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emma OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in dae remember when "microsoft surface" was the name of a coffee table-shaped ipad by emma
i watched it again and holy moly that input lag at 0:11
twovests wrote
i still do
flabberghaster OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by voxpoplar in The way graphene OS constantly accuses people and organizations of "attacking" them makes me suspicious of them by flabberghaster
I think that's right. I use the OS myself and I once went in to their matrix chat to ask for help on something because the way notifications worked had changed (I wanted to mute some notifs and not others and couldn't figure it out).
Immediately the main developer replied telling me I was doing it wrong, the way notifications worked in the OS was right and working as intended, and I was wrong and didn't get it. And I was like what the hell man. I came in here saying "I don't understand this, can someone please help me figure out how to use it?" And I was still accused of being a dumbass who didn't get it.
cute_spider wrote
Reply to The way graphene OS constantly accuses people and organizations of "attacking" them makes me suspicious of them by flabberghaster
They kind of sound like a modern immune system. They don't have enough legitimate attackers so they're just bashing whatever
I bet if someone were to tear then up in an attack they'd cool it
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by emma in The way graphene OS constantly accuses people and organizations of "attacking" them makes me suspicious of them by flabberghaster
I don't find them credible either, I just find the way they go sicko mode on everyone all the time weird and feels like what you'd do to put up a smokescreen.
I don't think they're doing that necessarily, I think thestinger just has Mental Health, like a lot of us do. But seriously it's an awful way to present the project.
twovests wrote
Reply to The way graphene OS constantly accuses people and organizations of "attacking" them makes me suspicious of them by flabberghaster
Yeah, I follow them for news but it's increasingly just long rants about the malicious forces conspiring against them. The cited attacks are just... Milquetoast criticism.
I installed Graphene on my phone and like the OS but I think I'll be using Calyx next time.
It's a concern though, because it feels like just mentioning GrapheneOS can summon the developer. Maybe the evil forces conspiring against GrapheneOS was the friends we made along the way.
emma wrote
Reply to The way graphene OS constantly accuses people and organizations of "attacking" them makes me suspicious of them by flabberghaster
they have a history of doing this, going back years. from what i've seen, it takes very little to be accused of being hostile to the project or the lead developer, so i don't find any of their claims against specific people or organisations to be credible.
voxpoplar wrote
Reply to The way graphene OS constantly accuses people and organizations of "attacking" them makes me suspicious of them by flabberghaster
I have not looked into this at all but it’s probably just made by dickheads who can’t take any criticism.
cowloom wrote
Reply to KolourPaint is a free, libre, and unabashed MS Paint (Windows 95, 98, XP) clone :) by twovests
this certainly is one of the softwares of all time
emma wrote
Reply to KolourPaint is a free, libre, and unabashed MS Paint (Windows 95, 98, XP) clone :) by twovests
unfortunately, it's pretty bad on macos with dark mode activated. i'll have to keep running windows 95 in 86box whenever i hold a business presentation.
twovests wrote
Hey these are the FlipperZero people! The GALL of the 🫸! 🫳. 🅱️USY
video.
anethum wrote
Reply to comment by nitori in Understanding Garlic: A New Paradigm for Tasty Croutons by Futuretech
ah yeah, that could be a little bit confusing: the feature on your phone, while having the same acronym, actually stands for Near Field Crouton. as the name suggests, your crouton needs to be harvested in the same second-level administrative division as your location
Moonside wrote
I was not prepared for how utterly over engineered it was, but I kind of want to build a cheap knock off version myself. I have this feeling deep in my bones that I could build the actually useful parts in prettier packaging. Make it look like it was designed in 20's or 50's and shit.
nitori wrote
Reply to comment by voxpoplar in Understanding Garlic: A New Paradigm for Tasty Croutons by Futuretech
My phone has NFC capability and I'm putting it near a crouton, but nothing is happening. What am I doing wrong?
hollyhoppet wrote
hacking it to show a middle finger when i'm busy
cowloom wrote
imagine spending all of that money instead of grabbing a piece of printer paper and writing "DO NOT DISTURB" on it
voxpoplar wrote
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neku wrote
brother it is april 2025 it is time to move on from nfts
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to "I bought this before you knew Elon was evil" sticker on my Hitachi Magic Wand. But I knew Elon Musk was evil when I bought it. Not that it was related at all. by twovests
honestly i stopped getting magic wands after my second one broke because they're a pain to clean but i do miss having one just as a back massager tbh....
hollyhoppet wrote
i don't have any advice on specific keyboards but they're called "scissor switch" keyboards if you want to shop around more
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in Why doesn't a VC just invest in AMD and pay a dozen software engineers to improve AMD libraries? by twovests
i mean, the chain here is still "AI" so it's not linked to anything real
devtesla wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in Why doesn't a VC just invest in AMD and pay a dozen software engineers to improve AMD libraries? by twovests
I wouldn't link a stock price to anything real tbh
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in Why doesn't a VC just invest in AMD and pay a dozen software engineers to improve AMD libraries? by twovests
Even if AMD would still sell all the GPUs they make, I still think the "invest in AMD and make it worth more by improving its libraries" is still an easy path to make a profit, right? If AMD GPUs could suddenly run all the models that Nvidia GPUs could do, then AMD stock would just be worth more?
This would fuck the buyer even more (making the GPU shortage even worse, I think) but I do like the idea of having a Linux machine with an AMD GPU in the next 10 years.
devtesla wrote
Reply to Why doesn't a VC just invest in AMD and pay a dozen software engineers to improve AMD libraries? by twovests
So at the moment AMD is selling through as many graphics cards as they can make, so they don't specifically need this business. On a deeper level, for AMD all the silicon that goes into a consumer GPU is silicon that could have gone into a more profitable product. This is also true of nvidia tbh, but for AMD it's specifically their mobile products, consumer CPUs and enterprise CPUs.
So why does AMD make graphics cards at all? Shiping a high performance graphics architecture pays off down the product line, and eventually makes it into laptops, handhelds, and game consoles. I suspect this is why Intel is making graphics cards now, like I'd be shocked if there's any profit for them there at all but it could pay off in other products.
But yeah the bottom line is that the buyer is fucked. There's not a good reason for AMD to match nvidia on this type of spend (and it's gigantic, AMD does spend a lot and can barely handle gaming Lol. It's more than a dozen engineers!), so nvidia can charge what they want and screw over their partners as much as possible. I'm gonna hang onto my current parts for dear life.
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by emma in dae remember when "microsoft surface" was the name of a coffee table-shaped ipad by emma
Touch screens are swiftly becoming the hot new way to interact with a computer!