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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

There are a ton that have weird fucking usernames. I was confused at first why my Bluetooth was showing BobByJimSmith4345 as the "artist" after telling it to play a song, but yeah they'll pretty much just look whatever up by name from YouTube and play it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No that's Dildotron

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's weird because often enough the spinoffs may even share some infrastructure, but it's the pricing and support that are different.

Another good example is Virgin Mobile, which belongs to Bell, but their pricing and service are generally better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

ASRock was an Asus spinoff but was later bought by Pegatron (which is part of the Asus holdings).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've given similar advice but it's more "light is likely no good, but don't just trust that it's heavy" as well.

The cement is probably missed with lead to keep the radiation in ;-)

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Actually it's usually more "you own the content but by posting it grant is an irrevocable right for us and our partners to use it"

Basically allows them use without the responsibility for ownership of inappropriate content

[–] [email protected] 89 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Honestly, people have been ringing warning bells for a while regarding how Amazon facilitates illegal behavior, including:

  • Products like this whose purpose is obviously got illegal purposes and even described as such

  • Counterfeit/knockoff goods

  • Unsafe and/or not adhering to legal regulations in the country which they are being sold (sometimes often faking the certification logos)

As somebody who has dealt with the latter two, I hope this lawsuit puts on enough hurt and/or spawns similar suits so that Amazon cleans their shit up. It's enough advantage that they don't need to stock local stores without them being able to constantly thumb their nose at the regulations actual B&M stores need to adhere to

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hell yeah! Normally I try to do this manually, so this is a useful feature for me

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Any training data almost certainly has biases. For awhile, if you asked for pictures of people eating waffles or fried chicken they'd very likely be black.

Most of the pictures I tried of kid-type characters were blue eyed.

Then people review the output and say "hey this might still racist, so they tweak things to "diversity" the output. This is likely the result of that, where they've "fixed" one "problem" and created another.

Behold, Homer in brownface. D'oh!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The liquid system really just helps move the heat to a new place in your rig. To get rid of it, in general the bigger the fan the more air it can displace at a lower speed, which in turn means less noise.

A good liquid system which moves the heat to a radiator at the top/front/back (depending on where your have clearance) of your case and big fan or fans to push it out would probably work best

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Per the article It's an "opt-out" feature, which means they turned it on by default.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I had similar issues. My old laptop (back venue I swore off HP, and one of the contributing reasons) had an issue where if you loaded an app and it needed memory that spanned both RAM chips... it would power cycle. Most users at the time reported the issue using Photoshop at the time so HP released a patch... that fixed it for Photoshop.

The actual issue lay in the Northbridge of he laptop and was a defect. HP refused to refund the laptop even though it was fairly early within the warranty period. Best I could do was run with one - slightly larger - stick of RAM than what the thing shipped with.

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