Fifrok

@Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The 9800X3D is a desktop chip, so I don’t think it’s relevant here. We are talking about a complete mobile device after all, not parts.

  In my country, for around 800$ equivalent, you can buy a used business laptop with long battery life and enoguh performance for web browsing, video playback, and office work. The cheapest macbook neo I found in my country is also around that price (820$), and the better configuration is about 900$.

  For the lower price, I could get:

  • a thinkpad t480 with multiple batteries (hot swappable) and 32GB SO-DIMM RAM
  • a latitude 7420 with 11th gen intel with 32GB soldered RAM, a ultraportable like the neo
  • a thinkpad t14 gen 2 with 11th gen intel or ryzen 5000 and 48GB RAM (one SO-DIMM slot, and one soldered module)
  • or if the size format didn’t matter a thinkpad p52 with 64GB RAM and a 90Wh swappable battery If I went with the higher-spec price, I could get a thinkpad p53 with a quadro RTX 4000 and 32 GB RAM, 512 GB ssd, and a Pantone-calibrated display.

  All of them have more ports the the neo, use standard SSDs, and don’t come from a companie that is one of the most hostile to consumer rights and right to repair .

  One of the few, I take it?

  One of many. What I meant (and should have said, instead of being vague) is that I don’t expect this to be a real shift in policy, but rather a way to maintain profits when people have less disposable income, and I fully expect Apple to keep lobbing against right to repair, even when releasing ‘repairable’ devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No? Where did you get that from? There’s an ‘a’ there not ‘the’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get the hype from tech bros for the ‘neo’, it’s a laptop powered by a phone chip sold for the price of a one with a decent dGPU.

  Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that installing macOS on a PC not manufactured by Apple has always been difficult by design (even before the shift to ARM), how is this not a walled garden strategy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  same here, I’ve wanted to buy a second 32GB stick for my laptop, but now it costs about the same as a months rent for my collage dorm. My broke ass can’t afford that and still eat, so I’m gonna have to rock single channel for a couple of years more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adtech is not tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually 🤓, what lead to this 👆 being the state of things is corporate greed 🤑. The ‘people’ 🐽🐷 who own those ‘services’ make more money💸💸 then entire states - I belive that’s what the kids call a bruh 😑 moment.

  So, I’ve been thinking 🤔, and I belive I found a solution 👍. It’s so simple 🤩, we just need to do some, let’s call them 🤫😇 ‘budget cuts’ 📉 in the highest positions 🤯🔫

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions and millions and…⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RAM tends to just work or just fail

  Bad RAM can also sometimes cause your OS to be unstable, but it’s hard to notice if it isn’t bad enough to make your computer crash often

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty but pointless⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly that’s not a woodstove, that would be too good.

  That’s probably an Aga style stove. Those are mostly made with cast-iron and use radiant heat to cook. Each oven ‘compartent’ has a diffrent function (eg. top left is warming, bottom left is for roasting and a big one for baking). They work kinda like a masonry heater. And are meant to be always on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would get old fast⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🤡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨W.XP⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that 8.1 was an apology for 8 that never got accepted, 10 an enshitified version of what 8 could have been if Microsoft shareholders didn’t decide they wanted a slice of that sweet sweet mobile market.

  Anyway, anything past 7 has/had unacceptable privacy violations. And that alone makes them shitte, even regardless of everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨skynet would be better than these clowns⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean this with the biggest offence possible: AI judges make no sense, atleast with the current way of doing AI (LLMs). It’s been known for years that they amplify any bias in their training data. You are black? Higher chance of going to prison and longer serving time. Getting divorced and are male? Your ass is NOT getting custody. Hell, even without that the LLM might just hallucinate some crime not in the data for a case and give you a life time prison sentence. And if you somehow manage to avoid all that, what’s stopping somebody from just shadowprompting it and getting the judgement they want? It would also be an easy target for corruption, the goverment wants their poltical rivals gone? Tweak the model so it’s just that bit harsher, or just a bit more alligned with some other interpretatnion of the law.

  Who would even choose the training data? The judges? Why would they, it would be better for them to sabotage and keep their jobs. Some goverment agency then? Don’t want to do that, or you’re gonna find out separation of power has a reason.

  Bad idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨skynet would be better than these clowns⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You really want to give any power over yourself and others to the bias amplification machine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too pretty to eat⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Works fine for me, might be something on your end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I caught myself writing a long response to this, but I got something that I belive will be better: Ok, USAmerican.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular Chrome extensions hijacked by hackers in widespread cyberattack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of them also sound pointless, e.g the emoji keyboards. I know for a fact windows, macos and chromeos have inbuild emoji selectors. On linux KDE also has an selector, idk about gnome but even if it doesn’t have one there’s probably a shell exstention for that, there’s also an app called grin (or maybe smile? can’t be bothered to google rn). I literally can’t see a reason to use an web extension over those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday Daily Question Thread - July 31, 2023⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monday Daily Question Thread - July 31, 2023⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Next week I’m going to Czechia and later Slovakia. I want to get some local aftershaves while I’m there, do you all have any recommendations?