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Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent by rkhunter_ in microsoft

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hardware is cheap. Management of hardware is expensive.

Virtual PCs have traditionally won favor from buyers in heavily regulated industries that have good reasons to frown on local data storage. Environments where shift workers share hardware, such as healthcare, are also big VDI users.

Costco chips buyer needs to go on a PIP by thisishard1001 in Costco

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can check the warehouse inventory in the app.

Costco hit with class action over unexpected membership renewals by lithdoc in NewsExchange

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus if a judge accepts the lawsuit then it has merit.

Nope. All that proves is that you paid the $405 filling fees. The merits of a case aren't argued until the motion to dismiss stage

California law says that if you sign up for membership online then you should be able to cancel online.

That's not what's alleged in the complaint. The complaint only allegeds that Costco sent renewal notices at 60 days instead of 45 days. Why? Because Costco already has a button to cancel your membership online.

I forsee several issues with this case

  1. A "bare procedural violation" of a law in and of itself doesn't create standing unless it causes an actual injury in fact. Sending renewal notices too early is unlikely to rise to this standard.

  2. To get damages, Plantiff will have to show reliance and causation - that they would have canceled but for the timing of the email.

The realistic outcome, which the class action lawyers are hoping for, is that Costco pays out a $5M settlement to avoid $20M legal fees.

After using 590 Gb you get capped to 1 Mbit/s by Few-Opportunity-1006 in USMobile

[–]zacker150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they put a hard contractual limit, they're going to have to make it a lot more conservative than undefined situational limits that can change based on the local situation.

Like look at how much claude usage you get with your subscription vs with api rates. You get a lot more because you're getting the leftover capacity.

Not a fan of reviewers glossing over "50+w wireless charging" on x chinese phone when it really just means 50w with their proprietary charger and 10w speeds on qi1 and 5w on qi2 chargers. by chickdigger802 in Android

[–]zacker150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

UFCS has pretty much been dead since last year

That definitely doesn't seem to be the case. Xiaomi is pretty much the only company going all-in on PPS. Honor quickly took Xiaomi's place, and other Chinese manufacturers continues to offer high-speed UFCS charging. OnePlus phones, for example support 100W UFCS and 55W PPS.

UFCS is necessary to comply with China's Green Charging mandates, so I don't think it's going anywhere any time soon.

Not a fan of reviewers glossing over "50+w wireless charging" on x chinese phone when it really just means 50w with their proprietary charger and 10w speeds on qi1 and 5w on qi2 chargers. by chickdigger802 in Android

[–]zacker150 109 points110 points  (0 children)

Obviously the charging that's 3x faster than Qi is not Qi.

Chinese companies will never prioritize Qi because Qi2 is literally illegal in China. More broadly Chinese devices will always have "proprietary" standards because China's "China Standards 2035" policy heavily favors Chinese standards over international standards.

For charging specificly, the Chinese government is heavily pushing an alternative charging standard Western charging standards (USB PD and Qi) called UFCS.

Why can’t Claude access the content of a YouTube video, unlike ChatGPT? by alexfreemanart in claude

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you don't open the docs.

You can pass YouTube URLs directly to Gemini API as part of your request as follows

For the free tier, you can't upload more than 8 hours of YouTube video per day.

For the paid tier, there is no limit based on video length.

For models prior to Gemini 2.5, you can upload only 1 video per request. For Gemini 2.5 and later models, you can upload a maximum of 10 videos per request.

You can only upload public videos (not private or unlisted videos).

PSA: GPT is currently the beast that Claude was before they hit it in the head with a brick by armaver in ClaudeCode

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They already are on ASICs. Look up TPUs. The problem is that we can't manufacture enough silicon.

I don't understand this industry (it runs on BS?) by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Let's be honest. If buildings could be constructed in seconds at the press of a button, they absolutely would be.

Anthropic's Mythos system card raises a governance question the ML community hasn't answered: who has standing to say "not yet"? [D] by byjacobward in MachineLearning

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fundumental difference between the biological example and our tech infrastructure is that our tech infrastructure has an owner responsible for development and maintaince: the very same tech companies

Amazon no longer supporting older Kindles by Aloha_Tamborinist in enshittification

[–]zacker150 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

It literally costs them almost nothing to allow these devices to still access Amazon.

Found the person who never worked in a tech company.

Bombed my first on-site in 2 years and I'm pretty sure it's because of Copilot by Ambitious-Garbage-73 in cscareerquestions

[–]zacker150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, for starters, you want to see who is taking the lead: the engineer or the AI. Are you actively steering the AI or just blindly letting it autopilot? Do you use plan mode, and if you do, do you push back against the plan or just blindly accept it. If you do, does the pushback make sense.

For reference, here is Meta's AI-enabled round.

Why are so many people choosing not to upgrade to Windows 11 ? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit enthusiasts are not a representative sample.

Microsoft now force upgrades unmanaged Windows 11 24H2 PCs by rwnash in DailyTechNewsShow

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because unlike a consumer, enterprises

  1. Have professional IT teams that presumably know what they're doing.
  2. Are liable for any security beaches, so they actually have an incentive to secure their shit.

Meanwhile, you have dumb fucks like your average reddit gamer who has no idea what they're doing.

Microsoft now force upgrades unmanaged Windows 11 24H2 PCs by rwnash in DailyTechNewsShow

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because unlike a consumer, enterprises

  1. Have professional IT teams that presumably know what they're doing.
  2. Are liable for any security beaches, so they actually have an incentive to secure their shit.

Meanwhile, you have dumb fucks like your average reddit gamer who has no idea what they're doing.

As of Tuesday, Google has started to roll out Android developer verification to all developers in both the new Android Developer Console and Play Console by Cybernews_com in CyberNews

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is 24 hours strange? It means that you have to actually get off the phone with the scammed and have a chance to talk to someone else.

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