cmnybo
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- Comment on Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera 21 hours ago:
Every normal color camera has an IR filter. If they did not, the photos would be pink in sunlight. Some IR gets though the filter allowing you to see IR LEDs, but it’s significantly attenuated.
- Comment on Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera 1 day ago:
Cameras have an IR blocking filter and it still damaged the sensor. I don’t know how they can consider it eye safe. I wouldn’t want to be close to one.
- Comment on What are some cool projects that I can do with a 1st gen Raspberry Pi? 4 days ago:
It’s got enough power for a retro game emulator.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Finding a charge controller and inverter that’s compatible with the voltage of sodium ion batteries will be difficult.
- Comment on Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say 1 week ago:
What do you expect? Computers have gotten a lot faster over the last 80 or so years.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 week ago:
It most certainly won’t apply to their own bots.
- Comment on I found an interesting USB-C alternative to barrel jack wall warts. Thought I'd share... 1 week ago:
Yes, you definitely have to be careful with them. They do come in handy when I can’t find the correct power supply or even one that will work despite having a 50 pound bin full of them.
- Comment on I found an interesting USB-C alternative to barrel jack wall warts. Thought I'd share... 1 week ago:
It would be much more useful with USB PPS support for adjustable voltage and barrel plugs that can be swapped.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
what happens when Little Timmy spends $9000 for Nlartbux in a mobile game’s external store?
That’s why you don’t put your credit card info in a phone or tablet and let kids play with it.
- Comment on MTA wants AI to flag 'problematic behavior' in NYC subways 1 week ago:
It will probably generate so many false alerts that they just start ignoring all of them.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 1 week ago:
Big tech is our enemy. It doesn’t matter if it’s facebook or tiktok.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 1 week ago:
The Steam Deck is the only decent console because it’s not locked down.
- Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop 1 week ago:
That lets a USB C port function as a DisplayPort output so you can connect the phone to a monitor without using some laggy wireless streaming crap.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
I would love to have a phone that I could just plug into a USB C dock and use as a normal computer. They’ve got plenty of processing power for that now. Every single program I use except for games could run on a phone if it used normal GNU/Linux.
- Comment on Everything Google knows about you and how to stop it! 1 week ago:
They forgot one of the most important things. Use Firefox or one of its forks with uBlock Origin to block google’s ads and tracking scripts.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes, they still make USB floppy drives.
- Comment on Microsoft engineer reveals more details about Janet Jackson song that used to mysteriously crash Windows XP PCs 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the specific model of hard drive that was affected was only used in windows laptops.
- Comment on Visa and Mastercard unveil AI-powered shopping 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know what AI shopping is, but I know that I definitely don’t want it.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 2 weeks ago:
Android also shows an indicator when any app is accessing the microphone or camera now.
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 2 weeks ago:
I still prefer eSATA over USB when using SATA drives. A lot of the USB to SATA chips don’t support reading the SMART data from the drive. Now we have NVMe SSDs connected over thunderbolt, which is much faster than SATA or USB3 and SMART works correctly.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure someone will release an addon or some custom CSS to fix it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s not uncommon for a single web page to use 5-10MB. Shopping and social media sites are the some of the worst since they have lots of javascript libraries and pictures. It’s not hard to use a couple GB in a day without streaming anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Modern websites are excessively bloated. That data goes fast.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t suggest relying on Google for anything. killedbygoogle.com
Search and Gmail are probably about the only thing they won’t kill. - Comment on Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance? 3 weeks ago:
Just remember that you will be required to remove any illegal content that people post. I certainly wouldn’t want to be responsible for that.
- Comment on The Most Printable 3D Printer Yet 3 weeks ago:
Punch cards have been around for over 200 years. No electronics are needed to punch them. Some very complex patterns were created with the Jacquard loom without any computers. It just takes a massive amount of work to create the cards.
- Comment on Is there enough filament to complete the print? 3 weeks ago:
I just check it every hour or two and stop drying when it stops getting lighter. I usually see an 8-10g drop after drying a new 1kg spool of PETG.
- Comment on Is there enough filament to complete the print? 3 weeks ago:
You can also use the scale to see when a roll of filament is done drying.
- Comment on What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight 3 weeks ago:
Its got a video input, so it can be used as a monitor.