baru
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- Comment on Which is the best WiFi 7 adapter: Intel vs Qualcomm 8 hours ago:
Qualcomm: better support for amd
Intel usually has two type of WiFi adapters. One tries on things in their CPUs, the other one doesn’t. So it a bit strange that this video finds it surprising that there’s a version tied to Intel CPUs. I’d always get the one that doesn’t need an Intel CPU. This as it’ll impact your CPU less, Intel or not.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 8 hours ago:
Roe vs wade should’ve been a law. Republicans said it wasn’t needed because of that case. If it isn’t a problem to have a law/restriction, then why argue against it?
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 22 hours ago:
It’d destroy their upsell from 8gb process in one fell swoop.
There’s a video where someone upgrades the memory of an iPhone by cnc’ing the existing memory chip. So basically using a drill to more or less drill the existing chip to get rid of it. Requires crazy precision.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 1 day ago:
I mean, Apple was never innovative, so you surely can get something better somewhere else?
That wasn’t stated by this person, no? It is a common fallacy to disprove a claim that wasn’t made.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 1 day ago:
I heard they were pretty good, on par and better than M3s.
I only saw that claim in an article where they explained that those chips (Snapdragon) aren’t anything special. Apparently yet another case that a company uses misleading benchmarks.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 5 days ago:
Simply pay, and you won’t see ads.
Loads of videos have embedded ads.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 5 days ago:
In case anyone wants to read that: www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 5 days ago:
You don’t need solar panels. Could also just be dynamic energy pricing. Also do not need a water heater. Thermal mass could just be heating the place at a certain time. Don’t get the bit about temp changes, maybe you mean you never heat or cool your place?
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 5 days ago:
I just bought one of these!
There weren’t any better options?
Did you try e.g. long pressing buttons, pressing -, or anything?
I had the +/- buttons ages ago (cheap alternative when renting). Never again.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 5 days ago:
OpenTherm is easy to install but “stupid” as hell
Ah, good but not nice to know. OpenTherm is really popular in the Netherlands. Not nice because I know loads who have such a thermostat. Oh well.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 days ago:
A lot of those smart thermostats do not support things like OpenTherm. As a result they often either start the heating or they do not heat. There’s no modulation.
OpenTherm is from 1990s. Having a thermostat with a presence sensor is also not really anything new. Adding remote functionality would be nice if those “smart” wouldn’t be so utterly terrible at being a thermostat. Meaning, the lack of modulation. And no modulation is pricy way to heat your home.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 days ago:
Long clicking on [3] then + + + + + + to boil your f eggs?
A lot of them have a terrible UI. But that’s far from all of them. Enough have sliders. Sometimes one with a pan detection. Sometimes a slider per area.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 days ago:
For fucks sake, people, use KNX.
I thought you’d say OpenTherm!
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 week ago:
Trickle down economics should result in more jobs. In this case it didn’t. The lesson is that not enough subsidy was given because people were fired instead of hired. Suggest they give Musk more money, that should get the desired result! /s
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 3 weeks ago:
Ah, so pay for premium to support creators, but if you support creators in another way then that’s bad because… reasons.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 3 weeks ago:
To. Support. The. Creators. I. Watch.
Did you ask those creators how much money they get? Loads of them make way more from inserting advertisements themselves.
It’s also telling that you’re saying it’s about supporting those creators while responding negatively towards the person who blocks ads and gives money directly.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 3 weeks ago:
YouTube doesn’t report their expenses.
But you said they aren’t making a profit. And you could see their revenue heavily increased in the last few years. So something has to give.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 3 weeks ago:
That you think not paying YouTube would make it so they could give their creators enough to where they didn’t need to take outside sponsors.
YouTube has 30 billion revenue a year. You make a claim about what I think but I didn’t claim it, nor did you back up that things would change.
Your claim is like the trickle down economic policy, which initially was meant as a joke.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 3 weeks ago:
YouTube has been running on a loss
Can you look to that? They only seem to share revenue, not profit. And profit is easily manipulated. Apparently they had 29 billion USD in revenue in 2023. There was a huge growth in revenue. I don’t see why you really claim that they’re making a loss.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 3 weeks ago:
Loads of videos have ads in there. They’re put in there by the content creators. This as YouTube doesn’t pay enough. YouTube premium doesn’t block those.
It’s strange that you haven’t noticed those.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 3 weeks ago:
But that doesn’t get rid of the ads, it just get rid of some. Sponsorblock would still be needed. Why pay a huge amount for something ineffective?
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 3 weeks ago:
Indeed, paying for YouTube would still result in loads of advertisements. So it’s pretty crazy that Google (and various people) are saying you need to pay because you’d just pay and still see loads of ads.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
This seems like further confirmation of that theory that I saw posted on here that the Saudi oil barons funded Elon’s purchase of Twitter for the sole purpose of destroying it.
Then why did Twitter needed to sue him to get him to abide by the deal? Musk often promotes stuff in a pump and dump scheme. One of the many examples is when he briefly promoted bitcoin. He made loads of money off that.
I’m guessing he thought he could make a lot of money quickly in some way. But then interest rates rose quickly and whatever he was planning fell through.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
An artificial delay should discourage flood attacks.
You didn’t explain how. It doesn’t matter to wait a little bit. It’s not like they’re using only one connection and one account.
It’s also not clear to me how waiting longer suddenly charged how easy it is to detect bots.
- Comment on Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks 4 weeks ago:
I explained it elsewhere, but basically: an API that needs undocumented escaping doesn’t immediately make you think that the API has huge issues?
- Comment on Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks 4 weeks ago:
If the issue is caused by rust not escaping arguments
That Windows API is terrible. There isn’t a way to have the escaping done for you. Further, there is not an API where you do not need to do the escaping. There is no documentation on what kind of escaping is needed.
It’s not a Rust problem.
- Comment on What would you like to see in a house IT setup? 4 weeks ago:
If you wire things, use keystones. I didn’t know that standard. Makes it much easier to have ethernet. My house had non standard keystone type things. Those are sort expensive, I replaced them with keystones just not have to deal with anything other than keystones in future.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. 4 weeks ago:
but no explanation given
You didn’t explain, so why should I? I did see you made things up.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. 4 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s a bit like government.
No it’s not.
- Comment on Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop 4 weeks ago:
Jesus christ these headlines mislead everything.
One article included how often employees needed to look at the cameras. That was the case in something like 80% of the times people went in to shop.
The goal was to train ML enough so that humans were rarely necessary, obviously.
The headline is pretty accurate. That might have been the goal, but they didn’t come close. And now they are closing down those stores.
Seems that they utterly failed in the goal.
Machine learning has lots of errors until you train it.
These stores were open for a pretty long time. It’s not a given that it’s just a matter of training.