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It was warned that cables that have been manufactured without following HDMI standards and guidelines might not provide a good or consistent signals and might be poorly made. They might also have the potential to cause electrical fires.

So the cables are working and are not really "fake", but more like counterfeit. It's just that they didn't pay for the stupid license, just like USB-C, and thus those cables are IlLeGaL.

Poor quality cables can be official too, as paying for the license may take money away from quality. The concerns can be understandable but it sounds more like FUD to make sure people keep buying the "official" and "legal' cables.

All in all it's just a question of laws and money for a stupid connector.

EDIT: See replies to my comment. USB-C is not licensed. It just costs more than micro.

Quite candidly, it's not articles selling the spiel of tech bros that is going to help us. I'm one of those commenters and I also wish "Technology" was about technology instead of trying to sell the latest gadgetbahn or a solar road or self driving cars.

EDIT: It's not technically about "helping us", but more specifically about the kind of spiel those "articles" are trying to push. It may very well be about technology, but it's misrepresented as something that could help us and save us in the future while in reality, it's just marginally interesting, Think about how many articles there has been about bitcoins, NFTs, AI and crap like this, coming from techbros and their simps. That's why you'll see the sort of comments you complain about. It certainly is tech, but it's more like tech they're trying to hype, misrepresent and sell.

I love tech. I work in IT. But I can also smell BS and will not hesitate to point it out.

I don't drive a car, so where's my money for saving the planet? Where are my rebates for shoes and bikes?

Subsidizing the car industry is indeed dumb. I don't think it's hurting the economy though, as the goal is to continue to sell and replace millions of cars. Still, the infrastructure for cars is probably costing us much more on the long term though. Maintenance of expressways, space for parkings, and other infra for cars costs billions.

Just replacing a single expressway interchange in my city cost 4.3 billion! For ONE interchange.

So again, where are the rebates for people taking public transit? Where are the investments in public transit? Why is it only on the condition of BUYING A CAR?

Let's now wait until they learn about shrimps and hermaphroditism in animals.

Northern shrimp, also commonly known as northern prawn, are a sequential hermaphrodite. This is a term used for animals that start their life as one sex and change to the other later in life. In the case of northern shrimp, they are born as males and become females at around four or five years of age.

In a group of anemonefish, a strict dominance hierarchy exists. The largest and most aggressive female is found at the top. Anemonefish are protandrous sequential hermaphrodites, meaning they develop into males first, and when they mature, they become females. If the female anemonefish is removed from the group, such as by death, one of the largest and most dominant males becomes a female.

In perfect conditions for Wi-Fi. I live in a high rise and the 2.4 Ghz band is hardly usable. My previous phone didn't have dual band Wi-Fi and it was much faster on 4G than WiFi.

Plus, modern routers and APs often rely on band aggregation and so even with devices that have dual band, crowded airwaves will have a negative effect on speed.

Wi-Fi is very fast when I'm in my cabin in the countryside. But when I get home with the same devices, it's barely usable.

You could argue that I need a better router with the newest protocol and gizmos but so far, even with new bands and protocols, Wi-Fi is still a competition of which router and devices will shout louder than their neighbors.

My landlord is a multimillion dollar faceless company that sends me offers for a reduction on rent if I refer someone else. They have partnerships with other giant businesses and send me coupons for other companies. They push tenants towards a particular ISP. They amass personal data and seem to share it.

They want to make it seem like added value, but as a tenant, it feels like you're just another consumer to be sold something. They send me so much spam...

No. I'm just a "level 1" tech that have been doing this for many years, and I've always seen him and most of his channels as unprofessional, with the exception of the person now named Emily.

Linus himself didn't seem like a great tech to me, mostly because he seem to struggle with anything else than Windows. I don't care that much about hardware because I have been gravitating around hosting, mainframes (IBM i) and corporate so his channels and benchmarks are not of great interest to me. But that experience helped me see in his other tech videos that he was not serious.

And the way he "used" his employees to do anything unrelated to their job definition was weird. Like, I'm a tech and can install cable, but there's people that you should hire for that. It's not my job to move desks around or paint the walls while also having to do my regular tasks. Should have been the same with his employees.

He gave the impression of being someone that will use the "we're just one big family" excuse to get his employees to do anything, while talking superficially about Windows computers and pushing merch.

I ended up asking YouTube not to recommend any of his channels.

Sure, free until you have to feed it and pay vet bills.

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God forbid we have public transit instead of fucking cars everywhere. There's no need for buses or trains when we can spend huge amounts of energy to autonomously move two tons of metal for each and every individual that exists.

Humanity is not running to ruin. It's taking a car.

I know it's not the answer you're looking for but, what is safer for pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers, is to have less cars on the roads. Buses can move dozens of people with a single trained professional driver. Trains can move hundreds. It's illogical to try to push for autonomous cars for individuals when we already have "self driving" technologies that are much much safer and much more efficient.

Camping has the potential to be any type of fun. From 1 to 3. It depends a lot.

I love type 2 fun so I'm equipped for multi day bike touring and camping trips but it's a bit like anything: if you don't practice it's difficult to get better at it.

However mosquitoes are indeed the worst. I avoid certain areas at some periods of the year because of that. Again, depends where you go and how prepared you are.

Being "anti car" is good for people that love cars. More public transit means less trafic, less congestion, less demand for gas and generally just more space for people that actually like to drive cars.

Plus, if some people don't want to drive a car and just want to get places, maybe don't get a car? There's already safe and proven "technology" to do that. I understand the added safety bonus of "autonomous" cars but let's be real, it's not advertised as something to boost the safety of everyone around, it's advertised as "autopilot" or even worse, "Full Self Driving".

I am certainly anti car, but pointing out the flaws in "FSD" or "autonomous cars" and how it's being falsely marketed to people is also on topic and is not exactly "inserting my views". People can still love cars and use them, just don't BS us with the "FSD" and "autonomous" spiel.

Just goes to show how you can change your public image with shit loads of money. He just laundered his image real good and you just ate it up.

He has not "awakened" to anything. He's just very good at selling his BS. What's even worse is that now if you bring up his shitty ways, you are associated with the anti vax idiots.

I kind of moved on to other devices or older models, depending on what is needed. If you just need a low power computer that can run Linux for simple tasks and projects, there's now lots of alternatives. So far I've tried a Banana Pi BPI-M5 and a Le Potato and they're both promising.

There's a few instances where an original Raspberry Pi is still needed. For example, it's super easy to install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi while not really supported on other experimental boards. Same with GPIO tinkering with some hit and miss implementation on alternative boards.

The only negative thing that I've began not to like about the Raspberry Pi was/is the power management and consumption on the version 4. The fact that I had to use a "dumb" USB-C charger and that everyone on forums and in comments were always "screaming" that you needed a beefier or more powerful power supply kind of killed the enthusiasm for me. Like, I can charge my laptop using a power bank and PD, while the Raspberry Pi 4 complains that it doesn't get enough power from the same bank. I'm sure they fixed their power issues and PD negotiation in the version 5 but apparently, it will also necessitate a pretty "good" power supply because it can pump up to 25 watts. Personally I don't need that much power for most of my projects and it's even annoying because it significantly reduced/reduces the number of ways that I can power the board.

Still, I'll certainly try it if I can get my hands on one. They are very nice devices and their popularity makes them very standard and compatible. But I'm not in any rush because I've since tried alternatives and some will also do just fine too, or even better.

Nope. I don't have a car and consider it a money pit in the first place. A car costs a driving license. It also costs insurance. And fuel to move it. And it will break down at some point. Plus, winters are pretty brutal where I live and heating this thing/myself would be a nightmare. To me, a car is an anchor; a heavy ball attached to your foot.

If I had a car, and it was for a few weeks in summer, I may consider it. But I prefer have a proper place instead, and save money by not having a car.

But then you realize their north is not the same as physical north, like Montreal, where west/east follows the river instead or real cardinal points.

So if you ask directions in Montreal and someone tells you to go north, it means to go NW. And if you're told to go east, you have to NE. It's easy once in the city because the grid follows that "convention" but you always have to be aware of that detail. We just like to add a layer of complexity.

One quirk of common Montreal parlance is that directions (north, south, east, and west) along the street grid are sharply skewed relative to the actual compass directions. The St. Lawrence River is taken as flowing west to east (even though it flows north or northeast past the island), so that directions along streets parallel to the river are referred to as "west" and "east," and those along streets perpendicular to the river, "north" and "south." In much of Montreal, "north" is actually northwest, and in some areas such as Verdun and Pointe-aux-Trembles it is actually due west.

Depends on what kind of debts.

I'm an "old" millennial that recently got a raise and cleared all my credit cards after years of having them loaded near the limit. Now I have a positive balance in my account and enough to live for a few months without a salary. It boosted my credit score to average. So that's great!

However, I live in a studio and don't think I can afford to move anywhere much bigger nor buy any kind of property. It will still take me years to save enough for a mortgage.

So I guess it's still nice not to have any debts, but I would also prefer to have paid off a mortgage instead of "only" credit cards.

Cars. They are everywhere and are like cigarettes. Addictive, bad for our environment and bad for ourselves.

And we even try to keep using them as long as possible by switching to an electric version, just like cigarettes. "But it's electric, it can't be that bad!"

Humanity is not running to its doom, it's taking a car.

Maybe you can go back in time with some kemocite and by venting warp plasma into the cargo bay and catch it at the right moment.

Same with cars. But don't worry, they'll be electric soon!

But I don't need a car to go anywhere in my daily life. My bike can bring me where I need to, it doesn't cost gas, and doesn't require yearly fees for a license. Public transit for the rest. Groceries are hauled with a bike trailer or I make multiple trips on foot.

Seriously, I prefer to live with 3 roommates close to work, and have access to a toilet, shower kitchen... rather than pay for a car and gas to "live in it" and get to work.

If you have a car and drive, you may see it as some sort of tool, and have some value and utility over an apartment, but for people that already live without a car, they often just seem like a burden.

I don't want to have a 1.5 ton block of metal and need to pay gas to move it. I can move by other means.

Oh, thanks for correcting. I thought it was why some manufacturers stuck with micro-usb.

Today I learned that a giraffe in Greek is a spotted camel.

I prefer to be compared to Diogenes of Sinope, thank you.

Jokes on them, I hate cars, don't have one, and would never take an Uber.

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I do tech support for a living. I once had a neighbor that is handicapped and she kept asking me why her computer was always asking her stuff and was rebooting 'by itself'.

Turns out she had a very old computer that was using a very basic version of Windows Home (she couldn't even change the background) and it was constantly choking and rebooting because of updates.

I installed Linux Mint on her computer and requests for support have dropped by 90%.

In fact, I have done this for a few unexperienced computer users and because they mainly just use a browser, it's much simpler for them.

When you think about all the notifications Windows is showing to its users about everything, from antivirus to OneDrive, and all the actions its prompting, it's easy to see how some very basic users may find that extremely confusing. For people like that, a stable Linux distribution will be bliss (and for the people helping them).

My bash scripts. They are saving me lots of time at work, performing screen scraping, filling reports and monitoring old servers.

At home they are making backups and automating repetitive tasks.

I just love shell scripting in general. I should probably own a shirt that says "go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script".

It depends on your instance. I have account on lemmy.world and it's indeed been having stability issues. However some other instances seem a bit more stable, like lemmy.ca.

I've seen posts on lemmy.world asking for more voluntary admins because of the sudden growth. And apparently they are also the preferred instance to be attacked.

There is nothing saying the cables don't work. The article speculates that they may be faulty but it's just that, speculation. It's just that the manufacturer didn't pay to have the HDMI logo/license. A logo or a license won't make the cables faulty.

The fraud is not paying the license to the consortium, but the consumers should not really see anything wrong with it. It's a digital signal. Even if the cable is poor quality, it either works, or not.

I guess maybe the only problem that could arise from this is when trying to watch DRM content on cables that are not properly licensed, there may be some sort of HDCP protection that will not work properly. Maaaaaybe.

So yes, it's fraud, but not really towards the consumers. The manufacturer was committing fraud by making HDMI cables without paying the license. The cables should be fine but they had to write something about them, like "you know, maybe they will be poor quality or don't work" to encourage people not to buy them. It's about money, not the cables.

After having a TCL smart TV that constantly smells like burning plastic, even a year after using it, I'm not sure I would want another of their product in my home.

They are better in the long run when combustion engines have reached their end of life and needs to be changed for something. But replacing a combustion engine solely to get an EV is a waste of energy and material. EVs are heavier and require energy to move, usually a single occupant. Tire wear is also responsible for pollutants in the air and in the water, and because EVs are heavier, they do that faster.

Parking lots generate heat islands, etc.. Buying a new car is inherently bad for the environment. We need more traditional means of transit and much much more active transit plans, not more cars!

WE CAN'T BUY OUR WAY OUT OF THIS WITH NEW GADGETS AND TECHNOLOGY.

A friend recently asked me for a playlist or a channel of a genre of music I shared with him, so he could listen to it while working.

He was disappointed to learn that I'm the type of person listening to songs I like on repeat. Either one song or a short playlist. So I wasn't helpful on this one.

Like, I especially love to cycle for a hundred kilometres or so, with the same selection of songs on repeat for multiple hours.

The poor.

AFAIK that's one of the goals of the ARM (and maybe eventually RISC-V) architecture. It's doing well on mobile and the low consumption is needed for a future that will require less energy. Or at least, do more with less. Having ARM desktops would also merge the mobile and the desktop environments.

Apple has moved to this architecture, and software wise, Linux is very compatible too. Even Microsoft knows and is trying (clumsily) to move to ARM.

The Pi5 will indeed open new possibilities on that front.

Oh they're not suing anyone for a change. I guess they have the means to give some of that money away now.

I still remember them from the times they threatened to sue their fans for not buying their music.

Metallica hadn't sued fans directly, but were making clear their intent to hunt them down. A consulting firm was hired, and complied a list of over 300,000 internet users in a single weekend who were alleged to have downloaded Metallica songs.

There are modern IRC clients like TheLounge and Convos that support media and video. And push messages. You can also have your own internal server not exposed to the internet, this eliminating the problems of takeover, splits and whatnot...

Also the protocol has evolved and there's been integrated options in the servers to hide IPs for at the least a decade.

You may remember those issues and problems when you abandoned it, but it contniues to evolve and endure. I have a private server for my friends and it's been the most stable and direct way to chat and share images for years.

Edit: I have not tested the video stuff in Convos. I use TheLounge and it's perfectly capable of taking an mp4 to upload on the server and display it in the chat. I share images daily by uploading them from my IRC client and they are displayed in the chat... it's not just text anymore!

For me it's an old habit from IRC. Instead of sending 5/6/7 lines of text, I just cut it with .... and continue typing on the same line. I could make complete sentences with capitals and periods but instant messaging is not a medium well suited for full sentences and paragraphs, so you get ...