Evilcoleslaw
@Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world
- Comment on FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register 3 days ago:
It’ll work without a valid provider or without a SIM at all. As long as it has battery and can pick up any network’s signal.
- Comment on Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives 1 week ago:
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 1 month ago:
Nah it didn’t have an extra chip – but large portions of the game were written in microcode for the N64’s processor specifically. It’s part of what makes it and Rogue Squadron kind of a pain to emulate – along with using their own audio drivers (MoSYS/MusyX that were later used as the basis for the GameCube sound systems).
- Comment on iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air 1 month ago:
In Geekbench, yes. From other reporting I’ve seen the major improvements here are from Scalable Matrix Extensions being on the M4, which Geekbench supports. Real world performance of which would be limited to certain scenarios and require application support for SME.
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 1 month ago:
I don’t use it much on the desktop but when I do just the normal web interface. On Android I use Boost, because that’s what I used previous to Lemmy.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 1 month ago:
HTC had Blinkfeed for a while which was kind of similar to People Hub. It probably wouldn’t even be feasible these days as so many services have put their APIs behind paywalls.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 1 month ago:
I’ve been running Launcher 10 on Android for a long while now. Replicates the tile interface and app list/drawer. I think it has ads with an IAP to disable them and another IAP for Live Tiles support.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 1 month ago:
Yeah, but the 3G networks are pretty much all gone, and iirc even the 4G reboots didn’t support a ton of LTE bands.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 1 month ago:
They put out 3G and 4G models of the 3210 and 8110 in 2017 and 2018. But yeah it’s probably time to refresh as most of the 3G networks have been sunsetted.
- Comment on The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now? 1 month ago:
Like someone else said, Lifeline is still a thing. For mobile phone plans it isn’t quite as good as the old Lifeline + ACP combo where some were offering Unlimited minutes, text and data. Most are 500-1000 minutes, unlimited text, 4-5GB data.
You have to be on SNAP, Medicaid, or some other federal programs OR meet the income requirements. If you sign up online now they kick you over to a National Verification site to check your eligibility. It’s pretty quick and painless. Then you’ll get a free (shitty) phone, or a SIM card on some that do BYOP.
- Comment on Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts 1 month ago:
My ISP announced a $30 monthly credit if it should expire, for an indefinite amount of time (until further notice, essentially). The only condition is not letting your bill get past due at all. Kinda telling how much margin they must have had and how inflated their prices are.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
It wasn’t so much the lack of SSDs. Vista had much higher memory requirements than XP. At the time, OEMs were still regularly shipping systems with sub-1GB RAM installed. Those OEMs put pressure on Microsoft to change the Vista- Ready certification requirements to include their shitty builds that couldn’t really run Vista.
In addition, dual core machines were only just coming to market, so there were a ton of systems with single core CPUs. Plus, with the changes to several driver models and some of the verification requirements (sound, graphics, needing to provide x64 drivers to get verified) from XP to Vista many vendors decided to EOL their products instead of write new drivers. I know many sound cards were EOL that were literally still on store shelves.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 month ago:
I don’t know much about security stuff, but I feel like older systems falling from popularity are not the usual targets of people who write them, and encountering one using an outdated OS would probably mean nothing since exploits they want to abuse aren’t there yet.
The issues that are going to be the problem eventually are vulnerabilities that affect both new and old versions of Windows. The new versions will get the patch, but 7 won’t. And it still might be worth exploiting to hit the machines with the newer version that don’t update quickly or at all.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 1 month ago:
What flavors did it deem acceptable? My denomination draws the line at Riptide Rush.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 2 months ago:
Yeah so the thing with PC parts suppliers is that every brand is going to have people who have experienced problems with their stuff.
Gigabyte I’ve never had a problem with, but yeah during the pandemic their power supplies were fucking exploding so yeah that’s a problem.
Asus I’ve never had a problem with, but yeah their boards on both sides have been setting voltages and power limits very aggressively, killing AM5 CPUs catastrophically, potentially causing instability on higher end Intel chips as well it seems. That’s a problem.
Etc etc etc
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 2 months ago:
I think there are also some ARM SoCs (now that Windows on ARM is a thing) that don’t meet the requirements, and there are too many systems out there with only 8GB of RAM.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 2 months ago:
Yes, it’s unsupported for other reasons. But if you bypass that requirement you won’t get these warnings about the AI requirements, assuming you have 16GB of RAM.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 2 months ago:
There are plenty of unsupported CPUs that also support the AI requirements. Basically anything with an AMD Phenom or an Intel Core i5/7 first gen or newer supports these.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 2 months ago:
SSE 4.2, the Popcount instruction specifically, and 16GB of RAM.
The first two are available on COUs starting from AMD K10 (Phenom) and Intel’s Penryn and Nehalem architectures (Core 2 and original Core i5/i7).
- Comment on How to Temporarily Bypass Discord ToS Update 2 months ago:
Yikes btw, their arbitration agreement is rather nasty. A bunch of weird convoluted rules about mass arbitration. Rather intimidating language about settlement offers made just before the arbitration hearings – basically if you turn down an offer and then get awarded less than what they offered you’re on the hook for paying all their fees from the time of the settlement offer, etc.
- Comment on How to Temporarily Bypass Discord ToS Update 2 months ago:
You have to give notice via email to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com that you’re opting out of the arbitration agreement by May 15 (or 30 days after starting a new account). I included a short bit stating this was a notice opting out of the arbitration agreement and then my name, etc
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
For Android on phones and tablets look up Revanced. You have to download the YouTube .apk from somewhere like apkmirror, then use the Revanced manager to apply patches to block ads and change functionality. Then you log into your account with their own version of MicroG/gmscore. It was briefly affected by the issue in the main post but was working again in a few hours.
For Android-based smart TVs and streaming devices there’s SmartTube (SmartTubeNext). Not sure how well they’ll do if YouTube goes cat and mouse though.
And for a wider variety of devices (including Apple TV and now WebOS) there’s also Kodi which has a YouTube addon although logging in with it is kind of a pain as you need to get API keys, etc.
& finally on a desktop browser uBlock Origin alone handles all the ads pretty well, and you can optionally add Sponsorblock.
Oh. And check out some of the over the top TV services and see if there are any cheap ones that might meet your needs to replace cable. Though the way the cable companies do their bundling even that might not save you much as the net might jump up to more than $80 standalone.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
When YouTube Red first dropped they were putting hour-long pilot episodes of their shows as pre-roll ads. Now I notice ads on shorts are full of obvious scams related to “new monthly health credits”. Still better than getting an ad on Facebook reels that was uncensored hardcore porn.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
At least a few TV service DVRs stop you from skipping ads.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
That and the large ad networks even on sites like YouTube and Facebook literally are advertising scams. Every time I browse shorts on either get ads that are obvious scams of the “There’s a new $6400 monthly health credit see if you qualify.” variety. On one of Meta’s apps I got an ad that was for male enhancement that was straight up clips of uncensored hardcore porn. Not just nudity but full on PIV sex. If they can’t even do the work to properly screen their ads they can get fucked, I’m blocking all of it that I can.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The only time I’ve ever noticed a substantial difference is when enabling Windows’ Virtualization-based security on hardware without support for things like MBEC/GMET.
- Comment on Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
IIRC I’ve read the Roku TVs at least can be set up in an offline mode. Some of the other brands I’ve heard get obnoxious when not allowed to connect.
- Comment on Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft 2 months ago:
This isn’t normal Windows Updates. These are warnings for OS upgrades as Windows Insiders upgrade to new preview builds of the OS.
- Comment on TikTok is a Cyberweapon and Needs to be Stopped. 2 months ago:
Saying that it could be used to attack white or white presenting women.
That’s not his implication. This guy has stated numerous times he views people protesting for a ceasefire in Gaza as idiots. (Notice how it’s a total coincidence that TikTok must be banned again as soon as it becomes one of the biggest platforms for dissent wrt Israel and Gaza.) Targeting in this context is targeting them as “useful idiots” to cause civil unrest.