herrvogel

@herrvogel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not being able to play games? Not serious? What the hell are you talking about? Did you compare a 3090 to a bottom tier ATI Radeon card or something? My RX 6800 was a fucking champ that was able to run everything I threw at it without a single problem and with quite satisfactory performance at 1440p. It was most definitely a very competent GPU for gaming.

  ML and nvenc are extra features that not everyone needs or even wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Llama⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Clefairy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh. I would not take either. In fact I actually didn’t. I went to a showroom and got inside their EVs and PHEVs while looking for a car. My immediate reaction after sitting in the driver’s seat of their PHEV was “I don’t want to drive this”. Same thing with the pure EV. I’ll give you the wheel, but those A/C controls next to the “shifter” are touch surfaces instead of actual buttons, and they’re just as annoying and worthless as touchscreen controls. Which is sad because those cars have fantastic stats on paper and very competitive prices.

  Unfortunately most EVs on the market have fucking stupid interior designs. Very often you have to choose between affordable and well designed. Not very many that are both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BYD cars don’t have very many buttons either. See here. They’re tablets on wheels too. I quite dislike BYD interiors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, olives are different. Most of our fruit are descendants of wild fruit that are bland, tasteless, poorly textured at worst. Stuff that’d make you say “meh I don’t care for this”, not “I’d rather taste my own vomit”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s olives for me. Raw, fresh olives are absolutely disgusting. Insanely bitter. Straight up inedible until it’s essentially pickled, which is what we actually eat. Crazy that someone ate that shit off the branch and went “I can fix this” instead of just writing the entire tree off as junk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re pretty common and the functionality is often not even obscure. Plenty of ROMs out there are unable to make full use of the fancy cameras on some phones because of driver issues. That’s not an insignificant thing. I’ve seen NFC and e-sim being unavailable as well, which are also not very obscure features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was said by some random Microsoft employee who had no official capacity to say something like that, and the whole thing sounded like they meant to say “latest” anyway. It is and was a worthless statement that got way more attention than it deserved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True art is polarizing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t know what the fuck data-eating aliens are supposed to be, but I ain’t watching that shit to understand. I just hope Brent Spiner is ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe you’re talking about Sagrada Familia, not Barcelona Cathedral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Limiting the bandwidth use of individual devices is pretty easy, and basically standard procedure for public networks. Even cheap consumer routers that come with ISP subscriptions can do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The water thing is just a quirk of capacitive touchscreens. The same happens on the most expensive watches too, which is why there is usually a water mode that you can put the watch into. It sorta locks the touchscreen until you disable it using one of the physical buttons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale funnel is made for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Keyser Soze did it, so can you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨change_org⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To think an evil African warlord was allowed to get away with it because of some silly laws against public masturbation or indecent exposure or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re going to know it’s VPN fairly easily because it’s fairly obvious what you’re doing when all or most of your traffic is encrypted and is directed at one or two addresses. Even more obvious if those one or two addresses happen to belong to known VPN or VPS providers or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I hacked my washing machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly my experience. I was super confused by the timer on the dryer. Then I called support and they said it was normal for where I live and where the machine sits in the house. Air too humid and spot less than ideal for moisture to be taken away from the machine in a timely fashion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They wouldn’t block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That’s very easily doable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar powered personal umbrella with battery?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not gonna be lining a flexible handheld device with the kind of solar panels that can achieve such efficiencies even under ideal conditions. If you want an actual parasol rather than an unwieldy, rigid, parasol shaped bed for a bunch of solar panels, this is a job for the more alternative solar cell types that are cheaper and less efficient, but can be made thinner and lighter, and can be stuck on something like that. Unfortunately those generally have piss poor efficiency and they degrade to near uselessness very quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mess with DRM stuff? Or do they keep working because it’s the same hardware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever been invited to a search party?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was. We walked around aimlessly in the forest, occasionally yelling out the missing girl’s name. Then it turned out to be a drill and the girl was fine. We were yelled at for being shit searchers, and were told that she’d be dead if it was real. I thought it was an extremely unreasonable thing to do, because we were just a bunch of teenagers on a camping trip and nobody had ever told us how to do a proper grid search so how the fuck were we supposed to know how to do it? It was a surreal experience.

  Anyway we were mostly dressed in what we wore into our sleeping bags because we were pulled out of our tents in the middle of the night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I accept to not let these people pass is if it forces you do something unsafe, like throwing yourself over to the next lane and slamming on the brakes to match speed with the other cars. Otherwise just give them the lane and let them be a reckless ass somewhere else away from you. Safer that way. It’s not your job to enforce traffic rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro tip: you can probably uninstall Gemini via ADB. Android won’t let you uninstall it using your phone’s UI, but since it’s just another package you can probably use the old ADB tricks to wipe it from your phone. Use your favorite search engine to figure out how, it’s not exactly a secret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cow eggs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the tampons they stick into female bulls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🧊🧊👶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2023, the on-time arrival percentage of ICE trains was 60something%. That’s not exactly a number that screams reliability. I don’t remember the exact number DB had to pay out for delay compensations that year but it was an embarrassing sum. Just today 2 separate people in my group chat were saying unsavory things about DB’s mother because of 30+ minute delays on two separate ICE trains.

  German trains being on time is a myth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is and it isn’t. Again, the whole thing is super vague. Machine vision or pattern seeking algorithms do not try to imitate any human behavior, but they fall under AI.

  Let me put it this way: Things that try to imitate human behavior or intelligence are AI, but not all AI is about trying to imitate human behavior or intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs are one of the approximately one metric crap ton of different technologies that fall under the rather broad umbrella of the field of study that is called AI. The definition for what is and isn’t AI can be pretty vague, but I would argue that LLMs are definitely AI because they exist with the express purpose of imitating human behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mothing phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a nothing phone. The glyphs were a neat gimmick the first few weeks I had the thing, but now I only use them as a softer flashlight. They just don’t really add much value to the thing.

  Still like the thing very much though, overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they do switch but for like 1 day and then go back to messaging you on WhatsApp. I tried switching to signal at least a couple times, even convinced a couple groups to move, but not a single chat lasted more than a couple weeks. Eventually they all went back to WhatsApp. Every single one. It’s extremely difficult to get people to care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protip:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I once saw a girl very abruptly stop walking on a rather busy street, throw herself down on a nearby bench in a hurry, take out her stuff from her tote bag and just start knitting with an oddly peaceful expression on her face as if nothing happened. I was left wondering what the fuck I just witnessed. Happened in the span of like 4 seconds.

  Yes she was barefoot.