TheScaryOne

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by TheScaryOne 2mo ago
>If someone does not read a contract or a legal agreement, before accepting or signing, it's on them When was the last time you read an entire EULA before installing software? I'm going to guess the time frame is somewhere arou
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by TheScaryOne 2mo ago
Marketplace has taken over literally all of the other reselling websites and apps. Try finding a decent car on Craigslist today.
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by TheScaryOne 3mo ago
My 8mbps DSL line is $43USD/month after everything, and the cheapest internet I have access to. The next tier up is Starlink or 250mbps Fiber, which have the same cost. I do not wish to support Starlink. But I also can't afford to
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by TheScaryOne 3mo ago
Shutting down in the middle of work is a common failure mode for overheating, for men and machine. Got an IR camera?
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by TheScaryOne 3mo ago
Most old forums would let you toggle Flat or Tree view, but Tree view was obviously beholden to hitting "Reply" to the post you were addressing, and not just copying a bunch of people's quotes into a bigger post, which would
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by TheScaryOne 3mo ago
Oh, you see, that's wind energy. No one can charge for the wind, so they don't like it. You can't build big expensive wind drilling machines and keep big vats of wind for bad days.
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by TheScaryOne 4mo ago
That's not the point of fast.com Fast is a one click solution to finding out your download speed from Netflix. Latency doesn't matter, nor does upload.
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by TheScaryOne 4mo ago
Would you rather that the 100% of bugs in those 20% of tickets never got fixed? Linux users write highly detailed bug reports because it's the only way to get things fixed without coding the fix yourself.
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by TheScaryOne 4mo ago
>Windows 7 would take minutes to boot. Citation needed. I went from Win7 on a i5-2500k that booted in sub 15 seconds on a SATA SSD to Win10 on a 5600x that takes 45 seconds to a minute to boot an NVME drive.
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by TheScaryOne 4mo ago
>search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement. Too bad it's been completely broken by Windows 10. It can't even find the names of software I have pinned to the start menu. One of the things I mi
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by TheScaryOne 4mo ago
>you said even one of them in a contract negotiation the first order of business by the union rep would be to remove you from contract negotiation. You can do the same thing by saying "jury nullification" during the jury duty s
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by TheScaryOne 4mo ago
> it's still a tool, not a person. Tell that to the CEO's who have replaced all of their yes-men with yes-chatbots.
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by TheScaryOne 5mo ago
>The first is the fear of job loss, and I feel like this is the most straightforward to deal with. Personally, I think the solution should be to share the productivity of AI with society at large, in particular since AI owes most of its
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by TheScaryOne 5mo ago
I can't wait for the Faro Plague and the robot dinosaurs.
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by TheScaryOne 5mo ago
>What is most concerning to me is how people are turning their brains off for anything tangentially related to AI. Everyone is betting the farm on that .01% chance that they become wild trillionaires. We're going to burn down the wh
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by TheScaryOne 5mo ago
Today's car crash deaths are sometimes software bug caused deaths. Toyota failed their forensic audit of their drive by wire code back in 2013. https://capitolweekly.net/toyota-has-settled-hundreds-of-sud...
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by TheScaryOne 5mo ago
My phones all fail from internal hardware faults. Also never broken a screen. I had a S3 that the battery would only last 12 hours or so, but the EMMC failed before the battery did.
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by TheScaryOne 5mo ago
No. You get a 2 year old flagship phone for $200-300 outright, instead of $1500+ Samsung also makes the A-series Galaxies which are a pretty solid mid-tier phones that are supported for years, too.
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by TheScaryOne 5mo ago
>Running AI locally could be a big selling point Actually will push a lot of people away. I don't want any hardware that has special relationships with AI LLM's.
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by TheScaryOne 5mo ago
And if the majority is "no confidence" we get a special runoff election with new candidates.
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
The S3 ran Samsung software for about, oh, a month after I bought it brand new? I'd been running CyanogenMod until they quit giving updates to the S3.
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
Never. I am very gentle to my phones. Thing has one small dot of a scratch on the screen. Never been opened.
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
My Samsung Galaxy S3 died after 8 years. EMMC failure. Just started boot looping while I was asleep. Everything gone. Known issue. My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at 7 years. Some kind of thermal failure, I was able to recover my data by keeping
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
>those who by definition want more than everyone else and can seemingly never be satified There's a medical word for things like that. Schmancer?
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
Do you hate the "Ribbon" UI that got forced into everything in Win8+? That's what telemetry was used for. Every advanced user turned that off when they gave us the option, and now we have every UI on the computer designed for
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
After being told to not integrate Internet Explorer into the OS, they changed the name to EDGE and did it anyway? With the added excuse that it now compromises most of the file explorer functionality, too?
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
>Everybody is using it everywhere. No one in our Auto shop is using AI. One of the new diagnostic tools was demo'd with AI, and none of us were having it. It's about as accurate as Googling your symptoms. My mother had an AI po
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
I much prefer having my thoughts distilled down into easily digestable and agreeable idioms that I can push around with absolute faith that they weren't just lies written by some PERSON on the internet.
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
Your argument can't be both that "the batteries are recyclable" and "well duh no one does it because it doesn't make any money."
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by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
>Lithium batteries are highly recyclable And fake meat is highly edible. But do many people eat fake meat? No. Do many people recycle lithium ion batteries? Also, no. Less than 5% is the current estimate for what percent of lithium ion b

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