billwashere
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- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 day ago:
Or host your own speedtest like openspeedtest or libre speed. That’s what I do.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 5 days ago:
Yeah exactly. And it’s often the only feedback that gets any attention unfortunately. It was getting media attention and getting very loud.
Plus the whole thing was just stupid. They could have accomplished exactly the same thing with little backlash by offering some little in-game trinket for voluntarily linking a PSN account where it was possible to get one. This wasn’t my idea, I saw it somewhere on Lemmy, but that person needs to get a job at Sony stat because the chucklefucks working there now have no clue.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 5 days ago:
I can definitely see your point. Celebrities are the center of attention and can influence people. But the two you mentioned, well three actually, are entertainers first and foremost. They had a skillset that was interesting to watch and people would pay to do so. So it gets back to the definition of “influencer”… it’s always the nuance of definition isn’t it 😀
So I guess my definition would include some no talent YouTube or Instagram C-rated “celebrity” that is essentially famous for being famous. They expect special treatment and recognition when it isn’t deserved or warranted. They are often pretentious and obnoxious. When I think of “influencer” this is the image in my mind.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 5 days ago:
Personally I despise everything about the idea of influencers. I have yet to see one who wasn’t an outright attention whore or just trying to get free shit.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 1 week ago:
According to the wiki page… “In May 2024, Take-Two announced it would shut down Intercept Games but continue to update Kerbal Space Program 2 under the Private Division label.”
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 week ago:
I’m really starting to think Google has gone to shit now.
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 1 week ago:
I like calling it cruise control with extra fatalities.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. It’s like an article I saw about some new internet tech that was “X times faster than broadband”. Broadband is a type of transmission using multiple frequency carrier waves to transmit data. It ain’t a speed.
Wh/kg or yes maybe volume Wh/cm^3…
The only other thing I’d care about it charge speed. Maybe it doesn’t last as long but I can fully charge in 10 seconds? Yeah I’m interested. Hell I’ve never had a car yet get the estimated miles per gallon on the sticker. It’s all bistromathics as far as I’m concerned.
- Comment on Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion 2 weeks ago:
It would be better with distributed generation like solar. The idea of a central generation point and transmitting it long distances is just not the best way (single point of failure/attack, losses of long distance transmission, often dirty and/or dangerous). Having lots of little solar farms all over (or even private) is better. I’d imagine most of Californians could provide their own EV needs if you have a large enough roof.
Take this with a grain of salt …. I’m not a power engineer but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
- Comment on Broadcom continues to kill off VMware products 3 weeks ago:
Since this whole VMware debacle we’ve been playing with xcp-ng but I’ve been meaning to look at proxmox. Is proxmox really worth taking a look at?
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 3 weeks ago:
Broadband is not a speed.
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 4 weeks ago:
If this is indeed like GATTACA selecting specific embryos after fertilization is not really selective breeding. Selective breeding is picking the parents. This is picking the children. You could do both but it didn’t seem like that is what was happening. I could still see this likely leading to problems genetically not dissimilar to problems with inbreeding. Genetic diversity requires the randomness of life to be useful long term.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
I agree with your basic assessment.
As a mac user I’d love to see more mac games. I think it’s a relatively underutilized platform. Im not a game developer but it seems like one of the main issues of game development is the complete mishmash of supported hardware and different components and trying to optimize and support all of them. In that respect, macs seem more like consoles in their limited number of configurations and hardware variance so optimizations SHOULD be easier. Or at the very least not as complex. But macs are expensive and there is not a lot of overlap between gamers and mac. So therefore not a lot of mac games. It was easier when you could bootcamp and also play games on windows but that’s not really possible anymore.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
This article is essentially written by an Epic fan boy that’s “hoping” Steam will eventually succumb to capitalism and commence the enshittification that is happening elsewhere.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Little Billy’s sleepover didn’t really go as planned.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
Jesus… the stupid, it hurts.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
Well after just finishing Death Stranding, I can’t unsee that.
- Comment on After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” 1 month ago:
My workloads are open to students doing things on an LMS. Chaotic doesn’t begin to describe it. 🙃
- Comment on After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” 1 month ago:
Yes commodity is a much better term here. It is a mature and fairly ubiquitous technology at this point.
- Comment on After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” 1 month ago:
Not sure why they’d think cloud will be cheaper. If anything, costs are way more unpredictable from the research I’ve done.
- Comment on Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation 1 month ago:
Yeah no doubt.
- Comment on The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals 1 month ago:
Little pig boy? … I doubt he ever sees the inside of anything like a jail.
- Comment on Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation 1 month ago:
Hopefully this sort of infects the entire system and causes major companies to essentially give these rights to everyone. It’s not like Apple or Samsung is going to ban products for an entire state… well hopefully.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 1 month ago:
It IS possible from a technical standpoint to be able to do anonymous age verification. I can think of several methods that would work but the issue is I’d have to trust a company or the government with this information and trust them to not do something stupid with it like using it for nefarious purposes, selling it, or just not protecting it well enough. And with all the data brokerages and security breaches in the news there is no way I’d ever do that. Just not gonna happen. This data is just too valuable to trust any single company with it.
To me this is absolutely a 1st and 4th amendment issue. We are quickly devolving in an American religious state ruled by morality police.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 1 month ago:
Something something… Leopards … Face eating …
I doubt it.
- Comment on Europe's biggest 3D-printed building rises in just 140 hours 1 month ago:
With a dark theme.
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 2 months ago:
Is there such a thing as a 13 yo AI who fucked your mother? Because this reads like a gang of them.
- Comment on Impossible 2 months ago:
Federal agents raid restaurant. Find food
- Comment on More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities 2 months ago:
Really depends on the content, type of use, architecture, and the file system. You’re not wrong, some situations would take centuries to wear this guy out.
- Comment on The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever' 2 months ago:
I knew these apps were fucked up when I kept matching with my ex-wife. Yeah no thanks. I was trying to FIX that fuck up.