DarienGS
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- Comment on Gamecube is the most underrated console while it was in circulation. 10 months ago:
I dunno who told you the Wii U was 720p-only. Mine ran at 1080p all day, every day - albeit some games used upscaling to reduce the graphical workload.
- Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests 1 year ago:
I’m not talking about the merits or otherwise of “unified memory”, I’m pointing out that because Apple’s RAM is physically integrated into the CPU, it can provide more memory bandwidth than regular DDR5 DIMMs.
- Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests 1 year ago:
The LPDDR4X RAM in the Raspberry Pi isn’t QUITE the same as the on-die stuff in the M3 processor.
- Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests 1 year ago:
With Apple’s chips the RAM is all on the CPU die so both CPU and GPU get the performance benefit. With Intel’s, none of it is.
- Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests 1 year ago:
Apple’s RAM isn’t as cheap as you might think, because it’s all built directly onto the CPU die. That’s part of what makes its computers so fast.
- Comment on Make money with jump https://jumptdd1.top/#/register?code=GKBA5I 1 year ago:
It’s a shame we can’t downvote posts lower than zero.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Do you think Amazon gets its goods for free?
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Then buy something physical – there are literally millions upon millions of products he can spend the credit on.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
They gave him regular Amazon credit, so he can spend it on physical goods if he likes.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
It’s Amazon, dude. You may not like their business practices but it’s a fair bet they’re going to have something you want at a decent price.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
You’re saying you can’t buy to own anything… at Amazon?
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
They gave the guy £10.99 in credit for a £5.99 film, so they’re probably taking some sort of loss.
- Comment on You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users 1 year ago:
forced cloud spyware which at this point is the entire OS now
- Comment on How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should 1 year ago:
Google doesn’t track everything. The browser determines your interests locally; the only information shared with Google (and advertisers) is which broad topics you’ve recently shown an interest in.
- Comment on How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should 1 year ago:
I read this article from top to bottom and didn’t find a clear explanation of why you should disable this feature.
- Comment on iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F 1 year ago:
There are a lot more Europeans online than Americans (not to mention a few billion internet users on other continents), so when Americans post temperatures exclusively in Fahrenheit it comes off as kinda thoughtlessly parochial.
- Comment on Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec 1 year ago:
From the article:
Amazon has bet big on AI, with the company unveiling a new, AI-powered version of Alexa alongside updated versions of its Echo Frames and Carrera smart glasses last week.
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 1 year ago:
It’s screen-on time, and ten hours is quite normal for the Poco F2.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 1 year ago:
The update was impossible to revert (though TP-Link said “Ok write to our support and we’ll give you the downgrade file” no fuck you).
That doesn’t sound like it was impossible, it sounds like you just didn’t want to do it.
- Comment on Uber was supposed to help traffic. It didn’t. Robotaxis will be even worse 1 year ago:
Robotaxis could potentially help traffic by being smaller than current cars. The vast majority of journeys shouldn’t require anything bigger than a Renault Twizzy.
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 1 year ago:
I’d love to debate this with you properly but I’ve got COVID right now and don’t have the energy to put together a decent response, sorry. Basically I just don’t see how the specific features in the new Chrome build let advertisers do anything they can’t already do. I don’t see how they contribute to ads getting worse, or where “nickel and diming” comes into it.
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 1 year ago:
I know what the Topics API does. I’m asking for a concrete example of exactly how it’s going to make my internet experience worse. (That Register article doesn’t provide one.)
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 1 year ago:
Serious question: let’s say I continue using Chrome and Privacy Sandbox becomes the norm. How does my internet experience get worse?
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 1 year ago:
The whole point of the Privacy Sandbox is that Google is NOT sharing your browsing history with advertising partners. All that’s shared is information about whether or not your usage of Chrome suggests an interest in specific topics. The current list of topics is here: github.com/…/taxonomy_v1.md
- Comment on CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab 1 year ago:
That sounds pretty useful, why did it stop?
- Comment on My reddit web viewer still works! Story: When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I uploaded a web viewer I have been using for myself to Github pages for everyone to use... 1 year ago:
Because I want Lemmy to succeed and grow, I’m making a real effort to contribute to discussions where previously I’d have just thought things to myself and moved on. I really hope more people do the same so we can start to sustain those more niche forums.
- Comment on Cerabyte Ceramic Storage Poised to Usher in 'Yottabyte Era' 1 year ago:
Oh jeez, that’s me.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years 1 year ago:
My goto for distrust of MS …wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
There’s not a single reference on that page that’s less than 20 years old. Yes, Microsoft did some anticompetitive stuff back when Bill Gates was CEO, but it’s absurd to suggest that that still “informs what their future actions are likely to be”. A lot has changed since the 1990s.
- Comment on Intel demos 528-thread chip with 1TB/s of optical bandwidth 1 year ago:
528 threads? Sounds perfect for my Chrome tabs.
- Comment on Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way 1 year ago:
You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”
I actually find myself wondering this a lot. Mastodon doesn’t allow people to add comments to things they’re reposting, so you’re left guessing as to why they elected to insert something from an unfamiliar account into your timeline.
Mastodon is also short on tools for discovering interesting new posts and accounts that aren’t already on your radar. In this regard I agree that it’s behind the times. Threads handles this much better, giving you a classic chronological feed of people you’re following plus an algorithmic feed that shows you things that are popular with people like you.