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by alpaca128 7mo ago
A/B test doesn't necessarily imply improvements for the user. It could be testing of future enshittification methods. See YouTube for an example.
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
Can't wait for people to buy two of these sets, take the real RAM sticks and refund the two fake ones in one package. There's no way the seller is going to manually check every returned stick.
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> Macs overall are only 10% of Apple’s revenue "Only" $43 billion in revenue is more than 95% of corporations achieved. Apple is pretending to be eco-friendly and using that as excuse to ship fewer chargers, for example. If the
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
Using the mic requires the device to drop to a much older protocol for headsets designed for an old, obsolete Bluetooth generation. Afaik that's one big reason why BT is such a mess. Many different use-cases are dictated by different p
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> you can connect to multiple devices simultaneously I don't want to connect to multiple devices. I want to select one device and be 100% certain that it's switched to that device as a source. Even with 100% Apple devices this
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> Here, you must use <NEW TECH> simply because we said so! Because the integrated battery adds an expiration date to a device that could otherwise last decades if maintained properly. Same as Apple tightly coupling the iMac screen
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
Because that small audio jack converter cannot drive my wired headphones, so now it's not a small dongle but another smartphone-sized gadget with usually another rechargeable battery, and at that point I might as well use my laptop as
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> Using constrained mediums on purpose is often how the best artistic expression is achieved Artistic expression is not technology. Vinyl is strictly inferior as technology. That doesn't imply that it cannot have any advantages at a
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
You can not trade or sell the contents of lootboxes.
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
My Windows 7 laptop had 4GB RAM and I played Crysis 2 on it. 4GB was absolutely enough for a performant system.
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> This feature doesn't introduce anything that's not already present while browsing the web. Therefore we believe this feature doesn't have security aspects to worry about. Am I reading it wrong or is this seriously saying
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
In a terminal I'd intuitively expect displayed text to not lie, especially if clicking it has consequences. The use-cases provided seem to all just be more or less "it's convenient and looks good", which is the last thin
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> Why is it just "okay" that someone can call you up on the phone and convince you that your loved one is in mortal peril and you have to wire money to them right now? It is not okay and is in fact a crime. Making it more illeg
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> great artists steal. That quote is about inspiration, not just using others' work or style. T. S. Eliot's version from 1920 put it best imho: > Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take,
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
It's not a requirement but it is so correlated that there's no need to react so strongly. I struggle to remember a single paid open source tool off the top of my head but could name dozens that you can just use for free.
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
And a person using their pen can hack other people's brains, yet free speech is more important. I think manufacturers being required to provide longer security update support against hacks etc would be more helpful than violating priva
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
Luckily it was archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313125244/https://old.reddi...
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
Or they could all just agree to not cut prices so everyone profits more than with a race to the bottom. Not the first nor last time for this to happen. Undercutting the competition pays off when they're much smaller and you can elimina
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> driving cars or flying airplanes started as just a hobby Those still are hobbies, you just need a license for it now. Which makes sense since crashing an airplane is a bit more devastating than crashing a computer. But most hobbies don
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> The interesting part isn't that it's slower — it's that Could you please use your own words to write things?
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
In the middle of a gaming session one stops thinking about graphics once it's reached a certain level of fidelity, and that level is far below RTX. Not worth the money, especially today.
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
I'd say the low end is closer to a Raspberry Pi or perhaps a used old Thinkpad. A $600 machine with good single-core performance is only low end if you ignore everything outside the Apple product lines. > trackpad is only incrementa
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> it's aware that you could've just not responded It's not aware of anything and doesn't know that a world outside the context window exists.
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
Originally it was required to collect a signature from every tenant living in the building in order to be permitted to install a plug-in solar panel. As a result people living in rented apartments just did it without asking, but that meant
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
> So far, utilities have won over lawmakers in five states and convinced them to delay votes on plug-in solar bills They'll change their mind once so many people use panels without permit that they cause difficulties with grid stabi
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
I am talking from experience with an M1 & 8GB RAM. I had to restart either the browser or the YouTube browser processes at least once every couple days to stop the whole system from lagging.
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
Imho 8GB RAM for productivity can quickly be restrictive. I used an M1 with 8GB and my current Macbook is M2 with 16GB, and to me the difference feels bigger than 2x. It seems not everyone here feels that way, but I'd say there's
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
A couple YouTube tabs are enough if you leave them running for long enough. Just one YT browser process will easily take up 1-4GB sooner or later.
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
I've seen enough reviews of recent Lego sets to doubt this. Sets with a brick or two where the color is off, sets where the final model falls apart if you look at it wrong, and when there's fan designed alternatives which are more
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by alpaca128 7mo ago
That's never happened to me once, what app does this?

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