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- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 days ago:
Exactly.
Each of those knobs needs an injection mould, each switch behind it a supply chain. Iterating on digital design is far cheaper as well.
It’s far cheaper to use what are effectively 10 year old tablets in the cheaper cars. Since LCDs are being mass manufactured for other things that likely get a nice economy of scale.
- Comment on From the outside looking in 3 days ago:
That, and to pull them out during road rage incidents. Also pull them out when you’re scared of a black person. Don’t forget take them to school to get revenge.
They need them for a lot of reasons.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 5 days ago:
That’s one of those fun things until you have to clean it.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
For there to be cookies one must assume an eternal cookie banner / pop up telling you this site uses cookies.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
So if all the existing matter came from the big Bang, is it possible to condense it all back into one place?
- Comment on Built to last 1 week ago:
If I recall correctly it’s related to a fire retardant additive that oxidizes
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
The Alexa division is struggling so they are well into the extract phase of the product.
Google will get there in time as well.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 2 weeks ago:
I’m saying there isn’t a religion that doesn’t force it’s shit on people.
So basically you’re fine with supporting things that hurt others just so long as you’re left alone.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 2 weeks ago:
Religions have yet to prove to me they are not just another tribal group that wants control with extra steps.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
The main issue will be application support.
Linux running on the desktop in 2025 is helped immensely by everything being web based. So long as you have a browser you are fine for a lot of general computing.
The phone space is ruled by apps. The phone makers and the companies developing apps prefer it this way.
Getting a banking app, or Uber or Facebook Messenger to work on a Linux phone is going to be a massive pain in the ass (ignoring the rest of the OS which is definitely not even close to useable for the general public).
I would love a Linux phone but we are so far away.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
I mean most don’t go to their PhDs because it is effectively training for being an academic. Except there are very few jobs for academics so you’ll be an adjunct professor getting paid poverty wages.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 3 weeks ago:
Kagi does provide a good experience but it can never replace the free search engines. It relies pretty heavily on Google’s search API it just allows you to massage the results with tools Google took away.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 3 weeks ago:
The incentives don’t allow for this shit in an organization like Google. They can only respond to stock price and earnings.
Very likely someone back channeled a demand and they folded like a deck of cards.
So the team responsible for that AI box added Trump dementia to the list of things it won’t respond to.
The team responsible for the news bits didn’t get the request so that just shows up in its place.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately from a business perspective it’s very hard to argue for this stuff since goodwill doesn’t have a definable dollar amount but the engineering time to extract this and getting it working extremely definitely has a cost.
The back end of this smart crap is very likely inextricably intertwined with Google’s internal services.
Remember Google exists to harvest data which means the important part of this thermostat is not being a thermostat but recording when you’re home, what temperature it is, if you’re awake etc etc.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 4 weeks ago:
Cardboard is recyclable so long as you don’t print on it and it’s the brown corrugated stuff. Which is a big ask.
Most of it doesn’t get recycled into more boxes though. Think like those cup holders you get at a take out place.
The other thing is trees area renewable resource in theory but we use a lot of fossil fuels to harvest and process then.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 4 weeks ago:
Same.
The people I’ve noticed complain seem to buy giant drinks and let them sit around for a while.
Never been a fan of flat warm soft drinks myself.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 4 weeks ago:
Yeah the last time I drank a can of coke it was crazy expensive. Like an entire dollar or some shit.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 4 weeks ago:
The market that accesses YouTube from a PC or Mac is shrinking rapidly.
They would prefer you use one of the apps and at some point that will be the majority, if it isn’t already
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
Those are hitting main populations between new York and LA plus the cities in Texas etc.
It roughly follows existing rail links
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 5 weeks ago:
It’s currently a propaganda refinery.
- Comment on Natural selection at work 5 weeks ago:
Someone should build a whale MRI to check your hypothesis
- Comment on Natural selection at work 5 weeks ago:
Can probably only breath while sitting up.
The Ven diagram of pugs I’ve met whose owners tell me they got surgery to assist breathing is almost a circle
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 5 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 5 weeks ago:
Can we get a link from The associate press or Reuters and not a British tabloid.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 month ago:
I only get these types of videos in shorts. In all the other stuff is like “we see you watched one video on this topic so here is 400 more”
- Comment on No brainer 1 month ago:
I mean that is the best pill. It’s like inheriting a free quarry. I could instantly undercut every other quarry and would not need to maintain any of the crushers or land to provide any type of gravel.
I’m definitely choosing that one for sure.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
Tell they to the Intel management engine or secure platform module
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 month ago:
Their livelihood doesn’t hinge on playing the game. That’s just incidental. They depend on interaction with the audience and stopping to read and understand something is dead air.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Presumably a Wan modern could fit in one of those little USB port things.