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- Comment on Musk lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion can go to trial, US judge says 1 week ago:
- Comment on China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal 1 week ago:
I honestly feel like our best route to competition at this point is the big players being forced to license technology to eachother and smaller companies.
The reason CPUs don’t suffer from these issues nearly as badly as graphics is that Intel and AMD are effectively stuck having to share technology with eachother.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 1 week ago:
Yeah I think Windows 8 in general is just what happens when you don’t have proper user testing and go entirely based on what the shareholders think the next big thing in computing is going to be.
At the time everyone thought that touchscreens and tablets were going to take over everything, at this point though it’s become pretty clear that tablets are for media consumption and some creative work. For productivity they just aren’t as good as a full on desktop environment.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 1 week ago:
Not sure why it would be unexpected? 8.1 was not a good OS from a UI perspective, but it was the last version before Microsoft went all in on making Windows a service and not a product you paid to use.
They still had the incentive to make the OS better and faster. I remember videos from Microsoft at the time showing how fast Windows 8 could get to the desktop compared to 7. They don’t really even try to work on stuff like that anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 3 weeks ago:
It seems like the actual windows kernel isn’t that bad, it’s mainly all the stuff on top of it at this point that is killing the OS
- Comment on Samsung confirms it isn't ending SATA SSD production 3 weeks ago:
Has Moore’s law is dead ever actually leaked something that ended up to be accurate and actually sourced from him originally
It seems like every time a tech leak is wrong you end up seeing his name with it
- Comment on big tobacco stopped paying 4 weeks ago:
It’s less what’s in the chicken nugget and more what isn’t in the chicken nugget
Not really any nutritional value mixed with a lot of sugars and fats
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 1 month ago:
The NAND market is an effectively monopoly that has been caught price fixing in the past. They desperately want to keep prices as high as they can so they tightly control supply to prevent having any excess product. This screws everyone over as soon as there’s a spike in demand that they failed to account for.
Instead of just keeping a consistent supply and allowing prices to drop from competition, we end up with price rollercoaster that peaks every few years then crashes back down again. The severity is just higher than usual due to the higher demand from data centers.
The market desperately needs a new player that just consistently creates supply instead of playing stupid games, but the barrier to entry is too high.
- Comment on Palantir and flock are your enemy. 2 months ago:
I like GN but Steve is definitely a little smug at times, but he’s earned it considering how often he’s correct.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 2 months ago:
If I’m going to lose the main things I like about Android, like customizing things and installing my own software. Then yeah I would actually jump ship to the alternative because the chips are faster, the battery life is better, and the software would effectively be on par.
The point is that the jump would no longer be from a somewhat open platform to a closed one. It would be a jump from a closed platform to another closed platform.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 2 months ago:
It’s been long enough now that I can’t really remember off the top of my head. I want to say I started using Photoshop about a year or two after CS6 came out? And I would have been using GIMP for at least a few years prior to that before I had ever even seen the Photoshop UI.
- Comment on Question on TV's 2 months ago:
Basically any TV out there you can get rid of the annoying post processing. But none of them are going to be that way out of the box.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 2 months ago:
I’ve used both Photoshop and GIMP, in fact I used GIMP first and that’s what I learned on. Then I tried Photoshop and it was immediately way more intuitive as to where things are and how the UI works, same with Affinity based on my little experience with it.
Older FOSS stuff tends to struggle quite a bit with UX, which makes sense cause it’s mostly programmers and not UI designers working on it.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 2 months ago:
Oh for sure, I’m never paying Adobe anything. More just speaking on some frustration that GIMP seems to be sitting in the exact same location it has been for so long.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 2 months ago:
I get where you’re coming from, but GIMP honestly just kinda sucks from a UX perspective nowadays. The core of the app seems to be fine, but it’s just not particularly intuitive to use compared to the commercial offerings.
Maybe that’ll change one day, but it really does feel like the interface has been the same for the past 15 years at least.
- Comment on OpenAI moves to allow “mature apps” on its platforms 2 months ago:
I’d generally agree, the industry itself seems to be high risk for exploitation because of the very nature of it.
Realistically though this isn’t going to help that much, most AI generated content that tries to look real ends up quite uncanny. So this is probably more likely to cannibalise some of the least problematic parts of the industry like digital art.
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds 2 months ago:
Right after I upgrade my omada setup…
- Comment on Asus moves US-bound manufacturing to avoid tariffs 4 months ago:
It’s really quite insane, I’m from Canada and want a strong manufacturing industry here because it became clear during the pandemic that the manufacturing industry here is insanely anemic. The current admin however is just running on the most insane premise possible.
- Comment on Asus moves US-bound manufacturing to avoid tariffs 4 months ago:
Crazy, it’s almost like just tariffs don’t make companies build in the destination country and you actually have to incentivize the choices you want those companies to make.
The supply chain for electronics is established in Asia, if you want to build in North America then you need to help ease the pain of the distance from that supply chain so people are actually interested in making a new one elsewhere.
- Comment on U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal 5 months ago:
This seems fair to be honest, the guy was CEO of Cadence while they were getting around export controls. Probably not a bad idea to check things out.
- Comment on Pro tip 5 months ago:
well, they did say they were in a rush
- Comment on YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list 6 months ago:
I’ve installed user scripts to replace the player with the normal one and used unlock to hide the feed in my subscriptions page. Did the same with revanced on my phone.
They’re just designed to be addictive, I wasn’t getting anything out of them.
- Comment on Playing with Hate: How Far-Right Extremists Use Minecraft to Gamify Radicalisation 6 months ago:
Curseforge was developed by Curse and Twitch after their acquisition. Their ownership by Overwolf was after the app and website was already well established.
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 7 months ago:
Depends if you can actually find a 9070XT at the price they advertised it at. Once that happens I’ll be convinced, right now though that’s very much felt like a bit of a bait and switch. Holding out hope though.
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 7 months ago:
It’s more: making their cards competitive on price and performance lately for team red
- Comment on THE shrimp that fried the rice 7 months ago:
Bugsnax
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
He didn’t ban news on their platforms in Canada. He disabled links to news platforms because the Canadian government passed a bizarre law that forced them to pay news agencies for the privilege of hot linking to them.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 10 months ago:
You can run a power clean cycle which should help, then just replace the foam pads they saturate with ink for the cleaning
They’re not perfect but they’re still the most consumer friendly option on the market at this point
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 10 months ago:
Too late for me personally, I’ve gone ahead and moved over to Zen.
- Comment on Lenovo responds to Trump tariffs in unexpected style 10 months ago:
This mostly just comes across like a statement to calm investors.
