kalleboo
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- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 7 hours ago:
Exactly like vinyl!
This is why when when CDs originally came out, the industry kept saying “soon CDs will be super cheap since they’re so much cheaper than manufacturing tapes!” (which really DO need to be dubbed linearly, even though they can be done at like 10x speed in digital high-speed dubbers) before they realized people were still perfectly happy paying $15 for a disc.
This is also why they kept trying to make laserdisc (and RCA’s CED) be a thing, since they were cheaper to mass manufacture by stamping than prerecorded video tape’s slow dubbing process.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 1 day ago:
Pressed discs (like movies) are physically… pressed. They make a metal mould which is then stamped into melted plastic to make the pits and lands and then coated with a metal film to make the reflected backing, filling in the pits. This makes manufacturing of millions of disks extremely cheap since it takes seconds per disc. Burning commercial disks individually in thousands of burners would be way too slow/expensive.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 1 day ago:
Pressed discs have a completely different manufacturing method
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 6 days ago:
Every car I’ve driven with keyless ignition (which seems to be the standard now) refuses to lock if it detects the key inside the car, even if you try to do it manually by pressing the lock button, so hopefully this is a solved problem now.
- Comment on Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards 1 month ago:
Apple Pay/Google Pay already exists though?? What’s new?
The last credit card I got, it took me like a month of two to unpack the physical card since right after signup I could already add the virtual card to Apple Pay through the bank app and I just used that.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 1 month ago:
Tech Tangents did a video on disc games where either the DRM server is down, or the content is just not on disk www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZYy9KzFT2w
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 1 month ago:
TBF I’m pretty sure all the rare earth and manufacturing that goes into the NAS and hard disks is far worse than some small plastic discs. I say this a a huge NAS user myself.
- Comment on The Birth, Boom and Bust of the Hard Disk Drive 1 month ago:
Another great history lesson from Asianometry
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 1 month ago:
The Volvo EX30 is based on a Geely platform, made in China, and does well in the EU (won several Car of the Year awards).
MG also has no trouble selling in the EU.
Chinese manufacturers can make quality, safe care when the market demands it of them. If the market wants cheap and doesn’t demand safety, they can do that too.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
It’s because they are 100% reliant on the record labels, and the record labels know that. So the record labels can charge Spotify whatever they want, because what is Spotify going to do?
That’s why Spotify tried to hard to move into Podcasts and now Audio books, so that they are less reliant on the record labels.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 2 months ago:
For tech stuff, the best reviews to read are always the 1 or 2 star reviews, since you can see if the people complaining have legit gripes or they’re just idiots who bought the wrong thing for their task.
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 2 months ago:
The customers of A are paying A to access to the internet, including N. So A should charge their customers enough that they can pay for the equipment to deliver that.
In a working market with many participants, customers can choose a cheaper ISP that has congested/throttled peering, or a more expensive ISP with gold-plated interconnects.
The problem is that in the US, typically your choice of ISP is limited by geography. In many other places you have open fiber networks where the last mile is shared and then you can choose what ISP you want ontop of that, and the ISP is what determines how good your peering is.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
It mostly just shows how crazy fast modern SSDs are that they can do swap duties with performance that is acceptable to many people.
- Comment on The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation! | The 8bit Guy 2 months ago:
For what it’s worth, he quit the worst of his gun-nuttery once he realized how insane every one else who was into that scene was. He posted a mea culpa video the last time everything blew up.
Not saying you have to like him or agree with his views but he did change his mind about a lot of things.
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 4 months ago:
It used to be you’d search for something, click on the results and load the ads on the page with the info.
Then google started adding their snippets with direct answers, and yes, there has been an uproar from content sites about that. But some fraction of people still click through for more context.
With LLMs, all that traffic is 100% gone.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 4 months ago:
The higher the density of the city, the better public transit works. You can live in Tokyo or London and get by without a car, but everyone in the world can’t live in Tokyo-dense cities.
- Comment on The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk 4 months ago:
My favorite is the IEA forecast for Solar adoption Image
- Comment on GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids 4 months ago:
Selling their own music and maps subscriptions, ads, selling location data
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 6 months ago:
The big companies like that get the laptops at cost because they sign up for juicy support contracts, which is where the real money is
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 6 months ago:
People keep buying them. If people are that dumb, they’d be insane NOT to milk them for cash
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 6 months ago:
This grant was originally not going to even allow satellite providers - the idea was it was going to go to hundreds of small fiber and wireless ISPs who needed the money to build infrastructure to rural areas that is not profitable on the face of it.
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 6 months ago:
“* RDOF rules set speeds of 25/3 Mbps as the minimum allowed for broadband service delivered by winners. However, participants were permitted to bid at four different performance tiers: 25/3 Mbps, 50/5 Mbps, 100/20 Mbps and 1 Gbps/500 Mbps*”
If SpaceX had bid on a lower tier of service that they were actually capable of delivering, they would have been fine.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 6 months ago:
I like using wired headphones when I take phone calls. The headset profile that Bluetooth switches to when it needs to activate a microphone sounds like total ass and I have trouble understanding what people say as it is.
- Comment on tube tester 6 months ago:
Finding a less potato image of this device on Google, the red sockets are not testing sockets but “pin straighteners”
- Comment on 8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple 7 months ago:
What helps these machines are built-in SSDs that operate at about 2 GB/s. If swapping out 4 GB of background tabs you’re not looking out when you switch to your IDE takes 2 seconds, you’re not really going to notice it. Only if you’re actually trying to operate with all the memory at the same time (big Kubernetes test suites or something) is when the swapping becomes noticeable.
- Comment on Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month 7 months ago:
They sell access to data (i.e., ads) - that is far more lucrative than selling the data itself. Only companies that are bad at tech just sell the data (credit card companies, retail, etc)
Cambridge Analytica was far more stupid - that was them just giving away data for free. Their old Facebook Apps APIs were wide open to collect whatever for free for anyone who would use your app (CA made those “do this fun quiz and invite your friends!” kind of FB games) and the APIs just said “we require you to delete this data when the user is done with the app” with no way to enforce it
- Comment on Telecom Italia approves KKR's $20 billion grid bid in blow for Vivendi | Reuters News Agency 7 months ago:
Private Equity?
RIP Italians
- Comment on Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working 7 months ago:
Slow charging speeds at home/work are fine, nobody is burning 100% of their range daily on their commute. The people with 200 mile daily commutes are not buying EVs
- Comment on Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market 8 months ago:
Be careful in trying to interpret year over year statistics. Last year was huge for Apple as if you look at Q3 2022 then Apple increased sales 10% while the rest of the PC market lost 18%.
You’re saying “since switching from x86 to ARM apples sales are down! see it was a bad idea!” but actually they have been way way up and are just finally getting inline with the sales decline the rest of the PC industry has had after the covid work from home rush ended.
- Comment on Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market 8 months ago:
the CPU architecture is not as directly tied to the software as it once was
Yeah it used to be that emulating anything all would be slow as balls. These days, as long as you have a native browser you’re halfway there, then 90% of native software will emulate without the user noticing since it doesn’t need much power at all, and you just need to entice stuff that really needs power (Photoshop etc), half of which is already ARM-ready since it already supports Macs.
The big wrench in switching to ARM will be games. Game developers are very stubborn, see how all games stopped working on Mac when Apple dropped 32-bit support, even though no Macs have been 32-bit for a decade.