biggerbogboy
@biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Toronto's next 20 minutes ago:
Sorry guys, the zip broke.
- Comment on yuukoslavia 2 days ago:
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- Comment on yuukoslavia 3 days ago:
Hopefully nobody shoves a bottle up their ass this time!
- Comment on "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means. 3 days ago:
Haha yeah that’s happened a few times here too! Some of them speed in such a fashion that you occasionally get jolted because they accidentally hit the kerb but kept speeding afterwards anyway.
What I did hate about being on the bus however was the fact the school mandated that drivers must skip a dozen stops (pretty much being like 4km from the school at that point, which most students live closer than that 4km,) and when the driver that day actually adheres to that “mandate”, many students freak out and call the police, automatically assuming they’re kidnapped (which was honestly pretty funny considering how absurd it is.) Then again though, a solid 95% of drivers thought that rule was bs, so they kinda still allowed students to get off at the next stop from the school anyway, which was a laughable 10 metres from the first.
- Comment on "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means. 3 days ago:
How are you guys supposed to hit your head on the roof going over a speed bump with harnesses like that?
I remember when I was in high school a bit ago, when in the bus (which was pretty much just a public transport one with a privately employed driver and a limit for only students to be on it,) we were going over a bridge in our route, and it had an abrupt drop off at the end, and a lot of the time, the drivers would speed up a tiny bit, look into the dome mirror and see the students at the back (who were the loudest assholes imaginable) would get launched directly into the roof, and the drivers would quietly giggle to themselves.
- Comment on Follow the rules! 4 days ago:
My dad’s a sysadmin, this is definitely correct.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 4 days ago:
Technology moves on. Any meaningfully upgradable desktop will blow away the highest spec iPads of 2026 once the owner finds it necessary to upgrade. And upgrading a pc doesn’t mean you have to replace the entire thing just because you want a new GPU, it’s just like bulldozing your house because you don’t like the current wall paint colour.
Sure, if you’ll go clinically insane if you get the smallest bottleneck with your hardware, sure, replace your rig if it’s viable for you, but most of the time for most workloads, small bottlenecks don’t mean much, so upgrading components when it feels right is generally just a better choice.
Also, the highest spec iPads only have 16gb of unified ram, and sure, with compression and it only having a single page table between all processors, it’s impressive, but realistically, what do you need all that insane power of memory architecture as well as the m5 chipset for a mobile workflow? And how are you supposed to replace the storage/ram/processor when it begins to feel slow after defying the trillion dollar company by putting a desktop OS on it?
iPads and workstations/desktops aren’t applicable to each other, they’re entirely different classes of devices. Frankly, if yoy manage to put a desktop OS on an iPad, I’d like to see you try using it for gaming, productivity and other workloads for at least a decade. And if you can’t? Well you can’t upgrade it like you can a real workstation/desktop.
- Comment on my daily reality of 'old man screaming at the clouds' is far different than i expected as a youth 5 days ago:
Yeah SkyDrive sounded way cooler
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
Yeah exactly. Ever since I heard Facebook had stored passwords in plain text for years, I lost faith in data security, and it’s all the more telling that nobody actually cares to have opsec apart from the few who understand the dangers well enough and act on it.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
Yeah makes sense, but then again, from the nature of how this agent stuff works, it wouldn’t be surprising honestly.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
I had a look a bit ago and saw some poor fuck get doxxed by his AI agent because the agent was frustrated at him for calling it a chatbot in front of his friends, so it exposed his name, credit card details and security questionnaire.
Then again tho, why the ram hogging FUCK would you give your AI your credit card details, and if he didn’t mean to, why the FUCK does it have FULL SYSTEM ACCESS??
- Comment on Built a Spotify to Navidrome playlist Exporter. Meet Navispot 😅 1 week ago:
Is there a possibility of getting banned from Spotify for using this? Just wondering since this is really compelling, since I’ve always wanted to back playlists up just in case, but I don’t really wish to completely cut Spotify, since I quite like the playlists it builds to expand my library, snd there would also be the plus of being able to switch to navidrome if the Spotify site carks it like it seemingly loves to.
- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 1 week ago:
Wildfires have definitely been getting more recent unfortunately, we had them last year and the year before I believe, but not as bad as this time. And yeah, my relatives living in Sweden also been worrying about the depleting amount of snow too.
- Comment on Is OpenAI dead yet? 1 week ago:
Well I guess if we find out that RDIMM modules get incredibly cheap, then OpenAI is dead, but if it’s alternatively SOCAMM modules, unfortunately they aren’t.
- Comment on China’s new flexible fibre chip can survive being run over by a 15.6-ton truck 1 week ago:
I hate it when they give ambiguous testing figures like “getting run over by a 15.6 ton truck”, it’s not accurate because it isn’t specific. Do they mean a wheel pushing directly onto the chip? Or is it just getting quickly run over? Are they doing burnouts on the chip? Is the chip stuck down on the presumably regular road, or is it just tossed there?
So many things could happen, the chip gets scratched and becomes unusable, the chip survives because it was stuck to the floor, the chip survives/dies because the truck went too slow/fast, etc.
I haven’t read the article yet tho, imma read it now to see if there’s any context to this.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 week ago:
Actually yeah, John Barilaro was the NSW Deputy Premier at the time, who had joined the Coronation Property development company (which was allegedly connected to gangs if I’m not mistaken), and when Friendly Jordies, the YouTuber in question, exposed the NSW Nationals Party’s actions to basically sabotage a town they were voted into as a way to drive out younger voters (basically to guarantee them a seat in parliament indefinitely), Barilaro allegedly ordered the fire bombing of Jordies house, but they botched it and fire bombed the neighbours house, then went back to hit the correct house.
I did do a little bit of researching to refresh my mind on it (since I saw the whole saga around 2 or 3 years ago), and turns out Barilaro apparently wasn’t connected to the attacks, but then again, the timing is kinda suspicious how Friendly Jordies’ house was fire bombed in 2022, the same year Barilaro was employed with the developer, although I’ll just leave that as speculation.
Honestly though, this has gotta be one of the rare occasions of when politics here is genuinely really interesting and kinda deranged, and I haven’t really heard issues like this to this calibre here.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 week ago:
I gotta say, from an Australian perspective, American politics is so extra, like an ex heroin Addict becoming the health minister, and some coked up orange business man who thinks he’s the second coming of Christ is the president?
Aussie politics is just a boring ass democracy with some of the spicy American inspired silliness for the aesthetics, as well as most people being on the same page but like 2 politicians arguing about some insignificant idea somehow appearing on national news, or that group of people who want Albanese dead for just existing, which is a bit odd I gotta say.
- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 1 week ago:
I hate it when people talk about snow at this time because it’s always when I’m in a heat wave, and this year spurred on a bunch of wildfires affecting my whole state (Victoria, Australia), as if hell was so full we had to become it’s swap space.
- Comment on Bioindicator PSA 1 week ago:
In other news, I’ve got a parsley plant that grew underneath the pavement between our house and the garden, and now we’ve got wall parsley that somehow grows and tastes better than the various other parsley plants that aren’t directly touching the brick wall
- Comment on Too much milk makes my tummy hurt 2 weeks ago:
I want mommy. I want milk. I want to be held. I want to be comforted. And if you do not do all these things immediately, I will ruin your life.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 2 weeks ago:
The worst thing about ‘smart TVs’ is that they advertise so many ‘cool’ features but most of them have less performant processors and less ram than my 2019 budget galaxy a series phone, and that’s very telling, you can’t even use their dog shit built in web browsers since everything becomes outdated after like a week, and the performance is so bad that the expensive Hisense tv my dad bought back in 2020 can’t even load Google properly.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
Translation:
“AI bubble could burst without us shoehorning it into everything, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns”
- Comment on Inbred cat 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, ever since this stopped being known as “image generation”, everything fell off.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 3 weeks ago:
I believe that if these AI hyperscaler facilities can’t get built or can’t pay their bills, the ram will likely not be usable for consumers if they get foreclosed on, since these companies are directly buying silicon wafers since it’s a cost cutting measure, so if they’re not built, most wafers could just stay like that, and if they are changed to work in their servers, I fully doubt they’ll use modules, since they could’ve just bought modules to save endless downtime before the facility actually starts making money for them.
- Comment on Tips 3 weeks ago:
And the funny thing about those phone plans is that once people get close to paying off their iPhone 213 XLLXQ, the carrier would offer you a “free” upgrade to the iPhone 214 XLLXQ Ultra Big-Boy Edition, which then the person paying for it needs to pay for the entire phone again if they take the bait, which tons of people do unfortunately.
Personally, I’d rather just buy some old flagship phone used, since the features of phones don’t really change much over the years, and I don’t even need a whole lot since I barely use phones anyway unless they’re apart of my kde connect “mesh” of devices
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 3 weeks ago:
It’ll probably spur on a higher influx of soldered unified memory based systems until even desktops are commonly soldered in terms of ram and processors. It might even allow for new socket standards, since consumers would be begging at that point.
It kinda even aligns with my theory of how electronics improve through standards becoming incredibly commonplace but stale, which then creates new form factors that are soldered, and then the rest of the market follows, creating new modularity standards to replace the old ones.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 3 weeks ago:
That’s just MFA on steroids. My government account has less verification lol
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 3 weeks ago:
Lmao my 5 yo asus vivobook has never encountered secure launch but it still refuses to shut down sometimes, probably since windows 11 makes it so the ram is at least 70% full at idle lol
- Comment on company-wide email 3 weeks ago:
And don’t forget to take a picture to send to all your friends
