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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently a large percentage of people buy cars without test driving them… so probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the problem here is that you get people who are curious or like the other features the fridge has and just get what they can when theirs goes out. And while, sure, those people learn not to do that again, by that point the industry used that sales data as a “they must like it, lets do it across the board!” Instead of asking people or taking anything else into account when figuring out what products to continue making.

  In 10 yrs when those fridges die and people who “learned their lesson” go to buy a new fridge, there will be zero fridges without AI because marketing thought thats why they bought it and no one has any ability to buy a non-AI fridge anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone have a non-video summary/article?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand, its not that bad on a Mac… but that’s because the OS is designed in such a way where there’s nothing there and it sorta gets lost. Windows isn’t like that at all.

  On the other hand, At least its not right above the keyboard like some of the ones we have at work… the “up the nose” cam is not flattering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Satya, I really want to stop saying it too… But it’s everywhere, so i call it like it is. Stop making the Slop and I’ll stop saying it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if they still do, but PC Manufacturers used to get kick backs from every vendor they added shovelware for. For example, E-Machines was famous for it… AOL, Adobe, Office, shareware “pay to unlock” versions of games, Norton, etc. everyone sent checks to Dell, HP, Compaq, etc, just to peddle their wares for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Swap is a thing. It’ll kinda suck, but not as much as it would have pre-nvme. Except that now there’s an nvme shortage… and an SSD shortage.

  Ugh, I guess I’ll just put Windows 2000/ME on there to complete the retro look.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my theory. The kind of stuff I buy there is all electronics manufactured in china/Asia anyway. I could buy it direct or from ali express, but Amazon shipping is hella cheap and fast and they actually do returns quickly and correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always have been… but Google is just as bad, so installing Chrome isn’t going to help you there. Honestly, even FF or anything else on Windows wont even get you out of that fate. They’ve proven they take screen shots, likely log keypresses, etc.

  This isn’t new or even newsworthy anymore. Being okay with these sorts of things is like, literally part of EULA’s and such for decades. And people willingly give up privacy in trade for whatever service or product they’re choosing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I would personally hate that, it honestly wouldn’t be a bad choice for my aging parents and my IT load when I visit them.

  Linux is likely in their future, but thin clients for them would greatly reduce and centralize their compute considering what they actually need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, No. I don’t want my phone making decisions for me or my kids. If its site by site, they can just go somewhere else.

  As a parent, I’m far more worried about shitty social media algorithms that push narratives and online bullying and misinformation than I am about nudity. People have bodies, sex happens, it’s normal, whatever. I’d rather my kid learned about all that instead of being sheltered away from it until they turned 18.

  If anything, normalizing nudity and acceptance of different body types is probably a good thing for kids to learn, especially females where a constant narrative of “skinny, pretty, perfect” is being shoved on them and shaming them for not being a super model is considered the status quo.

  Let me make that decision as a parent, don’t try to protect my kids for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is where requirements as part of the data center zoning and purchase agreements comes in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A few years ago I got a spam call from my own number. Who would fall for that?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I run it in a container on Kubernetes. Definitely recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More than a PDP-11, but I would recommend against both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how a “first computer” stats break down when some people (me) were born before laptops and tablets. (Also now I feel old…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we did train it with data from the internet and books and history and everything else we could throw at it… This is like Leeloo in The Fifth Element learning all of the language and discovering “War”. If it really was AGI, theres no way you could be forced to consume all of that and come away “fine”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Amazon Pay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, it’s mostly the returns process that I feel make Amazon a better place for “direct from china” stuff. I do a lot of electronics hobby work and I can buy the same part from Amazon, Ali Express, or direct from fly by night companies in China. The latter two are generally cheaper, but the quality tends to be more questionable at times and I can’t really “return it for my money back” like Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But I heard it was so fast!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oechslegrad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better with a frozen margarita.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Copilot keeps finishing my code for me in near real time… it completely disrupts my train of thought and my productivity dropped tremendously. I finally disabled it.

  I LIKE writing code, stop trying to take the stuff away that I WANT to do and instead take away the stuff I HATE doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with it? Would you consider any self-hosted alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’ve done public DNS zone hosting and you can use let’s encrypt for certs and such, but

  • What about caches? I basically use to reduce load and network traffic reduction before it gets to me so I don’t have to run my own varnish cache and get regional caching to reduce repeat cross country calls for people on the other coasts.
  • What do you use for DDOS protection?

  Basically, cloudflare us free, and i get all that. If I find another place better, I’m open to jumping ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AI would help to account for the memory footprint of Prometheus monitoring… but no. Not yet (I’ve used it for 7+ yrs at this point).

  However theres also the NASA “Project Prometheus” which also predates this, more closely matches the name, but sadly also doesn’t have AI: found here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just waiting for Musk to get his robots to learn how to feed off biomass and complete his transition to Ted Faro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes a lot of fossil fuels to push things to LEO let alone higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich camera lens info⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty neat, what adapter is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I was thinking… they didn’t get rid of gravity. Also, who pees on the wall, even without a coating it’s going to splash at least a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone has to rip it in the first place.

  I prefer to rip my own, as well as CD’s and DVD’s I already own. I also do a lot with retro hardware that doesn’t always have a USB port.

  BluRays are also fairly decent for offline, offsite backups, though writable media is getting expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everytime I hear the name “Game Bar” all I can think of is this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are way more positive about the future than I.