Khanzarate

Khanzarate , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Yeah I'm kinda surprised they made it open, to be honest. But they did, and its in a way that can't be retracted, so nothing depends on their continuing good behavior.

Khanzarate , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

There are already 2 of them.

NACS, which is essentially the Tesla charger, was made available to other car manufacturers at no cost already, in 2022. Due to a few reasons, among them the existence of Tesla superchargers already deployed, a lot of companies have adopted this as their charger for newer cars.

Even if Tesla went down completely, their charger is already open, so nah I don't expect any changes based on this.

Khanzarate , 2 months ago to Technology in The AI grift that can literally poison you

Which is why they suggested finding an organization/association, not an arbitrary website.

Funnily enough, chatgpt should be able to recommend some great associations. GPT-3 doesn't even have up-to-date databases so it doesn't even know about any new AI things that have popped up.

So find a real group of people, ask them things.

Khanzarate , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

Obviously using it as a thin client for this MacBook, duh.

Khanzarate , 3 months ago to 196 in rule

Yeah that's right. No routers needed.

All local wireless gameplay on the DS is the same ad-hoc networking, too. Some games, like Mario kart, could use ds download play which is the same thing but a host would send over full game data before playing, too.

The 3ds also used it for local streetpass.

Nintendo experimented with it a bunch, honestly, although I always felt it was relatively unexploited in the ways they did. DS download was cool though because it was a mobile console's split-screen gameplay, instead of selling you 4 games to let 4 people play.

Khanzarate , 3 months ago to Technology in My opinion on Bone conduction earphones

I got them so I could listen to audio books without actually ignoring my kid, who was 3 at the time. Couldn't not hear her world if she decided to get up to something. 10/10 for that.

I also loved them being hidden under my hair. Its rude to have headphones in a conversation, but this isn't rude, with them silent I can hear as well as without headphones.

Aa for dual-pairing, I had your same issue with shokz, but I found out it was Windows with the issue. Shokz switches based on who it hears playing audio and Windows likes to keep "playing" audio at 0 volume instead of properly not sending audio. It's an issue that's pretty irrelevant for most things, but it means Shokz never feels that there's only one audio source at a time, after its connected to a windows computer once. They worked fine when I paired them to my android phone and an iPad to test things.

Khanzarate , 3 months ago to 196 in rule

DS had full WiFi, just nothing to do with it unless a game needed it, but yeah pictochat did use that receiver. As far as I know it was a proprietary protocol so not actually WiFi, but same antenna and bandwidth and everything.

Khanzarate , 3 months ago to Technology in AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey

But can you convince it to report itself for its violations if you phrase it like it's a person?

Khanzarate , 3 months ago to Technology in Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

There are better ones out there, that one in particular had some iffy reviews about voltages, but yeah they definitely exist.

I usually see them labeled as "power supply adapter for [AA,AAA,etc]".

Khanzarate , 3 months ago to Technology in Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

Your wall outlet is AC but a battery is DC, so a pure wire setup is not so much a safety thing as it is just incompatible. A good fire starter.

So you'll have to convert it, which makes for a big, bulky plug.

On top of that, you'll need prior knowledge of the battery layout, including whether they're parallel or serial. Usually parallel, but not a guarantee.

All of this isn't insurmountable, but is enough to make it not the norm. They do, in fact, already exist

Khanzarate , 3 months ago to Technology in Adding TV to bedroom without using mainstream smart device

My pi 3 has struggled with some particular codecs or large (greater than 5 hours) videos. I'm not proficient enough to say that it wasn't my fault in some way, some config option, but it was a near thing, regardless. A pi 4 or 5 should do it flawlessly, and my pi 3 works more reliably than my roku, even with that flaw.

WiFi, as long as your router isn't ancient, will be more than enough. Latency isn't a factor, and you can get HD streaming at well under 100 Mbps, the upper limit of most routers. My router, in another room with walls from an old house that destroy my signal, still gives me about 20, which is enough for 1080p.

I will say a pi 3 feels fairly laggy just using it to browse online. It does much better as a streaming box. The pi 5 I just got yesterday is much snappier, feels great to use. The 4gb model is 60$ right now, although I got the 8gb model.

All this was on default raspberry pi OS with kodi installed as an app. Very little to set up besides getting the media itself shared in your preferred way.

Khanzarate , 4 months ago to Technology in Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses

While I'd love a percentage based fee, this is a damages suit, so it should be actual damages these people are owed, as determined by the court. A percentage just doesn't make sense here unless punitive damages were also on the table.

In principle I agree, though, breaking the law should not be an affordable "cost of doing business".

Khanzarate , 4 months ago to Technology in Funimation’s solution for wiping out digital libraries could be good, if it works

It could be good because if they actually gave their customers a refund or access elsewhere then they've at least made up for the closing.

Naturally, if you received something actually of equal value, it's generally alright, in the same way that I'll accept a FedEx van running into my mailbox if they paid me enough to replace it.

The emphasis is on "could" because they tested the claim that they're doing the equal value thing and found they don't seem to be. So the claim of giving something worth the digital goods you're losing just isn't holding up, so they're shit.

Khanzarate , 4 months ago to Technology in ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here?

Because companies insist on it and when growth stops they'll start to cannibalize their own company and charge more money for things that used to be free or fairly-priced until they price themselves out of the market entirely and die as a service.

Yay, capitalism!

Khanzarate , 4 months ago to Technology in This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting

That'd be a great Halloween vibe. Bit pricy for my Halloween budget though.