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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop buying lifetime subscriptions to services! They’re not sustainable!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 training improving the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, $15k per person terminated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.