Nah, I’m happy to pay to own software I use but I refuse to rent it like Abobe wants.

I recently moved to Affinity Photo, so far so good.

Good news but it’ll be a while before I can replace the 20TB drives in my NAS with these.

I’d rather it be from modern reactor designs and builds

There’s a reason new nuclear loses out to renewables and storage, it’s just too expensive. Microsoft are paying to start up an existing reactor.

So they’re promising ARM-beating battery life while just beginning to incorporate the kind of custom silicon that Apple has been integrating for years now?

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Now the IPO is done Reddit has to continually feed the investors at the expense of the quality of the thing that’s supposed to make money to feed the investors.

This is gonna be fun.

I wonder what the real motivation is because I don’t believe this for one second.

With my NAS, plex and Usenet I reinvented streaming. It’s awesome.

I’m not saying that won’t happen but if it does Microsoft will be absolutely fucked as they got caught committing several million HIPAA violations, not to mention any exposure to classified material on government computers.

No, you don’t understand, these guys are tech bros, they’re special, for reasons.

Every time I think Microsoft can’t get any worse they just find a way to innovate.

I don’t think you know what disingenuous means.

Pirate what you want, but trying to spin the argument this way is just disingenuous.

I’m not following you. Spotify is notorious for paying out very little to artists, so therefore they don’t deserve my business, fuck 'em.

Instead I like to support the artists directly.

As to your second point, I’ve never had a problem discovering new music.

I’ve seen quite a few download codes included with vinyl releases that have 24 bit wav/flac files available. Some will even offer 88.2/96kHz files.

You could argue that the quality difference isn’t detectable between those and an MP3 rip of a CD though.

you suggest they get $0?

They make more from what I suggested than they do from Spotify.

Spotify can die in a fire for all I care. Sail the high seas and if you like an artist buy physical releases/merch/tickets.

My NAS and the *arr apps aren’t getting out of hand.

Is this clown trying to tank the company because he didn’t get his payout?

Presumably your asshole rep is dead against this kind of thing?

“The gas and electric markets in Texas are lightly regulated and highly competitive, which has pushed companies to deliver energy at the lowest possible cost. But it also means that many companies were ill-prepared when the mercury dropped. To save money, they had skimped on winterizing their equipment. As a result, gas lines across the state—which has about 23 percent of the country’s reserves—quite literally froze. The spot price of natural gas soared to 70-times what it would normally be in Minnesota, and gas utilities paid a hefty premium when they used the daily market to match demand.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/houston-based-utility-wants-minnesotans-to-pay-for-texas-deep-freeze-problems/?comments=1&comments-page=1

This is why infrastructure should be nationalized, this should’ve been started a long time ago but that would impact shareholders and we just can’t have that, can we?

“What is my purpose?”

“You are to behave exactly like every loser incel asshole on Reddit”

“Oh my god.”

I’m still waiting for ARM compatible drivers for the Dymo label printers we use. It’s been 4 years now.

Fuuuuuuuck Dymo.

Thanks for this. I did ask OP for a source on Apple selling user data. It sounds like you’re saying that they don’t.

There’s always a rush to include Apple with the other big tech firms that certainly do harvest and sell user data, I guess some people just love to hate on Apple. I get popups on a fresh install of an Apple OS and on first launching certain apps that asks me outright if I want to send usage data to Apple. It’s pretty upfront about this. Like you said, it’s anonymized so it can’t be used to target me with ads based on my browsing history. They also have the Private Relay feature on MacOS and Hide My Email, they didn’t have to do that. There’s also something called Advanced Data Protection that I haven’t messed around with.

Detailed enough that some companies probably cross reference it with other tracking and are able to link the data they get from Apple to real people.

Do you haven’t any evidence for this? I doubt that’s something Apple would be happy about.

Do you have a source on Apple selling user data?

The Rivian that was announced a few days ago has a nice feature, rear seats and the two front ones all fold flat so that it can fit a twin air mattress in the cabin. That seems a better solution than … whatever the fuck this is.

Interesting insight, thank you.

Is there any reason we haven’t built a craft specifically to be slung out of the solar system as quickly as possible?

IIRC Voyager wasn’t built for this, it’s just a bonus that they’re still semi operational.

It’s Vision OS, not MacOS. You can already install Linux on a Mac, as well as any ARM compatible OS through virtualization:

“Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon Macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these devices”

https://asahilinux.org/about/

What do you think would happen if you tried to install Linux or Windows on a Vision Pro? Assuming Apple was to open up the device, what would that look like?

So you want a product made by some of the world’s most talented engineers and designers, costing untold millions for dollars in R&D, but it should not be made by a corporation? How does that work?

You’ll get your refund eventually but first it will try and gaslight you that Air Canada is a woke mind virus before calling you an asshole and then stalking you.

A LLM that behaves like a typical Redditor?

What possible use is that?

Machine learning is important in healthcare and it’s going to get better and better. If you train an algorithm on two sets of data where one is a collection of normal scans and the other from patients with an abnormality, it’s often more accurate than a medical professional in sorting new scans.

As for the fancy chatbot side of things, I suspect it’s only going to lead to a bunch of middle management dickheads believing they can lay off staff until the inevitable happens and it blows up in their faces.

We went from, “here’s some cool tech we built, you should buy it because it’s awesome and we’ll make some money” to “how do we screw every last cent out of our customers whilst providing the bare minimum?”

Aren’t demos by appointment only? What a trash article.

I totally get that, I buy physical media too. It’s worth mentioning that I used to torrent but stopped because I share the same concerns.

With Usenet there’s no uploading, just an encrypted connection to a server somewhere that’s hosting the files so I’m not making material available. That’s how you can get in trouble.

My NAS drives are in a RAID config, it’s not bulletproof but if I lose a drive I won’t lose data.

It’s only partly about the money adding up from all these streaming services. The other element is that usenet, a NAS and the *arr apps provide a vastly better experience. I can hear about a movie I’m interested in and grab it straight away, usually up to full BluRay quality or, if it’s not released yet it will grab it when it’s released. When new TV episodes are available it just grabs them automatically and adds them to my Plex library.

My bad, I should be more specific. They’re so desperate for a fancy chatbot to be a part of everybody’s workflow that they’re going to add a special key that is not needed, or wanted by the vast majority.

I hope this can be remapped to something useful.

They’re so desperate for AI to be a thing.

Let’s not nickel-and-dime the green transition

Nobody is suggesting we should.

Nuclear energy has a role to play

Did you read the article? It only has a role to play if you’re into wasting money.

The most urgent thing now is to get as much electricity generation off fossil fuels as possible. Building nuclear power plants is an important part of this

Can you explain why nuclear would be a part given how long it takes to deploy in comparison to renewables? Nuclear also has a habit of being behind schedule and costing more than projected.

especially in countries like China and India which would otherwise default to burning coal.

The article is about Australia.

I fucked up once and bought a HP printer. It won’t happen again.