atomicbocks
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- Comment on Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images - even when told subjects didn’t consent 3 days ago:
It’s a machine. It doesn’t understand the concept of consent or anything else for that matter.
- Comment on $69 in 2026 Gets You a Tool to Rejuvenate Old Computers 4 days ago:
I wish it took up a 5in slot if it’s meant to replace optical drives.
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 6 days ago:
The permission request has to do with spectrum not launch. The title is just crap.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
??? My 2012 MacBook Pro had FireWire, that’s the year Lightning came out…
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
Wha?
AFAIK FireWire is part of the Thunderbolt protocol, you can get FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt adapters. Apple even used to sell one.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 1 week ago:
I’ve been in software development for 15 years and never had a manager that wasn’t at least a little bit of a micromanager. The reality is that it rarely takes 8 hours or more to do the things that need to be done in a day but the expectation most often is still that if my AuDHD ass isn’t in my often windowless office for 9 hours a day then I must not be working.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 1 week ago:
Any company going this far will almost certainly be requiring device management on whatever device you put your work email on. So if you have your email on your personal phone the likelihood that they can already track your location 24/7 using your phone’s gps is extremely high.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 1 week ago:
Also don’t confuse it with the Xbox 360 E.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 week ago:
They are called Gull-Wing Doors and yes, the model X.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 week ago:
The book came out in 1990.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
The problem with this idea is that it assumes that those areas are politically aligned. I highly doubt people in liberal areas like Austin are going to be okay with being lumped in with whatever happens in Texas and I am confident that the Native Americans in Oklahoma will never be okay with it.
The divide in the US is largely rural vs urban not north vs south or east vs west anymore.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
The main issue with that is MS made a million different versions of Vista and some of them had significantly higher requirements than others. So you had OEMs selling machines that were ‘Vista Ready’ in the lead up to launch but they barely made the requirements for the basic version. Then you had people going to Best Buy and getting the premium version and having a horrible experience.
I had Vista on my MacBook Pro and it was a a solid OS, especially if you needed 64-bit support. In fact the Pro was PC Magazine’s #1 pick for Vista machines which caused quite a stir at the time when Bootcamp was still new.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
95 didn’t even ship with FAT32 support originally. I agree with the original comment that it wasn’t until the OSR versions that it got good. But they never sold those in the box, you could only get an OSR version from a prebuilt compute. So a lot of people never experienced them or didn’t experience the original 1995 version of 95 that still required 8 character filenames.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
On Fedora I go to the repo (app store) and install the Nvidia drivers… on windows I have to download them from the Nvidia site. I’m not sure what you are talking about. Linux is easier but it’s pretty much the same process.
For Logitech use Solaar, also available in most distribution’s repos.
- Comment on There are only like 3,000 billionaires and they're not physically imposing people. 3 weeks ago:
Paying money to prevent spam is different than paying money to avoid helping people and doing your share in society.
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 3 weeks ago:
In fact, recreating the computing experience of the Commodore 64 (and BBC Micro as they are a British foundation) was one of the specific purposes of the Raspberry Pi.
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 3 weeks ago:
Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 4 weeks ago:
I think you are giving people too much credit. Lots of people have a budget they can spend on appliances (like a credit line) and they get the best (most expensive) one they can get on that budget. Others will do the opposite and get the cheapest but only people like you find on Lemmy (Linux users for instance) in my experience will make a choice in the middle based on feature set.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 4 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth an NPU is why your phone could tell you that photo is of a cat years before LLMs were the hot new thing. They were originally marketed as accelerators for machine learning applications before everybody started calling that AI.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 4 weeks ago:
On the contrary, lots of people were radicalized by hearing people like new age healers given the same airtime as medical doctors.
It’s taken 20 years to fail at making the publicly funded internet a utility. The purpose of the doctrine was to govern publicly owned airwaves. I strongly believe it would have been and is impossible to expand the FCCs jurisdiction to include privately owned networks. I also strongly believe that the current administration would abuse the fuck out of these regulations.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 4 weeks ago:
People give the fairness doctrine too much credit; First it’s partially responsible for the current mentality of all opinions matter no matter how stupid. But more importantly it only ever applied to broadcast TV and Radio, not cable or satellite, or the Internet. So it never would have applied to Fox News, for instance.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact: 7 was the last version MS produced under the injunction from the late 90s that prevented them from bundling required services with the OS. They actually had MS accounts (then called .NET Passports) ready to track activation and for login on XP but had to make them optional.
- Comment on The Trump phone just missed another release date 5 weeks ago:
Well yeah, the Obama phone thing was actually trying to help people.
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 5 weeks ago:
Heat is so easily retained in space that when the Shuttle launched they only had 4 hours to open the cargo doors to expose the radiators or the cabin and electronics would overheat and they would have to scrub the mission. They never had to scrub for that reason though.
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 5 weeks ago:
This is also why the Arcade* version of the 360 flopped so hard.
* ^^Back^ in the early-ish days of the 360 it didn’t have an HDMI port and it had memory card slots. They also sold one with an HDMI port called the 360 Elite and a cheaper one with no HDMI and no HDD (though one could be purchased separately and added later) designed to be used with memory cards exclusively called the 360 Arcade. The no HDMI boards were the ones most susceptible to the Red Ring of Death.^
- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 1 month ago:
Yeah, unfortunately lots of states are dumping their “carrier of last resort” regulations, and companies in those that haven’t are doing everything they can to kill them.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 month ago:
The number of times I have received an un-proofread two sentence email is too damn high.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 month ago:
Time to ruin your day…
The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.
- Comment on Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams 1 month ago:
How have these things not encountered out-of-service stop lights before? This seems like the kind of thing you test before you let them around people.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 month ago:
Newegg is still a thing, you just need to check the “Sold by Newegg” filter.