Godort
@Godort@lemmy.ca
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 5 hours ago:
Oh, I fully agree.
I really want to go back to electronics and appliances being both more robust and more repairable. It’s just that the vast majority of the population disagrees with that once they learn that it will make things cost more initially.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 5 hours ago:
I think the “black box” nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn’t turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.
She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to “fix” including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.
This is a symptom of industry switching to cheap “disposable” electronics, rather than more expensive, robust, and repairable ones.
From the treadmill company’s point of view, it’s cheaper to just lose one unit and pay shipping one way rather than pay to have the unit returned, spend valuable technician time diagnosing and fixing an issue and then pay to ship the repaired unit back.
About 50 years ago, you could find appliance repair shops that would fix your broken toaster or TV, and parts for stuff like that were easily available. Now, with the advanced automation in building these, combined with the increased difficulty of repair(fine-work soldering, firmware debuging and the like) it makes way more sense to just replace the whole thing.
- Comment on How are you doing fellow kids 4 days ago:
It does feel that way sometimes, but humans as a species are shockingly resilient. This isn’t the first crumbling empire we’ve had to deal with, nor will it be the last.
- Comment on How are you doing fellow kids 4 days ago:
I’m jealous of the kids that will learn about this era in school in about 60 years.
It’s going to be a really interesting social studies subject linking the rise of Web 2.0 to the fall of America
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 2 weeks ago:
Number pairs where the 1st and 3rd digit match kr where the 2nd and 4th digit match.
Eg: 1315 or 4676
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
This will rely on having an executive team that can predict trends beyond the next quarter.
Doubling down on advertising, telemetry in an overly bloated OS looks really good if you only care about the profits that brings for the next 3 months, rather than how much your userbase resents it. MS is fully capable of turning this around immediately by just making LTSC available to the public without needing to by a MAK through an enterprise channel, but that means throwing away some recurring revenue in favor of claiming a lost userbase
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Remember to drink a ton of water to replace everything you’re losing to the throne.
Last thing you want is to feel extra shitty due to dehydration when you’re already recovering
- Comment on Oh to go back... 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, Hackers gets a lot of shit for being ridiculous, but it only deserves it sometimes.
A lot of the actual hacking that is done in that movie is stuff like social engineering, phreaking payphones, and reading technical documentation. It’s exaggerated in the movie to make it watchable, but it’s largely based in reality.
- Comment on Pakistan to nominate Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize 3 weeks ago:
Someone is trying to get an ally against India.
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 4 weeks ago:
Ta-Da!
- Comment on What anime do you regularly rewatch? 4 weeks ago:
I go through Slayers every couple of years. It’s hard to call it “good”, but it’s by far my favorite anime.
It’s the only anime I’ve ever seen that really captures the spirit of a D&D player. The characters successfully beat the BBEG in every season, but act like dysfunctional clowns the whole way through.