zik

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[–] zik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Same as it ever was.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Boomers and Gen X did exactly the same thing that you're doing. Nothing. They just let the super rich elite screw the whole world up and now you're doing the same thing they did. Nothing.

If you want to act high and mighty you're not going to change the world by complaining on the internet. You have to stop the super rich.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Recycled plastic is also inferior quality with worse structural properties so it's not really suitable for many applications.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's absolutely not true. Bluetooth has many "profiles" which define different capabilities. Here's a list of them. These are all defined in the official bluetooth standards.

Maybe you were thinking of the "core specification" which defines the underlying protocol but doesn't define the profiles? But that's just the way they broke up the spec documents. The profiles are still official parts of bluetooth.

Apple's proprietary extensions for audio are not part of any official specification though.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

It's certainly the one most likely to shank you if you step on it. Beyond that I'd rank it as the least space efficient plug. I honestly think it's the worst design I've seen.

"But it has built in fuses", I hear all the Brits say. This isn't the advantage you think it is. Why not put the fuses in the actual appliance with all the other components where it makes more sense to put them?

[–] zik@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

A lot of larger companies like Compaq etc. were making "respectable" PCs by then and selling them in big quantities in direct competition to IBM.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

C++ can do a lot of things but one thing it can't do is perform as poorly as python.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a reason why no-one bought IBM PS/2s. They were horrible value for money.

The real competition at the time was the thousands of other brands selling PCs. By that time IBM was plummeting in sales and other companies were selling most of the PCs. That's where 95% of the market was.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Samsung offers a lot more models so they tend to have a higher high end and a lower low end than Apple.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You just know a lot of those "Research Institute" sets ended up on scientists' desks at research institutes.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They still create microplastics.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When you scratch it you're making microplastics though, and they're going right into your food.

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