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- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 3 hours ago:
that would make sense
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 3 hours ago:
Everyone who was on Twitter that couldn’t handle X moved, it’s hopping, their algorithm is as good at discovery as Reddit or Twitter. A great deal of my social network that was on facebook moved right over.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures 3 hours ago:
Not OP, but…
Finding a single server that fits my interests is the first stumbling block. I follow 30-40 communities here, so I need to pick just one focus, which kinda sucks, TBF.
So I picked one, It was too quiet, but it was a start, then I started looking for interesting people. Hardly anyone famous, the few that I did find ended up being the ones that turned out to be creeps in the news, even assuming they were real accounts, which is probably a generous assumption. When I finally found the few people I wanted to follow, they gradually disappeared over time to Bluesky.
WIth their community lines being split per server and no discovery other than randomly finding someone with your tastes while bebopping around on your server. It wasn’t a good experience.
- Comment on Cost-of-living crisis 9 hours ago:
What’s the dildo for? They just fuck you openly at the cashier…
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 11 hours ago:
I REALLY wanted to do a pi phone, and while it’s very possible to make a working phone/tablet out of one, their power consumption is absolutely awful. Most of the linux capable SBC’s can’t do low power.
I want an 8" linux touch screen with 18h of moderate usage batter life, I’m even willing to carry around a separate 4g access point.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 day ago:
First off, thank you for all your work.
Why this hasn’t happened yet
You set the bar pretty high for improvement.
The vacuums are expensive. The work requires multiple top-tier skill sets, and the people with those skill sets don’t generally have enough time to contribute to something this heavy
Somebody could just fork you and clone everything you’re doing, but it’s not like any users would chase someone else versus you when you’re the only one getting actual work done.
It’s also kind of poking the bear for these vacuum companies skirting along by selling user data.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 3 days ago:
Having a great uncle Bubba myself whose real name was something word out of Dukes of Hazard, you’re definitely not wrong.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 3 days ago:
Shit. Can you imagine half the bingo carts we’ve seen since then?
I mean, you’re in the 80s and 90s and 00s, we were all blabbering on oh this would never fly back then. Yada yada, but since COVID… It just seems there’s been a never ending stream of what the actual fuck.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 days ago:
To be honest, it’s probably the last thing that doesn’t exist properly on YouTube.
But like 99.999% of everything else, it’s not on peertube either.
If you hit a Google search, there are probably a handful of projects for Bluetooth, Casio, Python.
There are a bunch of videos of people reviewing the watch, but they’re watch reviewers. Other than the Android or iOS app, they hardly touch that it supports anything.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 days ago:
With every credit card in existence, supporting Tap to pay these days. We have a pretty decent alternative.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 4 days ago:
The Putin part might have been an inside joke if they were aware of some blackmail. Then again, if he’s blackmailing people… he’d have to be quiet about it… and it sure as hell appeared he had some kind of leverage on Trump around his rise to the presidency, we just all assumed it was russian tampering.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 4 days ago:
What…?
It has indeed been an amazing news day.
My bingo card says Bubba was someone else, but not any less creepy and it being Clinton does make this the greatest timeline for now.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 4 days ago:
Let em all shut me down. If they don’t need my business, I don’t need theirs. I just found out that Casio makes a g-shock with Bluetooth and you can screw with it using python and an unlisted API.
One more nail in the coffin for my smartphone footprint. I just want an 8" linux tablet, a watch that can give me messages from signal and a battery powered access point.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 4 days ago:
Nothing is free, If they can sell ads to people because they don’t like AI, they will. They’re rebooting it with about the same intent as it was originally designed to have.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 4 days ago:
If it screamed and cursed as it fell down, I would probably give it a pass.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 4 days ago:
Wild guess:
Log everything the user is doing. Have clippy interface prompt the user to take some work off their hands. Do some web searches, start storing a dossier about the ‘project’. Give the user a rough outline to complete their project based on a trained llm and some web searches. Ask the user if the outline looks good. Ask the user if they’d like some help completing some of the steps. Burning through tokens the whole time, storing telemetry with 100% knowledge of what they user does/wants to do. Selling that exact data to project management software companies and companies that write middleware to do this work. Bind everything together into a virtual notebook where users can return to any content at any step.
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 4 days ago:
There’s about 400 videos on how to do this
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 4 days ago:
At a minimum, It has stealing, privacy, wage theft, power comsumption, and hardware scarcity issues.
Taking a couple of those away would help. A large part is the fear that it’s taking away our livelihoods, and it’s not even really good at it. It’s also polluting and running on enough pirated data that we’d be sent to prison forever if we, as individuals tried it.
It shines at assisting professionals in specific fields, reading things like body scans, blood tests, and patient histories, and finding correlations. It’s good at helping DevOps/IT people who have to rarely maintain a bunch of oddball systems. It’s decent at finding inconsistencies in code documentation and documenting code that isn’t documented.
It’s bad at art compared to an artist It’s good at art compared to an average electrician.
It’s good at taking work from artists, making side money on Fiverr. It’s great at marketing to CEO’s.
There’s a lot more there than social issues.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 4 days ago:
So telling how it kept walking after it was lying face down. No proprioception, no mems feedback, of course, you could tell that from the shuffle.
At best it seems like AI driving a remote control car :/
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 5 days ago:
I’ve been hoping for a low power 8" linux compat tablet. I’d just carry around a wireless access point.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 6 days ago:
Depending on the field, going to college might not significantly improve your chances.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
thought: Find something strenuous or stimulating for the youngest to do an hour before bedtime, could even be learning. Sometimes the right amount of exercise before bed wears them out enough to stay sleeping.
thought 2: noise maker, ocean sounds or rain playing in the room can keep them from popping out of light sleep when they hear sounds from the rest of the home.
Wife and I split AM/PM duties. I do 6am and drive the eldest to school, then come back and prep the youngest before I go to work. but my youngest is order than yours, that mercifully tends to improve with age.
It’s better if the house duties are shared as well, but some people have different situations. If your partner is able but won’t meet you in the middle, there’s counseling. What often bites you in the butt is if your partner is depressed. Depressed people fail to engage; it becomes almost contagious as you try to pick up the slack and fall to it yourself.
Finding a better job with less hours can be part of it. Sometimes you need to look outside your familiar area for work that pays better, that’s assuming you can afford to move or find a job willing to pay you to relocate. There’s also more WFH jobs out there than ever before.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
He’s not talking about 80/20 limits. he’s talking about material breakdown at extremes. Not all manufacturers spec in 80/20 limits. AFAIK, only Samsung actually lets you stop it completely at 80, the rest just try to let it sit no higher than 80 all night.
If they were saccrificing 40% of runtime to keep you from having to replace your battery, that would 100% be in the sales pitch.
And honestly, that article isn’t a great source of truth. A number of the statements in there are inaccurate or, at the very least, misleading.
Charging beyond 100% or below 0% is mostly BS. The proper max voltage of the battery is a physics thing, they are in equilibrium at 4.7 / cell. Picking at a low power limit is up to the manufacturer and their choice in power distribution circuitry. He asked the chemist if you could overcharge or overdischarge a battery and mistook that as an answer that it was feasible to overcharge/overdischarge them.
“Leaving a charger plugged in at the wall and turned on wastes energy False (well, maybe a tiny bit)” This is still true for many chargers, and calling it out as a little bit in his own arbitrary numbers is disingenuous.
“Batteries perform worse when they’re cold False (mostly)”
Rest assured, your C rating is wildly affected by temperature; he’s trying to again call it out as slight, which is making his own narrative.
“Powering off a device occasionally helps preserve battery life False”
The whole time your phone is on, you are charging or discharging. Those cycles wear on the battery any time you shut your phone off, you are in the least damaging mode for your battery, especially if it’s around 50% or so.
“Using an unofficial charger damages your phone True”
100% BS, using a crappy charger might damage your phone. Buying a quality 3rd party chager is no problem at all.
The author doesn’t appear to have a strong electronics background and he didn’t ask the right questions or fully understand the importat parts of the answers
“And if too much current is delivered to a battery, that could mean ripping out too many of those lithium ions and leading to the same kind of degradation you read about earlier. That’s not to say that all off-brand chargers will be this bad, Griffith notes, but you’re still probably better off sticking with an official model.” is not the same as “Using an unofficial charger damages your phone”
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 1 week ago:
They run off batteries, using either isotope decay or light sensor (or both)
I actually have one hanging off my ceiling right now, it’s battery was fine, but it tripped likely due to dust or a spider on the optical sensor. It went off at 2am, network sent them all off, took me 10m to find the right one I wasn’t about to just blow it out and out put it back on the ceiling :)
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 week ago:
You’ve already seen it most likely, that stupid bipedal robot that isn’t autonomous yet and can barely navigate on a concrete floor.
It’s simply a way to get a trillion dollars by spending a few million on a project that gets scrapped.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 week ago:
I don’t know, but if it’s more than 0, it’s too many.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 week ago:
I’m not saying he’s right, or good, just making an observation.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 week ago:
I see a Vet who lost his house, is in the process of losing his healthcare, and just feels like he needs a win on the bad investment he’s doubling down on.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 1 week ago:
get the grill ripping hot outside (500 degrees)
put cooking oil on a paper towel and swab the whole cast iron pan
Throw it on the grill until it stops smoking
pull it off, let it cool a little and swab it again (super thin layer)
Throw it on the grill until it stops smoking
repeat until you’re happy with the color
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 1 week ago:
That only covers games that are loosely using servers for communication, piracy and cheating. That also puts game companies into the realm of losing their IP if they shut down temporarily in an acquisition. If you start a studio, run out of cash and get aquired, you’ll actually want that game you made to still be worth something, it doesn’t just affect those AAA players.
I think you need to add something like an escrow with x months of running costs. Once that well runs dry you need to go down to the providing a working server. I’ve been through the industry and I can confidently tell you that an API isn’t enough for a hell of a lot of games. Some of the stuff I’ve seen, it would take the actual game team a half a year to bring it back up with the source because the stuff they were using when they went under was ancient. You don’t want to buy a server authoratative game and wait around a year while the community tries to ressurect it.