VeganCheesecake
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 months ago:
Graphene on a Pixel 8a. One of the few currently viable options, in my eyes.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 months ago:
I could do a lot of things I do on the daily on my phone. But it would be more finicky and annoying. I have automated pretty much all regular maintenance my PC needs long ago. I just don’t see what I’d get, except for more janck.
- Comment on Microsoft 365's buggy Copilot 'Chat' has been summarizing confidential emails for a month — yet another AI privacy nightmare 3 months ago:
LLMs are stateless. The model itself stays the same. Doesn’t mean they’re not saving the data elsewhere, but the LLM does not retain interactions.
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 3 months ago:
“I have helped pay for something good. More people could benefit from it, at no additional cost to me. But I’d rather they not.”
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 3 months ago:
See my replay to the other comment.
I really do believe that the most sensible way to formalise it is just requiring publically funded code to be open source. Requires less complexity than co-op, and works out the same if enough countries opt-in.
See this as an example:
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 3 months ago:
And the UK taxpayer might save money by using open source projects funded by other municipality in different countries. This is already the standard for some EU projects.
Could some countries ‘freeload’? Sure. But what’s the actual cost for that? The people in those places getting better software, while the original users are no worse off?
Could also help with less wealthy countries having access to software they couldn’t otherwise afford to develop.
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 3 months ago:
That might not be practical. But everything else done with public money should be open source. A lot of these software projects are more or less necessary for every city globally. Collaborating on a few apps and programmes is a lot more sensible then everyone having an app custom build by a contractor.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 4 months ago:
I use qemu/kvm with vm manager. There’s a lot of other options too. Most of them are valid indefinitely.
I use the Win11 LTSC IoT Enterprise Image, because it cuts out most of the usual windows bloat. Maybe have a look at massgrave.dev.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 4 months ago:
You can hand over a USB device fully to a Windows VM. That’s how I update my Yamaha stuff.
- Comment on Regardless of where you are in the world, the clock above the driver on buses is never accurate. 4 months ago:
On coaches, they often aren’t unless they have some kinda centralised display system that displays stops.
In local public transport busses, they usually are in my experience.
I think the deciding point is whether the bus has a computerised display/pa system. If the driver has to set it manually through some archaic process, it’s bound to be forgotten.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Using a Pixel 8a with a Tensor G3, a chip that’s regularly called a bit underpowered. My phone before that had a Snapdragon 765G, another pretty midrange SoC. I couldn’t name a single app that isn’t running perfectly fluently. I dunno what apps you are using, but as far as I can see, there just isn’t any relevant difference in daily usage between current mid-range and flagship SoCs.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Why though? Unless you’re really into mobile gaming, I don’t see any difference in day to usage compared to more mid-range SoCs.