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laurelraven ,

I'm pretty sure their ad revenue from their own pages is a tiny fraction of their overall advertising revenue... They basically own the advertising market online, almost anywhere you see ads googie is getting a cut

laurelraven ,

And exactly where do you propose they talk about it and actually have people see it?

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks ( apnews.com )

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

laurelraven ,

Nah, it's 53 billion for each

laurelraven ,

I'm seeing that a hell of a lot this year... Linux might actually finally make some real headwind with the tech crowd

laurelraven ,

Oh, that's okay though, you signed them the rights to do that by having an account with them

... I'm sure is how they'll spin it

laurelraven ,

So you want to throw a brick through OneDrive's Windows?

laurelraven ,

Give it a go, it was surprisingly not as big an issue as I thought it would be, even for gaming (though not perfect for gaming, I've been able to get things working without too much headache at least)

laurelraven ,

When I rebuilt mine a few months back, I got two drives so I could put windows on one of them, and mounted my old drives for the same reason... I've barely touched the old data and the second SSD has not even been formatted yet, and when I do it'll probably be to give my current system more space

laurelraven ,

Last couple cars I've had that's been a setting you can change... I set mine to lock when the car moves at more than a few mph, the other options seemed like too high a chance to cause an accidental lockout to me

laurelraven ,

It's worse than that: it requires the old school lead acid 12v battery to be charged, so even if the car's battery is full, it doesn't matter if that old car battery has failed

That's not unique to Tesla EVs, but it being required to open the doors may be (the 12v lead acid runs the general vehicle electronics rather than down converting the 400v or 800v main battery... I don't understand that decision, but I'm no electronics expert so there may be really good reasons for it...)

laurelraven ,

Tesla isn't a car... It's an EXPERIENCE!!!

(/s just in case it isn't obvious enough)

laurelraven ,

Thank you for providing the good reasons for it, it makes much more sense now

Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week ( www.tomshardware.com )

Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn't install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...

laurelraven ,

The accounts started out optional with benefits to entice

They're now mandatory for Home and hard to bypass

How long before they extend this to Pro and Enterprise? To Server? To Active Directory itself?

They're not done yet, not by a long shot.

laurelraven ,

I'm legit still pissed off about that one

laurelraven ,

It crossed that border a long, long time ago

laurelraven ,

At a quick glance I'm not seeing anywhere in the article that they think that's what this is... If you're responding to them calling it "GenAI", that's a shortening of "Generative AI", not "General AI"

laurelraven ,

Are you suggesting that all computer hardware is going to be branded as such?

laurelraven ,

Worse, the harder they try to stop it, the shittier the experience gets for their paying customers, but not for the pirates really. At that point, why would anyone want to pay for a crappy experience being treated like a thief when you can save your money and actually be a "thief" (at least in their eyes) while being treated like a paying customer?

laurelraven ,

I honestly wondered why they haven't done this yet for years

laurelraven , (edited )

Ah hah! But is it more important than X?!

Yes. Nobody gives a shit about X.

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices ( www.theverge.com )

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

laurelraven ,

Doubt they would advertise a specific feature only to make it worse.

Not like companies have never done that...

laurelraven ,

No, they'll aim for minimum interoperability that the EU will let them get away with, and they'll push that line every chance they get

laurelraven ,

The exact quote was

how about no hardware vendor is allowed to produce software that only runs on their hardware

Why would this theoretical microwave vendor be making software for it in the first place to need to make it interoperate with other microwaves that inexplicably have software of their own?

laurelraven ,

I'm curious, was it beeping because of somewhat harder breaking?

laurelraven ,

I don't know about you but I will not be taking after hours calls for work without being compensated for being available

laurelraven ,

Yep.

At best, you're paying extra for RGB lighting.

laurelraven ,

Its physics all the way down

laurelraven ,

The stockholders don't live in reality either

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

laurelraven ,

Microsoft and Apple are not the only choices

laurelraven ,

This just confirms my decision to never fly United again

laurelraven ,

Here's the thing: companies have learned they can add ads to make additional money without passing any of that on to their customers.

If you think you're going to get a better rate for having ads, you're fooling yourself. They'll always charge as much as they can get people to pay and that amount isn't affected by ads most of the time.

laurelraven ,

What did it for me was a long delay that got me landed at my destination after car rental was closed

Not so much the delay itself; that upset me, but I get that things happen

It was the reason for the delay: a simple maintenance thing with the plane had them taking the engine further and further apart while we watched from the terminal, ultimately deciding they weren't getting this thing back up and running again anytime soon and having to get us another plane (which we had to wait for to fly to us)

Why couldn't they figure it out? Because they didn't have anyone who knew how to work on that plane model available

There are so many ways that pisses me off and makes me never want to trust them again

Also, every flight I had with them, including the return trip that I'd already booked from that trip, was miserable

Say what you will about Southwest but they know their damned planes inside and out and overall run their fleet efficiently and consistently. It's like riding a bus that flies

laurelraven ,

I have no idea what it is you're trying to say here or how it relates to an airline running planes without having maintenance crews that can actually do the work on them... And that they worked on it anyway without apparently having the required training for it...

laurelraven ,

Who's blaming the maintenance personnel? I'm expecting the airlines to actually have their maintenance crews trained for the planes they fly.

I don't think this is a particularly unrealistic expectation.

Nor do I think the expectation that crews without enough training on a plane to tear its engine apart and put it back together not be tasked with something that will have them tearing the engine apart.

I don't need to understand how the maintenance works to expect it be done correctly for something that's going to be moving my ass at hundreds of miles per hour, thousands of feet in the air.

I don't blame the maintenance personnel for not giving themselves adequate training on the machines they'll be servicing; that's on the airlines to ensure they get that before telling them to work on those planes. I don't blame the maintenance personnel for being ordered to then work on planes they don't have training on.

And if "that's just how the industry is", that doesn't make it any better.

Either way, flying with an airline that runs basically one model and can ensure every maintenance person knows that plane and every pilot knows that plane seems a good way to avoid the issue, so I'll stick with what I've got for now, thanks.

laurelraven ,

Cool story.

I still fail to see how this makes it okay for techs to be told to tear apart an engine they weren't experienced with.

You can try to keep talking around how that's actually no big deal and I just don't get it. Totally your right. Just be aware that from my perspective you're trying to argue that it's acceptable to work on components without training that could cause a plane crash with people on board if it fails, and I just don't see how you can make that scenario okay, like, at all.

laurelraven ,

Yeah, no. I was very clear that I was not blaming the techs, but you go ahead, keep insisting on that.

I do not blame line workers for failings of management, which is exactly what I said I thought this was.

Maybe I am wrong here, wouldn't be the first time. If so, sorry for busting your chops like that. I've just seen too many businesses cutting corners and compromising safety to save a couple bucks, so maybe I'm overly jaded for this one. But the ire was NEVER directed at the techs.

United is still garbage and was miserable every time I flew with them, so regardless of the truth behind that incident I still stand by my decision to never fly with them again, and if that hadn't happened on that trip, the rest of the trip was enough to make me want nothing to do with them again.

laurelraven ,

I expected them to have mechanics working on the planes that had proper training for them. This is based on what I was told by the gate attendants, which I'll admit may not have been accurate.

That expectation is not levied at anyone in the local chain of command; it's directed at the decision making at he executive level that would lead to maintenance crews working on engines they weren't certified/trained on.

Part of it I will admit comes down to my frustration with watching the engine become progressively dissembled while waiting for hours and watching the clock run out on my rental, but I never blamed the people there. I've worked IT for a long time and know first hand that the people talking to you are usually just doing the best they can and often following policy that they have no flexibility in. Even local management often has their hands tied.

If I came across blaming the techs or the crew or management at the airport, which it sounds like I did at least to you, I'm sorry for that, it really wasn't ever my intention. At the point the plane needed something fixed, the situation was already way too far gone to salvage, and whether it was because it was more serious than it first appeared or there simply wasn't the right experience available, the damage was already done and nothing anyone there at that time would have salvaged it.

Waiting on the replacement plane was frustrating, but logistics are logistics and you can't summon a plane or crew from thin air, crews can only fly so long without a break safely, and keeping additional extremely expensive planes sitting around gathering dust waiting to be needed at every airport just doesn't make sense.

My expectation (which it sounds increasingly like to me was down to misunderstanding of what's involved, which you've been trying to tell me) was that airlines will have maintenance crews that know the planes they're working on. You're saying this was probably outside the scope of what's a typical maintenance crew is able to tackle in a short time, like a car mechanic checking a seemingly minor leak and ultimately finding out the engine needs to be rebuilt.

But again, never did blame anyone but upper management, who were nowhere near anyone at that airport during that, and I hope that's now clear

laurelraven ,

I hate to suggest it but I wonder if a blockchain would work here

laurelraven ,

Yeah, I'd imagine not, though I'm fairly confident any solution to this would be nontrivial

laurelraven , (edited )

Openly distributed while being private(-ish; I know blockchains aren't truly private but it could at least obfuscate it adequately against casual or semi serious attempts to identify someone)

I'll admit I'm no expert or even particularly well versed in blockchain technologies, but my (limited) understanding of them suggests this might actually be the kind of thing it's good at (as opposed to how it could seemingly do anything a few years ago and everyone was trying to shoehorn a blockchain into their products)

And to underline part of my comment, I did say "I wonder if..." rather than asserting that it would work or even that I bet it would work

laurelraven ,

This is the first time I've ever even heard of these kinds of abbreviations, what the hell even are they?

laurelraven ,

I didn't think I could hate a name shortening system this much but here we are

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

laurelraven ,

You're giving them a lot more credit than is probably warranted. They've killed off so many popular things and workarounds that really cost them nothing to leave available for the tech savvy they've very much shut down to force people to use the systems they want to push.

googie hasn't been tech savvy friendly for a while now

laurelraven ,

I've given up trying to understand what benefit companies like googie get from most of the shitty consumer-hostile decisions they make. You'll have to ask them when they inevitably shut that down what they get from doing that.

laurelraven ,

That actually explains the sensation I have with headphones provided by my work, I want to like them but the sensation is kind of unpleasant

laurelraven ,

Not so much "optimistic" as "the way it used to be"

I've got a fridge that's nearly 30 years old that we've never had to fix anything on (other than the ice maker). I thought it died about a week ago, turns out I just accidentally turned it off (issue with the coldness dial) and it's colder than ever right now.

I've also got a 6 or 8 year old fridge that I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it needs replacing before the old one.

laurelraven ,

I think Truth Social is more of a fascist media app than a social one

laurelraven ,

And just think, the rest of us rubes have to manually not drive into trains, like barbarians

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