Jako301

@Jako301@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is where gift cards are at⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends. It can be a good joke gift in your early twenties between men, but on any other occasions it can get pretty depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries due to AI advances | Windows Central⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And both of these companies build and purchased more renewable energy sources than all 100+ countries combined. Microsoft has committed to be carbon free by 2030, and while I don’t belive in their commitment, they at least seem to be trying contrary to most nations. They even invested in nuclear plants for their power needs.

  You can fault both companies for a lot of different reasons, but in terms of carbon emissions due to power usage, they are better than 99.9% of the countries on that list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google builds entire datacenters with their own transformers and power lines, if not their own powerplants. You plug these datacenters directly into the high voltage networks that don’t have big capacity problems.

  The low voltage grids in residential areas on the other hand were build as cheap as possible, so increasing the load by 20% is already too much for most of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera says the EU Commission's DMA regulation grip should extend to Microsoft Edge’s 'privileged' position on Windows devices to foster fair competition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And what can there be done against it?

  Chromium is already an open source project that no one is obligated to use in any way. You can’t ban Google from developing their own project and you can’t ban others from using the established codebase for their own browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They get that same location data with or without maps. As long as you are using stock android, Google knows exactly where you’ve been even if you enable airplane mode. They get your position with WiFi networks and other phones around you and store that data with timestamps. Maps doesn’t give them any extra data, it simply binds you into their ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, that’s pretty much the only thing Youtube did in the last few years that I can’t really complain about. I despise their business tactics, but using your VPN to get regional prices just fucks it up for everyone. In first world countries, it’s one or two hours of work. The same price in poor countries would be up to a monthly wage, that’s why it costs them less. Abusing this will only end in most companies removing regional differences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicken vs Egg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, it still doesn’t answer the question.

  Is the first chicken egg the one the chicken hatched from or the first egg a chicken laid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Proton upheld their claim of privacy, no Emails were disclosed. But they never promised anonymity cause that’s something they simply can’t do under the Swiss law. If you willingly give them your other mail addresses or contact details, they have to comply. Sure they could have denied the Spanish authorities, but it takes less than a week to get a court order for things like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious Victory⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be somewhat ok with Kernel anticheat if they would work, but the simple truth is that they do nothing of value. COD has Kernel anticheat with Riccochet and is flooded with cheaters. Valorant has only slightly less cause riot updates Vanguard more often.

  But guess what, it usually takes 1-2 days for new cheats to reach the relevant forums, maybe a few days more until they are more widely aviable. At most cheaters have to spend another 5€ every 6 months, but that’s it. They don’t care, the amount of money spent on accounts every other month is already way higher.

  The only two things anticheat like vanguard protects you from is script kiddies that google “valorant cheat .exe” and Linux only players. And the former could just as well be filtered out without Kernel level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s not. You paying them money won’t stop them from collecting data about you. It only stops them from selling it to show targeted ads.

  Don’t get me wrong, I despise meta for it and think they should be prosecuted for that immediately, but that has nothing to do with the article or what the EU is saying.

  Mixing these two things just cause you hate meta will get us nowhere. Their data collection of non-users is straight up illegal, but the pay with money or data model is something that especially news sites have been using for a long time now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just your bubble. Most VPN users just want to circumvent geo restrictions.

  Besides that, the general VPN “propaganda” is that it encrypts your traffic and no-one can see it. The average user gets baited by that and doesn’t care to look further into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where’d my results go? Google Search’s chatbot is no longer opt-in⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The forced change is shitty for us on here since most should know how to properly use Google. But if you think about the average user that puts in complete sentences as search queries and then takes the first reddit/Quora/Blogpost answer for granted, it’s probably an improvement for them. Media literacy has been lost long ago and most people already use Google as a chatbot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without fail⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Screen sharing works in what? 99% of cases?

  It works 95% of the time but it often takes 10+ seconds until everyone can see the screen.

  I get your point, but teams is such a broken mess that I think the question is legitimate. Half the time it doesn’t even register my microphone even if Windows doesn’t have a problem with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Junior Dev VS Machine Learning⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they do the exact sams thing ad the LLM?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify is creating fake music to save on royalties⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually the one doing the cover has to pay the original songwriter. That can be done by splitting the royalties or “buying” the rights to cover upfront, depending on the options the rightholders give you. For Spotify it doesn’t matter, they pay exactly the same in theory.

  In praxis Spotify often has special deals with big record labels, so covers technically make them more money since they only have to pay the standard cut to the artist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Games that are sold on GOG are usually also DRM free on steam. Sometimes the steamworks DRM is required, but that’s so easy to trick that the games can still be considered DRM free.

  The only thing GOG does is pre-filtering for DRM free only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Other posts about this topic have similar claims. No idea who started the idea, but it gets mentioned a lot that ticking a box is all that’s required

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get what the issue is with eliminating unnecessary jobs. It doesn’t create any extra work for the customer (you have to place all items on the conveyer and put them back into the cart either way), it isn’t offloading any extra work to the other employees and it saves anyone involved a fuckton of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Running fibre really isn’t as complicated as you make it out to be. The only problem is that you can’t do any 90° turns, so just running it along the walls isn’t possible. And the fact that the lasers each cost about 30€ for your standard 10G connection isn’t really helping either.

  And I really would like to see the job where running fiber gets you $200/hrs, i would switvh to there on the spot. The most complicated part is splicing 2 cables together and that isn’t all too hard with the right tools and machines.

  2. The article isn’t talking about cables at all, but rather the ethernet protocol that is used as a standard for data transfer for a long time now. It has nothing to do with the debat over fiber vs. copper.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For pictures that problem was fixed barely one month after the hype began. With good prompts and a second round of editing through the AI, that’s a complete non-issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much all creators on Youtube start with shitty videos you wouldn’t even glance at a second time. If you pre filter all videos then said creators could never get feedback or encouragement and most would’ve stopped long ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, so you pretty much only host established creators. Nearly all big channels on Youtube started with what is now considered shitty contend. They trained their editing skills over time, bought proper equipment once they really got into it and probably only found their style halfway through their “career”. If YouTube pre-filtered it’s videos, then the site would be dead by now.

  Sure you can shove all responsibility to someone else and say they should self host it, but then you also have to acknowledge that peertube and the like eliminate 98% of all content before its made with its cobsiderably higher entry point, and that includes the good and the bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Crusader kings 3 (just like all other Paradox Games) doesn’t even have DRM. You can start the whole game without steam or the shitty PDX launcher, so no idea what you are on about. A “cracked” version is the exact same piece of software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even creating the boatable USB is already too complicated for 80-90% of users, but considering that we are on lemmy, most people here should be able to do it.

  Choosing a beginnen friendly distribution means reading and comparing distros for hours if you are a complete newby. Just googling “easy Linux distro” or something like this will net you 15 different results.

  Switching itself is easy if you define it as booting up Linux, but then what? You need drivers for all your hardware, a replacement for the MS office suit, alternatives for lots of programms, to relearn even the most basic commands and shortcuts and you have to manually transfer a lot of savefiles.

  And that is ignoring the general pain that setting up your pc again is, especially if you have slow Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of smart meters will fail when 2G and 3G turns off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I work for the grid too and we also have these. Usually only for bigger substations to Transmitter measurements and switching states, maybe a bit of telemetry like a tripped fuse.

  I hope for dear god that you are remembering wrong and none of them trigger when loosing connection. Whoever thought of that should be immediately fired.

  A loss of connection from a single device should never trip a circuit breaker (no idea how the bigger equivalent is called in english), especially if its connected wireless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The law already states that it must be as easy to deselect everything as it is to select all.

  If they have a allow all button, they also need a allow only required button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t bypass laws, but the law in question only requires permission of the enduser. Getting this permission in your ToS isn’t bypassing anything, it’s acting according to the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Delaying the video stream for the ad length would do most of the work. Since they manage that server side there is no way to request the video sooner. Blocking technically works, but you would have to stare at a blank screen for the ad duration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI "Actors" in Crowd Scene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t want to deal with additional background characters either even if they played the role for free.

  It’s just more contracts to be signed, more people on set, more potential things that don’t go as planned. Its a lot of extra work and organisation needed for something that pretty much no normal viewer would notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we create a new Internet ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It wouldn’t fall to greed, bit to laziness and convince. Why would anyone use a protocoll that limits the user instead of the one that let’s you talk with anyone you want.