lemmyng
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- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 1 week ago:
I remember that post from slazer2au… lemmy.world/post/19338754
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 1 week ago:
When we talk about 2.4, 5, or 6 GHz the devices don’t operate at exactly that frequency, but within a band more or less on that number. For example 5 GHz is actually a set of channels between 5150 and 5895 MHz.
Why isn’t there a 3Ghz, 3.5Ghz, 4Ghz, etc?
Technically there’s 802.11y (3.65 GHz), 802.11j (4.9-5.0 GHz), etc. It’s just that several of these bands cannot be used universally across the globe, because they may be reserved for other purposes. By and the bands that end up being used are ones that don’t require licensing to operate.
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
- Comment on How do you not feel overwhelmed using Mastodon? 1 week ago:
This so much. Lists make content filtering so much easier, both foot organizing as well as for filtering.
- Comment on Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied. 2 weeks ago:
The most likely explanation for requesting a video is to weed out low quality AI-generated “vulnerability” submissions that hallucinate code that doesn’t compile or APIs that don’t exist. In that context a 1 minute video showing that the report is viable is not much to ask for.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
Just because a game is old doesn’t mean it’s not fun. How old are the board and card games again?
- Comment on Why are tornado sirens only for tornadoes and not other severe storm events? 1 month ago:
Other kinds of severe weather are predictable, whereas there’s a big difference between “this pattern could develop into a tornado over the next half hour, batten down the hatches” and “A TORNADO HAS TOUCHED DOWN NEAR YOU, GET TO A SHELTER WITHIN THE NEXT MINUTE OR YOU’LL DIE!”
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
Icewind Dale did the same with Baldur’s Gate. Not just the UI, they blatantly reused a lot of the assets too!
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 1 month ago:
Keychron keyboards are solid and maintainable, and available in Canada. Pick a model that supports swapping switches, and start with brown switches perhaps - they’re on the more quiet end of the spectrum, but common so you won’t break the bank. Then over time you can customize it as your budget allows - different switches if browns are not the right fit for you, keycaps of your preferred colour, etc.
- Comment on An argument starter: which of these is the "second set of 4 digits in base 10"? (Body) 1 month ago:
To be even more pedantic, OP has not provided sufficient information to infer the series. No specific order is defined, so 0001 could be just as likely as 8259.
- Comment on The ridiculous Steam Brick just makes me want a proper Steam Machine 2 months ago:
- Get one of those mini PCs with a recent Ryzen G CPU.
- Install Bazzite on it.
- Enjoy your Steam Machine.
- Comment on Top executive shot dead outside New York hotel 3 months ago:
Almost nothing. IMO DuPont executives take the crown.
- Comment on not the mama!! 4 months ago:
That ending though…
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 4 months ago:
The world would be better off if certain people ate a bullet. But those people usually are not in the vending machine target demographic.
- Comment on good replacement options power efficiency and affordable "large" storage 4 months ago:
The other responses have so far talked about hardware setup, so I’m not going to do that. Instead I’m looking at your software setup: VMs can be comparatively power inefficient compared to containers, specially for always-on services that idle often.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 4 months ago:
ARPG: Path of Exile, Last Epoch, Grim Dawn.
Also consider the survivors/bullet hell kinds of games: Vampire Survivors, Soulstone Survivors, etc.
- Comment on Someone make an app 5 months ago:
Fun fact, pollution makes sunset colors more vibrant.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 5 months ago:
A great adventure is waiting for you ahead. Hurry onward beetle, or you will soon be dead. The journey before you may be long and filled with woe. But you must escape the frog’s ass, or your tale can’t be told.
- Comment on When can we expect 500TB drives to be available? 5 months ago:
Moore’s law is about circuit density, not about storage, so the premise is invalidated in the first place.
There is research being done into 5D storage crystals, where a disc can theoretically hold up to 360TB of data, but don’t hold your breath about them being available soon.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 5 months ago:
Yelp has the numbers.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 5 months ago:
That’s uBlock Origin Lite, which the developer already stated is grossly inadequate for ad blocking.
- Comment on Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs? 5 months ago:
That’s LLM AI, but the type I’m talking about is the machine learning kind. I can envision a system that takes e.g. a sample’s test data and provides a summary, which is not far from what doctors do anyway. If you ever get a blood test’s results explained to you it’s “this value is high, which would be concerning except that this other value is not high, so you’re probably fine regarding X. However, I notice that this other value is low, and this can be an indicator of Y. I’m going to request a follow-up test regarding that.” Yes, I would trust an AI to give me that explanation, because those are very strict parameters to work with, and the input comes from a trusted source (lab results and medical training data) and not “Bob’s shrimping and hoola hoop dancing blog”.
- Comment on Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs? 5 months ago:
AI trained to do that job? Sure, yeah. LLM AI? Fuck no.
- Comment on "Skip ad's" YouTube and "Skip Intro" on Netflix take the same amount of effort but I only hate the former. 5 months ago:
same amount of effort
Physical effort, yes. Cognitive effort, no.
- Intros on a serial show are expected, and in some cases change subtly from one episode to another to provide additional entertainment value (eg the Simpsons intro). In other cases a change of intro sets the setting for the episode (eg Star Trek: Enterprise’s Storm Front episodes).
- YouTube ads are not related to the show, provide no contextual value, and in the case of interstitial ads are not even at a predictable time. They also tend to be inanely repetitive, showing the same ad over and over in consecutive videos. Contrast those to eg halftime ads at the Superbowl broadcasts, which have predictable timing, variety, and have a history of being (or trying to be) entertaining.
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a new biome and The Creaking, a creepy mob that only moves when you look away 5 months ago:
Since the mob is immune to damage as long as the heart is safe it could also work as bait for mobs that are hostile to it.
