[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 weeks ago

Thousands!? Shit. That's like all of them!

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I half agree with Shapiro. It is stupid to vote for someone because a celebrity or anyone else famous that you like endorses someone.

However, people do, so it does indeed get votes.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 3 months ago

If you don't test an update before you push it out, you fucked up. Simple as that. The person or persons who decided to send that update out untested, absolutely fucked up. They not only pushed it out untested, they didn't even roll it out in offset times from one region to the next or anything. They just went full ham. Absolutely an idiot move.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No one in the US will dive into major production of such things without a more guaranteed long term tariff. Not something that may go away within 5 years time. Also, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell the US will be a world leader in solar production. We might dominate the US market.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 5 months ago

....that's why the article says it.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 10 months ago

It sort of explains it, if you already know how RF charging works. It's still pretty new tech, but has been around for a bit.

"RF wireless charging is a type of uncoupled wireless charging in which an antenna embedded in an electronic device can pick up low level radio frequency waves from external sources and convert the waves' energy to direct current (DC) voltage."

So knowing that and the article referencing about wireless light switches already being a thing, but being battery powered, it seems that it's a standard wireless light switch that has just been modified with an rf wireless charging receiver that will charge a small battery or some capacitors to run the light switch.

IMO, until you're using rf to power more than just light switches, you're wasting a lot more electricity than it's worth, compared to changing out batteries in your light switches once every like 5 years. If RF gets standardized completely and it starts helping to power a whole mess of things like your smart watches, phones, air tags, clocks, etc then it will be pretty sweet.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 11 months ago

Not only that, they put it on sale to try and ruddy them out the door before news spread. Really ruins Western Digitals reputation.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 11 months ago

Oh fuck me. For a moment I started to think "no. Married with Children was already over 23 years ago" then I quickly realized that holy shit, Futurama is already over 23 years old.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 11 months ago

The benefits of having decent people running a privately owned company is pretty astounding. Once you go public and have a board that legally has and wants to make as much money as possible, it seems like things are sure to go to shit.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 year ago

There might be a subscription option or a subscription tier with a windows suite like office and stuff included in it, but for normal windows OS, they're decades away from going to a subscription only model, at best.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the lifetime monthly check for him, then his spouse, plus totally free top tier medical for the rest of their lives, also.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 year ago

Also, sort reviews for things by "newest" and read the reviews. Most of the time companies will do the majority of their fake spamming of reviews during the first weeks of release and if you read the more recent reviews you're likely to get more truth to them. I've looked at 4.5 star rated stuff with a thousand reviews before, but sorting by most recent I've seen 4 out of 5 of the reviews show up as 1 star rated.

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