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- Comment on Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself 3 days ago:
Preview updates, including this one, are offered to everyone, not just people in the Windows insider program. They show up in Windows Update with a ‘Download & install’ button, but will not automatically install.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 3 days ago:
This is pretty much my response any time Google or Microsoft does anything negative at this point. My good will for those two was spent years ago. Swapped over to Protonmail, non-google phone, Linux. Done with this shit.
At least EA was easier to get away from. Just…not buying more EA games solved that one. :)
- Comment on NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space 4 days ago:
By harnessing low-cost, nonstop solar energy and avoiding land use and fossil fuels
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“low-cost” - Nothing about launching data centers into space is low cost
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“nonstop solar energy” Continuous solar energy is certainly nice, but that is a pretty minor buff compared to current ways of making power. If you think nuclear or solar+battery is expensive, go calculate the price for space-based solar per GW…
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“avoiding land use” - We have a fuckload of land. Datacenter land use is removing a bucket of water from the ocean.
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“fossil fuels” - I have bad news about how you get things to space…
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- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 5 days ago:
The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company
Yeah, this article should compare nVidia’s revenue to the US GDP (both measure of annual production). But we know why they aren’t, as it wouldn’t produce an alarming stat.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 5 days ago:
Why the hell are they spending money on things they literally can’t use? Who authorized that purchase?
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 5 days ago:
Same for me and everyone I know.
It’s borne out in the stats too, SteamOS is only 27% of linux use on steam. Mint increased in proportion this month as well. People are increasingly using it on desktops and laptops.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 6 days ago:
Yeah, from the world’s perspective, this is a problem that solves itself in a few years. Plus, the idea of ‘doing something’ about a country is not a very common action. The most common action is to ignore the BS best you can, focus on building up allies, and focus on building up your own country.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 1 week ago:
Veritasium did a great video on it. Anything I can say about it will be 10x worse than that video.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 1 week ago:
Side rant:
To make it worse, SMS is incredibly insecure. Nothing should send you codes via SMS, and if you have the option to use an authenticator app, do that. It’s atrocious so many banks only have SMS as an option.
The really dumb part is, the SMS codes are literally the same authenticator program, but running on their servers and sent do you via an insecure medium.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Signal? No.
I’m running Signal right now on Linux Mint.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 1 week ago:
Can you run Battlefield 6?
Why the hell do you want Saudi Arabia and Jared Kusher* to have kernel-level access to your machine? Why, why is that worth it for just a game?!
- I really wish I was joking with this part
- Comment on Microsoft's cloud admin portals appear to be down worldwide 1 week ago:
Remember when the sales pitch of The Cloud was it would always be online?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
I 100% get what you are saying. But I’m also 100% fine with voting with my wallet and not support game developers that want kernel-level access to my machine.
Think about the EA stuff. You install one of their games, and now Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner* now have kernel-level access to your machine. Why, why the hell is that worth a game?
*I wish I was joking
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
Should i unplug everything other than the new drive, and have the installer do it automatically?
This is what I did. Made the installer mostly a bunch of hitting ‘next’.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
The chart is based on ProtonDB, which covers all Steam games.
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 1 week ago:
They also bring old games back so they work on modern computers. Like Breath of Fire IV.
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 1 week ago:
This is the way. Let’s them build on existing work and goodwill, while making a solid product people want.
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 1 week ago:
Yeah, I can confirm Heroic works well on Linux. Just finished up my Silksong play-through this week. :)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
He did make a new, expanded version about two years ago. I’m probably going to give the mod a go. :)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They already made this remake. You can buy it on Steam for $10
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 2 weeks ago:
Especially if these pears are shipped by sea. Then it’s even worse.
Shipping via sea is the cheapest and least greenhouse gas producing way to ship things. With the only exception being pipes, which are significantly better than ships on both fronts. However, we shouldn’t be shipping peaches via pipe. ;p
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- Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final productwww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 53 comments
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
only ad I see is the occasional sentence on my lock screen, “You should try $whatever!”
Why put up with any ads? No other desktop OS does this…
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
updates don’t matter. Security doesn’t matter. You can just tell your computer to never update anything, and it’ll be the same for a decade. You can live in your little bubble.
You are free to do what you want, but do not give out advice like this to others. Security issues pop up constantly and not updating leaves you vulnerable to them.
For the room: If you want to stay on your unpatched machine, don’t plug it into the internet. Otherwise, use an OS that is currently receiving security updates.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.
You need to speak to every IT department worth a pinch of salt then; as no longer receiving security updates is a critical problem. That critical problem is solved by most IT departments by throwing away perfectly good computers and buying new ones.
- Comment on $1,000 for a ROG Xbox Ally X? Oh yeah, that was Asus' idea, says Microsoft exec 2 weeks ago:
Well, you didn’t have to put the Xbox name on a $1,000 device that doesn’t even play Xbox games…
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, hating on the kid simply because his dad has money forces him into an us-vs-them situation. It does nothing to help.
Not to mention it is exceedingly gross to cheer the death of someone just because their dad has money.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 2 weeks ago:
So what emergency are you thinking of?
You aren’t on a road and the car is confused about how to move around. You are now stranded because you can’t drive the car. I have yet to see any self-driving car even attempt to be reasonable in off-road driving.
Your buddy’s cabin in the woods, grass parking at a venue, natural disaster and the road is gone, a country driveway, getting into your backyard with the shit your bought at home depot, etc, etc.