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  • , and I cannot stress this enough, yes.

    You can find some threads on intermittent Wi-Fi issues where people create a little shortcut to toggle Wi-Fi or toggle Bluetooth or something, so I think the hardware is imperfect, but it is really ridiculous:

    Full screen eight 4K YouTube videos and swipe across all the spaces in a blink or two. Run local language models (e.g. Gemma on LM Studio) in the privacy of your own lap. Render some meme videos or clips of the kids in seconds.

    You still wait for stuff. The computer has to turn on. The web browser has to load. You’re buying a ton of power that comes in when billions of parameters are involved but for some simple day-to-day stuff you’re going to experience it on the snappy side of regular speeds.

    So overall, that pricing graph is great, isn’t it? What a steal. So nice of them to pay for that depreciation while hopefully not put too much stress on the machine. Hope there’s a nice private seller with a similar rate somewhere.

    PS: battery life? It’s got a battery! 😉 idk, 6hr if you’re not optimizing too hard or going to hard in the other direction… can’t be quoted on that figure but it’s not a lightweight use all day in the woods machine, it’s a desktop experience anywhere (esp. where you have a power outlet)


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    9 days ago

    So they are now totally disabling copying phone numbers, I discovered today (maybe on Google Search)

    That should queue them up quite nicely to follow in Yelp’s footsteps!

    Yelp waits for a new business to receive a bunch of phone calls. Then they call the business owner and congratulate them on the 300 calls or however many customers made by tapping the phone number on Yelp. Then comes the extortion. Allegedly, that last part, according to a college professor. Who surely just had it out for Yelp which is why he would make that up 😉

    heh, actually corroborated by Billion Dollar Bully (documentary). Need all the bullies we can get, good luck Google!

    Edit: either pay Yelp for advertising or get deranked, is the deal





  • Not even in an interesting or corrupt way. “Our engineers think it would be better to do it this way, any objections?” And then everyone talks about it.

    And this was the mental roadblock I hit trying to imagine a world without lobbyists.

    As if we could ignore every voice with some connection to a profit motive (ignoring thousands of experts), etc

    Well said!





  • Ninja edit: sorry, meme community oops

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    To be quite contrarian here:

    When people whine about how something so simple is difficult, the appropriate response is to listen.

    Mandatory instance selection as an active choice during the registration process is unacceptable friction unless we specifically intend to retard user growth.

    But once we rope some new Fedifriends in and they start commenting and appreciating the site… hit them with the technical!! May need foster-parent instances to take burden of initial signup.