LifeInOregon
@LifeInOregon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair 9 months ago:
Apple didn’t solder RAM to their devices in 2010 +/- 1 year
The exception was the MacBook Air.
- Comment on HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies 10 months ago:
The old Apple AirPort Express could turn any USB printer into a networked printer.
- Comment on Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees 10 months ago:
11% increase in revenue. Lays off a thousand employees. Great to see capitalism working for people and not corporations.
- Comment on Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives 10 months ago:
This is why I block users who share garbage after the first few times I notice it. For example, this will be the last post I see from OP.
- Comment on Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software 11 months ago:
Windows Phone seven was three years away from unveiling and nearly 4 from release.
- Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader 11 months ago:
Kobo and Boox are both great alternatives to Kindles.
- Comment on Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications 11 months ago:
Nobody would define that as mainstream.
- Comment on Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin 11 months ago:
- Comment on The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge 11 months ago:
200m active users on a platform that has 1.4 billion accounts? Okay.
- Comment on Beeper Mini Is Back 11 months ago:
I always send an iCloud link for photos when I know that there’s someone who may not be using an iPhone. I’m not sure why others don’t. It’s especially useful when sending large numbers of pictures.
- Comment on Beeper Mini Is Back 11 months ago:
If they enable iCloud sync for messages it will update everywhere, they can also make sure they have Text Message Forwarding selected on their phone. They’ll get the messages in a timely manner (I get mine at the exact same time as my phone) and read messages will be reflected in all locations. I’ve been using iMessage on a Mac, iPad, and iPhone in some combination or other since the feature was offered, and the only issue I’ve ever had with sync was when I did a clean setup on a new Mac instead of a setup from backup. The above options weren’t selected.
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
There is a small sliver of Google that wants you as a customer. Maybe that’s the sliver that makes the Pixel line, but Pixel phones are not Google’s business, Google’s business is acquiring your information and selling it or leveraging it to increase ad revenue. Google is not a hardware company, though they sell hardware. Google is not an entertainment company, though they will sell you movies and music. Google is not a consumer software company, though they do provide software and services targeted at consumers and businesses. Google is an advertising company. If you buy hardware from them, and you like it, that’s great, but they are less concerned about your experience as an end-user than they are about acquiring your data to further their ad sales. If making a quality experience for you as a user Improves the likelihood of acquiring more data, they improve the quality of your experience. But if an improved experience hampers their ability to acquire more revenue through ad sales, they will hamper your experience or shut down a product that isn’t directly increasing their data collection and add sales. See: rolling everything content related into the YouTube brand and increasingly hampering the experience of those who use ad blockers or privacy focused browsers.
You may consider yourself a customer of Google, but until you’re giving them millions of dollars every quarter, you are just a user. Google’s profits from every hardware device they’ve ever sold is just a rounding error on a single quarter of the massive amounts of money they make selling ads.
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
I know it sounds like a cliche, but you are not Google’s customer. You are a “user” and Google sells users to their customers. Your data and attention are their products.
- Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 11 months ago:
This is how I understood the comment:
Wrapped gets Spotify a lot of positive buzz. Layoffs while that buzz happens may get less notice, because people are on the “look at all the neat Spotify numbers” train and essentially advertising good vibes for the platform.
- Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 11 months ago:
This is how I understood the comment:
Wrapped gets Spotify a lot of positive buzz. Layoffs while that buzz happens may get less notice, because people are on the “look at all the neat Spotify numbers” train and essentially advertising good vibes for the platform.
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 11 months ago:
Blu-Ray discs can carry offline updates that blacklist other discs. All players must support these updates as part of licensing the technology. All your blu-rays may play today, but if an update comes along to revoke the license on a title and you play a disc that carries the update that enables that revocation, it won’t play back on your device. It’s occasionally been used to disable known pirated discs, and so far hasn’t been used on licensed materials, but “so far” is never much assurance.
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 11 months ago:
Blu-Ray discs can carry mandatory software updates that change the functionality of playback devices, add “protections” against “piracy, and could potentially revoke licenses of content on other discs.
Media companies are prepared to screw you over regardless of wether or not you but content from them. I do believe in paying for content, but I don’t trust any modern distribution to last, so I have a couple backups of all the media I’ve ever purchased. And for formats that make it difficult to back up, I sail the seven seas.
- Comment on Fusion 360 increasing annual price by $190 USD 11 months ago:
I’ve started watching a freeCAD tutorial series on YouTube. It’s a little slow going, since I don’t have a huge amount of time to dedicate to it, but it’s amazing how quickly the basics can be picked up.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 11 months ago:
Fair enough. I use an Apple TV and Infuse in my living room on my main TV, so I didn’t even think about how the 4 needed to have things transcoded for it. Infuse natively decodes almost everything I throw at it. How do Harmy’s despecialized compare to 4k77?
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 11 months ago:
Even the Pi 4 runs Kodi just fine.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 11 months ago:
Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 4 is pretty good, and you can run moonlight from within Kodi. Of course, you have to find a reasonably priced Pi…
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 11 months ago:
I think the general public isn’t stupid in this instance, I think they’re just cheap. I have a friend who filled his house with Echo speakers and bragged that it was less expensive than a couple HomePods or Sonos speakers. When I pointed out that Alexa made shopping suggestions after a request he made, he kinda brushed it off, but a few months later he disconnected them all when he noticed private conversations around the house were influencing his Amazon recommendations. He’s fortunate enough to have learned from his mistake and been able to afford to fix it. A lot of folks see a 4k streaming device for $30, compare it to something like the Nvidia shield or the Apple TV, and think it’s a great deal. When they find themselves frustrated by advertising a couple days, weeks, or months later (or maybe desensitized to it like a frog in boiling water), it’s too late. They’ve already spent their money, and/or assume that this is just what all streaming devices are like, so why spend more for this experience?
Stupidity? Probably not, just cheapness and an ignorance of how low cost hardware stays low cost.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion XL Turbo can generate AI images as fast as you can type 11 months ago:
These features are abnormally asymmetric to the point of being off-putting. General symmetry of features is a significant part of what attracts people one to another, and why facial droops from things like Bells Palsy or strokes can often be psychologically difficult for the patient who experiences them.
General symmetry, not exact symmetry.
- Comment on A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography 11 months ago:
Those arm positions occur over the course of a fluid motion in a single second. How long does it take for you to drop your hands to your side or raise them to clasped from the side? It doesn’t take me more than about half a second as a deliberate movement.
- Comment on A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography 11 months ago:
Generally the final photo is an accurate representation of a moment. Everything in this photo happened. It’s not really generating anything that wasn’t there. You can sometimes get similar results by exploiting the rolling shutter effect.
camerareviews.com/rolling-shutter/
It’s not like they’re superimposing an image of the moon over a night sky photo to fake astrophotography or something.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion XL Turbo can generate AI images as fast as you can type 11 months ago:
And the resulting faces still all have lazy eyes, asymmetric features, and significantly uncanny issues.
- Comment on AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro 11 months ago:
What are you on about? Somewhere else you said that Firefox alone causes “your” 8gb Mac to stutter.
That’s bull.
My personal Mac is a 32GB Macbook Pro, but we have an 8GB M1 iMac in our house that I actually use frequently. We picked it up as an open box item at Best Buy about a month after it came out. Just a couple of weeks ago I edited a wedding video on it when I’d accidentally left my Macbook at a friends house about an hour away. Final Cut handled three streams of 4k video just fine on 8GB. We are constantly using it as the primary slicer for files for our 3D printer. My kids run games on it using both Dolphin and Wine without issues.
And I’m not the only person who has done these things. There are people all over YouTube (especially two/three years ago) who were benchmarking and using the entry level M1 Macs for things just like this without the issues you are describing.
If you genuinely can’t even run Firefox without performance issues there’s something wrong with your machine specifically.
- Comment on AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro 11 months ago:
Apple buys companies like this all the time. Purchasing a company of this size would be like you or I opting for an extra shot of espresso at a coffee shop to them: trivial with significant competitive advantage.
- Comment on AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro 11 months ago:
Came here to say this. I know folks want to hate on Apple, and I do think that 16GB should ship in every Pro monikered machine, but 8GB of RAM in the M series packages is not the same as two 4GB DDR4/DDR5 RAM sticks in your laptop or desktop Windows machine. The hardware architecture inherently uses the RAM more efficiently, as does the OS written to target this hardware.
But, again, Apple should up the base RAM.
- Comment on Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social 11 months ago:
The eco chamber is the problem. It only increases the radicalization of people on either extreme.
