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- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 6 months ago:
didn’t go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux
you will run into similar restrictions on other services that use drm.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 6 months ago:
my old phones (going back all the way to the 'real' nokias) went a full month between charges. the last two with 4g volte suck so much power, it is every 2-3 days now, including my current hmd-made nokia with same capacity battery as what's stated in the article for the 'new' one.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 6 months ago:
i have a flip phone. i don't use sms, but occasionally i make a quick note in the little 'notepad'. the good ol' tap-tap-tap is more efficient than its horrible predictive text.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 6 months ago:
it was spun-off from asus in '02, then acquired by a different spin-off in '10 which asus retains significant ownership of. so, yea, basically asrock is their "discount" brand,
- Comment on xkcd #2923: Scary Triangles 6 months ago:
aren't icebergs the 'icebergs of the sea'?
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 6 months ago:
for every person that figures out how to disable this, there are many thousands of others who don't... which is why they pull this shit in the first place--and (usually) get away with it.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 6 months ago:
my utility charges $25 a month just to be hooked up. then there's taxes and some community bullshit fees on top of the actual electricity usage. so even though my usage has dropped quite a bit over the years, and the base rate hasn't really gone up that much (about 10-12% over two decades).. my bill is still more than double what it used to be.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 6 months ago:
the 'problem' is: you can't upgrade; you're stuck with that 8gb.
want more in a year or two? you have to buy a new mac. and that's apple's goal--sell more product. buyers will be back (because they're hooked on the platform and ecosystem) to buy a new one sooner than they otherwise would have.
- Comment on Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate 6 months ago:
so, tom's swings-and-misses... again?
- Comment on Intel’s 6.2 GHz Core i9-14900KS is a reminder of why the MHz wars ended 7 months ago:
it's even worse when you also look at the 65w variants.
- Comment on House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok 8 months ago:
the legislation that needs to get passed, cannot, unless and until the house majority swings about 20 points the other way and the sliver of a majority in the senate is boosted by at least another 10.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
here in the boonies, every cellular carrier, every internet provider, every--everything... goes out with single fiber cut. even cable tv goes dark since they took out local headend here (connected now via fiber to a town an hour away).
except for POTS, and the voice and data carried on it. when the whole town gets cut-off from the outside world for a whole day or more, which has happened four times in the last four years. the good ol' shitty telco is still going; their cables are separate, and go entirely different directions out of town.
that's why we still have a landline at the office; having a line-powered phone for when the power goes out (also not uncommon) is just a bonus.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
it's nypost, did you expect accuracy?
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 8 months ago:
there's still the very real possibility they're hoovering all the encrypted data, too. and storing the stuff to/from 'interesting' end points for later 'analysis'--that is, if they don't already have the current tech broken.
- Comment on Relationship advice? 8 months ago:
all you have to do then is lower your own 'rating' so far that finding one 'worse' would be impossible.
- Comment on Get ready — your Google Workspace subscription is about to see an unwelcome price hike 8 months ago:
'unwelcome'. of course. but this is no surprise. they jacked-up rates for new subs nearly a year ago, while leaving existing ones alone. that reprieve is now over.
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 8 months ago:
it had to be politically motivated. even elon must be smart enough to know that kicking the kid off twitter wouldn't stop the tracking of his plane.. which is still readily available via multiple sources.
- Comment on fat time 8 months ago:
that's one of those sugar alcohols that can do thunderous things.....
- Comment on fat time 8 months ago:
i'll have two double quarters, large fries, two apple pies...
and a diet coke.
- Comment on Name one of his songs. 8 months ago:
i dunno the name of it, but from what i hear at night from the bar down the street.... it's got a hell of a bass track, but no rhythm and they're out of sync. vocals are just a mess of drunken yelling.
- Comment on The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing daily 8 months ago:
in a perfect world, perhaps. but we don't live in one.
- Comment on What is a "tax write off"? 8 months ago:
hollywood accountants will inflate the internal markup for everything, shuffle some numbers around, and come up with a 300mil 'write off' across all the various corporate divisions and shit.
- Comment on Now it looks like Facebook is fighting ad blockers 8 months ago:
regular adblockers on facebook haven't worked well, or at all, for a long time.
fbpurity is still a thing, though.
- Comment on Minister quit ‘because he could not afford rising mortgage costs’ on £120,000 salary 8 months ago:
and he resigned months ago.
there was an ex, two kids, and their education being paid for out of that salary, too.
must be a slow news day or sumthin.
- Comment on FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters 8 months ago:
iirc, they are banned... to cell phones, with very limited exceptions.
- Comment on Appalachian Momma 8 months ago:
it is. his mamma calls him 'bubby' because using his real name would create extra confusion at dinnertime.
- Comment on MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis 8 months ago:
amazon's local showrooms.. err, i mean bestbuy locations across the u.s., accepts many things for recycling--at no charge. including desktops, laptops, all-in-ones, and printers. details here
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
they keep moving that shit around, too. seems like i'm always finding some new crevice they've hidden some setting they don't want you to know about.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
windows costs money, per device. microsoft places limits, pretty strict ones, on how far oems can go wrt customizations of the oobe, the ui/ux, and other shit. valve didn't chose linux because of anything other than it was the only reasonable choice for what they wanted to produce.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
if you built a $2000 desktop and didn't specifically go out and source old parts... it's got one, most likely, you've just chosen to not enable it. intel and amd cpu have them built-in and motherboards and their bios support those. they don't need headers for a module or a discrete tpm chip on the board.