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- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 1 week ago:
If only. My wife’s phone is affected by a Google battery recall. You basically get $50 of shut-up money and get to live with a software update that nerfs your phone to an almost unusable state, or you can try and have a local, approved repair shop replace the faulty battery.
We’re living in a large city, there is exactly one approved store available. You can’t contact them by email, no one has picked up the phone in weeks. She is close taking the $50.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not. Lego has been bullying local distributors of other brick systems (e. g. CADA) by issuing patent claims, knowing very very well that those claims are false and the patents have expired long ago.
However, customs has to hold and store the shipping containers until the court settles, and they charge for it. A lot. This forces small shops (down to your local mom&pop toy store) to pay for customs storage fees, for weeks, sometimes months. These costs are high enough to force small shops out of business, mind you.
Along with the declining quality of the sets and the increasing cost, Lego is very well a shitty company.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 4 weeks ago:
Jesus, how do you people always come up with the most inane conspiracies. I have a company that manufacturers devices that communicate wirelessly. The new RED is a huge pain in the ass, along with the CRA.
Absolutely no company pushed for this. The new legislations and directives cause a ton of additional work and obligations for companies, e. g. software has to be certified as part of the compliance check, things that were previously approved via self-reports now involve trusted 3rd parties, and reports of violations to government bodies are now mandatory.
And you know what, even though this costs a bunch of money that could go elsewhere and the whole thing is so new that even the certification bodies have no idea what is going on, even though we have to setup completely new processes, spend endless hours documenting things, I still appreciate both initiatives.
As an end customer, I would love if e. g. the software that runs on the mobile payment terminal taking my card info is certified. I would love if the developer of the software running on the PLC on my shop floor has to check CVEs, inform me about security issues and has to deliver 5 to 10 years of updates.
Not a fan of Samsung and their shitty software, but they’re simply preemptively covering their ass, nothing more.
I’d also still want to unlock my bootloader. I’m sure the whole legal situation will become less muddled, enabling just that.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 4 weeks ago:
Even having a funny and weird relationship with my mother, this would be suuuuper cringe. And inappropriate.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What? We’re not talking about death here, what kind of a reply is that? We’re talking about making a decision at a very young age that might have irreversible consequences, a decision many 20yos are simply ill equipped to make, in particular, when alternatives exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No, they’re not always reversible. You can opt for one that isn’t, and even if you decide to go for it, it might simply not work.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had a vasectomy. Give it a few years, 22 might be a bit young.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 4 weeks ago:
It actually does, if you zoom in closely.
- Comment on Could you fcking not. 1 month ago:
If my limbs would operate using hydraulics, I’d love for my dead body to be repurposed like that. Mount my carcass on a mobile platform and have me grab things from the top shelf while I shed flakes of decaying flesh, constantly surrounded by the scent of rancid fat and formaldehyde. Give me purpose beyond death.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 month ago:
Yeah, please don’t get your health information (aka half-truths) from social media. Start with an easily accessible source, e. g.
med.stanford.edu/…/5-things-to-know-about-the-eff…
… and if necessary, research from there.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes, but many things can be mapped to “language”, let’s say a grammar describing state machines, so it can be used to generate control actions.
Transformer models etc. are not only useful for conversational AI and translations.
- Comment on Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations 1 month ago:
This is pretty much absolutely true by the way:
- Comment on Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores 2 months ago:
Congratulations, this is how you get exploited by corporations.
- Comment on I started cultivating moss (Small guide with pictures) 2 months ago:
I love this. I use sphagnum moss to keep other plants, mushrooms and terrariums humid, but I have never met anyone who cultivates it at home.
Great stuff, reall interesting! And thanks for the instructions, I’ll be sure to save that somewhere.
- Comment on It's more economical 2 months ago:
I’d pay extra for that
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 2 months ago:
Who says you can’t check their outputs? It’s much faster to e. g. read a generated text than to write everything yourself. Same applies to translations, they’ve been excellent for quite a while now.
Business communication can be handled effortlessly by AI. Of course you read the result before you send it out, but that takes an order of a magnitude less time than formulating and typing all those meaningless sentences.
And honestly, that’s a perfect use case for AI. I wouldn’t compose a love letter to my family using AI, but a pamphlet, feature description, sales pitch, any bullshit presentation deck? You bet AI excels at those.
Same applies to content summaries that help augment search indices. Finding a large number of content candidates (e. g. videos) and have AI summarize the contents of said videos to narrow down the search is helpful and works today.
I’m not looking for AGI. I’m looking for tools to make my life easier, but in an ethical manner that doesn’t advance the destruction of the planet at an exponential rate, just for some tech bro to jerk it and buy another yacht.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 2 months ago:
Those numbers are baseless exaggerations. There are plenty of tasks which they solve perfectly, today. It’s just that a bunch of dicks operate them, and the cost of operating them are way too high.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025 2 months ago:
Ah shit. I swear to god, this just happened to me. I came to. the comments, confused why a trailer for Outer Wilds 2 would be age-restricted.
Ugh.
But then again, you cleared up my confusion, so I guess. there’s that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In the same vein, I’d like to remind people that feminism is also for men.
As a start, I think bell hooks’ The Will to Change can be a good intro.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 months ago:
… and you could easily fix the whole situation by having the shed run a male extension cord out that could be plugged into the generator.
It would also be infinitely more whimsical, since it’d make the shed look like a little appliance with its own chord. Or paint everything and call it a tail, the possibilities are endless.
“Well, let me just plug in the shed real quick”
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 3 months ago:
I want my pain to be inflicted on others.
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 3 months ago:
I want to chime in with two recommendations that stray a bit from the beaten path:
- Comment on Grieve with me 3 months ago:
They’re absolutely right, that is the cause 85% of the time. Make sure to get a non-conductive pick made out of plastic or wood (e. g. literally a toothpick) and remove the dust by circling around the little protrusion, then clean the rounded corners with a little hooking motion.
- Comment on Tekken 8 lead has been trying to contact Waffle House for a collaboration for the past year - to no avail 3 months ago:
When asked what location fans wanted as a fighting stage, one very popular answer was Waffle House. Context: if you crash at WH after a long night out, you’re guaranteed to witness some drunken fighting.
Man, I’d love a Waffle House stage.
- Comment on Diese Gemeinde ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 3 months ago:
“Bro gotta go” should work
- Comment on The Inside of Sensirion's SCD4x 3 months ago:
Yes, same here. As I said, it was quite interesting and I did it for the same reason, to combine interests.
- Comment on The Inside of Sensirion's SCD4x 3 months ago:
Sure. It’s just that I determined the same effect could be achieved by a preprogrammed cycle of ventilation and misting - no closed loop needed, as the conditions in the cultivation chamber do not vary enough to warrant the setup.
- Comment on The Inside of Sensirion's SCD4x 3 months ago:
Funny enough, I also used Sensirion sensors for mushroom cultivation, even had a mobile dashboard using MQTT dash.
After a couple of years, I went back to basic “gardening” to focus on the essentials, but it was interesting for a while. Unless going commercial, I do not consider the sensors to have added significant value beyond providing an interesting side project.
- Comment on America is fucked 4 months ago:
Dann halt ich erst mal an, ja
- Comment on Instead of paying for a therapist every week I'd be willing to pay like $100 a month for someone to harass me into going to social events. 5 months ago:
They would still have to go to the club though, and generate the interest / intent by themselves.
I think the service provided should be more like a PA: they call you Friday at 5pm, ask what you’re doing, suggest a couple of activities, and once there, actually make an effort to introduce you to people, suggest common activities, take care of the first hour of awkward conversation so people can get to know each other etc.
$5 says this already exists in Japan.