Clent
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- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 day ago:
Having a vendor explicitly supporting it…epic is an understatement.
- Comment on bold words 3 days ago:
Bitcoin. 120k. 2025.
- Comment on Why you can't get a signal at festivals and sports matches 3 days ago:
it’s because every device connected to a cell halves the bandwidth available to each device, and after something like 30-40 devices the cell is full.
I don’t know where you’re getting thsi from. There not how cells have worked since at least 3g, sort of sounds like how consumer grade WiFi hardware operates.
Towers are designed with sectors that are directional and each can support thousands of devices but those can’t handle 10k people at a stadium.
If you had bothered to read the article youd have read they are talking about how stadiums are now using distributed antenna systems (DAS), which is basically hundreds of antennas spread over the venue and fed directly into fiber. Each one is designed to handle a small section. The carriers do need to hook into the endpoint here so this isn’t something that can be setup on a whim.
I don’t see it mentioned but there are also mobile units, cellular on wheels (COWS) are common one and they really easy to spot if know to look for them. Basically a cell tower on trailer that can use microwave for the back haul for when on site fiber isn’t available.
If you end up at a venue and can’t get service it’s because the venue is too cheap to use any of these existing options. They could also be using some outdated antennas, LTE can’t handle as many connections as the new 5G stuff.
- Comment on It's literally science 4 days ago:
Nah, need to go straight to 9, 3x3 matrix. It’s acceptable to pause at 6 if you are budget conscious.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 4 days ago:
Yes. It’s all bad. The solution is to get rid of these political stooges. Dealing with capitalists is a different topic. There is some cross over with the poltical stoogery but that’s all there is.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 4 days ago:
Apple is doing this instead of requiring app developers to implement and maintain their own system, which is what Android is doing.
The question comes down to who trust more, any random app developer or a single entity.
For example this means meta doesn’t have to verify their iOS users because iOS already has.
I’m sure most people in this thread are coming at this all from a morally superior position about how they don’t use meta but they also don’t use iOS devices so this is another bit of outrage.
No one here is actually anything besides get upset about something that doesn’t effect them. The internet has become a silly place.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 5 days ago:
On temporary contracts and at reduced wages of course because times are tough.
Software engineers predicted this would happen. The percentage of developers that love fixing other people’s code is essentially zero, fixing ai code is even smaller.
If they require low wages, they’ll only get the worst of the worst. Expect this phase to repeat until they are forced to hire for competence and pay above market rate required to convince senior developers to deal with not just the ai mess but all the failed attempts to turn it around.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 6 days ago:
There is a branch of battery research that is only focused on grid storage. It’s the last piece to make solar and to a less extent wind unbeatably affordable.
In a home solar setup, batteries are the other half of the cost and have not fallen as fast as the cost of the panels themselves, the other half of the cost. For fully off grid setups, they quickly become the main cost.
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 1 week ago:
They behave exactly a child does when a parent forces an apology.
They have the words they’re expect to say so they do say them but they don’t undersranr why, they definitely don’t mean it and they lack the restrain to not doing whatever they apologized for over and over.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 week ago:
My criticism here isn’t about any specific group or topic. It’s about this aggravating debate pattern where rhetoric is used to paint the opponent’s argument into a morally charged form rather than addressing the actual claim being made.
That style of engagement is not something that ever leads to meaningful discussions.
A similar dynamic occurs in other highly polarized subjects where participants are more focused on signaling moral positions than resolving the underlying question.
This sort of shit has been going on since at least the times of Artistole who championed logic over emotion.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 week ago:
Arguing with vegans is like arguing with antivaxxers, they are positions based on emotions and they have their own version of reality they use to reinforce their believes. They often claim they have studies to back up their claims but the most shallow dive shows them to be bullshit.
It’s literally evident as they try to reframe this as rape. Their need to lean on rhetoric shows they have a strong basis for their believes.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 1 week ago:
banned phones at the dinner table entirely
I would everyone is doing this. Sitting down to eat together once a day and talk isn’t something only billionaires can afford.
- Comment on Beans 1 week ago:
They answered yes while creating a reason to be offended for having to answer yes.
Can’t make this shit up. Impotent rage is some people’s identity.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 week ago:
You sound like someone who has never experienced court outside of tv or movies.
The courts process is entirely pragmatic. The entire point is to remove all emotions. The judge is not going to presume malice.
The person most at risk here is their council. It they were aware of this stunt they could cause themselves serious damage.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 week ago:
Go onto a court room and hold up your phone, pointing at the jury. Report back on how that goes for you.
- Comment on What's wrong with my dishes? 1 week ago:
Ignore these people. Delete kitchen and reinstall. Had this happen once and the plumbing and electrical was all messed up too, only fix was fresh install.
Definitely don’t ignore this, I heard about a guy who did and he had to reformat his entire house. Took all weekend.
- Comment on The kid is inventive 1 week ago:
Is this meant to be an insult? Most kids are average.
Most parents who think their kids are measurable above average are the ones missing half the stupid shit their kid does.
- Comment on The kid is inventive 1 week ago:
Depends on how many older siblings they have.
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 2 weeks ago:
Gallons are still countable.
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 2 weeks ago:
That’s because you don’t understand infosec. It’s assure you, they are unimpressed despite their polite chuckle.
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 2 weeks ago:
Based on the downvotes your getting. Quite a few of the people excited for this are definitely migrating to the left of the bell curve.
Lemmy is wierd, the user base has a very inflated view of their own intelligence. For example, some will get confused and think since I’m on Lemmy I must be also guilty of this; their reasoning skills are quite terrible.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 2 weeks ago:
Companies routinely purchase insurance against their own liabilities.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 2 weeks ago:
Cameras are inferior to human vision in many ways. Especially the ones used on Teslas.
- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 2 weeks ago:
And glosses over what it claims are the two that dominate market (combined market share of 55%) which negates their headline, since it’s likely the reader is using one of those two password managers.
- Comment on VPN ftw 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t Reddit, you can upvote content without announcing it.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 2 weeks ago:
Looks like no one here has run a cash business or has experience with the overhead that comes with dealing with cash. It’s not zero.
With credit cards, there is no need for cash drops, safes, drawer balancing, armor cars or employee theft. Banks actually charge businesses fees just for depositing cash.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 2 weeks ago:
As long as they aren’t preventing third party components, they can become the phone version of full “ibm pc”
Every purchase is additional incentive for thirty parties to enter the market.
- Comment on L O V E 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. I have a story I’m developing where this is a plot point but it’s not just one person, it’s literally everyone. Instead of spacetime it takes place inside a machine simulation and then instead of it begins becuase of a god, it happens because everyone is immortal and bored.
But the idea is the same, for all anyone “alive” knows, they could be in the machine, except they can’t know because then they’d live wrong. Only in between lives, do they know.
- Comment on PROTIP 2 weeks ago:
I knew a kid who did this. Some random kid saw and reported it. His dad was the head janitor of the high school, he helped his dad, was on the payroll so actually was working for the school district himself part-time. He still almost got expelled, managed to only get a week of suspension.
- Comment on Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht? 2 weeks ago:
They send it to collections, collections hands it off to a lawyer who files in court, court sends a beer date, person can’t afford to take off for the day, so court issues a default judgment.
The system does not care about one’s circumstances if one is too poor to advocate for themselves.
Add a dash of depression, anxiety and stress and this is a very believable scenario for anyone who is even of adequate means.