vonxylofon

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I have no idea where to post this rule in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did you earn an iron urn?

Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Braille isn't very good for quick discernment. It's much easier to put differently-shaped buttons together or put buttons into different places.

Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement' in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

MediaTek 9400 fits within 10% of Snapdragon 8 Elite, so if you don't intend to load a custom ROM, I'd say there are options.

Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love how you're totally ignoring 8 existed.

Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 148 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Microsoft has a Windows 11 problem. Staying on Windows 10 is a symptom.

Microsoft and OpenAI ‘bromance’ begins to fray in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Altman is definitely a tech bro. Nadella is, I'd say, also one, although I'm getting a bit of "How do you do, fellow kids" vibe from him.

Microsoft and OpenAI ‘bromance’ begins to fray in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

*ouroBROs 🤑

Special interest [Sarah Anderson] in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

Hungry for Energy, Amazon, Google and Microsoft Turn to Nuclear Power | Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emissions-free source of electricity for AI in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Conveniently, the heat from all this power being generated and subsequently used in the data centres doesn't count as emmissions. Twats.

Reasoning failures highlighted by Apple research on LLMs in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's a great article.

Dating apps be like in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Drag has a funny understanding of the word leftism, then.

TV that doesn't require 'on-line activation' to set up. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Bought a Panasonic with Android TV about a year or two ago, and used it for a while solely as a screen for my Kodi box, no internet connection. Worked perfectly. The TV's image quality leaves something to be desired (especially backlight uniformity), though.