ForgotAboutDre
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- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
It was very likely a designers decision. It forces the use the use case they wanted; wireless mice should be used wirelessly. I would bet they fought marketing and management to get this on the final product.
Marketing would want the mouse they can advertise as being useable with and wireless. Female ports are easier to mount and manufacture with they have depth to set the socket. So a plug on the front is much cheaper and easier to manufacture.
The fact the charging cable doesn’t get used in motion means it will last longer and you wouldn’t have people useing fraying cables on the front of their mouse.
- Comment on Deaths outstrip births in UK for first time in nearly 50 years 5 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s a choice that’s been made not to. The same people peddling this narrative are the ones that push the ideology that lead to the reduction in the government capability to provide services like health care and housing.
- Comment on What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices? 1 month ago:
Mac isn’t UNIX based, it is UNIX and comes with many of the UNIX tools a user would expect. Completely different situation.
- Comment on Global carbon capture and storage potential way overblown, study finds 1 month ago:
Co2
- Comment on Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware? 2 months ago:
Probably not much for people on a self hosting community, but those that want to get away from subscriptions and steal your data as a service cloud providers that might need some reassurance that they’ll have a working system.
- Comment on Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware? 2 months ago:
Nixos is an os that’s defined by its config stored in .nix files. Everything is defined here all the software and configurations. Two people with the same script will have the exact same os.
Any changes you make that aren’t in the scripts won’t be present when you reboot.
You could maintain a very custom linux distribution (kinda) by just maintaining these config scripts.
So a user wouldn’t need to install all required software and dependencies. They could get a nixos and the self-host config and adjust some settings and have a working system straight after install.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
You know it’s a thunderbolt connection on a MacBook. They stopped using the USB symbol when they used the usb for thunderbolt and stopped using the mini display port.
- Comment on Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing 2 months ago:
This is going to be tracking customers location in supermarkets.
- Comment on Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files. 2 months ago:
Long term servo is unlike to be another web engine. It’ll just replace Firefox. Firefox’s old engine won’t get as much development. Then we’ll be left with Safari, Firefox (servo) and googles web manipulation vehicle Chrome safari with more tracking and higher battery/ram consumption.
- Comment on How come zombies seem to have sharp teeth while the rest of their body is rotting away? Or is just fiction? 2 months ago:
There isn’t much sugar in brains, so their teeth may last longer than the average alive human.
- Comment on Should you have to pay for online privacy? 2 months ago:
Enough people pay or concede their privacy. The people that avoid it were already using ad blockers and not making them any money.
- Comment on Gen 1 Pokémon Fans Are In Awe As Cubone’s Face Is Discovered In Old 90s Picture Book | Retro Dodo 2 months ago:
There was a theory going about that they were charmanders, hence the shape of them and the charzard style skull.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
Its subsidies that keep it cheep. Producing beef doesn’t provide free milk. Typically different varieties of cattle are used for dairy and beef. But dairy cows may end up in low grade beef - except when they are put to pasture after their useful life and given a year to rest (this beef is more expensive).
- Comment on Europe’s seeds are being privatised by patents - and it could threaten food security 2 months ago:
These laws can always be changed to fix these issues. Especially if they cause issues with food supplies.
The benefit of patents is the information in a patent is public information. The technology is shared in exchange for a monopoly of that technology for a limited time.
So it should be an easy fix, in the future. A good fix for now is exemptions to academic research, especially in universities seeking to improve environment and food security. These issues should be a top priority, well and above protecting a businesses interest. They should also lose the ability to sue for patent infringement if their plants become so common in an area it’s beyond reasonable to avoid cross pollination.
- Comment on YouTube creator sues Nvidia and OpenAI for ‘unjust enrichment’ for using their videos for AI training 2 months ago:
They are copying. These LLM are a product of their input, and solely a product of their input. It’s why they’ll often directly output their training data. Using more data to train reduces this effect, that’s why all these companies are stealing and getting aggressive in stopping others stealing their data.
- Comment on Be still my beating tastebuds 3 months ago:
It’s less the emulsifier softens it, more it allows water to the added. Cheese is largely fat/oil which doesn’t mix easily with water.
The emulsifier allows you to melt and cast left over cheese, and add water to increase it’s volume. Its original invention was to make use of scrap cuts of cheese.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
It’s criminal that Microsoft has such a monopoly on word processing, they can’t even render text properly. It’s not an issue in Mac or Linux, but it is in all windows applications that aren’t using a chromium base.
- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 5 months ago:
They are both describing the same particles.
- Comment on Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” 5 months ago:
It really should be fraud. It is deception used for personal gain. While I think it should be fraud, it will probably need new legislation to make it so.
- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 5 months ago:
It’s not crazy when you think they are both trying to model the same universe.
- Comment on Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button 5 months ago:
They could attempt to quantify how gamed the result is and reduce its ranking. Also punishing domains with lower ranking the more they return SEO optimised pages. They could also increase the ranking of older pages.
This doesn’t really help google, it only really improves their search results. Google wants these hyper SEO optimised results with lots of advertising. Additionally, the less relevant the result is the more searches a person does. Each search is an additional set of ad impressions.
Google search is better than ever. Because it generates more advertising opportunities for google. Google isn’t in the business of returning good search results, they are in the business of displaying ads.
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 6 months ago:
It lets you build one motherboard with all possible ram options.
The smallest one has all it ram soldered on. Therefore less time is required in assembling the laptops. All other patients just need the extra ram placed in the dimm slot.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
You need port forwarding to connect on torrents. Your able to torrent because everyone you torrent from has port forwarding enabled. If you want to access more seeders, and more commonly leechers you need port forwarding. This is useful for people using private trackers that want to maintain a ratio.
- Comment on Linux Distro for Jellyfin HTPC 6 months ago:
Yes, I understood that. There are specific OS for Kodi like libreElec, that make it easy to have support for lots of codecs etc. I don’t know if any for specific to Jellyfin, but the Jellyfin App has a better UX than Kodi.
- Comment on Linux Distro for Jellyfin HTPC 6 months ago:
Kodi is a great Linux client. But that’s not what OP wants, the jellyfin app is a nicer UX experience.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
There are plenty of other options in the market, including ones with port forwarding. It’s a very saturated market.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
That’s what mullvlad say. It’s not necessarily the reason why they don’t offer port forwarding.
It was always possible for them to continue allowing port forwarding. They could use separate servers for those that want port forwarding, stopping any impact port forwarding had on those customers.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
Port forwarding means torrents. People using a VPN to torrent likely have much more traffic, especially those that seed (which is why they want port forwarding). Not enabling port forwarding means mullvlad can operate at a higher profit to cost ratio, and less risk.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 months ago:
Google will know. They gather all WiFi and Bluetooth data in the name of location services.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 months ago:
Android defaults to lying about your Mac address, which can be frustrating if you want to manage your home network.