Clent

@Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you do the right thing and actually get rewarded for it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have my stash ready. Still look full sized to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nokia solos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the devices nostalgia is carried by those who never owned the device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. This is inevitable. Whenever we get to the point where consumers are controlling the aggression of the self driving, which will happen no matter laws are past.

  Ultimately it’s all just code on hardware.

  Tesla is definitely doing their fuck around, still waiting to find out on this one. Eventually that liability will catch up with them. The question is months, years, or decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They get 20-30% of the ticket sale. Considering the price of tickets, that’s more than cents.

  The share they keep increases the longer the movie plays.

  This idea that they get almost none of the sales is a story they sold people so people would feel guilty not paying for over priced concessions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a statistic problem. It is likely to occur at least once per year with a population below 250,000.

  Age is distributed and we’re only looking for one day, with a day being no well defined so we have to assume any given 24 hour period.

  If it was under 10,000 there could be entire weeks without a single death.

  This is based on the chance of any random person dying being 1:50,000.

  This is today’s rate and in the past most people died young but the chance of it occurring does not require the population be lower than that chance of a random person dying because we’re looking for any day not a specific day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is people who use these then unknowingly propagate these unusable websites.

  It’s gotten so ridiculous that often a bad website is blamed on the user for not having a properly customized webrowser. This is despite not everyone is able to set up these blocking tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there is a trickle, you do not know what you’re doing.

  This whole comment has a, “I am very badass” vibe to it.

  You’re probably sending more data to the cloud than most because of the hubris.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  emulate it perfectly

  This is a far stronger claim than any of the developers for these emulators claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Advertising does not work equally well on everyone. It’s literally a numbers game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨comparison⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grocery stores. Some assembly required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone know?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  34

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is Amazon has this. I don lt care if my neighbors do this. But random corporations should not be involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All sode mino quests and some of them are repetitive.

  Statistics for business and statistics with actual math. Those remedial classes, like math that starts with basic arithmetics.

  What a trooper to slog though all.

  I would be more impress if he’d played it in god mode. Must get all As and it requires being elected president of each student organization at least once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Plastic Mr. Fantastic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying don’t try to reduce your emissions by…

  I’ll say it. Don’t do these things because you think they reduce your carbon emissions. Do it when it’s the most frugal option.

  Reduce and reuse are still something we should 100% being doing but trying to measure then inject carbon foot print is futile.

  Every dollar spend it a better measurement of your contribution to emissions. Trying to calculate it yourself with incomplete data is pointless.

  Don’t be fooled by some study you read that made you feel like a righteous person. No one knows. The methods we have for measuring and assessing our footprint are hilariously incompete.

  The truth is buried in endless noise. We don’t know what we need to know because it is in the best interests of others that we not know it. Blindspots.

  Buy less products because buy “better” is a personal fantasy. Where better is because some popsci idea made you feel guilty for not being better. What the fuck do these things know, they’re bullshitting. Yes people do that; not just on the internet but definitely there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not rule⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some days this idea feels less true than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s only takes one person to crack those books and spread them across the high seas and the only way to force authors to abandon Amazon.

  There are always people who extra motivated by these challenges. The fact that these are written texts and shown on a screen means there will always be away to scrap the content off even if that involves a camera on a second device.

  DRM only hurts customers who want to pay for content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What even is money at this point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But no matter how much ketchup I use, I can’t cover up the bitter taste of the TVs lcd panel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could I order a package without my parents finding it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a delivery option during checkout.

  “Free local pick up” and then you can select a locker location. These are Amazon branded lockers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And in no case would it pay to so much as begin legal action.

  Unless it’s very new equipment, financially its not worth the hassle.

  Same reason they dont want the monitors or adjustable desk back, shipping would cost as much as they are worth and they’ve already deprecated away most if not all of the value which the court would take into account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why limit it to an electric battery rather than some subterranean storage where the excess electricity is turned into stored heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It there was any hope for these being useful that would have integrated with the mobile experience the same way CarPlay did.

  These are it a tv screen on a fridge with a channel that is for the fridge, these are all proprietary junk that it’s the antithesis for a smart home because they control it not the home owner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the hype was to keep track of groceries

  Most of my groceries are in the pantry not the fridge. This tech was always for people who have a kitchen that is for show and never used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to get back in the shower to practice thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s insane how these companies’ policies have become more strict after Covid. Leave it to CEOs to always managed to learn the wrong lesson.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, the 500 is just the mortgage payment. It doesn’t include the insurance and property taxes and, at least in the USA, private-mortgage-insurance (pmi) if the down payment isn’t at least 20%.

  The monthly obligation can easily be more than that 1000. The savings is in locking the first half in at a set amount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It took republicans a while to full dismantle everything. Their almost done now so, yay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Official Training⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there still municipalities that haven’t automated the container pick up part of it? Those trucks have the added benefit of having cameras track what is dumped at each address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck everything, we’re doing five folds!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truck go 💥🚚⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And if that doesn’t work, try it again while violently jiggling the steering back and forth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only need half a million of them to keep up with current emissions.

  For comparison, there are far fewer power plants that release co2. Based on some rough estimates I foind, there are fewer than 10,000 in total plants, most have more than one generator.

  And those turn a profit, no one is going to fund half a million capture plants. Building out more solar and wind is insanely more financially prudent. N.

  Over building with nuclear power with its massive capital costs makes far more sense than these things.

  These solutions always remind of this scene from Futurma. Image