Have to agree here, you can buy a Samsung branded 4TB USB-C drive that fits in your wallet.

I doubt the copy the theater is receiving is any higher quality than a Blu-ray release though, so aside from George Lucas style editing there seems to be little value in transporting the encrypted copy unless you first have a decryption method.

Those screenshots were taken on Sony studio monitors which are much more precise than home equipment. They’re still available fairly cheap, I picked up a pair a few years ago for $35 each. It’s the best of both worlds.

I don’t know if they’re conflating rendering with display or just assuming those GPU are at max TDP 24/7, but they’re way off on actual energy consumption.

There seems to be a lot of recent articles attacking datacenters, particularly those involved in LLM “ai” work. This feels like one of those articles.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t keep them in check, but I also don’t like being manipulated by “grass roots initiative” marketing companies, particularly on Lemmy.

Using the max power use of a video card to math this is ridiculous. It’s not at full TDP pushing this content. They aren’t playing max FPS 3D raytraced gaming, they’re playing videos.

Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t expect any privacy between processes on a desktop OS under the same UID.

If you use Chrome’s password manager on Windows your password database is unlocked with your password upon login and is available to every process you run.

There’s only so much you can do, as an app, to protect against OS deficiencies.

The desktop app on Windows is a sacrifice of security for convenience.

The states probably need to opt in for state income tax filing or data. Red states typically don’t have income taxes and wouldn’t need this to begin with.

They’re just bad at rotating stock 🤣

“about 10 years ago” in our house 🤣

I think it’s more likely that someone is trying to keep competitors from mining it for a short term advantage

You can also just install or create a third party app to do the same thing.

Your premium is 116 EUR per month, plus the taxes people pay – which are much higher in those countries.

You have also traded your freedom.

The UK is currently talking about banning tobacco entirely in the name of reducing health costs despite it being a part of many cultures ceremonies and traditions. New York is still trying to control soda sizes in the name of public health. Canada now offers suicide as an option for people who would have a long (and costly) treatment with low probability of improving health.

Pretty soon you’re setting a death age because old people use most of the healthcare. They make a Star Trek TNG episode about this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_a_Life_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

The responsible car makers showing drivers performing stunts well beyond the ability or legality of most drivers?

You’ve got some kind of chip on your shoulder man. It’s a car company, who cares.

There are some real Elon haters out there. I think they’re ugly as sin but I’m happy to see more people driving vehicles with all the crazy safety features, even if they aren’t perfect.

You’re in control of a massive vehicle capable of killing people and destroying property, you’re responsible for it.

Yeah, it turns out that politicians in both parties are garbage people pandering to the masses.

Instead of voting along party lines people need to vote for real people that can act like adults and actually govern. Most of our government officials are now too busy passing meaningless resolutions, performing the same study that’s popular in all the other cities, or busy on social media pandering to vocal minorities.

It’s one thing to make a tool accomplish a task.

It’s another thing to beat the engineers until grandma can operate the tool.

I didn’t like the guy either, and found it funny that his own bullshit killed him in the end, but he did add “value”.

Vote better.

Do you really think the concerns about encampments are all from rent seeking landlords?

Here in Minneapolis it’s the number of murders, gang violence (territory), rape, and human trafficking.

Second tier issues are overdoses, fires, sanitation (which doesn’t sound like much until you see the people with fingers and toes rotting off), and crime rates increasing as they try to make enough money to feed their drug habits.

It’s a very complex issue. Much more complex than “the landlords are upset people aren’t paying rent”.

Heroin has a pretty high user satisfaction rating too. You can’t use customer satisfaction as a metric for legality.

Spot on. The availability of CSAM was overblown by a well funded special interest group (Exodus Cry). The articles about it were pretty much ghost written by them.

When you’re the biggest company in porn you’ve got a target on your back. In my opinion they removed all user content to avoid even the appearance of supporting CSAM, not because they were guilty of anything.

PornHub has been very open about normalizing healthy sexuality for years, while also providing interesting data access for both scientists and the general public.

“Exodus Cry is an American Christian non-profit advocacy organization seeking the abolition of the legal commercial sex industry, including pornography, strip clubs, and sex work, as well as illegal sex trafficking.[2] It has been described by the New York Daily News,[3] TheWrap,[4] and others as anti-LGBT, with ties to the anti-abortion movement.[5]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry