mr_tyler_durden
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- Comment on 2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip 5 months ago:
I’m confused, my M1 MBP had like 1-2 things max that were x86 still that I needed and those ran fine on Rosetta.
I know docker is a bit more annoying but it’s not that bad IMHO.
- Comment on California clean energy industry rocked with widespread jobs losses, bankruptcies, following state’s dismantling of rooftop solar program 6 months ago:
“I drive for free”
So your solar panels didn’t cost anything? Look I’m very pro-solar but rooftop solar for residential makes sense for very few people. It’s not very efficient (even with the best panels available at the time) and the efficiency falls off over time as the panels degrade. Most rooftop solar savings calculations use absurd estimates for power costs in the future to justify themselves and take 10+ years to pay off. Furthermore selling a house with rooftop solar is harder due to having to find someone to take over the lease (which is needed to pay for it for most people).
None of this even starts to address the solar rooftop companies that have gone out of business while leaving their customer high and dry.
Again, I like solar but rooftop just doesn’t make sense for most people.
- Comment on California clean energy industry rocked with widespread jobs losses, bankruptcies, following state’s dismantling of rooftop solar program 6 months ago:
Honestly, this was a pretty stupid policy in the first place. The maintenance and upkeep for all the houses is way more than just putting solar in the field somewhere. It was a policy that sounded good on paper, but did not actually work in practice. A much better policy would be a community owned solar power facility. The solar panels we have today will be obsolete in five years time if not sooner, a dedicated solar facility would be able to update panels overtime and handle the maintenance at scale. Much easier than trying to upgrade or maintain solar panels on top of a bunch of peoples houses.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 6 months ago:
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I think this is actually a great thing for Mastodon. The truth is the majority of people are just never going to sign up for a Mastodon server as they stand today. The majority of people want algorithmic feeds run by a central entity. I know the people here don’t want that, but that’s what the majority of people do want. Will I use Threads? No but if this breathes more life into Mastodon and exposes more people to the concept then that is a good thing. Being able to use a client of your choice to interact with people on something like Threads is also a very good thing. The alternative is a completely closed social network like Twitter.
I know, I know “embrace, extend, extinguish”, but literally this is the best that we can hope for unfortunately. The alternative is everyone goes and uses a closed system.
- Comment on Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI 7 months ago:
I agree with you overall though I will say that MS throwing their weight around is really just a lot of hot air at the end of the day. They don’t have a board seat and they were told from the start that their invest should be seen as more of an investment. The non-profit is in control and MS can’t change that.
- Comment on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO 7 months ago:
How is it that all these comments miss the fact that there are zero leaks from the board (even anonymously) that this is the case? This is so clearly a move by Altman and his supporters to chum the waters and make the board look incompetent (when there is no evidence to corroborate it). “People in the know” is what you say when you can’t be more specific and could literally be any from my Altman himself to disgruntled employees. You can bet your bottom dollar if they had a real line into the board you’d give something much less wishy-washy.
Stop reading headlines as facts people.
- Comment on Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI 7 months ago:
This made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
Didn’t you fan boys learn after Elon? Altman is not something I’d recommend idolizing. From his crypto BS, to his preper stuff (saying he will survive in the apocalypse… sure), to the stuff his sister is saying he did to her, to his general doucheyness, to his attempts at regulatory capture…
- Comment on Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI 7 months ago:
That hasn’t been confirmed at all. No one from the board has commented even anonymously as far as I’ve seen. This is a play by Altman and his supporters to try and influence public opinion and make the board seem incompetent.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA reveals terms of ‘groundbreaking’ deal 7 months ago:
Amen. If there are sound effects then I’m not interested. All of those audio presentations or whatever they are called sound so forced and over-acted.
- Comment on Consumer Finance Protection Bureau wants to regulate Venmo, Apple Cash like banks | Digital wallets and payment applications would be affected by move. 7 months ago:
Anything the CFPB wants to regulate I’m 100% in favor of. The CFPB is an AMAZING tool to push back against corps with horrible customer service (to be fair Apple’s customer service has always been good for me). I’ve used the CFPB to get a corp to reply to me after brushing me off.
If money is involved at all and a business is giving you the run around I encourage you to file a complaint. They have to contact you with a few days and they actually want (or are required) to solve your issue.
- Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage 8 months ago:
Not to mention, you will get bored of it in two or three years and kill it off.
- Comment on Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” 8 months ago:
Proton and Rosetta 2 are two totally different beasts. One allows windows programs to run on non-windows hosts and one translates x86 to Arm.
I’m not aware of Proton doing anything like Rosetta 2 and if it did Steam would have probably used an Arm chip in their Steam Deck instead of an x86.
Maintaining 2-way compatibility doesn’t seem like an important goal. One way, x86->Arm, sure but not Arm->x86. Apple clearly sees x86 as a dead end for its own product lines and we will see if the rest of the industry follows suit over time. Of course there is a ton tied up in x86 but aside from legacy apps or games I don’t have much need of x86 in my life.
Even the servers I run are trending towards Arm due to the power savings. AWS graviton stuff is like ~25-30% cheaper than x86 last I looked
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 8 months ago:
Agreed. Should we also mourn for the horse and buggy drivers? The gas station attendants? And the whole slew of jobs that have become obsolete over the centuries?
I do think we need something like UBI and I’m not ignoring the lost jobs but shit jobs shouldn’t have to exist. I’ll mourn for the workers but not for the job. Continuing to employee people to do thankless/hard/dangerous/etc jobs is just silly.
- Comment on Apple may be quiet on AI, but it’s also the biggest buyer of AI companies 8 months ago:
Agreed. Apple is rarely first to use a technology, but they sort of “perfect it”, or release a version that works for a large amount of the populous. Obviously they don’t always hit home runs but very often when they release a product it sets a new baseline of what to expect out of that type of thing.
- Comment on Apple may be quiet on AI, but it’s also the biggest buyer of AI companies 8 months ago:
I think the current startup scene leads to some pretty perverse incentives, as we’ve seen. However, I agree with you, and something needs to fill the void. A number of these startups have a very hard to no path to profitability but the ideas they come up with and execute on aren’t happening at larger corps.
I think maybe with less of a monopoly/duopoly/etc we can move past the “you have to own the whole market or it’s not worth it”-mindset. That’s one thing I hate so much about SV/startup culture. You’re either a unicorn or you’re a failure, which is total bullshit but when VCs and the like are involved those are the only 2 options.
I have my own side business, it’s small right now but it could grow to support me fully. It will never be a billion dollar idea, it will never “change the world”, but it’s an honest job and over time if I keep growing it I could go full time on it. I wish more people aimed for something like that.
I’ll also get up on my soapbox and talk about how things like UBI, universal healthcare, and similar programs would make this path 10000x easier for people. Having a safety net and not having to pay a second mortgage for healthcare would be nice.
- Comment on iOS 17 Could Break Crucial Diabetic Glucose Monitor Alerts, Manufacturer Warns 9 months ago:
Incompetence.
That’s literally the only answer. My guess is they can find a fix which even further underscores their incompetence at not having it ready at launch. I’ll give indie devs and small companies a pass on not having day one support for a new OS but large corps and especially medical apps like this have no excuse.
- Comment on AI developing too fast for regulators to keep up, says Oliver Dowden 9 months ago:
s/AI/Technology/
Regulators still don’t understand basic things about the internet, why are we surprised?
- Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only 9 months ago:
It’s Jack Dorsey’s “Twitter but federated this time”, except there is only 1 instance, run by Jack…. But don’t worry, “Trust me bro” it will totally be federated/open.
Maybe it will be but until it is it’s just as bad as Twitter.
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 9 months ago:
Twitter refused to comment prior to the article, Twitter changes their policies like most of us change our underwear, and Twitter is will known to making capricious and spiteful decisions (see also delaying links to domains they don’t like).
Yes, how could anyone be so rude to jump to such conclusions /s
- Comment on The End of Airbnb in New York 9 months ago:
I mean Uber started as a black car service and wanted it to be possible for drivers to do it full time if they wanted. Neither Uber nor Lyft were ever billed as “make some money sharing a ride to where you are already driving”, the platform doesn’t even account/allow for that.
I fully agree on Airbnb but I don’t think the Uber example works.
- Comment on Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon 9 months ago:
The state AGs are slow on complaints but next time reach for the CFPB, they don’t mess around and you’ll get a call from a human (from Amazon) in a short amount of time.
I spent hours on hold with a company (not Amazon) and they kept giving me the run around. After filing a complaint I got a call back in less than 2 days by someone who immediately fixed the issue.
- Comment on Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It 10 months ago:
Wait, people think they are competently handling telecommunications?
That’s like saying ISPs are doing a good job…
- Comment on Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats 10 months ago:
For good reason. Honestly anyone pushing for RCS is an idiot or doesn’t understand what they are pushing for.
Among many issues (including E2E missing by default) the idea of giving any control back to carriers is just stupid.
- Comment on What’s the deal with Sensor Tower? 10 months ago:
I don’t think he’s defending a Meta product as much as he is calling out Sensor Tower for being scummy at best if not full of shit.