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Comment Re:Cost? (Score 1) 373

If battery life is important to you, look at Garmin watches. Mine, when used as a smart watch, gets about 50 days of use on a single charge. Using it as a watch only it will last an infinite number of days without needing a charge.

Up until recently Garmin also had no subscription charge for any features on their watches, although they started dipping their toe into that realm a few months ago, so who knows how far they will try to take that. I'm happy with the features my watch cme with, and so far they haven't added anything new behind the subscription, and I'm hoping they keep it that way going forward.

But as far as battery life, you won't beat them.

Comment Re: Sshhhhhh. We're not supposed to say that. (Score 3) 95

This passage is a sarcastic critique of the energy consumption associated with artificial intelligence development. The author mocks the idea that AI is a universally desired or beneficial innovation by exaggerating claims about its impact â" joking that AI doesnâ(TM)t consume power but instead creates it, and that more AI somehow leads to cheaper electricity and a better future.

Point: Itâ(TM)s criticizing how tech advocates or companies may downplay the real-world environmental costs of AI in favor of exaggerated or misleading promises about its benefits.

Comment Re:Why not fix the basics? (Score 1) 67

It's completely anecdotal, but the amount of bloat between Windows 10 and Windows 11 is kind of astonishing.

I've got an older ThinkPad Carbon X1 that came with Windows 10, that ran perfectly fine on it. After upgrading it to Windows 11 it won't run for more than a few minutes without throttling itself down to the point that it's unusable. I thought maybe something didn't upgrade properly, so I reinstalled Windows 11 from scratch, same issue. So I thought maybe I needed to put new thermal paste on the CPU since it's relatively old, that didn't help anything either.

So I dumped Windows, installed OpenSUSE and it's running better than ever now. Between the shitty performance on 11, the new AI crap like this, the "Recall" feature that they are planning to roll out soon, and JetBrains making Rider free for non-commercial use, I don't have any reason to stick around on Windows now.

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