BeardedGingerWonder
@BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
- Comment on How many times have you wanted to ask a co worker this question 13 hours ago:
Malta?
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 1 day ago:
Right… But you’re not operating under the misapprehension that Google is somehow an uncommon choice for search. I agree it’s gotten crap in a lot of cases, but equally I also know just about everyone uses it for search.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 1 day ago:
I believe it, chiefly because I read the slop answer and then have to check 5 more pages to figure out if it’s spouting nonsense or not.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 1 day ago:
Do people still use the most popular search engine for search? I get you’re trying to be factitious but it comes across as naff.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 day ago:
The question comes down to whether a phone with a chip in it is subject to the tariff or just raw chips being imported. No one is putting a US chip in it, because US chips don’t exist. The foundries to make them don’t exist.
If the assembled phone is subject to a “phone” or “general” tariff at 30% and not the 100% chip tariff then it incentivises manufacturing in china vs the US is what I think the OP is saying.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
For a charging port?
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 3 days ago:
On Lemmy?
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 3 days ago:
Genuinely curious how you interact with it?
I’ll occasionally amuse myself by making up scenarios with Gemini. And the Google search summary is there - but tbh I mostly find myself ignoring that or seeking confirmation it’s not just made up.
I guess I passively use it quite a bit through Google search.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 4 days ago:
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one not regularly using AI, am I getting old or something?
- Comment on Is anyone using a BMCU 5 days ago:
It’s been slow going I’m afraid (not the fault of the BMCU). What I’ve learned is some kind of buffer/auto rewinding spool holder is needed for the P1S for the filament retraction and that’s making things too big for my enclosure, so I’m going down the route of solving that problem first.
On the BMCU side of things, everything is printed and ready to assemble, just need some time 😄
- Comment on How to design a print with better tolerances – Slant 3D (12:34) 6 days ago:
A crud catcher, just what every box needs.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 week ago:
100% if you’re a nazi apparently.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Urgh, as a man, “fewer rights”
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
Did we? Some maybe, I do recall the fascists got the shit kicked out of them on Cable Street. More of that please.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
Oh nice, how good is the MiSTer with Saturn games?
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
No Saturn?
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
I definitely would if I had the space and time to build it. Too many projects too little time (and space)
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 1 week ago:
Well that’s just fine then. Have a nice day.
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 1 week ago:
Wonder how it handles nerf blasters?
- Comment on Readers are canceling their Vogue subscriptions after AI-generated models appear in August issue 1 week ago:
Lol, I thought it looked like Denise Richards
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 1 week ago:
For goth girlfriending.
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 1 week ago:
What are your credentials?
- Comment on linus tech tip 2 weeks ago:
They also installed the product incorrectly in a test and shat all over it and the initial response on the controversy from Linus on the forum was pretty terrible.
- Comment on Nine households control 15% of wealth in Silicon Valley as inequality widens 2 weeks ago:
Just waiting for the drop
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 2 weeks ago:
If you’re offline only, they can’t afaik. In the case of online I’m lead to believe each individual cart is signed with a unique certificate so they can tell if that cart has been used in more than one console. If there’s two instances of the same thing online at the same time it must be pirated.
In terms of reversal - I’ll work from the premise we agree that it’s unacceptable a customer loses access to a device they purchased and own because the company doesn’t like it. But let’s say it happens, how much hassle is it going to be to undo it? The console is bricked so it’s presumably not running/able to go online? Do I need access to a PC to fix it? Do I need to send it off to Nintendo? Go to a game store?
Fwiw I like tinkering with consoles and devices - not necessarily because of piracy, I just like running weird software on them or making them do things they weren’t meant to. It’s not a common use case, but it’s valid enough. Why should Nintendo control that.
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 2 weeks ago:
Which is fine until the piracy detection system has a false positive and you lose your Switch. Or you buy a second hand copy of a game the original owner made a copy of and continues to use and your switch gets bricked. I understand you’re in the EU, but this kind of nonsense would definitely put me off a system that’s already inordinately expensive.
- Comment on UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 2 weeks ago:
Can I work on it too?
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 3 weeks ago:
I use mine for prime. Everything else is libreelec though.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 3 weeks ago:
Like “I need to get home to see my dying child” and they think “oh yes, what a perfect opportunity to demonstrate our ability to extract as much money as possible”
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 3 weeks ago:
I wonder about these fuckers, like what is wrong with them. I totally understand theorising about this crap, it wouldn’t be the first time I’d been down a line of thought purely thinking about “how could I maximise this” or “how could I solve this problem” but at some point I take a step back and “wait no, this is a horrendous idea” occurs to me. And then there’s this twat who thinks “oh yeah, we should extract as much money from paying customers as possible and then we’ll do it in other industries” and says it like they think everyone is going to think it’s a good idea.