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- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 5 days ago:
This is actually an interesting point I hadn’t thought about or see people considering with regards to the high investment cost into AI LLMs. Who blinks first when it comes to stopping investment into these systems if they don’t prove to be commercially viable (or viable quick enough)? What happens to the West if China holds out for longer and is successful?
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 5 days ago:
Lots of people will, I’ve had the discussion with multiple people bemoaning that that will have to upgrade because their computer isn’t compatible who. Have zero interest in learning a new OS. Heck my father has a laptop good enough for everything he does already and was talking about upgrading his desktop because it isn’t compatible.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
Apple TV isn’t compatible with some of the services that I use so h That isn’t an option either.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
Kodi is the open source alternative and it is a terrible experience compared to the purpose made sticks. It is confusing to use, and worse, very unreliable (my install would regularly completely break and crash on startup).
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.
I’ve been self hosting as much as I can for awhile. The one thing I don’t have a good replacement solution for is Google TV. At least with alternate launchers and being able to install APKs (for now) it mostly works as a decent experience.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Agreed, that they are just an android tablet makes them far more useful than most ereaders as you can install apps from the Play store. I probably use mine in the kitchen more than as a reader.
- Comment on I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser 1 month ago:
What other chromium browsers have you tried on Linux?
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 1 month ago:
If your use case benefited from Quicksync then Intel was a clear choice.
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 1 month ago:
The problem is that Parametric CAD kernels are complicated and expensive. There are some recent open source efforts but they are slow going. Just look at how bad Freecad is after all these years to see how difficult they are.
I’m quite experienced with SolidWorks and have used both Creo and NX as well. I can’t stand the likes of Freecad or Fusion because of that. Luckily I have access to the professional ones for my day to day modelling.
One option to look at is Solid Edge, they have a maker version that is free and it’s a proper professional package many companies use.
- Comment on Hot on the heels of the H2S, Bambu Lab announces the seven-color, wireless nozzle-swapping Vortek H2C 1 month ago:
Prusa also needs to fix their x-y build volume even if it breaks upgradeability. The standard has changed and it is hard to go smaller once you are used to the larger size.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 2 months ago:
The real issue here is that the systems that car manufacturers use for their vehicles are insecure and outdated. The Flipper Zero is just exposing their bad design decisions.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 2 months ago:
This is an argument for having your own domain for emails. There is an annual cost but at least your address isn’t locked to a specific provider sokcd you can change some DNS settings to point at a different mail server.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 2 months ago:
XD, I totally did this to make a smart alarm clock a couple years ago. That said it is completely stable, don’t think it has ever crashed or locked up on me, unlike the echo show it replaced that did so frequently (not to mention it occasionally updating in the middle of the night and waking me up at full brightness)
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 2 months ago:
Lights are one of the areas where I think automation is genuinely useful, but my rule with anything “Smart” is that it has to be able to run 100% locally.
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking 2 months ago:
I had to call into my bank recently and had to listen through what was effectively an ad to sign up for their voice authentication service. All the while I’m thinking, “How dare you implement this crap when you don’t even support TOTP or security keys.”
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 3 months ago:
It is about managing risk, you do need real world testing for many products, and it is impossible to do that without risking the public sees it (you could camouflage it like they do with cars) , but at the same time it probably isn’t suitable to take an unreleased phone into a bar where the risk of losing it is higher than say a grocery store.
- Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner 3 months ago:
How is a large language model going to apply to a visual inspection?
This is probably a CNN trained to identify different types of damage. Similar to how your phone identifies faces.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 months ago:
I disagree about this being a good solution. USB-C is not meant to take the strain of being used as an audio port when being used in the go so there is risk of damaging the port while a headphone jack is more stable and allows the plug to rotate. Plus I don’t want to have a dingle I can forget when in a rush.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I’ve used Vivaldi for a long time before switching to Floorp (based on Firefox) and recently back to Vivaldi.
Pros:
Vivaldi is fast with lots of features.
I like how it works much more than other browsers (e. g. Sidebar tabs, pinned tabs can’t be closed)Cons:
Still built on chromium. They have ways to customize the address bar autocomplete, but screwed up the implementation so every option doesn’t work the way I want it to. - Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 4 months ago:
If you are running business critical applications on Windows 10 that is a problem. Windows 10 is only meant for end user machines. Other services should be running on OS’s that are meant for the application such as Windows Server or server versions of Linux distros running LTS kernels.
Not to mention, near every piece of software I’ve been involved with at work has required specific versions of Windows Server and whatever database it uses, if you want to upgrade the software you use, then upgrading the OS is part of the task.
- Comment on SignalFire: startups and Big Tech firms cut hiring of recent graduates by 11% and 25% respectively in 2024 vs. 2023, as AI can handle routine, low-risk tasks 4 months ago:
This is definitely a problem in sectors that are boom/bust. You have senior engineers ready to retire and nobody is ready to move up into their positions because there just aren’t any intermediate level engineers in the industry.
- Comment on @chrlschn - Beware the Complexity Merchants 5 months ago:
I’m a big fan of the manta “Make your designs as simple as possible and no simpler”. Pointless complexity drives me nuts, but others take it too far and remove functionality by making things too minimal. It doesn’t help that a lot of businesses optimize for people who make changes, so the positive feedback loop is change for the sake of change rather than improving the product.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 5 months ago:
maybe, just maybe if we didn’t move the same settings 1-2 layers deeper behind some UI bullshit we wouldn’t have to look for it.
This trend pisses me off so much. Companies need to learn that for settings I’m likely to have to change they need to minimize the number of actions to change it. But people in all these companies find the need to reorganize things to make it seem like they are accomplishing something.
- Comment on Found This (and more in post) at the Cracker Barrel (US Restaurant and Gift Store Chain) 5 months ago:
I have a feeling that in many cases people’s work is being abused.
Yeah, a couple years ago I saw a stand at a flea market selling 3D prints. Took me all of 2 minutes to find the original at home with a non-commercial license.
- Comment on 3D Printed Downspout Makes Life Just A Little Nicer 5 months ago:
It is all rectangular items around it, wouldn’t be difficult to measure out the environment and route the design around it. Good CAD tools have cable routing tools that can assist with this as well.
- Comment on shearing on outer walls with PETG in a bambu p1p 5 months ago:
Run a temp town if you are worried about it, but i run all PETG at 265 on my P1S. 255 will tear like you show and print matte which means it isn’t properly melted.
- Comment on shearing on outer walls with PETG in a bambu p1p 5 months ago:
Wrong way to adjust, try printing at 265 and keep the part fan on ( aux fan off).
- Comment on shearing on outer walls with PETG in a bambu p1p 5 months ago:
That the default petg profile? Bump up your temperature by 10C and try again. Their PETG profile is too cold for the flow rate.
- Comment on cannot get an even first layer with a voron trident 5 months ago:
0.2mm flatness is very flat for a 3D Printer bed, I don’t even know if I achieved that with the Nylock mod on my old Prusa. This simply looks like a bed adhesion problem, clean your bed well with dish soap and water and then rinse well and make sure you don’t toch the surface. Check the first layer height and bed temp as well.
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 6 months ago:
Yeah I recently started switching from SolidWorks to Creo in a professional setting, it is amazing how slow and clunky SolidWorks feels in comparison. The downside is that Creo doesn’t hold your hand at all so you better know what you are doing.
Coming from that side, I have a hard time with the free/inexpensive options available for makers, they just don’t work nearly as well.