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LastYearsPumpkin ,

I have two of them, and I think they are great. That being said, they are significantly more expensive than similar options from Dell (or Lenovo, HP, etc.) They just don’t have the volume of production needed to compete.

MAYBE you’ll end up ahead with upgradability or repairability, but honestly, you’re paying more to support good company practices.

I’m planning on keeping these laptops for a long time and upgrading when I need to, but we have to be realistic that most people aren’t going to stomach a minimum of 30% premium for options they don’t care about.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Numbers 5:11-22

If your wife is unfaithful, she should go to the priest and get a concoction to abort the pregnancy conceived with another man.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

How do you know a commenter is over 40? This one right here.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

They could have saved even more by not putting batteries in them, or motors… Man, these things coulda had a way bigger profit margin!

Ex-Illinois lawmaker abruptly pleads guilty to fraud and money laundering, halting federal trial (apnews.com)

Former Illinois lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate William “Sam” McCann abruptly pleaded guilty on Thursday to nine felony counts of wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion, halting his federal corruption trial over misusing up to $550,000 in campaign contributions....

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Equal opportunity on PROSECUTING corruption in Illinois. Every state has corrupt politicians, we just really like holding them accountable here.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Sounds like NBC needs to care a little more about accuracy and a little less about being first.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

To what end?

Many people view “looks” with a strong filter of personality. So being active, funny, nice, kind, etc. would actually, really, make you look more attractive to people.

Dress well, stay clean, get fit, improve yourself as much as possible. But do these things to make yourself a better person, not with an ulterior motive.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Probably stored it for 10 years, declared it expired, and then sent it to be destroyed.

andrew , to technology
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Bose introduces their new Ultra Open Earbuds. “Their cuff-like fit leaves your ears totally open so you can still hear the world around you”

https://www.bose.com/p/earbuds/bose-ultra-open-earbuds/ULT-HEADPHONEOPN.html

@technology

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Bone conducting headphones already exist

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Did they stop the search for the missing people then? Sounds like they got all excited that they found a new toy and forgot all about the people they were actually trying to help.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

That’s why they also spread the myth of fentanyl overdoses by incidental contact. They see an unknown substance, have a panic attack, and assume they’re OD’ing.

Ask any paramedic… you really can’t OD from incidental skin contact with fentanyl.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

You don’t want that. Because at any given moment, kids are committing all sorts of minor violations. They trespass, stay out too late, get into scuffles, etc.

But now there’s a cop watching you 24x7, and catches you smoking at 14 in a closed construction site with your friends… you get arrested cause the cop is a jackass. Now you’ve got a record, you missed a couple weeks of school, and college won’t accept you, and your future is fucked.

You did the exact same thing that millions of other teens did, but because a cop happened to feel kinda like fucking you over, your life is ruined.

You DO NOT want cops patrolling your neighborhood, or anywhere you hang out.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

…You realize you are agreeing with me, right? If that cop just felt like it, you would have been fucked, and there was nothing you could have done about it…

That is exactly what happens to minority kids all the time. I’m going to assume you’re not black, cause that exact same situation with a black kid would have ended up with that kid not going to basic.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Alicia Masters, The Thing’s girlfriend, is also blind, so they’d make a good thruple.

Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use...

LastYearsPumpkin ,

There’s no way for the average person to keep up with remembering unique, strong passwords for all the sites that require them.

You either have to write it down, save it in a password manager, reuse passwords, or have simplified passwords or patterns.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Then one password breech and your password everywhere is exposed to the world. That’s bad advice.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Which is KIND OF ok unless someone looks at a password breech list and figures out your super simple pattern. And I’m sure the rise of AI being used in password breech attacks will just make it more automated.

Real, true, random passwords/tokens is really the only way to actually be safe. Which means you have to use a password generator, AND something to save the password.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

GoAT goat

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Shocked that not one mention of Upton Sinclair in that article. It’s literally half the plot of The Jungle.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

I understand how you feel, but reading your story, I think when you were grabbing the product and telling him to “just drop it an leave” is what ended your career.

It sucks, you got attacked, but you don’t need to trade your personal safety for some store product.

Just based on this story here, where you are giving a very one sided view of the situation, you intentionally put yourself at risk and kept escalating. I hate that a criminal put you in a situation where you ended up getting fired, but there was more than one mistake here.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Networked cameras used for security should have local storage to buffer when the network isn’t available, regardless of if you’re using wired or wireless.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

https://feddit.ch/pictrs/image/338b49ed-637e-4370-a7a5-0041894c81c8.png

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Nailed it right here. West was a perfectly good Batman for his time, but Keaton is fantastic and aged well. No one else comes close.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

But rand() is a number between 0-1, so it will never be >10

Basically this is just True = False

LastYearsPumpkin ,

The intent of the proverb isn’t that bad people don’t get good things, it’s that a person who is cheating doesn’t get value out of the activity.

If you go through life cutting corners, you don’t actually get to learn and build a strong foundation.

You can still be rewarded with jobs, money, and sycophants, but that’s not what really matters.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

https://feddit.ch/pictrs/image/164083b5-5bb7-45e4-b9e7-e19b3a029de6.png

LastYearsPumpkin ,

The cat physics are also outstanding. You can tell there were animators just sitting there studying how cats move for many, many hours.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

It’s a very visible thing when people do it. It’s not common where I’m from, but if 1,000 other people go to a store, then just one person leaving a cart in an awkward place pisses off 999 others.

It doesn’t take much to make it seem like a lot of people are being inconsiderate, when it’s much more likely that a small minority of people have a very wide reaching emotional impact.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Yeah, Stargate did it better, because kidnapped humans inhabiting the galaxy makes more sense. Solves the “everyone looks human” problem without the “we have proof of evolution here” problem.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Depends what county arrested her. She definitely needs to be careful about traveling to certain locations.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

They advertise as extra $ for ad free, but then they put ads in it. That’s dishonest.

What I have to do whenever I watch a show is start the show, get the pre-roll, exit out, then start the show again. It’s annoying and a stupid hoop to jump through just to not have to watch the same pre-roll over and over.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

If you exit out and then start the show again, it skips the pre-roll. It’s annoying, but slightly faster than waiting and watching the 30 second pre-roll.

Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads (www.androidauthority.com)

Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through...

LastYearsPumpkin ,

If you have a CCwGTV, you should be using Apps Only mode. Sucks that Google hides this, because I’ve found that this is the best streaming device for my needs, but they just keep pushing ads like this. Makes me want to do a homebrew chromecast device.

But switching to Apps Only mode is a decent workaround… for now. support.google.com/googletv/answer/10070784?hl=en

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Apps Only mode is a decent workaround… for now. support.google.com/googletv/answer/10070784?hl=en

Really cuts down on the amount of clutter and suggestions on the main screen.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Lean into it

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Yeah, looks like an electronics hoarder. Each of those things at one time had a purpose, but 90% of it is sitting there unused and needs to be discarded/recycled.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Crazy thing is… that’s what Trevor Noah did as a youth in South Africa. Had a whole bootleg CD burning business until his setup died and they couldn’t get the files back.

So he turned his life around and became extremely famous in the US.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

TL;DR - A combination of more competition from China in Android smartphones, and an increase in Apple sales, caused Apple to overtake Samsung.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

I initially read the headline as referring to maintenance costs, but it’s actually because people who rent EVs were using them under the rent to gig economy business they had. As in, people would rent cars to go do Uber Eats deliveries and such, as the EVs weren’t being rented as often as expected from regular rental business. The people who rented these EVs were more likely to damage the vehicle than people who rented gas cars, and the repairs for that damage were more costly to fix.

There wasn’t a great explanation as to why the EV rentals were more likely to get into accidents, but it’s possible that the EVs were more confusing to operate, or more likely to be driven more aggressively due to the acceleration and performance. It’s also possible that the EV models they had were more prone to other issues, like blind spots, worse breaking, or insufficient self-driving, but they didn’t seem to distinguish between different makes and models as being more prone to damage.

Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles (techxplore.com)

Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles::Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times—more than any other pouch …

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Before people jump in here to talk about how battery technology never comes to market… Every single one of these discoveries teaches us something new, sometimes it reveals tech that’s unsustainable, sometimes it’s un-manufacturable, but it always gives us another direction to look for things.

Tech goes relatively slowly from lab results to store shelves, so stuff you read about 10-20 years ago are what are in your devices today. This could very easily be the way that your phone runs in 2035.

This could be as game changing as lithium ion was back in the early 2000’s, or it could go the way of most lab results. We won’t know until we keep poking at it and figuring out what it is useful for.

realcaseyrollins , to technology

From generative AI to the Apple Vision Pro headset, here are the tech developments that scored big this year.

https://www.engadget.com/the-biggest-winners-in-tech-in-2023-143012912.html

LastYearsPumpkin ,

So, the biggest tech of 2023 is a bunch of promises of things coming soon?

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Doomerism is very in right now, but lots of things are getting better. It’s hard to see through all the social media, but if you curate your feeds to things like science and educational information, you can see all the wonderful things people are learning and making.

Sure, there are a lot of selfish, shitty people out there making a lot of noise, but in the background, there’s the same great people just chugging along making things better.

Just chug along with them and vote for the people that align with your values, and do the best you can.

Like Mr. Rogers used to say, when you see bad things happen, just look for the helpers. The first thing that always happens after a tragedy, is people line up to help. It’s our natural instinct.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

They don’t say why the US hasn’t paid out yet, and the way it’s stated in this article and the linked article inside implies that it’s a failing on the government side.

With the significant delays and attempts to bring in off shore labor, it’s much more likely that the factory hasn’t hit the targets needed to receive the subsidy.

The government is using the cash as an incentive to build the factory, not just handing out cash for no reason. Just like the Foxconn factory that failed in Wisconsin, they need to hit milestones to get the money, it doesn’t get handed out upfront, otherwise they’d risk a company just taking the money and running.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

What in the world is this supposed to mean?

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Their primary mission was training and education, they only got into politics when it turned out to be a cash cow, and that was their downfall. It just had a long tail of money making first.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Can’t anymore, there are too many to give that much coverage.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

Really depends on the rules vampires exist under.

I’m guessing some people wouldn’t care and just want in, but there are quite a few vampire mythologies that would be a really awful existence.

LastYearsPumpkin ,

You already orbit Lagrange points, and there’s already tons of space rocks milling about in them.

Lagrange points are weird.

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