Recent content by Armbrust11

It can stop when companies stop needlessly changing their names, especially to worse alternatives. 🧐 alphabet, meta, X

The console business model might be nearly obsolete. Nintendo doesn't sell at a loss, hardware costs are not getting cheaper year on year like they used to, console lifecycles are shortening with mid-generation upgrades, and consoles are no longer bespoke hardware with capabilities beyond PC.

They are all active (a passive adapter is physically impossible). They are produced in sufficient volume for institutional use that their cost is only slightly higher than other kinds of passive adapters, and they don't need to worry about maintaining HDCP handshakes. But from a user...

Usb ethernet adapters work really well for 99% of people. Shame on any usb hubs or docks that don't at least have gigabit ethernet though. My real problem is that it's getting harder and harder to find ethernet connection points (hotel rooms, workspaces, etc.) I have the ethernet cable and...

The amount of IT support I had to give because Microsoft Surface used DisplayPorts that were not the ++ kind, so I had to explain that the customer needed to request or buy an active adapter instead. Some people still have the "if the plug fits it should work" mentality, including adapters.

As far as I am aware, books do not have an Eula. So technically there's nothing preventing the use of a paid for book in ai training. But ianal Personally I think ai has a huge potential to benefit all of society, but like most technology it also has a proportional amount of danger.

What we need is a handheld with a folding screen, but it won't happen for a while due to cost

I wish products simply came with more storage. It seems like the average user only uses 1 or 2 TB of local storage as capacities have stagnated at that level for nearly a decade. Then again it was also the decade where storage transitioned from HDD to SSD so perhaps data storage demands will...

75% cheaper than 100k is still $25,000. It will have to get another 75% cheaper to be accessible outside professional displays and another 75% cheaper to become affordable enough for a splurge purchase. And 75% cheaper still to render all other display technology effectively obsolete. 2018...

Micro LED is the future. But probably 10 years until mainstream and another 10 to become ubiquitous. For devices like the switch, people are likely to want to keep using them for decades, unless Nintendo commits to backwards compatibility. For other devices, OLED's consumable nature is less of...

This is anti-competitve stuff and the FTC should slap them with a lawsuit. Or failing that this should be ruled unenforceable by the courts. Otherwise, before you know it there will be a license agreement for things like printers telling us what we can and cannot print, etc.

It will pop. Dot.com bubble popped and the Internet obviously had a great deal of future growth as well since before that one popped. Even crypto has a future but that's not really a good investment vehicle. Crypto was supposed to decentralize power but it just transferred from banks to...

What's an inverted comma? Or did you mean to say apostrophes or single quotes?

The author should have requested a 4G modem to troubleshoot the issue. Invite only customers initially got 4g modems for their home internet, and I've read somewhere that they are much better quality devices (with better reliability). They also have batteries in them which is super handy when...

I think these warnings are for the health and safety of the battery not the CPU. 🔋 RE: do CPUs produce steam? The answer is potentially, if used to heat water. But putting your CPU in contact with with water is generally a bad idea. And even so, it would take a long time. A stove usually is at...