drawerair @ drawerair @lemmy.world

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When I think of Instagram, I think of selfies, food pics, landscapes, pet pics and other pretty pics.

Political feuds online can be nasty right? There are long toxic conversations. Folks spend much time arguing on the platform. Meta likes that long session. But it seems Meta is promoting positivity? Seems Meta wants a long positive session.

Pixel 8 pro or Samsung s24 ultra

Please view Marques Brownlee's review of each if you want.

I'm :) that games don't suck me. I play 1 game only – Stardew valley. I enjoy but I can't play 3 hours straight.

Please try Alexa.

When I wanted to install Revanced extended on my Samsung a70, there were the easy way (which didn't involve Termux) and the kinda hard way (which involved Termux). I'm not an Android expert but I thought I would be able to follow a well-written process. So I chose the kinda hard way. It went well. I appreciated Termux.

Duckduckgo –

We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

I use Duckduckgo for pic searches. I can easily go to the link of the pic. On the other hand, Google takes me to the site containing the pic.

Another concern of mine re Google is –

Say I'm searching re a car. The search results are riddled with carmechanic.com, carexpert.com, moderncar.com, carstoday.com and others. Idk if those are legit. There's been a lot of misinformation on the Net so I've been careful.

Chrome is worse now? What did you experience?

My main browser is Firefox. My secondary is Chrome. I'm still :) with Chrome as a secondary.

👍 article.

Electric vehicles are 👍 if the energy used to charge the 🔋 is from renewable sources. If most of the energy used for charging is from fossil fuels, wide adoption of electric vehicles doesn't aid much in resolving climate change.

A long time ago Veritasium said that vehicle making had a big environmental impact, so it was eco-friendly to use your old vehicle as long as possible. I did a quick search and didn't find any relevant info. I asked Bing copilot and didn't get a definite answer. But the joy that a new electric vehicle brings is sure. I may lean on buying a new 1.

I learned that Wikipedia has a "reliable sources" table thanks to this. I'll check it out.

I can't recall a time when I went to Cnet to read re tech. I get tech stuff from Youtube and Verge.

The Wikipedia folks didn't demote Cnet after 1 week of discussion. Not 1 month. Not 6 months. Were they giving Cnet time to change for the better?

I encountered many New York times articles behind a paywall. I was :o that this wasn't behind a paywall for me.

I use archive.md for paywalls.

I hope the New York times doesn't sell user data. If it does, public rage can move it from being 1 of the top news sites to the bottom.

It beat Claude 3 on math and reasoning when analyzing images.

What beat Claude 3?

No free version of Opus, so I can't try it.

It's 👍 that the ai competition is sizzling.

Applications such as Chatgpt and DALL-E have captured the world's imagination, but ai companies are focused on something else.

This can be improved. the author's point is that 3 of the things that the tech world is focused on now are –

1. more chips for ai
2. develop own chip to decrease reliance on Nvidia
3. higher demand for electricity due to the ai boom

But the tech world is focused on making better ai chatbots and pic generators too.

Anyway, 👍 article. I learned that Nvidia is the backbone of the ai boom.

Chip components have been getting tinier. I hope ways to work with or around the quantum behaviors will be discovered.

I hope there'll be more research re higher-output (megawatt) renewable energy plants and cheaper renewable energy.

Tech Youtuber Marques Brownlee has liked Red cinema cams. Nikon wants that sweet Marques $. :p

The process of buying a sensor for a phone then developing computational photography is different from making a digital cinema cam. I wasn't :o that the cam in the Red phone wasn't as 👍 as an iPhone's cam.

Idk Mx chip. I googled. Is it a chip for smart home devices?

The demand for gaming 💻 has been high. Firms made names like Rog, Legion and Predator as they've wanted to give a considerable amount of focus to gaming.

Also, there can be high profit in high-end gaming 💻.

There's high profit too in thin and low-mass 💻. For example, enterprise sales. Say a firm with 10000 workers buys 💻 from Asus. High profit.

Idk which generates more profit.

I appreciate Dave2d's "M2 Macbook air versus Windows" vid. Hope he'll make an M3 Macbook air versus Windows.

Apple's focus on polish makes them a not-1st-mover. The Apple vision pro isn't the 1st virtual or augmented reality device. The Airpods max isn't the 1st pair of wireless headphones.

I viewed this – y2u.be/URoVKPVDKPU

The vid showed that Boeing seemed to have questionable quality control. The focus was maximizing profit. Boeing outsourced the ✈'s parts to different firms but seemed to have a loose grasp on the whole thing. As the main firm, Boeing must have keenly supervised the crucial things. It's a key part of quality control.

Also, some knowledgeable Boeing folks left Boeing. Brain drain.

This may excite some, but I value sustained real-world performance more. For example, the fast processors tested by Gamers nexus.

Youtube works 👍 on Firefox Windows 11 with Ublock origin for me. I could view 1440p. No major issue. Aside from adblocking, I use Ublock origin to block tracking cookies and remove "accept cookies" banners on sites.