zik

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[–] zik@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Unfortunately it's very hard to buy a decent dumb TV these days.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I didn't realise it was just this one grandma that did all that.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Same as it ever was.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Boomers and Gen X did exactly the same thing that you're doing. Nothing. They just let the super rich elite screw the whole world up and now you're doing the same thing they did. Nothing.

If you want to act high and mighty you're not going to change the world by complaining on the internet. You have to stop the super rich.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's absolutely not true. Bluetooth has many "profiles" which define different capabilities. Here's a list of them. These are all defined in the official bluetooth standards.

Maybe you were thinking of the "core specification" which defines the underlying protocol but doesn't define the profiles? But that's just the way they broke up the spec documents. The profiles are still official parts of bluetooth.

Apple's proprietary extensions for audio are not part of any official specification though.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

A lot of larger companies like Compaq etc. were making "respectable" PCs by then and selling them in big quantities in direct competition to IBM.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's a reason why no-one bought IBM PS/2s. They were horrible value for money.

The real competition at the time was the thousands of other brands selling PCs. By that time IBM was plummeting in sales and other companies were selling most of the PCs. That's where 95% of the market was.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Samsung offers a lot more models so they tend to have a higher high end and a lower low end than Apple.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Not in reliability...

But they're probably still selling more CPUs to your average buyer who always buys Intel, doesn't read tech news and never even heard about the controversy.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Intel didn’t actually manufacture the chips.

The chips with the oxidisation issue were manufactured by Intel at their Arizona fab plant.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I think about 18 billion of that was me

[–] zik@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Celebrities get wide latitude to protect themselves from imitators. Impressionists can do "satire" etc. but this isn't that. It's explicitly a reference to her voice in the movie, and as such she's protected by law from them going around her and hiring someone else to imitate her.

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