jqubed
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- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 3 days ago:
I’m not sure but I’m trying to look (not very actively right now, though). Amazon seems to keep updates going for 6 years or so but I’d prefer to not be in such a closed ecosystem. There’s certainly an attraction to an Android-based system. Google has been pushing for suppliers to provide longer Android support but it doesn’t seem like many smaller suppliers have been doing that still. Of course, if you disable internet access and only load files over USB then it’s less of a concern, but then you lose out on some of the Android benefits.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 5 days ago:
Thanks, that’s my concern with a lot of these interesting devices from small companies
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 6 days ago:
My concern would be less about features and more security updates
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 1 week ago:
Adding to this, how are they at keeping Android updated, especially on older devices?
- Comment on Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop 3 weeks ago:
Upvoting for awareness, not because I’m happy about it
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 4 weeks ago:
“Yeah, let’s try it. [Korean-style steak sauce is] not something I’ve made before,” says Mancuso, remembering his script, “so I could definitely use the help.”
Then at the end of the article they embed an Instagram video from 2023 of Mancuso making a Korean-style steak sauce. *chef’s kiss*
- Comment on UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing 1 month ago:
Like DRAM, FeRAM’s read process is destructive, necessitating a write-after-read architecture.
So that’s why it’s still called RAM? It can hold the data a long time but the data is lost when it’s read?
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
I think in this case they’re referring to Chrome on iOS. Apple doesn’t allow any browser engine except WebKit on iOS so to many people that means Chrome and any other browser on iOS is really just Safari with a different interface. Pretty sure I saw something recently about the EU considering forcing Apple to allow other engines on iOS.
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 2 months ago:
I get annoyed when articles talk about one of hydrogen’s problems being a lack of infrastructure to deliver the fuel. Of course there’s not today since there’s no demand for it. If the cars start to develop as a market then the infrastructure would be built as well. The same thing has happened with electric cars. But it would take some entity investing in the infrastructure and being willing to wait years to see a return on the investment.
Of course, hydrogen has a lot of other problems that mean it’s probably not viable. Lack of infrastructure is just a weak argument against it.
- Comment on BulletVPN Closes Down, Pulling The Rug on Lifetime Subscriptions 3 months ago:
Stop buying lifetime subscriptions to services! They’re not sustainable!
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom 3 months ago:
I’d be surprised if this takes down Broadcom altogether, but could certainly kill the division. Oracle still exists, after all, even though they basically killed Sun and Java.
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- Comment on With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows 4 months ago:
I also find it interesting that the Steam Deck OLED has a smaller battery but gets longer life on the same OS
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 months ago:
Copilot is Microsoft’s name for their AI service, like Google’s Gemini or Chat GPT. Recall is their service that will screenshot everything you do for
trainingimproving the results. - Comment on WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff. 6 months ago:
I wonder if we’ll get a lot more anonymous inside details now about the WPengine debacle?
- Comment on WD's new HDMR tech to enable record-breaking 100TB+ drives 8 months ago:
I remember a decade ago my boss was ecstatic to see a petabyte that fit in a single rack at NAB, on spinning disks instead of tape no less. Crazy to think that in another decade a petabyte will fit in 3RU or maybe even smaller.
- Comment on Amazon’s app will start listing items Amazon doesn’t sell 8 months ago:
I wonder if this is to try to more directly counter Shopify?
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 8 months ago:
It’s what happened with music eventually, but so far I have not seen that with mainstream video releases, only some independent things
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 8 months ago:
If there are no more discs to rip how will people get the movies and shows in the first place?
- Comment on It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Comcast 10 months ago:
The challenge is, for me anyways, if I know who wins I generally don’t care to watch the match anymore. This means I either need to watch the event live or try really hard to avoid spoilers, generally still trying to watch same-day.
I think a lot of sports fans are like that to some extent and it’s why sports are seen as the last hope for linear TV networks in the face of over-the-top streaming.
- Comment on It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Comcast 10 months ago:
I literally only stay because of sports that aren’t easily available outside of pay TV/cable. I don’t mind waiting for basically any other content. Time to start looking at alternatives, though!
- Comment on Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit 10 months ago:
They don’t want to pay for-profit prices?
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 11 months ago:
Yup, I spent years begging my family to stop sending family photos from gatherings through text messages, to no avail. I eventually switched to iPhone and see that it’s fine if we’re all on iMessage, but many of my aunts/uncles/cousins are on Android so if they’re in the picture then it gets sent as MMS and we get terrible images again.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 11 months ago:
The U.S. lagged adoption of SMS compared to Europe (relatively high prices for texting in the early days while relatively low prices for calling in the same era) but now SMS/RCS/iMessage are the dominant mobile messaging method in the U.S. There’s much lower adoption of third-party services like WhatsApp compared to the rest of the world because basically everyone has those services already on their phone, they don’t have to sign up for a service that not everyone might use, and it’s basically free on every phone in the U.S. now.
- Comment on Deck to LG TV 11 months ago:
Wait, just so I’m understanding, the dock works with the LG TV if you connect your laptop or Surface Pro, but not your Steam Deck? If so, it sounds like there’s either a setting on your Steam Deck that needs to be changed or the Deck itself is faulty.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO earns $30.6 million more despite laying off over 2,000 employees in 2024 — salary package represents a 63% raise from the previous year 11 months ago:
So, $15k per person terminated?
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 11 months ago:
5.25" disks seem like they would’ve been outdated when they were installed in 1998, although I suppose the system design probably started much earlier.
- Comment on Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming 1 year ago:
I’d like to get a Steam Deck but was wondering if it’s getting close to a newer, better version coming soon. This makes me feel more comfortable, not that I have the budget for one right now anyway.
- Comment on Summit supercomputer set to be retired in November — it was the world's most powerful back in 2018-19 1 year ago:
TL;DR: although this computer still ranks in the world’s top ten most powerful, Oak Ridge has a new computer delivering over 8 times more computing power while using only twice as much electricity.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram are making AI labels less prominent on edited content 1 year ago:
I didn’t realize they were trying to detect and label AI-generated content. When I’ve uploaded things there’s been a switch to enable if I used AI, but I’ve seen plenty of obvious content that wasn’t labeled so I assumed that if someone didn’t click the button to label it then Facebook doesn’t say it.