abfarid
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- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 1 day ago:
But “new” in the context of shopping just means “not used”, not that it was released in the past year or two.
And as I mentioned in another reply, they are not advertising anything false if those components are actually unused. If the buyer expects some band new, recently released machine with those specs, it’s on them. When you’re buying electronics, some minimal amount of research is required, or you outsource it to your family/friends.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 2 days ago:
Of course it’s not new new, the CPU is 10 years old. But who would think that it is?
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
Ok, I think I now understand the point of this thread. The implication is that some people might assume that these are brand new machines that will have software support for years to come. Even though, that’s confusing to me, as no new machine with those specs costs only 200 Euros. Like, that CPU alone, if used, cost 40-60 Euros. But IMO it’s still a stretch to call this a scam, as they are selling what they are selling. Can these machines run W11 right now? Yes. If the buyer expects something else for that price, it’s on them. The target audience could still be tech-savvy ppl who just need an older machine for simple stuff and W11 is pre-installed there just for convenience.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
What does it matter that Microsoft considers it piracy? If they got the keys for cheap somewhere, it’s a real licensed version anyway and will work fine.
I can order retro emulation handhelds from China and it will arrive with 1000s of ROMs, which is literal piracy, but that doesn’t make it a scam. - Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
Not officially, but I have, in the past, installed W11 on a computer from 2010. And it worked fine, all things considered.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
But are you certain they aren’t new and this is a scam? I’m interested to know how you determined those are used.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
But “e-waste” means something so outadet that it’s useless. Or unrepairable. Those computers are perfectly fine for 80% of users.
And are they explicitly saying that these are new? While you know for sure it’s heavily used equipment?
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
Do you mean you wouldn’t consider it a scam if it has W10 preinstalled instead? How much is MS Office anyway? I know there are $5 W11 keys all over the place.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
That seems like an entirely different problem from the one being discussed.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
Could you explain why you consider these overpriced/scam? If those use new parts and come with warranty, at least the top one, seems fine. Can you do a breakdown if what it should cost?
- Comment on Jupiter 4 days ago:
Isn’t that artificially colored?
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 5 days ago:
Nah, she would’ve been a bike.
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 5 days ago:
I can’t extract a yo momma joke from that though
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 5 days ago:
What are they implying with that wide-ass door for women?
- Comment on Sadge 1 week ago:
What led you to that ciscendental revelation?
- Comment on Sadge 1 week ago:
Maybe. But IIRC it’s still not the reason she got the powers. I think it was because they were related or something, she was able to incorporate Hulk blood somehow. She didn’t become She-Hulk due to massive exposure to radiation.
- Comment on Sadge 1 week ago:
I don’t think she got exposed to gamma radiation, she got a blood transfusion from Banner. So no, gamma radiation is still sexist.
- Comment on I hope he can take my food stamp EBT card 1 week ago:
Khajit haz cheezeburger.
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how “shut the fuck up” fits into all of this, but thanks!
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 1 week ago:
My joke is a reference to Gozer the Destroyer, a.k.a. Gozer the Gozerian.
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 1 week ago:
Zohran the Zohranian.
- Comment on Damn 1 week ago:
I don’t think the point of their comment was “poor people shouldn’t have luxuries”. Stupid actions are stupid, regardless. But when a rich person buys a sports car it’s just regular stupid, and when somebody spends their entire savings on a sports car and starves later, that’s extra stupid, because priorities. Everybody is free to do whatever, but it’s important to admit when we do something stupid.
- Comment on Day 344 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Dang, you’re still posting? I haven’t seen these for months.
Probably because I rarely scroll below 100 upvotes on Top… - Comment on Good list 1 week ago:
What’s the origin of that background? I’ve seen it on a couple of posts lately.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 3 weeks ago:
I mean, they listen sometimes. But the point is, they, as any other company, were doing it to pretend that they are cool and progressive. As the result they got mostly negative reactions. So why bother with the effort if you’re only gonna reduce your already dwindling player base. IIRC, they were very small symbolic events anyway.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure this happened because sooo many players complained about the event the last times. I remember boycotts and stuff.
I’m not saying Jagex isn’t bad, but this time it’s on players.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 3 weeks ago:
In my experience, when using reasoning models, it can count, but not very consistently. I’ve tried random assortments of letters and it can count them correctly sometimes. It seems to have much harder time when the same letter repeats many times, perhaps because those are tokenized irregularly.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what part of what I said prompted all those downvotes, but of course all the reasonable people understood, that the “AGI in 2 years” was a stock price pump.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 3 weeks ago:
I get the meme aspect of this. But just to be clear, it was never fair to judge LLMs for specifically this. The LLM doesn’t even see the letters in the words, as every word is broken down into tokens, which are numbers. I suppose with a big enough corpus of data it might eventually extrapolate which words have which letter from texts describing these words, but normally it shouldn’t be expected.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 4 weeks ago:
That’s nice. But it already seemed pretty accurate to me.