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  • I think software was a lot easier to visualise in the past when we had fewer resources.

    Stuff like memory becomes almost meaningless when you never really have to worry about it. 64,000 bytes was an amount that made sense to people. You could imagine chunks of it. 64 billion bytes is a nonsense number that people can't even imagine.

  • Is it time for me to get a whole new pc, or is there anything I can salvage from this one?
  • It'll give a small boost to load times, but a nvme SSD can at least be taken with you when you eventually upgrade the mobo/CPU/RAM combo. A 2TB drive can be had for £120 or so.

    I've got more or less the same setup myself as your PC and it's getting very creaky on newer titles. I honestly just use my PS5 for those atm.

    I think I'd update the mobo/CPU/RAM first if I had your exact setup, but the GPU wouldn't be far behind. You could run games with task manager open to see if you're maxing out your CPU or GPU and take it from there. Depending on the games you play, it could be worth doing the GPU first.

    Just make sure your PSU supports it, as those newer GPUs can be hungry.

  • Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text
  • I remember my bank used to ask me for the 2nd, 5th and 7th letters of my password from time to time.

    There's only one realistic way they can know those to ask me.

    They haven't asked me that for a while now, so I can only hope they encrypted them properly at some point.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
  • It shouldn't be opt in or out tbh. This shit should just be illegal.

    The whole adverspying industry needs to be reined the fuck in and slowly turned to mulch.

    The first step to that is letting us see what the advertiser has in our hidden "profiles" and let us modify and/or wipe them out.

  • Teach the children.
  • I don't mind paying, but since I've set up jellyfin and the arr stack I'm getting a better service than anything you can actually buy.

    I don't want to flick between a dozen apps to see which sliver of content they've allowed me to view.

  • Whatcha playing, Opa?
  • It wasn't until after they all dies that I realised that all the model Spitfires and things my granddad had weren't from his memories of fighting in WW2. He was in school during WW2. He just liked model planes.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
  • Yeah, it'll grab a few frame, crunch them up, post back something like "ac8c986ffcb770d460151b20c1cfe628612247ac2d284c780761af3b544bfea7" to the servers and from there it likely gets binned as "not recognised" but might match a segment from Star Wars 4K77.

    It sounds like the sort of thing that should be off by default (and it probably is, I haven't bought a new one for years), but what we've learnt since GDPR is that if a big box comes up over what you're trying to do and it has an "Accept" button, people will generally click it and read nothing just to get back to another riveting episode of America's Deadliest Home Shootouts or something.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
  • Actual paper here.

    https://arxiv.org/html/2409.06203v1

    It is not sending full screenshots as anybody technical would already have guessed. It's a few KB over an hour, so it's content recognition hashes.

    Opt out anyway. Their study shows the opt out option does indeed opt you out of it.

  • Republicans wear ear bandages in 'solidarity' with Trump
    www.bbc.co.uk Republicans wear ear bandages in 'solidarity' with Trump

    Several members of the RNC's Arizona delegation were spotted helping Trump 'set a new fashion statement'.

    Republicans wear ear bandages in 'solidarity' with Trump
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    What is the point of Xbox?
    www.eurogamer.net What is the point of Xbox?

    Xbox has repeated the same terrible mistakes for over a decade. The reason is simple: its priorities are back-to-front.

    What is the point of Xbox?
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    Reminder: Check your pensions every now and again. Especially if you're with Scottish Widows/Lloyds.

    Because it turns out SW/Lloyds replaced their computer system last July, and since then none of my pension payments have been going into my account.

    Our accountant has had to chase them up since somebody noticed at the start of the year. And only now have they admitted it, and making noises about fixing it.

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    PS5 Controller charging issues after recent update

    Is anyone else getting problems with charging from an external USB charger after the latest DualSense update?

    We updated both controllers, and now neither will charge from an Anker USB charger we've been using. They both charge from the PS5 itself. The charger works fine for phones.

    It's like they've updated them to no longer charge from any source other than the PS5, and maybe official PS5 charging docks. Don't have one of those to test.

    Annoying to say the least, as it means playing while charging now needs a cable trailing across the living room floor.

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