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- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 2 weeks ago:
I really like swappa for the ability to return the phone to the seller for refund.
In theory eBay also allows this, but since it’s a core feature of the swappa marketplace that it gives me comfort that the phone is listed in good faith and they haven’t misrepresented the phone.
I suggest it to anyone I know looking for a phone
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 2 weeks ago:
I saw ‘FaaS’ and immediately thought Freedom as a Service, which is exactly the tagline such a service would have
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 3 weeks ago:
Does he have a podcost?
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 4 weeks ago:
I went to look up images of zordon and wow he did look like this
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 4 weeks ago:
The irony of tolerating intolerant people to exist openly is that it actually erodes tolerance overall
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 month ago:
I swear to God if this is AI upscaled
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 month ago:
My predicament, personally, is that my computer is starting to feel slow to me but I’m on AM4 and ddr4. The good jumps in performance are to be had in moving to the newer generations, which means that buying ram cannot be avoided. The suboptimal move is to stay on this legacy platform and be satisfied with marginal gains while investing further into hardware that will become obsolete sooner
- Comment on In the US one can graduate *cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude*. There should be another honor added if you survive a school shooting. 1 month ago:
Yes guns are loud, they already know
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 1 month ago:
That’s a lot of words, and they do pretty well at explaining the nuance, but you missed the opportunity to show off the simplest example of the concept:
Dating simulators
It’s a game format that literally talks directly to you
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
Yes, this is what I intended to write but I submitted it hastily.
Its like a catch-22, they can’t write code so they vibecode, but to maintain vibed code you would necessarily need to write code to understand what’s actually happening
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
Vibe coders can’t debug code because they didn’t write
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 2 months ago:
I know how futa makes money
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 months ago:
“4k” is supposed to be a term for cinema widescreen resolution, but got taken over because it’s short and marketable because “4k is 4x as many pixels as 1080p”
What makes it worse is that then 1440p becomes 2k because “it’s 2x as many pixels”
The flip flop irks me
- Comment on One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes. 3 months ago:
You miss 100% of the Nobels you don’t take
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
I find that chatgpt and claude try to give you one answer and sounds mildly to very certain about themselves without giving references.
Perplexity actually gives reference links for each claim it makes, which I find better because I can check it’s work and fork off and explore further myself at any point along it’s reasoning.
As a definite AI Hater, I find it to be a good middle ground LLM / search engine
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 3 months ago:
An American worker spending 1hr each way commuting to an 8hr+1hr lunch job is spending 2 out of 7 of their free hours in this machine. It’s understandable that the demand for their vehicle to not be an oppressive environment would arise.
But I do agree that not all cars should be packed with these superfluous amenities
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 4 months ago:
Like the .nfo files of old? Also reminds me of the sick 8 bit songs on the keygens
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 4 months ago:
Yes this was also where my understanding was at it’s lowest before figuring out what was going on
- Comment on How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything 4 months ago:
Do you use the *arr apps? Radarr lets you set profiles that can prioritize file size as well as codec. Then the process of acquisition is more automated but still prioritizes your preferences
- Comment on PinePods Release v0.8.0 - "Mobile apps and massive perfomance bumps" 4 months ago:
I like Pocket Casts, I don’t think it’s owned by big tech.
Though I’m not liking their pivot to subscription, I still think it’s a good app
- Comment on Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Is this a common enough occurrence that you’d pay a subscription for an app to do this? I can’t think of many use cases
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
me too …
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
I’ve recently moved away from Spotify and to Pandora, ironically.
Pandora premium let’s you play whichever track you want, they are not longer exclusively stations, but their station algorithm is the reason I decided on them over other spotify alternatives
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Nope. At some point spotify forced FREE users to shuffle play playlists. You couldn’t pick which specific song you’ll hear first. And with ads, obviously.
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 4 months ago:
My understanding is that prison is waaaay worse. Needlessly cruel, you might say
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 4 months ago:
This is the entire point of LLM, it creates something that has the right ‘shape’ statistically of what you ask for, but the content is not guaranteed to be accurate, true, appropriate, or up to date.
So, if a random person asks for a legal document, and they receive something that “looks right” it is very impressive to them because they can’t see the flaws that a professional or expert would see. And for some applications that’s Good Enough, but it’s nowhere near being PhD levels smart
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 4 months ago:
Too true. The real steal of the century is convincing the commons that their lack of success is a personal failing rather than a system designed to keep then down
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 5 months ago:
This $8k tv has no bezel and no cables /s
- Comment on Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years 5 months ago:
Can I use my current google speakers with homeAssistant? Can they still do the ‘grouped speakers’ things? Can I still ‘cast’ media?
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 5 months ago:
CF panel? You’re light bulb??