Anubis350 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Never ever (Score 1) 72

by Anubis350 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:17PM (#64443174) Attached to: The Original Smart Thermostat, Unveiled 16 Years Ago, is About To Get Dumb

Well, I live in an apartment and the power company was allowed by the owners to install these - literally minutes before this story posted (with threats that if you don't they'll consider it a least violation, naturally), and it is this brand.

Mine is not connected to my network and I've already reconfigured their "Comfort settings" to just be the one temperature I like on hot or cold.

The guy from the power company was of course all "you can control it with an app" and all that and enroll it in our program and save $20/mo on your power bill (but we are allowed up to 10 times to just change the temperature whenever we want).

Fuck that shit.

I somehow doubt your power company is installing the 16 year old model being deprecated...

Comment Apple... (Score 1) 114

by Anubis350 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @02:51PM (#64279386) Attached to: HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD

Worth pointing out that while Apple hasnt given explicit help to the Asahi folks (which would be great, wish they did), they have tacitly cleared the way for them to work by doing things like enabling a raw image mode (https://web.archive.org/web/20220326234421/https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1471799568807636994)

Comment Re:The parallels between China and Russia are (Score 1) 152

by Anubis350 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:30PM (#64109861) Attached to: Is Huawei Pushing Forward With an Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android?

There are about the same number of Cantonese speakers and Wu speakers, Hakka is close behind with about 82% of the speakers of Cantonese, and thats just the ones in striking distance of 100M speakers within the next 15 years or so, so what are you even talking about?

Comment Re: Billionaire's playground (Score 1) 167

by Anubis350 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:48PM (#64087261) Attached to: Elon Musk Is Funding a New School In Austin, Texas

Bear in mind some of the confirmation bias there, “predicting the future then plotting to make it so” type thing. If you ID “early achievers” and then give those kids more resources, advanced help, etc than other kids you will often create a self fulfilling prophecy.

Comment Re:The parallels between China and Russia are (Score 3, Informative) 152

by Anubis350 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:41PM (#64087259) Attached to: Is Huawei Pushing Forward With an Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android?

Are you seriously trying to claim that the modern capitalist/authoritarian hybrid with communist trappings that is the current PROC is the old cultural heritage of China? How much kool aid have you drunk?

Comment This is why... (Score 1) 164

by Anubis350 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:56PM (#64079555) Attached to: Your Smart TV Knows What You're Watching

...I don't let my TVs have network access, they're just used as dumb displays, any smarts are in what I connect to them

Comment Re: EV sales are increasing [Re:Canada....] (Score 1) 279

by Anubis350 on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:13PM (#64019331) Attached to: World Facing 'Hellish' 3C of Climate Heating, UN Warns Before Cop28

Also dealerships where sales folks are actively opposed to selling you an ev and steering people to gas cars, the larger the better. Had that happen recently to me personally when looking for a new car, had to very bluntly tell the sales staff to stop pushing gas cars at me, and they were pretty grumpy about it afterwards âoewhy would you want to look at the mustang ev when you could buy a gas F150â

Comment Re: Here we go (Score 1) 75

by Anubis350 on Sunday November 19, 2023 @10:03AM (#64016113) Attached to: Raspberry Pi OS, elementary OS Will Default to Wayland

s/que\/queue/cue/

Comment Re: Can We Buy Stock RPis at List Price Yet? (Score 0) 37

by Anubis350 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:26PM (#63974602) Attached to: Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi

Been able to buy 4s at MSRP at retail at the Microcenter by me for a while now, their stock fluctuates but itâ(TM)s been pretty reliable recently, and they *always* have zeros The 5s just came out, gonna take a while for stock to stabilize there

Comment Phonesâ¦ (Score 1) 37

by Anubis350 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:24PM (#63974596) Attached to: Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi

On the desktop side youâ(TM)re right, but even on general computing ARM was hardly just âoethe remains of Acornâ when the Pi came out, they powered basically every smartphone out there, still do

Comment Re: Lessons learned from Mir? (Score 1) 102

by Anubis350 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @07:59AM (#63882959) Attached to: Bids For ISS Demolition Rights Are Now Open, NASA Declares

That was such an underrated show :)

Comment Re: Inevitability (Score 1) 314

by Anubis350 on Sunday September 24, 2023 @08:40PM (#63874223) Attached to: Has America Passed the 'Tipping Point' for Purchasing Electric Vehicles?

Same boat here, hoping for an electric maverick or santa cruz soon, a good ev version of either would be an instant buy for me for my next car

Comment Re: Seems ridiculous, on the face of it (Score 3, Insightful) 79

by Anubis350 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:47PM (#63788768) Attached to: ICANN Warns UN May Sideline Tech Community From Future Internet Governance

Sadly hard right and libertarian conspiracy theorists, as well as just general trolls, have, every year, become a larger and larger percentage of /.â(TM)s shrinking userbase. I wish /. would find a way to draw more of the old style techy crowd that likes, you know, facts but there hasnt been any evidence they even know how.

Comment Real Estate and Taxes (Score 4, Insightful) 153

by Anubis350 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @04:48PM (#63782872) Attached to: 'Demoralized' Amazon Workers Demand Data, Not Anecdotes, Supporting Return-to-Office Policy

This is because of real estate and everything around that. Amazon makes money on rent and other deals with stores, and they also use the foot traffic from their employees as justification for local tax breaks for locating their offices in certain locations. This isnt in any way about collaboration, it’s about preserving Amazon’s real estate portfolio and tax breaks

Comment Re: What happened to the pig? (Score 1) 88

by Anubis350 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:48PM (#63775330) Attached to: NYU Surgeons Claim Advance In Transplant of Pig Kidney To a Human

Jews do too thoughâ¦ life is considered more important than kashrut. If you are observant and starving and only pork is available, you eat pork rather than starve. Same general reasoning for why soldiers can fight or a medical staff can work to save a life on the sabbath

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