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@blitzen@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 6 days ago:
Perhaps. I guess my point is they no longer are as out-of-line with the rest of the market. Comment meant as a backhanded “compliment” toward Apple.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 6 days ago:
Apple over here not raising their RAM prices because they’ve always been massively and unjustifiably inflated. Now, they’re no longer unjustifiably inflated.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 1 week ago:
This particular sleaze is definitely male perpetuated and worth calling out. But shittiness knows no gender (or age or ethnicity for that matter.)
- Comment on Emotional Support From Social Media Found to Reduce Anxiety 1 week ago:
To paraphrase Homer Simpson:
“…the cause of, and solution to, all life’s problems.”
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 2 weeks ago:
I legitimately cannot tell the difference between 1080 and 4k, however I do wear glasses.
But 720 feels like garbage to me.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 2 weeks ago:
I feel like that was implied in my comment ;-)
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 2 weeks ago:
Hell, OLED and high bitrate 1080 is probably good enough for me for the rest of my life.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 weeks ago:
Kagi AI is opt-in. As in, you don’t go out of your way to use it, you won’t.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 2 weeks ago:
There is one, Mobilizon
- Comment on Who farted? 3 weeks ago:
Just as funny as when Scrubs did it.
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 3 weeks ago:
That was the opposite. The FBI got in, but without Apples help.
- Comment on How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5? 4 weeks ago:
The verge Vergecast podcast did a piece on RAM, and it’s well worth a listen. They talk about all sorts of RAM related things, the RAM in a Cybertruck being one of them. Sorry, I don’t remember the details but I remember it being lower than I thought; 8GB, maybe 16gb. Give it a listen.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 4 weeks ago:
8 years ago: buy Hugo Boss and Mercedes
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 4 weeks ago:
Just because the Spotify model sucks doesn’t mean it has to.
I don’t see a reason why 85% of a monthly subscription couldn’t given directly to the artists you actually listen to, and any albums your purchase is on the platform (and you get to keep the drm-free files).
Honestly it kinda sounds like an awesome service.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 4 weeks ago:
Would be cool if bandcamp had a streaming subscription.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 5 weeks ago:
But a good tv, and don’t connect it to the internet. Apple TV or Shield device.
- Comment on US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development 5 weeks ago:
Democrats are far from perfect, but republicans never propose anything reasonable.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 month ago:
The touch version is higher res and OLED.
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 1 month ago:
Finally, AI I can get behind.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 month ago:
Looks promising. If I can buy it with Linux, that’s a plus. And turn off the touchscreen.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 month ago:
Why not install Linux on your MacBook?
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 month ago:
The pessimist sees the notch as wasted space, the optimist sees it as extra screen.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 month ago:
You don’t use macOS do you? Any apps that have that many items on the menu bar are simply pushed to the right of the notch. There is 2” of blank menu bar in 99% of all use cases.
And if you still don’t like it, you bump the uninterrupted menu bar under the notch fully and everything above it (to the left and right of the notch) black as if there’s a bezel.
- Comment on I have no respect for people whose only motivation for refraining from drunk driving is because of the law 1 month ago:
So you have the same amount of respect for people who don’t refrain from drinking and driving as you do for those who refrain solely because of the law?
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 1 month ago:
I have the p1s, and don’t find the “lock in”problematic personally.
Really, it’s the Honda Accord of printers. It just works.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 1 month ago:
You’re gonna get some pushback from the open source people (and to some degree, I am one of them), but frankly the Bambu Labs printers are so goddamned easy and reliable you’d be a fool not to consider them.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 1 month ago:
That includes great, great grandparents.
Two of my great, great grandparents (my grandfather’s grandparents) were born in Canada. Reading through the law, I’m having trouble identifying exactly where this makes me eligible. Can I ask for a bit of help pointed in the right direction?
I have my birth certificate linking to my father, his birth certificate linking him to my grandfather. Then US census records linking my grandfather to my great grandmother, and US census records linking her to her (Canadian born) parents. I guess I need to find proof of their Canadian births…
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 month ago:
Opus is what I’m encoding my working library to. I like ripping to flac (and archiving them as such), but the advantages to smaller file sizes for the working library are worth it for me. So far, I’m really liking the format.
I keep the archive on spinning hard drives, but the opus library on ssd (which makes browsing much quicker, and no unnecessary spinning up the hard drives.)
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 month ago:
As far as I’ve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of “rare” music.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 month ago:
I agree the “harm” is small. But when the benefit is zero and the harm non-zero, the author is wasting our collective time.