mrnobody
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- Comment on Proton launches new "Meet" privacy-focused conferencing platform 1 day ago:
Dude, so edgy calling proton slop. I think for what they’re doing, its great to make a full suite of apps to help users ditch Google! So many people won’t jump the Google, Microsoft, or Apple ship until there are direct enough replacements to all the apps they used. Plus, I feel you’re just jumping on the ‘hate proton’ bandwagon from other oats without providing any real reasoning… Go back to reddit with that sheep brain mentality.
Also, they (Proton) understand there are those who refuse to pay no matter how good services might be, so their targeting businesses also make sense! They have grown enough they can handle scaling for business customers, and they’re paying customers to help keep personal tier stuff free for this who keep it at that. There’s probably not many US companies trying to ditch US tech, but their certainly a shit ton of EU companies forcing US tech to either use LibreOffice or others, so it’s a perfect position to offer Docs and Sheets replacements too (which they have).
I don’t know if they’re taking old Google apps and just stripping Google devices out of them or coding from some other FOSS fork, but they’re using a lot of the same naming conventions (maybe to keep simple).
Personally, Proton IS who I push friends and family to because of the privacy focus, it’s a sort of 1-stop shop replacement for everything so it’s far easier to switch. Think about it… 1 account to change to vs many, with support if trouble, and is available in multiple languages, countries, platforms, etc. Why would you not share them with family? Not everybody is obsessed with privacy in the first place, so many are still blind to the data harvesting or just don’t care enough. Proton helps make it more convincing to switch and protect those people. I think it make sense.
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 1 week ago:
Color me shocked! Jk everybody saw that coming… It was probably hinted at to get reactions, then went ahead when people didn’t bitch too much.
- Comment on Big tech companies agree to not ruin your electric bill with AI data centers 4 weeks ago:
A. It’s a pat on the back attempt to trick people into thinking they care
B. There were DEFINITELY back door deals being made beforehand on energy uses and technologies, so IF they move forward, they’ve already invested money into those energy companies, so while they “spend” money in infrastructure, it’ll be returned in dividends and stock prices. So they’re not really losing any money overall.
C. Fuck them because there’s no way they all just up and agreed to this, unless there’s something in it for Trump’s family to profit off of it. So there your reason why this magic reversal of policy happened.
- Comment on My uncanny AI valentines 1 month ago:
I hope this is satire, bc the title alone makes me lose faith in humanity. Soon enough, people will just believe AI is actually intelligent and try to give it rights.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 1 month ago:
Check out the next evolution, PeLED or PeNC. Perovskite LED or Perovskite Nano Crystal.
Should oulast LED 3x+, better brightness, better contrast, way better refresh rates with less ghosting, smaller pixel/higher density, etc.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 1 month ago:
Well, yes and no. h.265 (HEVC) made it far better for UHD streaming to an extent. Around half the bandwidth of h.264 but 4x more pixels, so you only go up 2x bandwidth.
Now we have .AV1 and h.266 (VCC) formats which need adoption first before we can really push 8K/UHD content. Again, not 100% accurate, but around 3-5x bandwidth of h.264 but is ~15x pixels.
We’ve come a long way!
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 1 month ago:
That’s kind of what I’m getting at. Once you hit a certain size, it only makes sense to have a certain resolution. I know jumping from 65" to 85" made all my Plex content “blurry” bc it wasn’t good enough quality/bitrate. Reripping BD and 4K BD used h.265 and 12-15GB/hr per UHD file was way better!
Idk what 8K looks like, but for those new 98"+ displays, I wouldn’t go any bigger unless 8K. 42-50" Max FHD, I would say 85" Max UHD. You can’t really sit any further in a LR, so being that close I’d want it that way. Plus, it’d require the faster refresh rate to not look so bad moving over that much surface area.
I’m just excited for PeLED or PeNC (Perovskite LED / Nano Crystal). 😎🤯 sorry, off topic…
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 1 month ago:
To add… It would only matter in large format displays anyway. Pixel density is only going to matter so much.
I remember when Sharp put out their Aquos 70" FHD TV and I thought, “eww, so grainy”! But now I’ve got a 85" UHD with the same density as a ~42" FHD which helps with clarity since my viewing distance hadn’t really changed (~10ft).
FPS is great and all, but not when most content is 24fps-60fps. 120 is an awesome sweet spot for 24fps content since its 5hz per frame.
IMO UHD still has room for growth and adoption before another tech hits. Not to mention the financial strains everyone’s in due to the fucking billionaire squeeze… And they wonder why people are tight on money?! Fucking idiots!
- Comment on "Open source Windows" ReactOS is now 30 years old 2 months ago:
I might install it just for Hover!
- Comment on Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite. 2 months ago:
Waterfox or LibreWolf now. Opera and Vivaldi are Chromium.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 2 months ago:
Copilot is just re-skinned ChatGPT hosted on Azure. It’s funny how so many claim GPT to be so great and yet Copilot is branded the class glue eater.
I’m not sticking up for MS either, they’re bad enough shoving it in everyone’s faces.
- Comment on CXMT Debuts Its Domestically-Produced DDR5 Memory: 8000 MT/s DDR5 & 10667 MT/s LP5X For Servers, Desktops, & Laptops 2 months ago:
The most annoying thing is the immediate price hikes on consumer RAM and then blaming AI as if they’re even the same module types!