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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Even cheaply you can still easily find something to make buttons that are of a consistent size and shape. And not put one of them on top of the edge panel of the console like one of them is on the picture. This is a typical telltale sign of AI: things that aren’t uniform when they should be and are located in nonsensical places.

    There is also asymmetry and sewing lines that make no sense between the left and right gloves and what looks like is supposed to be a pair of pens on his upper right arm is just two nonsensical blobs of crome texture.

    No one seems to know about what movie or show this is supposed to be from either…







  • When I told my father, who has been using computers since the MS-DOS days and is by no mean technology-illiterate, that I switched to Linux, his response was “What’s Linux?”.

    I knew it was a lost cause to explain him about privacy, or control and ownership of his own device. He uses Windows 11 and as long as it does what he needs it to do he will never care enough about switching over.


  • It absolutely is a gamble, a dangerous gamble. Essentially, when you short a stock, you “borrow” a stock from someone with the promise of giving it back at a certain time. You then sell it, wait for it to drop, then buy it back. You give it back, usually sharing some of the profits you’ve made with the person you’ve borrowed it from.

    The problem with that is that if the stock goes up while you’ve borrowed it, you need to buy it back at the deadline of the deal at the price it happens to be at. Unlike normal stock trading where you can only lose up to the money you’ve invested, there is no limit to how much money you can end up losing shorting stocks if things don’t go the way you expected. This is how the whole GameStop stock shorting debacle happened.





  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldA 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
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    12 days ago

    Only $4000 for the entry model. That’s how much it costs once the tariffs on the semiconductors that you simply cannot produce in the country for at least 10 more years even if you tried has been covered, the salaries high enough to motivate people to willingly work the assembly lines now that immigrant workers are gone, and the markup needed to cover the cost of completely creating an entire supply chain from scratch as well as paying back the insane debt that results from the outrageous high risk investments this would require and that frankly no investor would want to touch with a 10 foot pole.