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- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
Artificial onetelligence
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 week ago:
Yesn’t
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 weeks ago:
Fair point, but good luck convincing them about it.
- Comment on Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying “don’t make progress”, I’m saying “try to make progress across the board”.
- Comment on Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s 3 weeks ago:
IMO another example of pushing numbers ahead of what’s actually needed, and benefitting manufacturers way more than the end user. Get this for bragging rights? Sure, you do you. Some server/enterprise niche use case? Maybe. But I’m sure that for 90% of people, including even those with a bit more demanding storage requirements, a PCIe 4 NVMe drive is still plenty in terms of throughput. At the same time SSD prices have been hovering around the same point for the past 3-4-5 years, and there hasn’t been significant development in capacity - 8 TB models are still rare and disproportionately expensive, almost exotic. I personally would be much more excited to see a cool, efficient and reasonably priced 8/16 TB PCIe 4 drive than a pointlessly fast 1/2/4 TB PCIe 5.
- Comment on Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s 3 weeks ago:
Assuming you meant GB/s, not TB/s, I think it’s for the sake of convenience when doing comparisons - there are still SATA SSDs around and in terms of sequential reads and writes those top out at what the interface allows, i.e. 500-550 MB/s.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 3 weeks ago:
Windows Mail was IMO perfect for simple mail at home. Now they replaced it with Outlook with slightly updated UI but also with ads.
Guess what - I started looking for alternatives. So far Wino Mail seems pretty good - someone else on here recommended it.
- Comment on Dig this trench to protect your landlord's ability to gouge your decendants. 3 weeks ago:
Technically correct if you die… with the caveat that you won’t be able to do much else.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 month ago:
Apple vs Samsung aside, she wasn’t concerned with using her own phone for work?
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 1 month ago:
I agree about the “everything in one place”; besides that, in terms of shopping, there’s not much to it. There used to be some services that were pretty neat, e.g. unlimited cloud storage for photos (including RAW files) for something like 50 EUR/year, but of course they axed that.
Plenty of alternatives for everything, just maybe a little less convenient.
In terms of media, I don’t stream; whatever I pay for is either at local shows where I buy CDs from artists directly, or through label stores, or through outlets like Bandcamp (btw it’s Bandcamp Friday right now until the end of the weekend, go support what you like).
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 1 month ago:
Can’t remember the last time I bought something from there.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
I remember that term. It was short-lived.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
You have to also consider that when 5" was big, bezels were big too. With today’s thin bezels the same physical size that used to hold 5" could probably hold 5.5".
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Because apparently people want big phones.
For the last 10-15 years it’s been a boiling frog situation really - .1 or .2" increase every generation until 7" somehow becomes the norm (for a phone, not a tablet, mind you).
I wish there were more small hi-end phones too.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 1 month ago:
Politics aside, I’d be curious to see how far something like this can go. Can’t not think of Opera Software - even they were not successful while they were using their own proprietary tech.
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 1 month ago:
People do this on digital too.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 month ago:
Can someone explain how something as generic as a keyboard can be a subject to patents?
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 2 months ago:
One of the few positives of today’s designs is the better screen-to-body ratios that we have. This would mean that we can have a 5" screen in the same physical body size that previously used to house a 4 point something inch screen. But for some reason the latest flagship small phones are from a few years ago - I guess sales figures show they’re not sought after.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 months ago:
Yeah, fair point. Thanks for explaining. Not a native speaker, so I kind of forgot about that.
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 2 months ago:
General advice - don’t be picky about dedicated media controls; sure they’re nice to have, but they severely limit your choices (I was in that boat too). At the same time it’s very easy to make key combinations; e.g. the Caps Lock key very often gets neglected, and if this is the case for you, you can repurpose it to Fn, and from there you can do Fn+W to play/pause, Fn+Q/Fn+E for prev/next track respectively and so on (of course the specific keys are up to you). Look for QMK/VIA support over manufacturer-specific software.
Sorry I can’t give a more specific recommendation. I second the idea that Keychron generally have good value for the money, so do Vortex and Ducky (although Ducky have gone up in price while not staying very competitive).
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 months ago:
“Пиян като мотика”. Translates from Bulgarian to “Drunk as a mattock”. I remember asking my dad about this phrase when I was a kid - “Why? Do mattocks drink?” - and he answered “No, they fall down”. Classic dad.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 months ago:
In this line of thought I like how “tool” is something useful in its primary meaning, but derogatory when used about a person.
- Comment on See something you like? 2 months ago:
What’s next? Talking about healthcare?
- Comment on Old fashioned 3 months ago:
I’m a fan of physical media and at the same time I don’t believe in its supremacy; I don’t think it’s more practical than digital files for example.
I still like it because 1) it can be a way to directly support artists that I like and 2) it’s a way to own content instead of renting it.
- Comment on Horse denier 5 months ago:
Look at my horse, my horse is amazing
- Comment on I put on my robe and my wizard hat 5 months ago:
logarithms?
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 months ago:
I remember playing this on a Radeon 9550 GPU with 128 MB VRAM and being amazed at how well it was running at 1680x1050.
- Comment on Every place gotta have the cuck booth 5 months ago:
Phrased like that it begs me to ask: is that a table just for the third wheel?
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 5 months ago:
A sports piece of clothing or equipment is still functional with or without the flashy branding; a piece of merch however is not (especially if it’s just decorative - like a pin, a sew-on patch or something like that).
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 5 months ago:
Same sentiment here - but with the exception of band t-shirts and other merchandise - where in most cases you do want to show your support for the artist.