pandapoo
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- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 5 months ago:
Absolutely. Especially software that has to interface with specific hardware, which often times can have issues working properly with Windows VMs.
Which isn’t a problem for me because I can just dedicate some old hardware for baremetal Win10, but not everyone has that luxury.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 5 months ago:
That’s why humans have brains, for situational awareness.
And it’s less about not breaking for an animal, as it is about not wildly swerving.
Also, you should probably revise your thinking on this before you visit any states that have large animals like Moose on the roads. Because if you plow into one with a car, it can easily kill you when it crushes you after impact.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 5 months ago:
lol
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 5 months ago:
Yes, Monero fills a niche, and it’s the closest crypto asset to resemble a currency.
However, your previous post talked about replacing finance with Bitcoin. Even if we pretend you were talking about Monero, that just means you have a one world currency, and no one at the helm who can guide monetary policy for any one country.
You shouldn’t need a degree in finance or economics to understand how disastrous that would be, especially for smaller and poorer countries.
So, Bitcoin and the rest of crypto are all commodities, not currencies. They are commodities with a high environmental cost, and a floor of zero because they have no tangible assets to speak of.
Monero can fill a niche, and I’m actually happy about that because I like Monero and the principles behind the project. Unless of course you believe that includes delusions of grandeur and replacing all world currency and financial systems, with the magic of the “just the right crypto”.
- Comment on Meta is reportedly working on its own AI-powered search engine, too 5 months ago:
What the fuck dude.
Why are you posting paintings that depict my O face?
This is like Victorian revenge porn.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 5 months ago:
This has to be a joke right? Satire?
I mean, it’s one thing to be a long on Bitcoin, or even just see it’s value as a niche commodity.
But suggesting Bitcoin mining is an energy efficient way to heat buildings, is capable of replacing global finance, or that it creates more tangible benefits than artisanal glass blowers…?
You know I can do with a artisanal piece of glass? Hold it, use it, own it.
You know I can do with Bitcoin? Speculate that if I hold on to it long enough, I can convert it to actual currency that can actually be used as a currency.
Unlike BTC, which is just a speculative commodity, with no tangible assets to provide an actual floor.
- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 5 months ago:
I can see it now. This great AI mediator will reach the consensus that Eric Schmidt is correct, we shouldn’t worry about meeting our climate goals, we should cook the planet faster to accelerate AI.
Eventually of course, the AI will save us.
Now some of you might think that’s a terrible idea, from bad actors, that simply suits their own greed.
Don’t worry. The new Google AI wouldn’t leave with without a backup plan.
That backup plan? If plan A fails, simply reduce human population by 35%.
Concerned about who will get picked for population reduction? Don’t worry, the AI has it covered…
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 5 months ago:
Yeah it’s not really up for debate, the science is only growing more conclusive on how smartphones negatively impact a developing braind, especially with social media.
Also, attention span is not vestigial… It’s pretty important, and can’t be replaced by technology…but I was more referring to anxiety and depression disorders, which again, are on the rise.
I’m also kind of confused why you included penmanship in there, as that is not something a child’s development requires to be healthy. It’s simply a skill, and one that has been replaced by typing, almost 1:1.
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 5 months ago:
I’m unclear how your comment relates to the article, or my comment. Because even if I took you at your work, your anecdotal story would still seem to place you as an outlier, maybe.
Clearly an entire class of preteens, minus one girl, has full access to their smartphones, and I’m betting at least a portion of them had just as much access when they were 8 years old.
Also, not for nothing, but you might want to consider the possibility that a child’s usage and behaviors on a smart device might change once it becomes an unsupervised activity. Or maybe it won’t, I don’t know you or your child, so who am I to say.
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 5 months ago:
That story is incredibly disturbing…
Only one 11-year-old girl in an entire class did not have a smartphone…?
How long has smartphone ownership and normalized for that age? What did they first get them?
That’s got to be wreaking havoc on their developing minds…to say nothing of their social development.
I guess I’m trying to say is, go long on pharma.
- Comment on Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companies 5 months ago:
You realize that this is a civil lawsuit right?
The only punitive action that can be taken, is monetary damages.
Unless you think that private entities, such as Alcon, should be allowed to privately prosecute criminal cases, with criminal penalties such as jail time…?
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 5 months ago:
To borrow a fast approaching cliche phrase, the enshitification process has begun.
They sent out a trial balloon by updating licensing to move further away from an open source model, with a wide range of implications.
They’ve now backed off claiming “it was a bug”, but it’s not like their MBA’s are business strategy wunderkinds. They’re just rehashing the same old strategy, and going by the downvotes my comment received, there’s still an audience that believes them.
But who are they kidding? This isn’t going away, and when someone shows you who they are, you should believe them.
Like I said earlier, the only variable is the timetable. The destination is a foregone conclusion.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 5 months ago:
My renewal is coming up. I’ve been a customer for probably 7 years or so, I’m not renewing.
This wasn’t a bug, this was a toe in the water to gauge the temperature.
Like it or not, this means they’ve chosen a path, and nothing is going to stop them from going down it. The only variable is the timetable.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 5 months ago:
The ability to serve ads and spy on you…
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 5 months ago:
Both HDMI and DisplayPort feature USB/Ethernet data link capabilities, and obviously USB-C does as well.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 5 months ago:
Cash on delivery is extremely rare in the business world. Well I have no doubt many of Twitter’s vendors have switched to COD, that is not the norm.
These types of relationships typically work on anywhere from 30 to 90 day terms, depending on the vendor, client, and their history.
- Comment on Read this if you own a Juicebox EV charger 6 months ago:
It’s all relative. My cheap Chinese spyware SmartLife devices are free to report the hours I turn my lights on back to China as they please, but they sit on a segmented VLAN with per client isolation.
If they ever EOL’d them, I’ve got more than my money’s worth, and yes, some of them can be flashed, but I’d probably just buy another well established cheap Chinese competitor.
But I agree, the above is not the use case and situation for every IoT device out there, and there are plenty of devices that I would never consider an internet/SaaS dependent version of e.g. medium to large home appliances.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 6 months ago:
As others have said, fast opening quick notes with basic formatting.
For example, if I get an unexpected call I need to write down more than a call back number, Wordpad was my go to.
Well, at least when back when I used Windows regularly.
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 6 months ago:
Dell’s inside sales team probably has a much flatter bell curve, performance wise, then their outside (traveling) reps.
So yes, they are looking to do a layoff without the headlines, or severance, but probably aren’t as concerned where on the bell curve those employees rank.
Middle and lower management of those teams is absolutely sweating bullets about their teams getting wrecked, but big picture, whatever the net effect the C Suite is expecting, clearly isn’t enough to outweigh whatever outcome their hoping for here.