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Where do you draw the line on YouTube ads?
manikyath replied to spacepickle's topic in General Discussion
i was gonna make a fairly lenient response, but this made me remember literally the first ad i saw on twitter after they went harder on advertising was literally porn. not the "figuratively literaly", it was literally an ad for someone's onlyfans. not sugarcoated at all, not suggestive.. just suddenly ass in my face. that was the last time i used twitter. rant aside... i'd like to think i'm fairly accepting towards ads, but there's a few pet peeves that get me off the rails real quick: - when an ad interrupts a key moment, and/or the thing on twitch where they shove 4 ads in your face, and now you've actually missed 2 minutes of said key moment. streamers running 4 ads while they have a toilet break is a great way to handle this. the platform randomly injecting ads based on nothing at all is very much not. - when i repeatedly get the same (irrelevant) ad over and over and over again. a decade ago this was a big issue on twitch, where in january (ad contracts tend to reset on the new year, so january has very few ad contracts) every adbreak would literally (yes, correct use of that word) be a tampax ad, followed by an ad for some super high end BMW.. - SUPER long skippable ads, where you basicly have to go in and skip the ads. IMO the concept of making ads skippable has made the ad industry lazy.. they no longer have to stick to a time slot to get all the information out, they basicly just make a video of whatever length, and pay for however many seconds the budget allows. i'm of the opinion that a good 5 second ad can have more brand impact than a mediocre 2 minute ad that's skippable at the 30 second mark. - webpages with ads that interfere with the content you're there to consume. LTT forum's ad on the right is an example of how to do this right. it's in very good view, but it's not pushy. what *is* a problem is when you're reading some listicle where the text is randomly interrupted by a mixture of pictures relevant to the article, links to sources about the article, ads that are just in the middle of a paragraph, and links that look like they're relevant to the article but are just ad inserts. on that last bit.. linus often says written media is dying.. i think a large portion of what drove written media to die off, is how unbearable it has become to consume on the internet. without adblock you literally cant find the article between the ads, and with adblock on you have so much whitespace it's difficult to process the flow of an article. congrats.. we've found a way to make it so your webpage is *only* useful to AI bots scraping your site.. and this is problem is older than the concept of LLM's being mainstream. Tl:DR: if you want more ad revenue, make better ads, not more ads. examples: - tomska's surfshark skits. i remember surfshark, because i remember all the skits. - riley integrations, probably most notably the odoo ones? because nothing beats a good terrible jingle. -
does it have the appropriate number of 8-pîn plugs on it?
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i have a theory that the included 12Vhfr to 8 pin adapter is safer than just using a straight 12Vhfr cable. beyond that, if your psu could handle multi-8-pin cards of comparable wattage, there's not really much concern there either?
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that looks like one hell of a bad idea
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Smart phone owners. Do you have notification fatigue?
manikyath replied to Black_Mage's topic in Phones and Tablets
the only notifications i get on my phone are for things i want to be notified of. that's how notifications work. also, the only thing that's more than a "click" notification sound is phone calls.. and as cold calling marketeers can tell you, i dont respond well to people calling me without valid reason. -
this at some point pushed me away from twitch, because they started to shove ads over a livestream, and if they were done by algorithm at all, it seemingly always managed to stick an ad overtop of a very key moment... just got your nose glued to the screen to see if the speedrunner will manage this amazingly difficult trick first try and... SPORTS BETTING.. TAMPAX.. THE NEW BMW NECK WARMER.. and by the time you're back you've no idea what happened or where they are anymore.
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"usually there's some ads on the WAN show" to "the show now has 15 ad breaks with 4 consecutive unskippable ads" sometimes youtube on my TV does this, and it just goes to the point i watch something else instead because you cant get into a podcast when it has more longer adbreaks than linear TV, except on TV at least has the adbreaks scheduled so they dont appear mid-sentence... probably youtube's having one entire moment with ad placement again, iirc last time youtube started going way out of line with ad placement on WAN show linus chimed in on WAN the week after, and the conclusion was they have no control over this, other than manually going in and manually going to the process of removing them one by one. and to make sure you're not misunderstanding.. no one here is saying "no ads", what people in this thread are saying is "the amount of ads this week is making the content unwatchable"... and the fact people are discussing the amount of ads, implies a willingness to watch ads instead of running adblock.
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some months ago i spent some time vibecoding with an *actual* for-profit vibecoding tool built to make websites, that seemed to have a fairly decent understanding of what it is it was making..
on a friend's recommendation i tried gemini, mostly because i'm not stuck doing 5 free tokens per day...
holy hell it has no f*cking idea what it's doing... i thought the *actual* tool had issues with object permanence.. gemini's just doing crap like resizing stuff to weird sizes, straight up hallucinating things that dont exist, "for each" requests go trough most of them, but not all... menu buttons overlapping..
it's like developing by using an unmotivated junior developer with poor eyesight...
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3 hours ago, Levent said:I whip chatgpt into making me shit that I am too lazy to do myself. I made myself a msi afterburner plugin to feed data into a 1602 display with esp8266 just today. It would have easily taken me a week to do so myself and it took less than hour to get it right with codex.
Codex, claude code, antigravity... (and their models), or open code (& something local like qwen3-coder-next q8),
they can all be pretty good for this sort of application:
- Low complexity
- No team
- No maintenance
I use them myself for stuff I don't really care about, and I'm starting from a blank slate.
Because, they rarely produce quality... unless I spend a considerable amount of time describing (or writing plan/docs) on how to achieve the goal, and correcting them along the way.
At which point, like @AbydosOne pointed out, I start questioning am I actually saving any time.
Anyhow, a couple suggestions for your 1602:
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It can store up to 8 custom characters in CGRAM.
So essentially you could make 8 icons, or 4 icons (if you want them bigger, by combining 2).
Would look nicer IMO, also would leave more space on the screen for additional metrics.
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Backlight is just an LED, you could PWM it for brightness control.
Bonus points if you add a light sensor, so it auto changes brightness.
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7 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:It can store up to 8 custom characters in CGRAM.
wouldnt make sense as resolution is too low to make any legible custom characters, it makes sense to me as is
7 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:Backlight is just an LED, you could PWM it for brightness control.
if it doesnt receive any data, I just turn off the backlight automatically so i dont really need it.
7 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:open code (& something local like qwen3-coder-next q8),
I tried a whole lot of those, none can do as complex or hands-off programming as closed source ones.
7 hours ago, Biohazard777 said:PS I find it odd that frequency of whatever is at 200 MHz, while usage of whatever (else?) is close to 50%.
4070TiS paired with a 3440x1440p185hz display while watching video. Its not as demanding to trigger the next power stage
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18 hours ago, Levent said:
wouldnt make sense as resolution is too low to make any legible custom characters, it makes sense to me as is
Sure, 5x8 and even 10x8 isn't much to work with...
But I like pixel art heh, would change this from:
to something like:
After all, beauty will always be in the eye of the beholder.
18 hours ago, Levent said:if it doesnt receive any data, I just turn off the backlight automatically so i dont really need it.
Just that I dislike their glow, especially in dimly lit enviorements.
But that is a personal preference, and yours isn't as dark.
Makes sense.
18 hours ago, Levent said:I tried a whole lot of those, none can do as complex or hands-off programming as closed source ones.
I don't find any of them (closed or open) to be hands-off,
unless we are talking about some simple refactoring, boilerplate, and stuff like that.. then maybe, but not that big of a difference IMO.
Then again, I am not in DevOps.
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so.. i'm preparing to join a DnD campaign next week, and i got to say, even with 2024 rules supposedly being more noob friendly, the learning cliff here is seriously intense...
i'm at a point i might actually start putting stuff in excel, just to wrap my head around the workings of the character sheet...
or as Ginny Di on youtube put it: "why did i choose fantasy bookkeeping as a hobby?"
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you know.. if noctua makes a tool that does repeated thermal cycles to break in the carbon pad, that'd be seriously cool. i'd imagine the tool would cycle between a benchmark load with reduced fan speed, and idle with high fan speed, repeatedly taking the cpu between 50 and 70 degrees, or whatever the numbers end up being.
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Interested on where to start for a business server
manikyath replied to Greasy_Pudding's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
contact an IT partner, and have someone who knows what they're doing and will support it do the setup for you. -
AMD did that with a workstation card once, and even there it was in quite a niche of a niche...
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The PC-book Neo is HERE from Intel (Also New Gaming Handhelds)
manikyath replied to Sveeno's topic in LTT Releases
because the claim is the E cores are fast enough to handle the sort of gaming workload the iGPU is capable of handling. -
mini pc sure.. but in laptops that's a strong "depends".. let's say your 60 watt laptop goes from a 3 watt cooler to a 6 watt cooler (from what i've googled, that might be a fairly accurate comparison), you're basicly adding 5% to the power budget. assuming their example power supply is also fairly close to expected levels of miniaturization, this would also put them at an amount of board space not too far away from the size of two fans? it's still more flexible in layout.. but it's also 6 watts of 5-10kv that you now need to shield from your sensitive electronics. i'd usually follow you on less moving parts more better, but in this case the moving parts are a block of plastic and sealed bearings, two things we've mastered over the past decades... compared to a hair-thin wire of a mystery alloy in a contraption sensitive enough to dust that they built in an automatic dust wiper arm... which is a moving part, that sounds quite important to the design. oh, and from their research paper it appears that these need to live in a farraday cage because EMI?
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The stupid "hack" on Instagram using their own AI
manikyath replied to Mumintroll's topic in General Discussion
this is why you dont let AI take actual decisions. or maybe in this case it means "Actually Inexcusible".. who knows.
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