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- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 4 days ago:
Watt? 🤔
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 4 days ago:
I also have an EV and tires need changing way faster, for sure. The original tires were replaced only after 2 years, but I just love taking off on that animal, so, I’ll be wasting more money on tires.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 4 days ago:
Stop burning the planet to tell people what to burn the planet for.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve been weighing those as options too. Great little media centers for little money and lots of privacy.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 week ago:
Next year, when our house construction is completed, I need to choose 2 new TVs, an 85 and a 65. At this point I’m looking for longevity more than all the marketing sticker BS being pushed now. I will probably go with a couple of Scepter non-smart TVs and just keep running my media from Jellyfin with a couple of NUCs attached to them, hehe.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 week ago:
Not as much, but yes. However, it may be because now I’m actively looking for the difference after this thread, hehe.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 week ago:
Let’s agree to disagree. I can see the difference at a distance of 6’, and I wear glasses.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 week ago:
This is so much bullshit. 4K does make a difference, specially if playing console games on a large TV (65" and up).
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 1 week ago:
Yeah, I was also thinking that cloning the Gateway or AP MAC address would help obscure what we’re doing 🤣
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 1 week ago:
Just create a wifi mirroring the one you use at work at home, done.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 1 week ago:
I know about Corey Doctorow and his coining of the term and his book. I appreciate there are people like him, they do make a difference. I’ve never heard of Bradley Kuhn, thanks for pointing him out. I’ll look him up.
This is exactly what I’m talking about. People like these are doing what they can to further knowledge about how shit is extremely wrong and needs to change.
Louis Rossmann uses the following he has built up over the years to carry the word on the extreme enshittification we live in, and pushes for changes that will be beneficial for us at the legislative level as much as at the operating level.
I do believe that Futo and it’s owner are just trying to benefit from him, but that does not remove the fact that Rossmann has also taken advantage of Futo to improve our situation as much as he can without making a penny out of it for himself.
Honor where honor’s due, that’s my thing.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 1 week ago:
While I can’t say I agree with everything Rossmann, the guy seems very genuine, regardless of where I think he may be wrong or right. Also, I’ve seen him pedal back and retract plenty of times when he is shown (with evidence) that he was wrong.
Can you name one other personality with a large following that comes even close to Louis Rossmann in bringing stuff to light and fighting back against enshittification?
As for Futo, yeah, I’m pretty sure that billionaire that owns it is just using Rossmann for his following. But who knows, maybe Rossmann is also taking advantage of him to advance what we all want to see as well.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 2 weeks ago:
Dafuk?
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 2 weeks ago:
Yep, that’s certainly what started it, AI just made it way worse
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 weeks ago:
Could be, but on the other side of the coin, their sales of iPhones are at an all time low this year (by that I mean that the sales were not as good a previous years on launch), and some articles blame their Apple Intelligence not being up to par with Google’s Gemini and using OpenAi as the backbone for Apple Intelligence. Which is as much a privacy nightmare as Gemini, if not worse.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 weeks ago:
Stop the world so I can get out of it 😔
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that certainly plays a role. What really blows my mind is that governments and companies KNOW this about Microsoft, yet they choose to stay in their infrastructure. This world just keeps getting weirder every day.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 weeks ago:
Precisely my thoughts. Companies that are all in on this, except for 2 or 3 of the ones that actually are making headway on AI (as opposed to just mirroring Sam Altman’s ponzy scheme like Microsoft is doing), will eventually crash and burn.
Look at Apple, they’ve been left behind in the AI race, but they have other good stuff thatsome of their fans will support (I’m using the word “good” very lightly here), and with their market value and endless cash flow, they are way more likely to still be here 10 years from now.
None of us can see the future, but we can look at the signs. MS will never be a point of reference for AI, as that task belongs to OpenAI and Google exclusively for now (and Meta to some extent).
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 weeks ago:
If this was true (not that they are the 2nd most valuable company, that much is clear), why would they bend over and support W10 for another year in the EU while fucking up everyone else? There are ways for companies that seem to be immortal to self-destroy. Intel for example. Did any of us thought that they could burst 10 years ago? And look at them now, crawling asking for help.
All you need is a seriously bad decision, then doubling down on it, and just watch it spiral down until they crash.
The seemingly endless access to money only makes the process take longer, it’s not a shield from catastrophic failure.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 weeks ago:
You make a good point, and the end of this movie remains to be seen (though I agree that right now it looks like AI is here to stay).
I use AI pretty regularly to check for holes on some extremely long compliance documents for work, and the results in terms of not missing parts and reducing the time of the task is amazing, to say the least.
However, this is very different from having an agent controlled by MicroShit seeing everything you do in what is supposed to be YOUR computer, and giving it all to MicroShit to do God knows what with your data.
Yes, AI is currently the new smartphone boom, but there are many ways to use it without showing up completely naked in front of these assholes, especially since you’re not even given an option to cover yourself.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I was about to restart my whole network while watching something on Stremio. One look at Lemmy was enough to turn that off and pick up a book. Funny how books never buffer 😂
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
Sorry I missed this. I was too busy enjoying my library of media locally over Jellyfin.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I’ve been know to fuck up plenty, daily, for decades. That was one of way too many 😜
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 weeks ago:
I did, in 2020, and I liked everything except the range. Moved from that to a more invasive Chinese BYD, no regrets. My Han has electronic AND mechanical door handles.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 weeks ago:
Dude, you act like you’ve never been burned by someone in your life. Instead of shaming people for purchasing something and getting burned, we should all be getting together and shaming the companies that are enshitified.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 4 weeks ago:
We’re in a sad state of affairs in this world.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 4 weeks ago:
Infinite, as far as I can appreciate.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 4 weeks ago:
Never saw this coming (said no one ever).
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 4 weeks ago:
There’s Yuno, CasaOS is ridiculously easy to setup, manage and maintain as well. There’s UnRaid (not free, but very good), Proxmox is extremely versatile.
I am currently running light services (caldav, carddav, PW manager, and some other lighter stuff) on an N150 mini PC, and have a hefty server for heavier services running on Proxmox.
Of course, I follow the 3-2-1 backup rule, but only for data I could never get again. Movies, Series, music, I never back up.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 4 weeks ago:
I have one of those. It’s called a wife.