billiam0202
@billiam0202@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 hours ago:
I feel like there’s a difference between various moderators power-tripping on their own little fiefdoms, and a site wide policy.
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 15 hours ago:
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 6 days ago:
And now Firefox is requiring you to hand over your data to them.
If you’re talking about the most recent news about the Terms of Service, that is a gross misreading of what they said.
- Comment on Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine 1 week ago:
I really doubt they will.
The thing to note about Framework laptops is the “starting price” is literally just the system board, the screen, standard American keyboard, and the laptop body. You have to add your own RAM, SSD, all the expansion cards, a charger, and a Windows license (if you don’t use Linux). There’s a reason why the starting cost for a Ryzen 13 is $750 and a “pre-configured” system is $1100.
Sure they’ll save some money from using a plastic body instead of an aluminum one, but that’s not the bulk of the cost, assuming they’re still committed to using the same system board form factor as the 13 & 16. I’d consider it a win if they get a fully configured 12 for sub-$800.
Also Trump’s tariffs have to be factored in for US buyers.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 1 week ago:
So can someone who understands this stuff better than me explain how the L3 cache would affect performance? My X3D has a 96 MB cache, and all of these offerings are lower than that.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 week ago:
{Vaccine shedding](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_shedding) actually is a thing, but it’s 1. only really linked to the oral polio vaccine (which itself is not common in most of the world) and 2. even then it’s extremely rare.
It also requires an attenuated virus vaccine, which means it has a zero percent chance of happening due to mRNA vaccines. In other words, it’s just more lying and fearmongering from bullshit scam artist grifters.
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 weeks ago:
If you buy a Pixel, you’re supporting Google which is probably worse.
Maybe a Nothing Phone or a OnePlus?
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 3 weeks ago:
Nah. I’m in the “everyone involved in crypto needs repeatedly swift kicks in the nads” camp but spending the rest of your life digging in a garbage dump looking for gold is also acceptable.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I kinda assumed the people who care about these sorts of things wouldn’t be using an iPhone.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
Firefox + Ublock also work on mobile.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 weeks ago:
For what it was spec’d at originally, I think more people would have been willing to consider it than would like to admit,
I’ll admit it: a $30k EV with 600 miles of range? You’d be an idiot to not consider that, until it was proven to be bullshit and Elon was proven to be a full-on fascist.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 months ago:
No, that’s Mike “My son and I know each other’s porn habits” Johnson.
- Comment on Dentist the Menace 3 months ago:
In 1892, a Canadian dentist called Edgar Parker
born Edgar R.R. Parker, 22 March 1872
DUDE WAS ONLY 20 WHEN HE STARTED THIS!?
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 3 months ago:
very funny, very stupid
Well, their work is half done already!
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 months ago:
An FSD car that makes perfect decisions would theoretically be safer than a human driver who also makes perfect decisions, if for no other reason than the car could do it faster.
Personally, I would love to see autonomous cars see widespread use. They don’t have to be perfect, just safer mile-for-mile than human drivers. (Which means that Teslas, with Musk’s gobsmackingly stupid insistence on only using cameras, will never reach that threshold).
- Comment on Ubisoft launches NFT game with figures costing up to $63K 4 months ago:
What, Guillemot thinks Ubisoft’s share price is still too high?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 4 months ago:
Well, yeah. How do you think they could afford Nadella’s pay raise?
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 4 months ago:
Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.
And increase C-level compensation, of course.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 months ago:
Uhh, the very existence of this article indicates you’re wrong. Elon removed the block feature and even more users left; how can you say that “the people who were going to leave because of Elon have already left”? Certainly the group who disliked Elon on ideological grounds did, but there are plenty of other users who are leaving because they’re finally deciding the changes Elon is making removes any value they see in remaining on Twitter.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 months ago:
A daily active user count of under 80,000 is utterly meaningless for a social media site.
The right-wing chuds aren’t flocking to Truth Social because they can’t “own the libs” there. That’s what I mean when I say they don’t want an echo chamber.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 months ago:
You mean Trump’s Twitter clone? Depends on how you define “worth.” The total stock valuation is worth that much, but that’s because stocks are largely bullshit priced based on how buyers feel. Someone keeps buying the stock, so the price reflects that.
If you’re talking about the company itself, it’s not worth dick. They have a six or seven digit revenue compared to eight or nine digit losses- there is absolutely no way the stock price represents the “true” value of the company. Given that Trump owns 60% of the shares it’s absolutely certain that someone is using it as a way to funnel money to Trump outside of campaign finance laws.
Also, they don’t have that many users.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 months ago:
Just wait until enough sane people have left Twitter; it’ll then implode and the fascist Nazi shitheads will migrate.
They don’t want an echo chamber- they want to be able to shout their slurs and right-wing bullshit at you while you can’t respond. It’s exactly why places like Voat and that shitty T_D knockoff crashed. Once the ration of right-wingers to non-right-wingers on Twitter hits a critical amount, they’ll start looking for other places to infest.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 months ago:
To make astronomically large spaces fit in the game engine from 2009, they made everything infinitesimally small.
In fairness, when Star Citizen first went in to development CE3 was a modern engine.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 4 months ago:
Same thing as Trump.
Doesn’t matter how perfect your contract is, as long as they can afford to fight the lawsuit longer than you you’re gonna lose.
You’d think people would learn to not contract with these assholes at all.
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 4 months ago:
We need to add the fourth E: Enshittify. Once you’ve eliminated all the competition, extract every last dollar out of your users by steadily degrading their experience while offering them the option to pay to restore some semblance of usability.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 4 months ago:
That’s because the OG visionaries of tech are gone, and have been replaced by MBAs and techbros.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 4 months ago:
I’m not sure if Firefox pulls passwords when you import your data, but you can manually export passwords from Chrome and import them into Firefox.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 4 months ago:
We need to add a fourth E:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, Enshittify.
- Comment on TSMC's 2nm process will reportedly get another price hike — $30,000 per wafer for latest cutting-edge tech 4 months ago:
I was under the impression that anything under like 10nm was just marketing and doesn’t actually refer to transistor density in any meaningful way?
- Comment on FTC Announces Crackdown on Deceptive AI Claims and Schemes 5 months ago:
Given that SCOTUS is focused on destroying the government one agency at a time, you’re likely to see them rule that the FTC is unconstitutional because it didn’t exist in the 1600s or some other equally-bullshit excuse.
