The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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With enshittification and the dearth of flying cars it’s kind of easy to get jaded with tech. But it’s really kind of amazing what tech we use day to day and take for granted. My wife just video called me from a cafe and asked if I wanted her to bring me home a coffee. Then, a little later, I thought I better open the gate for her when she gets closer to home so I fired up the map only to find she was still waiting for the coffee:
I was juggling six or seven apps on our vacation for everything from hotel bookings, taxis, food delivery, airline tickets, activities and language translations. It felt like a bit of PITA at times but it would have been impossible only a decade or so ago.
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It needs improvement though. Some of the letters are still blurry. Maybe a connection issue.
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@eWildcat said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
It needs improvement though. Some of the letters are still blurry. Maybe a connection issue.
This is why you lost this colony.
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But if you aren’t seeing much value in the Apple Intelligence features that have launched so far, you’re not alone: around three-quarters of iPhone owners can’t see what all the fuss is about, according to a recent survey. It’s also worth bearing in mind that these AI add-ons take up 7GB of local storage (and counting) on every device you want to use them on.
7GB is pretty significant given the way Apple price storage like it’s made from the distilled tears of a rare tortoise and none of their phones have a card slot for extra memory.
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Too Hot to Handle: Gaming Mouse Allegedly Burst Into Flame and Almost 'Burned Down' User's Apartment - IGN
Of all of the things connected to your PC, your mouse would be the last thing you'd expect to set itself alight. But that was the reality redditor lommelinn faced after they reportedly found their gaming mouse alight on their desk while their PC was in sleep mode — and it almost “burned down” their...
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shoulda used a water-cooled mouse
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others . . . . The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard . . . admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."
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@Whoofe said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
shoulda used a water-cooled mouse
Seems odd.
With only a max of one ampere at 5 volts likely available? Perhaps the shitty mouse had some kind of cellulose content?
How Much Power does USB Port Output? (USB 1.0, 2.0, 3.0)
Different USB ports give different output power. The output power from a USB port varies according to the version of the USB as well as the
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@Jam USB port on his PC might have glitched too I guess but, in the source Reddit thread, he said he measured it. Dunno. Definitely more your area of expertise than mine.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Jam USB port on his PC might have glitched too I guess but, in the source Reddit thread, he said he measured it. Dunno. Definitely more your area of expertise than mine.
Five watts is pretty low power and the port should have shut down with a “dead short” or attempt to draw excessive power.
That said, there could have been some minor level of heat generated with five watts continuous consumption - like a five watt light bulb or lamp.
So maybe some of the content of the old mouse was particularly flammable . . . is what I am thinking, assuming the report is accurate.
I am not suggesting that “it did not happen.”
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It might not have happened given how everyone seems to be chasing upvotes these days (something I’d never do myself of course).
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It could be fake? The internet has lied to me before…
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
It could be fake? The internet has lied to me before…
The internet is a faithless lying hussy!
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I actually meant to suggest that the story was s fucking flaming fake.
I’m just trying to avoid being confrontational!
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Whoofe said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
shoulda used a water-cooled mouse
Seems odd.
With only a max of one ampere at 5 volts likely available? Perhaps the shitty mouse had some kind of cellulose content?
How Much Power does USB Port Output? (USB 1.0, 2.0, 3.0)
Different USB ports give different output power. The output power from a USB port varies according to the version of the USB as well as the
Jussie Smollett?
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Well-off Americans are more likely to steal from online merchants than the poor, and they do it in enormous numbers
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@eWildcat said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
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@eWildcat said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Well… Speaking of LOT. Peggy and I installed an app on Daphné’s phone so that she can’t freely install new apps and, above all, access the internet.
What I didn’t tell Peggy is that what I feared the most was not Daphné finding things like the black web or Japanese p0rn.Your former WWIIOL life?
Yeah. I told her I had a 100 K/D ratio to seduce her.
I wouldn’t want her to find out it was actually only 80. I know I’m a bad person for having lied to her for so long, but I feel now it’s too late to redeem myself.Wow, 80/1 K/D is awesome! Best I ever did was 158 kills for 4 losses - 39.5/1.
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Where’s Bilton, anyway?
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IT Support
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Is this a knee-jerk example of investor hyperventilation or is there substance to the issue?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-deepseek-sets-off-ai-market-rout-2025-01-27/
Nvidia Is Lying To You...
How to turn off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone
