Kushan @ Kushan @lemmy.world

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I don't think they're opposing goals. Google does not make more money from a task running in its cloud than on its devices, if anything that costs them more money.

I don't disagree that Capitalism doesn't work in its purest form, but we've hardly had a success with communism in its purest form either.

It's almost like there's a middle ground that's the best of both worlds.

They were doomed the second yahoo touched them.

A thread on a different article about the same thing had someone demanding a change in law to make robots safer and stop this happening again because 48 people were killed by robots in the USA...since 1992.

Yes, there's a lot to take in with that. Yes, some people are idiots.

Then it should fit, it might need a spacer or something but I can live with that.

yeah I've seen reviews of that and I am not keen

I just want to know if they'll let me replace the screen. I can live with the battery but I'd love an OLED screen.

99% of the time, the cause is trying to output a 5.1 signal into a Stereo setup (Like your TV speakers). A 5.1 signal is 5 speakers and 1 subwoofer. The speakers are front left and right, rear left and right and - the important bit - the centre channel. The centre channel tends to be where all of the dialogue comes from, while everything else comes from the other speakers. But what happens if you don't have 5 speakers? What if you only have 2? You can't ignore that audio so you've got to mush it together somehow and now you've got dialogue and explosions coming out of the same speakers with mixed results.

It's not about not having a professional setup mixed the same as a theatre, it's usually about a setting somewhere that's incorrect. If you're only using your TV's speakers, there's a good chance something somewhere is trying to give it a surround sound signal and it's trying to downmix that to stereo. Usually you can fix it by adjusting a setting somewhere, either the TV itself or whatever app/box is sending the TV the signal as most sources do actually come with a stereo mix.

However, a better way of solving it is getting yourself a soundbar. It doesn't have to be an expensive one at all, even the cheaper soundbars will sound better than your TV ever will and they'll at least have a 3.1 signal that'll separate out the sound effects/music from the dialogue because usually that dialogue goes through the centre channel which you now have. You can also usually adjust the volume of that channel independently.

Note that nobody would suggest that a cheap soundbar is anything close to a "professional setup". Most audio folk would turn their nose up at the idea of using a soundbar over a full surround system but you know what, they're pretty "good enough" for most folk and if you care about media consumption, it's a nice improvement.

Not quite, they promoted some folks and reorged the upper structure of Xbox a bit but Zenimax is still operating fairly independently:

“ZeniMax will continue to operate as a limited integration entity led by Jamie Leder, President and CEO, reporting to Matt,”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933049/microsoft-reorg-xbox-marketing-ai-leadership-changes

Clearly Microsoft is trying to avoid more bad game launches, they need to exert some amount of control but I'm looking at that and seeing them trying to do it with a minimal touch.

Microsoft has had a spat of sub-par, underwhelming releases lately - Redfall, Starfield, even going back as far as Halo Infinite and to my knowledge, none of the war stories there have said it had anything to do with Microsoft meddling. I'd go as far as to say that Microsoft needed to keep a closer finger on the pulse of all these studios, not less.

I dunno, between redfall and Starfield it sure does feel like Microsoft leaves them to their own devices and doesn't even check their homework.

Believe me it's often the only option I have and it has a whole host of problems. Things sometimes aren't in stock and you get dumb substitutions or no substitution at all - which means I still need to go and pick up whatever I'm missing or make do without.

For fresh produce, it's entirely random if I get decent selection or bruised up leftovers. If I want baked potatoes I have no way of picking them myself and end up with crappy tiny things unless I buy the more expensive explicit "jacket potatoes".

It's a nightmare.

I definitely understand that perspective and I would never say no to better public transport. However, as someone that has spent their entire life entirely reliant on public transport, I can assure you that even good public transport isn't a solution to all problems.

For example I can't just nip out to a hardware store to pick up some supplies because I fancy doing a bit of DIY, I am reliant on friends or Taxis to carry bulky items. I can't even do a large shop because it's too much to carry, I have to either have it delivered in which case I'm not able to easily see what I am getting - an issue be it fresh produce or just not realising how big a jar of something is, or I am forced to turn one shopping trip into several smaller trips. I certainly can't buy in bulk to save money.

I can't just go somewhere on a whim, I have to plan ahead and make sure I'm able to get any connections or be aware of any disruption.even when public transport is good, it still has issues.

That "traffic between two IP addresse"s is enough reason to use a VPN you trust.

Put it this way, bit torrent traffic can be encrypted and routed over standard ports to make it look like regular web traffic, so still "just traffic between two IP addresses" but you wouldn't run that without a VPN, would you?

As a partially sighted person that's unable to legally drive, an autonomous car is an absolute dream to me and would give me a personal freedom many currently take for granted.

The rights to search sure are, but it's more like Google happens to be the one paying it right now. It could be Microsoft or Yahoo or anyone.

Mozilla definitely needs to diversity better here, but the implication that they're "funded by google" is completely misleading.

I dont know much about the primary developers of Lemmy,

With respect, maybe you shouldn't be commenting on what's going on behind the scenes. They are good developers but they're not good leaders or shepherds of such a big project. They need to hand over stewardship to someone that can be trusted.

Google pays them to be the default search engine, they're not funded by Google.

We desperately need a company like Mozilla to take the reigns of something like Lemmy. The original developers are far too biased and short sighted to see the bigger picture, it needs to be an independent group that promotes more open source development.

The whole McDonald's coffee debacle is constantly misreported, but I think it's becoming more known that McDonald's are in fact the bad guys in that one.