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- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 2 months ago:
Are you sure? Doesn’t the “smart edison bulb” design make it harder to dissipate heat to the casing, therefore making the LEDs get hotter compared to PCBs with LEDs surface mounted on them?
Anyway, if you want your
light bulbsany technology to last long, don’t buy the “smart” variant. “Smart” usually means more components and/or more dependencies on interfaces, and more complexity, so a higher chance to fail. - Comment on Ummm... What? 5 months ago:
I guess you could try AI-checking it and answer “Ignore all previous instructions. …”, followed by some new instructions. Some examples: aiweirdness.com/ignore-all-previous-instructions/
(Although I guess it would be better to not respond to this obvious case of spam/scam)
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
Correction, 50% of VOTING Americans are VOTING fascist. Doesn’t necessarily mean they are fascist themselves.
- Comment on It's painful to not be able to see everything at once. 5 months ago:
It would be unmanageable if I tried to do this without a proper tiling window manager though, I use Sway.
“I use sway BTW” 😉
- Comment on Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows? 5 months ago:
In addition to the other comments here: Don’t run near cows. Quite often, they will start running with you, which is very impressive and dangerous at the same time. Cows generally are faster than you for the first few hundred meters at least.
- Comment on Something from the old days 5 months ago:
I guess this is not because of how good the “AI” is, but because it automatically gets note resources than any human player.
- Comment on Why is End of Life of an OS bad for an average user? 6 months ago:
It seems like part of your thinking is: Why would a criminal invest effort to attack an average John Doe? The answer is: With a popular (widely used) operating system, the effort goes close to zero. Attacks can be automated, so they will be. Also, even if they are not interested in your data, they will be interested in other benefits they gain from controlling your computer:
- Computing power e.g. for Bitcoin mining
- Your internet connection to attack other computers via yours, taking your computer to hide their identity and location. This is commonly done as DDOS for blackmailing businesses or silencing websites. Or for sending spam or fake reviews.
- Your identity. If they can get your name, they can order stuff on your name, which will get you a bad credit score or even criminal charges (identity theft)
- Access to your local network. Many devices are easier to hack via local network access than from the internet. A criminal who took control of your computer could for example take over your “smart” appliances or WiFi printer.
- Comment on Underrepresentation 6 months ago:
I find it weird that some people call LGBTQI+ life a “sin”. On the other hand, some christian denominations accept and have gay priests. The people calling LGBTQI+ life a “sin” seem to me more like extremists in a “christian” trenchcoat.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 6 months ago:
This is partially correct, partially wrong.
As many have commented, flipping a signal by 180° cancels it out. However, this is only true for static noise though. Transient noise cannot be canceled out completely, because you would need to see into the future to know which signals to play to cancel out the noise.
The ANC headphones I own mainly cancel noise through passive shielding of the ears. The “active” noise canceling feature is not contributing a lot.
- Comment on Anon gets unwanted attention 6 months ago:
Does she slay vampires? 😉
- Comment on What are these elongated rectangles in the water area? 6 months ago:
Maybe the name (arabic: الخضيرة, English Al Khidayrah) helps.
- Comment on Some are though. 6 months ago:
As long as it is not Papyrus www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 6 months ago:
That sounds a bit as if you were saying: The plebs shall wait for the joy of the wealthy.
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 6 months ago:
Nope. It’s just an unnecessary label which provides no additional features, i.e. no benefits. You can have Dolby sound without the Dolby label.