Sturgist
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca
Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
- Comment on Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" 2 days ago:
Goddamnit…I’m too polite to end the conversation…
- Comment on Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" 3 days ago:
Well, you’re doing pretty good in my book.
- Comment on Open source text editor poisoned to target Uyghur users 3 days ago:
Any day now!
- Comment on Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" 3 days ago:
No worries dude. At least you didn’t double down! 👍
- Comment on Open source text editor poisoned to target Uyghur users 4 days ago:
My god… it’s like they’re already here!
🤣
- Comment on Open source text editor poisoned to target Uyghur users 4 days ago:
Can’t wait to see what all the folk from ML make of this…
- Comment on Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" 4 days ago:
According to the comment posted above…they didn’t?
- Comment on A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane 1 week ago:
I’m not entirely sure we’re missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.
… obviously porn…you’re missing the porn
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t charging money for blue checks or adding a subscription leave them open to lawsuits? That’s really the only reason I can think of, wanting to make money.
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 1 week ago:
A fairly large portion of governments globally
- Comment on Swedish amplifier enables transmission of 10x more data per second 2 weeks ago:
10 and ^15/16^ths sadly. It’s being marketed as AI boosted to 12 though!
- Comment on UK Court Rejects Government Secrecy in Apple's Fight Against Backdoor Request. 3 weeks ago:
Eh, it happens. If that was an honest attempt to troll…kids these days need to up their fucking game.
- Comment on Storage, DoGE, and cognitive biases against tape 3 weeks ago:
slightly less stupid
Which is why that’s definitely not what’s going to happen…
- Comment on UK Court Rejects Government Secrecy in Apple's Fight Against Backdoor Request. 3 weeks ago:
Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group and Index on Censorship made a submission to the court, arguing against proceedings taking in place in secret and in favour of open justice. Today, the Tribunal has rejected the Home Office’s application, stating it did not accept “that the revelation of the bare details of the case would be damaging to the public interest or prejudicial to national security”.
Neither myself nor, I’m assuming, the person you’re replying to wants to have the government with their grubby little fingers in our data.
What the person you’re replying to was saying had literally nothing to do with what you asked. Has to do with the above. It’s shocking that a UK court actually made a sane call. In this case, they decided that no, the government wasn’t entitled to a closed case. That the proceedings would be open, and the details would be available to the public. Like in a functioning democracy. - Comment on 30 Years of PlayStation History Secured in Underground Vault with 650TB of Data | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I definitely feel like that’s exactly it. Just wish it didn’t take worrying about future profit to get companies on board with this shit…
- Comment on 30 Years of PlayStation History Secured in Underground Vault with 650TB of Data | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 weeks ago:
This is pretty cool. At least they seem to be taking preservation seriously. Hopefully they don’t turn into dicks about it.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
See point #2. Hand written notes can be kept as is, one thing that’s not mentioned in that link is that Joplin can also use OCR to change handwriting to typed.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
Joplin has apps for all UNIX-likes(Mac, Win and Lin,) iOS(phone and pad variants), and Android. It can import Evernote and OneNote. It’s built to E2EE notes to cloud services, currently supporting: Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, S3, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive or the local file system.
If you’d like to fully tell M$ to get fucked…I can recommend self hosting NextCloud.
Not incredibly difficult to set up, I’m fairly fluent in Linux systems…but by no means a “Wizard”, and my self hosting knowledge is extremely minimal.There’s other options out there, but Joplin has all the apps…
- Comment on CEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging “world free of fraud” sentenced for fraud - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
20 years, would have been better if they’d stuck with that instead of cutting it to a one year and a day, with non-custodial supervision for another year…
Usually when the USPS cops get involved The. Hammer. Fuckin. Drops.
Shame to see the sentence reduced… - Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
No worries bud! It really makes me angry what M$ is doing here, obviously they’re not alone in being a cause of our eWaste “addiction”…but this is really a situation that should be opening people’s eyes. Apple is bad for it too. Their laptops have a fairly short lifecycle, and unless you want/can to put Linux on your MacBook whatever, it’s no longer secure after usually about 5 years. Intentionally driving the disposable culture, buy, use briefly, replace for arguably too much, repeat.
Have her try Nobara for a week, but tell her it’s hardly the only option! With how easy it is to include SLK into (almost?) any distro, I really wasn’t kidding when I said the Linux Universe is your oyster! Hell, you could compile your own distro if you’re a masochist!
- Comment on How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy. 5 weeks ago:
Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution?
No. Or, almost certainly no. If they were forced to sell Android, my guess would be that another tech giant, that makes most of their money from data harvesting, would be most likely to buy it. Meaning any spyware would remain, and just be pointed to different servers.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 5 weeks ago:
That’s why I sent my kid here! To be radicalised!
… but my kid is a cat…and has no opposable thumbs…and he was already an asshole…wtf am I doing with my life…
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
clears throat
Surface Linux Kernel. Surface 10 supported.
Some distros of Linux that have SLK rolled in:
- Based on fedora
- Made by GloriousEggroll who also is responsible for protonGE a great derivative of the Steam Proton compatibility layer for playing windows games on Linux
- Development and maintaining it is done by a single dude, so if something happens to him, that’s the project done, this is not in the Pros section.
- for when you really just want your surface device to be running Android
- immutable distro, makes it easier to undo fuck ups, and often prevents them happening at all
- seems fairly mature and robust, I don’t know for a fact as I haven’t used it
- for when you want to put a bit more effort in
- the instructions here are from building Gentoo locally using and Arch LiveISO
- FOR WHEN YOU WANT TO PUT MORE EFFORT IN
These were the really easy to find options. There’s absolutely going to be more that have SLK rolled in…but that’s not actually necessary, as the SLK git has easy to follow instructions on rolling it into whatever distro might interest you. The whole Linux universe is your oyster.
I have a Surface Pro 4, and I run Nobara, works great, better than windows. There are some hardware things that don’t 100% work on some surface devices. Here is the Supported device list and Features Matrix. Looks like the SP10 doesn’t like to hibernate, and doesn’t have working cameras atm.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 1 month ago:
Also having your victim host the costs is an added benefit
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 1 month ago:
This is hardly new, they’ve been the “bad guys” for decades. They’re just masks off these days. Raw-doggin a genocide. Or whatever the fucking kids say these days.
- Comment on CNN Turns 2028 Presidential Election into a Sporting Event 1 month ago:
Fair dues
- Comment on CNN Turns 2028 Presidential Election into a Sporting Event 1 month ago:
I mean… it’s already been kinda treated that way for decades?
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 1 month ago:
what’s been built is a glorified homework cheater and an
betterunreliable search engine. - Comment on The Forever Winter's water will no longer drain away while you're offline 1 month ago:
I was hyped when I first heard about it. And with them dropping the shitty mechanic that was putting me off, I’ll definitely grab it at some point.
Looks like it’s 20% off right now, but reading through the recent(ish) reviews, it looks like it’s still in a state that I would likely find aggravating. Namely AI jank, and enemies spawning/despawning while in view.
That said, a positive review makes an excellent point:
@Mango-killa
We bullied the devs into releasing the game early and are upset that it’s unfinished. I love the concept, but still needs a ton of polish and tweaks to be perfect. Give em time to cook.
It’s been on my wishlist, despite the now defunct water mechanic, since I heard about it. And I’ll give the Devs the time they need to cook.
- Comment on Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market. 1 month ago:
Sorry, I should have been clear, I by no means thought you were hating on it!
I’m literally just hearing about Revolt now. And I’ve had a bad day so far, that obviously came through in my previous comment. I’m sorry, rereading my last comment, it’s a bit belligerent.
Thanks for taking the time to explain like I’m 5 and throwing a tantrum. 🤦 Sorry again.