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  • vithigar@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldAndroid TV Boxes
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    8 days ago

    The Nvidia Shield TV, which is amply powerful for most media purposes, has only 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, though is expandable via microSD.

    The “Pro” version bumps that to a whopping 3GB of RAM and 16GB of storage… with no microSD card slot.



  • Even fewer than that, since you’re not accounting for the actual rules of the game. You counted every possible arrangement of X’s and O’s on the board, but many of those aren’t valid game states, like all X’s for example.

    On top of that you can also eliminate rotationally equivalent states. Ditto for mirrored states. Starting with an X in the top-right isn’t a meaningfully different state than starting in any other corner. There are effectively only three distinct starting states. Center, any corner, or any side.

    On the other hand, there are semi-filled final states you’re not considering. Not every square on the board needs to be filled for a player to win. You’re also only counting distinct winning lines (many of which could be eliminated due to rotational equivalence), but not the turns to get there, which would provide several possible scenarios for a given final state.

    All that said, I expect the actual number of unique possible games to be quite a bit lower than 500.




  • It’s insane to me how stock prices are basically entirely disconnected from how a company is performing and are dictated by stock market buying and selling pressures.

    You could pick literally any publicly traded company and make its stock price soar just by convincing enough people to buy it, with no relation whatsoever to how the company is performing or forecasted to perform. See: GameStop.

    Nvidia tanked because a bunch of people sold Nvidia stock. Full stop. They may have been motivated by news of deepseek or whatever, but that’s not what moved the stock price. Had no one sold it would’ve stayed exactly where it was.

    Frankly baffling that anyone can look at it and think “yes, this is how it should work and I don’t see any problems with it.”





  • Counter point: The removal of your desktop environment should not under any circumstances be within the possibility space of side effects for trying to install a common piece of desktop software, regardless of the warnings provided or confirmations required.

    This was an issue with the OS, and the Pop_OS! team fixed it in an update very soon after this. A month earlier or later and Linus would not have encountered it.




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    27 days ago

    Even more infuriating when not only is it not customisable, but they layout they do use is just… bad in a thousand different tiny ways.

    For example, the tachometer and speedometer on my vehicle have two display modes. The traditional looking dials and a more compact vertical wheel that leaves more room in the middle of the display for other things.

    …but those other things are almost always either useless (I don’t need to see a little picture of the vehicle I’m driving), or actively worse (the media info screen actually shows fewer characters in the larger mode).

    It’s not unusable, it’s just varying levels of awkward or useless in dozens of little aspects.