The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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Google could, let’s say 10 years ago, afford to do anything, because almost anything would eventually bring in more search users and ads revenue. And so splitting up Google means killing all the individual parts and making practically all parts of the internet be a walled garden of someone’s own. It’s not that future is all rosy without breaking it up with entshittification and investors trying to get money out fast to spend on yachts and AI bets, but breaking it up would be genuinly terrible and it’s IMO crazy this is being discussed.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
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Big tech companies are so weird with their under-cooked and abandoned services. Be glad you didn’t by this TV series from Microsoft in 2017 when Windows Phone was still hot (???) because you can’t watch it on any other phone. (I almost bought it just now but thankfully checked the system requirements first).
Go Batman The Animated Series. Absolutely superior in every aspect.
Appropriate for 7 year olds? Some of that Batman stuff is pretty dark and it’s hard to tell by the ratings. Except maybe the R rated series I saw - I’m sure that’s out.
Hmmm, some of it is dark, kind of built into it. I would think Bruce losing his parents and then Robin hunting down his parents killers would possibly affect him. But this was broadcast on Saturday morning then weekdays on American TV, so major brakes on anything too dark or violent. Definitely PG.
Mark Hamill’s Joker, Harley Quinn introduced and so good she made it back into the comics as an official character and they are still making movies with her, fantastic episodes like my fave, a bunch of the bad guys playing poker while recounting the closest they got to offing the bat, second fave the Batman on trial for being responsible for making them freak criminals, etc. Can’t miss just for yourself.
Just finished the first episode of season 1 with my boy and it was fine. I’ll watch an episode daily with him and monitor it.
We finished season one last night. It took me a few episodes to get into it myself (or maybe the series creators were finding their feet) but it turned into something we all enjoy watching together in the evening.
Thankfully there are 3 more seasons because we recently watched the first two “Spider-verse” animated movies and the second one ended on a cliff hanger with the third installment nowhere in sight. When I explained to my boy there was no “3” yet and wouldn’t be for some time, the stunned look of his confusion on his face brought back a lot of painful memories from my own childhood. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that the third movie might not arrive for four years and, when it did, there would likely be fucking Ewoks in it.
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Be prepared for a bit of a QA slide in season 4. But most of the great episodes are ahead.
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Windows Notepad now has AI
Notepad.exe, now an actively maintained app, has gotten its inevitable AI update
Other Windows Insider updates include new CPU instructions for Prism x86 emulator.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Windows Notepad now has AI
Notepad.exe, now an actively maintained app, has gotten its inevitable AI update
Other Windows Insider updates include new CPU instructions for Prism x86 emulator.
Notepad ai porn is going to be off the charts!
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Bought a 1 terabyte MicroSD card for $2.50 including shipping from AliExpress. I figured it was probably a scam but I was tired of deleting stuff to make room on my small Nintendo Switch storage and then deleting other stuff to re-download what I’d previously deleted. When I saw the 1TB card so cheap I figured I only had $2.50 to lose so I bought it.
The card arrived today and, as it turns out, it works fine. It might die tomorrow for all I know but it will just mean I have to re-download stuff to a new card. I wouldn’t store irreplaceable photos on it or stick it in a Windows PC because it might have Chinese spyware on it but I don’t see what damage it can do by having access to my Switch.
Anyway, I’m know I’m not comparing apples with apples here but why the fuck in 2024 is Apple still selling 256GB of SSD for $200? Is it made of unobtanium?
I’m not currently in the market for a Macbook but the above price gouging put me off buying one last time I was thinking about it and I just checked to see if they were still doing it.
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Logos are expensive.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Bought a 1 terabyte MicroSD card for $2.50 including shipping from AliExpress. I figured it was probably a scam but I was tired of deleting stuff to make room on my small Nintendo Switch storage and then deleting other stuff to re-download what I’d previously deleted. When I saw the 1TB card so cheap I figured I only had $2.50 to lose so I bought it.
The card arrived today and, as it turns out, it works fine. It might die tomorrow for all I know but it will just mean I have to re-download stuff to a new card. I wouldn’t store irreplaceable photos on it or stick it in a Windows PC because it might have Chinese spyware on it but I don’t see what damage it can do to having access to my Switch.
Anyway, I’m know I’m not comparing apples with apples here but why the fuck in 2024 is Apple still selling 256GB of SSD for $200? Is it made of unobtanium?
I’m not currently in the market for a Macbook but the above price gouging put me off buying one last time I was thinking about it and I just checked to see if they were still doing it.
You would be paying for California. Literally.
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The worst thing is he is kind of paying for nothing. It’s not like Cambodia is full of Mac elitists that look down on you if you don’t have Apple products. Over there they are impressed if you have a computer at all, even if you got it for $2.50 on Aliexpress.
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Intel Resumes Free Coffee, Tea To Boost Morale After Laying Off 15,000 Employees
Seriously? They previously took it away? What’s the median Intel employee salary? It would have to be at least 80K I would have thought. Taking it away in the first place is some petty ass bean counting from someone in management who is focused on all the wrong things.
Anyway, glad they made things right. “Here’s your no name tea bag and 15 grams of instant coffee we bought in bulk. Do you love us now?”
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It’s not a cafe it’s a job! The plebes will take what they’re given and like it!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Intel Resumes Free Coffee, Tea To Boost Morale After Laying Off 15,000 Employees
Seriously? They took it away? What’s the median Intel employee salary? It would have to be at least 80K I would have thought.
Taking it away in the first place is some petty ass bean counting from someone in management who is focused on all the wrong things.
Anyway, glad they made things right. Here’s your no name tea bag and 15 grams of instant coffee we bought in bulk. Do you love us now?
Baseline functionality- stupid.
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Cable management at the old CRS location…
It’s probably all run in a cloud now.
GTFO
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Intel Resumes Free Coffee, Tea To Boost Morale After Laying Off 15,000 Employees
Seriously? They previously took it away? What’s the median Intel employee salary? It would have to be at least 80K I would have thought. Taking it away in the first place is some petty ass bean counting from someone in management who is focused on all the wrong things.
Anyway, glad they made things right. “Here’s your no name tea bag and 15 grams of instant coffee we bought in bulk. Do you love us now?”
It’s kind of an important issue. When AT&T bought my previous employer, they took away our free coffee and people were pissed. Including me. I think that might be one of the most impactful cheap benefits for employees.
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I haven’t got a link anymore but I went looking for the story of when Intel took it away. One Israeli employee said it was embarrassing, which it really would be. “Place I work is too cheap or broke to supply coffee”.
Putting aside the negative impact of removing it, caffeine is like a legal performance enhancing drug. I’d be walking around offering refills.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Cable management at the old CRS location…
It’s probably all run in a cloud now.
Shoot that’s exactly what Santo Domingo looks like. They wait for power outages and then tap off the electric lines into their homes. It’s absolutely chaos. It’s also amazing that the place hasn’t burned to the ground.
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Undoubtedly a big problem but banning it outright seems pretty heavy handed. It can’t all be negative and what defines “social media”. Personally for my own kid, I think I’d rather introduce him to it in a controlled way and monitor it when he’s a quite a few years younger than that when it wouldn’t feel so much like a gross intrusion on his privacy. Just setting them loose when they are 16 with no previous experience and no ability to control it seems like a backward step.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Undoubtedly a big problem but banning it outright seems pretty heavy handed. It can’t all be negative and what defines “social media”. Personally for my own kid, I think I’d rather introduce him to it in a controlled way and monitor it when he’s a quite a few years younger than that when it wouldn’t feel so much like a gross intrusion on his privacy. Just setting them loose when they are 16 with no previous experience and no ability to control it seems like a backward step.
now, replace social media with alcohol in the above and consider that the negative side effects of social media are far worse than alcohol ever was.
do we let minors drink?
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@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Undoubtedly a big problem but banning it outright seems pretty heavy handed. It can’t all be negative and what defines “social media”. Personally for my own kid, I think I’d rather introduce him to it in a controlled way and monitor it when he’s a quite a few years younger than that when it wouldn’t feel so much like a gross intrusion on his privacy. Just setting them loose when they are 16 with no previous experience and no ability to control it seems like a backward step.
now, replace social media with alcohol in the above and consider that the negative side effects of social media are far worse than alcohol ever was.
do we let minors drink?
Most of us don’t, but the kids will try it anyway . . .
. . . and some will get hooked while young . . .
Like with many other things.
I don’t think social media kills as often as other “vices” we humans become addicted to do, but one can make an argument that some kids do die from doing stupid stuff or committing suicide linked to their experience with social media.
In some cultures . . . here I am thinking Italians and their wine . . . kids may be introduced to wine in a prepared environment by their parents.
This seems to be along the line that Hog described for social media.
My parents were 3 1/2 pack a day cigarette smokers. My mom died at 67 from lung cancer and my dad had a heart attack around 55 or so, and he immediately quit smoking and made it to 82. He likely could have lived longer had he not had some bad habits.
As kids, the four of us were told that we could smoke if we wanted to (we had plenty of secondary smoke) but we had to do it at home with our parents first.
None of the kids became smokers. We could not stand the smoke and the stink.
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