WetBeardHairs

WetBeardHairs , 7 months ago to technology in Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform

It’s the network effect. Everyone else uses it - so it is easier to just use it than to not use it.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to technology in Kendrick Lamar's company just dropped a limited-edition 'dumb' phone. It's already sold out.

Yeah the Light Phone 2 has been out for a while now. I saw it and thought “oh this is kind of interesting.” Then I found out it has a shit radio and a shit battery. You’d think that it would last days and says on one charge but nope. Also it has USB-Micro for charging lol.

If they fixed a few things like that, I would be all over it.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to technology in Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC

That was just creative accounting so they wouldn’t have to pay tax.

Oh… this huge pile of revenue? That’s not profit. We’re reinvesting it into logistics and executive salaries. We lost money this year. -Amazon

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to programmerhumor in Totally logical and expected functionality

They downvote you, but after spending time writing powershell scripts, I can confirm that I absolutely fucking loathe microsoft products now.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to technology in Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market

I’m stuck with it because of work. Luckily, “Industry 4.0” is completely fucking fed up with M$ and they’re abandoning Windows in droves. I’m just waiting for my vendor to finish polishing their MacOS and Linux alternatives.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to technology in Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market

Them taking control away from me makes me not use them. Not a problem at all.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to steam in cjs-cdkeys.com My experience

Also - if you want to buy something on the internet, use a credit card from a real bank. They’ll refund you for scams.

But go ahead and complain when you get scammed while using a currency designed to be hard to track.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to memes in Funtastic 😅

As a software developer, I still struggle with windows fuckery. I have to manage about a dozen machines, each of which has different tasks, and sometimes they decide to just up and reboot for the mandatory update. While I am out of state.

Uhg. I spent time yesterday writing a windows service to perpetually send a WoL magic packet to those computers just to avoid this situation again. They may never shut off again.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to technology in Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome

Those guys all got Balmered or something because Edge is now Chromium based.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to greentext in Anon didn't like Dune

Sucks for him - I literally can’t stop jerking myself over the movie. It was soo gooood. Oh. Time to clean up again.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Boing boing

As a dad… I’m going to have to use this one day.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to linux in Linux tablet 5g support and small enough to lend itself to everyday portability

I haven’t ever tried to root an android device and Linuxify it before. Now I am curious. I use Linux at work but I am no greybeard and that task sounds like something suited for someone with a little more crust than myself.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to linux in Linux tablet 5g support and small enough to lend itself to everyday portability

ARM is a RISC processor at heart. Or at least it was at one point - I’m not sure how or if they’ve deviated. Time for some wikipedia.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to technology in Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models

Honestly that is what makes the most sense to me. They are known as the slow adopter of technology. So they’re just playing the long game by waiting to jump into the BEV world head first once they let the market shake out the first few hurdles. Plus it lets them wait on purchasing Lithium, which is currently in a huge bubble. So from the c-suite, it makes perfect sense to play coy with BEVs right now.

WetBeardHairs , 8 months ago to technology in Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models

I believe Tesla retained patents on their automatic payment system. So other cars can use the NACS, but they have to use a shitty app (which is currently a MAJOR problem with BEV chargers) because none of them have figured out how to install a credit card terminal on the dang things.