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ares35 , 1 month ago to Technology in Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause

didn’t go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux

you will run into similar restrictions on other services that use drm.

ares35 , 2 months ago to Technology in The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake

my old phones (going back all the way to the 'real' nokias) went a full month between charges. the last two with 4g volte suck so much power, it is every 2-3 days now, including my current hmd-made nokia (only a couple weeks old) with same capacity battery as what's stated in the article for the 'new' one.

ares35 , 2 months ago to Technology in Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

i have a flip phone. i don't use sms, but occasionally i make a quick note in the little 'notepad'. the good ol' tap-tap-tap is more efficient than its horrible predictive text.

ares35 , 2 months ago to Privacy in People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them

"decades" from now, autonomous vehicles will have their own roadways, designed for them and with the infrastructure needed for the tech at that future time.

the streets as we know them today will be for last-mile (literally) transport, pedestrians, bicycles, some forms of public transit, and what not.

ares35 , 2 months ago to Technology in Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained

it was spun-off from asus in '02, then acquired by a different spin-off in '10 which asus retains significant ownership of. so, yea, basically asrock is their "discount" brand,

ares35 , 2 months ago to Privacy in People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them

Full autonomous vehicles, and particularly significant levels of adoption of them are decades away

the only way fully-autonomous vehicles will truly work and work as envisioned, is if user-operated ones are taken off the roads entirely. and yes, that is at least 'decades away'

ares35 , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone

for every person that figures out how to disable this stuff, there are many thousands of others who don't, don't bother, or don't even know it might be possible to... which is why they pull this shit in the first place--and (usually) get away with it.

ares35 , 2 months ago to Memes in *Cough Cough...* Chrome... *Chough*...

i use private windows mainly so i don't clutter up browser histories with useless stuff i won't go back to (if i do run across something to save, it gets bookmarked or printed to pdf).

ares35 , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

it's not just apple anymore. all the major 'pc' makers have non-upgradeable laptops now.. just not across their entire line-up (yet).

ares35 , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in I just won an auction for 25 computers. What should I setup on them?

a pallet of 4th gens? i have a dozen left here from around that era that i can't get rid of without literally giving them away. they're 'tolerable' for a gui linux or win10 with an ssd, but the 'performance per watt' just isn't there with hardware this old. i used a few of them (none in an always-on role, though), but the rest just sit in the corner, without home nor purpose.

these 800 g1s are, iirc, 12vo, so upgrade or reuse potential is a bit limited. most users would want windows, and win10 does run 'ok enough' on 4th gen, just make sure they're booting from ssd (120gb minimum). but they'll run into that arbitrarily-errected wall-of-obsolescence with trying to upgrade or install win11 when win10 retires in ~ 18 months (you can 'rufus' a win11 installer, but there's no guarantee that you will be able to in the future). that limits demand and resale value of pretty much all the pre-8th gen hardware.

ares35 , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

the 'problem' is: you can't upgrade; you're stuck with that 8gb.

want more in a year or two? you have to buy a new mac. and that's apple's goal--sell more product. buyers will be back (because they're hooked on the platform and ecosystem) to buy a new one sooner than they otherwise would have.

ares35 , 2 months ago to Technology in Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate

so, tom's swings-and-misses... again?

ares35 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web

and this is why i refused to give you my social back when i lived in your service area and had a land line installed.

ares35 , 3 months ago to Technology in Blizzard locks you out of account if you don't agree to new terms; no ownership, forced arbitration

my vizio has been stuck on a tos update acceptance screen since about the time of the recent roku shit. i haven't had the time to deal with it, so it's just been turned off.

ares35 , 3 months ago to Privacy in VLC - App stores were a mistake

apple does 'support' their hw better, it's just that it's a pretty low bar to start with these days. they and their competitors could do better--much better, but zomg! someone has to think of the shareholders. they're far more important than users or the planet.