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- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 5 days ago:
Yeah more or less. The Verge did a whole podcast episode on RAM over the holidays. It was a good explainer.
Basically, RAM that goes into AI data centers isn’t necessarily the same as RAM in your computer. There are only 3 companies making RAM. They are altering their fabrication lines to accommodate for the commercial/AI ram so they can make more money. That means they can’t produce consumer RAM.
It’s hard and expensive to build RAM and chip factories because there is one company that makes the machine that does it. So anyone who wants to stay a RAM factory is at their mercy.
The Verge reporter said he expects ram prices might go up significantly more in the next 6months to a year.
- Comment on An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users 6 days ago:
I’m not worried about password resets. They have my email but not my password. I use a password manager, and keep my email account locked up tight. As long as they can’t get in my email, they can’t change my password.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
Personally, I prefer not to be Nintendo because of Nintendo’s behavior, but the price is why they still struggle to sell these.
They sold a ton right out of the gate. Everyone that really wanted one already got one. After that, they need parents and grandparents to get them for the kids and that isn’t going to happen as much.
Nintendo was basically a “toy”. You could, for the most part, safely buy a Nintendo console for your kids at a somewhat reasonable price. (I know the OG consoles were a bit pricey).
You could buy your kid a handheld console for ~$200 or less. The Switch 1 was $300, but you could still get your kid a Lite for $200.
Now, the only option is a $450 Switch 2.
- Comment on An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users 1 week ago:
I receive password resets from nearly every app and service at this point. 🙃
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 week ago:
Yeah I have a bad habit of never finishing games despite playing the first 1/4 of the game several times.
I need a refresher like TV shows do when they come back for a new season.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
Yeah. I just looked it up. That video was dumb and bad. Shouldn’t have made it up, but the article is still on their site. They did issue a retraction and update the story to correct the inaccuracies.
I don’t know if it warrants the Lemmy hate but I also know that Lemmy hates anything corporate so it is what it is. I’ll still read The Verge as long as they follow their own ethics policy.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
Found it. Yeah that video was bad.
To their credit, they did issue a retraction and repost the story with correct steps.
The copyright strikes were definitely a dumb way to handle it.
Idk if true or not but in an Arstechnica story, The Verge’s editor in chief apparently asked the Vox lawyers to rescind the copyright strikes.
I don’t mean to sound like I’m defending them. The video should never have made it up in the first place, but people make mistakes. If you own it and apologize, I’ll give you a second chance.
I don’t always agree with their take on a topic, but for the most part I have found them to be factual.
I do also agree with many Ed Zitron takes about them tho. They could be doing a better job on AI, but over the last few weeks I’ve seen an improvement there.
TLDR: that PC build from 8 years ago was dumb and extra embarrassing, they should feel bad for it, but I still think some if the hate they get is unjustified.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 1 week ago:
Disregard my comments. I just noticed that the Voyager app added a share button to save images instead of using the long press. That fixed my sharing issue.
I deleted my previous comments on this.
Thanks for all your hard work!
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
I see a lot of people hate The Verge and I don’t understand why. Is it perfect? No. But, I think they have a pretty solid ethics policy and they call out bullshit.
I like 404 better but Verge is by no means bad.
Maybe there was an issue with them that I don’t know about? Idk!
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 1 week ago:
Good thing the senate stopped him from bombing a country he already bombed and not other countries.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 week ago:
My guess is the get the phone info from protests and then use the data from location data brokers to track further.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 week ago:
While you are right, sounds like they are mostly getting the data through location data brokers that use advertisement industry to track you.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 week ago:
Everyone should be using an ad blocker for this reason exactly.
Ads are often the culprit of data for the location data brokers. Fuck the ads.
- Comment on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team 1 week ago:
A CSS framework that moves writing CSS into the html to make it stupidly long with annoyingly confusing class names.
I might be biased though. I hate it.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
This. Everyone experiences these feelings at some point, but when they start having an outsized impact on your life, there might be a cause such as Autism/ADHD.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
I felt like this which is initially why I didn’t get tested. Even tho I can see how medication has helped me, I still worry that I’m imaging it.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
I literally don’t give a shit about the seat up or down, but close the lid ffs. Stop spray germs all over my toothbrush.
Also, I don’t care what direction the toilet paper goes. I don’t even look at it when I put a new roll in. I’m a free spirit.
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- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 2 weeks ago:
GTA 2 is my favorite of the series.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think loot boxes are a thing anymore but Battle Passes are predatory. You pay for access to items but you aren’t guaranteed those if the timer runs out.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 2 weeks ago:
There are a few companies that go out of their way to make pants for women with pockets. Nothing at any local retailer an it sucks to buy clothes online when you can try them on, especially since women’s sizing is an absolute nightmare.
I buy men’s work out clothes so I can have pockets when I’m lounging around the house.
- Comment on People that have a Centauri Carbon, how are you feeling right now? 2 weeks ago:
I have tried any of their software/firmware. They do, however, have great info on the device itself and they archive all manufacturer firmware. I used their docs and archived firmware to fix mine.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 2 weeks ago:
You’re wrong about why women’s clothes don’t have pockets. Women were never given a choice to buy clothing with pockets.
Initially, pockets were not accessible in women’s clothing due to the layers they were required to wear. After the suffragette movement when liberated women began to wear pants, designers intentionally kept pockets small to prop up the purse industry.
Handbags are one of the most profitable items in the fashion industry.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 3 weeks ago:
I can see you don’t spent much time with women.
Women aren’t choosing pants with shitty pockets intentionally.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 3 weeks ago:
Most of them are. I can really only carry things in back pockets, but then it makes sitting awkward.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 3 weeks ago:
Even jeans that aren’t skin tight don’t have full pockets.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 3 weeks ago:
The biggest problem with these is the price. Apple wants us on a two year upgrade cycle but these phones are $1500-2000. That’s insane.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 3 weeks ago:
I like the idea of a foldable phone but what I really want is a phone that folds enough to fit in my women’s pants pockets.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 3 weeks ago:
Wtf. Of a physical copy? You got screwed more than most people in the comment section.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 3 weeks ago:
You make some really good points. The game I’m referring to is Osiris Reborn from The Expanse series, my favorite book series of all time.
It’s not exactly an unheard of IP and the developer is what I could consider midsized. That’s why I was leaning towards not doing it at all.
My only motivation is how passionate I am about this series and wanting to see more games, books, shows, movies, etc set in that world. I want to be proactive in spending my money thoughtfully to encourage development in places I support.
Obviously, one preorder isn’t going to change that for this game and a preorder would likely do more harm to me than it would be to the series if I don’t preorder.
I’m usually pretty staunchly again preorders since I think it’s bad for players as a whole (and often for devs too), but, if I’m being honest with you, I would probably have done it if my favorite series was being done by a small indie dev team so they could have as much money upfront to make the game as good as it can be.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 3 weeks ago:
For a moment, I thought this video was about the game I was debating on, 12 years too early! (The Expanse Osiris Reborn.)
