Dudewitbow
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- Comment on “It feels like Squid Game”: China’s workers scramble to keep up in the AI race— Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety. 1 day ago:
im aware of certain companies as well behind the scenes doubling down on ai workload very recently as well, so China definitely isnt alone on that front.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
I went to go look it up for my old setup, turns out its mainly for the older models, as the codecs are only supported on the newer revisions of the shield tv.
though with the shield tv, one of the missing things that would be nice to have would be AV1 support (as Nvidia only supported AV1 starting with Ampere based gpus)
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
its still very capable, but best depends. iirc there are certain audio formats the shield doesnt support.
i personally would love a new shield using ~switch 2 soc just so i can move emulation/lower end pc onto it.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
to the people who read stuff on /c/technology, likely not.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 weeks ago:
you cant win everyone. similar to flat earthers who refuse to go on a paid trip to see 24 hour sun is up day, they will believe the shit till the end
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 weeks ago:
theres retroreflectors on the moon that were intentionally. imstalled so that precise aiming of a laser would signify someone installed it on the moon if you saw the reflection back
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 2 weeks ago:
i was the same on my end, and my current phone even has a 3.5 jack (zenfone 9). i used to have aeveral wired headphones ive lost over the years.
in like 2019, i got airpod pros for functionally free, never lost them yet. then had pro gen 2 and havent lost them yet. (again functionally free in my case)
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 2 weeks ago:
oldest phone was pixel 6, basically when google switched to tensor and added the hardware and software requirements needed for graphene team to support it.
- Comment on Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update 4 weeks ago:
librem 5? pi phone?
- Comment on Did I miss something? Is YouTube down? 4 weeks ago:
whatever the server is that hosts home page stuff is broken. subscription vids work for me
- Comment on ‘The whole family is destroyed’: Australia’s inheritance disputes aren’t just increasing – they’re becoming messier 4 weeks ago:
the will only gets so far. for example there have been cases where children of a family have completely abandoned their parent/s, and a 3rd part good samaritan came along to help said person for years before their eventual death, and the will gave the inheritance to the good Samaritan, which causes the blood children to object.
the only clearcut way is to have the parties in attendance while the will is being written so that any objections wpuld get aired out while said person is alive and can make the call
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 month ago:
no, completely valid, but pricing is a psychological question rather than a math question for some.
reason for example products are priced with X.99
some people se it as cost X amount, others (like youself) see it as X+1 amount. the 0.99 is the extreme end of the psychology and choosing 8 in the case of peak increases number of people who dont see it at the higher price
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN 1 month ago:
it works if your games are fundamentally different like in this case. the cons about modding is that expectations of sequels are higher than normal because youre no longer comparing the game to the previous, but to the modded version of the previous.
for example, outside of performance reasons, City Skylines 2 had that fate.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 2 months ago:
never attenpt to make money off any company whose trigger happy litigious. projects doa the moment you even have to consider it.
- Comment on we need more users 2 months ago:
i actually did this like 2 days ago and the guy agreed to at least try it out. people just need to talk about it and be honest about what is good/bad about the current state
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 months ago:
because youd only swap mobos for either aesthetics(expensive, not often done), or because you need more pci-e I/O.
the average user doesn’t use all their pci-e i/o, and the ones that do, are looking towards workstation motherboards, which is almost a completely different market from the consumer level stuff. It’s a game of, you know when you need more i/o, and if you needed it, you probably would have never bought the consumer level board in the first place.
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 2 months ago:
because of the cut in digital sales theyd get. phone companies are the current front, but its going to get extremely messy when the front gets for example, put into the console gaming front. its all for money for software they did not develop and prevent that money from going to any other payment processor.
- Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections 2 months ago:
cell towers not responding definitely not a first time. happened years back because of a music festival, and there were like some dead cellular spots in san francisco that held them back a while back as well.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 3 months ago:
besides cars mass energy storage isnt available for all countries yet, so you need a way to balance grids. green energy resources doesnt have the ramp up required when energy usage spikes(e.g people get back from work). we dont suddenly put out more sun, make faster rivers or purposely make stronger winds for power. you balance the spike with the dirtier energy. so you often run into a situation where once green, a majority of your energy can be green, but you always have to reserve space for spike usage.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 3 months ago:
i don’t think the demand for old ram is viable)for scalpers), the number of systems that actually want it is far fewer nowadays. DDR4 pricing was more caused by production stopping on DDR4, rather than the current ram shortages.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 3 months ago:
hence, nothing will happen, unless monitors get more popular than TVs. because tvs are the majority bought display device period. The reason is because more people are willing to both spend more on tvs, and often are more willing to replace them, while people who use monitors hold onto them for extended periods of time. Thats why monitor tech is always a step behind both mobile and TV when it comes to the screen quality (e.g Monitors didn’t get OLED till LG released its gen 2 WOLED, and Samsung decided to drop QDOLED gen 1, while phones of course had oled/amoled for a long time, and OLED tvs have existed for years before it touched hte monitor space)
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 3 months ago:
there is, HDMI Arc, which is why all the home theater companies do not want to weaken its hold.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 3 months ago:
the problem is although its a pc, valve wants it to sort of appeal to console users. and the problem is that the HDMI forum members are also TV manufacturers. they are very unlikely to ever support displayport.
as long as TVs are more popular than monitors, that trend of HDMI holding control will never cease.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 months ago:
the ai companies are but that doesnt talk about the hardware specific companies. for example dell, hp and lenovo run a large business laptop leasing business if they do not get their ram, it will sour their relationships with memory manufacturers
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 months ago:
theyd have to all collorbate to make that happen though, which is really unfeasable on their end. a BUNCH of companies will go under if they cannot sell product. they arent going to willingly take losses for the sake of a different company.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 3 months ago:
pretty much how I saw it. 10 was a push towards accepting all hardware configurations. 11 put restrictions in the name of security. so even if a user WANTED to upgrade, there’s technically a barrier that Microsoft would block them (albeit that check can be bypassed).
- Comment on Parking police 3 months ago:
off the top of my head, no. but I know for the seatbelt law at least, if a car before the mandatory seatbelt law had optional seatbelts, having the seatbelt became mandatory. Cars that had no seatbelts nor had optional ones are exempt.
- Comment on Parking police 3 months ago:
us transportation made it a law in 2014 but effective 2018 that all vehicles made after 2018 under 10000 pounds are required to have a backup screen. so any new car made in the reletive past decade will probably have one. laws for cars are not retroactive usually.
- Comment on Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
thats often the life of a startup. most startups end up failing (~80%). the other 20% hope their hustle gets them big enough to be bought out so they can then relax more.
the people who work startups dont want to be working that job indefinitely. especially since it often entails being overworked.
- Comment on Law 4 months ago:
I need this before Mariah Carey completely defrosts and destroys my ears