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- Comment on MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis 2 months ago:
Where do I get the keyboard as a part from? I bought a keyboard from a seemingly branded seller on Aliexpress and the keyboard was really shit. The spacebar didn’t balance at the edges and all the key felt mushy.
I also bought a battery from iFixit and got two warranty replacements and not a single one lasted more than a few hours before bricking itself. As in the battery still measured a voltage and it could keep the ram contents in sleep but the controller/battery info no longer showed up in macOS.
I can do these repairs as difficult as they are but where do I actually get the parts from?
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 4 months ago:
Pretty sure Spotify is more powerless than you think. The record labels nearly burned their industry to the ground in the 2000s over digital piracy.
Netflix wouldn’t be around today if it wasn’t for their move into becoming their own movie studio thanks to just about every big Hollywood studio pulling out, arrogantly thinking that they can each run their own service for a bigger slice of the pie. Newsflash, it’s going really bad. Especially for Disney, who deserve everything coming to them.
I reckon if Spotify makes even a small move to undermine the big record labels, they would yank all the popular music. Spotify either wouldn’t last long or best case they down size into a niche music platform.
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 5 months ago:
I’m not defending Sony. Though I am also trying to discuss the industry standard practices that they operate in. That said how come Valve lets you keep any purchased game after the license is revoked but nearly every other digital store doesn’t or is hit and miss. It’s clearly something in the contract/licensing deal.
In other words Sony could choose to play hard ball and only sign contracts that permit continuous use of content after purchasing it. Thereby allowing something closer to actual ownership. Though the question is whether Sony and other digital marketplaces can convince rights holders to agree to such terms in the movie/tv industry.
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 5 months ago:
I think most rational people hate the game rather than Sony directly. We don’t care if that’s the rules Sony or anyone else has to play by. It’s time for the industry to evolve or die.
In-fact I reckon if we see digital retailers reject “selling” digital content because it’s not profitable due to end customers rejecting the terms, the studios licensing the content would evolve overnight.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 5 months ago:
I to this day have proudly never bought anything from Amazon (unless you count the one ebay purchase that was shipped from Amazon without my knowledge). However I have run into a couple of products, namely quality name brand USB4 cables (Plugable and Ugreen) that I for the life of me cannot find anywhere but Amazon in Australia.
So yes I have proudly survived without Amazon until very soon. I will try to continue to not use Amazon however with some sellers opting to exclusively sell on Amazon, I feel I am being left with no choice. It seems not enough boycotted Amazon when it mattered to the point that there are an increasing amount of items that are only available through them.
Facebook and Amazon are on my shit list due to their shear contempt for their customers/products and employees.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 5 months ago:
I was halfway through reading and thinking that it would be a wholesome ending. I guess not.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 5 months ago:
There are people who have attempted to get battery replacements for the early model Teslas and the price was either inanely high or most of the time unavailable. For all intents and purposes, I interpret this as the car is not meant to be serviced or repaired long term and therefore disposable.
Granted this is not exclusive to EVs. Most ICE vehicles made in the last 10 years have or will be affected by unavailable parts or worse, serialized parts. Much like FutureMotion’s Onewheel that Louis Rossmann has been covering, even if third parties are willing to make aftermarket parts, they either can’t bypass the DRM or if they do they will be sued into oblivion. Both EV and ICE cars are heading this way and it’s a environmental disaster.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 5 months ago:
I wish it was most. I think you can safely say all. As before the EV trend started, this tech started being used in regular ICE vehicles as well.
Unless you have found an example otherwise. It would be nice to at-least have one option.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 5 months ago:
I refuse to buy a DRM infested iPhone / un-rootable Android on wheels with data hoarding spyware and no access to service manuals, parts or service tools. Also decent build quality without excessive and inappropriate use of plastic. My car is a not a 10 year disposable item. ~< 2008 era cars for me.
- Comment on The government has announced plans to regulate smart TV home screens: what the new rules mean for yo 5 months ago:
Is this limited to ABC iView and maybe SBS. I hope it doesn’t include the others. God, can you imagine SkyNews coming preinstalled. Ugh.
- Comment on The government has announced plans to regulate smart TV home screens: what the new rules mean for yo 5 months ago:
I guess the argument is if your TV is going to come preloaded with subscription crap to provide easier access, then taxpayer funded “local” content should be just as easy to access. I think it’s a fair decision to have ABC iView, maybe SBS. God, can you imagine SkyNews coming preinstalled. Ugh.
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 5 months ago:
Well Doom 2016 at least. Doom Eternal fucked over Mick Gordon and DLCfyied the game. The cracks are forming.
- Comment on Is the government really trying to control your TV? Here's what its proposal on streaming apps means for you 5 months ago:
I don’t see the big deal. If the big American media companies get to have their apps preinstalled then I don’t see why local channels shouldn’t get the same treatment.
My bias is I would never connect my TV to the internet anyway.
- Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline 6 months ago:
Oh fuck Facebook. I haven’t given them a cent. But there is no denying the amazing game studios they bought out for exclusives. Such as Ready at Dawn’s Lone Echo. One of the best VR games period. I think I’ll try to virtualize that specific use case and use linux for more gaming.
- Comment on Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying 6 months ago:
My Apple Music vs Spotify argument is Spotify is a shitty excuse electron app that hogs compute and battery on my mac laptop. Compare that to even iTunes and it was an easy choice.
- Comment on Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying 6 months ago:
Yep. It has screwed up album art and as a very visual person it has really fucked my ability to browse through my library. Also the older the album/song was added, the more broken tracks there are.
As a result I am now working to switch away from Apple Music and streaming in general. I was perfectly happy paying the student price for Apple Music. However with it increasingly breaking my library and needing me to conduct “library maintenance” to keep up with their licensing issues. Well fuck that.
- Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline 6 months ago:
The problems is the games under it. Most notably game with anti-cheat and Oculus Rift desktop games. Does the Oculus client, revive and games work under linux?
- Comment on Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough 6 months ago:
The thing I loved about Apple 15+ years ago was that even though the hardware was expensive, it was semi modular and tightly integrated with the software and you got an offline product that you could also buy Apple server equipment and software for. 10 years ago was still ok but things were starting to erode.
These days there is no server software, no modularity, no ways to use enough of the new features without a cloud subscription and the hardware is just as expensive and designed with defects to limit it’s lifespan (in my opinion). They want to have their cake and eat it too. I was a proud Apple fan boy but not a blind one. Well now they can fuck off. Bye.
I’m now fanboying about Framework and Pine64.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 6 months ago:
But at least the user content doesn’t disappear into a black hole. Like what happened to parts of reddit.
- Comment on What's your favorite game through the ears of Original Soundtrack? 6 months ago:
Portal 2. I can listen to the soundtrack and visualize my journey through the game. It’s a goddamn masterpiece.
- Comment on Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC 6 months ago:
Aside from furthering the development of the architecture (I assume they are contributing and not just taking), It’s meaningless as Qualcomm couldn’t give two shits about open source chip documentation for the chips they release. I’m only interested in a native Linux phone. Meaning no BSP garbage.
- Comment on YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers 6 months ago:
Thanks for letting me know it should work. I decided to go through the process of disabling plugins on Firefox and YouTube Enhancer was the culprit. Do you know how I can get YouTube Enhancer back?
- Comment on YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers 6 months ago:
Doesn’t work anymore. I’ve had to use piped video for the past 2 days.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 7 months ago:
Of course it is. Open source nerds created lemmy and operate the instances. They are the primary audience that would care to abandon reddit over the API change and now the privacy policy change.
This is like going to a gun club and campaigning for better gun control. You might find a couple supporters but for the most part you’ll just be pissing everyone off.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 7 months ago:
GOG actually changed that policy to some degree. I don’t think it’s a guarantee that all GOG games are DRM free.
- Comment on Can I attach a 10GBase-LR to QSFP-40G-LR4 (CWDM)? 7 months ago:
Yes I am aware of that solution. I should have clarified the goal of the exercise. I’m trying to work out if I can make an easily interoperable system where a singlemode fiber wall jack fed from a 40G switch can act as a both a 10G or 40G port as needed. I am using singlemode as I want to avoid using MTP multimode cable seeing how much more expensive it is than simple lc-lc singlemode.
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- Comment on Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water 7 months ago:
Pretty sure a profit cap goes against the entire concept of the stock market. It would probably collapse it.
Cool. Where do I sign up?
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 7 months ago:
I’m playing around with OS development only as a hobby currently. I don’t know much about black box insides of macOS however I have used third party drivers as well as looked into how the kext system is structured and it really seems like a master class of software engineering. Having the drivers structured hierarchically under categories/subsystems and with multiple kernel API revisions supported means the kexts work over a wider lifespan.
Also comparing Apple to the rest of industry is not completely unreasonable for one reason. Modern register level documentation is hidden under shitty NDA’s and aren’t even complete half the time, with the usually poorly written SDK being used as documentation instead. Even better is when parts of the SDK are fucking binaries with no hopes of figuring out where the bug lies. The top dog of course is no SDK whatsoever and instead opting to release a fixed, factory compiled linux kernel release for Android only. I believe this is what Qualcomm mostly do and why those Android releases have a fixed lifespan of 3-5 years. When this is how over half the Android phone SoC market operates, I wonder how half of them make it to market working as well as they do.
Linux on the other hand is just a mess (In more ways than one. I have low opinions of it). That is not a good example of modular driver support. The unwillingness of the Linux community from both userspace applications / libraries and kernelspace to maintain a versioned API system with rigorous testing for compliance and to instead create a moving target is nothing short of a fucking joke. It’s no wonder Android can’t easily maintain cross-generation support. Then there is the lack of support for running different versions of libraries side by side as necessary.
I run a Linux server for home use as it’s still king in this regard and have sometime attempted to use Linux as a desktop. However I eventually come to the same conclusion that it’s just too unstable and “patched together”. My daily driver is still a mac, no matter how much I want to move away due to Apple’s worsening business practices.
Sorry for getting heated. It just really boils me when people defend poor software development practices because it the “industry standard”. I disdain manufactured e-waste stemming from rubbish software development practices.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 7 months ago:
You’re either a troll or an uninformed idiot who has never done operating system development. A properly modularised OS can have allow for minimal upkeep for older hardware. A leading example is Apple’s .kext system allowing for near 10 years of OS support both on macOS and iOS. Not that I think Apple is a great company but they do have some really good software development practices.