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- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 18 hours ago:
- Comment on Beijing Unveils Supercritical CO2 Turbine That Could Upend Power Tech | OilPrice.com 1 day 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 days 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 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
and I was being a dork about saying it, but damn, imagine some nachos with a salsa like that.
- Comment on Go Green 3 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear… I crossed them and got a really thc heavy ketchup instead.
- Comment on Go Green 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Alternative:
You’re so poor that when AWS goes down you can still sleep in your own bed.
- Comment on TiVo Rides Into the Sunset 5 weeks ago:
As someone who paid $500 USD for the lifetime pass and went through 3 TiVo units over 20 years: So long and thanks for all the ad-free moments.
- Comment on OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas 5 weeks ago:
You have named your OAI browser companion: Clippy
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 1 month ago:
Dinky Dick Dimensia Don
- Comment on Oracle, Silver Lake consortium to control 80% stake in TikTok in US, WSJ reports 2 months ago:
May ticktok die a horrendous death.
Oracle: Old Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
Guaranteed Oracle will do its best to marginalize 100% of all contributions while maximizing its profits.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 2 months ago:
Linux: No ads, it’s free and easier than ever to install.
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 2 months ago:
Thank you for this. I was setting up to buy an nvidia shield to replace my roku ultras.
FWIW, I have so far tried:
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Onn Google TV 4K: Returned it, freezes constantly.
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Jailbroken AMZ fire stick w/ LineageOS. Buffering issues and wireless issues in general. I still use it, but not my favorite.
So for now it seems my next purchase will be a TiVo Stream 4k android device and if that fails, I may just have to DIY an android Pi system lol.
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- Comment on 2 months ago:
Beyond the Sword with Leonard Nemoy narrating of course.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This. Fuck 2K Games, quit buying their shitty EA level titles and move on.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO 2 months ago:
Same thing happened after WW1 too btw. The strong anti-German sentiments across the US and Europe prompted multiple changes. William and Vilhelm became Bills or Ville; Müller became Miller; Schmidt became Smith.
I had a lot of Swedish family who did this from around 1915-1930 and as you said, again after WW2.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 months ago:
Do as I say, not as I do!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Circle Jerking to the left
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday 3 months ago:
No wonder there were so few Chinese sourced hack attempts in my corporate F5 firewall logs last night lol.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 3 months ago:
Paypal changed banks and cannot accept currencies from most countries, resulting in the failures Steam is seeing. Source:
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 3 months ago:
At least they offer a fix for it:
Head to about:config in a new tab, accept the risk warning, and use the search bar to find the controls. To kill the AI chatbot feature, search for browser.ml.chat.enabled and set it to false. To stop smart tab grouping, search for browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled and set it to false.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 3 months ago:
Germany and a handful of other countries have been moving to Linux over the past decade. Betting the rate of uptick speeds up now though.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 3 months ago:
Does this also mean Microsoft would allow China to spy on the US if asked?
Reference: arstechnica.com/…/microsoft-to-stop-using-china-b…
