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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago

Media PCs for the win!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is measuring desktop market share only. You can click to see all platforms where you can see Windows seems to be losing most of its market share to Android in the last few months.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago

Let me just shorten this down 8 feet

welds on an extra 2 feet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've never heard of someone being arrested for breaching ToS though. They could be sued for breach of contract, but that's it. So far the only thing I could think of is if the bots were illegally acquired by hacking devices or something. There's nothing illegal about paying for a server and having it download free Spotify streams.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Exactly, I don't think there was anything illegal here. At best it's breach of contract with Spotify or whoever, and they could get sued. MAYBE there's some interpretation of fraud that could apply? But it's not like he sold anything and misrepresented it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've seen Luke talk about it a little, and at least during the clips I watched, Github wasn't mentioned. If he specifically says somewhere he's only looking for open source coding projects, then sure, that's a little unreasonable.

More generally though, there are plenty of hobbies you can talk to an employer about that could show "passion" without being programming. Personally I enjoy working on my own car, and I've talked about that before as a side project in interviews. If your hobbies require any skill at all, and aren't just "turn your brain off and watch YouTube", it will help you in just about any job. And from what I've heard from LTT, they're not really any different.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I have not once said anything about programming in this discussion. The side project could be knitting for all I care. I specifically said it's not important if the side projects are directly related to your job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I'm not sure I would call Bose snake oil, but the audiophile space certainly is full of it. On the one hand, you've got overpriced equipment that's not very good value but works, and on the other you've got literal scams like gold plated fiber optics and "audiophile-grade" network switches that are literally incapable of changing the quality of your audio because the signals are digital and have error correction, so it will either work or it won't. Placebo effect + choice-supportive bias are enough to get these things positive reviews though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I haven't had it randomly disconnect, but I certainly have had my headphones randomly connect to my phone in the middle of a video call on my laptop. The crappy multi-device support for Bluetooth is the bane of my existence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's not a joke. UWB adoption could easily stay ahead of Bluetooth 6 adoption. There's nothing requiring phone manufacturers to always update to the latest Bluetooth, just like there's still not very many 5G mmWave phones available.

It could go either way. Bluetooth 6 might be more familiar for manufacturers to implement, but if the hardware is different to support the accuracy, who knows?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

They don't have to be connected to see your device. Just like how Find My Device works by searching for the Bluetooth signal. You'd need to have Bluetooth completely off, so no smart watches or headphones for you in the grocery store I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I think you're completely misunderstanding what I'm trying to say. The hobbies ARE the side projects. They don't have to be the same as your job.

 

I was on a road trip through the prairies and had to stop on the side of the road to watch the northern lights. The entire sky in all directions was lit up. I was able to take this shot with the big dipper visible.

4-second exposure, Sony A9 II, f2.8 24mm Sigma Lens, taken Sept 18, 2023

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