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- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 1 day ago:
And Bose and Samsung and probably a couple more.
- 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:
but that’s because the OS is designed in such a way where there’s nothing there
Ehh OSX uses the top of the screen as a menu bar so for apps which have a lot of menu bar options, those are gone. A lot of third party apps also let you place helpful widgets on the menu bar so that’s kinda not a thing anymore either.
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 2 weeks ago:
Don’t really use Facebook anymore so I can’t help you there I’m afraid.
- Comment on What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar 2 weeks ago:
Yea pretty much
- Comment on What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar 2 weeks ago:
Yea, the trackpads actually physically moves downward because we’ll, it’s an actual physical button.
- Comment on The Rise Of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators 2 weeks ago:
Where I live, you can only bring dedicated calculators into the examination halls so yes.
- Comment on What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve used the pre-Force Touch trackpads, those do physically move and imo are still the best trackpads I’ve ever used. Once you have that experience, you can tell very clearly that the new ones don’t physically move and personally I can’t stand the new ones as a result.
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 2 weeks ago:
As if there’s not already more than enough reasons to always have an ad blocker… If you absolutely still need to use Facebook and Instagramto keep in touch with people, there’s browser extensions and patched apps that still block the ads.
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 2 weeks ago:
There was an uproar last year (or early this year?) and a number of people jumped to Bluesky but it kinda lost steam really quickly.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 3 weeks ago:
What democracy? Lol. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with making your own judgments because even as you’re in the US, you are more than the simple fact that you live in the US and so I don’t think that invalidates your opinions.
As it is right now, the US is still more democratic than China is. It’s trending towards authoritarianism but you guys can still vote can’t you? Your politicians can still reasonably voice their disagreements with the president without suddenly disappearing without a trace isn’t it? Heck, we can have this conversation right now without worrying this site gets banned or the whole thread censored by the state after all.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 4 weeks ago:
I’m in Asia lol. While China is fairly high profile being the largest Asian country here, plenty of other Asian countries do the same with investment in public infrastructure whole being a democratic nation.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 4 weeks ago:
That would make sense if they actually sold lower end EVs where I live…
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 4 weeks ago:
DeepSeek was frankly oversold and I personally don’t think we should be investing that much time and energy in LLMs anyways. I’ll give them that for EVs but they easily cost 2x of a standard ICE Japanese car here since China companies seem to be targeting the luxury car market so it didn’t occur to me at all.
Not sure why you even brought up American cars to be honest.
That said, I was thinking more of semiconductors and there’s been so much news of Huawei doing all sorts of things that have went nowhere so far.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 4 weeks ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it. Lots of news of supposed breakthroughs in China all the time but hardly any of it actually leads to anything concrete so far.
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
How do they even make this argument even with a straight face is beyond me.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 4 weeks ago:
With the amount of AI generated slop everywhere, I’m afraid that’s becoming less and less effective. For what it’s worth, LLMs work fairly well in filtering it out in a first pass. I don’t take what it spits out directly but uses the links it cites as sources and find my answers there.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 4 weeks ago:
It still works for me at least? In the office options, there’s a Copilot section with a single “Enable Copilot” checkbox. You’ll need to disable it per app though.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 4 weeks ago:
- Not supporting monopolistic practices.
The rest of the points are fair but you seriously saying that getting Chrome of all things is not supporting monopolistic practices?
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 4 weeks ago:
But that hasn’t happened at all and there’s no evidence of that happening?
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 4 weeks ago:
What makes you think that? Even as prices rise, people are still buying and building PCs.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 4 weeks ago:
iOS devices aren’t laptops either… At best it’s a locked down tablet with a keyboard.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 5 weeks ago:
The new games aren’t all bad for the campaigns. MW2019 was pretty good and Black Ops 6 had a really fun campaign, it had a pretty good story too at least til the end.
- Comment on Fate/strange Fake New Visual 5 weeks ago:
As a LN reader, I’m somewhat worried about the fact that it’s only 12 episodes despite how much it seems they would want to adapt but we’ll see.
- 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:
Having worked with OpenGL ES on Android, it’s laughable how awful the drivers are. When GPUs from the same manufacturer have completely different behaviour, it really calls into question if they even care.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
Cortana was great on WP before they dumbed it down for W10 and then killed it. It gave you daily summaries in the morning and was able to do basic assistant stuff like reminders and simple queries pretty well. Then W10 came and it became just a shitty web search.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 month ago:
I agree with what you said outside of their flagship smartphones. My Fold3 was fantastic all the up till the point I traded it in for a Fold6 so if you don’t mind, could you explain what they did to your Fold5 because I don’t see any example mentioned of how they managed to ruin it over time?
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 months ago:
I think they’re referring to the Steam Frame controllers, not the Steam Controller.
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 2 months ago:
Hmm I was thinking of using it when travelling so I don’t think that fulfills the same use case.
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 2 months ago:
I was thinking more for streaming from a laptop. I’ve tried it before and it doesn’t work, you need Chrome to start the connection.
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 2 months ago:
I’d personally rather not use something that requires Chrome and has miracast support too.