UnspecificGravity
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- Comment on No wonder Reddit has turned to shit 2 hours ago:
Only thing stopping it now is that’s it’s not popular enough to be worth doing.
- Comment on If vegetarians eat vegetables, and humanitarians eat humans, what do Bavarians eat? 4 hours ago:
Beaver.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 7 hours ago:
Windows update are starting to feel like updates to Pixel phones: what horrible shit is coming next?
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 8 hours ago:
I think the real thing you have learned is that PC upgrades are largely unnecessary. They are only selling new hardware that is better on paper and they need to create compatibility traps to make you upgrade a bunch of other shit to get that incremental upgrade.
Even still, there are a lot of components that are not cheap that you can reuse regardless of CPU socket and memory compatibility changes. I’ve used the same PSU and case and drives and network card for a decade. That’s all shit I would have had to pay for over and over again with a different type of system.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 8 hours ago:
Even Americans are trying to bail from a lot of this crap, not just for political reasons but because its shit.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 9 hours ago:
Yep. Everything that runs in windows 10 runs worse on Windows 11 and y are getting nothing in return. My work PC can barely manage a big spreadsheet now.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 9 hours ago:
Brand new windows measurably losing ground to it’s prior unsupported edition and Linux is fucking wild.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 9 hours ago:
Given that what it “does so far” already required the theft of the sum total of human creativity available online and the sacrifice of the survivability of humanity due to climate change, kinda seems like there isn’t much else to wring out of this.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 9 hours ago:
The problem with this, and most other “ai products” isn’t just that they are immortal attacks in human labor and and intellectual property, they also simply don’t work.
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 1 day ago:
In English?
- Comment on Draw! 1 day ago:
I mean, those are both legitimate and normal questions in an interview.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 day ago:
What risk? It worked out great for the regime in China, it would work here too.
- Comment on Given the Onion's purchase of Infowars was rejected by a judge a while ago, I think at this point they should just buy the company anyway. Seriously! 1 day ago:
So if I lose a lawsuit can my money decide it doesn’t want to go to the other person’s account?
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 3 days ago:
The real lesson here is that if you are a company that was founded on stupid imaginary bullshit your investors are comfortable with investing in stupid imaginary bullshit and it isn’t going to hurt your price.
When you are a legacy tech company whose investors expect you to actually make products that you sell for money, they don’t like to hear that blew every penny you had on fucking magic beans.
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 3 days ago:
Wait.
You mean that dedicating the majority of their business to buying things from themselves has not proven to be a sound strategy in the eyes of investors?
- Comment on YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo 3 days ago:
No safety goggles are airtight, they won’t do shit for gas.
- Comment on YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo 3 days ago:
They don’t make safety goggles for gas, those are called gas masks and if you have an extra 600 bucks or so kicking around that is absolutely the best tool for the job. For the rest of us $20 for swim goggles, safety glasses, and an N95 is likely to be “good enough”.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 3 days ago:
Sorry you are so butt hurt about making dumb choices 20 years ago.
- Comment on YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo 3 days ago:
That’s why you wear both pool goggles and impact rated goggles over them.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 3 days ago:
It doesn’t help that pretty much every single thing that has ever been done in the name of “safety” in America has eventually been used to rip us off or harm us in some way, and that isn’t even counting the fake shit that was a fraud from the get-go (like the patriot act and the like).
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 3 days ago:
Trump is barking seal that agrees with any man that is in the same room as him.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
As usual, the Trump admin is using tools that have been available to the feds for years but they use them so ineptly that it has become obvious that they exist. I guess that is better than competent administrations doing to the same thing for less trivial and obvious shit.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 3 days ago:
Yes. that is why smartphones replaced integrated navigation about 15 years ago. It’s OK that you were a late adopter, but that doesn’t change what happened. I was happily using google maps to navigate with my phone on a little holder on the dash and actively making fun of people like you by 2010.
It was actually kind of funny to have better navigation and a better stereo in my 1993 Ford Ranger with a quarter million miles on it than dumbasses that bought new cars in 2010.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 3 days ago:
Not in terms of navigating a city, which have had universal coverage since the flip phone days.
Also, just an FYI: GPS has had global coverage since the 1970s and doesn’t require a cell signal at all.
Smart phone advancements have been incremental since they were released, very little had changed in terms of basic functionality. The biggest difference is that you can listen to music while your getting navigated now.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 3 days ago:
The first smartphones were released in 2007….
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 3 days ago:
Probably the best e-ink hardware you can buy and significantly less expensive than the competition. Amazon likely sells them at a loss to lock you in to their bookstore. It’s hard to compete with them.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 3 days ago:
Also stops you from getting ads.
- Comment on Xbox Hardware Revenue Has Been Dropping for Two Years Straight - IGN 4 days ago:
20 years of incremental hardware improvements and a big middle finger to the gaming community will do that.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 4 days ago:
That was the nintendid resut.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 4 days ago:
That says more about the current state of technology than anything else.