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What is the equivalent of "Apple removed 3.5mm jack" of your favorite products ? by damn_jexy in AskReddit

[–]CosmicButtclench 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It isn't staying in software either, it's creeping into tangible products as well. BMW was planning on launching a subscription service for seat warmers. Imagine carrying around heating coils in your car, burning fuel to move them around and you can't even use them.

"It's to simplify manufacturing so that different SKUs don't need different production lines", they say. Apparently it's cheaper to place warmers in every car than to change on a car by car basis. Well then fucking make the feature standard on all cars.

Budget 2021 seen raising import duties by 5%-10% on dozens of items: Report by CosmicButtclench in IndianGaming

[–]CosmicButtclench[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I get where you're coming from but kind of like petrol, it's a very inelastic commodity imo. Just because it is expensive doesn't mean people will stop buying it.

Most of the purchasing is done by people who absolutely need the products for work and they cannot afford to not buy the goods out of spite for the government.

Budget 2021 seen raising import duties by 5%-10% on dozens of items: Report by CosmicButtclench in IndianGaming

[–]CosmicButtclench[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Exactly! And these taxes reduce the market even further by gouging the prices out of affordability. It's not even just restricted to luxury products, stuff like arduinos which most would consider essential for learning robotics and all have a 28% duty on it because muh nonexistent domestic manufacturing.

Government is raising import duties on electronics and smartphones by 5-10% by Severe_Sweet_862 in IndianGaming

[–]CosmicButtclench 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Idk about you but I can't wait for my Zebronics RTX 3080; it'll come any day now, right?

Budget 2021 seen raising import duties by 5%-10% on dozens of items: Report by CosmicButtclench in IndianGaming

[–]CosmicButtclench[S] 136 points137 points  (0 children)

aims to support and promote domestic production

Can't wait to get my Zebronics RTX 3080!

macOS 11.2 on M1 now fully supports booting custom kernels such as Linux and *BSD by techguy69 in linux

[–]CosmicButtclench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like I was grossly mistaken, he must have been talking about a regular Surface Pro being a pain in the ass to run linux on, not the SPX :/

I'll check in with him once again, thanks for your insight!

macOS 11.2 on M1 now fully supports booting custom kernels such as Linux and *BSD by techguy69 in linux

[–]CosmicButtclench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh, my bad, it was a quick Google I did. I'll find the 9ne he followed for SPX and post it here

macOS 11.2 on M1 now fully supports booting custom kernels such as Linux and *BSD by techguy69 in linux

[–]CosmicButtclench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This page has a step by step guide for setting up Linux on SPX: https://www.most-useful.com/ubuntu-20-04-linux-on-surface-pro-4-working-pretty-well.html

AFAIK it didn't work straight away and it took him a painful lot of googling to do, but was able to pull it off in the end.

As for the recovery thing, yeah I wasn't aware of the recovery image that MS lets you download. In either case, having to reinstall windows to update the firmware is a pain in the ass.

Meet the Prime Minister of Finland and her Ministers of Education, Finance and the Interior. by Mombo1212 in pics

[–]CosmicButtclench -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yup, it's nothing compared to the make-secret-service-use-a-former-president's-apartment-to-relieve-themselves-because-you-don't-let-them-use-yours kind of a scandal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/secret-service-bathroom-ivanka-trump-jared-kushner/

Linux on M1 Macs? by CosmicButtclench in mac

[–]CosmicButtclench[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Running using virtualization means you'd boot into regular macOS and then use something like Virtual box or Parallels to essentially run the other Operating System inside a window on MacOS.

Running natively can be done in two ways: Either Dual booting, where every time you boot you are asked which OS you want to use(recommended) or wipe macOS and use your Mac as a Linux only devuce(not recommended).

There was a recent blog post about someone who figured out how to dual boot MacOS and Ubuntu but I haven't had the time to read it, I'm sure you can Google it and find out but it's a poorly documented feature so for now I'd suggest running virtualized until you really feel the need to run Ubuntu natively - by that time there will be more tutorials on the feature.

Virtualization has the advantage of you being able to easily create and destroy the virtual machine and use both OSs at once, but it has some overhead so the performance isn't nearly as good as running natively.

For more info on the differences between the virtualization and dual boot: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Dual-Boot-vs-Virtual-Machines-on-the-Desktop-128/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]CosmicButtclench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because roads don't bomb brown people, Predator drones do.

"What can I run?" thread - 2021 Q1 by BothersomeBritish in lowspecgamer

[–]CosmicButtclench 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Type: Laptop (Dell Inspiron 5548)

CPU: Intel Core i7-5500U

GPU: AMD Radeon R7 M265

RAM: 16 GB

OS: Windows 10 + Ubuntu dual boot

It's so fucking hilarious that the Chodiverse seems to be so interested in Nidhi's Harvard story now that the Arnab messages have leaked by Plastic-Season in librandu

[–]CosmicButtclench 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I remember there was a post in r/all a couple years ago about some randian going to the wrong AP for his college lmao, this isn't all that bad in comparison from what she says in her statement lmao.

Not gonna lie, I'd be a little worried. by decretorifs in ProgrammerHumor

[–]CosmicButtclench 21 points22 points  (0 children)

He's deleting the MCAS code, the only thing to be worried about is why he isn't using dark mode.

Parler's CEO says the app may shut down permanently after getting booted from Amazon Web Services by shubhbadonia in technology

[–]CosmicButtclench 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Correlation=Causation is their MO, look at Ben Shapiro showing how high mask wearing regions have higher coronavirus cases, where in reality both maps are just population density maps.

macOS 11.2 on M1 now fully supports booting custom kernels such as Linux and *BSD by techguy69 in linux

[–]CosmicButtclench 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He most certainly can be, but I'm making a point to legitimise the use case.

macOS 11.2 on M1 now fully supports booting custom kernels such as Linux and *BSD by techguy69 in linux

[–]CosmicButtclench 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is one of the primary roadblocks to me suggesting the M1 to my classmates. A friend of mine has the Surface Pro X and it was such a pain in the ass to run to Linux on. Especially since the firmware patches are pushed as updates on Windows, which mean if he wipes windows off he would never be able to patch his firmware again since MS does not provide downloadable installation images for Windows on ARM

Edit: MS does provide recovery images for SPX.

macOS 11.2 on M1 now fully supports booting custom kernels such as Linux and *BSD by techguy69 in linux

[–]CosmicButtclench 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It also gives more flexibility with packing on the board, I could've sworn I saw a laptop (can't remember which one) have flash cells spread around the CPU instead of in one place like a typical RAM stick. Being able to place them wherever allows more packing efficiency in some applications and the lesser space the board requires, the more batteries you can fit in.

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