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- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 17 hours ago:
Most people don’t need them. The gaming and workstation laptop market is smaller than ever. The integrated graphics has been “good enough” for a while now.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 17 hours ago:
Presumably a Wan modern could fit in one of those little USB port things.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 1 day ago:
One of the first things they will teach you in engineering design is to start by simplifying the model. So if you’re trying to figure out something like the surface area is a fish you assume it’s a cylinder then the math is easy. Same thing with assuming the object is in a vacuum. If you do that you ignore wind resistance and it makes the math easier. You can come back later and take the wind resistance into account.
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 3 days ago:
Companies don’t have morals, if Trump disappeared tomorrow and was replaced with Bernie Sanders or whatever they would swap right back.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
Yeah and the worst part is it doesn’t fucking work for the one thing it’s supposed to do.
The only thing it does is stop the stupidest low effort scrapers and forces the good ones to use a browser.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
CloudFlare has become an Internet protection racket and I’m not happy about it.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
I’ve started asking people what they have created lately… They seem to take it as an insult when it isn’t meant to be.
The reality is consuming is easier than producing. You can see it with the usage of phones and tablets vs laptops. It’s hard to create on a touch screen but it’s easy to consume.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 week ago:
You don’t pocket mulch?
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 1 week ago:
While this is true of public companies privately held companies have more flexibility.
If the Kristiansens wanted to they could direct the firm to be more inclusive. In this case it’s not “the company” making the choice, it’s the Kristiansen family and you can point directly to their need for money.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 2 weeks ago:
Already the cost is quite high. A prolific year can easily burn 100usd a day in tokens and they have not even started to enshitify.
Some of the cost to run these models will come down a bit if Nvidia gets some actual competition which I’m sure will happen in the medium to long term because the hyper scalers definitely don’t like paying Nvidia’s AI ransom and the Chinese don’t want to be beholden to a company the US can influence.
We will see which happens first.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 2 weeks ago:
Gamers who care about this are a much smaller group than American regressive religious zealots.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t though. At the higher end the last ceo was making 7 million. That is roughly 12 enginees after compensation and everything else… It isn’t nothing but it’s less than 5 percent of the employees they laid off a year ago.
Increasing executive pay is a problem but it will barely move the needle.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
The community are idiots.
They just want free shit. They claim they would love to pay but look at the percentage of donations things like VLC get, they won’t pay.
Google likely spends over a billion dollars a year developing Chrome and everyone likes to talk about how AI might upset web search forgetting that what is where Mozilla’s money comes from.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
How do you think they will do that without any money?
It’s always “just do the browser” , ignoring the fact that everything you listed doesn’t matter at all to the general public who are likely using Chrome because it’s the default on their device.
Mozilla is trying to find revenue sources but people just complain about it.
The AI integration is clearly attempting to be a new search box.
- Comment on Florida ounces 2 weeks ago:
I mean I’m pretty sure the American system is defined using SI units so it’s mostly because of American exceptionalism and a fetish for unit conversion.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 3 weeks ago:
Good trash or bad trash?
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
It’s more like some of the best evil can be hidden behind incompetence for quite a while
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
It’s not even that. It’s way smaller potatoes down in the org chart.
People always say “why would large company do this” and the answer is almost always that guy 7 or 8 rows down the org chart needs this to get their bonus this year and that point gets distilled into 1 bullet in a power point presentation that is summarized by chatgpt.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 4 weeks ago:
The quality of the media was not as good perhaps but I do miss when the world moved just a little bit slower.
No 24h news cycle, no social media, no being pressured to be connected and available to work at all times.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 4 weeks ago:
I mean this is sorta one of the things an autocracy does well. You might get substandard work and a lot of graft but when the order comes down no one gets to complain when they run a train line through your house.
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 4 weeks ago:
There is a link to a live demo pretty close to the top.
- Comment on kingdom come 5 weeks ago:
Technically all fruits are vegetables since a vegetable is just a plant we eat.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 weeks ago:
It would have to be millenials since Gen z exist almost entirely in the walled garden of a phone app.
Most people now a days don’t even use a desktop with a browser. I honestly expect that most of what they are “seeing” is just web scrapers for the LLM. Those are likely to “block” ads simply based on efficiency, since it shows down crawling.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks ago:
What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks ago:
The reality is more like there are just a few massive suppliers for restaurants. Sysco just offers paper straws and removes plastic ones and every establishment just orders a different SKU the next week.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t give one shit about the paper straws. I wonder if the people who don’t like them let their drinks sit for hours and chew on the straw till their soggy. Every paper straw I’ve had has lasted the length of time it takes me to drink the drink.
Still banning those things but not fucking everything else in the supermarket that is packaged in plastic is such a massive and stupid waste of everyone’s time and effort. Such an imperceptible inch forward they almost deserve no praise at all.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
I mean sure, but I’ve been stuck at lights that long too
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 weeks ago:
The current answer is that it is very difficult to determine if something was AI generated at scale, and if someone puts some effort in its effectively impossible currently.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 weeks ago:
Remember those are just the ones you hear about. Plenty happen and are never talked about by either side for obvious reasons.
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 1 month ago:
Really? I’m on a Linux desktop and I had not noticed. Though I steam from Netflix on it very very rarely.