TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 days ago:
Did they? There have been a few cases, sure, but in general they’ve not been good in this regard.
- Comment on Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy. 5 days ago:
They’re a publicly-traded company.
All of them, without any exceptions, place profit above literally anything.
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 5 days ago:
MGU-H works very well, and they’re only getting rid of it in 2026. Mainly to keep new upcoming F1 engine manufacturers happy as they don’t have experience in MGU-H systems.
- Comment on The Smartwatch That Was Too Good For This World 1 week ago:
The software is open source now, so hopefully there are multiple options for PebbleOS devices.
- Comment on Retail giant Monsoon's CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting Shein 1 week ago:
It’s astonishing we allow it to happen.
Starbucks, for example, contributes almost nothing to the UK (~4% effective tax rate), and they have a UK-based competitor, Costa, that doesn’t dodge taxes and pays an effective tax rate of over 20%.
Why the hell have our governments been allowing this to happen? Our businesses are playing at a massive disadvantage in their home market. It’s absurd.
- Comment on DeepSeek: how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake. 1 week ago:
It’s not reallyyyy open source . But I suppose neither is almost any LLM.
The OSI (Open Source Initiative) definition also mandates that training data be disclosed and open.
- Comment on Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness? 1 week ago:
I can’t find a gif of it, so I’d just like everyone to imagine that I posted that scene from the SpongeBob Movie where a worker sprays a can of hair onto King Neptune’s eyes.
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 1 week ago:
Some blue tick twitter account probably told him that healthy living is woke or something
- Comment on Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk? 1 week ago:
He’s like Henry Ford apart from being being good at building cars part.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 1 week ago:
Spaces before a full stop? Really?
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 1 week ago:
Last.
- Comment on Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea 1 week ago:
That user goes around doing weird and pointless corrections to other people’s comments, so I thought it’d be funny to do the same in turn.
- Comment on what if another country staged a coup in the US and deposed trump? 1 week ago:
Why do you keep putting random double spaces in half your comments?
- Comment on Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea 1 week ago:
Not it doesn’t. Did an Ai slop this story too?
No it doesn’t. Did an AI slop this story too?
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 1 week ago:
You are wrong. Ran is past tense of run.
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/run-into
run into something
present participle: running | past tense: ran | past participle: run
If you run into problems, you begin to experience them:
example: We ran into bad weather/debt/trouble.
If you’re going to try to correct people, please make sure you’re actually right first.
It’s ran. Because I’m talking about past events.
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 1 week ago:
I’m frequently told that Linux is hard and you need to be a tech guru to use it, yet every week I see 1-2 articles of issues in windows you need to do some bullshit to fix.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 1 week ago:
And some people wonder why the cybertruck is barely sold outside the US.
Everything I hear about this thing is bad.
- Comment on Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall 1 week ago:
Our minimum wage is indeed fairly high, and the taxes that low earners pay is very low, but we do have problems. Wage compression in this country isn’t particularly good. Most people are either minimum wage or close to it.
Even a lot of highly skilled jobs aren’t highly paid, it’s a problem for the economy, for tax revenue, and for encouraging workers to go for better jobs/strive for progression. I don’t know what the government can do about it, but the answer certainly isn’t to pin it on young people and imply they’re lazy.
But one thing the government can definitely impact is what you mention at the end of your comment: government policy can certainly help bring down the big costs like property costs (both for people and businesses), energy, water, council tax.
- Comment on Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’ 1 week ago:
For anybody like me who doesn’t know what the blackout challenge is:
The blackout challenge is a social media dare that calls on users to strangle themselves with a belt, purse strings, ropes, and similar items until they pass out, all while uploading the resulting videos to TikTok. However, the challenge did not start on TikTok, nor is it exclusive to the platform.
What the fuck
- Comment on Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying 1 week ago:
Apple’s iCloud backups aren’t encrypted by default,
Why the fuck not?
- Comment on Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode 1 week ago:
At least half of those were definitely used.
- Comment on Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall 1 week ago:
When you wake up early, start a long commute, work in a shit job (often with unpredictable hours), have an unpaid lunch break, work some more in your understaffed company, then start the long commute back home to your parents house because you can’t afford a place of your own, then yeah, I can imagine that’s stressful.
And it gets more so when you open social media or news and it’s always the privileged or the elderly (often they’re even one and the same) constantly shaming youth for being horrible lazy pieces of shit who won’t lift themselves up by their bootstraps.
The increase in minimum wage is a great thing. As is the incoming increase in workers’ rights. I won’t sit and pretend Labour are doing nothing. But more needs to be done if you want a mentally healthy workforce.
Just saying “too many find XYZ stressful” without detailing how you plan to change that isn’t helping.
- Comment on DeepSeek’s rise shows why China’s top AI talent is skipping Silicon Valley. 2 weeks ago:
Regardless of whether you like AI or not, it’s seems silly to pretend there’s no talent required for building these projects.
Of course there are talented people in the sector.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s a fundamental difference between someone saying “you’re holding your phone wrong, of course you’re not getting a signal” to millions of people and someone saying “LLMs aren’t good at that task you’re asking it to perform, but they are good for XYZ.”
If someone is using a hammer to cut down a tree, they’re going to have a bad time. A hammer is not a useful tool for that job.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Don’t, be evil.
- Comment on My current handheld lineup 2 weeks ago:
I have an Anbernic RG35XXSP and a Miyoo Mini (non plus)
I can’t decide which one I like more to be honest.
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 2 weeks ago:
I’m so fucking glad Valve isn’t beholden to shareholders.
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 2 weeks ago:
The people who create these services will always be more clever and quick to implement workarounds than politicians. It’s a futile battle.
Want to avoid piracy? Make getting things easier and more convenient.
Back when Netflix was £5-10 depending on tier, had a load of content, and an account could be shared between a few trusted people, I practically gave up pirating. Now it’s £18 per month for 4K and doesn’t have those other positives going for it, I’ve abandoned it in favour of Radarr+Sonarr+Plex, and am having a better experience.
For video games, I predominantly buy from Steam, because it’s a good service, and so far I have not seen any evidence that Valve are going to fuck me over. They’ve made gaming and all the things ancillary to it a lot more convenient. So I happily pay. If they embrace enshittification, guess what I’ll do?
The only games I do pirate are Nintendo/Sega games that haven’t been sold in decades. Why? Because there’s no feasible other way to buy them and keep them!
I don’t pirate music because Spotify, for all the issues I have with it (and boy do I have a few), still has almost every song I search for, is fairly priced, and hasn’t clamped down on account sharing in the same way Netflix/Disney/etc have. I’m part of a family where we split the cost. All the music I could possibly want for £2.20 per month? Fine by me! If that goes away, I go away, yarr harr.
- Comment on China to launch antitrust probe into Google 2 weeks ago:
Aren’t they banned in China anyway?
- Comment on Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash 2 weeks ago:
Let it run out. Businesses should be allowed to fail. That’s capitalism.
If the state want to buy the assets for a bargain price, so much the better.