Buelldozer
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- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 4 days ago:
Big…if true. This article is long on claims but utterly bereft of proof.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 5 days ago:
Cross platform you say? So…like…ARM? 🙂
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
About $300 is what the mechanics in the area usually charge.
That’s complete robbery. Go to a tire shop.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
$300? A TPS sensor replacement should cost like $75 including the sensor itself.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
IIRC that’s eithera damaged fuel pump diaphragm or a sticking auto choke valve. Either way its like 10 minutes and less than 1$ to fix using a common Phillips screwdriver.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
On my Android devices right below “New Tab” is an option for “Bookmarks”. I guess YMMV depending on what your mobile device is?
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 week ago:
Always amazes me how few people seem to know about DACs. I use them extensively in racks. They’re inexpensive and easy to use.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 week ago:
Old meme is old. I’m sitting in Central Wyoming with reasonably priced 2Gb/s fiber and I could order 10Gb/s if I wanted it.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
Uhhhh, mine does. Why doesn’t yours?
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 week ago:
Despite your wall of text this isn’t just a problem in the United States.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 2 weeks ago:
Libre doesn’t support IDM, nor provide email, nor MFA, nor CAM, nor storage.
M365 Business Premium is a LOT more than Office Documents.
- Comment on How my ultimate SimCity 2000 setup helped get Apple sued [15:26] | This Does Not Compute 3 weeks ago:
This wasn’t one of Colin’s better videos but I do enjoy his channel.
- Comment on How do we avoid the next airport disaster like Newark? An expert says 6G could be the solution 3 weeks ago:
Trump is worse than useless but these failures are the result of DECADES of underfunding and mismanagement.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 4 weeks ago:
Got a link to an article or something discussing that?
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 4 weeks ago:
That isn’t exactly true with Steam. Valve does allow a dev to offer a discount at a different store as long as that same discount comes to Steam in a reasonable amount of time.
[Straight from the docs: ] (partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys)“It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.”
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 weeks ago:
Samsung Dex already does this with Android.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 4 weeks ago:
Very odd comparison…
Not really. There are more people using Steam than own a PS5 or Xbox X. So in what reality does Steam “not work for most people”?
you just need to sign up and you’re considered a user.
You’ll note that I used Steam’s ACTIVE user statistic. That’s not people who just “signed up”, those are people playing games on Steam.
Steam works just fine for most people.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 4 weeks ago:
Steam doesn’t work for most people? You sure about that? It has 132 Million active users, that’s nearly double the number of PS 5s that have been sold!
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered - Bugs, Glitches, and Fixes 4 weeks ago:
I’ll have to try the UET mod but the author’s changelog doesn’t inspire much confidence.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 month ago:
And for a lot of people I would still recommend Windows.
Eh, only if someone needs it.
For instance my 75 year old father is happily using Linux Mint on his laptop. Why? Because all he’s doing with it is web surfing, watching youtube, and checking his email. At home that’s all most people are doing, especially older people. I set his up so that it backs up his stuff and auto-updates. It just works and if it does get broken I can recover it with minimal effort.
It’s the same for me at home. My main PC is Linux Mint where I do almost everything. For the occasions I need Windows I have an Intel NUC attached to my KVM. For work I’ve got LM installed on my work laptop and when I need Win11 I have a VM setup in QEMU/KVM with it.
Are there people who have workloads, or gameloads, that only run on Windows? Sure there. We all know that.
But there are a lot of people, especially home users, who could easily run Linux and don’t.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 month ago:
If you can buy a Tesla cheap enough the usable parts, such as batteries and motors, can be moved to a different frame or vehicle. Even an ICE vehicle that you’d like to electrify. It’s all just parts.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
That sucks. If I can’t control the ads with settings, dns fuckery, or firewalling then I guess I’ll leave their ecosystem.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
Some TVs already have the ability to connect to sidewalk. More worrying is that every newer “Smart” TV has the ability to cast to it so if anyone ever does that using an internet connected device like a SmartPhone then bam…your TV just got an internet connection and can now send out stored data and potentially grab a firmware update.
Surprise!
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
It gets its internet connection from the PC; both HDMI and DisplayPort allow this.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
but now that Roku has pop up ads for simply moving around the app menu
Huh? I have 3 Roku Ultras, a Roku Stick, and a Roku TV and none of them do that. Have you gone into the Roku settings menu recently and turned off all the ad stuff?
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 month ago:
Does “US gov funded” immediately make me suspicious of it happening? Yes.
As it should. Frankly NO Government should have sway over the CVE program, they are all shady AF and every one them would absolutely do what you are describing if they felt it was in their interest.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 month ago:
Good. Despite the fact that my Government is currently being run by baboons the US Government shouldn’t have been the sole carrier of such a globally important program. Companies, The CVE program is central to how security companies, Qualys being an example, make absolute shedloads of money.
These companies shouldn’t be getting a free ride; it’s only right that they contribute to maintaining the resource.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 month ago:
These people are all fucking idiots. No business can plan anything when costs are whipsawing back and our trading partners are already tired of reacting to these near daily changes.
I just don’t have language strong enough to convey my utter exasperation and the depth of my content for these people.
- Comment on Windows Defender Anti-vitus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption 1 month ago:
Saw this attack in the wild this week. Huntress MDR detected and shut it down.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 month ago:
It’s pretty easy in both places actually, just don’t talk about politics.
Turns out our Grandparents were pretty damn smart with that “Don’t talk about Religion and Politics” rule.