LaggyKar

@LaggyKar@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re also generally lower quality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A big blocker that the article surprisingly doesn’t talk about is tons of IoT stuff that uses 2G and 3G. Stuff like alarm systems, emergency phones, street light control, cars etc. Here in Sweden there was recently a report that thousands of elevators have emergency phones using 2G and 3G, and if the network is shut down you would no longer be allowed to use those elevators. And since 2018 all new cars in the EU has to have eCall, which alerts emergency services on a crash. Many of these use 2G and 3G, and if it stops working the car won’t pass inspection so you’ll no longer be allowed to drive it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A robot doesn’t need to be anthropomorphic, an assembly line robot is still a robot. It does however need to be able to perform some actions autonomously, for which a vibrator hardly qualifies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ is for those that already have a music subscription⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still doesn’t allow background playback though, so it’s useless to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there has ever been a PPU on the GPU. It originally ran on PPU cards by Ageia, but AFAIK PhysX on GPU:s used CUDA GPGPU right from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mirror’s Edge actually had a place with tons of broken glass falling down, where the framerate would drop into the single digits if it used CPU PhysX. I remember that because it shipped with an outdated PhysX library that would run on the CPU even though I had an Nvidia GPU, so I had to delete the game’s PhysX library to force it to use the version from the graphics driver, in order to get it to playable performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I find the highest quality Star Trek: The Original Series?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are you? It’s gonna defer depending on your country. In most of the world it’s available on Netflix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Harvesting IP addresses shouldn’t be a problem, since the firewall shouldn’t allow packets from a peer you haven’t talked to first. But true, if you can be attacked in response by a server you’re connecting to that would be bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would presumably mainly be an issue for computers open to the internet. So not so much for home PCs, unless the router’s firewall is opened up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This TV Streamer costs significantly more than a CCwGTV combined with an adapter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Until services stop supporting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  None of which changes the fact that it’s more expensive and clunkier, and none of which feels necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get an Ethernet adapter for the Chromecast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A more expensive, clunkier product, with a bunch nog needless fluff in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Samsung phones block sideloading by default⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you need to change two settings instead of one to side load. Seems rather pointless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A310 is the cheapest.

  I wonder how well it does for transcoding on older computers without ReBAR, since apparently gaming on it is straight out broken without ReBAR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is the previous one only has 2G, and the 2G networks will soon be shut down, hence why they’re making a 4G version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But then you also need to cover your face

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t they already have that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backblaze B2 vs other storage providers to store legally ripped media⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another alternative then would be Restic. That’s what I’m using for backups

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So another site that makes it look like the article ends in order to inject some completely unrelated video in the middle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they have to convince everyone they talk to to enable the setting to be able to use this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First game you played⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be Jak & Dexter: TPL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL that TNG comics exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not canon though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The safest way to travel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna suggest a shuttle, but then there’s all the shuttle crashes. I wonder which there’s more of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unusual scene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This meme didn’t let me down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They get each other.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s also about strength

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no mouse unless you’re watching on a PC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users when I mention I pay for Youtube Premium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What other service will let me watch YouTube videos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we hate you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And of course later on the alpha quadrant gets most of the mentions since that’s where the wormhole to the gamma quadrant is located. Though presumably Voyager would have spent half of their voyage home in the beta quadrant, had they not found a shortcut.