BrianTheeBiscuiteer

@BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I probably got a lemon but regardless my XPS (~3 years old) is the worst computer I’ve ever owned. Touchy WiFi, battery that goes from 30 to 3℅ in a matter of seconds, randomly doesn’t detect the keyboard, randomly freezes, randomly doesn’t acknowledge it’s plugged in. Some days I just put it in timeout and use my 10yo netbook instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO Homelab Power Saving Methods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For pure energy efficiency it’s hard to beat an SBC (raspi, rockpi). Mine does a good job with Jellyfin streaming so long as I avoid transcoding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also your reputation. I had a Crucial SSD and was days from getting an identical one as a backup but then they said they were stopping consumer RAM sales so they’re now on my blacklist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Refused $400k salary to save the taxpayers money and awarding himself $1b as a pat on the back. What a guy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So Ford is going to abandon the EU market?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or extortion. He makes a stink, they make some campaign donations, and he backs off or gives them a slap on the wrist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it is, because nobody is willing to try and quantify or qualify the harms that seeing pornography has on a young person. It’s just “adult content” so we’ll go so far as to put VR headsets on everyone and ask them to verify their age or else they get a PG, low-polygon representation of reality!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TUIs FTW!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure PWAs can run in the background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ICE recently lured someone out of their house by claiming to be a construction worker (dressed up I’m guessing) that hit a parked car. 😮‍💨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly an emoticon/emoji of Iron Man’s chest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So AI slop doesn’t get generated, just imagine the visual of the Egyptologist from The Mummy holding a GPU, saying, “What have we done?”, while covered in dickflies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OHHHHHH, so when kids toys are talking nasty it’s the PARENTS that need to be on alert, but not so much when THE PARENTS hand their kids unrestricted and unmonitored smartphones to seek out adult material on explicitly labeled adult websites! 🖕🤬🖕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called prison labor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ultimate goal of capitalism is to have an infinite pool of workers, working infinite hours, for $0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Running i2p or Tor isn’t that challenging and demand drives innovation. I could see one-click solutions taking off in a few months if people were willing to pay a few bucks a month to download basically anything the dark web can offer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than battery optimizations pretty much all of the issues don’t exist on something like a Raspberry Pi which is RISC architecture (Broadcom chips). Sounds like Qualcomm just doesn’t have their shit together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably hundreds of movies show all the ways making humanoid robots can go wrong. Why the hell does anyone think it’s still a good idea to make robots that are significantly stronger than humans?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They fucked up by making their robots last seemingly forever, due to the fact they spy on you and get stuck every 15 mins so you never want to turn them on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Lawyer, 87, Offers Creepy ‘Not a Pedophile’ Defense of Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, how about “child rapists”? Yeah, much better fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What about multiple Pis? Seriously asking. I love having a Pi as a dedicated server (small footprint, low energy, low temp). Do I really need to switch to a more traditional ITX/ATX form factor to get real reliability?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just glad they have dual thumbsticks now. I bought their last model on sale but quickly shelved it. Couldn’t get used to the touchpads and didn’t want to spend the next 2 months sucking at every game I played.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory fuck Spotify!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also 2FA. You’ll still want to change passwords but it buys you time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An article about this bullshit: theverge.com/…/california-governor-newsom-age-gat…

  Not one assembly member voted against final passage. Get your shit together CA!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenYerFuckinWalletAI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a fire sale?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Ryzen 2600 has a TDP of 65W. With a CPU with 35W TDP maybe a passive cooler like the Noctua NH-P1 would work. Still really hard to beat the efficiency of an ARM chip.