ptz
@ptz@dubvee.org
Instance admin of dubvee.org and maintainer of the Tesseract for Lemmy UI.
Ask me anything.
- Comment on T-Mobile hopes you’ll buy $30 “Home Internet Backup” for when cable goes out 4 weeks ago:
Lol, absolutely not.
$30/year with 1-2 GB of data on hand and pay-as-you-go after that? Sure, let’s talk.
- Comment on A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why. 1 month ago:
Maybe it just needed some “me” time. Don’t judge.
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Says She Warned OpenAI to Not Use Her Voice 1 month ago:
“He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and Al. He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people.”
It’s almost like when Skynet put a Terminator in a Summer Glau suit.
- Comment on Microsoft’s “Copilot+” AI PC requirements are embarrassing for Intel and AMD 1 month ago:
So, they’re demanding chips that don’t exist to support a feature that no one wants?
- Comment on How do you say Combs? 6 months ago:
I’ve always pronounced it like the thing you use in your hair.
- Comment on Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job 6 months ago:
Right?!
If anyone reading this lives near there, you should find out where she works, go there to eat, and just be the worst.
“Can I get a glass of hot water? Before you serve it to me, let it cool down to room temperature first. I just need to know that it was once hot.”
- Comment on Appliances with an off light. 6 months ago:
Still seems useless. I never turn my appliances on just to see if they work. I just…use it. If it doesn’t do anything, then I know it’s broken.
It’s also not just a single LED. In your house, yes, but multiply that by however many appliances in the wild have that same “feature” and the power wastage is much more real. It’s the same reason it’s recommended to unplug phone chargers and such when they’re not being used.
Vampire power, I believe, is the term. It’s when millions of tiny power loads add up to a significant overall draw while performing no useful work.