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Comment Re:I'm German (Score 1) 23

I think you're mixing up communism which is what Karl Marx talked about and a bunch of fascist dictators who borrowed his books for rhetoric...

That said Germany recognized the threat of the far right and they have been clamping down on it since the fifties like you wouldn't believe. What is scary is that the far right has gradually been reducing those restrictions.

It's the paradox of tolerance. You cannot tolerate the intolerant. They will use that against you and then they will murder you in your sleep. If you're lucky. If you're not they will vivisect you without anesthetic.

Comment Re:It's OPT-IN (Score 2) 23

It's 2026 dude. Nobody believes that anymore.

Unless you have laws and they are strictly enforced with extremely harsh penalties companies will do whatever the fuck they want and you have to suck it down. And we stopped passing those kind of laws here in America in the '80s when Ronald Reagan took over. The few we had left on the books we stopped and forcing when newt Gingrich started fucking up Congress. And the last of our civil rights got rendered moot when we gave up the courts to a bunch of corrupt fascists.

We are at the final line of defense as far as democracy is concerned. The voters and elections. It is possible because of Trump's failing Health we might turn that around just barely but it's pretty touch and go right now.

Comment A Snapdragon 7 gen 4? (Score 1) 34

I mean it could be worse but 8 has been out for a while now and it has a substantially improved modem which is why I bought a phone that has one. The difference between my old Media tech and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is pretty enormous. I can actually get text messages now.

The only thing I can think of is cost cutting because of the stupid price of ram right now

Comment Re:AI doesn't use desktop hardware including RAM (Score 1) 41

simply stopped making desktop memory

That's not how RAM works. One RAM packager simply stopped putting it on DIMMs, that's all there is to it. When the bottom drops out of the industry and they are left with having to sell the chips they produced it'll be moments before they pivot back to slapping them on consumer PCBs. Also there's no real hole left in the industry here. Crucial was a single brand among a see of consumer memory providers. As soon chips start flowing again there'll be plenty of choice for desktops. Everyone else didn't "stop making desktop memory", they simply can't afford to buy the chips.

Comment Re:Thanks, AI bubble! (Score 1) 41

Also monopolies. There are three memory producers. There are tons of companies that make semiconductors that could be entering the market and already there. But they're not going to risk it because the other three ram producers could very quickly ramp up production and run them out of business.

It wasn't ethics and games journalism and blue haired college girls coming for your hobbies it was tech Bros and finance Bros. If we have proper antitrust law enforcement the market could actually work and solve this problem. But we don't so...

Comment Re:Beneficial use of the EM spectrum (Score 1) 27

Spewing non-stop lies over the airwaves is not that use.

Probably why they chose to *not* air Trump's speech. MSNOW often states this as a reason for not airing Trump speeches live and/or in their entirety -- too many lies, misrepresentations and bullshit from Trump and those in his administration.

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