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Wispy2891

@ Wispy2891 @lemmy.world

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  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • In Europe the price it's not that appealing, it's €699 and because they "care about environment 😉" the €99 charger (which is almost mandatory for a new user) is sold separately.

    At €798 for 256g/8g it's not as good as the $599 they're selling in the US.

    If someone is price sensitive, can get 3-4 refurbished ThinkPads with better specs for that price and run Linux much easier without hoping on some volunteer wizard to reverse engineer the proprietary components

  • Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

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  • I saw an unboxing for a TV for a Chinese market and it refused to start until the owner paired it with a Chinese phone otp for "age verification" 😉

  • System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

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  • Facebook is lobbying them so they don't have to do age checks on Instagram and can maximize the revenue

  • Cybertruck Self-Destructs in Shallow Water… Leaving Questions About the Promised “Boat Mode”

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  • The vehicle is only for showing off and definitely not designed for real off-road use, but the driver caused most of the water damage by entering the flood at such high speed. You're not supposed to wade at 20 mph unless you're in a hovercraft

  • LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats

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  • That is supposed to be even with Microsoft office, because it changes the fonts without warning and adjusts the margins according to the default printer. It's not a format designed to be shared with other people

  • BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient

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  • 15 years ago it was a revolutionary idea

  • sloppy one

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  • The Next (De)Generation

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  • Uploading [160 TB of] Pirated Books via BitTorrent [for profit] Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

    Meta also argued that the BitTorrent sharing was a necessity to get the valuable (but pirated) data. In the case of Anna’s Archive, Meta said, the datasets were only available in bulk through torrent downloads, making BitTorrent the only practical option.

    “Meta used BitTorrent because it was a more efficient and reliable means of obtaining the datasets, and in the case of Anna’s Archive, those datasets were only available in bulk through torrent downloads,” Meta’s attorney writes.

    If billionaires can massively pirate EVERYTHING in bulk for profit, why individuals can't pirate a single item for personal consumption?

  • Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators

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  • you're punishing those poor guys that are doing the job for $10/month. zucc doesn't care at all as they are already giving ptsd to thousands of moderators tasked of watching the reported gore videos

  • More police busts in Italy

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  • kids have cutters and scissors in their stationery kit and that is more dangerous than this toys. They way they presented the evidence make it look like they seized some meth factory and not "kids underestimated that printing toys that look like weapons and bring them to school is not a good idea"

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • Consider that this is an iPhone 16 in a MacBook shell, though. This gives you performance comparable a 5 years old used MacBook M1. It's usable, but it's designed to act as a gateway drug, you'll immediately hit storage and memory limits and want to buy a more expensive one.

    8gb of RAM in 2026 where most modern apps are made in electron and a basic text editor takes half gig to show a blank page is less than ideal

  • Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman

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  • They are already on the enshittification path.

    After the "please disregard copyright and generate all the Ghibli-style photos that you want" phase, now they enforce a 24 hour cooldown after any kind of image upload

  • Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law

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  • I wonder how the survey has been done?

    Because if it has been done by phone, "do you want x to be banned if it continues to break the law?", then it's biased because X is historically used as a placeholder and only a ketamine addict could think that is a good idea to destroy a brand for that

  • More police busts in Italy

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  • The article writes as the two kids were printing the toys using the school 3d printer, a third saw what they were doing and wanted to report them, at that point they threatened him

  • More police busts in Italy

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  • The article actually said the kid was threatened because wanted to snitch

  • FreeCad in docker

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  • The docker image streams the app using vnc via the browser, which is inefficient and laggy

  • Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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  • That style of moustache went out of fashion very rapidly after that photo

  • Just vibesinning

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  • afaik the difference is that the free model is gpt-5-mini instead of the full one, and they stole less data for training that

  • New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater

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  • I’m not completely sure why

    I think it's marketing

    5000 mAh is much a bigger number than 19 Wh and marketing loves huge numbers

    Kinda like BMW did with the i3.

    In 2013 Tesla was selling a model with a 60 kWh battery so BMW had the genius idea to install a 20 kWh battery BUT refer to it as "60 Ah" battery.

    Tesla introduced the 90 kWh battery? BMW responds with a 94 Ah battery (28 kWh)

    Newest Tesla has 100 kWh battery now? BMW has 120 Ah battery (38 kWh)

    "See? Higher number!", says the marketing

    And in order to have a comparable range number they had to implement heavy weight reduction techniques like using carbon fiber for the body, negating any cost saving from the smaller battery AND giving the owner a total loss after small collisions as it shatters instead of bending