kalleboo

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[–] kalleboo 3 points 7 months ago

This is what I think about people using VPNs to access content. You're still accessing it contrary to the license agreement, it's still piracy. Just download it instead of paying for a VPN company to advertise on YouTube.

[–] kalleboo 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The video covers the history of the hard disk from the very origins, and goes over the boom cycle when there were dozens of hard disk manufacturers innovating and competing (and the established disk manufacturers combined only had single-digit market share vs startups. Now there are only 4 disk manufacturers, total). Adding a few TB every couple years is far from the innovative cycle during the "boom" the video is talking about.

[–] kalleboo 4 points 7 months ago

Another great history lesson from Asianometry

[–] kalleboo 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Japan doesn't have enough electricity. After Fukushima, they lost most of their nuclear. The country is densely populated, and the parts that aren't populated are covered in forested mountains, which all makes building the required amount of renewables very difficult. So today and in the future, Japan runs on coal and natural gas. So they make cars that run on hydrogen (which is more efficient to create out of their imported natural gas than burning the gas for electricity) and then sell those abroad greenwashed as "but you can produce hydrogen from green electricity!"

[–] kalleboo 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The Volvo EX30 is based on a Geely platform, made in China, and does well in the EU (won several Car of the Year awards).

MG (SAIC/Roewe) also has no trouble selling in the EU.

Chinese manufacturers can make regulatory-conforming cars when the market demands it of them. If the market wants cheap and doesn't demand safety, they can do that too.

[–] kalleboo 3 points 7 months ago

It's because they are 100% reliant on the record labels, and the record labels know that. So the record labels can charge Spotify whatever they want, because what is Spotify going to do?

That's why Spotify tried to hard to move into Podcasts and now Audio books, so that they are less reliant on the record labels.

[–] kalleboo 2 points 8 months ago (9 children)

They changed that to appeal to Windows users, people who were raised on Windows are absolutely obsessed with full screening everything for some reason

[–] kalleboo 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For tech stuff, the best reviews to read are always the 1 or 2 star reviews, since you can see if the people complaining have legit gripes or they're just idiots who bought the wrong thing for their task.

[–] kalleboo 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's a good summary!

IMO, the customers of A are paying A to access to the internet, including N. So A should charge their customers enough that they can pay for the equipment to deliver that.

In a working market with many participants, customers can choose a cheaper ISP that has congested/throttled peering, or a more expensive ISP with gold-plated interconnects.

The problem is that in the US, typically your choice of ISP is limited by geography. In many other places you have open fiber networks where the last mile is shared and then you can choose what ISP you want ontop of that, and the ISP is what determines how good your peering is.

And installing caching boxes inside of ISPs is actually a really efficient solution (as well as peer-to-peer)

[–] kalleboo 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It mostly just shows how crazy fast modern SSDs are that they can do swap duties with performance that is acceptable to many people. The SSD in my MacBook Pro can read/write at 5-6 GB/s. That means it can write out the whole 8 GB of memory of one of those smaller machines in under 2 seconds. As long as your current task fits in 8 GB and you're fine waiting 2 seconds to switch between apps...

[–] kalleboo 2 points 8 months ago

Apple decided they knew better

To be fair, it wasn't Apple but NeXT who did it, way back in the late 80's/early 90's

[–] kalleboo 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For what it's worth, he quit the worst of his gun-nuttery once he realized how insane every one else who was into that scene was, and when the school shootings really took off. He posted a mea culpa video the last time everything blew up explaining how he left those politically active groups.

Not saying you have to like him or agree with his views but he did change his mind about a lot of things.

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