Comment Re:gross incompetence (Score 3, Funny) 17
I'm convinced the federal government is currently being run by a magic 8-ball in a desk drawer in the oval office.
Comment Re:Alien Weather Balloons (Score 2) 49
Whenever thereâ(TM)s a UFO, it gets identified as a weather balloon. My question is why are the damn aliens so interested in our weather?
Aliens: "Look what these earth monkeys are doing to their environment, it's hilarious!"
Comment Re:Roblox? (Score 1) 55
Are you somehow under the impression that all of the children in the world live in a single timezone?
Comment Re:Video Game Union Workers... (Score 1) 36
Well, they could scuttle a sale by walking out.
So union busts itself? That would probably make the company MORE valuable for a sale.
Comment Video Game Union Workers... (Score 2) 36
...learn they have no real power.
Comment following instead of leading (Score 2) 48
Apple is following the rest of the computing industry, which embraced touch-screen laptops more than a decade ago.
Then they'll find out the hard way that Steve was right.
Comment 2028 - No charger, no cable (Score 1) 68
Don't be surprised in 2028 when the EU bans bundling (vs. allowing selling units with or without, as long as without is an option) of not only the charger, but the cable as well:
By 28 December 2026, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council a report on the impact of the possibility to acquire radio equipment without any charging device and without cables, particularly with regard to consumer convenience, the reduction of environmental waste, behavioural changes and the development of market practices. That report shall be accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal to amend this Directive to introduce mandatory unbundling of the sale of charging devices and cables from the sale of radio equipment.’
Comment Re:Why not... (Score 1) 68
Include an add-on charging brick by default, but give people the option at purchase time to save $30 and select "do not include a charging brick"?
You save 65€ if you choose no charger when ordering.
Comment Re:Time to go back (Score 1) 92
I sometimes wonder if going back to smaller enclaves with limited inter-connectivity (FidoNet/RelayNet for example) wouldn't be better for us than what we deal with today with global social media. Sure you would end up with lots of tiny echo chambers but at least their blast-radius on society at large would be greatly reduced. Sadly pretty sure that ship has sailed forever.
Comment EU Regulation (Score 1) 68
Here is the reason for the EU. As I understand it, the UK has a similar regulation in place or going in place:
https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/electrical-and-electronic-engineering-industries-eei/radio-equipment-directive-red/one-common-charging-solution-all_en
Unbundling the sale of a charger from the sale of the electronic device
Consumers are able to purchase a new electronic device without a new charger. This limits the number of chargers on the market or left unused. Reducing production and disposal of new chargers is estimated to reduce the amount of electronic waste by 980 tonnes yearly.
. Details can be found in this document: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/lega...
Comment Re:Is people really using notebooks for AI? (Score 2) 75
For coding Claude is still king but some LLMs like qwen-code are perfectly serviceable. For more general tasks they are getting pretty good. Not as good as the commercial models but you gain portability, offline use, privacy, and more flexibility (fewer guard rails to run into for example). As for real world, one use I have is a documentation script for cloud environments. I've added code to call out to a local LLM API endpoint to generate text blocks based on configuration sections. The config data can contain sensitive information about the environments so processing it with a local LLM was deemed the safest option.
Saves a ton of time even with error checking/corrections. Doing it in small chunks reduces errors but they still creep in so you do need to actually read the output.
Saves a ton of time even with error checking/corrections. Doing it in small chunks reduces errors but they still creep in so you do need to actually read the output.
Comment Re:Is people really using notebooks for AI? (Score 1) 75
I am. M4 Max with 128GB RAM. It's one of the cheapest options to run large models (basically anything that won't fit on a 5090's 32GB).
Comment Re:My only complaint about AppleTV (Score 1) 42
Yea I hate the 8-10 episode seasons with huge gaps. I don't see the episode count changing anytime soon. 22+ episodes was part of the old-school first run then broadcast syndication model. Most of these shows will never see any syndication so they don't need to hit that 80 episode mark. Given the budget they are giving these shows, long seasons just are not coming back.
They are getting better at getting shows turned around faster. A few shows I watch are down to yearly releases this year. Hopefully that trend continues.
They are getting better at getting shows turned around faster. A few shows I watch are down to yearly releases this year. Hopefully that trend continues.
On Paramount....they're got Landman. Again, I'll probably be dead before the next season comes out.
I hope not. The new season starts Nov 16th.
Comment Re:Camel. Camel? Camel! (Score 1) 83
Just be aware that after some changes Amazon made in the last couple of years, CCC doesn't always pick up on limited time sales on Amazon so they often don't show the real lowest price in the price history.
Comment Re:I thought this could be good, until... (Score 1) 48
The have a non-screen connected version that will teach you all the solving algorithms and tricks. It's a normal cube with a BT connection to the app and can report back the panel positions (from a set starting point) as you move through the exercises. It's actually pretty slick.
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