Viper_NZ
@Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 6 days ago:
They’re a business. Reducing their costs (while charging you a premium) is absolutely what they do.
Apple’s whole deal for decades now has been building a vertical supply chain. Using their own SSD controller is one less component they have to pay others for.
They just don’t give a shit about downsides: aftermarket repairers or user upgradeability.
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 1 week ago:
It’s more cost effective to integrate the controller.
Being worse for customers is just a happy accident.
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 1 week ago:
It’s replaceable, it’s not upgradable.
Apple doesn’t use standard NVMe M.2 drives. The controller is built into the SoC rather than being on the storage device itself.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
Hotmail ran on FreeBSD when Microsoft acquired the company in 1997. They started the transition a few years later and it was entirely hosted on Windows by 2005.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 2 months ago:
Having borrowed a quest 3 last week I’ve almost pulled trigger on buying one.
The only thing holding me back is… it’s Meta.
- Comment on Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, with Meta's market share rising to 84%; Vision Pro shipments fell 43% QoQ in Q4, but its enterprise sales grew. 3 months ago:
Also they never sold it in many countries.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 4 months ago:
I bought a Tesla years ago before Elon completely removed the mask.
No way I’d buy one now, but I also don’t want to sell it early and lose a tonne of money.
The Tesla board should intervene and remove him, but they won’t because he’s stacked it with yes men like his brother.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 6 months ago:
I’ll hold out for the Pro Max Ultra
- Comment on don't be a coward 7 months ago:
The entire Polity series is great, but my favourite parts are always when we follow a Prador perspective.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 7 months ago:
Cowards
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 7 months ago:
It sure wasn’t rapid smaller releases
- Comment on Mushrooms 8 months ago:
Our immune systems can tell the difference between human blood types. Let alone fungus vs human.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 8 months ago:
We have a similar mix, though I was referring to the underlying virtualisation providing their cloud hosting.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 8 months ago:
Azure runs on windows. Hosts run a modified version of Hyper-V.
At least, they did last I checked.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 9 months ago:
What we wanted: Alpha Centauri 2 What we got: Civilisation in a $2 shop Halloween costume.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 9 months ago:
The solution is to just buy a cheap Brother mono laser printer.