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- Comment on Newegg stock falls 17.7% after owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities in China 3 days ago:
I didn’t know it was owned by a Chinese company, nor publicly traded
Newegg was established in California by Fred Chang in 2001, but Lianluo acquired a majority stake in the privately held company in 2016. By 2021, it had merged with Beijing-based Lianluo Smart Limited, with the company being renamed Newegg Commerce, Inc., finally taking it public. At the moment, Lianluo currently owns 54.5% of Newegg.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 1 week ago:
Exactly
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 1 week ago:
If that was their concern they’d be advising less AI investment, but reading the article they’re pushing for industry to do more investment, that only major investment and adoption shows benefits.
- Comment on "The reviews got lower and lower": Dev says his puzzle game is suffering on Steam because young people "don't know how to write emails anymore" 1 week ago:
For physical letters I only put a subject on business correspondence, but that’s not something I expect kids to be familiar with
- Comment on "The reviews got lower and lower": Dev says his puzzle game is suffering on Steam because young people "don't know how to write emails anymore" 1 week ago:
It turns out, an NPC named Sarah, who is able to receive real-life emails from players crucial to advancement of the story, held all the answers.
Malmehed looked in Sarah’s email inbox and found thousands of emails from 2025 alone. Concerningly, he also saw that “about a third of them” didn’t have anything in the main body - everything was crammed into the subject line, which was preventing the in-game system from identifying the keywords necessary to respond.
“That’s something I’ve noticed a lot of young people are doing these days,” he told Polygon. “So I believe the users are in general pretty young.”
“No form of modern communication requires a subject and a body — it’s easy to see how people [who are] not familiar with email aren’t filling out both fields.”
- Comment on Microlandia is a "brutally honest" scion of SimCity that thinks of cities as "beautiful but insane machines" 3 weeks ago:
1.4 change log: “A city is a beautiful, but insane machine that survives always in homeostasis and always in chaos. In 1.4 you get a little less narrative, a little more reality, the structures of everyday life exposed, greed companies, economy that doesn’t forgive, even the broke. The night mode is a pleasant anesthesia; use it, but do not confuse ambience with robustness.”
- Comment on New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony 1 month ago:
Gives a nice overview of the state of alternative mobile OS and devices, too
- Comment on 'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web 2 months ago:
It used to be if you wanted the detailed news you had to pay for it, either a subscription or 25¢ for that day’s edition ($1 on Sunday). But it was really easy to get that day’s edition: just stick a quarter in the dispenser.
We need to find a way to make that work. I wouldn’t mind paying 50¢ or $1 for access to one day’s-worth of articles, but the payment processing fees eat away all the money on such small transactions. I also don’t necessarily want to set up an account for some random local newspaper on the other side of the country that I’m looking at this one time and might never look at again. It feels like these should be solvable problems, though.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 months 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 months 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 5 months 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 5 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 6 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 6 months ago:
Stop buying lifetime subscriptions to services! They’re not sustainable!
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom 7 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 8 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 8 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. 9 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 11 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 11 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago:
They don’t want to pay for-profit prices?