black0ut

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Apple gets money from both their monopoly on user data and their high prices. That's why it's above Microsoft and Google in market cap, even though it doesn't have nearly as much infrastructure and reach.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Disclaimer: never use Brave browser, it's really bad. The CEO is an asshole, and they promote crypto and scams, while still showing their own ads. They also got caught sneakily adding affiliate codes to URLs. (https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/)

Use firefox or any firefox derivative with ublock origin (yes, even on android)

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago

There are many free and libre OCR programs, that have way more accuracy than an "AI"

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 12 points 1 month ago

Yes, and no. No app will display the image if it wasn't already capable of displaying webp, period.

However, there are many places (mainly websites where you can only upload certain formats, but it can also be apps) where the underlying infrastructure supports webp, but they do a simple extension check first with a list of file extensions that doesn't include .webp. In those cases, changing the extension to .jpg will get the image through the filter, and the underlying system will detect the format using the magic number at the beginning of the file.

The same thing can happen when your OS has no associated app to open .webp, but the app it uses for .jpg can also display .webp.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Starbucks coffee isn't coffee, it's sweetened sugar with extra sugar.

Sincerely: a coffee addict.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It can't be luigi because he was at my house at that time.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean like 89% of the shit on Reddit is some OF model advertising.

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

Writing this on a OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite 5G. It's not an old model, you can still buy them new from the manufacturer with years of updates. It has a 3.5mm jack.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

However, 3.5mm to USB-C adapters are not passive, they're active. They need a DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) to generate audio signals from the digital data stream that comes from the USB-C.

Phones didn't use to have very good DACs (with exceptions, of course), but they're still normally better than whatever you get from a 3€ adapter.

Adapters are also less convenient than a headphone jack, because now you need to remember taking the adapter and the headphones with you.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Client side anti-cheat (the one installed on your PC) will never work, it's just fundamentally impossible. They can restrict user freedom as much as they want, but the hardware still isn't under their control.

The only reason they push for those kinds of anti-cheats is because they don't have to pay for the extra processing of server side anti-cheat, and they also get the benefit of a backdoor into your computer that you may never fully uninstall without buying a new computer.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago

Don't use AI slop, please

 
 
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