You dropped this, king.
I try to respond to every genuine engagement. I block trolls, contrarians, and provocateurs because life is too short.
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memes@lemmy.world•My university charges $27K/year and I still had to teach myself everything from YouTube at 2 AM
6·7 days agoStill reduces the cost drastically to society, the whole exploitative college middle-man charging $150k for a degree is gone because the government says “fuck you, degrees are $40k or you don’t get govt places for your course”, and lo and behold… Suddenly the same courses are $40k.
Just like how the US healthcare advocates cry that “free healthcare is socialism that overburdens the taxpayer” - and yet in countries with socialised healthcare they pay 1/4 of what the US pays for the same health outcomes and usually even less for literally the exact same medicine from the same companies.
Collective bargaining.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and moreEnglish
101·11 days agoI read your questions three times but I still can’t tell what you’re asking.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and moreEnglish
202·11 days agoTenor was always slow for me and had shit search.
I didn’t know it was owned by Google, but now that I do it makes complete sense.
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Technology@lemmy.world•South Korea unveils $880bn chip and AI investment planEnglish
20·13 days agoLee said. “Semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centres are the triple axis for a great leap forward.”
Hmmmmm. I’d encourage a better choice of words for this massive government undertaking targeted at rural communities…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Big Tech's $8 trillion AI bet is making consoles, cars, and electricity more expensive for everyone elseEnglish
10·13 days agoI wonder who will be the first CEO to start applying the “too big to fail” statement openly to their business.
I’m betting on OpenAI as they’re the ones with the most to lose. They have already been courting govt in investment heavily, including asking them to back loans up to nearly a trillion earlier this month, and an equity stake.
Literally the “most valuable companies in the world” asking for daddy taxpayer to lend then their credit card.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will "Never" Go Back to NormalEnglish
11·15 days agoYeah guys, this is true for sure and we should all panic buy now. Because prices for computer hardware never come down over time.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11English
1·16 days agoDid i say they needed it?
This may surprise you, but to your average person (or even your technical person who is time-poor for whatever reason), moving to a new OS is a frustrating or time consuming process, so they delay the move until they get (or build) a new PC.
Your average person stays on the same OS for the lifetime of the computer.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11English
2·17 days agoThat’s great to hear. I’ve had mixed results with migrating Windows editions in the past, and I believe it’s still an officially unrecommended process due to hiccups that can occur during, and difficulties in diagnosing issues afterwards (can be a bit of a frankenstein as far as libraries WinSXS content, system logs, etc).
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11English
21·17 days agoI love Linux and use it myself, but not everyone is ready to move.
For them, an extended Windows 10 EOL is a nice bridge to give them some more time to plan a main OS install (backup all their data, test replacement apps, etc) as OP said. It’s not about knowledge or capabilities it’s about options, time and many people waiting until they can afford a new PC build to move to linux.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11English
16·17 days agoCame to say this, I’ll add that its is a completely safe and free option.
Benefits over official methods:
- zero cost (don’t pay MS $10)
- no need to format to install LTSC
- no need for a Microsoft account (keep your privacy if you have local only account)
Its FOSS so the entire script can be downloaded and read before you run it if you feel uncomfortable fetching some random script from the web and running it via terminal, as I did.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilitiesEnglish
441·17 days agoIf your competitor can put out a model that functions really similarly to yours for $2 less per month, and your entire userbase can just leave and move to them… explain to me why investors would want to pump hundreds of billions into your business to be ‘first to market’? That’s a really dumb thing to admit for Anthropic.
Who is ‘first to 100 million users’ is utterly irrelevant under a business model where your sole value is Intellectual Property (IP) and that IP can be “illicitly extracted” by a clever competitor without ever hacking into your nextwork or doing anything explicitly illegal.
I’ve had to explain this to a lot of people who seem to think Anthropic/OpenAI are incredibly valuable companies because “they’ll make money long-term so long as they keep being pumped full of it investment cash to be the first to earn a big userbase”, but that just doesn’t make sense. OpenAI owns no datacenters…zero. Theyre 100% IP. Anthropic “is building” some datacenters, but they exist on paper only so far, so they’re also presently 100% IP.
Can this obvious scam just collapse already so I can upgrade my PC without a personal loan?
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Technology@lemmy.world•“Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisisEnglish
13·18 days agoUltimately AI is an unaffordable industry. It’ll crash in time, and there’ll hopefully be a whole lot of price drops on ram, graphics, etc. People will not want to stop playing games. The industry has had crashes before and always bounced back bigger than ever.
It will be bad for whoever’s economy is most dependent on it though… And any businesses really heavily invested in it. Won’t it, Microsoft.
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Buy it for Life@slrpnk.net•My Fairbuds ended up in the washing machineEnglish
711·19 days agoDisassemble them (look up the battery replacement guide), then leave them open to air out in a dry warm place for several days… Will help avoid any creeping corrosion from moisture you’ve left sealed in the buds.
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Games@lemmy.world•A new Steam game called Congratulations On Your Purchase is priced at $1000, making it one of the most expensive titles on the platform.English
34·20 days agoThis is just a social engineering attack for rich, gullible people.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do radio stations keep playing the same stuff over and over?
111·20 days agoOi mate, you got a loicense for that track?
If the station is failing and the track selection was that dire (2 fucking songs??) I’d be contacting small labels / indie labels asking for written permission to play their music and if they can send you a CD or record or whatever. Guarantee you’d get several bites from small artists that want their music heard. Hindsight 20-20 and all though.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You go outside. You see this. What's your reaction?
1016·26 days agoIt’s a tough one honestly, because you never know if its someone that’s generally a considerate person but had to park for an emergency… Or if it’s just a general asshole on a standard day.
Judging by the car make and model though (all black Tesla), I’d lean towards the latter.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Marcus Ranum: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security [2005]English
2·29 days agoThe point about ‘educating users’ being dumb is itself incredibly stupid, because the largest element of hacking is social engineering: the letter from a nigerian prince, the zip file from an attractive person with ‘my hot photos enclosed’, to today’s calls from government impersonators (tax agency, immigration), and emergency requests from close known contacts that ‘urgently need money wired to them’.
Education has gone a long way to improving user response and caution against default trust of unverified contact, which is essentially what the first two points complain about from a technical aspect (default allow). Those complaints are at odds with one-another.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•China's first credible gaming GPU sells 30,000 units in 48 hours, despite RTX 3060-level performance
3265·29 days agoThen they won’t be able to hide the spyware as easily.
(NB: pure speculation, I have no evidence other than historical Chinese backdoors and spyware).
(Oop. Rustled some lemmy.ml jimmies)

Appalling. I’d never do this.
Its much better with the laptop sat on its side vertically so you can see the screen properly.