[-] Widget@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

At 10-11 minutes they get a second ad roll, so 99% of videos are about this length.

It's almost a certainty that a 2:30 video has more information than an 11:01 video.

[-] Widget@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo manages it mostly fine. At least, the results are more consistent, even if there's the 1-in-50 chance it misses something Google would get.

The cynic in me suspects that Google makes their real results worse to increase ad results which are "close enough."

[-] Widget@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Took a bit for me to even figure out what "moral values" was supposed to mean in this context.

Turns out they just think porn is evil and that children hate being exposed to it or something. https://swisscows.com/en/media-education

[-] Widget@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Seems like the actual issue was that the law in question would let him be convicted even if he wasn't doing these things and just being a nuisance. It's not that he's innocent, it's that the law used is itself illegal.

[-] Widget@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Yep. Reddit is going to die, the question was how quick and what do we do about it.

Like, reddit might stay around as another 9gag, but that's not really reddit then.

[-] Widget@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

This is how they are

I don't really like it when people think this. Every group of humans has people that would do this given the chance. Otherwise I agree, that Russian leadership really doesn't care what their soldiers are doing, so the soldiers do what they want with zero accountability or fear of retaliation.

[-] Widget@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

FPS’s seemed boring, online games couldn’t keep my attention long enough to get through a match, and eventually I’d just leave a game on the pause menu while I messed around mindlessly on my phone.

My partner does this.

One, you might have ADHD. I can't say, but you could look into it.

Secondly, you need to have some time to let your brain rest. When you bounce between tasks like that, you're never actually not doing something. People think of doomscrolling as taking a break, but really you're replacing your intended task with another task and there isn't a time where you do no task.

[-] Widget@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I see a lot of people talking about specific parts of 5G but honestly most of them are optional and only some of them will be active at once.

"Regular" 5G uses the same frequencies as 2G, 3G, etc. The carriers will be moving more frequency ranges of older Gs to 5G as time goes on.

In general, we can send more data at once because we have better math for sending data. There's not really an ELI5 that can explain that part besides more math.

Another part is there's also more math so that the phones can take turns talking better or split up frequencies better, so they don't have to re-transmit as much.

If you're in hyper-crowded areas, they made a new frequency range that cannot go through walls, but is way faster than the regular ones that we've been using. It's only good for like sports stadiums and stuff, and you almost never use this. It's called mmwave (millimeter-wave) and you can safely ignore any marketing around it. Not many phones support it yet because it's useless 99% of the time.

[-] Widget@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

A whiny trust-fund baby who destroyed their company and image through compulsive lying?

They seem equally worthless to me.

[-] Widget@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

the boss could technically read anything we wrote

My old work actually ran into some issues because they couldn't see DMs/private channels.

Maybe this is a cloud vs. self-hosted thing? It's been a few years since I've worked there though.

[-] Widget@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'd also imagine at least part of it is the same as how normal people seem to think ADHD people with amphetamine prescriptions are just constantly high.

They don't realize that whatever good feelings they're getting from taking 100mg of amphetamines at once don't apply at all to people chronically on small extended doses.

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