atrielienz

@atrielienz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to figure out how to do that because I’ve been manually refreshing if I need to and keeping the refresh rate somewhere in the middle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I own the Boox Tab Mini C. It’s fine for reading ebooks. The screen refresh isn’t really fast enough for a lot of apps , especially apps with pictures or things other than text. This causes a lot of artifacting.

  You can read news papers, magazines, ebooks, and comics and it’s fine for that although I think perhaps would be better without the color e-ink for most things. If it had a color setting and a grey scale setting I’d like that.

  But it makes the page illegible if you scroll for too long otherwise, so stuff you would use it for like reading web pages get progressively more difficult the longer you scroll.

  I think the size is good and I also think you’re likely to have the same problem on a Kindle to some extent.

  Additionally, it is android but it doesn’t natively come with a lot of android apps you might be used to. You can remove some of the apps but it’s not as easy as just going to the app store and deleting them.

  It’s nice to see this kind of thing in person before you buy it.

  I recommend buying it from a store where you can return it if you don’t like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers achieve breakthrough integration of 2D materials on standard silicon chips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How do they know/how did they measure the 10 year data retention?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly not sure (given the price the cable likely adds to the price of the device vs the quality/longevity of the cable) that I want it. Apple has been notorious for selling their charging cables at a premium while making them basically as cheaply as possibly. Other companies have literally made their brand on being better than the OEM cables and chargers you get with devices.

  Other phone manufacturers aren’t exempt from the phone cable failure thing either. It’s crazy to me that they were allowed to sell such shoddy accessories in the first place.

  When you add in the ways that countries are trying to cut down on e-waste I can’t say I’m surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hulu officially launching on Disney Plus across the globe — here's when it's coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t mean the Board doesn’t think that “the CEO stepping down” will make the company look better to the people they pissed off by shoehorning AI into everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably their Board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they going to be paying for extended support? My job is still on windows 10 (after they tried to upgrade to 11 and ended up having business applications not work as they should), but they are paying for extended support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. This was a rumor and the article title. Is misleading. Valve blocked NSFW updates of games that were originally labeled as SFW and then the dev tried to update with NSFW game elements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rofl. If you expecting anything else except this from Trump, I’ve got some public landmarks for sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read an article the other day about the woman who wrote that tell all book about Meta. Supposedly (according to the article) she faces a $50K fine every time she breaks the contract she agreed to when departing the company by defaming them. But she has not ever been charged that fine. But she is facing bankruptcy.

  That’s an article that’s so poorly written that it literally doesn’t seem to have warranted any comment except mine which says literally “I do not understand the facts presented in this article and how they correlate”. Last I checked there were no other comments.

  We see articles like this all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why she’s being banned from criticizing the company? Like she signed a “non NDA” that included a clause about disparagement of the company, I get that, but I don’t really understand how that’s not a violation of her rights and therefore an invalidation of the contract.

  And on further reading it’s claimed that she hasn’t been forced to pay any damages for breach of that contract so how is she on the verge of bankruptcy? Is it that she can’t promote her book?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty cool being a member of a den of iniquity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they will create their own circlejerk in the fediverse too and people will leave them alone to do it. Instances would likely defederate from a truth social instance if it were federated. They are also in the habit of banning anyone who speaks against their side so it wouldn’t do much good to try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, let me get this straight. Spotify uses AI, is developing AI and is allowing (and possibly seeding the platform with) AI generated music.

  And the company [Spotify] is upset that the users are downloading their own data and putting in it trust in a collective for the purposes of selling it to an AI company to analyze?

  And Spotify made it part of their TOS that you have the right to download your own data as a user, but also made it part of the TOS that you can’t use the data you own to train AI (which only makes sense if you don’t own your data).

  Have I got this is right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  His statements on reddit were also edited after the fact after several people in the comments came with receipts and he doubled down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The birds in greymoor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And that is why I don’t click on or watch YouTube videos from here. Either I’ve seen the video already (as is the case with a lot of gamers nexxus vids), or I am not willing to give the amount of time it takes to watch the video when I could read a distilled version of it in a minute or so. I don’t care about your greeting (hey, this is [channel] here, back with another video. Today we’ll be talking about [insert topic], but first …[mindless garbage]).

  I know that newer gems love video format and want it for all the things but I do not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State consider monitoring parolees with artificial intelligence: program would track people on parole and probation using AI to find patterns in where they go and how often they charge their devices.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely not. If you want to track them that badly then put an ankle monitor on them as part of their parole conditions.

  Please note I don’t agree with the ankle monitor either but at least it can’t make up data about these people. If you’re paroling them and they have paid their debt to society, I think it’s fair to have them check in with a human parole officer at intervals and leave them alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who just got a verbal reprimand at work for “language” due to having an outburst of irritation where an explosive was used (which is a common enough occurrence in the hangar where I work), I’m seriously about to start auto censoring everything in the most gen Alpha way possible just to annoy the others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in the American public school system during pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards peak popularity. There were a whole lot of people who had card decks confiscated under such rules. I’ve lived in several states and while I don’t know the policies for everyone state I’ve lived in’s public schools, I do know that the school’s my son has attended also have such rules.

  So I guess YMMV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren Questions Pentagon Awarding $200 Million Contract to Integrate Elon Musk’s “Grok” Into Military Systems Following the Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wishful thinking. I want you to go have a look at DTS and then tell me you think having to use a racist chatbot to access some information is going to collapse the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Decks of cards are usually banned in schools. The schools consider. Card games to be gambling (even if there are no stakes) and that’s not permitted on school premesis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He also sells a lot of his “good side” via short form videos on Tik Tok and YouTube etc. So when you only get a snippet or two of him talking or answering questions, and he seems like he’s encouraging people to learn to code or do game dev etc it sounds nice. It sounds like he’s being supportive of his audience. It seems like he’s just a dude. But when you get right down to it, that doesn’t bear out who he is, even his actual online persona in his long form content or streams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  s3nd.pics is also a possible successor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suggested “Fedlings” in the main thread and I think that could work for the fediverse at large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like it too. If it takes off, no need to attribute it to me. I’m sure other people have also thought of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like “Feelings” personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  www.imgcat.io is being built by an imgur user but it’s not ready yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. Send me the email. I’m not just going to filter it. Y’all are so bad at email I could reply all and tank your email chain with an all hands message of my asshole. Seriously, Republicans what even is this? If you don’t want it marked as spam don’t send it to people who don’t want and didn’t ask for it.