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- Comment on Google's Gemini chatbot now has memory 1 day ago:
Yep. What a wonderful day to go die!
- Comment on Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files. 2 months ago:
WAV audio is damn near the absolute simplest audio format, and it came out in August 1991. So I guess congrats to the programmers like they’re five for adding support for what’s effectively sending an array of raw sample values to the sound driver.
- Comment on Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files. 2 months ago:
Wow, awesome!
WAV audio only came out 33 years ago, about fucking time…
- Comment on Let's Settle This 3 months ago:
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
That’s a trick question, neither can cum. The rooster came first, obviously.
- Comment on Google is purging ‘low-quality’ Android apps next month 3 months ago:
So they’re gonna finally drop Candy Crush? 🤔
Hey, you said functionally useless 😂🤣
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
I worked for hotel owners with their own high tech theater upstairs. They had everything, it was wicked cool!
They had everything, except Blu-Ray. They had DVDs and streaming.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
I’m very familiar with the technology, the discs indeed are a slightly different color, and the drives have an entirely separate extra lens and laser assembly to read them.
And BTW, DVD-R is purple.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
Years ago, for a while I had an external Blu-Ray drive, but I’ve never seen an actual Blu-Ray disc in my life.
And this is coming from a nerd that’s repaired thousands of electronic devices.
- Comment on FCC Eyes Making Carriers Unlock All Phones Within 60 Days Of Purchase 4 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t think there are many models of phones with proprietary antennas, but there are, or at least were a couple models.
- Comment on FCC Eyes Making Carriers Unlock All Phones Within 60 Days Of Purchase 4 months ago:
Try a Galaxy S5…
Antennas are proprietary to different networks.
- Comment on FCC Eyes Making Carriers Unlock All Phones Within 60 Days Of Purchase 4 months ago:
And the finish line…?
Like, install antennas to connect to any network…
- Comment on FCC Eyes Making Carriers Unlock All Phones Within 60 Days Of Purchase 4 months ago:
It’s been a number of years since I last regularly worked in cell phone repair, but some models of phones were physically made in different varieties with different antennas for different networks.
It wasn’t even possible to ‘unlock’ those phones for other networks, short of replacing the logic board and antennas.
- Comment on T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next 5 months ago:
If you don’t hear from me within a month, then I’ll just find a Walmart…
- Comment on T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next 5 months ago:
Still don’t know to be honest. Might be a legit real glitch in the matrix. 🤷♂️
- Comment on T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next 5 months ago:
Well maybe I’m experiencing a happy glitch in the matrix, because I’ve had free T-Mobile since like October 2021.
- Comment on The Google Pay app is dead 5 months ago:
Yes, unfortunately I was born and raised in the chaotic country of the USA.
I’m almost 42, so I don’t exactly take offense to occasionally being called a boomer. But hell, you’d figure the bank manager should be able to answer why a deposit transaction didn’t go through.
Banking apps weren’t quite a thing yet then though, as smartphones didn’t quite exist yet. Any online banking done then was on a computer.
Sigh…
- Comment on The Google Pay app is dead 5 months ago:
I actually installed bank computers thank you very much. Even had C3 level security clearance for a bit to do my job.
I can’t help it that their software can’t do a simple fucking direct deposit from the IRS, I didn’t write any of their software, I have no idea how it’s supposed to work, and even the bank manager couldn’t understand why the deposit didn’t go through either.
When I realized even the bank manager couldn’t understand it, was when I said fuck this, closed my bank account, and have stuck to physical cash ever since.
- Comment on The Google Pay app is dead 5 months ago:
Guess I forgot exactly what thread I was responding to after I woke up, my bad.
Still, honestly I don’t get how any of these digital currency exchanges are supposed to work. I couldn’t even get my bank to accept my tax return as a direct deposit, they rejected the transaction and had to send me a paper check.
At least I know what to do with paper in hand, but digital currency of any form, I’m totally lost.
- Comment on The Google Pay app is dead 5 months ago:
And you can teach a 5 year old how to count and exchange physical currency, but you gotta read half an encyclopedia of crap to even halfway wrap your mind around cryptocurrency.
Every article I read about crypto just gets longer and longer and more convoluted. How would I even go about simply purchasing a candybar at the store with cryptocurrency?
Is there an ELI5 version of a crypto tutorial that might actually explain how to even spend the stuff at the store?
- Comment on The Google Pay app is dead 5 months ago:
And people wonder why I don’t trust digital currency. It’s all bubbles, they’ll pop eventually.
- Comment on Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work 5 months ago:
GIMP is the pimp!
- Comment on NVIDIA reveal new security issues in their GPU drivers for June 2024 5 months ago:
If only they’d totally open source their drivers…
- Comment on Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council 5 months ago:
Huh? I was permanently banned by Reddit admins, not some random moderator. And yes, I’ve tried to appeal, twice. No dice.
FUCK SPEZ
- Comment on Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council 5 months ago:
Their ‘reason’ came from a comment I made in a different community than my own, but still totally factual.
I posted a comment and relevant link regarding Elon Musk, his Boring Company, and that contraption they made that they called “Not A Flamethrower”, which looks like a child’s toy, and is totally a flamethrower.
I wasn’t the one out of place. I posted comments regarding known facts, along with a link as proof, in a similar spirit out of concern for children out there.
The damn device really does look like a kid’s toy, when it’s more like a quick way to burn a house down. ☹️
- Comment on Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council 5 months ago:
I used to run /r/boycottchildlabor, but admins banned me, for posting facts no less.
- Comment on Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council 5 months ago:
So what are they gonna replace them with? Kids that escaped Nestlé, or AI?..
- Comment on Nvidia will now make new AI chips every year 5 months ago:
It’s kind of disappointing how people tend to use the upvote/downvote buttons. Sure, if it’s an opinion you don’t like, then downvote it to hell.
But OP is posting a link to a legit article. That’s not an opinion, that’s facts. Downvoting facts makes them less likely to be seen by others.
Use those buttons wisely. I don’t like it any more than many others, but I’m gonna tap that upvote in hopes it might help more people see what Nvidia is doing today.
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 6 months ago:
Ah, this is useful knowledge, thank you fellow Lemming!
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 6 months ago:
Haha, cool cool!
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 6 months ago:
Ah, I like the way you think!