Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm. 9 hours ago:
You could argue if xai paid xitter 45 billion in their latest
money laundering operationacquisition, then TikTok is worth at least ten xitters - Comment on GameCube Coming To Nintendo Switch Online With 3 Games At Launch 1 day ago:
Yes they artificially increased sales by FOMO by announcing a delisting date like 6 months after launch
In this way people thought “OMG better paying NOW $60 for this collection of decades old games or I’ll lose the chance in the future”
- Comment on GameCube Coming To Nintendo Switch Online With 3 Games At Launch 1 day ago:
I was emulating the GameCube on a athlon64 15 years ago; the switch is underpowered but not that underpowered
- Comment on GameCube Coming To Nintendo Switch Online With 3 Games At Launch 1 day ago:
No, it has been delisted from the shop, otherwise why people would pay a subscription for playing that
- Comment on Encrypting data on local servers? 2 days ago:
I wanted to encrypt against physical theft but then I realized that the server weighs 20kg and there’s more valuable and lighter stuff to steal. And a thief would never be able to mount the zfs array, they’ll just fence my $2000 server for $50 and someone else will sell it piece by piece on ebay. And between people who buys used drives online on ebay almost nobody is going to do a full surface scan of a 12tb drive in the hopes of finding valuable data.
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 2 days ago:
The non-brut (I don’t know the English term) is alcoholic soda, that’s less enjoyable
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 5 days ago:
Switchbot is making that
- 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. 5 days ago:
This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity
And what if someone doesn’t have internet connectivity?
- Comment on GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs 1 week ago:
In their case they’re using a variant of Google for automotive, so enabling apple carplay and android auto is literally a checkbox on GM side
They’re doing extra work to disable it because they want to render the car worthless when after a few years when the os is outdated and the user doesn’t pay a subscription for maps
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
It’s the usual rename and replace that Microsoft love to do.
“OneNote for Windows 10” is going to be replaced by “OneNote for Windows”
Why they always do the kill, rename and replace instead of just replace with an update? Each kill&replace operation leads to lost users…
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 1 week ago:
MacOS has an expiration date that in average is 5-6 years since that particular model was put on sale. You can continue using MacOS without updates, but apps will start to complain when you’re 2 versions behind and it will be almost unusable when you’re 4 versions behind. Doesn’t reach ten years.
Microsoft noticed this and saw that people still continued to give money to Apple so they introduced an artificial limitation on Windows 11, forcing everyone with a computer with a processor made before 2018 to buy a new one or switch to Linux
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 1 week ago:
A MacBook is on the upgrade treadmill even faster than windows lol
- Comment on SHUT UP ABOUT NICOLE 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how they bother to change the photo with a very similar but almost identical one but always copy-paste the same text, isn’t the opposite way easier?
- Comment on Eutelsat almost triples its value on prospect of Ukraine replacing Starlink with OneWeb 4 weeks ago:
or that you won’t get baited&switched with the “we will give thousands of completely free* terminals”
*=each “free” terminal is subject to a $500/month usage fee
- Eutelsat almost triples its value on prospect of Ukraine replacing Starlink with OneWebwww.marketscreener.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars? 4 weeks ago:
Wish granted. Someone bought your citizenship. You have 30 minutes to vacate the country.
Funds unfortunately were funneled into Trump
slush fundpresidential library fund so you won’t get a penny. Sorry about that - Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 4 weeks ago:
It will cost too much because they can’t get back R&D money back via sales of proprietary ink and spare parts, plus competitors will immediately take advantage of your improvements
Like a prusa (open source 3d printer) costs like 3 bambulab (walled garden closed source 3d printer that uses a fork of prusa slicer)
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 4 weeks ago:
no no, he means free overtime. Like a reverse “20% policy”
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Android TV and any file with embedded subtitles. Only external subtitles, if present, are shown. I understood that is because I’m using AMD hardware encoding and I assumed it was unfixable. Didn’t investigate more as I’m going to switch to Intel soon
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Not op but in my case it’s the client ignoring embedded subtitles
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 month ago:
Why it’s missing a star? Directly printed from the ai prompt?
It’s not that difficult to clone a star with modern software…
- Comment on US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan 1 month ago:
Isn’t the check engine light simply a timer and not an actual sensor? Programmed to light at least once a year and at least every 5k miles
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
The files now use a different kind of DRM that hasn’t been defeated yet.
The purpose of using the soon to be removed feature was to get files with an older encryption that can be easily removed
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
In my country the only way that someone has the same number is if someone was born on the same day (±1 century), in the same city and has the same name and family name. Is extremely difficult to have duplicates in that way (exception: immigrants, because the “city code” is the same for the whole foreign country, so it’s not impossible that there are two Ananya Gupta born on the same day in the whole India)
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 month ago:
What? I searched for it and it’s not a joke? There’s an actual Faith office in the USA? That’s something you would expect in Iran, not the USA
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 2 months ago:
I already saw dishonest advertisers making fake ai profiles to promote their shit
On the short term it works.
On the long term, who’s going to check Facebook if it’s all ads and slop?
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 2 months ago:
Question: SNS stands for social network services, but if this message predates Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, what it was? MySpace or msn Messenger?
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 2 months ago:
When all the flavor buds were covered by cigarette tar
- Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo 4 months ago:
What’s the point then when the important information can’t be freely read by the population without a xitter account. It made sense when you could read tweets without forced login, but now is useless
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
Probably a lower adoption rate than Vista