Nollij
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- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 22 hours ago:
Asus is a significant ODM, supplying boards for brands like HP. I’m not sure what lines/models they make today, but they are a lot bigger than just their consumer lines.
- Comment on Neither do I, Mr. Raccoon 1 week ago:
You’re right, and unfortunately this will be used as an excuse for the next cop convicted of brutally murdering an innocent person to avoid prison.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Little need, but not no need. They need to have a vague path, and something to show for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Bitcoin mining doesn’t normally use GPUs. They use dedicated ASICs. Far more effective, and cheaper in every way.
In addition, AI is in the “growth at any cost” phase. There is a TON of investor money to burn, with little need to show future profitability.
- Comment on I was gonna stop cornposting but then I saw this 4 weeks ago:
The locals call it “cornhenge”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I think he’s trying to say there should be more taboo. That there should be a lot more restrictions than just consent.
I’m glad he’s dead.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You’re getting downvoted, but I experienced much of the same. So much misogyny and, looking back on it, toxic masculinity. I vividly remember the bit where they used tape to illustrate “purity” of not having multiple partners.
This would’ve been the late 90s, US Midwest.
- Comment on Take the plea deal 5 weeks ago:
Amazingly, it was also the kind of thing he could’ve vaporwared away, just by (mostly) following policy. All he had to do was claim (from the beginning) that there are ongoing investigations, agency policy is to not release info about those investigations, and then lie that there are going to be arrests really soon.
- Comment on The rich are ‘renting’ out their idle gold bars for income as prices remain at historic highs 5 weeks ago:
It seems more like the futures market. The jewelers are “buying” gold at the current price to make things with gold, and they will need to repay the same amount of gold. If the price goes up, the jewelers will be paying more at that time, and the owners make a profit. If the price goes down, the owners lose money (same as if they simply held it)
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 5 weeks ago:
The very first line:
A loss leader (also leader) is a pricing strategy where a product is sold at a price below its market cost to stimulate other sales of more profitable goods or services.
So the answer to their question is “Yes, a loss leader needs to lead to something”. I have no idea why you think they have no idea what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 5 weeks ago:
Not OP, but the most obvious and popular alternative to Adguard DNS is a (self-hosted) Pi-hole. That setup is effectively protected from such attacks, in no small part because it’s self-hosted.
- Comment on Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out 1 month ago:
That’s an oddly specific and focused take on food service. Not wrong, just not something that most people (around here) think about when considering fast food.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 month ago:
It’s not that Google’s algorithms got bad, but the entire Internet turned to shit and they can’t compensate for it.
For anytime not time-sensitive, try adding “before:2023” to your search. I’m being the quality of your results will skyrocket.
- Comment on Data stored in Canada can be subject to foreign courts, government paper warns 1 month ago:
For more information on the subject, Microsoft has been fighting this battle, largely unsuccessfully, for years.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat…
It’s also why they had Azure Germany - an instance where they were not actually in control and data could remain sovereign. I believe it’s now defunct, or at least restricted.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 month ago:
Again, kid logic. Plus, many young parents don’t know (or care) how to properly cook veggies anyway. It’s a choice between canned (and usually salted) veggies, or similarly mushy, over-microwaved fresh/frozen veggies with little seasoning or flavor. It’s not like the green beans are roasted with olive oil, garlic, and balsamic vinegar.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
You’re overlooking an important detail - kids love that cheap, shitty food. It was also quick and easy to make, so their tired, overworked parents were easily persuaded to make it.
Naturally there’s a line where it becomes too much, but even rich kids love hot dogs and Mac & cheese.
- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 2 months ago:
Archive link to bypass paywall:
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 months ago:
If it’s working fine in 10, it’s very unlikely to be a hardware fault. Possible (but unlikely) a hardware configuration.
The answer was almost certainly drivers. While I acknowledge that you were unsuccessful at changing them, that is still where your issues came from. You probably could’ve fixed it WinPE/WinRE, which is admittedly way more complicated than it should be.
- Comment on Beards are technically face pubes 2 months ago:
As evidenced by the term “bearded clam”
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 2 months ago:
It probably depends on how personalized the ads are. It should come as no surprise that targeted ads have been a thing as long as ads have existed. Coke ads during family shows, alcohol ads (you’ll be cool if you use our product) on MTV, etc.
There are already a number of algorithms to deliver one ad for a product over another, based on likely demographics. Streaming has greatly increased this, since specific demographic details are immediately and directly available when the ad is shown. I won’t get the same as on Hulu that you get.
As for generating ads on-the-fly, that seems unlikely. Few ads are fully generated at all, let alone in response to demographics or the specific viewer(s).
There are also risks when deploying ads without vetting. Some of these viewers will be dressed as Nazis, and will happily share the video to everyone.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 2 months ago:
reassemble
I’m sure that was autocorrect, but it feels awfully portentous.
- Comment on It would be hilarious if, one day, the Nobel Peace Prize was decided by no rules cage fight. Pay per view, of course. 2 months ago:
The Nobel Peace Prize, brought to you by Carl’s Jr.
- Comment on Thanks satan 3 months ago:
Christians are the only ones that believe in Satan.
No, satanists do not believe in Satan.
- Comment on How to Decide what an Appropriate Medical Response is for Loved Ones 3 months ago:
Depending on your location and situation, you may have access to a nurse line or fast telemedicine (basically a zoom call with a random doctor). They can diagnose many ailments remotely, and at least tell you what the next steps should be.
- Comment on Deportation? There's an app for that. 3 months ago:
Weren’t there reports of exactly this already happening?
- Comment on Deportation? There's an app for that. 3 months ago:
There are options, but you probably won’t like them…
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 3 months ago:
In some places, yes, probably. It would most likely fall under anti-SLAPP protections.
IANAL though, so it could be more complicated.
- Comment on If they wanted to do a gender-swapped Doctor Who, without it being the absolute pile of dogshit that is the BBC's current attempt, Fern Brady would be an immaculately perfect choice 3 months ago:
The biggest problem I had with the Jodie era was the companions.
Doctor Who has a rich history of the Doctor/Companion interactions following traditional gender roles. The Doctor is a powerful man who can bend time and space to his will, and his companion is an empathetic woman who can keep him grounded and retain his humanity. While there have been exceptions, this is the default formula.
When Jodie started, this all got turned upside-down. How should a woman Doctor act? Do they maintain the same character archetype (as they did with the Master/Missy), or do they make the character more feminine? What effect should that have on her relationship with her companions? Should the companion continue to be the traditional feminine role? Headstrong and masculine, but powerless? Wise and sage, like an advisor? This is a difficult plan for even the most accomplished writer.
Chris Chibnall was apparently not up to the task. Instead, he threw all of the options in at once. At best, it felt crowded and disjointed. But more often, it felt like they were focus-group testing. And by the end, it seemed clear that Kaz was the most popular with test audiences.
- Comment on If they wanted to do a gender-swapped Doctor Who, without it being the absolute pile of dogshit that is the BBC's current attempt, Fern Brady would be an immaculately perfect choice 3 months ago:
Yes, because of Disney’s refusal to commit to the series. The production schedule is entirely too unpredictable right now, and Ncuti has (a lot of) other offers.
I can’t elaborate without major spoilers.
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 4 months ago:
Kind of. They will be multiples of 4. Let’s say you got a gigantic 8i8e card, albeit unlikely. That would (probably) have 2 internal and 2 external SAS connectors. Your standard breakout cables will split each one into 4 SATA cables (up to 16 SATA ports if you used all 4 SAS ports and breakout cables), each running at full (SAS) speed.
But what if you were running an enterprise file server with a hundred drives, as many of these once were? You can’t cram dozens of these cards into a server, there aren’t enough PCIe slots/lanes. Well, there are SAS expansion cards, which basically act as a splitter. They will share those 4 lanes, potentially creating a bottleneck. But this is where SAS and SATA speeds differ- these are SAS lanes, which are (probably) double what SATA can do. So with expanders, you could attach 8 SATA drives to every 4 SAS lanes and still run at full speed. And if you need capacity more than speed, expanders allow you to split those 4 lanes to 24 drives. These are typically built into the drive backplane/DAS.