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- Comment on You Can Now Jailbreak A PS4 With An LG TV 5 months ago:
The people with appropriate skills must have the tv (it’s not cheap) and actually interested in jailbreaking them. So far noone has done so.
- Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. 5 months ago:
- Comment on "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded 5 months ago:
Supposedly they found a new method (Q*) that significantly improved their models, enough to make some key people revolt to force the company to not monetize it out of ethical concern. Those people have been pushed out ofc.
- Comment on Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch 5 months ago:
The problem is, these new phones often have new speed charging protocols that only work best with their own charger, basically forcing you to pay more to get the charger if you want to utilize speed charging unless you already have a new-ish charger from that manufacturer.
- Comment on Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch 5 months ago:
IIRC Samsung doesn’t allow OEM unlock on snapdragon devices sold in US.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
Which EV brands? Those Chinese EVs aren’t created equal, the good ones are great for its price, while the bad one should be named and shamed.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
Are they still doing the EV credit thing?
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
Thanks to Unicode, 𝓱𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻2 is a very strong password now.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
The Bolt isn’t cheap though (almost 2x of Honda Fit price), and wasn’t produced in sufficient quantity. The Chinese EV companies are somehow able to produce entry level EV models with minimal features at a price cheaper than Honda Fit and they’re selling like hot cakes both domestically and in neighboring Asian countries.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
Just producing EV versions of Honda Fit or Ford Fiesta like what the Chinese EV makers do is enough. Instead, they keep producing EVs with luxury features (and high price tags) then surprised people won’t buy them without subsidy.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 6 months ago:
A car as cheap as a moped. Amazing!
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
It’s sad that you can’t replace the infotainment unit in a new car with an aftermarket unit anymore. I imagine 10 years from now we’ll have a fleet of cars with outdated infotainment systems that can’t connect with whatever future version of bluetooth/carplay/android auto anymore. Imagine driving cars with giant but useless infotainment screens that can’t do anything but playing mp3 off a USB stick because its outdated system can’t connect to your new phone.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
If you’re one of a tribe living in the jungle of West Papua, then yeah, it’s basically survival of the fittest there with no electricity or modern amenities. If you’re living in a city then it’s no different than the rest of the region, but with small risks of armed conflict with the separatist group.
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 6 months ago:
Speedrunners must be able to speedrunning irl.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 6 months ago:
The amount of junk polluting the internet is growing exponentially. I won’t be surprised if future historians have trouble separating the truth from fiction, shit posts and LLM craps.
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 6 months ago:
Just for some perspective, if you want to know how little reach the fedi post with the link to this blog post got: the first post in this thread already has more likes and boosts after less than a hour since posting it than my blog post ever did that he felt the need to confront me over.
The author probably wasn’t aware that their blog post has a huge engagement in hacker news just the day before and the CEO got roasted there, so the CEO probably felt the need to contact the author to “correct” their post.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 6 months ago:
Steam is available in 237 countries, while PSN is only available in 69 countries. Some people are going to be locked out from the game they bought.
- Comment on Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game! 6 months ago:
Hmm, what do you mean when a tank game has a tankies reputation?
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 6 months ago:
I’m more of a Space Impact guy
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 6 months ago:
Coincidence or not, it must’ve caused a chilling effect to other whistleblowers.
- Comment on What's a good budget home server? 6 months ago:
Power scaling for these old CPU is not great though. Mine is slightly newer and on idle it still uses 50% of the TDP.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 6 months ago:
The term “Android” itself is trademarked and can’t be used by hardware manufacturers without passing certification and paying Google.
- Comment on What's a good budget home server? 6 months ago:
Xeon E5-2670, with 115W TDP, which means 2x115=230W for the processor alone. with 8 ram modules @ ~3W each, it’ll going to guzzle ~250W when under some loads, while screaming like a jet engine.
Would be great if you have an isolated server room to contain the noise and cheap electricity, but more modern workstation should use at least 1/4 of electricity or even less.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 6 months ago:
Technically you can’t call it “Android” without paying Google for certification and play store/gapps license. It’s AOSP.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 6 months ago:
You’d be surprised how many companies ignore GPL. Providing broken links to the source code tarballs, telling you to send an email request to get the code then proceed to ignore the requests, etc. Only the most famous case got sued, the rest simply got away with it.
- Comment on Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads 6 months ago:
Everything will cost so much less that Universal Basic Income wouldn’t need to be anywhere near as high as it is right now to be “living wage”.
Assuming companies would pass the saving to their customers, which is usually not the case these days.
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 6 months ago:
When self-driving cars finally become a reality (working reliably on any condition without constant supervision), I suspect many people would skip buying house and buy these cars instead because it’ll be so much cheaper. After work, you hop into your car and take a nap, then wake up in a diner’s parking lot. Go back to the car again after eating to sleep, and wake up in the morning already in your office’s parking lot. Basically homeless but never need to worry about cop because the car constantly moves while you’re sleeping, making circuit around the city until it finally take you back to your office’s parking lot.
- Comment on Google Feed alternative 6 months ago:
Google Reader was the best. Not sure why Google killed it, but it was really good at both content discovery and keeping up with sites you’re interested in. I tried several alternatives but nothing came close, so I gave up and hung out more on forums / link aggregators like slashdot, hacker news, reddit and now lemmy for content discovery.
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 6 months ago:
You can always install an EV conversion kit to old cars.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 6 months ago:
Google, who was famous for employing Guido van Rossum (creator of Python) is now firing their python team. Guido van Rossum is now working at Microsoft now.
