UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 hours ago:
Try starting your day at 25% with a hectic schedule.
I would simply charge my phone overnight.
Also those smart locks are super hackable.
Most off the shelf door locks are pretty easy to evade if you know what you’re doing. But most burglars are people hard up enough to take a very high risk, low reward line of work and not terribly sophisticated.
The two home invasions I’ve heard of personally both involved just walking up behind someone as they were opening their door and pulling a knife on them.
- Comment on 4 hours ago:
Impossible. People name and complain about Reddit all the time. It’s like everyone on Lemmy’s bitch ex.
- Comment on 4 hours ago:
There’s a guy in the comments who posted a picture of an unsubscribe email.
So… at least one person.
- Comment on 4 hours ago:
the left who are the biggest benefactors of Disney’s propaganda and ideologies
Trying to explain to everyone at SAG-AFTRA that Disney executives are the real leftists.
But this does beg the question… Is Iron Man a Tankie?
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 4 hours ago:
I regularly get through the day without running out of power. And an extra thing in my pocket is annoying, especially when I need to dig it out in order to use it. Same reason I prefer to open my garage with a clicker than to unlock a big deadbolt by hand.
If running out of power is a real fear, you can always do the “hide a spare key under a fake rock near the door” trick.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 7 hours ago:
Gates’s Mom was an IBM executive. He got handed a multi million dollar contract before he was out of undergrad. That’s not “from nothing”. The man was practically coronated
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 7 hours ago:
Microsoft was always bad. But now that they’ve saturated the market, they need shadier and shittier gimmicks to keep justifying their inflated stock price.
Now they’re trying to sell businesses on AI as a full replacement for worker headcount. It’s a bald faced lie. But with enough money spent on marketing and gimmicks like this…
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 7 hours ago:
So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?
That’s sort of the joke of it all. Microsoft needs to tell their investors “We sold AI to 100 million new users!” to justify these bloated investments in OpenAI.
So instead of selling it as DLC, they just shave off a chunk of the 365 subscriptions and say “that was people paying for AI”.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 8 hours ago:
See ya all on RedNote, I guess.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 8 hours ago:
China doesn’t have to do a thing because Douyin is already maintained separately for the Chinese market.
Nobody really wanted to grapple with the reality. They just saw “Chinese investors mean Communist propaganda means Americans most be protected from the thing”. Then Cold War brainrot kicked in and that was that.
A country that fumbles this hard doesn’t deserve to exist.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 8 hours ago:
Not the guy with the hole in his neck.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 13 hours ago:
Okay, but why would you want to do that?
Similarly, lots of apartment keys and office keys are just FOBs now.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 13 hours ago:
I’m not sure why. There’s nothing magical about a signal from a key when it could just as easily come from a phone.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 day ago:
What genuine problem is being solved?
In theory, your phone becomes a perfect multi-tool for every task. Unlock your door, start your car, swipe a credit card, shop for groceries, talk to your mom, apply for a job, show tickets for a concert or boarding passes for a plane, yadda yadda yadda.
In practice, it’s a bunch of patch-jobs cobbled together on a grid that’s over-extended and under-maintained. So, rather than a single universal digital gatekey, you get a digital janitor’s keyring with 100 different apps competing for battery life and bandwidth.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 day ago:
👏 You 👏 Don’t 👏 Need 👏 A 👏 TV 👏 On 👏 Your 👏 Fridge 👏
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 day ago:
The idea that a new product aligned to my interests and designed with me in mind would be advertised to me instead of feminine hygiene products or mesothelioma lawsuit ads seemed awesome.
Broadly speaking, the problem with modern American advertisement isn’t the content so much as the volume. Tried to watch a football game a few weeks back and I barely saw any football being played. Every millisecond of screen time and every pixel of screen space that wasn’t a moving football was consumed by ads.
I was at an actual game a year ago, foolishly thinking being there was going to be a better experience. NOPE. Ads on the announcements. Ads at the endzones. Ads painted into the turf. I got solicited to buy shit as I was loading up my ticket and right inside the gate once I was scanned in. The whole interior of the stadium was a mall full of overpriced crap. Seats were branded. The food was branded. I was buying something and I was drowning in people trying to sell me more shit.
I don’t care if every single item on offer is something I might actually want. I can’t fucking breath for it all.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 1 day ago:
whipping out my Horseshoe Theory graph
So, as you can see, the tips of the horseshoe are where the Russian Propaganda lives.
- Comment on Halloween is fast approaching. Remember to buy candy! 1 day ago:
😘
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I would not hold my breath
- Comment on Halloween is fast approaching. Remember to buy candy! 2 days ago:
“Fat little larva” is a very funny way to refer to your kids
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Anything bad?
- Comment on Halloween is fast approaching. Remember to buy candy! 2 days ago:
I hope you motherfuckers like raisins.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Most people aren’t celebrating the killing of Kirk
I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Okay, but what if we just repeal or ignore that rule in order to conduct a pogrom of WrongThinkers?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Basically why the grid exists to begin with. You’re not supposed to be solving these engineering problems on a household budget inside a single home.
You’d be better off simply reducing your consumption or finding alternative methods of power (nat gas or maybe wind or geothermal) during the longer winter nights.
- Comment on Don't get mad, get even 2 days ago:
Every time this joke is posted, it gets funnier
- Comment on It's only funny when I do it 2 days ago:
YOU CAN’T SAY THAT ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE!
- Comment on China bans its biggest tech companies from acquiring Nvidia chips, says report — Beijing claims its homegrown AI processors now match H20 and RTX Pro 6000D 2 days ago:
a few months we’re going to see an article saying China has bought record amounts of H20s and NVIDIA’s stocks are going to go up again. This is because the smaller companies are still going to be buying and at MSRP because the big boys can’t.
I would not bank on it, but I guess we’ll see.
At the moment, NVIDIA and CoreWeave are busy swapping spit while Trump is throatling the export economy at record speed.
But hey, we’ll see.
- Comment on China bans its biggest tech companies from acquiring Nvidia chips, says report — Beijing claims its homegrown AI processors now match H20 and RTX Pro 6000D 2 days ago:
Huawei’s 910c is about 30% slower and 1/3 more expensive.
NVIDIA H100s are currently going for around $25k to Huawei’s $28k. And that’s before you get to the secondary market, where NVIDIA chipsets will inevitably jump in price based on availability and relative demand. Without Huawei in the market, I guarantee NVIDIA’s chips would be even more expensive.
At some point, its just a matter of what is available. American tech companies are demanding more chipsets than NVIDIA can currently produce, which is why the company’s still considered a growth investment play. Chinese competitors aren’t going to be able to import NVIDIA to meet their own internal demand. They’ll buy Huawei units because that’s what is on the shelf.
- Comment on China bans its biggest tech companies from acquiring Nvidia chips, says report — Beijing claims its homegrown AI processors now match H20 and RTX Pro 6000D 2 days ago:
If no one develops on Chinese chips, then they’ll never actually be competitive.
People will develop on Chinese chips because they’re cheaper and more open-sourced. Also, because their specs are written in Chinese rather than English and that’s their native tongue.
But today, it’s able to run the domestic game Black Myth WuKong at 4k at 40 fps.
That’s not because of a chip import policy the state issued last week. Someone’s obviously working on these things, even without a bunch of state-issued trade restrictions.
What this has rang through out China I am sure is, China has to do everything on earth to fix their software. If that means banning NVIDIA, so be it.
NVIDIA does not have the export capacity to feed the entire Chinese state’s demand for new hardware. Never did. The real reason for a domestic Chinese investment in tech is that China is also a global leading consumer. They need to fab their own chips for the same reason they need to build their own cars and grow their own rice. Their economy can’t work as an import economy when they represent 16% of the global population.
This change in policy will undoubtedly accelerate domestic investment in new software. But it wasn’t strictly necessary.
