d0ntpan1c

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[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The EU is going to slap them silly for making it an easier process? Instead of needing to know a magic key combo to bypass the security check, now it acts just like any other security permission (for example, screen recording) and sends you to settings. This is absolutely better than it was and the article is clickbait.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is a million times better than the current. Using homebrew, you often have to re-approve apps that brew ended up reinstalling in a manner to remove the previous exception.

Now, worst-case, it's the same process as any other app permission, and best case, it can be adjusted via the terminal.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

I moved one of my computers to endeavor, but one is still on manjaro and the contrast is kinda hilarious. Manjaro machine always gets funky after updates, it struggles to deal with sleep and hibernation, and it feels slow even when its like 4x as powerful as my EndeavourOS machine.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

You could argue the rationality of an effort before any major technology or cultural breakthrough for all of human history, yet the reason those breakthroughs happened was due to humans acting irrationally by accident or on purpose.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

There are many tipping points, and we dont always know if we've hit one yet or not. The drastic increase in sea temperature the last two years is possibly a tipping point we've passed, esp since the warmer the water is, the less co2 its able to absorb. OMAC shut down (if it happens) is possibly a tipping point, which will only feedback loop into warming waters.

Honestly, the permafrost melt is more likely to be the KO punch after one or more other tipping points accelerate it.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Agreed. I don't like the magic mouses size, but the weight + multitasking gestures makes it the one I put in my laptop bag for use on the go.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Meh. I got one for free from a job's tech allowance, and it's never really a problem. It charges fast and the OS warns you early enough to plug it in on a lunch break or at the end of the day well before it runs out. Not ideal but def not garbage. Honestly, I get more frustrated with noise canceling headphones and keyboards dying at inconvenient times than I ever do the mouse.

I dont use it daily, but it is a pretty good mouse for my laptop bag. Charge holds a long time for once/week use. If it's dead when I get to the coffee shop or wherever I'm working, itll be usable in 15 mins or less anyway. It also works nicely with Linux out of the box, which is a rarity among Bluetooth mice (in my experience).

The other elephant in the room: not having multitasking gestures on a mouse when using macOS is a serious drawback for any other mouse out there, so there is a reason people are willing to put up with the annoyance (if they ever get annoyed in the first place)

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, the issues were present and widely reported for several months before Intel even acknowledged the problems. And it wasn't just media reporting this, it was also game server hosts who were seeing massive deployments failing at unprecedented rates. Even those customers, who get way better support than the average home user, were largely dismissed by intel for a long time. It then took several more months to ship a fix. The widespread nature of the issues points to a major failure on the companies part to properly QA and ensure their partners were given accurate guidance for motherboard specs. Even so, the patches only prevent further harm to the processor, it doesnt fix any damage that has already been incurred that could amount to years off of its lifespan. Sure they are doing an extended warranty, but thats still a band-aid.

I agree it doesnt mean one should completely dismiss the possibility of buying an Intel chip, but it certinally doesn't inspire confidence.

Even if this was all an oversight or process failure, it still looks a lot like Intel as a whole deciding to ship chips that had a nice looking set of numbers despite those numbers being achieved through a degraded lifespan.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I was a roku fan for s long time until they really enshittified (which sucks, since their UI overall is superior and their products are supported for a really, really long time)

I dont see moving away from android any time soon, and i'm not quite ready/willing to take the plunge into alternate ROM's (the pixel festures are really nice!) so I figure google TV at least isnt going to learn much about me that google doesnt already know. The newer OS iteration isnt that bad a UI, either.

I do think all this will motivate me to get a kodi device set up and use the smart TV stuff a lot less, though, and I dont think I'll be in a rush to replace my existing roku TV's/boxes for secondary room use. I can tell they have a bit of targeted ads, but it mostly seems based on content I watch on the TV itself. Probably helps that most of my online life on home-based internet usage is very filtered of tracking through my router, though i haven't put a ton of effort into blocking roku specifically.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Vast" would be a different company from the one marketing the Vera station, no?

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

NASA does a hell of a lot more work than just build rockets lol. SpaceX and all the other private space companies focus on a few of the wide array of programs and services NASA does. They certinally have some poor decisions in their history (as does every space program of the 20th century) but comparing SpaceX's spending with an appropriate context of NASA's spending is ludicrous. Its not something you can just put into numbers and any comparisons I've seen thus far have been wildly skewed in SpaceX's favor for marketing reasons.

NASA (and ESA, RosCosmos, others) funding provided decades of R&D SpaceX uses to build its products with and the university curriculums all the engineers at SpaceX learned at.

Also, we dont know how a NASA that wasnt so de-funded since the 80s would have operated, but it's well established that the budget cuts and uncertainty those created have been a major factor in its ability to build new programs like Artemis, Orion, SLS, etc. in a manner that would be efficient. SLS was bogged down for years waiting for congressional approval that was repeatedly blocked or maliciously modified last minute by congressional and senate republicans, a form of efficiency knee-capping that the agency never faced in the Apollo or Space Shuttle days.

have you seen the plastics industry? Let alone consumer packaging

Not an apples to apples comparison. Check out the many lawsuits and reported criticism of the more careless Starship test flights

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For a company with plans so ambitious, they only have a marketing site, a YouTube channel, and some news articles from 2+ years ago, much less a partnership with SpaceX.

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