Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 5 days ago:
Nah I think it will just be
const benefits = false; - Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 1 week ago:
Do what I did a few months back and switch to Obsidian.
Especially if you write any code. It’s way better for that.
You will need to either
- Pay for their sync at $5/m (hugely overpriced imo)
- Use your own sync solution like Dropbox, Google Drive, Resilio Sync or Syncthing.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 2 weeks ago:
I bought it for $90 in 2020.
- Comment on Why are Google's Assistant(s) so bad nowadays? 3 weeks ago:
4 times once every few years is still way lower than using it every few weeks, once, as it works the first time.
- Comment on Why are Google's Assistant(s) so bad nowadays? 3 weeks ago:
Hmmm I couldn’t really find anything. The only way to guarantee that is to have models that run purely locally, but until very recently that wasn’t feasible.
Smaller AI models that could ruin a phone are now doable, but making them useful requires a lot of dev time and only giant data-guzzling companies have tried so far.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on I don't need your stinking technology 3 weeks ago:
Boomer humour
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Boost has not had an update since mid 2024. I think it’s abandonware.
I managed to clear it by going to the tab left of messages tab and clicking clear all.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 3 weeks ago:
That must be it!
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 3 weeks ago:
2G is also gone.
www.ofcom.org.uk/…/3g-switch-off/
The old phone was a couple years into 4G existing but before we started to send voice over it.
I assume it just wasn’t in the OS-level code. It only went up to Android 11. We could have tried LineageOS but that would have required a bunch of work including wiping the phone.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 3 weeks ago:
We switched off 3G this year in the UK and my brothers phone stopped being able to make calls. He was using a 6 year old high-end Android phone, but it was from just before the cutoff where you could turn on VoLTE (calls over 4G).
Thankfully, I had a spare phone from the next year after that to hand him, and that one could work with some hidden menu (the type you type into your dialer) hacking.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 5 weeks ago:
For people who have not read the article:
Forbes states that there is no indication that this app can or will “phone home”.
It’s stated use is for other apps to scan an image they have access to find out what kind of thing it is (known as "classification"). For example, to find out if the picture you’ve been sent is a dick-pick so the app can blur it.
My understanding is that, if this is implemented correctly (a big ‘if’) this can be completely safe.
Apps requesting classification could be limited to only classifying files that they already have access to. Remember that android has a concept of “scoped storage” nowadays that let you restrict folder access. If this is the case, we’ll it’s no less safe than not having SafetyCore at all. It just saves you space as companies like Signal, WhatsApp etc. no longer need to train and ship their own machine learning models inside their apps, as it becomes a common library / API any app can use.
It could, of course, if implemented incorrectly, allow apps to snoop without asking for file access. I don’t know enough to say.
Besides, you think that Google isn’t already scanning for things like CSAM? It’s been confirmed to be done on platforms like Google Photos well before SafetyCore was introduced, though I’ve not seen anything about it being done on devices yet (correct me if I’m wrong).
- Comment on NSA is the only government instution that actually listens to you 1 month ago:
They hear, but do they really listen?
We keep telling them our great ideas but all they do is put us on lists!
- Comment on Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps. 1 month ago:
Very disappointing that Match Group, being effectively a monopoly, doesn’t give us the one benefit we would get from it being a monopoly: industry-wide bans.
Normally, you’d need a whole bunch of companies to agree on a universal standard for communicating bans between each other and agreements to stick to it (similar to standards like USB) but here they could just do it. They even collect the information, they just don’t act on it.
- Comment on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 1 month ago:
So to sum up the data, it sounds like:
- WD seems to have the most reliable drives of those tested, with Toshiba being a relatively close second
- Some models of drives are significantly more likely to fail than others, with some having a ~6% annual failure rate vs another model from the same company at 1%
- Seagate had a rough year when it comes to reliability
- It’s hard to tell if capacity affects drive life as the drives being tested have been in use for different lengths of time
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 1 month ago:
Verbatim is doing more than just keeping the formats on life support – it also unveiled new hardware at CES 2025. Its Slimline Blu-ray Writer lets you back up 4K video to Ultra HD Blu-ray and even comes bundled with antiquated Nero disc burning software.
This is the important part imo, given that LG and Sony both pulled out of the USB Blu-ray reader-writer market
Means we’ll be able to rip Blu-ray’s into the future (I hope)
- Comment on Nazis don't rule 1 month ago:
We need more of this.
- Comment on Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites 1 month ago:
Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”
In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”
The turnaround is giving me whiplash
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 3 months ago:
BP60NB10, though that may be different by region.
Also had just as much success, including with UHD BD, with the older BP50NB40.
- Comment on github issue 3 months ago:
I think we can close this issue as completed
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 3 months ago:
I just bought a second PC Blu-ray writer just in case this would happen. Nice.
Need it to rip my BDs
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 4 months ago:
Why would they have thermal issues? If anything, they should dissipate heat better than plastic drives.
Or is it that by thermal issues people mean that they get hot to the touch?
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
I remember having that problem with the original Kingston.
Because I didn’t manually copy large files, I couldn’t say.
If there’s any you’d like me to test this for (except the Samsung Bar, because I’ve given it away) I can do so.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
I did see that second one, but I realised it would not fit my criteria for the angle of the hole, so I didn’t get one.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
Handy tip. I used to do that too.
Also had a chain between two rings for a bit of a fidget toy 😅.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
8GB in 2007?! How much did that cost?
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
It’s about the size of an adult index finger, if that helps.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
Fair enough. For what it’s worth, the Corsair GTX has a cap that stays on fairly well.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
The sharp parts were on the side you plug into the computer, all the way around the lip but especially the corners.
I used a large steel file, but a smaller diamond file would work too I’m sure.
Simply rub the corners at a 45 degree angle with the file until it no longer hurts to touch. Go slowly and gently so you don’t bend it.
