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[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Can confirm, 20 decimals gives you 100.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I click on my "From" address and then select "Customize From Address...". I can then type anything I want up there. It's a little annoying when replying to an email chain with an alias, but not too many steps.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago
[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A lot of phone modems ship with their own SoC (processor) running its own OS. It's much smaller and slower than the main phone SoC but, depending on its implementation, it can have full access to all of your main processor's memory through DMA.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was amazed that we transitioned from one GPU heavy bubble (Crypto) to another (LLM/AI). Whilst the hype for crypto imploded the use for the hardware sort of didn't. I wonder if the next bubble with be the same, or if we get some refreshing variety to our money sinks?

Microsoft et al are subsidizing GenAI to an insane degree. [...] prices shoot up for their customers and serve as a rough awakening to all the websites that integrated a crappy chatbot.

I've run some much simpler chatbots on just my desktop PC, so they will have some fallback (if they really choose to take it). Still it locks up my entire computer for a few second for each reply, so even a few hundred users per second peak would be an expensive service.

(Insert joke here about customers not noticing or caring about the difference between website chatbots built on big company services vs smaller ones, because they have exactly the same problems just in different hues.)

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm confused. Sacholding?

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Replacing a TCP socket with a UNIX socket doesn't affect the amount of headers you have to parse.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

We rented our technology and could not read nor write.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

Windows update fetches all sorts of things now. If the hardware advertises X device then Windows update will check if it has anything for it. Approved vendors can provide all sorts of guff. Historically that has included drivers that intentionally brick your devices. HP probably packaged up some software that updates the BIOS and got it into the Windows Update DBs.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is something HP should have handled.

If a bad update is rolled out then it's the responsibility of the software maker partner (HP) and the distributor (Microsoft), not just one or the other.

Those laptops are THEIR products, not Microsoft’s.

Both Microsoft and HP have branding on their laptops and a responsibility post-sale for the reliability of their systems. Hardware, firmware and OS responsibilities are all party to this chain of failure.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Something weird https://ace-ev.com.au/

  • Claim to be "made in Australia"
  • Don't provide any photos of their production line or factory.
  • Underpowered (max speed 100kmph)

Perhaps imported and then assembled in Australia?

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Dear Take Two,

If you want to port GTA3 and VC to mobile then I would recommend looking at the re3/revc project. Fans have already put lots of effort into making the games work on modern systems, patching many bugs and making things more portable. Last I checked there already was a Nintendo Switch port.

Oh wait.

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