cmnybo
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- Comment on Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance 1 week ago:
VPNs are good for torrenting without getting nasty letters from your ISP. Self hosted VPNs are good for securely accessing your home network remotely.
- Comment on Your Antenna TV Shouldn’t Need the Internet — But Roku Made It So 1 week ago:
They aren’t trying, they already did it. ATSC 3 broadcasts are encrypted in a lot of cities in the US. The FCC should have never allowed that.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Just don’t allow the students to have their phones when taking tests. They could be left in another room out of bluetooth range or be put in a faraday cage to block the bluetooth signals.
- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 2 weeks ago:
What do you expect when the AI is trained on reddit posts?
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 1 month ago:
Any password manager worth using will generate secure passwords. There is absolutely no reason to use AI for that.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 month ago:
Around 25% for a 1080p 30fps youtube video played in MPV. Power consumption is about 10-12 watts. A video with hardware acceleration uses about 8 watts.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 month ago:
Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn’t super high. That’s a mid range business laptop from 2018. It’s the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 month ago:
That doesn’t help with all the content that’s been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 month ago:
Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn’t allow software patents.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 1 month ago:
Cameras and DVRs should always be on an isolated network.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 1 month ago:
Printer drivers have been deprecated on Linux too. CUPS will eventually drop support for them.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 2 months ago:
The screen size needed for 8K to make a difference doesn’t fit in a typical living room.
- Comment on YouTube seems to be blocking background video playback on Samsung Internet, Brave, and other browsers 2 months ago:
It works fine in Firefox on Android if you switch to the desktop site.
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 2 months ago:
It’s always an opt out. Making it a mandatory opt in will never happen in the US.
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 2 months ago:
There is an opt out. Sign into your account, go to settings then privacy preferences and uncheck the AI training box.
- Comment on This tech could keep EVs from stressing the grid — and save everyone money 2 months ago:
Using your battery to help stabilize the grid is going to put a lot of extra wear on the very expensive battery in your car. Whatever it saves you on your electric bill won’t be nearly enough to cover a replacement battery when it wears out much faster.
- Comment on Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia 2 months ago:
A lot of high school and college stations play music. You probably won’t hear many of the more popular artists, but they do play a lot of indie music.
- Comment on Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia 2 months ago:
In the US, non commercial educational stations are not allowed to have paid advertising.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info 2 months ago:
I can’t even remember the last time I put a music CD in my computer to play it. I always rip them to FLAC and add it to my music player library.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 2 months ago:
Yes, it’s useful for things like text to speech that doesn’t sound like a Speak & Spell or motion detection that doesn’t go off because a bug flew past the camera. I consider stuff like LLMs that will lie to me useless though.
- Comment on MSI's fifth-generation QD-OLED gaming monitor embraces RGB stripe subpixels — 34-inch display boasts enhanced text clarity, boosted brightness, and improved black levels 2 months ago:
It’s about time someone made an OLED monitor that’s usable for more than games and movies. I can’t stand reading text without subpixel antialiasing.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 3 months ago:
Mod Organizer 2 works great on Linux. It’s a bit trickier to install due to the way Proton works, but there is an installer for it.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 3 months ago:
Linux has been very good for a long time. It’s just gaming that didn’t work very well until DXVK came out and Valve started putting a lot of work into it and Wine.
- Comment on Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs 3 months ago:
It may be a viable option if you have a source of e-waste to salvage the chips from. Of course that will mean even more work since the chips will have to be reballed.
- Comment on UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification 3 months ago:
I have a feeling that custom ROMs will get a lot more popular if those idiots manage to pass this.
- Comment on Return of 4GB RAM in smartphones by 2026 amidst DRAM crisis, microSD slots make a comeback 3 months ago:
That’s ridiculous, Android has become such a bloated mess that it will run like crap on 4GB of RAM. Even the sub $250 phones had 6-8 GB earlier this year. I miss the early versions that only used a couple hundred MB at idle.
I’m glad they are bringing SD card slots back. I wish more phones would have headphone jacks and FM tuners though.
- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog 4 months ago:
No, but I don’t want to wait a day or more for a movie to encode either.
- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog 4 months ago:
Hopefully they will fix the encode speed with AV2. You need a super computer to encode AV1 in a reasonable amount of time. H.265 is significantly faster for a similar quality.
- Comment on The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years 4 months ago:
TLDR: The ability to receive audio broadcasts without having to pair.
- Comment on Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets 4 months ago:
Wow, that’s a bigger ripoff than Grainger. At least they give discounts for business accounts that spend a lot.