Jeremy [Iowa]

Suddenly, I miss the old days of Android. I suppose it’s back to CyanogenMod or whatever it is these days

Sure there is… stop using Facebook.

Regulatory capture seems about on par for Google these days. I suppose I’ll be switching back to OnePlus for Android devices; that’ll be about it for Google stuff in my home.

“Most” seems to be doing some incredibly generous work here.

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Like about how that… doesn’t actually change anything that was said?

Right, so anyone adopting such a “buy for a month and binge watch” strategy can still pay ~75% more and not receive a ~75% increase in value.

Nothing is changed.

Well, when the price increases by ~75% and the value does not increase by ~75%, this sentiment isn’t exactly surprising.

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That’s fair - it seems to depend on if you’re using the Windows 11 consumer version or the current enterprise version.

Yes. It will allow Firefox to use any graphics processing available which is incredibly more efficient for video workloads.

Even shitty onboard Intel Iris and similar handle video workloads that much more efficiently.

Not to be flippant, but you could have just stopped at Microsoft Teams running like ass as the problem is Microsoft Teams and its bloated, over-ambitious nature running in fucking Edge via WebView.

Specific to your case, you seem to be referring to a video call - is Firefox using hardware acceleration? I seem to recall each video feed is its own transcode/render process so if that’s entirely on CPU, it could definitely wreck your performance.

I’ll have to look into it - thanks for the suggestion.

Poor Splunk - such a useful tool does not deserve the upcoming enshittification.

Hikvision has a decent line of chinesium local-only PoE cameras. I’ve used a few of them with Frigate and Home Assistant with great success.

We’ve known how to meaningfully address this for ages - with the side benefit of actually improving lives - and neither party is willing to pursue it as it lies outside partisan wedge-driving around various bans.

an EV charged from fossil electricity saves only 33% on emissions compared to a fossil car

Or, stated more honestly, an EV deriving electricity from even fossil-based grid-scale generation uses roughly half the raw combustables as an ICE with the added benefit of emission scrubbing.

if i am paying 40k$ for an EV i am expecting my purchase to act as a contribution to safeguard the environement

We are fortunate, then, that this is already the case.

EVs are a pass for me for now but thats my opinion.

I’m not sure how you’ve determined they should be a pass - if you’re comparing like to like and comparing to new ICE vehicles of similar capability, there’s no reason not to go EV for most people.

But sure, it is a matter of preference.

You are aware that internal combustion engines also use non-renewables at a much lower efficiency than grid-scale use of non-renewables, right?

Were you aware that only ~1/3 the energy from combustion is harnessed for propulsion in a traditional ICE?

The lack of Google/Microsoft enshittification is a huge draw.

Why can’t my queer ass think guns are awesome like c’mon

This exact combination has begun to break brains over here in such a manner as to be exactly like the old r/Politics that made r/liberalgunowners so lovely.