BeardedGingerWonder
@BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 2 days ago:
A Dutch guy mentioned it to me a few years back how far the brand has fallen, reminds me a bit of GE in the US. It’s kinda sad. The really crazy thing is a few of the investments they made and dumped have gone on to be key players in tech, like ASML.
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 2 days ago:
Haven’t Philips enshittified almost entirely outside of healthcare products? Everything else is licensing the brand.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 5 days ago:
I’m beginning to wonder if AI is actually going to set us back technologically. Certainly it seems to be creating or widening a technology divide.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sportsball team
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 1 week ago:
She’s not using it for porn (that I’m aware of) but my wife got a Chromebook with her last phone. Handy enough little thing.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 week ago:
Yeah, I should’ve been more clear in my original post - I was trying to convey why investors would like him and just ignored the profit bit.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what your point is, the investors care about the stock price because that’s their money in/money out. Lower profit could be fine if they’re, say, investing 150Bn/yr into a new venture that stands to be profitable in the future (may even drive the stock price up). It’s vibes based to a degree, quite a bit of analysis goes into a company’s performance as well.
FWIW their gross profit is also up more than 3x in the same time frame.
- Comment on I can still smell them 1 week ago:
Haha, bought a couple of rolls of these recently to show the kids. Can’t believe no-one’s mentioned penny bangers yet. Take a roll, fold in half lengthwise and wrap radially around a penny, tape off the end, then throw it hard against a hard surface.
- Comment on genius 1 week ago:
ARE YOU OKAY, DO YOU NEED HELP?
- Comment on genius 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I’ve ever fallen more in love with a process than lost wax casting and it’s foam cousin, from the moment a tutor showed me a polystyrene cylinder head I was hooked lol. I’ll get a setup going some day.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 2 weeks ago:
Are you being serious?
Have a look at the MSFT share price in 2014 when he took over ~$45/share and now ~$470/share - of course investors love him, he’s 10x their investments since he was appointed.
- Comment on MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought 2 weeks ago:
I was going to make a joke about big bee and then remembered actual honey is a huge fraud as well, a significant portion of what’s sold as honey isn’t actually honey. Need a good docu on that too.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 weeks ago:
I’m fairness the only time I remember being in a phone store in the last decade was because I got an esim when I got my new phone, phone company didn’t send me a qr code to get the esim and I lost access to my account because I couldn’t receive an SMS because my old physical SIM was disabled.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 weeks ago:
I mean your original argument was it was more convenient - everyone having to buy a milk bag holder already seems less convenient than one guy inserting a few shims in a few moulds every couple of months.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 weeks ago:
Milk specifically, no, other bagged liquids, yes. An absolute pain in the ass compared to a bottle.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 weeks ago:
Apart from when you want to use them.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Just in time for AM6.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 weeks ago:
How do you take that from the comment above?
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 weeks ago:
They don’t care, my parents laptop was decently mid-range spec bar storage, manufacturer put in a 5400RPM spinning rust drive. It was damn near unusable, crap from the factory.
Was forced to use it once when visiting and noticed the performance, put an SSD in it and it’s been a fine laptop since. They’re perfectly willing to hobble a laptop to save a buck.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 4 weeks ago:
Had a friend who wrote his french oral presentation out in 1337, he was allowed notes but not the word for word presentation. He showed the teacher beforehand, she said that’s fine, looks like gibberish.
- Comment on The Good Old days. Wish I had lived through them. Seems like lots of fun 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but cigarettes were healthy back then!
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 4 weeks ago:
Glass is absolutely not guaranteed to be flat or without defect. Some glasses are. Mirrors have to be or they don’t work, they come precut in 300x300mm plates for cheap from IKEA. You’re free to check absolutely any thread from the time to see what people’s motivations were. Moving mass on a bedslinger would’ve been a bigger consideration.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 4 weeks ago:
My comment was more about the Chinese monopoly that would ensue if TSMC were taken out.
- Comment on Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports 4 weeks ago:
No they don’t, they pick mirrors because they’re guaranteed to be flat at a low price.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 4 weeks ago:
Have Intel and Samsung stopped making chips recently?
- Comment on Selling my old printer, looking for feedback 4 weeks ago:
Oh nice plan. Rack Robo’s wire EDM kit is interesting looking too (though they seem to be sold out). My old CR10 is earmarked for a voron-ish build but that’d be my second choice I think.
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes gendered stuff makes sense - like urinals. As you mentioned they’re efficient and I’d imagine a large part of why the gents toilets don’t have big queues. I’m all for trans folk using whatever toilet they want, I’m more worried about the folk who are presumably checking everyone’s genitals to make sure they’re in the correct toilet.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 4 weeks ago:
Cheap slop?
- Comment on Selling my old printer, looking for feedback 4 weeks ago:
Do you already have a resin printer? I guess it depends what your plan for it would be, but honestly they’re a pain in ass most of the time, the resin is Satan’s own fluid and you need to set the time aside for a post print wash/cure cycle. Have you considered converting the ender to something else?
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 4 weeks ago:
Not a fan of putting up more surveillance in general, even less so in public toilets. Also what happens to the urinals in this scenario?