Oh wow, I had no idea that “virtual location” is even a thing. Imo it should not, I don’t even see a use case for that, it just seems like straight-up lying about the traffic exit location.
Glad to see the provider I occasionally use, Mullvad, passed the test.
Readit Newsradicality commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia
You should try my nihilistic Marvin fine-tune - guaranteed to annihilate your positive outlook on life since it’s all meaningless in the end anyway and then you die
Or try the very sarcastic and nihilistic ‘Monday’ gpt, which surprisingly is an official openAI gpt.
edit, add link: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67ec3b4988f8819184c5454e18f5e84b-mon...
radicality commented on The RAM shortage comes for us all jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx
Think the article should also mention how OpenAI is likely responsible for it. Good article I found from another thread here yesterday: https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram...
Samsung has good hardware, but their software is really mediocre, at best. Many of their devices are laggy and slow down further after some updates.
This is the case even on high-end devices. Our 12-month-old Galaxy Tab is slower than a 7-year-old Pixel. Hard to understand.
Plus, they make really odd tweaks to the UI, such as adding a permanent button overlay that clashes with most hamburger icons in websites and apps. This drives novice users insane.
If you wanna ship a custom Android, at least get it right. Otherwise, just stick to stock. Sony does this really well: https://developerworld.wpp.developer.sony.com/open-source
Similarly for TVs - i got a samsung oled few years ago, and while the hardware seems great, I do wish I had gone with LG as their TVs seem more open to install custom firmware. (I do pretty much just use appleTV and fireTV devices plugged in to the Samsung, but still, the main TV ui is pretty abysmal)
radicality commented on Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence eclecticlight.co/2025/11/... · Posted by u/frizlab
<rant>I've never had confidence in MacOS or Apple software in general, and especially not in Apple Photos. Photos beachballs constantly, even when I do simple things like creating a new folder or naming a photo. It loses keystrokes almost every time I type a folder or photo name. No other program does this on the same Mac, which is an M4 Pro with 64GB RAM and terabytes of SSD. I know that it's not a problem with the hardware because the previous Mac Mini, which was well equipped, had the same problem for years. Reconstructing the Photos database didn't help.
Don't get me started about how Time Machine drops files — important files like the Photos Sqlite3 database — from backups.
Yes, I should switch from Photos to something else, e.g. Immich.
I barely use the software included with the Mac, and would only use Linux except that there are still just a few programs or bits of hardware that insist on there being a Mac or Windows machine somewhere.
How Apple every got a reputation for high-quality, user-friendly software is beyond me.
Not recommended.</rant>
Photos is definitely not great, though I still try and deal with it for the easy iCloud syncing.
Some examples off top of my head for Photos crappiness, all on my top of the range 128GB macbook m4 max
- doing 'cmd-R' (rotate) on a standard few-megabyte image might beachball the app for a few seconds. Rotating a small image file...
- Rotating a video seems to re-encode the whole video, instead of setting some metadata flags. Imagine you have, say, a 20GB video recording, and rotate it. That will now be a separate new 20GB file on your mac drive.
- If i view the album of some specific person that has many pictures with location metadata, and I scroll to the bottom where the map is, it almost immediately starts allocating >100GB memory, beachballs, starts gigabytes of memory paging, and you gotta kill the app asap.
I just checked how much I paid around 12 months ago for Crucial 96GB kit (2x48GB ddr5 5600 so-dimm). Was $224, same kit today I see listed at $592, wild :/
Do you know if it’s supported on Mac too, with whatever platform specific optimizations like running it on the gpu / with MPS ?
> iPhone Pocket features a singular 3D-knitted construction
What does that mean? What would be an example of 2D knitted construction ?
radicality commented on My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4 michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure
There’s an awesome app called Vivid which just opens the HDR max brightness. I use it all the time with my M3 Pro when working outside and I believe it also works on earlier models.
I would personally be afraid of using that in case it causes damage long-term to the screen either due to temperature or power draw or something. Idk if there are significant hardware differences but in this case I would guess there’s a real hardware reason for it?
radicality commented on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond edn.com/poe-basics-and-be... · Posted by u/voxadam
My Chromecast uses USB C for its network. I got a power brick (official Chromecast) that also takes an ethernet cable and then provides a wired ethernet connection.
That being said, a quick Google search for "poe usbc" yields some devices that are much more expensive than the power brick I bought, but in theory would let you run a Chromecast from a poe ethernet port with wired ethernet.
I bought last year a device like that I think - was from some company named TexasPoE I think, and it took Ethernet cable, and output has usb-c with 1GbE and power. I sometimes use it with my iphone or iPad and do get the wired Ethernet connection and charging