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- Comment on New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video 2 days ago:
Magnetic tapes are still one of the best ways to store large quantities of data over a very long period of time, and they typically don’t really need very fast I/O considering their use case as long term archival that the stored data may or may never be read again.
RAM and local device storage are very much different story, considering the performance implications; it’s pointless to have a lightning fast processors if RAM and storage bus speeds can’t keep up. That said, flash memory doesn’t last forever, and there is a strong case to be made about having swappable components that don’t brick the entire machine when they fail. Replaceable parts ensures a device can live longer, leading to less ewaste and less money needlessly spent.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 3 days ago:
Um I disagree. The biggest barrier is having the capital to do the thing. I think a number of states have a reduced/free option if your income is below the poverty line (calculated as having low or negative income in the startup phase, not necessarily based on assets), or being lucky enough to have a spouse with healthcare. That said, it’s entirely doable to go without healthcare, albeit risky. I started a contracting company 3 years ago with almost no money and the tools I had from my apprentice/jman years, and still don’t have health insurance, though I’m hoping to get some later this year.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 3 days ago:
Sure but that’s only a piece of the puzzle. Housing, food, and general living costs are so insane now that any decent savings would be obliterated much more quickly. UBI would be a better solution here, but that’s almost a pipedream at this point.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 4 days ago:
How do you think technology matures? It took years for automobiles to become reliable like they are today. It’ll take years for EVs to become mature, but the only way to do that is to work on them now and improve as we go along. The absolute wrong thing to do is throw out the entire concept because they aren’t perfect now.
- Comment on Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups 1 week ago:
Meta isn’t going to ban these groups because it drives engagement on their platform. Law enforcement knows that these people are organizing because a number of them are part of the groups. The justice department inst doing anything likely on the premise of freedom of speech. This ain’t looking good.
- Comment on madlad 1 week ago:
Man his wife is gonna be pissed when she’s sees what he did to her garden
- Comment on I made a porn scroller, AMA. 1 week ago:
Do you pay for any of the content you consume on Lemmy?
- Comment on I made a porn scroller, AMA. 1 week ago:
A faptor, if you will
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
Ah yop, thank you
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
No, let’s play Thermonuclear War
- Comment on Stuck 1 week ago:
It’s a cylinder
- Comment on What a deal! 1 week ago:
Warning: may be prone to termites
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Interesting, thank you for your input.
- Comment on IBM sues a Zurich-based startup over 'unlawful' use of mainframe technology 1 week ago:
Maybe I’m the US, but is it legal in the UK? Also too, if the matter is the fact that they didn’t physically reverse engineer the subsidiarity’s mainframe, and in fact were able to piece together software solutions to drop in, how in the world is that a violation of anything?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I have to wonder, don’t the majority of Russians pretty much know that their government is full of shit? There’s enough of the population old enough to see the fall of the USSR, the time between the fall and the rise of Putin, and then every bit of Putin’s transition to autocracy, to the point that there’s enough word of mouth in private to counter the majority propaganda. Granted, the younger generations will grow up not knowing anything else, especially with older generations dying off or getting killed either via war or suicided by falling out of windows.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 1 week ago:
Biodiesel also is pretty destructive to the seals on the engine as it has higher levels of solvents the eat away at rubber. Renewable diesel is a better option, as it has higher cetane levels and can burn cleaner, and is designed as a drop in replacement for dino #2, though I don’t fully know how it’s sourced.
All I know is my truck ran like shit on B20 and not nearly as bad on R99. That, and the factory recommends reducing oil change and filter intervals by 50% on both bio and renewable. It’s a clusterfuck obscured by marketing.
- Comment on My phone is just one big shitpost 1 week ago:
Ah the time zone thing makes sense. For all my buddies locally, we more or less know each other’s schedules.
- Comment on My phone is just one big shitpost 1 week ago:
That’s always seemed odd to me. I’m personally not a fan of texting, I always just call people. They answer or they don’t, and they’ll either call back when they’re free or text and we go from there.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
American profit seeking at its finest
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 2 weeks ago:
And his excessively large and punchable teeth
- Comment on Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals 2 weeks ago:
Dude all of these companies are shit stains, and as much as I hate to say it, it’ll probably be a while before we get universal healthcare here in the states, so anything to relieve the problems of the current system should at least be looked at. AI does have the potential to aid in bridging that gap by reducing costs that could ultimately sway public opinion on a single-payer system, while also reducing the workloads of the critically understaffed units so they can actually spend more time per patient and determine proper diagnosis and treatments without making rushed decisions.
The problem is that the allocation of these potential savings are determined by for-profit asshats, so we’ll see how that goes.
- Comment on Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals 2 weeks ago:
I’d be all about having an AI system run analysis of data including test results, vitals, and use the output for suggestions like diagnosis, suggested treatment course, etc. These tools should be suggestive and assistive ONLY, with an actual human making the final call. In no way should we be using AI tech to replace qualified healthcare personnel, especially doctors and nurses.
- Comment on Military horses run loose in central London, injuring 4 people and causing havoc 2 weeks ago:
Maybe we need a gallop poll about this
- Comment on Military horses run loose in central London, injuring 4 people and causing havoc 2 weeks ago:
Chaos in the neigh-borhood
- Comment on Reddit Is Taking Over Google 3 weeks ago:
30% is generously low
- Comment on self hosted newbie question about moCA router 3 weeks ago:
Something is odd here, who is your ISP? I’ve only seen MoCA used to create a network for cable/satellite STBs through the coax in the building, or for a phone company connection creating a MoCA bridge to provide broadband from a demarcation point in an apartment where only a phone line is available in lieu of DSL. What is the make of your existing router?
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 3 weeks ago:
And Chunus has been living in a cave since kindergarten
- Comment on I doubt future generations will have “basement dwellers” because none of us can afford to own basements. 3 weeks ago:
Digging out a basement is expensive
- Comment on Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
For the TVs where Roku/FireOS/others I’m forgetting are the primarily operating system, they subsidize the cost of the TV making it much cheaper compared to others, especially for the size. Of course, this lower price point comes at the cost of privacy and intrusion of advertising.
- Comment on Don't worry, I'm locked away in a dank basement somewhere 4 weeks ago:
Therapist
The rapist
Hmmm…