Redex68
@Redex68@lemmy.world
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 week ago:
Dumb phone features are about 5% of what I use on a daily basis on my phone.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 3 weeks ago:
I’m not quite sure I understood what you were talking about, but they specifically showed their revenues from YouTube AdSense for the past year or so, and they showed exactly how much they gained from each video, and it shows basically a straight line, whilst the same graph for viewers shows a substantial decrease. I’m not sure if that was specifically for LTT or for all of their channels, but I’m assuming it was just for LTT. That has no relation to them then splitting their revenues to their different channels.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 3 weeks ago:
He will look for answers literally anywhere, except for within.
The tech scene is just not as interesting anymore
He has literally publicly talked about this many times, he is very much aware of this fact and has stated that he’s always looking for things that he can try and make interesting.
and the stuff he specifically covers is even less interesting. But the bigger issue is that everything LMG do is just corporate jank. It was fun when it was home garage jank, with 2 employees, but now it’s just miserable and frustrating
On this part, I honestly don’t quite get it. It’s definitely a bit more corporate now, they are a 100 person company, but when it comes to the videos, I don’t really see what else you’d want them to do? Sure they have some sponsored videos every now and then that are just showcases of a specific product, but even then I typically find them relatively interesting. And they still have a lot of videos where they’re trying to build novel stuff and thinkering. Yeah, sure, it’s typically on a higher level than what the average Joe would be capable of doing in their backyard, but I still feel like there’s a place for it. Take one of the more recent videos, the one with the double-decker table. It’s extremely cool to me, they took a regular table and a sit-to-stand desk, put one on top of the other, and made effectively two desks in one, one for gaming and one for a hobby. It’s not something I’d build for myself, but it’s a really fun concept.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 3 weeks ago:
The more interesting part for me, that they mentioned on the WAN show, is that while viewers dropped significantly, the revenue basically hasn’t changed. They’re more or less making the same amount of money from half the amount of reported viewers.
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 3 weeks ago:
I mean, of all the things to cut off of them, Chrome made the least sense to me. It’s not a profitable part of the business, it would just die if spun off. The only reason Firefox is alive is because Google is funding them.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 4 weeks ago:
From what the article says, it’s actually a pretty cool way of improving desalination plants. They use the left over brine, from desalination, that has a very high concentration of salt, and use it as the high salt concentration side, with regular seawater being used on the other side. This both gives them free energy and reduces the side effects of pumping that extremely salty water into the sea.
- Comment on Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but my understanding was that an important part of the EU is the negotiation of trade deals that regulate tariffs, and that the countries more or less gave their sovereignty in that area to the EU. Maybe I was mistaken?
- Comment on Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat 4 weeks ago:
Wait, how does this work? I am for the EU to retaliate with tariffs against the US, but how is Poland able to do it by itself? Isn’t the EU supposed to have a common trade policy?
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 4 weeks ago:
There’s more people in the US
?? How is that relevant
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 4 weeks ago:
Except that AMD doesn’t support HDMI 2.1 on Linux (not their fault to be fair, but still)
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 5 weeks ago:
Damn, this is totally gonna be a thing, and I’m all for it. We shall all become cute cat girls.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 weeks ago:
Hosting costs heavily depend on the type of service, YouTube’s costs are very much not negligible, but it is true that for most sites it is very cheap. But hosting costs aren’t the only cost, many sites provide useful reviews, news, or testing that costs them money to produce, which they pay for with ads. Yes, some sites survive using alternative payment methods, but I’m skeptical that this can scale to the rest of the internet. My fear is that we’ll end up in a situation where 90% of the internet is just YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and other giants and people get all of their news, reviews and other information from those sites, which I think is worse than having ads.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 5 weeks ago:
Lol, lmao even
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 weeks ago:
I’m not advocating for you being forced physically to watch ads, I’m saying that as it stands, ads are the payment method and you actively blocking them means you’re not paying for what you’re using. I’m not criticising people for that, I’m simply stating a fact. If everyone on the internet was to use adblockers, most of the web would die out, and first to die would be actually useful sites that provide helpful information that they invested time and money into making, such as news, review sites, etc. Perhaps the threat of adblockers itself is benefitial for the internet as it might force websites to find alternate, better payment methods, but I don’t see what you could replace ads with since people won’t be willing to pay a monthly subscription for every site they visit, and most people won’t pay for donations if you try a donations based model.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 weeks ago:
I know I’m gonna get a lot of hate for this because everyone here despises ads, but I can see an argument for it. I don’t know if it is legaly sound, but morally, it boils down to the fact that you are literally using a service without paying for it. The website is offering you a product and the payment is ads. If you don’t want to pay for it, don’t use it, otherwise you really are just stealing it (even if that “stealing” costs very little to the site). I personally use an adblocker and agree that ads on most sites are obnoxious, but I also feel like people make adblockers out to be completely black and white, which they are not.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 month ago:
The problem is that if you make a PayPal equivalent, you’re still beholdent to MasterCard and Visa since you need them for people to actually add money to their account, and if you want to make a direct competitor to MasterCard and Visa, that’s basically impossible without government support because they’re way too entrenched, why would a business support a random new payment method that nobody is using yet.
- Comment on 💀 💀 💀 1 month ago:
Holy fuck I did not know they were so hot, how does a human body even survive that for any amount of time.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 month ago:
I mean the whole point of tariffs is to bring manufacturing to your country, so if they actually did that that would be a major win, but I’m highly doubtful, they’ll probably just wait it out since the US can’t survive by blocking literally every high end chip from being imported.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 1 month ago:
He explicitly states that no sensitive informarion gets used. If you believe that, then I have no issue with him additionally asking for a third opinion from an LLM.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 month ago:
Did they really classify Twitter as an “organised crime group”? Because that does seem a bit farfetched.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
Yeah I’d turn off location tracking where it not for photo geostamps. It’s so useful and fun to track down photos.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 months ago:
I mean, basically yes? Do you think most people ever touched the addons button?
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they just misspelled our as out
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should 2 months ago:
The circlejerk around Graphene is insane, it wouldn’t be as bad if it wasn’t literally only supported by Pixel phones that have 2% marketshare
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should 2 months ago:
Lmao
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should 2 months ago:
Ah yes, for the whole 5% of people that have a Pixel
- Comment on Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media 2 months ago:
I’ve been thinking of possible ways that you could prove you’re of legal age to access a site through a government service without the government being able to know who the user is, and I can’t really come up with a clean solution.
The best idea that came to my mind was that you could e.g. have a challenge system where the government service challenges the user to return an encrypted randomly generated value. Each user has e.g. an AES key assigned to them that corresponds to the year they were born in, e.g. everyone born in the year 2000 has the same encryption key in ther ID card, and they just use that to return an answer to the challenge. The government website can know all of the secret keys and just check if it can unencrypt the result with the correct one. This means that the government service won’t know anything about the user other than their year of birth, but can confirm their age.
Now two main problems are that, as everyone with the same year of birth has the same key, it could be possible to somehow leak one key and make it so that anyone can pretend to be born at that age, but considering this is for kids, exploiting that sort of problem is probably enough of a barrier to use. Another problem is that this would require you to scan your ID card with every use. Maybe you could accomplish this with a mobile app but idk if that’s possible to do in the same way.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 2 months ago:
Ah ok that makes sense!
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 2 months ago:
I don’t get the third graph, isn’t it saying that we’d need less battery capacity to flatten out the energy usage in Birmingham than in sunnier cities, how does that make sense?
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 2 months ago:
I personally picked Mailfence, but I saw both runbox and mailfence are really good. Tho? Mailfence is a bit more expensive