[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 46 points 10 months ago

Great and all, but this is a literal press release. It could be PR spruiking, it could be pump’n’dump play, it could be friggin genuinely great. No way to know from a press release.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 29 points 10 months ago

This is one area where Apple has it pretty right. A Mac will do somethings when ‘asleep’ like download emails and texts. It also can broadcast its location if the ‘Find Me’ function is on. If it’s plugged into power then backups will also run, and background app updates will happen. It does this in a low power mode, so it won’t get hot enough to need fans. It’s worked flawlessly for 20 years. Meanwhile all our PCs are set to ‘never sleep’ and just get shutdown when not in use. I never trust a PC laptop to wake successfully from sleep just by closing the lid.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 19 points 10 months ago

The whole premise of ads on Twitter is that they’re targeted.

IBM don’t sell consumer crap. They sell smoke and mirrors to major governments and industry. They’re chasing jobs worth millions per pop. They want ads to target the people making those decisions.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 24 points 10 months ago

Weird take, what’s your beef? They most certainly do slap on huge fines, and are much more aggressive about enforcing privacy requirements than the US/etal.

This is kinda like cursing the worlds fastest sprinter for just not running fast enough.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Checking sources twice is something you should do from a news agency that is actually reputable. As in it trades on being honest and accurate.

You’re not obliged to read everything from an outlet that has no track record of honesty and integrity simply because you’ve been beaten around the head with the internet ‘logical fallacy’ meme one too many times.

Thinking that everything you read on the internet should be worth your time to fact check is the ultimate logical fallacy.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

In places where this has been studied extensively renewables with storage are still the cheapest by a long way. Australia has the whole state of South Australia (plus Tasmania) as a test case. SA has transitioned to almost 100% renewable supply in under a decade.

We have a cost effective, distributed, redundant, easy to build solution. SMRs are not proven in cost or reliability. They should be studied and trialed, but not at the expense of acting responsibly today.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 29 points 1 year ago

Well, they were significantly more secure by default than Windows due to various design measures including the separation of user land. And old OS9 was friggin brilliant for a web facing machine back in the day.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Well my anecdote is that every single micro USB device I have has either a stuffed port or stuffs the cable. Those things are so incredibly flimsy.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Not gaming (obviously!) but the2019 MacBook Pro has a 140W USB-C charger to a single port.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I probably would if they didn’t shut projects down every second week.

[-] min0nim@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wanted to insult you and swear a bit as a bit of a funny take on driving engagement…but is mostly just so darn nice here that I can’t bring myself to roll around in the gutter.

Have an upvote and be happy instead.

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