Morning Tech Bits [Dec 27, 2022, 12:09 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
- Alexa and Gmail- Big Tech’s billion dollar curse of the free.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti now up for preorder in China for same price as canceled RTX 4080 12GB.
- Alienware’s 500 Hz IPS Gaming Monitor Breaks Cover.
- How to Totally Uninstall Nvidia, AMD or Intel Graphics Drivers. Thanks Neutronbeam.
- Can you run Win11 on a Pentium II? Thanks Ant.
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 27, 2022, 13:23:
Good. I hope these "free" services end up costing eye-watering, staggering amounts of money.
The old axiom is still true: If something is free, then you're the product.
Linux is free.
"You can either want something to be true, or you can want the truth. Pick one." - Mr. Diety
If you believe that you are not the true product of these services, and Amazon and Google would never ever make a profit surreptitiously off data slurping everything you do with these services, boy do I have a deal on a bridge for you.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! - HT
Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 27, 2022, 13:23:
Good. I hope these "free" services end up costing eye-watering, staggering amounts of money.
The old axiom is still true: If something is free, then you're the product.
But it would in this case only me both, you pay and are the product.
If anyone at Google is sitting there and saying "man we can charge for gmail, we've been extremely kind to our customers here", gmail is like a loss-leader to get you into their ecosystem. It has been paid for 1000 fold from sucking in the people to mine from and let other services thrive.
Isn't Gmail actually the entire Google account system?
1/500Hz is 2ms. No way is IPS going to refresh that quickly. This would work for OLED but with IPS they are lying or overdriving the monitor to the point of partial screen refresh and inverse ghosting.
Been thinking on and off about switching from Gmail for a while now. Some friends and businesses use Google Workspace products/services, which makes it that much easier to "collaborate" in various ways (Sheets/Docs/etc come to mind).
The big question is: to what do I switch?
The big question is: to what do I switch?
Shameless self-plug(s): http://drdk.bandcamp.com - also on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, etc.
Good. I hope these "free" services end up costing eye-watering, staggering amounts of money.
The old axiom is still true: If something is free, then you're the product.
The old axiom is still true: If something is free, then you're the product.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Purveyor of cute, fuzzy, pink bunny slippers.
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Purveyor of cute, fuzzy, pink bunny slippers.
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