essteeyou
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- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 1 week ago:
I’m not American, I just live here… for now
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m sure they left the spelling mistake in the image on purpose to get increased engagement from pedants like me, I’m sorry, it works on me.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 1 week ago:
Assuming we don’t just get 8 years of President Vance…
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 1 week ago:
Because if you believe it’s worth $97B you don’t offer to overpay by $3B…
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 1 week ago:
Yeah, if they’re down for over three weeks then I imagine they’ll be forced to refund at least some of the PS+ price.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 1 week ago:
Last night I thought “this happened a few years ago, too, and we got free games as an apology” and now you tell me it was 14 YEARS ago!?
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 weeks ago:
Well, at least they’re doing it quietly.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to the internet.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 weeks ago:
Is there a community for that? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 weeks ago:
Oh right, is that when they moved to a different tectonic plate?
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 weeks ago:
“Europe and the UK” did they move the UK to another continent, or did they mean the EU?
- Comment on China to launch antitrust probe into Google 2 weeks ago:
This is how it’s going to be for the next few years then?
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
When Civ VIII rolls around they won’t send review copies to anyone who gave bad reviews last time.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 weeks ago:
Yep, what else could you call it? It’s not a hatchback, a sedan, a convertible, a sports car, etc.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
Reviews like these are paid advertising.
- Comment on would you buy a compact laptop that has spacebar touch sensitivity and allows you to adjust input sensitivity, giving it dual purpose (a spacebar and a mouse)+ it has integrated A5 printer in it? 1 month ago:
I print roughly two or three things per year, and they’re always bigger than A5, so that would be a completely useless feature for me.
- Comment on Apple to pay $95m to settle claims Siri listened to users’ private conversations 1 month ago:
9 hours of profit, oh no!
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 1 month ago:
That’s the one, but I’m sure he’s only ever done it once…
- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 1 month ago:
Sounds like a good time to use the word “bump”
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
Perhaps they track who you talk to and show you ads that are relevant to those people, or their best guess based on two profiles.
I don’t think there’s a data center out there with a live audio stream of literally billions of always-on devices 24/7/365.
Perhaps there’s some local processing first, but devices have permissions for apps, and lights that indicate the mic/camera is in use.
I figure someone would have figured it out by now (reverse engineering, decompiling code), or someone from Google would have leaked it if it were true. Think of the number of people required to keep this secret.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Head Claims Team Isn't Close To Being Done With Game's Content 2 months ago:
This is part of what’s going to make Light No Fire so cool. I’m sure that some of the tech now being added to NMS is being added as a way of testing or proving hypotheses for LNF. I hope we do see more of the LNF mechanics (like multiple biomes on one planet) be backported, like I suspect the improved water, and fishing mechanism may have been.
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 2 months ago:
K dude.
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 2 months ago:
People can be worried about more than one thing at a time.
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 2 months ago:
Oh, so “anything” doesn’t mean what it used to mean?
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 2 months ago:
Can you share a full-body shot of yourself please? Don’t worry, you wont suffer while it gets used to create other content that we’ll distribute to your friends, family, classmates, coworkers, etc.
- Comment on The PlayStation Portal remote player experience to evolve with new system update 2 months ago:
How is this not “related to games”? It’s a thing that has the sole purpose of enabling people to play games.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 2 months ago:
Yep. It felt like the beginning of something from a horror movie, but I still have both hands.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 2 months ago:
Audio latency with Bluetooth screws up things like music lessons in Duolingo.
A few weeks ago I was gardening with Pixel Buds on and one dropped into a pile of leaves. I spent ten minutes looking for the thing. Then the other day the same one dropped into the garbage disposal while I was doing the dishes.
I don’t mind the cheap Bluetooth headphones I have that wrap around my ear slightly. I can run in those without them dropping out.
When I want audio quality I use some over-ear Bose headphones.
I have no idea how people are ok with just the little buds for all use-cases.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 3 months ago:
Mine turns 20 in 2 days. Yikes.
- Comment on YouTube Jewels look like they were ripped straight out of the Reddit Gold playbook 3 months ago:
If I’m a painter, let’s say, and I’m live streaming myself painting a literal portrait one day, and a literal landscape the next day, I have to stream in portrait regardless in order to have access to certain aspects of the platform?
That’s garbage.