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- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 3 days ago:
Trees are carbon neutral. They pull the carbon out and sequester it in themselves. When they rot or burn, the carbon is returned.
- Comment on Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now 1 week ago:
They should have stopped after they added tabs to notepad. That was an actually good change.
The whole point of the app is to be simple, any, any extra fluff is detrimental to the core functioning of the app.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Everything in low earth orbit (LEO) decays and falls back to earth due to drag; as there is a very, very small amount of air there. The starlink satellites are all in LEO.
Space junk is mostly a problem higher up. In the higher orbits, old satellites move themselves to graveyard orbits; places where nobody really wants a satellite.
- Comment on Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device" 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I use TVs as a simple screen and watch everything through other devices (Roku, or a Linux PC running MythTV).
This would be my suggestion. Get a mini pc or dongle and use the TV simply as a display. Internet connected TVs are never well supported.
Also, highly suggest disconnecting the TV from the internet. They don’t get security updates and they are notorious for spying on people’s viewing habits.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Of course not, who would put a power button on the back or bottom of the computer? Front, side, or top are the places it goes for almost every computer out there.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
As long as no vents are blocked, should work fine. Anything with a fan is orientation agnostic.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
but you expect them to disable USB devices waking their computer?
He expects one to turn off their computer when they are done with it, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect.
- Comment on Reddit shares soar after company turns first-ever profit. 2 weeks ago:
This was the reason they made the API changes. They wanted to charge for easy access to the content. Sure, you can scrape every Reddit page, but nobody has time for that. Pay up and hoover down Reddit comments for you AI training.
- Comment on Dropbox decided to reduce their global workforce by approximately 20% or 528 employees. 2 weeks ago:
Why the hell do they have so many employees in the first place?
- Comment on We took on Google and forced them to pay out £2bn 2 weeks ago:
What the case was about is ~20 paragraphs down for some reason:
In its 2017 judgement, the European Commission found that Google had illegally promoted its own comparison shopping service in search results, whilst demoting those of competitors.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 weeks ago:
B&H and Home Depot have been my two replacements for things they sell. Former is computer parts and photography. Even been getting boxes from them faster than from Amazon pretty regularly.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Highly, highly recommend using GOG. Buying is owning. There is no DRM and they even provide offline installers for the games you buy.
But they updated the terms of use and apparently now, stating that buying is not owning
This has always been the case for Steam and every other service that isn’t GOG.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
And it was something people were hoping would save the game. But, it’s unfortunately more confirmation that Bethesda can no longer produce quality games.
- Comment on Read this if you own a Juicebox EV charger 1 month ago:
Internet connected devices are a mistake. Not only is there going to be non-existent security updates for the device, it means there is a timer on the life the functions of the device. If a device cannot function offline, you will have a gimped (or completely dead) product soon.
functions like scheduling a charge will no longer work
Case and point. Why did the device ever need the internet to run a clock? It didn’t, but because it was ‘smart’, now it can’t operate a basic time function.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
Yeah, I have zero desire to give them money. Luckily, there are solid options that aren’t them, notably the steam deck for portable gaming and pc/xbox/ps5 for home gaming.
- Comment on Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch 1 month ago:
Yeah, I still don’t want my computer screen recording everything I do. Nor do I want the computer of everyone I give my personal details to (think, DMV, etc) to also screen record everything they do. This is a massive security nightmare.
- Comment on In rare move from printing industry, HP actually has a decent idea 1 month ago:
- Comment on Which do you like better: Windows or Ubuntu? 1 month ago:
most creative work
DaVinci Resolve is pretty good. Works on linux and certainly has more features than I need by a long shot. I think Adobe products are the main bottleneck. Though, the Adobe set of products are so darn expensive, it’s really not a great solution if literally anything else can do the job instead.
- Comment on Kaspersky removes itself and installs UltraAV without permission 1 month ago:
I’m surprised at how many companies still use a Russian AV. You are relying on this singular piece of software to keep your computer safe, and you pick a Russian one?
- Comment on Ceiling lights, LED bulbs or fixtures? 1 month ago:
you don’t even have to find and turn off the breaker. Just turn it off at the switch before you mess with it.
One word of caution here. If the light fixture is hooked up to a three-way switch, it is possible for the light to be off and BOTH sides of the wire to be hot. This isn’t a common way to wire three-way switches and it isn’t to code anymore, but there are many homes out there with legacy switches wired as such. See: Carter 3-way switch.
- Comment on Ceiling lights, LED bulbs or fixtures? 1 month ago:
Agreed. The fixtures with non-replaceable lights are a giant headache waiting to happen down the road. Always go with the replaceable bulb fixtures.
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
why do we believe that 2030 nuclear plants will be competitive with 2060 solar panels or wind turbines
They have to be competitive with solar panels & grid-scale energy storage. You can’t leave off 90% of the cost and call it a win.
Unless you are fine pairing solar panels with natural gas (what we currently do), as it defeats much of the purpose of them.
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
Wind and solar also have to be paired with either natural gas or energy storage systems that are often monstrously expensive.
People do appreciate the lights staying on, after all.
- Comment on Three Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power deal 1 month ago:
Glad to see more carbon-free power on-lining!
- Comment on Who still uses pagers? 1 month ago:
Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon (injured in pager explosion), apparently!
- Comment on US Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates By Half a Point 1 month ago:
That is good to hear. Means the inflation rates are probably more under control and lending can be cheaper now.
- Comment on Subnautica - Time Capsule Galore 1 month ago:
Lol, capsule distributor apparently running a little high on stock!
- Comment on Microsoft promises major performance improvements for modern Windows 11 apps 1 month ago:
I was pretty pumped back when they announced the app store. I thought it was going to be more like a linux repo, but with optional paid items. I wanted a one-stop-shop for updating my computer.
Then it turned out it didn’t support desktop apps (for a very long time) and had none of the advantages a linux repo has. Used it once, and realized I had already wasted too much of my life on it.
- Comment on Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week 1 month ago:
I enjoy how Amazon talks a big game about how great they are for the environment and their pledge to stop climate change, then they force workers to commute to the office who have been happily doing their jobs over the internet.
- Comment on The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive 2 months ago:
unless you only buy no-DRM and your own backups
Going to have to plug GOG here as these are both things they offer. I try to buy games there instead of Steam when I can, purely for this reason.