Railcar8095
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- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 1 month ago:
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It’s worse than a paid ad. It’s an ad. You have to pay to see.
- Comment on Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads 1 month ago:
If I watch it on TV, computer, tablet or phone, I pirate it. Else, I pay.
Hell, I’m pirating Amazon even though I have Amazon Prime because of how crap the app is.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 month ago:
It’s not a legal thing. Is the message. “I’m not giving you any more access in the future because you broke our agreement.”
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 1 month ago:
want to see a world where content creators are simply paid by the hour, while they work.
Do you? Because that’s how game developers get their ideas crushed in favor of yet another game as a service that nobody asked for but makes stock holders happy.
And for alternative creators, who would pay? Do they need to be churning content as a job and not because they are inspired?
I get the idea, it’s just that seems hard to pull off
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 month ago:
Soon the game world will have speakers with ads, that will not really follow volume settings or distance attenuation.
The tutorial will have you collect “refreshing Pepsi Colas”.
Cinematics will always look to the big billboards.
And the game will have strict anti tampering/mods and will require internet connection to support this adds.
EA doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 1 month ago:
Just one note, nuclear power plants run at around 35% efficiency. This is because they are basically steam generators and tend to not push as hard for safety. I think they can get up to 40-45% with combined cycles and such, but then we are in the “very large” territory
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted. 1 month ago:
There’s a smiley at the end of the magnet. Remove that and it works
- Comment on China: Uyghur served 7 years in jail for advising others not to drink or smoke. It is first time that one of the jailed residents from Xaneriq village are released alive. 2 months ago:
Of course, in China, it’s illegal to spread religious lies, hate, religious fiction, and complete nonsense.
What’s the sentence for promoting Chinese traditional medicine? Must be severe given it’s all lies, fiction and general nonsense.
- Comment on Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs 2 months ago:
Because as a business, it doesn’t make sense in occident. They will be much worse in price to performance, and probably forget to run windows or other software.
From a business sense, it mostly makes sense of you think being dependent on “traditional” is a risk in a way or another.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 2 months ago:
If it works for you, and it’s only a secondary/failsafe browser, shouldn’t feel too guilty to use it.
I don’t use brave and I’m not aware of what’s the issue with the CEO, not sure if knowing that would change my protective
- Comment on Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. 2 months ago:
Why I imagine Xitter lawyers arguing that was it was neither spoken nor “printed”, they can’t be charged?
- Comment on Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop 2 months ago:
I understand the spirit, but that’s how it goes. You have somebody doing the work, as you want the ML to do it, and then feed the data. It’s the same when they get oncology scans that have been diagnosed by well paid doctors, somebody who knows does and the machine tries to replicate.
What very likely happened is that the failure rate platoed much higher than they expected, and all this time the goal was to lower it. Remember, it’s cheaper to have 0 people in India than 1, specially with AWS in mind.
Moreover, even if the accuracy was incredibly high, they would still need people reviewing. You have to review random events to ensure the model keeps performing well and to evaluate the ones with low confidence or suspicious.
- Comment on VPS provider Vultr Claims Rights to Sell Your Data & Programs 2 months ago:
Well, they kind of have it away with the name…
- Comment on Spec Analysis: PlayStation 5 Pro - the most powerful console yet 3 months ago:
Hereby I decree, only i3 for thee!
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 3 months ago:
It’s not even waiting for the last moment. They are installing windows 10 on the new machines, that come with W11.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 3 months ago:
And if I punched him, l’d be the one to go to jail.
Let me know time and place, I’ll witness it was in self defense
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 3 months ago:
I think somebody said, but there’s the misconception that Apple can never do wrong by people who should know better.
On the other end of the spectrum, my IT department is rolling new laptops for everybody will l with Windows 10. The plan is to upgrade everybody “the day we can no longer have support for 10”.
- Comment on CFCs 3 months ago:
The problem is not if he reads the response, it’s that the followers won’t or if they do, will just fight it.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 3 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 3 months ago:
If power consumption is lower, that means can have a more compact cooling. There’s a lot of people who would pay the premium for longer lasting and lighter laptops, myself included.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 3 months ago:
Ok, I’ve never heard about that. I might run some form of stress test just to see better.
Portable software worked in the past, but I don’t want IT calling me… A third time.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 3 months ago:
What you are saying in the first paragraph seems more about cooling capacity rather than the computer taking more power than the power supply can handle. I might have misunderstood, but that’s what I don’t see happening with the charging brick. It does happen with the usb-c hub that’s integrated on the monitor. It barely even keeps the battery with normal work, while my previous x13 (integrated graphics) had no issues regardless of task.
I don’t know the power in idle, I can’t install anything, not sure if I can check. If you know a way let me know and I’ll try.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 3 months ago:
My Lenovo P1 with an i7 and a Nvidia 4900 and a 230W adapter is wondering what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop 3 months ago:
Not a myth. Better batteries might have better safety measures, but none is inmune. It might not have happened to you but I’ve seen it happen in several high end/expensive brands already.
- Comment on Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, as internal dissent mounts 3 months ago:
Image In my search, women in Gaza deserved human rights. For men in got the same “check in Google for up to date news”
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
I see, the problem is that you lack reading comprehension.
Sorry I overestimated you.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
Read my comment again, or at least once.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
Let’s not mention the extended update service that people can buy for three years and that will make the oldest incompatible CPU 10 years old at that point…
What a weird way to say that the OS they bought will stop being supported on their 7 year old CPU unless they pay a subscription.
On a bit more serious way, it’s a bit of a slap in the face that, you could buy W10, in theory as a single payment, with no announced EOL, and now they say that even though they are going to keep working on security updates, you have to pay extra for it.
I would have respected more of there was no extended period. This way they are encouraged to have higher W11 requirements, so that they can earn more with OEM licenses and subscriptions. And given the nature of the OS and telemetry, they are extremely informed about the install base, so it is a very calculated decision.
- Comment on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem 3 months ago:
They can DRM, but they won’t use the DRM that’s part of the competitor’s platform, specially when Epic also had their own commercial DRM. Also they develop unreal engine. All of this are easy to check facts that show how little you know about what you’re talking about.
It’s ok not knowing, so why to make so much effort to pretend you know what you’re talking about and arguing with me up facts?
- Comment on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a 'threat' to the iOS ecosystem 3 months ago:
just piggy-back on steam, which is minimal DRM). The individual developers are responsible for DRM. Is this not true?
Considering Epic is a competitor of Steam and actively pulled the games from steam, this seems rather uninformed.