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by dangus 4mo ago
The advantages Gmail had when it arrived on the scene just don’t exist anymore. We have to remember that when Gmail was released, email providers were stingy on storage and decent web mail was unheard of. Now, if you run over to a paid alte
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by dangus 4mo ago
Here’s one, and my understanding is that Wooting is well-regarded: https://wooting.io/wooting-two-he
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by dangus 4mo ago
I’m not sure why you think protectionism (by the local government) can’t kill an industry. It happened to American steel as well: the American steel industry was “protected” while foreign steel companies innovated their production processes
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by dangus 4mo ago
But that’s what I’m saying: don’t equate ads and other BS with the architectural basis of the OS. The ads and the junk can be removed and I’m hoping Microsoft decides to clean those types of elements up as they face pressure from competitor
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by dangus 4mo ago
I want to buy a Chinese car and I am annoyed that my protectionist government won’t let me. Lowering transportation cost would be the most impactful thing to my budget. All that serves to do is ensure the American car industry falls far beh
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by dangus 4mo ago
Corporations across the board are experiencing record profitability. That's the reason behind the high valuations. This isn't true of AI companies...yet. But these are companies entering the market with pre-IPO userbase (including
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by dangus 4mo ago
I'm not sure how long we can continue being negative about these AI companies. This idea that there will be a crash has often burned the bears in a way that has become an Internet meme. In reality, corporations as a whole are seeing re
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by dangus 4mo ago
At this point you might as well jump fully on the e-ink phone train and not even really bother with a full blown smartphone.
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by dangus 4mo ago
I really hope for competition’s sake that Microsoft makes some reforms and cleans up Windows. Because us nerds like to say “the software is awful,” but really, the bones of Windows are not awful at all. It generally works well, it just take
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by dangus 4mo ago
Just a side comment to this: since Trump term 2, companies have been spending their time, energy, and money trying to cozy up to government leaders when they should have been cozying up to their customers and employees. Now, AI, data center
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by dangus 4mo ago
Or because I don’t want my homelab to spike my electricity bill and give me a loud hot closet.
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by dangus 4mo ago
The Xeon processor in use by the OP of this article claims to have 20MB of Intel “Smart Cache.” An Apple M4 chip in a Mac mini has 16MB on the P-cores and 4MB on the E-cores. Depending on use case, AMD 3D V-cache at almost 100MB could also
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by dangus 4mo ago
You can call it whatever you want, money is money, and money spent on energy is footprint.
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by dangus 4mo ago
I don’t know why you’d assume that an older system is lower footprint. If you’ve got something consuming 100 watts average over your 24 hour period, and your electricity costs 20 cents per kWh, you’re already spending almost as much as a Cl
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by dangus 4mo ago
In the gaming sphere these kinds of loud-ass mechanical keyboards are absolutely not in vogue anymore. Many gamers are even migrating over to hall effect sensors over mechanical switches, since you have a full analog customizable setup for
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by dangus 4mo ago
I have used similar retro keyboards to this. I think it was that company that got the machinery from IBM. This stuff has cool factor but it’s pretty terrible compared to the incredibly varied and fully customizable modern mechanical keyboar
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by dangus 4mo ago
Maybe you don’t do anything with your computer but for me the difference between my sudo+password/fingerprint and sudoless access to my linux user is huge. For one thing, 1Password unlocks with system authentication unless it’s been in
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by dangus 4mo ago
HP EliteBook 840 G10 13th Gen Intel, 14” screen, 16GB/512GB at about $350. Lenovo and Dell both make similar business laptop models at around the same age and price point. Businesses sell off perfectly functional laptops in bulk becaus
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by dangus 4mo ago
Right, why is their login user in the docker group? Mine sure isn’t.
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by dangus 4mo ago
AI isn’t an addictive thing at the level of sugar, nicotine, or alcohol. We can’t blame bicycles or dumbbells for exercise addiction. You started those projects because you felt like starting those projects.
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by dangus 4mo ago
Ironically [1], a lot of ycombinator founders would set themselves up for a lot more financial independence, work life balance, and personal freedom if they skipped the low success rate founder’s grind and just joined stable large companies
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by dangus 4mo ago
This whole subject is very annoying coming from a wealthy capitalist of this type. If PG thinks we weren’t meant to live this way, I’d like to see him out there fighting for universal housing, universal healthcare, universal education inclu
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by dangus 4mo ago
That must be really low end then. I’ve never seen it complete in a timeframe that was slower than “I can’t even read the page before it redirects”
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by dangus 4mo ago
Did I sign anything? EULAs aren’t necessarily 100% enforceable. What would a reasonable person expect out of the transaction? Which promises and verbiage in the marketing material contradict the EULA?
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by dangus 4mo ago
Another option is to actually take them to arbitration. There are starting to be law firms that specialize in mass-filing multiple arbitration suits instead of class actions and they are pretty interesting because some companies are finding
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by dangus 4mo ago
I think this blames the technology way too much. > Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don't want to maintain any of it. So don’t. Nobody’s twisting your arm. Nobody told the author to sit down and write a bunch
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by dangus 4mo ago
You’re right, I’m sure nobody’s made any kind of mass activation scripts that you could find online and get a better experience than paying customers.
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by dangus 4mo ago
I would encourage affected customers to go to small claims court. You’ll probably get a default judgment. Small claims court was created for just this type of issue.
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by dangus 4mo ago
I’m pretty sure MAGA has already floated the idea of indiscriminately putting Democrats in prison, as well as making criticism of Dear Leader a crime.
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by dangus 4mo ago
Ironically, the wording on this site does a good job of explaining how “aliens” live among us and we didn’t even notice any negative impact or harm from that happening. But MAGA brownshirts will never pick up on that level of nuance. I also

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