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lemmylommy @lemmy.world
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Is the internet really that terrible?
  • 1.5GB daily is not unlimited. They also chose O2, the worst network by a large margin. That’s about a good start.

    That said, it is still expensive, and actually getting more expensive, but since 2019 we have made huge progress. There are a lot more cellphone towers, so you might even have O2 reception in rural areas. I am on the Telekom network, which is the most expensive, but also has the best coverage. 90% is 5G (though still NSA) and 10% 4G. No reception is usually limited to very rural areas or narrow valleys or inside some buildings. It is still behind some other European countries, but much improved.

    We have also doubled the number of homes with FTTB/FTTH available in the last two years. Unfortunately most Germans are rather conservative and cheap when it comes to internet access. You would be shocked how many wealthy people are still on unreliable coax or old DSL lines because that is five to ten euro per month cheaper than fiber.

  • Server for a boat
  • I would get a laptop as well in that situation. Just make sure it is one that supports setting the charging threshold. Having it on all the time will kill the battery quickly if it keeps charging from 95 to 100%. It’s much better to keep it below 80%, which should still give enough “UPS time”.

    The battery will also not electrically protect the motherboard from voltage swings. So get a good power adapter that can handle the voltages.

  • das bagel
  • We don’t? I am eating Aldi bagels right now, lol.

    They might not be as widespread, or as good as in New York, especially when it comes to the fast food, but you can absolutely get them in almost every supermarket.

  • Apple AI vs. Microsoft AI
  • Well. One company stared down the FBI when they wanted assistance unlocking a terrorists phone, because it would weaken security for everyone else.

    The other keeps adding „features“ to my operating system that are designed to siphon data from me, they build at the very least misleading dialogs for those „features“ to trick me into enabling them (not even allowing „no“ as a choice, usually it’s just „yes“ or „not now“) and even when meticulously disabled they have a tendency to magically re-enable themselves after updates.

    Who would you trust more?

  • PowerColor uses NPUs to lower GPU power consumption and improve frame rates in games
  • The thing works by linking an AMD graphics card with a neural processing unit via "PowerColor GUI," resulting in rather impressive efficiency gains.

    So, how does it actually work? „Linking“ is too vague to explain anything.

    The only thing I can imagine is some sort of upscaling from a lower resolution, which is hardly revolutionary.