollywood and the Media are liberal assests. I disagree with that statement. But has it always been so called liberal? When did it start? 5 days ago:
Rupert Murdoch to get Fox News viewers in the US in the late 90’s. He started that dumb shit the way you understand it today.
- Comment on Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI 6 days ago:
Boo hoo
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 1 week ago:
Sorry, I should have been more. ABOVE the 250k level is what they aren’t LEGALLY required to cover. Banks that do that and are FDIC insured are doing that on their own.
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 1 week ago:
Not legally guaranteed though, and it has to be a HUGE bank. Regional banks or Credit Unions will not do this.
- Comment on Is there any good laptop cleaners so I can set it to max settings and get rid of bloware that are free? 1 week ago:
This one seems pretty active: github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
- Comment on Am I messed up being in my 30ish believe in Superheroes actually exsist? And we just don't hear about them? I just like to think that their is a person or persons out there.....q 1 week ago:
Don’t you think they would have done something obvious by now?
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 1 week ago:
Nope
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Resolution alone isn’t the only factor. It’s a larger display, requiring more power, which is either a PC/PD issue, or a battery issue. The point is that the power draw has to come from somewhere, and nothing this is the same platform as an iPhone (essentially), there’s going to be a trade-off somewhere.
As you noted they’ve reduced the refresh rate, which makes a big impact, but I don’t think it stops there.
The original platform has apps that are optimized for that platform, and now you’re throwing a different OS at it which has more expansive use of resources: CPU, memory, GPU, and power.
We’ll have to see how they have made paths through MacOS to account the platform specifically, but I’m betting there are several drawbacks. This was the main complaint of how they dealt with those insanely expensive Mac Pro with M-class chips when they first came out, but in the inverse. High power draw, heat issues…etc.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Mobile chip power is insane AT THAT SCALE though. That’s the key differentiation here. So if you’re running a larger format display with a higher resolution, cut that by quite a bit. Also cut it if you’re running desktop apps that aren’t optimized for mobile, and if this is intended to run MacOS instead of iOS, the mobile optimistic memory scheduling is out the window. I’ll have to see it to say for sure, but I’m guessing the performance for average desktop apps is going to be pretty, but that’s kind of the price point.
This is Apple’s scoop up of the ChromeOS segment.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Repair friendly means CHEAP components repair, which Apple just does not do.
As an example, in a machine like this if your WiFi module tanks…that’s a full logic board replacement. Might as well buy a new one.
According to this, Apple is basically making an insurance vertical as part of their business, and they are pricing repairs to be exactly 1/3 the retail cost of the machine for pretty much everything except screens.
This is pretty scam my when you consider their past of quoting customers for repairs that are above and beyond the scope of the actual hardware failures, and what maximizes profits for their AppleCare and RMA process. There are dozens of breakdowns in this, so I won’t write a novel, but it’s very obvious they’ve baked in the costs to make it more cost-effective to just keep buying new units as a replacement in the face of simple hardware failures.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
The failure rates of these will be the determining factor. The components inside are cheap, all soldered on, and will not be repairable at all (waiting on the iFixIt score).
Its pretty much just their phone platform with a big screen and keyboard, so maybe it’ll be okay. It’s not built like a phone though, so I’m expecting some interesting testing outcomes. It’s either going to be cheap enough that they have a new planned obsolescence hit on their hands, or people are going to be pissed at it sucking so hard.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Did your account get hacked, buddy?
- Comment on Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook 1 week ago:
Meta never acquired my VR Mansion. It was super cool.
Dafuq
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Rooting means you’re disabling or bypassing the hardware encryption signing for modules that are built for the device you’re on. If things aren’t signed, and something checks to ensure that they ARE signed, you’ll run into problems.
- Comment on Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives 2 weeks ago:
Literally nobody in the consumer market will care, and the DC crowd won’t buy this until they can prove failure rates.
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that we don’t know what it is, it, again, is just INCREDIBLY FUCKING STUPID.
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 2 weeks ago:
This is… incredibly stupid. This man has done so many drugs he no longer realizes how computers or electricity works.
- Comment on If I was a college athlete instead of accepting money out right. If I created a charity where they could "donate", and keep all the money? Is this illegal or illegal how so? 2 weeks ago:
Do your initials happen to be NCAA?
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 2 weeks ago:
Why don’t you just fucking kill me, and replace me with an AI copy of myself. What a dumb fucking world these companies are pushing for.
Jackasses.
- Comment on How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I just think this is an insane spend for most people.
I much more affordable option, though smaller, are these TRMNL displays: trmnl.com
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 weeks ago:
Whoever did this was incredibly lazy. What you using an agent to run your Terraform commands for you in the first place if it’s not part of some automation? You’re saving yourself, what, 15 seconds tops? You deserve this kind of thing for being like this.
- Comment on How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley 2 weeks ago:
It’s something like $2k. Pretty insane for a project like this. You can just get the actual e-ink panels pretty cheap, but then you need to build a driver for it. Not simple.
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 2 weeks ago:
Edited to a bit more. See my other comment.
We can’t see your house, to it’s hard to give you very many options except the simplest.
You will more than likely need more hardware though.
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 2 weeks ago:
Repeaters don’t work, especially on newer Wifi clients. You need a proper Mesh system to cover a larger area. Probably going to run you $300-$500USD for a 3 AP kit.
You’ll need to put that junky AP they sent you from the ISP into Passthrough Mode, hook up the new AP from the Mesh system as your new router, then just place the other new APs in mesh mode as you want them.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 2 weeks ago:
Many in Urban areas will be fine for quite some time. Others with more space have already started adding EV charging, and increasing the presence of their convenience operations since EV charging customers will be at the properties a bit longer than normal gas fueling customers.
It’s just a pivot on their profit model and focus.
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 2 weeks ago:
Most of the Linux support community is all handled in forums, though there are some development oriented chat spaces. If you’re looking for a place to just hang out and get live help, youre probably not going to find that.
That being said, the documentation for all distros is massive, and about as complete as you can get. That should be enough for most people, but I understand that not everyone is so technically inclined. I’ll hit some key points:
Most active: Probably Fedora or Arch Best Wiki: Arch first, Fedora second, Debian third, with others usually referring to the above Most active: Arch first, Debian second, Fedora third, with most Fedora comms happening in dev channels and issue tickets
In order to get help though, you need to get familiar with figuring out if your issue is with the actual distribution (it almost never is), the specific software you’re having an issue with, or a combo of both where the software has a configuration issue with the specific distro you’re running.
If you’re having a problem with Audacity on Fedora for instance, don’t go looking to the Fedora community for help, because it likely has nothing to do with Fedora. Go to the Audacity GitHub and search issues first, then start looking for specific information to your issue (error messages, logs…etc) next.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well, for the exact reason I said. Google ignores reference to anything without other corroboration. Hard or anchor links are necessary.
Fediverse content requires fluidity, and the same content is available at dozens of places. If they scrape the same post at different endpoint URIs, it will be discarded as spam.
This isn’t even news, it’s a known thing, and Google themselves described this in their SEO docs. No Fediverse instance is going to be spending money with Google to get a higher ranking, so it’s just kind of not going to show up.