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I'm using a Surface Book 2 Laptop and I need some additional ports for my keyboard, mouse, and ethernet adaptor so I'm going to be getting a USB-hub which has decent bandwidth and four USB ports. I have two open standard USB ports as well as a USB type-c port that is connected to a HDMI adaptor which connects to my monitor. My question is, should I connect my ethernet adaptor to my USB-hub? I'm aware that USB-hubs can have performance impacts and I want to have really good internet connection so when I join video meetings I don't have lag spikes which I get with wireless connections, and just for everything else internet related. As I mentioned, I have two 'standard' USB ports open so I could have both my USB-hub and my ethernet adaptor connected, although, that would mean I have to connect and disconnect three cords (USB-C to HDMI, USB-Hub, Ethernet Adaptor) as opposed to just two (USB-C to HDMI, USB-Hub) which might seem incredibly lazy of me but I use my laptop as a desktop and a portable laptop frequently so I just seems so much more convenient to have this option. Please let me know of how much of a performance impact this will have, I will gladly take performance over convenience.

Thanks Redditors!

Just pointing out that it will take a decade plus to get enough people and MFG capabilities on the moon before it’s easier then doing it on Earth and sending to the moon.

You’re suggesting we… Take up space on Wall Street? Wait, take up isn’t the right phrase let’s use “occupy.“

Arrest people for saying mean things on social media? Fox News been reporting on the boogieman across the ocean?

Oh yeah I think I read that book in high school but it was really short so I don’t remember it

Oh damn why even bother then 🙄

Agreed. But the same thing goes for In These Times, truly a respected new source. /s

The only reason Apple beat out Zune is they had the Jello Rights with the IPod name. "MP3 players" were "ipods" like gelatine is "Jell-o" and even though Zune was better in every way, you're a weirdo for having an "off-brand ipod". They're not going to win trying to build a "better way to Google something".

Yeah, I've been using parallels from over 10 years ago and it's always worked well. Though it's still ARM based Windows so it is pretty limiting... But all the ARM based Windows application can run just fine on Parallels and it's super easy.

Green energy... Over the lives of those frozen to death these past few years.

Never would I have thought that killing your people was the way to motivate them. But here we are.

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whatever man, look it up (I know I will now).

edit: from chat.openai.com since I'm sick and lazy atm

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Yup. I just use it to help me find better words for writing which sometimes comes difficult because I’m a foreigner 😬

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Selling parts to people to empower them to break their phones further seems a natural revenue stream.

>We worked on ways to improve our toxic-speech-identification algorithms so they would not discriminate against African-American Vernacular English as well as forms of reclaimed speech. All of this depended on rank-and-file employees. Messy as it was, Twitter sometimes seemed to function mostly on goodwill and the dedication of its staff. But it functioned. > >Those days are over. From the announcement of Musk’s bid to the day he walked into the office holding a sink, I watched, horrified, as he slowly killed Twitter’s culture. Debate and constructive dissent was stifled on Slack, leaders accepted their fate or quietly resigned, and Twitter slowly shifted from being a company that cared about the people on the platform to a company that only cares about people as monetizable units. The few days I spent at Musk’s Twitter could best be described as a Lord of the Flies–like test of character as existing leadership crumbled, Musk’s cronies moved in, and his haphazard management—if it could be called that—instilled a sense of fear and confusion. > >Unfortunately, Musk cannot simply be ignored. He has purchased a globally influential and politically powerful seat. We certainly don’t need to speculate on his thoughts about algorithmic ethics. He reportedly fired a top engineer earlier this month for suggesting that his engagement was waning because people were losing interest in him, rather than because of some kind of algorithmic interference. (Musk initially responded to the reporting about how his tweets are prioritized by posting an off-color meme, and today called the coverage “false.”) And his track record is far from inclusive: He has embraced far-right talking points, complained about the “woke mind virus,” and explicitly thrown in his lot with Donald Trump and Ye (formerly Kanye West). > >Devaluing work on algorithmic biases could have disastrous consequences, especially because of how perniciously invisible yet pervasive these biases can become. As the arbiters of the so-called digital town square, algorithmic systems play a significant role in democratic discourse. In 2021, my team published a study showing that Twitter’s content-recommendation system amplified right-leaning posts in Canada, France, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our analysis data covered the period right before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, identifying a moment in which social media was a crucial touch point of political information for millions. Currently, right-wing hate speech is able to flow on Twitter in places such as India and Brazil, where radicalized Jair Bolsonaro supporters staged a January 6–style coup attempt. > >Musk’s Twitter is simply a further manifestation of how self-regulation by tech companies will never work, and it highlights the need for genuine oversight. We must equip a broad range of people with the tools to pressure companies into acknowledging and addressing uncomfortable truths about the AI they’re building. Things have to change.

This was an interesting perspective from someone who experienced this shift firsthand. It's certainly worth taking heed of the warning of algorithmic biases that are already baked into many systems. Further, self regulation though laudable, has proven at least in most tech sectors, to be ineffective at best. What we need are regulators who are familiar with key issues that are facing technology as it relates to broader society, but not beholden to tech companies or platforms. This will be tricky going forwards, but if properly administered can bring lasting benefits not just to the platforms, but also to the rest of society as well.

It’s only in any trim prior to 2022 that has a regular ignition. Ie no push to start. So you can stick a screwdriver in and turn the ignition I guess.

Premium: high quality parts, high-end components, high performance, high price. Good build quality, high resolution displays, other features like touchscreen, stylus, privacy screen, pushing the price further up.

I had 4k, touchscreen and a stylus on a convertible laptop like 10 years ago already, Apple has yet to make a laptop with all that.

Pro: more different options for using with other professional equipment, like more as well as more kinds of ports, large battery, tons of RAM, large and fast drives, Studio GPUs, more advanced cooling. some of those features are already included in premium devices, but not to that extent.

I can unzip a file on my phone and open it since forever (I know you can do it on the iPhone since last year or something, iOS 13) My NokiaN91 had wifi, a 4GB hard drive and could send MMS, I had an offline Wikipedia version on it, since I had full access to the file system (SymbianOS). Months before the first iPhone came out, and it couldn't do all that for the next 3 generations. in 2007. My Galaxy S2 had widgets. S5 was waterproof. S7 had AlwaysOn. Note9 had a stylus. S22U has it all and does all of it flawlessly. My Surface4 was a beast (not waterproof though), with an amazing touchscreen, stylus, and a full damn computer that could run SolidWorks and zbrush just fine, Premiere pro, Illustrator and InDesign, again with touchscreen and stylus. My first Spectre X360 could and can do all that on another level and current X360 eats macs for breakfast, you can plug anything in it without adapters and it just chews through it.

Working with anything Apple is like working with mittens while bound and hung upside-down, it's just infuriating.

edit: oh, and all those PCs still work (except the Surface which fell into a koi pond), and their hardware is upgradable.

I'm more thinking the source isn't the best and also thinking Tesla would be a little less blatant if they were doing something like this. And less illegal.
There are sneakier ways of doing it.

I think people are unaware of its most effective use which is similar to any linguistic program that can rewrite content in a more efficient way or generate a starting point for reports and essays. It's also good for finding out about general information, not quite the specifics of it.

I think that the Galaxy S23 is better in almost any regards to its predecessors. And so is the iPhone 14.

It will be subscription based and only accessible from apple devices

As individuals it is difficult. That's why we organize our labor and vote in blocs instead of staying home during the primaries.

> but treats it’s workers like shit.

I haven't heard that. I've not seen anything that indicates Tesla is any worse or having any issues that other organizations its size also have.
Car factories are generally pretty good as far as factory work goes. Pay at Tesla is competitive.
I'm sure it's not a worker's paradise but I've seen nothing that indicates Tesla treats its workers like shit.
Amazon? Sure? Meat packing plants? Absolutely. If you have any evidence of Tesla being particularly bad I'd like to see it.

We do support the right to repair by selling a complete package of spare parts already assembled