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kadu , 2 months ago to technology in Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets

Yep, same excuses as Apple.

Analogue connector too old, too big, hard to make modular. All proven false by a multitude of other devices.

kadu , 2 months ago to technology in Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets

So? Their over ear Bluetooth headphones came out on Q1 2023. Two years developing a new category for your company sounds about right.

Plus, their phones are expected to be used for long, so if they wanted to push people towards Bluetooth they’d have to start early.

Plus, this is still irrelevant - how does the fact they screwed customers over in 2021 somehow make it better?

kadu , 2 months ago to technology in Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets

There are indeed good aspects to this product.

But I won’t join the “Fairphone good” circle jerk and give them the free publicity, because just like Apple and Samsung, they removed the headphone jack from their phones soon before the launch of these headphones, in other words, artificially creating the problem and need to sell you their expensive solution.

You don’t get to ride the “we are pro customer!” free publicity train while also wanting to be the next Apple.

kadu , 2 months ago to assholedesign in 1/3 full brand new deodorant

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kadu , 2 months ago to assholedesign in 1/3 full brand new deodorant

And of course the fact this obviously creates the illusion there’s more product and therefore can trick customers it’s just a happy accident, right?

kadu , 2 months ago to news in O.J. Simpson, former football star acquitted of murder, dies at 76.

You think so? I don’t know… I mean, he did publish a book that detailed exactly how the crime happened and why but the title is called “If I Did It” not “I Did It” so we can’t be sure…

kadu , 2 months ago to technology in Humane AI Pin review: not even close

I like that “AI Pin” sounds like “Aipim” in Portuguese which means cassava.

That’s all I like about this product. Everything else I profoundly dislike.

kadu , 2 months ago to linux in XZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbanned

I agree we should support him, but you know who should be more concerned with giving him and other open source maintainers money? The billion dollar corporations that rely on these critical projects and use them absolutely for free. Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Google, Siemens, Motorola, God knows how many more.

kadu , 2 months ago to gaming in Pirates ask EU Commission to look into killing of video games

I think it’s totally fine for a company to shut down the servers for a game…

…as long as they have a public tool to host your own server, free of any restrictions. They can also stop selling the game, but they can’t shut down the distribution for people who already paid for it, unless they straight up host it somewhere public and call it shareware from that point onwards.

Any other alternative is crazy. Imagine you buy a music vinyl, then 5 years later some Sony executive knocks on your door and says “hey you know we are shutting down, so imma need that disc you’ve bought I’m going to shatter it right now thanks”

kadu , 2 months ago to nostupidquestions in Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular?

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kadu , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Could real neurons be used for LLMs?

The idea that LLMs are just like how the brain works, except limited by running in a CPU, comes from software engineers - not neuroscientists.

Although there are many analogies that could be made between how CPUs do work and how the brain integrates information, they’re actually fundamentally different and use completely different logic.

You could, theoretically, create a computing language to work using neurons. And therefore you could also train machine learning algorithms. But that’s like using calculators to sum 2+2 by buying 4 calculators and putting them all together, rather than actually using what a calculator does to get the result, if you get what I mean.

kadu , 2 months ago to technology in FOSS scanner app surpasses Microsoft for usability

You can also use Obtainium to automatically check for new builds on GitHub and install them, so you can get it directly from there without worrying about the Play Store

kadu , 2 months ago to technology in Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools

The article is actually incomplete. Some insider builds already lack the old taskbar, it can’t be invoked and if an application relies on it you simply get a crash.

This is not new behavior from Windows. When legacy features are going to be removed, they do stagger updates when users have known software conflicts installed, they also might throw warnings. This is exactly what we are seeing now.

Though the fact this small article is just reporting on Reddit information rather than testing insider builds is not my fault nor my concern.

kadu , 2 months ago to technology in Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft

There’s a literal native toggle to disable Copilot so that’d be really weird.

kadu , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to technology in Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools

Not if you’re using the preview build, where the entire functionality is removed. The warning is just a preemptive preparation for beta users. The bottom of the article indirectly mentions this.

But sure, downvote me.