TheOakTree
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- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 1 hour ago:
Infinitely better, as long as your network and encoding are set up properly. At the very least, you won’t need the ice bricks.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 1 hour ago:
I feel like the “AI capable” marketed CPUs are a sham. For the average user, it’s just going to feel slow compared to cloud compute, so it’s just training the average person to not bother buying AI-labelled hardware for AI.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 17 hours ago:
This is why I can’t discredit faith, but I still do my best to point out how organizational religion has always exploited people. Not that all of it is bad. But there needs to be better safeguards for people to have the opportunity to find or reject faith for themselves, and instead it’s mostly indoctrination.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 6 days ago:
Even the clean energy supplied data centers will heavily pollute the water used to cool it. So, even if we do that, we should still be pushing to reduce the amount of datacenters being built right now…
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
Hah. I never even said the comment hurt me.
I’m just speaking on behalf of those who have been hurt. If you can’t recognize why someone might do that, you’re either a rape apologist or you’re an incel troll. Probably both.
- Comment on If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death? 1 week ago:
This person would answer “not if you drink it all”
- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 1 week ago:
Fun fact: the S24U and S25U pictured in the preview have the same camera sensor set, despite marketing materials boasting camera improvements.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 week ago:
They had a little bit of reprise with the surge of SFF PCs but not much.
- Comment on Got my girlfriend an Xbox controller and 3D printed a faceplate 1 week ago:
I’ve never tried it but this method looks interesting. I wonder if it would work with clear coat instead of paint.
- Comment on Teenage Jehovah's Witness can receive blood transfusion, judge rules 1 week ago:
What’s wrong? God saved him in the end.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 1 week ago:
Because some people have digital libraries but no hardware to run them on.
At the very least, this is a loss in gaming accessibility by cost since a month of GeForce Now used to be a decent gaming backup for when my gaming system was down (had to RMA GPU).
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
…do we really need to use the word “raping” to talk about PC performance or can we agree that there are a hundred other words that fit better in that spot?
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 1 week ago:
Have you considered why “Call of Duty” is 38 in Reduction, Single Reduction, KV Exception, and SKV exception?
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that all of those ciphers having the same mappings for all letters except K, S, and V… Each of which don’t appear in the phrase “Call of Duty”.
“The nimble red fox ran around the lazy dog” is 38 in Reduction, Single Reduction, KV Exceptuon, and SKV Exception!!! This means it’s related to murder! And I didn’t even have to calculate the cipher at all, I just had to look at it and see if it had the right letters!
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 week ago:
I don’t think it’s an upscale. I think it’s an mspaint recreation. There’s no reason an AI upscale would turn the cheek circles into ellipses and move them away from the edge of the cheek. All the colors are also different, and the geometry differs in places too.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 week ago:
If anything, they might have written most of the infrastructure using LLMs. It’s easier for vibecode to forget about security because LLMs often forget context or hyperfixate on the wrong features.
- Comment on My PSP Scrapbook: Part Retrospective, Part Collage 2 weeks ago:
The shell I got was mediocre. It all comes together, but there are definitely some weird gaps and bad tolerances. I had to trim down some plastic to get everything to line up half-decently.
I’m glad you like the transparent shell as well, as I was a bit on the fence about it at first.
- Comment on My PSP Scrapbook: Part Retrospective, Part Collage 2 weeks ago:
Love the PSP! Grew up with it and loved the more mature titles available compared to Nintendo’s handheld game library. A couple years ago I purchased a faulty PSP for dirt cheap and replaced the display, shell, and UMD drive. Unfortunately the clear analog stick I purchased is quite rubbish and needs to be replaced, but I haven’t gotten around to it.
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 2 weeks ago:
It seems that the pie chart under the cpu describes the weights of video characteristics that push to the top of your algorithm. But that’s a guess, and it should be clearer than that if the platform wants to be transparent.
- Comment on Actual theft 2 weeks ago:
Turns out she’s engaged to a man.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 3 weeks ago:
4k 120hz on the steam cube?? Sounds like a job for Lossless Scaling 4x Frame Gen! /s
- Comment on Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far. 5 weeks ago:
What kind of work do you do?
I’m in the process of wrapping up my degree and I work a lot with signals and controls. I agree that Laplace is much less of a headache than Fourier.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 5 weeks ago:
Regardless of what happened to crypto, it was certainly a crypto mining hardware bubble for anyone invested in that.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 months ago:
An ROG 5090 Dhahab Edition is half of the $15k. Add a boutique case, custom cooling loop, overkill RAM and storage, and you just might hit $15k. Definitely a stretch though.
- Comment on Carrot 2 months ago:
Understandable, have a nice day.
I will point out that saying "approximately ~length^2" seems redundant, but that’s neither here nor there.
- Comment on Carrot 2 months ago:
The volume is length^3? Is the carrot a 10"x10"x10" cube?
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 2 months ago:
It was Evan and Katelyn being featured on Adam’s channel lol
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 months ago:
Funny that you mention this. I replied to another comment about how Gangnam Style is satire about the hyper-wealthy. However, the meaning derived by all of the audiences outside of South Korea was ‘haha dancing man likes horses and yoga women’.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 months ago:
You’re pretty much there. Oppa is literally ‘older brother’ but is generally used towards a man who is older but within the same age-hierarchy bracket. It is a term exclusively used by women, except for when men are referring to themselves in the 3rd person from the perspective of women. As mentioned, women often call their boyfriend/husband oppa in casual environments.
The lyrics of the chorus is “오빤 강남 스타일” (“Oppan Gangnam Style”) where the ‘n’ after ‘oppa’ is like a contraction of “오빠는” (‘Oppa nun’ / “Oppa is”). Gangnam is a neighborhood in Seoul where literal 1%ers live. So he’s basically letting the women know he’s a wealthy/noteworthy/powerful guy, since he is ‘Gangnam Style’.
In truth, the way he describes himself and the women he chases are caricatures of South Korean wealth, materialism, and high-class identity. The video starts with him pretending to be at a beach, when the camera pans out it’s actually a sandlot for a playground. More examples of his phony elegance show up across the video, such as dancing on a tour bus and singing in a toilet stall. The lyrics of the song flaunt the lavish lives of the hyper-wealthy, while the imagery points out how trashy and narcissistic that kind of lifestyle can be.
Sorry for the rant, I just remember a lot of stuff I learned about it while writing a report in high school. I hope someone learned something :P
- Comment on negativity 2 months ago:
I think we need waffles that are flat on one side. Butter under the waffle on the flat side, syrup in the wells of the top side. Then you get even coverage of butter and also the crispness and syrup management benefits.
- Comment on Lasagnaius 2 months ago:
Jump Pretzeldogius
