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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You willing to take a 25% pay cut? Yeah that’s hella far. Especially when you’re up in the GHz range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this most horror movies? “Oh I’m going off alone”, “let’s check this really dark and creepy area”, “let’s go find the source of that errie noise!” As that all drop one by one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So just plain fraud

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Riiight. And what makes you trust Googles word so fervently?

• Why is Iran attacking Dubai and Kuwait?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The script is mysterious and important.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that he turned it down for Wild Wild West, use that as a basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So… you know how Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot and TPM enabled, which just so happens to mean you can only use Windows 11? Yeah, they’ve been priming it for a while. Soon they’ll mandate that the browsers have hooks than can read the attestation of the system like Google’s Safety system on Android, and then sites won’t even load if it doesn’t pass.

• The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(REDO) FediNSFW the announcements community for the lemmyNSFW replacement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t lemmynsfw specifically have downvotes disabled because people didn’t know how to correctly it and were downvoting just because they didnt like something vs it not being relevant to the community? I know this was heavily impacting guys who were trying to post in forums that were valid for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨misleading cover⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ouch. Seriously, what was he thinking with that cover. Or the artist for that matter. Should have shopped it out to at least one friend and asked “based on the cover, what do you think this is about?”

  I mean the name literally has “The Staff” in it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even think everyone has the option of not getting a variable pricing…

  That’s where you’re wrong. The wholesale pricing is very much optional with a few providers, some don’t even offer it. It is not something you’re forced in to, nor is it the norm. It’s basically a plan you have to go looking for an choose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, someone seriously pissed in your Cheerios. I’m not defending them at all. My point since the beginning has always been that if you are trying to get away with gambling on the system. At some point you will lose. That is 100% on you. Doesn’t matter if it’s betting, ARMs, variable rate electricity, whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s called making an informed choice. Down in South Texas that variable rating wasn’t even an option because our energy provider doesn’t do that. So what happened? Absolutely nothing. The provider ate most of it.

  Where that happened is in Dallas, where there are at least 4 separate utility providers that you can shop around for. And of those 4 they have different plans including fixed rate plans. I.e. plans where your bill wouldn’t have shot through the roof.

  So it very much was a customer issue, and didn’t happen to everyone. No one was forced to chose those plans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly that’s the customers fault. It’s like taking out an ARM based mortgage. You’re gambling that the rates will stay low and then bitch if they spike. The people that were affected opted in to a variable rate plan to take advantage of lower commercial prices, then started botching when it spiked. Coupled with automatic withdrawal meant they thought “it would never happen to me!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that’s a funny quip and it was true in 2021, but it hasn’t been a problem since that event 5 years ago. Fun fact, Texas is actually the largest producer of wind energy in the nation, and they’re also building out massive solar farms.

  The reason most people don’t hear about it, is it’s being done by the same oil and gas companies that are raking in the money. They’re just diversifying their portfolio so they continue to make money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global YouTube outage sees video platform homepage go dark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ngl, I turned off my adblocker in a private window to see if that may have been the case. It was still fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad trumbone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean she lost Himmel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad trumbone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this loss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even worse. We have what’s called MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price) and the “Suggested” part does a lot of heavy lifting. Two crazy examples

  • Car dealers will add a “dealer markup” sometimes in the tens of thousands range above MSRP if a car is in demand
  • Nintendo actually threatened to pull their products from Amazon (I think) because they dared to go under the suggested price (more like mandatory)

  Basically it’s a free for all where the consumer is saddled with trying to find the best deal, if there is one.

• When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affluenza is really the biggest driver between thinking the barrio/ghetto/slums is an "unsafe wasteland" vs people who are just trying to exist and survive in the framework they are given.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that it’s literally in the dictionary I’m using definition B. Basically the more wealthy you get, the more you think disadvantaged places are a hive of scum and villainy. And not even uber rich people. Once you hit middle class. I have so many friends and relatives that just freak out over the idea of even passing through, coworkers too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affluenza is really the biggest driver between thinking the barrio/ghetto/slums is an "unsafe wasteland" vs people who are just trying to exist and survive in the framework they are given.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Higher yes, but people acting like it’s a complete lawless wasteland? That’s what I’m talking about. People so damn afraid that they’re going to be murdered the moment they set foot in it in broad daylight. That’s just affluenza speaking. Go through a lot of disadvantaged areas and you’ll find generally people are just trying to make it by. Thanks for proving my point.

• Affluenza is really the biggest driver between thinking the barrio/ghetto/slums is an "unsafe wasteland" vs people who are just trying to exist and survive in the framework they are given.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You board a train, board a bus, and board a ship, but you don't board a car⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting approach, but where does that leave taxis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope they do. When a support forum says “join us on discord” I immediately nope the fuck out. I have never used discord and I don’t plan on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too weird for the normal people, too normal for the weird people...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried, but the problem is I enjoy both and also apparently have commitment issues.

• Too weird for the normal people, too normal for the weird people...
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LinkedIn only uses 3 degrees. The theory you’re talking about is that mathematically people should be connected within 6 degrees, but the number of degrees you go with is arbitrary. In LinkedIns case they use them to classify people in one of three categories as it relates to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For reference, everyone is 3rd degree at a minimum.

  • 1st - You’re directly connected with them
  • 2nd - The person is connected with a person you’re a 1st degree connection with
  • 3rd - People that are not connected to any 1st or 2nd degree connections (I.e. everyone else)
• How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on?
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