Viper_NZ
@Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 5 days ago:
Canceled my sub when that happened and won’t be back.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
His complete lack of self awareness and ability to own up and apologise when they’ve dropped the ball put me off the channel entirely.
That, and Emily was the best thing about the channel and she left so…
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 4 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. 5 months ago:
Also they never sold it in many countries.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 6 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 8 months ago:
I’ll hold out for the Pro Max Ultra
- Comment on don't be a coward 9 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 9 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' 9 months ago:
It sure wasn’t rapid smaller releases
- Comment on Mushrooms 10 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 10 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 10 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 11 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 11 months ago:
The solution is to just buy a cheap Brother mono laser printer.