PrefersAwkward

@PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They put some under-the-hood improvements in 10 that they didn’t put in 7, such as a new display driver model and Directx 12.

  But that does not make a difference to most people. Industry desupporting of Windows 7 is the biggest con to it.

  Eventually, 10 will share 7’s fate. So you’ll have both 10’s regressions and 11’s and so forth to live with as long as you’re on Windows. You can’t stop Microsoft from desupporting and killing their software in the long run.

  Microsoft has a multi-decade history of enshitification when they do not perceive any major threats. Internet Explorer, DirectX, Windows Server, etc. all rotted. Some of these are still active and supported, yes, but they all peaked years ago and are aging poorly. Microsoft doesn’t really do the labor of love thing much when customers are bagged.

  Linux may be able to dethrone them to an extent if it can reach an ease of access/UX that most people are comfy with. And it has made huge strides over the years. It can also run most Windows software very well.

  Mac is still priced very high and still feature-limited and a 2nd/3rd-class citizen when it comes to platform targeting. Offering lower priced conputers would make them a pretty big threat I think.

  I think ChromeOS is a decent threat to Windows but it loses tons of features vs all the other options. At least it is really cheap and easy to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TVs have a history of listening and collecting a lot more data than a smart device.

  With a TV device like an android or Linux box, you can prevent that as well as ad-injection because you can install whatever you want on the device and it’s not as locked down as a TV. You can even disable or physically remove recording devices if you’d like, and many smart boxes do not even come with them.

  Also, a pihole does not guarantee you filtered out everything or prevented the TV from interfering with your experience.

  A TV can also change its policy on the fly and suddenly start injecting ads. Many TVs do this to add additional income after your purchase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we have good malware scanners and anti malware for Linux these days? Forgive my ignorance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rakuten launches cloud storage with unlimited file transfers, targets businesses and individuals, with free 10GB storage⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The page you linked shows an annual plan of 100$ for 2 TB which means 8.33 per month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These are trying times⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically he needs to sell way more if he intends for the sales to fully cover his legal costs. 900,000 * 399 = 359,100,000 but that’s pure Revenue. The shoes likely have a cost per unit and then Trump has to pay taxes on that Revenue, not to mention other business operations costs. He might need to sell 30 to 50 percent more of those shoes.

  His legal settlements are 83,300,000 for the E Jean Carol suit and 355,000,000 for NYC, which might actually be way more than that after other factors and interest (I don’t know exactly what he owes for the NYC case, bit it’s 355M minimum, maybe up to 450M and with contingent interest depending on when it’s paid).

  He actually has to put the FULL AMOUNT of each settlement for the government to hold for each case he chooses to appeal, and may even owe interest if he loses the appeals.

  I’m just a tired stranger on the internet who tried to put some numbers together. If I got something wrong, let me know and I’ll correct it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I understan, they’re divesting resources that aren’t in Firefox nor a trustworthy/open source AI.

  I see a lot of people in this theead are upset at this, but I’m tentatively excited. If they can pull off a good AI engine, especially built into the browser, that would be nice. If it had offline capabilities, that would be amazing.

  Even if they can pull off a good AI solution that’s not built into Firefox but it’s offline, I’d be really excited. I’m not crazy about having especially detailed and intimate information being thrown to some vendor out there, not knowing where it’s going. Modern AI can do some amazing things, but a lot of them reserve the right to have a human read whatever you put in themand warn you about that. This is too limiting to me for my preferred use-cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you better be ready⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Re-enters group reluctantly, 29 minutes after the message, and sighs: “Fine. It’s been almost an hour since the last time. I really am overdo for more”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel CEO claims 18A node will at least match TSMC's N2 performance and beat it to market⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m rooting for Intel in these efforts. Hopefully someone can pressure TSMC 's prices down and maybe even offer alternative fab sources for chips. Especially with the geopolitical situations with China.

  I probably sound like a crazy person, but sometimes I worry about too much global reliance on TSMC and their plants usually being in Asia. Diversity should keep the market more affordable and at lower overall risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨checkmate⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  y govment not explains. i move to bunker

  Am scare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I also have 12 GB. There are usage patterns where additional RAM wull be useful or even necessary on a phone. When you have more RAM, the phone can sleep tasks and leave background apps alone without having to discard their contents from RAM. This means fewer cold startups. Also, more contents can be cached, which means faster app startups. Both of these techniques also reduce CPU usage and improve battery life. You can also achieve more tabs in your browsers and more and bigger apps running at the same time. More RAM also means fewer situations where swapping is done or needed, so additional CPU and disk cycles are saved and battery usage is reduced. Some apps will actually require more RAM or spin more when memory is scarce. Examples can be audio, video, or picture/photography apps. Also, some games, especially in high settings.

  Are these additional GBs necessary? No. And most people would not notice them, as even 6 GB is overkill for quite a number of peoples’ usage patterns. Your phone does maybe 95% of what it does just about as well, even when you have a low-midrange CPU and GPU that is from a few years ago, and just 4 or 6gb of RAM.

  This holds true for iOS and Android. They’ve both done a fair bit of housekeeping and software improvements to reel in excessive resource usage gen over gen. I think Android was doing some catch-up here for a while, but I don’t know how they go toe to toe on this anymore, and it’s difficult to empirically compare the two in this area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is actually a global scarcity of 9’s but about 80 percent of the world’s 9’s are stockpiled in Nevada

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this would make it tough to enforce the patent if it’s actually commonly used. If I were somehow granted a patent on tap dancing, its common usage by others before me would probably cause my patent to be invalidated if I then tried to sue a tap dancer.

  Not a patent lawyer, but IIRC, US patent law had some protections for things that are already common practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. OO is a great for MSOffice files. I love LibreOffice, and it’s great for many things. It just can’t beat OO at MSOffice interoperability

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  OnlyOffice is amazing if you need compatibility with MS Office products. Not saying it’s perfect, and I have and use LibreOffice, but OnlyOffice is better fit than LibreOffice if your goal is to use MSOffice files in FOSS software. I don’t get to decide what files and software my school or work uses, and they use only MSOffice. If I hand my boss or coworker an ODS, they’ll have no clue what to do with it. LibreOffice doesn’t handle XLSX files nearly as cleanly as OnlyOffice.

  If I make a table in LibreOffice, even using their open formats, I am giving up some nice features from OpenOffice.

  There’s no way OO is just a cheap repackage of LO. They look very different and have different features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Nadella to Testify at Google Antitrust Trial Monday - Bloomberg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hilarious that Microsoft will be testifying on the antitrust behaviors of another company.

  I agree Google can be taken down a few notches, but it defeats the purpose of Microsoft can’t also take some spotlight over the Windows 10 and 11 shenanigans.

  Their whole ecosystem is built on antitrust behaviors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how a company that is known for extortion is parading itself as something that looks out for cheating in reviews.