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  • 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 loved in the story of that episode that the TV execs learned that blipverts could kill their audience, and briefly switched back to adverts, but when sales fell they went back to blipverts knowing the danger because it was more profitable. The writers of that show nailed a corporate dystopian future.

    Our own hope was our protagonist Edison Carter "live and direct from Network 23"...who was also part of the giant corporate machine.

  • 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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  • If anyone remembers the cyberpunk 80s TV show Max Headroom, then they know that TV was everywhere all the time in that universe. There was a scene in one episode where the police enter a suspect’s home and discover that she had an off switch on her TV. The cops react in shock to the fact, and one of them says “She’ll get twenty years for that.”

    This universe also had "blipverts" which were a type of ad (advert..advertisement) that directly accessed your brain's motivation to get you to buy something. The only problem was that blipverts also had a high chance of killing the people that watched it.

    This was a TV show from almost 40 years ago now and it looks like these would be the things that are coming in the next few years from now.

  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • How would an instance block an IP without storing IPs?

    They could be blocking entire IP ranges. So they wouldn't have to store specific IPs. I'm not in the hosting industry but I would imagine there are groups tracking the CIDR blocks (IP ranges) that VPN providers use for their exit nodes. If such a list exists, a host could simply subscribe to accept whatever updates occur to those lists and implement the block for them.

  • ‘I just couldn’t do that drive any more’: Woman left job due to three-hour commute on N7

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  • I've got a coworker that works in the Bay Area but lives in the Midwest. Another I know works in New Jersey but lives in the Midwest. Corporate RTO initiatives in High COL areas with a salary differential coupled with lower Midwest COL and housing costs make strange things viable.

  • Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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  • The results of this study will undoubtedly produce a sea change in corporate culture while simultaneously creating opportunities for cross functional collaboration resulting from this paradigm shift. /s

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • Oops, my mistake

    Apology accepted. Have a great day!

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • Read my prior post, I specifically SAID it was a model number.

    You're embarrassing yourself with your pedantry. You said 80486 didn't exist. It did. Seriously, quit while you're behind here.

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • Such a confident answer! And so incorrect too!

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • Honestly, we know where the root of this problem came from. Back in the 1990s Intel broke with convention of using ever increasing numeric model numbers

    • 8086
    • 8088
    • 80186
    • 80286
    • 80386
    • 80486
    • Pentium ...wait, what?! Not 80586? Nope.

    Intel didn't like that other CPU manufacturers of x86 CPUs (AMD, Cyrix, IBM) could use the same numbering scheme. So Intel created "Pentium" because it could be copyrighted/trademarked so other companies couldn't use it.

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • That’s my bad for not remembering AMD’s fucking atrocious nonstandard mobile chip naming schemes.

    Atrocious compared to Intel? The first CPU with the name Core i7 was released in 2008, but Intel is still releasing a CPU named Core i7 as recently as 2023. They both suck, but in different ways.

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

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  • I'm not sure we can use the "Windows x86 vs Windows ARM" analog for this new unit from Apple. MacOS Tahoe is a native ARM OS on both the high end and now this low end unit. With Windows its a completely different CPU architecture.

    Apple has to know this is going to cannibalize its low end (8GB/256GB SSD) Macbook Air line. So will Apple discontinue the low config Air or is there some other differentiator that still makes the low config Air compelling?

  • He's a literal terrorist

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  • that something Tain ordered him to do as a member of the Obsidian Order was his “step too far” that caused his break with Cardassian ideology.

    Thats a wonderful thing about Garak is that I don't think there exists "a step too far". Rather I like to assume that even if it was a heinous request he didn't follow it because it didn't serve his own political motives. What was so interesting about Garak is that he clearly had a formal set of solid guiding principles. However to outsiders like us it looked chaotic and disjointed.

  • He's a literal terrorist

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  • Wasn't Garrik effectively banished for being on the losing side of an internal power struggle within the Obsidian Order (the Cardassian spy division of the government)?

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

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  • If its the full macOS, I don't think we can say that. That's what makes this so interesting as it is a first of its kind.

    Now, if it performs like a dog compared to an equivalent spec M3 or M4 Macbook Air, then we probably could call it a glorified tablet.

  • What phrases/sentences instantly reveal someone as a chud?

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  • Especially when they're using it as a defense to use racial slurs in a Wal-Mart on a Saturday afternoon.

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

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  • Tried the same thing in Asahi but without macOS’ memory management and access to GPU acceleration, it just wasn’t feasible.

    Thank you for sharing this result. I knew Asahi's memory management wasn't as robust (so I got a 24GB RAM M2 unit to overcome this).

    For your macOS Ollama implementation are you able to leverage the NPU in the hardware (which I know is also unavailable so far in Asahi)?

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

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  • This was my first question. This laptop looks like a really strange bird from the hardware point of view. It runs OSX (Tahoe), but uses an iPhone/iPad CPU (not an M1 or M2 CPUs that Asahi runs on today).

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

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  • Powered by A18 Pro

    Completing the MacBook Neo experience is macOS Tahoe

    Woah, this is new! A version of Mac OSX running on a iPhone/iPad CPU.

  • DOJ admits 47,635 Epstein files — including Trump allegations — were removed

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