cmnybo
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- Comment on Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say 3 days ago:
I hope lots of anchors and fishing nets find their cable.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 5 days ago:
Do they not put barricades in the road when it’s closed in India?
- Comment on ISPs say their “excellent customer service” is why users don’t switch providers 6 days ago:
If there was more than one hard wired provider in any given area, a lot more users would probably switch.
- Comment on Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities 1 week ago:
I wish they would pay for it themselves. Microsoft is getting a $1.6 billion federal loan to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1, which was shut down because it was not profitable. They will probably find out that a half century old power plant is too expensive to run and shut it back down within a few years.
- Comment on An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS 1 week ago:
I will never connect my TV to the internet. I will not buy one that requires an internet connection either.
- Comment on Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too 1 week ago:
I think I will stick with a browser that’s not filled with CCP spyware.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome 1 week ago:
I just hope they are forced to sell to a company that has zero connections to Google.
- Comment on LG’s first 480Hz OLED gaming monitor is $1,000 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how many people can even tell the difference between 144Hz and 480Hz apart from the extra heat and screaming GPU fans.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 weeks ago:
Any car without manual door locks and handles is a death trap. They should be required by law.
- Comment on Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get why anyone would want a console when you can play games on a PC with mods and much better graphics. If I can’t mod a game, I will lose interest in it pretty quickly. The last console I bought was a PS3 and I really only got it to watch blurays on.
- Comment on FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprised Intel would remove a feature that AMD provides in their desktop CPUs.
- Comment on Proton is the latest entrant in the quirky “VPN for your TV” market 4 weeks ago:
It’s too much trouble to try and work around the VPN blocking that most streaming services do. It’s so much easier to just torrent whatever you want to watch.
- Comment on Intelsat's Boeing-made satellite breaks up in space, disrupting communication services 5 weeks ago:
It most likely collided with some space debris. A piece of debris that is too small to track is still enough to smash a satellite apart.
- Comment on Shipments of OLED monitors are soaring, up 181% this year 1 month ago:
I just wish they would start making them with a sub pixel layout that works with sub pixel antialiasing. Text looks awful without it unless the monitor has a really high DPI.
- Comment on FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills 1 month ago:
Of course politicians don’t know anything about tech.
- Comment on Steam now explicitly states you're not buying the game, just a license 1 month ago:
Luckily you don’t need to use their launcher. Just download and run the installer for the game.
- Comment on Hacker shows how a cigarette lighter can grant you root access 1 month ago:
If you have physical access, then you have total access.
- Comment on Streaming industry has unprecedented “surveillance,” “manipulation” capabilities 1 month ago:
I have never connected my TV to the internet and I never will. I have a huge media collection that I can watch on the mini PC connected to my TV. Most of the shows on the streaming services are not even worth watching. They seem to have gone for quantity over quality.
- Comment on YouTube Shorts are getting less short 1 month ago:
I use the Hide Youtube Shorts addon.
- Comment on YouTube Shorts are getting less short 1 month ago:
I don’t care, I will still keep blocking them. I have no desire to watch that zero effort, tiktok like crap and I can’t stand vertical video.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers 2 months ago:
Not many people run open networks these days. I would be more worried about the things creating a mesh network to download ads from anyone who gave their TV internet access.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers 2 months ago:
This is one of the reasons I’ve never connected my TV to the internet and I never will. I use a mini PC running Linux with a remote and wireless keyboard. It’s much more capable than whatever is built into a TV.
- Comment on Windows Media Player and Silverlight are losing legacy DRM services on Windows 7 and 8 2 months ago:
Just go to your favorite pirate site and download a DRM free copy. You already paid for a copy that microsoft just took away your ability to play.
- Comment on California governor signs rules limiting AI actor clones 2 months ago:
It’s fine if they are not cloning a real person’s voice. I still don’t want to hear AI voices used for the main characters of a AAA game until the quality improves to the point that they are indistinguishable from a human though.
- Comment on Transparent solar cell technology could allow smartphones and cars to self-charge 2 months ago:
Solar panels on your roof won’t do much good if you’re off grid and need to charge your phone. Just get a small, folding solar panel that you can carry in your backpack. A 10W panel will only need a couple hours of direct sunlight to fully charge a phone.
- Comment on MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites, claims it took down “mothership” 2 months ago:
It won’t take long for a bunch more sites to pop up to replace the ones that were taken down. The worse the legal streaming sites get, the more pirate sites there will be.
- Comment on Microsoft 'temporarily' pumps the brakes on its intrusive Windows 11 ads after receiving constant backlash from Windows 10 users 3 months ago:
The current version of MO2 runs very smoothly on wine, even with hundreds of mods loaded. There is even an install script to simplify the installation on Linux.
Just be sure to use wine 9 or proton 9. MO2 v2.5.0 and later will not run on older versions of wine.
- Comment on Realme’s 320W fast charging can fully charge a smartphone in four and a half minutes 3 months ago:
Super capacitors are great for when high charge or discharge rates are needed. They can be charged in seconds. Unfortunately the energy density is significantly worse than batteries and they self discharge in days.
If a typical phone was super capacitor powered, it would weight 5kg and be bigger than a 1980’s Motorola.
- Comment on Realme’s 320W fast charging can fully charge a smartphone in four and a half minutes 3 months ago:
That’s a 13C charge rate, a normal lithium battery would get very hot and puff up, possibly even catching on fire.
To safely charge at that rate, you need a battery that is specifically designed for it. High speed charging will probably be a lot more common when phones start using solid state batteries though.
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
Luckily the one webapp that I have to use chrome for doesn’t even have ads or tracking on it. I use Firefox for everything else, so uBlock will continue working fine for me.