Cryxtalix

@Cryxtalix@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what’s going to happen to the electron frontends if machines are bottlenecked by ram so bad. Wasn’t facebook just planning to switch whatsapp’s frontend to webview as well? And win11’s desktop is electron too. Yo there’s not enough ram for all this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What. My six year old cheapo Acer laptop that got my broke ass through college had 16gb ram. My raspberry pi has 8gb of ram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know, none. “Smart” in smart TVs means ads, data collection and profit, they aren’t about to money on the table.

  The only way to get “dumb” TVs is to purchase digital signage TVs meant for in-store displays and other business use. In fact, they’re better than ordinary TVs with improved cooling and rated lifespans, specially designed to run 24 hours a day in a cafe or smth.

  Unfortunately, companies don’t sell it to individuals, you have to buy it as a company. You either have to buy used or set up your own shell company. I’m this close to setting up a fake company to buy a TV, but I’m not sure if it’ll work. Hopefully there’s no secret legally binding TOS or smth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as we provide the “rosetta stone”, it can be recovered? As long as as humans haven’t succumed to brainrot and still have capacity for math and logic, we can figure it out. It’s encoded, not encrypted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree with porn as an example. It clearly isn’t a social activity.

  Alcohol on the other hand… Haven’t you heard that Gen z and younger have much lower rates of drinking? Social drinking is on the decline, and I argue it supports my theory. Their friends aren’t drinking socially as much, so many don’t either.

  I don’t think VPN are going to get much better than say. Good VPNs are paid services, and it’s kids under 18 we’re talking about here. They would need to maintain a recurring VPN subscription fee. Free VPNs very much aren’t the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully believe it will work. The point is not to make it impossible to visit, but very annoying to. I cannot forsee the average kid maintaining access for very long, especially when most of their and their friends accounts were deleted.

  Less of their friends will be online, access is more annoying than ever, eventually they’ll no longer have any reason to want to go back.