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Specal

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Specal ,

They do sell good products... Kinda. But they are professional scalpers and scammers. iPhones get their performance nerfed via software after a few years to force you to upgrade. They charge Quadruple price for ram upgrades in their laptops. Now they're removing, not dropping support, but actively removing a feature that they themselves do not have to develop to stop you installing a feature on a device that you pay for.

Apple do not make superior products, apart from the iPad that's a genuinely superior product. They sell a walled garden that you have to pay continuous subscriptions to stay in. The subscription in this sense is their app store.

Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi (www.pcgamer.com)

Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft's Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

Specal ,

No one wants LGA1155 anymore anyway so it's Gucci, my i7-2600 was far past it's life span 5 years ago

Specal ,

The IPC just isn't good enough of those chips anymore, making them really inefficient. You'd be better off buying a modern celeron

Specal ,

The old wholesale of PCs for 20 buckeroos doesn't really exist here in the UK so I never considered that

OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....

Specal ,

Exactly, my job is easier now with chatGPT, not because it's better at doing my job, it just drafts ideas faster than me. As far as resource usage goes I'm all for it

Specal ,

Functionally they are the same. People that claim one is slower are just parroting what they've heard or experienced before

Specal ,

Because it's looks stupid to use the word whilst censoring it, say it or don't say it. No point in trying to pretend you're not saying it.

Specal ,

I think what needs to be considered here is what we consider a waste of electricity. Efficiency calculations are dependent on waste, So I personally think electric cars are a waste of resources, they consume electricity to run and consume non renewable resources to produce just to move a maximum of 1-5* people per journey. Whereas an electric which still uses this resources can move over 10x that amount per journey, and trains over 30x that amount per journey.

So to me that's energy inefficiency at the consumer point.

Now let's look at energy generation and transfer. At the moment, alot of energy production is a for profit business, Company A builds a solar farm, Company B builds a Coal power plant and Company C (This would be overseen by the government, not a private company) builds a nuclear reactor. All 3 of these companies produce various amounts of electricity with different efficiencies, but all must be sold at the same price. It might only cost £0.01/KwH on the solar farm to produce, but must be sold for £0.33/KwH, the coal would be £0.27/KwH and nuclear would be £0.45/KwH.

You have 3 generation methods, each with strengths and weaknesses all being forced to sell for the same price. Normally in a capitalist system you see "Competition" (not really) on the market. Company A would say "We're cheap, but can only guarantee 97% uptime due XYZ issues", most homes would be fine with me this. Company B + C "We're not as cheap but we can offer 99.9% uptime" This looks great for companies needing that security in uptime.

I've gone on a tangent and can't be bothered finishing this post maybe someone else will.

Specal ,

Additionally, using jottacloud with 2 VPS's (one of them being built on epyc like from OVH cloud) can get you a really good download server and streaming server for about £30 a month, which is the same as having netflix and Disney plus, except now you can have anything you want.

I have a contabo 4core 8gb ram VPS that handles downloading content.

A OVH 4core 8gb VPS that handles emby (I keep trying to go back to jellyfin but it's just slightly slower than emby at transcoding and I need to squeeze as much performance out of my VPS as possible so... Maybe one day jelly)

And I have a really good streaming experience with subtitles that don't put big black boxes on the screen making 1/8th of the screen non viewable.

Specal ,

Caddy makes it so you don't have to understand reverse proxies to use them, the config is literally just "reverse_proxy " and then gives it a let's encrypt SSL certificate. It's beautiful for self hosting.

Specal ,

Alot of people don't like Microsoft, but they're pushing for zero password authentication for a reason. Passwords are getting really insecure really fast.

Specal ,

I don't know about windows specifically, but for outlook they're pushing their authenticator app (you can use any) and SMS or email one time links. I think it works really well, and almost all attempts to access my account have stopped tbh, they can't phish for my password if I don't have a password.

Specal ,

I just use their Authenticator app out of convenience, I get a notification when I login through it and it asks me to input the correct number given by the app, a 2 digit number.

Specal ,

The issue is you have a Tesla

Specal ,

I mean I owned a car from the ages of 18 to 25, never had a claim.

I'm 27 now and looked at getting a car for the odd time I need one and and insurance premiums are an average of £1100 to £1700. Why bother? I'll just continue to get the train

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