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Cake day: October 30th, 2023
  • AWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in OctoberEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    My personal experience has shown me that the average person calling a support hotline has just enough computer experience to move the mouse and type web addresses into the google search bar instead of the address bar of their browser. you definitely wont get a cohesive description of their issue out of them, and they wont be able to tell you what OS they are using. (i got answers like “Microsoft”, “HP” or “Internet Explorer” when asking)

    There is no way in hell to guide them so you get specific error messages or fix the issue with them instructing them over the phone when their OS can look and feel a thousand ways and you can’t see their screen.

    I personally don’t have an issue with researching why something doesn’t work, but i know about the importance of error messages and how they relate to the used software. But there is no way to guide someone like the described callers through that process when differentiating between the left and the right mouse button is already difficult.

  • AWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper appEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’m currently running 2 displays at 1080p (one HDMI, one DP) on a 3070TI. Idle TDP with just plain color is 37-40W, 2 different scenes with features like audio reactivity and mouse input @15FPS are 55-60W. They get paused automatically when a window is maximized (per display), the secondary display pauses additionally when i run a fullscreen/borderless window on the main display.

    It is absolutely useless eye candy. I love it lol

    ETA: They DO have over 15000 curated wallpapers, if you stick to that you can avoid the questionable content easily. if you look at it from this perspective, that’s worth the price of a small meal.

  • AWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosionEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It was not the train manufacturer, but a body shop (Swoboda Karosserie- und Stahlbau GesmbH, now Carvatech), which was recruited by the Gletscherbahn Kaprun (GBK) for renovations. It might have not had so large repercussions if anyone of the actors during those renovations had done his job correctly tho:

    • the model chosen was for household use and chosen because the recommended fan heater was unavailable
    • other departments of Swoboda (and because of that, everyone else) were not informed about this change, even leading to sending out the documentation of the recommended fan heater to GBK
    • the fan heater was mounted in a way that allowed liquids to leak inside of it
    • it was mounted directly in front of the hydraulics, which contained flammable liquids
    • those hydraulics were redone during the renovations by Mannesmann-Rexroth AG (now Bosch Rexroth AG), and were done using plastic pipes and were not appropriately encased.
    • They started melting because of the malfunctioning heater, spraying flammable oil at 190 bar into the fire
    • the dropping oil pressure caused the train to automatically break
    • but the hydraulics were also needed to open the goddamn doors.

    On top of all that, because the cable cars were made of aluminium, they were deemed inflammable. This did not take into account that any installed equipment or passengers and their luggage might NOT be fireproof.

    This lead to: no fire exits, no emergency signage, no training for employees how to react in case of fire. (which might have saved a lot of people: the 12 survivors were the people who went downwards, passing the fire, because they listened to a fireman onboard the cable car.)

    it was a single malfunctioning heater, but the Kaprun disaster had many fathers.

    I found a nice paper regarding the different actors written by a student of the University of Virginia here, well sourced.