skulblaka

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Don't be a tool of the corpos and the state.

Absolutely yes, but also, choose your targets. Walmart ain't gonna miss it. The local bodega will.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

Of course. Backwards compatibility for Nintendo died with the original Wii. That's almost certainly never coming back.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to 196 in rule

Aesop fans in the wild? On MY Lemmy?

It's more likely than you think

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air

For legal reasons I am required to inform you that I am not a financial advisor. In fact, I am not real.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air

Now you have the time to actually write up a design document and let your half-baked idea become a fully cooked one before you drop a bunch of cash on it

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air

It isn't a waste if people buy it. Putting M4s in the iPad lets them market it to rubes who think bigger number is better without reading the spec sheet or understanding their own requirements, and if they're already manufacturing M4s to put in other things, that's one less production line that needs to run. Sure, they could release an iPad Cheapass Edition with an M1 in it and sell it comfortably at a profit for like $80, but the market for those is likely to be small, they won't make nearly the overhead profit that the M4 iPad will, it requires an entire extra production line setup, and most importantly it isn't flashy enough for Apple. They don't want to release a product that feels cheap, even if it was specifically intended to be cheap. It's bad brand optics and they care about that a lot. Let China sell a bunch of bootleg tablets to people that want them, they're gonna do that anyway regardless if Apple gets in the train or not, and this way Apple isn't tarnishing their product lineup with a PoorPad^TM

skulblaka , 1 month ago to 196 in Rule: Dr Seuss's Boners

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skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs

Plenty of room in the back

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

Also a market there. Especially among programmers. You might be onto something.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men

Ask an AI for pictures of Texans and see how many cowboy hats it gives back to you.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas

Haven't seen a new car that can play tapes in nearly 20 years. Got bad news, boss.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids”

Basically, yeah, but if every single LBP level wanted to nickel and dime you out of five bucks.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows

Right. There have been folks getting paid for (and enjoying) being the center of attention since culture has existed. The entire concept of cinema comes from this. I wouldn't call Rowan Atkinson or Penn & Teller "attention whores or people who only want free shit" but they are the "influencers" of their time.

The dynamic has shifted, but I don't see it as some inherently bad thing, this just reads as a "kids bad!" kind of statement.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in The Verge shows how Google search is useless

I don't know what "right" key wording you want if not the exact model and part number.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to 196 in Flash Rule

Older flash bulbs weren't really made for long uptime. If you were using your flashlight for under a minute looking for something it was fine but any longer than that and it would start getting really hot. Once manufacturers caught on that everyone was using apps for it (and potentially damaging their phone in the process due to heat) we got better bulbs and baked in controls for it.