kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 3 days ago:
Also, there will probably be a response in the industry,
I dunno. There have been tool rental places with pro level tools for a very long time, and the tool manufacturers don’t seem to have reacted to stop it.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 3 days ago:
Thats great that you are looking for alternatives, but you aren’t the only reader here.
Other people have other interests and are looking fir different things than you are.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 3 days ago:
sites blatantly shoveling shit for the sole purpose of gaming their algorithm
That’s the definition of SEO right there.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 3 days ago:
On the other hand, clickbait and SEO gaming has gone on so long that using a site like Google has become significantly less useful
That’s the same old game of “whack-a-mole” that every search engine since the beginning of the internet has had to play.
Search engines try to provide useful results to keep users trusting them enough to keep coming back, and advertisers keep trying to use SEO to manipulate themselves to the top of the search results
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 4 days ago:
they say they’re putting them out from 48V to 800V, 48V is what most inverter systems use, so I imagine they’re targetting that size for “consumers” at the single-house PV system size.
48 volts is also what telecom uses in their infrastructure. That’s a much bigger market (and one with deeper pockets) than consumer installs.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 4 days ago:
There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.
There is also a satisfaction in a task that has a clear goal and end point.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 4 days ago:
Most people aren’t actually that good at their jobs, only good enough
Most jobs don’t come with good pay.
Yet get what they pay for.
- Comment on Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations 5 days ago:
but it can create situations like this.
Only if proper vetting of the contractor isn’t done. That part of the process should happen regardless of who the contractor is.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Paying for premium gives more money to artists.
That’s what Spotify claims. Do we have verifiable proof that actually happens?
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 week ago:
Maybe the stations require more maintenance than they anticipated?
That seems to be the case with many of the brands of public charging stations.
There are often more plugs out of service or operating at lower than rated capacity than there are fully working ones.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 week ago:
Investors love job losses
Once again confirming how sociopathic the stock market can be.
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 1 week ago:
If it has been trained using questionable sources, or if it’s training data includes sarcastic responses (without understanding that context), it isn’t hard to imagine how confidently wrong some of the responses could be.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 week ago:
Those content restrictions aren’t because youtube itself has any moral objections, it’s a combination of what the law allows (see COPA related fines changing content rules) and what (most) big budget advertisers are willing to appear beside.
The previous "adpocalypse"s have shaped a large portion of youtube’s content policies.
Any other platform hoping to take market share from youtube will have to deal with the same pressures if they expect to pay their bills once the VC money runs out.
- Comment on Does Instagram or YouTube Shorts get you? 1 week ago:
If you’re coming up on an hour or more, you should really look at that script again.
Depends what the video is about.
If it’s a how-to demonstrating a long and complex process, then it should be as long as it needs to be.
But if it’s a political rant, then yeah, get to the point already.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 1 week ago:
Austin is progressive compared to the reat of Texas, but that’s faint praise.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 week ago:
The problem is that hosting video is a lot more expensive than hosting text,
Which is why there aren’t any effective competitors to youtube.
Several have tried to directly compete, and they ran out of money.
In addition to the costs of the infrastructure, there are other issues.
In order to get to the scale where youtube would even care, you would need to have a lot of content that viewers want to watch. And to attract enough good video creators to post exclusively on your platform, you need a way for them to earn some money from their effort.
Yes, Odysee and Vimeo exist, but they’re pretty niche, and each has major limitations.
Odysee has a tiny audience, and they “pay” in their own crypto, which is very hard to convert into actual money that you can buy food with.
And Vimeo has some odd rules about what thay want on their site. And creators have to pay to upload at any useful scale. Plus their search and suggestion system is almost useless.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law 2 weeks ago:
The cruelty is the point.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 weeks ago:
Anticheat is pretty much the one thing that Linux doesn’t play nicely with.
It’s the other way around.
Anticheat doesn’t play well with Linux.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 3 weeks ago:
Well, this is MKBHD who has an even larger audience
And is known primarily as a reviewer.
LTT do some reviews, but that’s not their primary focus.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
We could stop thinking of Twitter, Facebook, etc. as “essential services”.
They can both fuck right off and most people’s lives will not be negatively impacted.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never stopped using web sites for those use cases.
There’s something to be said for having full control over your online “home”.
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 3 weeks ago:
No normal consumer user would have any reasonable use case for this kind of bandwidth.
This is data center and backbone network stuff.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 4 weeks ago:
And that means lower prices for consumers. Right? Guys… r… right?
No, but it does mean 41%fewer people can afford to buy these companies products, you cheapass shortsighted corporate fucks.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 4 weeks ago:
It’s a lot cheaper and easier to not use a Roku device.
- Comment on AI Has Lost Its Magic 4 weeks ago:
It was entirely magic and very little verified reality.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 5 weeks ago:
Then again, a simple timer on your phone could do the same thing.
- Comment on What would happen if all of humanity don't need to work any more ? 1 month ago:
Time to grab me some Soma and check out who is on the carousel tonight!
- Comment on Reddit power users balk at chance to participate in IPO as Wall Street debut nears 1 month ago:
not eligible to participate and still got the emails.
Same.
- Comment on Prusaslicer: Auto Arrange, You Have Literally One Job 1 month ago:
They all printed ok with no interference between the parts. All parts are perfectly usable when thwy are removed from the print bed.
Why does it matter that they’re not in perfectly straight rows and columns?