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Could be worse, could be 8".

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Strangely my hard disk is only 3.5" though.

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Yes though the failure rate of actually trying to read it later when you need it is quite high in my experience.

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Close. First tape experience was a TRS-80. Later moved on to DATs on various Unix boxes, AIX, Solaris, Linux. I did own an Amiga but it had a 3.5" disk and even a 20mb hdd! During the c64 era I was on Apple II, also floppies.

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Not to mention you had to type the whole freaking program in line by line from a book where the program was written out over 10 pages, then wait 2 hours for it to load from tape and if you made a single mistake you had to type the whole damn thing in again.

At least we have some proper old man stories we have to tell our kids about how hard we had it.

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It's really hard to know how this will play out. The models only have to improve a bit at this point to be reliably better than humans, as which time it probably makes sense to replace humans. It seems they will probably still hallucinate but do it little enough that it's still a net gain to use them. Compute power needed to run them will surely come down.

I'm as skeptical as the next guy, but I do think they will have uses, especially in examples like radiology which he he uses as a negative case. However I'm pretty sure it will eventually be able to do the initial screening to find the 95% of cases with nothing at a rate similar to existing medical diagnostic testing and then return the other 5% back to a human to review and decide further treatment. Based on my experience with speech language models, I'm pretty sure you'd be able to tweak the models to produce mostly false positives rather than false negatives and then run it through further layers of review afterwards.

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Add iMessage and Viber and I'm in.

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According to the article:

Qualcomm also claims that most Windows games should “just work” on its upcoming Arm laptops, so we could eventually see some gaming laptops powered by Arm processors.

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I used to have to go buy physical sims and use a wifi hotspot when I needed internet in the places that weren't covered under EU roaming because the roaming rates were so insane. Now I spend a small fraction of that amount on an esim that lasts just the duration of my trip and gives me just how much I need, and I don't even have to visit a shop. I just do it from my phone. Massive improvement.

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You can have as many esims as you want too, so you can have 10 numbers or data packages if you want. Just open the app, buy one, install it and it's ready to go, no need to deal with phone companies.

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I'm betting that doesn't work for every country in the world with unlimited data. If it did, I'd like to hear the carrier that pulled this off and the price of the service.

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I've never noticed that they disconnected if I had them enabled. But I've never had more than a couple active at a time.

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Not sure how this is different. I don't really find out which carrier I'm using in each country, I use an app which lists all the countries and the offers available. I choose one and install it on my phone. Usually it's a limited time eSIM just for the duration of my trip.

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Airalo

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Well it's still a lot more expensive than the $5-$10 I pay on an ad hoc basis for an eSIM when I need one every few months, even if I was traveling almost exclusively 100% in countries where I needed non eu data packages it probably wouldn't pay off, but it's good to know it's out there. I guess if I was in that situation it would probably be worth it just not to think about it (at least the Google price would be).

Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?

Just so tired of almost every time a doctor submits stuff to insurance, we have to be the ones to make multiple phone calls to both the doctor's office and insurance to iron everything out, figure out what the issue is (it's always a different issue), and basically be the go-between for the office and insurance. What am I...

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Living in Europe with single payer health care, this sounds crazy. I just go to the doctor, leave, pick up my drugs, etc. It's all handled by the insurance except maybe a few bucks on some drugs. Worst case I have to show my insurance card but that rarely even happens.

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Mine's here, a few things have been modernized since I last updated but general functionality is about the same.

What would you like to see in a house IT setup?

Currently remodeling a domicile, with the sweet and expensive ability to add anything I want within reason. I plan on modernizing the place to bring it into the 21st century because this house deserves it (just a great structure with lots of history and nearing it's centennial birthday)....

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For my money, KNX>Zwave>Zigbee. Zigbee's standard are not certified so you get non compliant devices that don't work well, and 2.4 is a very crowded frequency with lots of interference not only from other wireless devices but also microwaves, etc. Zwave solves both of these issues and generally has a higher level of quality, but for me a wired standard will always beat a wireless one if I'm starting from scratch.

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Meh, I don't care, I'd much rather have startallback than updates as it's the only thing that makes that windows box usable.

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Epson Ecotank is definitely the least bad option of the non laser printers. Mine still clogs more than I like but it's the first inkjet I've been able to live with. And that's including the canon ink tank which clogged weekly.

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I made the wise decision of getting my parents one more than a decade ago, never had any support issues.

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Anyone who's serious about home automation eventually realizes that the only way to do it effectively is with locally controlled standards based devices like zwave and zigbee, and open source projects like home assistant and esp32.

Anything else will eventually be corrupted or abandoned by its corporate sponsor, as anyone who's tried it the other way can tell you.

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Lots of these companies just go out of business and leave everyone stranded. But companies like Google don't give a fuck when they leave open source projects stranded like they did with the Nest API.

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There are also the communities like worldnews@lemmy.ml that seem okay at first but then you realize the mods are tankies.

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Generally a good idea but they still have many of the biggest communities.

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For me it's RSS, Lemmy, and suprisingly YouTube as I can get the major news sources( eg BBC, CNN, FT, DT, MSNBC) chunked up into specific topics so I don't have to sit through a bunch of garbage to get to the topics I care about. And I get it from more sources.

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My kids get my hand me downs.

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Your brain would have to be damaged already to agree to this.

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Its going to be a bloodbath.

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After the downfall of Mail and eMclient simultaneously putting the clamps down, I'm happily rediscovering Thunderbird

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Tasks are missing completely not to speak of all of the advanced task management functions of old outlook.

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I tried it and it had a hard time giving me the right focus with the inserts they had at the store, so wasn't quite as clear as my PSVR2 with good inserts. But the resolution and tracking are great. It's a very good proof of concept for AR, but that's about it.

For me, VR gaming is my main use case, and PSVR2 is the most cost effective way to get a high end experience there for me.

IMO AVP isn't cost effective for anything unless you really need to have 10 iPad screens open at once, and even then it's only marginally cheaper than buying 10 iPads.

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Any post indicating that the fight should be taken to Russia will get modded on politics@lemmy.world and given a warning.

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There are, unfortunately, tons of these these days. I usually figure it out halfway through the video and block the channel, but it wastes a lot of time. Same with the stuff Facebook recommends to me, most of it ends up being AI generated images these days.

HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver | Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort. (arstechnica.com)

HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver | Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.::Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.

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Time to stop using this standard.

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How will this affect the Lemmy client Voyager? Is it considered a web app? My understanding was that it was.

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Ah didn't know it was in the App Store now. Good. Thanks.

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It's hilarious how Apple still insists on making all their mobile devices USB 2. Have they not cracked the code for USB 3 after 11 years?

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Yes only the very top model. But get this. They shipped it with a USB 2.0 only cable. You know, just to stick the knife in a little bit anyway. Those guys sure know how to make a joke.

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I'm using this streaming service called Sonarr+plex. No ads so far.

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Yeah if you buy good games they have a much better cost to entertainment ratios than having a bunch of streaming services do. It's the games I end up not liking that ruin it.

realitista OP ,

You, alright, I learned it by watching you!

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Yet somehow it's in the top 20 posts of all time in this community.

My reddit web viewer still works! Story: When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I uploaded a web viewer I have been using for myself to Github pages for everyone to use... (rdx.overdevs.com)

I posted about that here and forgot < https://lemmy.world/post/896361> but today when I checked cloudflare analytics it showed about 1000 pageviews in last 24 hours. Looks like some people are using it so just wanted to let you guys know that it works, no ads. no popups nothing.

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I use lemmit. That way the reddit content comes here to Lemmy, and I have everything I want here in one place. I just started using a browser plugin to redirect any links that direct to reddit from lemmit to direct to RDX instead. This was only an issue with some videos and stuff that were hosted on reddit, normal links would skip reddit completely by default with lemmit. Now with RDX, I can really avoid reddit altogether!

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