burning petrol which is already scarce and expensive in Nigeria

The price quadrupled due to scarcity yet export billions of barrels of oil to India and Europe

Infrastructure made just for exploiting extraction and not refining it locally…

Weird that the apps were allowing to book from such a distance, they don’t check the GPS position?

Really bad prank this, the drivers are paying it…

I read your quote of my post and realized to have wrote in a way that’s not clear. If someone gets sponsored to become a Pixel fanboy, needs to use those two hashtags

There are YouTube channels/instagrammers that exclusively review sponsored products. Bigger ones like Unbox therapy, LTT shortcircuit, and so on. Never a bad word about the shitty product they’re reviewing, because it’s a paid ad.

Take a look by yourself. The product they’re “reviewing” is clearly non functioning e-waste, yet they don’t say it to make the advertiser happy.

This is a program dedicated to influencers, not reviewers. The verge, Engadget, marques, Mr mobile, they didn’t sign this contract. If Google believes that the outlet is legit, they give the review device for free without the sponsorship contract.

Edit for clarity as I didn’t add a paragraph between this sentence:

When the influencer that got the free phone under this ad campaign shows the phone on camera they need to flag the post with #giftfromgoogle and #teampixel - you can use that as a hint that the review is biased

I don’t see what’s the problem. It’s a proposal of a sponsorship with payment in nature (the expensive phones) instead of money. If the influencer disagrees, there’s no problem and they can buy the phones by themselves, Google is not forced by law to send free phones to influencers.

I don’t think that all those influencers are actually playing raid shadow legends or eating factor or using betterhelp.

Google is giving free review samples to real reviewers

Because they’re not bots, they’re people paid 5 cents in a click farm /s

It literally comes with a blackberry keyboard, that is the blackberry Q10 keyboard, I wonder how many spares they made

Official AMD website - for desktop only Ryzen 5000 or newer; for mobile only Ryzen 3000 or newer

The way they did the distinction is purely based on the time of put on sale. They patch Zen+ on mobile, they patch Zen2 on desktop only if it comes with integrated GPU, otherwise it needs to be zen3 or higher. If you already fixed the exploit on zen+ and Zen2 why not making available for everyone? Selling more CPUs I guess…

I’m mad because one week ago I bought a brand new ryzen 3400g (ok, it probably sat in the warehouse for years) for my dad (he didn’t need lots of power), i even didn’t have time to take it out from the box, but they say “EOL, no patches for old shit” - while still patching mobile picasso cpus for laptops (same gen/process)

Assholes, they won’t fix Ryzen 3000s even if they still sell them - just bought a brand new boxed 3400g

Because if I understood it right, it will be presented at DEFCON tomorrow, this news are just hyping it.

We don’t know what is the install vector, it might be a non issue (for regular people) where you need a custom chip programmer and hands on the hardware

Yes but this offers the exact same functionality and built-in ads/tracking that you will find in any androidtv based smarttv.

They even list having ads (recommended shows on a service that you aren’t subscribed are ads, not recommendations) that cover 80% of the home screen as a feature

$100 and it doesn’t even include the HDMI cable?

Now that every TV is a smart TV who’s the target audience?

I’d also have accepted the money if I were him but at least I would have wrote a blog post explaining the situation, that now the apps are dead and controlled by a bad actor and need to get uninstalled as soon as possible.

Not almost denying it while continuing to get money on his Patreon from unaware users

I donated to the Tibor guy and I feel betrayed for how he managed the situation

It’s always a danger when a malicious company purchases a famous open source project.

Like that israeli adware company that bought simple mobile tools

Closed source but if you pay enough you can get the source

they mentioned some issues when reviewing the updated ROG Ally, i was surprised about that - yet of course they continue to love boasting about how great Asus monitors and computers are, because of all the sponsorship money & free product supply

They have some balls - when you do videos that expose companies like this or the MSI claw you won’t get the lucrative sponsorships like LTT

Companies like to sponsor videos like shortcircuit that in the end are ten minutes long ads about a sponsored product

One day before the attacks, it [Starlink] just shut down. It became super, super slow.”

wonder if it’s because they’re calling their ketamine-powered buddy

It’s resurfacing old tech? My Sony Ericsson P800 from 20 years ago had a screen that worked great in direct sunlight. It worked best in direct sunlight, the brightest the sun, the better you could see. Downside is that in the dark it had poor illumination

It’s LCD with a reflective background and lateral illumination rather than backlight

True, it should also refuse to activate in low visibility situation

I was ready to write shit on Tesla then I saw the video. The asshole was driving at that speed in the fog??? And let some alpha proof of concept software that relies only on cameras to let drive in the fog???

If the human eye doesn’t see the train crossing, how a camera can see it?

Although a bit of fault to Tesla, because the system should have known from the maps that over there was a train crossing and should have slowed down anyway

Patriotism + unlimited funding = innovation

I feel that’s not actually replaced by ai rather his previous works have been templated and a script is replacing names and stuff automatically. The solution is called “ai” because in this way the developer can price it higher

This said, for a client point of view, switching from “everything is custom” (=$$$) to “everything is from a cookie cutter” is not good. Long term viability of that marketing company is compromised, IMHO. Why a client should pay $$$ if all it gets is something that could come with $5 from Fiverr or even with a free Canva trial?

A graphic designer is still indispensable, especially if they were “so busy that could barely take a few days off”

Also the decision of Microsoft of discontinuing windows on hardware produced before 2018 is an incentive to transition to Linux in developing countries (although I saw massive use of windows 7 even today…)

The year of desktop Linux?

No, it’s this, they mostly want x86 for government use https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-launches-3a6000-cpu-matches-14600k-ipc

An article that lists the CPU: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/china-bans-intel-and-amd-cpus-for-government-offices-and-servers-plans-to-switch-to-domestic-made-alternatives

That Huawei CPU is mostly marketing as doing 5nm chips with duv machines is possible but yields much less because it needs more steps. It’s also the same design of 4 years ago

And then the American government helps to speed up the process by banning Intel to selling CPUs to Huawei and affiliates

The reason China is forcing themselves to use shitty, slow, and inefficient processors is because they’re indirectly injecting billions in the industry in this way, because no consumer would ever buy a zhaoxin CPU, which is slower than a celeron while more expensive than a core i7.

So, government using shitty processors = after a decade those shitty processors should improve to parity.

Now, if also consumers are forced to use the shitty processors, then the industry has even more incentive to improve

On my 4k 32" usually I run 4 programs at the same time, one at each corner. It’s like having 4 1080p screens (I keep scaling at 100%)

Wait? My Lenovo laptop did exactly this. It first encrypted the SSD without telling me, then it updated the bios via windows update (or via Lenovo assistant, but still it was unattended)

Luckily I was using a Microsoft account (usually I don’t because fuck that) so the keys were automatically backupped

Because I assume that iOS devices become e-waste a few years after discontinuation, unless you write custom software on some outdated xcode+MacOS combo

It would be more fun if you could just drag and drop files on it instead of requiring some software discontinued decades ago

If the person that lost them unlocked the bootloader, didn’t use a lock screen password and enabled USB adb debugging on any connection hacking it to work without the confirmation on screen then it would work. Extremely unlikely that would be the case

You can do that with root and ACCA instead of being complex like that

But nowadays everything requires J’s

Even in 2008 using noscript required a massive whitelist 😆

Nice to know that’s not free labor.

Here instead it’s even forbidden by law to pay interns because theoretically should teach them (be a cost to the company) and they shouldn’t actually work, just watch and do basic stuff. But what actually happens is they get free slaves, for example they sent a poor student to do the job of a skilled metalworker and die in a work accident https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/chi-era-lorenzo-parelli-il-18enne-morto-nel-suo-ultimo-giorno-di-stage-gratuito-a-udine/

When it was my turn to be the intern, the company lied about what they were doing, they said that they would do something related to my study field instead they were a moving company with a ratio of 2 interns per 1 minimum wage workers (we don’t have a minimum wage in my country, I mean paid the minimum agreed by the unions). I just walked out and didn’t show up to the “internship” anymore but I should have reported that. I was too naive

In the USA interns work for free? In my country interns work for free. (They’re not supposed to actually work, but learn how work is done in that company)

During my free internship I was placed in the summer in a warehouse moving boxes without AC. The next day I called the teacher and said that I’m sick and unfortunately I couldn’t get to do the slave anymore

I’m guessing that due to the nature of this server (scientific calculations by scientists and students who sent jobs remotely, if I understood right) everything was done on RAM and then stored on SAN (separate servers) afterwards

Otherwise taking out all the storage from each single blade AND putting it back nicely in the racks would have been a massive job, if they did that I would expect to have it half dismantled on the pictured

Yes and no. You can sell easily 2-3 units at the current price, but 8000 pieces…

Technology is improving fast, the E5-2697 v4 has a similar benchmark to a Ryzen 5600, which uses half the power, and making a computer with desktop components is cheaper (except for used registered ECC RAM which is being dumped for cheap)

And that Ryzen is the old generation, the newer are even faster