cmnybo
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- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 3 days ago:
There are lots of standards for charging over USB such as PD. Many of those standards have multiple versions since newer devices keep needing more power. That’s to be expected of an interface that’s been around for almost 30 years. If every device came with a 240W USB PD charger, the price would increase by over USD $100, not to mention the only model I’ve seen is the size of a brick.
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 3 days ago:
Non standard cables and chargers either wouldn’t connect, wouldn’t charge, or would burn something up if you used the wrong one.
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 3 days ago:
Most already have.
- Comment on Smart in-asphalt fabric provides live reports from within roads 5 days ago:
It sounds like it’s just natural fiber fabric with some wire woven into it. All the electronics are in a box beside the road.
- Comment on Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech 5 days ago:
That requires a mouse with an 8kHz polling rate. With a 1kHz polling rate, this trick will be limited to sounds under 500Hz.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 2 weeks ago:
Just remember, a seedbox or VPN is a lot cheaper than a single streaming subscription.
- Comment on Eliminating PoE interference 3 weeks ago:
Most cat6 is unshielded. Make sure you’re using shielded cat6 and shielded connectors. Check it with a multimeter to make sure there is continuity from end to end too.
- Comment on California could mandate tobacco-style health labels on social media 3 weeks ago:
There’s a huge difference between e-mail and a site that is specifically designed to keep people addicted.
The warning won’t do anything though. I would be surprised if it takes more than a day before ublock origin has a filter to hide it.
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 4 weeks ago:
I will never buy any of their devices. I prefer to self host my own ad free streaming using open source software.
- Comment on Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing 4 weeks ago:
Higher resolutions and sample rates only matter when the recordings are going to be edited.
- Comment on E-Paper Display Reaches the Realm of LCD Screens 4 weeks ago:
It’s certainly not the first e-paper display that’s fast enough for computer use. Dasung has had 60Hz greyscale and 30Hz color monitors available for a while now.
- Comment on Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn 5 weeks ago:
Don’t leave cameras uncovered. Webcam covers are cheap. Tape works too.
- Comment on Is AI Slop Killing the Internet? 5 weeks ago:
There are some channels uploading several AI generated videos per hour 24/7. I’m surprised they don’t get banned.
- Comment on Power Loss but Still Online with Fiber Connection 5 weeks ago:
Your ISP has working battery backups. Don’t expect it to stay on for longer, widespread outages though. When the power is out for a week, satellite is usually the only thing that will still work.
ISPs that still provide DSL, really don’t want to put any effort into maintaining their equipment these days. They probably stopped replacing the batteries a long time ago.
- Comment on Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off 1 month ago:
Don’t install their spyware apps in the first place.
- Comment on Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default 1 month ago:
That would be one of the top three reasons for doing it.
- Comment on Internet standards body proposes new header field disclosing AI — will make it easier for machines to determine if AI was used on a site 1 month ago:
It would have to become law in every country in order to work.
- Comment on The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through The Years 1 month ago:
It’s been ages since I’ve used Adobe Reader. I typically use Okular or Xreader. They are both tiny compared to Adobe’s bloatware.
- Comment on The Math Hack You Didn’t Know Was in Your Credit Card 1 month ago:
The check digit is to catch a mistyped number.
- Comment on High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups 1 month ago:
WinRAR still exists? I think it’s been a couple decades since I last used it.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 month ago:
You can use object detection to send an alert if there is a person in your yard or if a car pulls into your driveway. It avoids the frequent false alerts you get with normal motion detection.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 month ago:
It would be nice if Frigate supported the NPU in AMD CPUs. Then it could be used for object detection with CCTV cameras.
- Comment on Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content 2 months ago:
I’m sure that will just push more people to get their music from soulseek and torrents.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 months ago:
There are browser addons that hide youtube shorts.
- Comment on Please describe the lightning protection for your amateur radio station and specifically whether you use "lightning arrestors" (with or without the belief they will arrest the lightning). 2 months ago:
DC pass through is only needed if you’re powering something over the coax like a pre amp or a remote coax switch.
- Comment on YouTube Forces Dubs Now 2 months ago:
There’s a browser addon that lets you disable auto translation.
- Comment on What's the REAL minimum power supply needed for a RTX 5060 Ti? 2 months ago:
The card is rated for 180 watts. It has a single 8 pin power connector, which means the maximum it could possibly draw is 225W. Pick a power supply that will provide that plus whatever the rest of the computer draws. I would suggest oversizing the power supply a bit so you don’t use more than about 75% of it’s rated output.
- Comment on Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots 2 months ago:
- Comment on Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots 2 months ago:
- Comment on TikTok’s ‘ban’ problem could end soon with a new app and a sale 2 months ago:
Just ban it already. Nobody needs that brain rotting site.