I still have my DR750-2CH which has no cellular connection (so I should be unaffected), but it’s sad to see Blackvue enshittify like this. This dashcam has been pretty good and continues to serve me well.

But once it dies I planned on getting a USB powered one anyway (as Blackvue ones run with a barrel jack) so that I could more easily hook up a power bank in between if I planned to park the car for a while (like a week)

I’m late to the thread but I’m a freak who has all three.

Grew up on Windows, went full Linux in my teens, got a M1 MacBook Air last year and use it daily.

My current computer lineup now is a M1 MacBook Air running macOS, and a 2015 MacBook Air 11" dualbooting Debian 13 (GNOME) and Windows 10

They both get used daily or near daily. I am stupidly productive on the M1 MBA, especially with a portable USB-C monitor. The 2015 MBA is this beat up old thing that is stupidly portable and therefore convenient. It’s so cute.

My main computer is an M1 MBA and the performance of the Neo is overall about 15% worse than the original M1 MBA https://www.techradar.com/computing/macbooks/i-put-the-macbook-neo-through-the-same-tests-as-i-did-the-macbook-air-m1-i-think-the-results-will-surprise-you

Single core performance is better though, but with 4 fewer cores it falls behind in multi core.

My M1 is not laggy at all even in 2026 and I do an IT degree. It’s my primary machine and it dutifully does everything I throw at it. The only qualifier to my experience is I’ve not updated to macOS 26 (Liquid Glass) as 15 works just fine and I still get security updates.

My personal opinion is the Neo would be perfect for anyone going through college, with all sorts of productivity apps open and browser tabs, but don’t expect more from it.

Got the dogs out on the bike my dude!

I gotta do the same on my mountain bike - derailleur front and rear need adjustment, the little window to see what gear you’re in is faded over, and the chain is a little rusty. My front suspension forks have a bit of rust too

Maybe I’ll be making my own post in a couple weeks where I’ve done the same, sans the dogs ;)

Based on the comments on that article, n+1

Text article https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-more-capable-than-trump-admin-publicly-acknowledging

I love the sound of this, and so to start it off, I’ve added a very rushed together section on my personal website (and yes, absolutely a plug for my very static website).

It only points to this post’s bookmark list and my personal list of high quality YouTubers, but I do want to maintain a fairly high standard of things I’d want to link there, which is why I’ll leave that to a time when I’m less preoccupied.

Man, if I didn’t get out of gaming, this post would have me downloading that pack right away. The combination of older Minecraft (especially from my teenage era) and deeper mods like Tinkers, oh man what a joyous time that would be.

Wow, the days of dodgy toolbar extensions never truly went away. They just evolved to become part of your operating system.

The thing that actually baffles me about this is how this looks in the face of their next major competitor in the consumer market, Apple and their macOS.

macOS (or any other Apple product) has never (to my knowledge) had anything like this and it would be extremely out of character for Apple to suddenly change that. With all other manufacturers raising prices (including the Surface as of today) and the MacBook Neo directly competing with the mid tier PC laptops, this is what Microsoft decides to do?

At some point, one would hope that the average user starts to ask the question, can I have a computer that won’t pull this bullshit on me? But I think unfortunately most typical users (especially anyone daily driving Edge) just think there’s too much friction to move away from Windows, and so they stay, continuing to get fucked in the ass by megacorps.

But hey, I’m not in the running for a free car like them. Not like I’ll install Edge onto my Mac or Arch Linux computer and sync my shit with OneDrive.

I’ve been using What’s Up Docker as an alternative instead. With my containers set up in Yacht, I can check for updates with WUD and then actually update them with Yacht

Just yesterday, I had a studymate try to open an xlsx file on their phone - they had the Microsoft 365 app installed that would do this, but a recent update to that app just decided to change it to a Copilot only app.

So they had to install Microsoft Excel, and then it took over 10 minutes to initialise, just so we could finally look at a marking criteria. It would’ve literally been quicker for us to walk to a campus computer, log into that and read the xlsx file from that.

It genuinely baffles me how Microsoft makes their software objectively worse and outright baits and switches one popular application to turn it into another, presumably to up those adoption statistics and metrics; and they get away with it every single time. They long ago stopped caring about home users, but even business users put up with this mess.

Some Amazon employees said they were still sceptical of AI tools’ utility for the bulk of their work given the risk of error. They added that the company had set a target for 80 per cent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week and was closely tracking adoption.

Our product is so good, we mandate our employees to use it and watch them closely to make sure they do!

I would never buy brand new from them, but yes, my older devices are Intel because they were second hand and I knew more about them at the time than their AMD counterparts.

I’ve still got a ThinkPad X260 with an i5, and a MacBook Air 11" also with an i5. Those still get daily use from me and I’m not throwing them out because Intel is a shithouse company.

For me personally, I wouldn’t consider it worth the risk. You still have to make an Amazon account, hand over your personal information, let their cameras onto your network (of course, you can VLAN them) and… how many people are gonna do this to make it effective?

It just seems playing right into their hands, I’d rather outright boycott anything Amazon (I understand easier for some than others) than waste my time, money and effort into protecting my personal info against a user hostile company.

I also wonder how much of this was spurred by Linux even beginning to come to the mainstream mind and how simple most distros are to just install and run (Bazzite, CachyOS, Linux Mint).

You’ve always had Linux go around tech circles, forums, enthusiasts, etc. but big YouTube channels out of that circle are talking about it and hardware manufacturers are distributing it in place of Windows in the case of the Steam Deck, and it’s just building more and more momentum.

I think it’s easy to take for granted how (relatively) mainstream Linux is getting, but if you think today how many people talk about *BSD, that was Linux not even 10 years ago.

God damn that was good. I won’t spoil anything but for newcomers be warned that it will take about 30 minutes of your time, and it will be worth it.

This whole article reminds me so much of the rogue AI sign found in Portal 2

It was one of Aldi’s limited run items and I bought them like 5 years ago. I haven’t seen them back at Aldi since but that’s pretty usual for those limited items

I’ve got a '95 Mazda 323 and as much as I love that car, mine is an absolute bastard for not having any cupholders whatsoever.

It has this little cubby under the radio and its supposed to actually have a tray that slides out but the previous owner installed a kill switch there which I guess interfered with the tray, so she decided the only cupholders in the vehicle was a worthy sacrifice rather than having her auto elec move the switch down 2cm or anywhere else in the vehicle.

Many drinks have been served to the carpet.

Anyway those plastic door trim cupholder things were a godsend when I found them at an Aldi.

OP has done something weird with the comment because for me the link comes to lemmy.dbzer0.com/digg.com - both of you have LW home instances so the URL is incorrectly being parsed as an instance link?