Americans say “86 [thing]” to mean “get rid of [thing]”

I thought Trump and Elon had a major falling out?

Actually now that I think of it, news about that fizzled out very quickly. Did they silently kiss and make up behind closed doors or something?

FFS an air fryer is a heating element, fan, and thermostat.

Why are any of them being built with online connectivity and data harvesting capabilities in the first place?!

I can afford to pay the protection racket, I just choose not to.

I guess there’s no reason not to post to other sites as well?

One codebase across all OSes and OS versions, no dependency issues, easy to push updates.

I’d prefer a native app myself, though.

Most likely one of the commercial ones that offer support and contractual guarantees of security patches, uptime, service, helpdesk support, etc.

So likely Ubuntu, SUSE, or RHEL.

Any of which would be a very welcome change and a benefit to the Linux community compared to using Windows.

I know this phrase gets trouted out a lot (possibly to the point of being fatiguing to hear), especially when it comes to MS, but this is a textbook case of their Embrace, Extend, Extinguish mantra.

Have an open standard (Embrace)… add a bunch of non-open components (Extend)… to fuck over compatibility with competitors and prevent them from gaining market share (Extinguish).

If you want to be a photographer, get a camera.

🤦‍♀️

Even professional photographers don’t have their cameras on them at all times, nor are they as convenient for just whipping out and taking a picture within 1.5s.

Plus, cameras are expensive and they’re another thing to carry around (idk about you but I don’t have infinite pocket space) and they’re another thing to keep charged, whereas you have a phone with you at pretty much all times anyway, because they’re effectively required for modern society.

You may as well be saying you don’t understand why phones can play music when you can get an MP3 player, that you don’t understand why they play videos because TVs exist, that you don’t understand why they have web browsers and plenty of apps, because PCs exist.

I stick to my guns and I’m on the internet and computers to learn to educate myself, not to dick around with stupid shit.

He said, on this Lemmy thread.

And we have to be weary of open source

Ah yes, that nefarious Open Source software. Tell me more about the evils of FOSS, Mr Balmer.

I don’t actually like this redesign tbh, but come on, people do care about design and UX.

Nobody said we need pretty UX design, it’s just nice to have, and that’s fine. Not everything needs to be furthering the development of XYZ. Beauty is fine, aesthetics is fine, art is fine.

But yeah, I don’t have an Apple device and likely never will, so this specific instance doesn’t matter to me.

IPhones are way buggier than they used to be.

For example, coming into effect in 12 days, on the 20th of June, for smartphones and tablets:

• Durability: Devices should be resistant to accidental drops and protected against dust and water.

• Battery longevity: Batteries must endure at least 800 full charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their original capacity.

• Repairability: Manufacturers must make critical spare parts available within 5 to 10 working days, and continue offering them for 7 years after the product is no longer sold in the EU.

• Software support: Devices must receive operating system upgrades for at least 5 years from the end-of-sale date.

• Repair access: Professional repairers must have non-discriminatory access to any required software or firmware.

They will also have to include a sticker on packaging that has standardised information on it concerning energy efficiency, battery life, repeated drop test results, battery endurance in charging cycles, repairability score, and water/dust protection rating:

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I’m staggered so many people seem to think TikTok isn’t used to sway public opinions.

It’s not new technology you numpty.

It’s not news. It’s not a scientific paper. Wireless energy transfer isn’t “bullshit”, it’s been an understood aspect of physics for a long time.

Since you seem unable to grasp the concept, I’ll put it in bold and italics:

This is a video of a guy doing a DIY project where he wanted to make his setup as wireless as possible. In the video he also goes over his thoughts and design considerations, and explains how the tech works for people who don’t already know.

It is not new technology.

It is not pseudoscience.

It is a guy showing off his bespoke PC setup.

It does not need an article or a blog post. He can post about it in any form he wants.

Personally, I think showcasing this kind of thing in a video is much better than a wall of text. I want to see the process, the finished product, the tools used and how he used them.

It’s a YouTube channel that does high quality DIY projects, and explains the reasons behind the choices made.

Why would this be an article as opposed to, y’know, a video? His job is to make YouTube videos.

I don’t understand this obsession some on Lemmy have with shitting on hard-working creative types when they make something in video form rather than creating a blog and publishing articles.

Google makes a lot of money, and summarising stuff uses a surprisingly small amount of energy. You can do it trivially on-device on a laptop and on plenty of phones.

When it comes to LLMs, training the models is generally the thing that requires ridiculous amounts of energy.

This is dumb as fuck, though. I don’t want Google’s LLM to miss out critical details in my emails. That shit could be important. If people want this they should opt in.

Donations and grants.

It’s so frustrating that we have all this technology, and we choose to use it for bad purposes.

Alyx is not HL3, and I don’t get it when people say it is.

HL2E2 ended and we were left partway through a story that never received an ending.

You are genuinely the first other person I’ve ever seen online who seems aware that this was an industry-wide thing, not a VW thing.