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ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guaranteed buyback programs can make upgrading more attractive.English
221·11 days agoI waited 8 year to get a newer phoner that was better than my previous phone in all respects at the same price. And even then it was mostly a convenience upgrade because my old phone was still working well.
Why the hell would it be worth it to lease a phone?
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.English
23·14 days agoThis whole software bug spiel is to convince everyone that it is unsafe to code without using an LLM. Effectively forcing companies to use LLMs.
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like RedditEnglish
3·15 days agoIt is also one of the first things you learn when experimenting with capacitors. You burn a few while building faulty circuits.
Right after having burned a few resistors.
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until nowEnglish
1·26 days agoFor linux by now it is just incredibly easy to automatically self-sign new boot shims. But why would I add that complexity for no gain at all?
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until nowEnglish
7·26 days agoWasn’t there this scandal with Gigabyte motherboards, where Secure Boot showed as enabled, but the motherboards still just booted any unsigned bootcode?!
Dieing of a stuffy nose probably relates to diving.
But I guess in darts everything is live and death. Soo yeah, why not.
ragas@lemmy.mlto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Star Trek didn't "become woke", you just grew up to be a bad person.
62·1 month agoI think the problem is that in some of the newer trek, the political references are crude and sometimes tacked on when they are not even relevant.
All of these media are digital! Only digital is no medium but an encoding scheme.
Currently used media are HDD and SSD.
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC - 25th Jun 2026English
3·2 months agoWe would still have GOG, which is even one step up ethically.
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockersEnglish
101·2 months agoDon’t use Brave.
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Technology@lemmy.world•'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries upEnglish
4·2 months agoMy PC from 2019/2021 ist now still worth more than it was when I first bought it. Why the heck would I upgrade to someting worse for the same price? Or to something as good for a worse price?
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google won't rest until Gemini is everywhere in your homeEnglish
12·2 months agoWell I guess Google will have a hard time resting then because it is nowhere in my home.
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey revealsEnglish
2·3 months agoOh or finally drives a car! I was promised that 10 years ago.
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey revealsEnglish
2·3 months agoLLMs are just knowledge replicators. There are multiple Star Trek episodes that feature this kind of technology without any actuall intelligence but incredibly good at replicating preexisting knowledge and experiences.
Like the Drone that Picard encountered where he lived an entire life in a civilisation that had died long ago. Or basically all Holodeck Episodes.
Still actual intelligence with creative thought is something somehow different.
ragas@lemmy.mlto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Happens once every cycle
3·3 months agoUntil that whole shitshow of a temporal war really started.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for ThemEnglish
1·3 months agoSo really what you do is guess what the code you read is doing. Which is generally fine.
But how can you be sure in a review that the code will actually work? How can you falsify it? A review is more than just reading code.
ragas@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Edge loads your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says not to worryEnglish
411·3 months agoNo, if you are already compromised there is just no way anyone can help you anymore besides wiping your whole system.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Connecticut lawmakers approve bill for cell phone ban in schools — but critics argue that having different rules for adults and students is ‘not good role modeling at all’English
1·3 months agoI mean any 90 year old almost blind grandma/-pa is also allowed to drive so that is only fair.


My nextcloud instance is on a managed hosting server and has been for the last 4 years. My homeassistant uses the standard raspberry pi image since I’ve had it for the last 3 months.
(And yes I have to constantly withstand the urge to fully self-host my Nextcloud and reinstall my Homeassistant with a Gentoo base.)