thejml

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders

Yes. When their stock price dropped far enough, Verizon bought them.

thejml , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in You go to either Linus Torvalds's house or the Apple Store

Thankfully, someone else started that for you: https://www.redox-os.org

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse

I used to use Twitter as a way of directly following a few sources of news. Follow NPR, BBS, Reuters,
Etc. I don’t know anyone who expected to learn of news from “the algorithm”. That’s still true today. Expect to get fed news from whatever is trending and you’ll be bamboozled, fed useless stories a day propaganda.

Some of these sources can instead be snagged from RSS feeds and Mastodon and besides official apps, those are much better ways to follow news and always have been.

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in Qualcomm quietly demos Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptops

Not op, but: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23929240/nvidia-amd-cpu-arm-pc-chips-2025-release-rumors

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in Should Airships Make a Comeback?

Betteridge’s Law says the answer to an article title with a question is always “no”.

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in The Affinity and Canva Pledge

At least that’s one plus with actually buying software vs renting it like Adobe. If they close down/go belly up, I still have what I paid for.

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in The Affinity and Canva Pledge

Aged like milk…

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple

It’s also partially because any decent engineer/technocrat both lacks sufficient charisma and cash flow, and more importantly looks at public service and says “there’s no reliable way I can keep my morals and make a difference there.” As an engineer myself, I can’t imagine dealing with the general public. Choosing the correct, logical path will never win over people who put opinions and faith/feelings over reasoning and science. We’ve seen it time and time again and I’m not going to bang my head against that wall.

Instead I help friends and family, contribute to open source and projects I believe in and be the change I want to see in the world. Trying to do that as an elected official would foster insanity and pushback from those who don’t care and only want their side to win, regardless of the overall outcome.

Also: yes SJ was a POS, but he was a POS with charisma, a plan, and smart enough to surround himself with people who could make his ideas happen… and then micromanage them.

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears

I think it’s important to say that while history and routine are part of it, social networks are only as useful as they are populated. If your friends and people you follow are all on Twitter, you’re not going to jump to Mastodon. If the content creators start switching, people will likely follow… but they won’t switch unless their followers switch.

I switched to Mastodon when Twitter went to X, and cold Turkey dropped to Lemmy from Reddit when the API scandal hit and the only thing I miss is most of the reason I was in those platforms in the first place, the content creators.

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed

And this isn’t even about social media. This bill is to prevent the external data collection and manipulation of a group of people by an external to the US organization. If this was about with of those in general, then I’d be all about it. We need better data protections here in the US and we need social media platforms to be held accountable on that charge, but this isn’t that bill. This doesn’t affect Meta, or X or any other domestic site which are just as bad at both manipulation and data gathering/selling.

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023

We were that way as well for a few years. Then the updates cause the sluggishness of the internal processor to become apparent… and then the updates stop completely. An internal smart system can’t be upgraded, external ones can. Not to mention that the HDMI spec will auto start the TVs and put it to the right input automatically when you turn in a connected device.

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023

But do they use it because it’s there, or do they actually go out and buy a TV because of the smart features? I’d much rather have a separate device (and do) than use the built in smart features. I would greatly prefer to buy a TV with no smart features and just continue using my AppleTV than have to buy a new TV every time the built in system stopped getting updates.

thejml , 3 months ago to Technology in I see your Outlook (new) and I raise you Microsoft Teams classic (work or school)

Expected

• Microsoft Teams 360
• Microsoft Teams One
• Microsoft Teams Series S (for school)
• Microsoft Teams Series W (for work)

thejml , 4 months ago to Technology in Opinion: It's Time To Ditch 2.4GHz WI-FI

Chicken wire in walls is something that came WAY before wifi. It’s used for plaster in much the same way rebar is used for concrete.

thejml , 4 months ago to Technology in 1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that's curbed oil demand – IEA

Considering a lot of goods the west buys are made or travel via China, that makes sense. We didn’t drop our emissions, we just shifted it to China.