littlecranky67

4 ms·

61.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
Unless you were in the US. There it always worked.
62.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
Nothing would be lost, it would just be somewhere else. Meta and Google monopolized content and ads. We had the usenet, irc, ftp and small hobbiest websites long before those companies existed. It actually helps if you can remember 1996 or
63.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
They wouldnt be dead, everbody would use subscription and they could easily afford them because stuff would be cheaper. The biggest misconception that average people can’t get their head around is that all ads are being paid for by themselv
64.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
Online advertisements should be forbidden as a whole. The attention-stealing and engagement-maximising internet with all it horribly effects only exist, due to advertising. And we know that the world without online ads is perfectly possible
65.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
Target audience - B2B. There are multiple videos of Steve Jobs saying that he hates B2B, because the people using the devices are not the ones making the purchasing decision. It is pretty much against Apples DNA, and all their B2B they have
66.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
Because given the current state it is in, it will receive net-payments from the other EU states for decades and we are already on a descending path economically in the EU. No more foreign subsidies and helps until we got our own ship back o
67.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
Way I see it, most parents give their kids early access to phones just to keep them sedated and occupied. There is zero benefit for under 14yo to have unrestricted access to the smartphone or internet. It only benefits the parents.
68.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
it is not just simplified, it lets you chose which apps to show in that "simplified" view. For the elderly, that removes a lot of clutter and ways to shot yourself in the foot.
69.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
While I am critical of Ukraine being in talks to join the EU (which IMHO it shouldn't), I am quite happy that we in EU kind of have built good relationships with Ukraine - military drone construction knowledge and expierience will beco
70.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
That is exactly what I would say. He got beat up, it is a fact and happened in the past. Unless you have a timemachine to undo it, nothing can make that undone. Now you can endulge in pain, anger, misery etc. - or you could get up, swallow
71.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
But on GitHub, you agree explicitly that MS can use it. I would assume codeberg has any-scraping measures (not saying they are perfect, but better than knowing Microsoft can train with private repos).
72.
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
Mostly because developers (me included) don't like to be told we are being laid off due to AI that was trained on our free open-source hobby projects.
73.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
As a german living in spain, i feel your pain. While I do speak spanish around B1/B2 level, it took a lot of time and effort - probably the biggest effort in learning something after uni. People are often "you should speak the lan
74.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
Stopping distilation is a condradiction to growth: The more active users Anthropic gets, the easier it will be for chinese companies to distile the model. Heck, I can see a paid browser extension being issued that does nothing but send copi
75.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
I wonder if they ever will be. If the chinese open source models are only 3-6 months behind every major frontier model release, I can't see the business model. GLM-5.2 is supposedly on par to Opus depending on the case. And everybody a
76.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
Very unpopular opinion: Scalping is the fair market price discovery - it is basically a requirement in free trade societies. Now, Valve has no interest in screwing up their users because of the AI hardware craze. But this is what happens if
77.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
> As a lone elderly person you're likely to be scammed That is just utter BS. Yes, it is usally the elderly who got scammed, but saying that because you are elderly you are likely to be scammed is reverse causation. Especially if yo
78.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
If you don't have children to inherit your fortune to, you can retire with full exhaustion of capital - that will yield way more than 4k$/month. Plus, if you don't have children there is not much holding you in the US - you c
79.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
Yes, you must bring your remote job unless you want to work for less-than minimum wage in a restaurant.
80.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
The two capitals (Santa Cruz and Las Palmas) are pretty good spot to live in. Tourism focuses on the south on both islands. Las Palmas has a beach with a bit touristic activity, but its not drinking tourism like Mallorca or Benidorm. Combi
81.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
No rivers and no water is reality here for quite a while already. The islands rely a lot on desalination, and there is a big EU-funded project going on to create a desalination plant that not only is used to supply tap water, but the water
82.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
Canary Islands are part of Spain and probably unaffected from climate change - we have 19-22°C all year round. If it raises to 25° still pretty livable.
83.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
What purpose does Apple Pay / Google Pay serve other than paying from your smasrtphone? You can use Credit Card NFC payments if you want tap to pay and enter your pin. That workflow is not much more difficult than using a smartphone. A
84.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
That sounds fascinating and I thought about doing similar, but as tech savy as I am to tackle every idea people throw at me, I am unable to come up with those ideas. Did you have a specific process to identify what your 25 projects to work
85.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
Or you resort to legally binding snail mail.
86.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
Well for banks there is competition (and largeest german consumer bank - Deutsche Bank/Postbank offers a non-smartphone based authentication device [0]). Not so much for government run railway. [0]: https://www.postbank.de&#
87.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
Here in Germany we had court rulings saying the german railway (DB) must offer offline tickets that do not require a computer or smartphone to purchase to not discriminate against the elderly. I am pretty sure we will see similar rulings fo
88.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
I use Pop_OS! on my old 2014 Macbook Pro (16 GB LPDDR3, i5-4278U with 4 cores). It runs superbly with Gnome3. Given that it is 12 years old now and the latest supported macOS version with opencore legacy patcher was stuttering and unusably
89.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
I have a setup where I use a HDMI-over-Ethernet extender [0] to play games in my living room from my homeoffice desk setup in the bedroom. Funnily, the computer and TV are just 1m apart, but separated by a wall and I didn't want to dri
90.
by littlecranky67 4mo ago
And who provides the security patches for it now?

More ›