tankplanker

@tankplanker@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I am pretty certain you are tbh, I think you mixing up uefi certificate updates with root kits that are part of the factory image or other installed bloatware from the manufacturer.

  Now if you were talking about vpro or other low level management I could believe it, but thats intel and avoidable…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? Where you read that?

  What I remember it was an app you could uninstall and then you had to clean up the certificate install. It was part of the factory image and would get installed as part of that. Lenovo provided instructions to remove it.

  But again, I don’t use factory images or windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah my countries market for used frameworks is tiny, I would be paying a significant premium if I could find one and likely getting one of the less desirable (to me) older models. I also really want a 16/15" device so its kind of limiting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont use factory installed images from anybody, mostly because of this shit. I also dont use windows, not that I would trust a factory installed Linux either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I plan on going for a used Lenovo, something with as many generic, replaceable components as possible with as little soldered to the motherboard as I can get away with. I trust the workplace models to be more reliable and supportable long term than anybody else.

  That way Lenovo do not see a penny of my money and I will only have a very very small upward impact on used prices due to the volumes of used Lenovos sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t buy a Dell because I wouldn’t trust the hardware, his position is just the icing. Whole reason I wanted the framework was because I wanted something to last a very long time, I simply do not trust Dell to provide support or parts long term.

  The Tim Apple situation hurt, as I really liked the apple silicon for build quality and I had an old Intel Macbook that did indeed last a very long time (still boots even now). However their RAM/Storage pricing for what is an essential amount of storage for me mean even without Timmys boot licking making them a non starter.

  I wont buy Nvidia because of their shitty Linux support, Huang being an absolute womble

  Lenovo is about as good as you getting for a mainstream brand, and they are ultimately owned by the CCP so meh.

  I think with Framework it particularly hurts as at least with Dell or Apple they are quite openly rimming Trump because it will give them competitive advantage and tax cuts while they never really pretended to be for the public good.

  WTF do Framework get by supporting Hyperland or Omarchy? Its literary supporting your racist uncle who makes moonshine for half a dozen people when you set yourself up to be an ethical alternative whose current market is more likely to be ethical seeking. Imagine if Oxfam or Doctors without Borders started supporting Trump?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not expecting my single cancellation to make the slightest difference to their policy, they already made it clear that they are quite happy funding racists when multiple people have challenged them over it, and with one of their larger pots of cash they give out as well.

  What I am getting out of is knowing I am not (indirectly) funding racists myself, rather than knowingly funding racists. I do not see it any different from buying products from Musk, if you did it ages ago then fine, but after, thats something else entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I cancelled my framework 16 order because of their “big tent” policy meaning they give funding to Hyperland and Omarchy, I will not give my money to people who fund racists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There used to be a cap on uni places, Blair removed that cap. Polys converted in 92 under the Tories.

  In theory, there could be more students applying than the cap, and in theory you could end up getting grades another year would have let you get in but not get in year you applied.

  I say in theory as you would have had to have pretty fucking awful grades to not get in, I know of people getting in with a mix of Es and Ns during the pre Blair era, and no it wasnt a “soft” course or on a foundation year either.

  Obviously I am ignoring subjects like Medicine that still had a cap even after Blairs meddling and have always been extremely tough to get in even with fantastic grades.

  The biggest issue he caused by just removing the cap entirely was not ensuring a long lasting funding model, you cannot double the number of students and not cause runway increases in costs that ultimately have to be footed by the tax payer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rise Of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that you can and should enter a sequence of buttons to get a QR code to verify if your casio is in fact a casio is wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes perfect sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  May be they couldn’t have kids because, i don’t know, being entirely different species, so they adopted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wants to be "the seminal Warhammer 40K game," says its devs, who sell me in just 8 words: "You can customize the fingers on Space Marines!" plus Gamestar article⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can say that about a lot of authoritarian settings, most obvious example is a hardcore of Homelander fans, despite Homelander being a figure of fun and scorn in the Boys. There will always be people who either lack the critical thinking skills or willfully ignore ample evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typeframe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have always loved the concept of computers like this one.

  I have a picocalc on order but I am aware I am unlikely to make such a restricted use platform work for me day to day.

  I also have a GPD MicroPC 2, its just about perfect for me for actual travel usage as its just a small PC.

  However I like the fact its based on a PI as it has a wide range of options for expansion and a large base of support to take it further if you need it to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So they don’t pay a penny towards those costs? For the median? As thats a lot of people.

  As its entirely wrapped in the tax already accounted for in that net income with the UK tax payer.

  I wasn’t expecting it to be the whole difference but I do know those that have to pay in the US pay a significant chunk of change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you accounting for everything that’s included in UK taxation such as health care and state pension?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except in the UK you can’t as they don’t sell them. They also ended UK support for their smoke detectors as well.

  I switched to opentherm hardware and its now on my HA properly rather than via the cloud.

  I did get a good ten years out the Nest hardware, I consider that reasonable for what it cost. Sure old fashioned controllers last longer, but i want the smart features

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that’s its pre-watershed for sporting events that are popular with kids makes it even worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quality of the system is such a massive dependency here, I can well believe that someone watching old reruns from a shitty streaming service that is upscaled to 1080p or 4k by their TV they purchased from the supermarket with coupons collected from their breakfast cereal is going to struggle to tell the difference.

  Likewise if you fed the TVs with a high end 4k blu ray player and any blu ray considered reference such as Interstellar, you are still going to struggle to tell the difference, even with a more midrange TV unless the TVs get comically large for the viewing distance so that the 1080p screen starts to look pixelated.

  I think very few people would expect their old wired apple earphones they got free with their iphone 4 would expect amazing sound from them, yet people seem to be ignoring the same for cheap TVs. I am not advocating for ultra high end audio/videophile nonsense with systems costing 10s of thousands, just that quite large and noticeable gains are available much lower down the scale.

  Depending what you watch and how you watch it, good quality HDR for the right content is an absolute home run for difference between standard 1080p and 4k HDR if your TV can do true black. Shit TVs do HDR shitterly, its just not comparable to a decent TV and source. Its like playing high rez loss less audio on those old apple wired earphones vs. playing low bitrate MP3s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sheffield Wednesday file for administration with 12-point deduction imminent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason the Premier League was created was for the teams in the Premier League to keep more of the money by sharing less with the lower leagues.

  The Premier League earns so much more money than the lower leagues its impossible to get into and stay in without a rich sugar daddy.

  Even if you do get up with money to spend as Forest found when they got promoted, the cap on your spending is greatly reduced for that first year so you struggle to compete without a points reduction for overspending.

  The rules exist to pull up the ladder as much as possible. One of the main goals for any European super league is to remove relegation and promotion. Its about locking in that revenue stream.

  Having said all that, the punishment is there to stop the club being pillaged or mismanaged as in this case. The threat of a points deduction stops anybody sensible from just borrowing their way up the league without being able to pay for it. We had clubs getting in all sorts of messes and far more often as they tried to buy titles.

  This owner is far from rational, best case was his plan was to sell it to a friend for a pound and wipe off the debt, and thats me being very generous to his ability to plan ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did Samsung dex for a while, its ok as long as you don’t want low level access to what you connecting to.

  Now I switched to a gpd micropc 2 and its built in ethernet, sd card, usb a and c sockets and native linux make it so much more useful. No longer do i need dongles or other rubbish.

  Plus it will do multiple monitor support, something dex struggles with. The keyboard is a little small for touch typing but the former factor is worth the trade of for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad but true⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumbest person I know also happens to be a super nice, always happy, and also very attractive. She’s never struggled to get work ever, even for her dream job as a teacher when she had to take her foundational English and Math exams three times.

  I would say she has a better life than the majority of people, never had a day of stress ever as everything has always worked out for her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would they not also be lobbying for ICE cars/trucks? Or would that be counted differently? At the moment we have had the big positive step of moving the date back to 2030, at the expense of more flexibility around hybrids (which are shit for the environment) and reducing the tapering of ICE sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would buy a feature phone today, preferably something eink, if it was painless to switch my SIM between it and my smart phone. Having to take the SIM out of one, put it in the other, then turn on the phone is not painless and they do not design the little draws to support thousands of open/closes against the contacts to read the SIM.

  There are times I want the smart phone to have the SIM because I will want or need the extra functionality and if you just make the feature phone do everything then its just morphed into a smart phone with extra steps. I want the feature phone to be basic as I can get away with.

  That said, I really want google wallet or similar that I can share between the two phones for my passes and tickets, audio streaming support, and maps.

  I cannot replace my smart phone, rather than supplement, with any feature phone because I use it for such a wide range of things. I can ssh from it to my home devices, I can manage my bank accounts, it tracks my health, it provides video and audio streaming on and offline, I can read and write documents/spreadsheets, plus anything you can do via a web browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boris Johnson hosted Tory peer who funded a lavish refurbishment of his flat for dinner the day after the national coronavirus lockdown came into force, leaked documents show⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sure this compromat leaking is completely unrelated to the news linking Boris with a comeback at Reform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also third party recruiters for specialist positions such as IT, Law, etc. who are often the only entry point into a particular firms open positions.

  At their best you used to be able to actually speak to them and they would go find a job for you. They would help you tailor your CV and cover letter to suit, prep you for the interview, etc. They are typically paid by the hiring company a significant percentage of your salary in installments if you get hired. You can pay for this service now, but getting a good one is hard.

  I used to get direct contacts from them for positions that actually matched what I can do for a salary that would actually match what I am after. They used to have an actual industry knowledge and contacts.

  Now, at their worst they spam people on linkedin with connection requests for positions that are completely unsuitable, AI has made this far far worse now. They often use a ghost position just to farm CVs for future positions, totally counterproductive if you wanted to tailor your CV for a position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sorry Mario, your job is in another castle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nigel Farage says Boris Johnson is not welcome in Reform UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Farage scared of allowing his supporters a free vote between him and Boris shocker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What this chart is missing is the impact of the quality of the screen and the source material being played on it.

  A shit screen is a shit screen, just like a badly filmed TV show from the 80s will look like crap on anything other than an old CRT.

  People buying a 4k screen from Wallmart for $200 then wondering why they cant tell its any better than their old 1080p screen.

  The problem with pushing up resolution is the cost to get a good set right now is so much its a niche within a niche of people who actually want it. Even a good 4k set with proper HDR support and big enough to make a different is expensive. Even when 8k moves away from early adopter markups its still going to be expensive, especially when compared to the tat you can by at the supermarket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does he put forward his case that he is the anti christ? As he sure comes across as someone who would want that. He has always felt like the sort of motherfucker who would read the Stand and identify with Randall Flagg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s richest set to produce 13 times more transport emissions than poorest by 2035⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Richest 4%? Show us the gap between the richest 1% and the richest 0.1% vs the bottom rather than dragging down the multiplier by deliberate widening the boundaries to imply its not even more lopsided when you look at the rich as people who travel by private jet and super yacht.

  Do the wealthy need to cut their emissions? Of course, but stop pretending that they emit anywhere near the amount of the actual rich.