Yes, so much yes. I’ve got that on mine too, and it’s a pain. it has very small, close “buttons” too, setting the temperature is an exercise in accuracy, when it reacts at all.

And yes, the tiniest drop of water fucks everything up completely.

Capacitive buttons on anything are annoying, they’re unreliable as fuck. They might trigger with the slightest accidental touch, but then they’ll act like your finger doesn’t exist for a dozen pushes.

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Bright colour on dark background makes sense IMO.

This, however :

https://www.digitalretropark.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cpc-01-1320x990.jpg

My 80’s computer was (by default) bright yellow text over bright blue background.

It probably sounds quite bad. It was. You could change that with a few commands but you’d have to do it each time you boot the thing, and I didn’t bother, it was “normal” to me.

That didn’t prevent young me from spending hours copying lines of BASIC code from magazines, but it was tiring. Nowadays I’m just like, seriously, who thought that colour scheme was a good idea?

[De Beers] stating that the economics of lab-grown diamonds for jewelry were not sustainable.

“That’s cheating, we can’t throttle the market of these shiny rocks! The indistinguishable ones you need are still those we’re killing people for!”

I hope one day you can make a perfect gemstone for the cost of a burger, so people just stop caring about them at all.

The article mentions both. Meta is still complaining about GDPR.

Sounds like it’s working to me.

Zuckbot, comply with GDPR or forget about EU.

That’s the same timeframe as the one used in the article, and sure, they could have made it explicit again, but implicitly it makes sense because it’s the one that’s useful for a direct comparison.

Turns out, the implicit timeframe that should be clear after reading the article was the right one, and it’s pretty damning for bitcoin as is. So again, I am not sure what point you want to make.

In 2023, Microsoft and Google consumed 48 TWh of electricity (24 TWh each).

Your point?

The data in the article was for one year. This is the same unit.

What, you’ve never seen that famous city with two Huawei and one Ericsson buildings, a six-floor Eiffel tower, a dozen random pylons per block, blue neon streets and a castle?

Every time stuff like this is mentioned, I’m just wondering…

Dude, even if you’re put on ice for like 40 years, extremely generous estimate, who’s going to care about bringing you back to life? Grandkids who barely even knew you? Your company shareholders who’d suddenly have to deal with a stupid caveman amongst them?

You’ll literally be better off dead for everyone.

The more time passes, the worst. Guaranteed, someone will pull the plug long before science can resurrect you.

French public services tend to switch between FOSS and proprietary software, depending on the politics of the time.

In my little corner of it, they’re leaning toward proprietary right now, especially since a big Microsoft ecosystem deal was kind of forced on us and we’re supposed to go all in. Who knows how long it’ll last though.

Still think those people should have gotten a playdate instead, it’s more fun and certainly not less useful (which is, not at all).

(When I first heard about the r1 I immediately thought it was weird how the 2 devices looked alike, I’ve since learned they shared the same designers).

The article made that joke too, and… Yeah it’s spot on.

force everyone’s data into their OneDrive account. OneDrive now at capacity, you must upgrade to ensure all your data is backed up and retained.

If it’s made without any agreement from the user (hundred pages long EULA doesn’t count), time to GRPD the fuck out of them.

The combination of that knowledge and your username is disturbing.

Perhaps perplexity has privileged pipelines for perpetrating its pumping purposes.

I… have no idea what that was supposed to convey. That probably makes it funnier.

I am surprised the reason for blocking ads doessn’t include making sites somewhat readable. I guess faster loading could be it? But generally it’s more of a layout problem than a bandwidth one.

I tend to not use adblockers, or when I do it’s on a black list system for worst offenders rather than by default. However, I absolutely refuse tracking, and if it’s the only option I go to firefox reader mode immediately.

The usual false dichotomy of “personalised ads or you’re killing us!” is not acceptable.