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- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 week ago:
Two decades later and I still miss my Blackberry keyboard.
I played with the Chinese Zinwa Q25 last year and it sooo felt like a Blackberry. Too bad the Q25 was plagued with issues or I would have bought one.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 2 weeks ago:
Shivers…
I remember when I signed up for SO and was immediately put off by the fact you couldn’t post a conversation asking for help until you had helped others out AND gotten enough positive points.
I still did it, but damn their moderation system is ass.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Halifax Studio Just After Employees Unionized [Updated] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like Assassin’s Creed or Tom Clancy’s games enough anyway: Ubisoft now blocked on my Steam list.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 2 weeks ago:
SO PTSD is real.
- Comment on Solder-It-Yourself DDR5: Russian modders pitch the Idea of making their own RAM 4 weeks ago:
Still waiting for that DDR5 update so I can download more RAM… Funny how old memes can make a full recovery to relevance.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 4 weeks ago:
Minix and FreeBSD…
/runs; hides
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 5 weeks ago:
They put their brand before user security and sustainability. And still have the gall to claim to be ethical.
Wait wait wait. Where does Vivaldi say that in any way? On the contrary, they’re pretty damned clear about
Their brand vivaldi.com/for-a-better-web/
Vivaldi is headquartered In Norway, proudly employee-owned, with no external investors pulling the strings. This means we make decisions that are best for you, not for shareholders’ profit. We build the browser we want to use, listening to our users to create a web experience that’s free, powerful, and uniquely yours.
Their user security vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/
We strictly protect the security of any and all personal information you provide to us while using Vivaldi products and services. We do not share or sell information to any third party and we proactively protect all user data from disclosure, with the only exception being if requested by legitimate law agencies with a court order.
and their sustainability umatechnology.org/why-vivaldis-anti-ai-browser-is…
So I’m sorry, but your own comment sounds absurd because it lacks any proof thereof.
None are so cursed as those who fail to learn from history.
No disagreement there, but Vivaldi isn’t repeating anything that’s been tried before. Vivaldi is an employee owned company that wants to succeed, wants to offer the best interface, security and features to the general public it can whilst simultaneously keeping itself uniquely true to its values and survival. Gee, so horrible of it to want to scrape a living for its employee owners. Ridiculousness indeed.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 5 weeks ago:
I get the resentment for closed source and the love for FOSS, but just because it’s closed doesn’t mean it’s bad.
I’ve been a Slackware user since 1994 and if you’ve ever used sg3_utils or lsscsi, you’ve used my code lol.
I just cannot commit to fanboing like that as there’s reasons even today not to gnu everything. Vivaldi has a descent reason too vivaldi.com/…/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-sourc…
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 5 weeks ago:
that wasn’t the question lol.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 5 weeks ago:
Vivaldi for me.
It is based on Opera, but is nothing like the Opera company, does a really good job at blocking ads out of the box and is lighter in ram than FF android.
- Comment on Thank god! 1 month ago:
Elmo: Hehehe, THAT tickles!
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- Comment on ChatGPT down again 1 month ago:
I have 3 lenovo thinksystem racks with the oldest being from 2015 and the newest v3 from late last year. I also have various other servers and storage of theirs.
They, Lenovo CAN be good, BUT Lenovo dislikes customers who want to have a 7-10yr life cycle and while we strive to keep it at 5-6 years, some have to go to 7-8 which is where Lenovo gets shitty. Lenovo supports their stuff for 5 years and that’s literally not even arguable because they say it everywhere. Yes, you can keep it as long as you want but they, Lenovo will not support it. This is where I try to use HPE as they allow some of their products to get updates for decades… HPE MSA storage, Alletra/Nimble storage and HPE DL3xx servers specifically. We’re also an Aruba shop, which is now HPE so it just works best for us.
- Comment on ChatGPT down again 1 month ago:
Longer than 30 years I assure you.
I buy HPE where I can, but “stop buying their shit” isn’t in any company guidelines and even people like me who dictate what the company buys ends up dealing with Dell and Lenovo server dogshit systems from other vendors.
Literally unavoidable.
- Comment on ChatGPT down again 1 month ago:
Dell Premier Business actually and their servers aren’t bad.
- Comment on ChatGPT down again 1 month ago:
32 minutes waiting for Dell Tech Support
Finally get in and they say their system is down.
Is your system based on ChatGPT? I asked.
I think so she says.
fml. ridiculous.
- Comment on Inside Amazon: Who pays the price? 1 month ago:
well done investigative documentary
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 1 month ago:
- Comment on Beijing Unveils Supercritical CO2 Turbine That Could Upend Power Tech | OilPrice.com 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’ll wait for the peer review, thanks.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 months ago:
Thing is, this isn’t new in the slightest.
I remember calling around to different PC stores in the 90s and early 00s to find the cheapest RAM and hard drive prices.
Before that, I remember my grandfather, an IBM employee in the 60s-90s calling places looking for best pricing on 64k-128k SIPP memory for an ibm pizzabox 286.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 2 months ago:
Wall Street didn’t learn from past events and is doomed to repeat history?
Shocking… /s
- Comment on Alphabet Workers Union Statement on YouTube Offering Voluntary Exit Packages 2 months ago:
Nothing screams ‘I need attention’ more than consistently trying to troll everything you post on.
So what’s wrong beella?
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 2 months ago:
IoT isn’t exactly reliable and many, including the rich are trying to reverse the IoT trend: hollywoodreporter.com/…/tech-free-homes-luxury-tr…
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 2 months ago:
Smart Energy Discount issues from the personal view of a consumer.
These plans work by sending you notifications that they will be reducing your thermostat for you when there is an energy crunch.
Sounds good so far, here’s the issues I had:
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Let’s say you are a good consumer and let them change your thermostat to 85’F when it’s 100’F every single time… You saved… $5!!! and got to sweat profusely in your own home in the process.
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Let’s say you were working in the yard and come in sweaty amd needing to cool off. If you change that thermostat while they are in control of it, you lose your whole $5 for not just that day, but the entire billing cycle.
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Let’s say you want to exit the plan. Now you’re on the hook to wait on hold with your energy company for hours waiting for the one department and probably one person who can unenroll you. Chances are likely even then that they can screw it up and like in my case, both Google and my southern California electrical company claim ignorance anything was done wrong yet keep me enrolled.
In short and in summary: It’s a trap because the savings is far, far too small for the sacrifice.
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- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 2 months ago:
Jokes on them, I block my Nest from talking to the Internet so my electrical company cannot control the damned thing. They had control even after I opted out and Google insisted they unenrolled me in the energy savings plan. Don’t enroll in these plans [insert it’s a trap gif].
- Comment on Go Green 2 months ago:
and I was being a dork about saying it, but damn, imagine some nachos with a salsa like that.
- Comment on Go Green 2 months ago:
Instructions unclear… I crossed them and got a really thc heavy ketchup instead.
- Comment on Go Green 2 months ago:
You are correct, but a fun fact most don’t know:
Tomatoes are related to potatoes!
The both come from the same nightshade family: Solanaceae.
- Comment on Bending Spoons to acquire AOL 2 months ago:
Doesn’t mean they will keep the name for EU customers. The value there is in the IP and the infrastructure configuration.
- Comment on Bending Spoons to acquire AOL 2 months ago:
The idea here is to rebrand and modernize AOL as a gmail and cyber security alternative with decoupled infrastructure from US dependencies: A highly political topic in the EU currently.
