Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Noodles]

What do you need all those buttons for? Your FPS gun has one shot, younonly need one button, aim, shoot, win. If you need more buttons you need to get better at one of those three things, probably the winning.

 

[Caete]

Someone just paid over $39,000 for a 15-year-old iPhone—more than 50 times its original price

Bidding started at $2,500, but five figure offers for the factory-sealed iPhone soon followed.

www.cnbc.com

I get the same vibes from this as I did from the video game grading company that also owned an auction house that set insane price records for the games they graded.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

What do you need all those buttons for?

Being an alpha non-cuck gamer chad!

 

[Noodles]

I get the same vibes from this as I did from the video game grading company that also owned an auction house that set insane price records for the games they graded.

It feels very similar to the idea of NFTs, but at least you have a real thing in the end.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I get the same vibes from this as I did from the video game grading company that also owned an auction house that set insane price records for the games they graded.

Yeah I feel like the seller put a few straw bids in there to jack up the price.

 

[Soen Eber]

What do you need all those buttons for? Your FPS gun has one shot, younonly need one button, aim, shoot, win. If you need more buttons you need to get better at one of those three things, probably the winning.

It would be good for graphic designers and such - imagine the kind of workflows it could produce.

 

[Free]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Lengthy read about Felony Contempt of Business Model

Pluralistic: 20 Oct 2022 It was all downhill after the Cuecat – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Lengthy read about Felony Contempt of Business Model

My Cuecat is one of the early ones that you could get straight codes out of by cutting a trace on the circuit board.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Euh...

Drivers at Elon Musk's Las Vegas Tunnel Told to Say Musk Is 'Awesome!'

Drivers are supposed to say "He motivates us to do great work" when asked about Musk, according to the document.

gizmodo.com

This article does by far means not any justice to the genius that is Elon Musk! Musk invented a totally new way of underground travel, nobody ever before came up with and the transportation experience is just epic! Phenomenal! Awesome!

Boring, European and Asian towns would just use trains, and build boring subways. But that's not the genius that Elon Musk is! No, he build two tunnels, which are 2.7 miles long, with three stations and people are transported underground by Teslas, driven by humans at a maximum speed of 30 mph. The whole system has 60 Teslas in it somewhere, and can transport around 4800 people/day, or something, which is fucking awesome!

And even, Elon found some pretty neat ways on how to make tunnel boring cheap - he just stripped away everything related to safety! So no smoke detectors in the tunnels for you, no automatic fire extinguishing system either, and best of all to keep the tunnel diameter small no evacuation signs, or even safety rooms/tunnels! Nope, Elons tech is so space-agey, that he simply doesn't need it - but hey, it's got nifty LEDs on every side of the roadway!

Even more so, Musk is such a genius, that he single handedly invented the underground traffic jam in a closed transportation system. It cannot get much better than that!

Oh, and it should transport roughly about 250000 people a year. Some old baby metro line build in Budapest end of the 19th century transports 80000 people a day (featured in the 2nd video), it's operational until today, slightly longer than the Vegas Loop and it took significantly time to build. Musk's space age technology for sure is hard to beat, it's way more spacy looking than the 19th century and way more inefficient! Other's are just calling it the biggest ad for Tesla ever made.

First let's have a look how hard it is for the Cnet reporter to be amazed about Musk's stroke of genius:

And here's about the Vegas Loop and Dugout Loop:

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This is getting SO stupid


There's no reason these cards have to be this big and this heavy, apart from marketing.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Seriously, look at all that complete BS for...3 DP and 1 HDMI port.

You wanted a separate sound card or a capture card, maybe a wireless adapter? F. U. we need to take up every expansion slot in your case for these three Display Ports.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Scientists discover material that can be made like a plastic but conducts like a metal

Scientists with the University of Chicago have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal.

phys.org

 

[Caete]

 

[Free]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

lol


Just FYI, colors themselves - like, the hexadecimal or RGBA/CMYK values - aren't copyrighted. just Pantone's names and definitions of them - but apparently Adobe has decided to censor any color in any existing Photoshop file that matches a Pantone-named value unless you're a Premium subscriber.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

NVIDIA's new RTX 4090 card uses a completely new power connector, you can't plug a regular ATX power supply's VGA cables into it, only new just-now-being-released ATX+ power supplies will natively fit.

So, NVIDIA has included an adapter cable with their cards that let you use your existing regular-ATX power supply with the new cards.

But the 4090 pulls so much electricity through the tiny, tiny connector pins that the adapters are frequently melting and catching fire.


It's been discovered that one reason this is happening is because NVIDIA chose to solder the wires into its connectors rather than crimping them, so as the card's irrational power-draw heats up the pins they eventually become so freaking hot that the solder just melts and the cables fall right out of the connector. Since the card is running when this happens it causes arcs, sparks, and fires.

Sooooo freaking stupid.

 

[Free]

lol


Just FYI, colors themselves - like, the hexadecimal or RGBA/CMYK values - aren't copyrighted. just Pantone's names and definitions of them - but apparently Adobe has decided to censor any color in any existing Photoshop file that matches a Pantone-named value unless you're a Premium subscriber.

FREETONE - Pantone-ish colour palette for Adobe products by Stuart Semple

FREETONE I've liberated the Pantone colour palette and I'm giving it away for free* Important By downloading the FREETONE palette pack you confirm that you are not an employee of Adobe or Pantone, nor associated with Adobe or Pantone, and to the best of your knowledge this palette will not make...

www.culturehustleusa.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

NVIDIA's new RTX 4090 card uses a completely new power connector, you can't plug a regular ATX power supply's VGA cables into it, only new just-now-being-released ATX+ power supplies will natively fit.

So, NVIDIA has included an adapter cable with their cards that let you use your existing regular-ATX power supply with the new cards.

But the 4090 pulls so much electricity through the tiny, tiny connector pins that the adapters are frequently melting and catching fire.

Just the type of engineering and quality assurance you would expect when buying a 2000$ graphics card. You had one job, Nvidia!