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New comment by f001 in "Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions"

f001 — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:19:58 +0000

To add to this, Apple has the subscriptions panel on iOS in the settings app showing you everything on your account including third party apps as long as you subscribed through apps instead of websites.

New comment by f001 in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

f001 — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:50:16 +0000

Does the tesla wall connector offer Ethernet? Honestly I feel like most devices that are not expected to move around should at least offer it as an option (exceptions being for things where it’s not feasible like smart bulbs, smart locks, etc). If anything it’ll remove congestion for things that can’t realistically be wired.

New comment by f001 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

f001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:57:17 +0000

It’s hard to trust a company when when they’ve already demonstrated that they [can’t be trusted](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/discord-faces-ba...). And i’m sure there will be an argument of “but this will make it more likely that they’ll be safe about it to not have a repeat”, which will likely be true for a while. Then cost-cutting offloading to a third party that promises to not keep the data, or a new feature will come in that needs the photos, or a misconfiguration will happen where things that should be deleted won’t be, and we’ll be in the same boat again.

The only safe data is that which does not exist.

New comment by f001 in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

f001 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:15:45 +0000

My tv has never nor will ever touch the internet so problem solved re: updates.

New comment by f001 in "Video games can alter reality"

f001 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:49:17 +0000

I believe it. After playing the game crackdown for a week or so, I started to constantly map out how to get up the outside of apartment buildings near me. Mirrors edge had a similar effect on me too.

New comment by f001 in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

f001 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:57:13 +0000

Additionally, it’s usually more effort to refute something than to state something, especially as it seems there is little requirement for proof when making the statement.

New comment by f001 in "My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer"

f001 — Thu, 08 May 2025 02:58:41 +0000

Very much depends on the style of motorcycle. Sitting on my dual-sport BMW F650GS[1] I can see well over sedans on the road and this is with a slightly lowered version of it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_G650GS

New comment by f001 in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

f001 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:50:00 +0000

Steering position has been taught as 9 and 3 for a long time now… but still fair point. You can add a bit of alcantara to the seat to help you stay in place though. My RDX has it for the sporty-ish trim and it helps.

New comment by f001 in "Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions"

f001 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:36:03 +0000

Or live somewhere with no weather and moderate temperatures so no need for any of them minus the turn signals. It’s my pet theory of why tesla’s auto wiper setting is so bad: they’re located somewhere without rain/snow or without varying amounts of rain/snow.

New comment by f001 in "NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument"

f001 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:21:42 +0000

If I were to guess it would be the latter. We seem to be heading for it rather quickly at least.

New comment by f001 in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

f001 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:31:29 +0000

For the PHEVs yes they are battery constrained. They have great products and a ton of demand and difficulty keeping up manufacturing due to limited batteries.

For their EV, they have yet to make something that is competitive. Their EV is slow to charge, slow to accelerate, somewhat short in range, and quite expensive before they started adding—-in some cases five figure—-incentives to move them. It even had a recall for the wheels coming off.

New comment by f001 in "Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident"

f001 — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:04:00 +0000

I can tell you they’re quite unhappy about it. Have a friend working there who frustratedly says it wasn’t their fault every-time it comes up. Which is quite often and at every social occasion since.

New comment by f001 in "Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host"

f001 — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 19:09:00 +0000

For both the 1700 and 5800X, the i/o die uses ~12W at idle, and 20W max at load (assuming he’a doing something that keeps the i/o die at max power consumption when everything else is idle).

This leaves us with 60W-68W unaccounted for at idle. Even in the worst case for i/o power usage that’s 75% unaccounted for.

I keep talking about TDP and load power because even in the case where the cpu isn’t using lower power states correctly for whatever reason, the i/o die cannot possibly be majority of the 80W power usage.

Source for power usage of i/o die:

1700 (same i/o die as 1300x/1500x): https://www.anandtech.com/show/11658/the-amd-ryzen-3-1300x-r...

5800x: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...

New comment by f001 in "Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host"

f001 — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:51:22 +0000

The ryzen 1700 is also from 2017. Intel’s cpus still dominated at the time for anything single-threaded, they were just bad at multithreaded workloads. I’m not saying i/o die power consumption isn’t higher, it is for sure. And I agree, it doesn’t go down at idle because it can’t turn off or do power gating.

What I’m saying is that a computer with a cpu that is 65W TDP (from a time when amd’s TDP was close to being accurate as ~ max power consumption under load), the i/o die (which is part of that 65w TDP; which is for load) cannot possibly be the main reason his computer is idling at 80W. Especially when I linked an instance of a system also with a ryzen 1700 that was idling for 57W and with a similar configuration as an intel contemporary only being 7W greater at idle.

New comment by f001 in "Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host"

f001 — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:14:23 +0000

That doesn’t seem right. The tdp for the 1700 is 65w… no way an io die is consuming most of that. Here’s a comparison of a system with a ryzen 1700 idling vs intel contemporaries which don’t have a separate i/o die: https://www.bit-tech.net/reviews/tech/amd-ryzen-7-1700-revie...

Note that it’s only 7W greater at stock clocks.

New comment by f001 in "Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally following years-long criticism"

f001 — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:55:55 +0000

I had the same issue. Switch the view from overall week to just work-week.

New comment by f001 in "Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally following years-long criticism"

f001 — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:54:40 +0000

Telemetry shouldn’t be a blocking call on ui though.

New comment by f001 in "Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home"

f001 — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:15:54 +0000

Heh. I was wondering how they’d manage to keep people when moving to the Canadian province of New Brunswick… this makes a lot more sense.

New comment by f001 in "Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs"

f001 — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:58:52 +0000

A lot of people are no longer buying new cars. Of my groups of friends, only the very wealthy and well paid ones have done so. Half of them very reluctantly because the used car market getting so crazy. In fact a lot of the craziness of the used car market is down to increasingly people can’t afford a new car.

New comment by f001 in "Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions"

f001 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:34:08 +0000

I’m surprised at this to be honest. At my employer (a bank) we have to do a flip a couple times a year and just continue running from the alternate DC until the next flip. Pain in the butt on the weekends of the flip but at least we know for sure that our DR plan works and is good enough to serve our regular load…