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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 21 days ago to Technology in Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service

I mean most products you'd sell you're hopefully making at least 40% profit margin so everyone would still be making money. They're just banking on you sticking around and not canceling. lots of money > some money > no money

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 22 days ago to Technology in Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales

Who'da thunk, battery life sells battery powered devices.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 23 days ago to Privacy in What are some privacy focused forms of entertainment?

You’ll never be able to live your life if you never go out.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 23 days ago to Technology in Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot

Whose to say you'd have a computer compatible with the disc and the drive in 15 years?

And even if the platters are irreparably stuck you could go to a data recovery service and still pull the files off that way.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 23 days ago to Technology in Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot

Rated for, but that doesn't mean they're all actually manufactured to that standard.

CDs were rated for like 50+ years originally I think. We found out real quick that was an optimistic number, especially when you buy the cheapest thing around.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 23 days ago to Technology in Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot

Bluetooth sucks with everything else, and is unusable according to him. It's definitely the phone's fault not the car.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 23 days ago to Technology in Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot

Data on hard drives also generally lasts a long time. Much longer than 5-10 years.

And make sure you're constantly monitoring those discs, disc rot is very much a thing for all optical medica.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 23 days ago to Technology in Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot

(this is despite Sony being one of the biggest names in Bluetooth audio and therefore more likely to benefit from getting rid of 3.5mm)

What's fun about that is the bluetooth sucks in many experia phones. So if someone wanted to use a bluetooth device they'd be better off just getting a new phone. My friend has fun with his Tesla where his wife has to turn bluetooth off on her phone before they get in otherwise the car will only connect to her phone and not load his profile/get angry if she gets out.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 26 days ago to Technology in ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text

Like my Firefox profile data isn’t encrypted and I don’t see anyone sweating over that. This stupid chat history not being encrypted ain’t that different.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 26 days ago to Mildly Infuriating in eBay makes you wait a week to rate a sale as anything other than positive.

You also can't leave bad reviews if you return an item.

I bought an item that had issues, wanted to return it and the seller accused me of sending back in a different item. Once I got ebay involved I got them to approve the return, but like a day later I got a message from the seller that I assume he meant to send to someone else accusing them of trying to scam them as well. I almost wanted to eat the $40 so I could leave the bad review, but I know ebay would just remove it or something.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 1 month ago to Technology in EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software

General Motors accidentally made a good car so that's why they had to kill it.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp.

To redo the entire UI?

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in Why Tire Companies Love EVs

Large flat roads are also more efficient. Have you ever driven down a bumpy road? That shit aint efficient. All of your horizontal speed gets turned into vertical speed in a jarringly unpleasant way. That's part of why trains are so efficient because their tracks are so smooth.

Large wheels have nothing to do with a vehicles ability to go off road/on bumpy roads, if anything they're counter productive because you want large soft tires and small wheels for that scenario.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in Why Tire Companies Love EVs

What are you talking about? A solid wheel would perform horribly off road or on road in a gas or electric vehicle. You need some sort of tread and deformation to get any grip off road. And rubber is used because it deforms to the road and gives you a larger contact patch which gives you more grip. If you put solid wheels attached to a motor it wouldn’t take much effort to get them to slip in anything but the most ideal conditions. That’s why when people go off roading they get monster tires on tiny wheels and air them down until they’re ready to fall off.

In a horse drawn wagon solid wheels make sense because the wheels aren’t driving the carriage the horse is. The horse can step over bumps and put its hoof on solid ground. A wheel can’t do that, so it has to comply to the road. The up side is the solid wheel has a lot less rolling resistance. Early EVs had solid wheels because that’s just what we had.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp.

And that’s probably why it sucks so much. If they’d just cloned the work flow of other programs GIMP would actually be good for amateurs.