ryper
@ryper@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 5 days ago:
Maybe if the robots get damaged at the same rate their workers get injured they’ll get more interested in safety.
- Comment on Try BentoPDF if you haven't / are unhappy with StirlingPDF 5 days ago:
Their web page doesn’t really mention self-hosting, but there’s github link way down at the bottom and that has self-hosting instructions.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 weeks ago:
Apple Music has an Android app.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 weeks ago:
Apple Music has a family plan, and it’s cheaper than Spotify’s, at least in Canada (16.99 vs 20.99).
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s just a one-off transfer, I’m not planning to stop the transfer, and it’s my media library, so nothing should change, but I figured something resumable is a good idea for a transfer that’s going to take 12+ hours, in case there’s an unplanned stop.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I was planning to use rsync to ship several TB of stuff from my old NAS to my new one soon. Since we’re already talking about rsync, I guess I may as well ask if this is right way to go.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 3 weeks ago:
- On the Xbox home screen, go to "My Games and Apps."
- Then, go to “Apps,” “Settings,” “General,” and "Personalization."
- Go to “Games and Apps,” then scroll to the right until the three boxes below "Choose whether game hubs open automatically from the following places."
- Uncheck the boxes on all three options: “Recently Played List,” “Groups,” and “Installed Games.”–
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 4 weeks ago:
When was the last time you checked? A client was added to the WebOS store maybe 2 or 3 years ago for recent models, and support for older models (like my C9) came months later.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 2 months ago:
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 2 months ago:
Apparently the TARDIS stopped by. I’m going to have to go back and see if I can spot it.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Microsoft got companies like Samsung, HP and Lenovo to make WMR VR headsets that require the WMR Windows components. There is official support for Steam VR, but the headsets don’t work if the WMR components aren’t there, and after November there will be no officially supported version of Windows with those components. From what I’ve read it’s basically impossible to get WMR working on 10 LTSC, and I assume the situation is the same on 11 LTSC.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Separately, Microsoft warns that Windows 11 version 23H2 will reach end of support on November 11, 2025. Users must upgrade to version 24H2 or 25H2 to continue receiving security updates.
Windows 11 23H2 was the last version that supported Windows Mixed Reality. They’re really in a hurry to kill WMR.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 months ago:
I actually like this strategy, they’re taking hope away from people who think Windows alternates between good versions and bad versions by announcing they’re going to follow up a bad version with another bad version.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 2 months ago:
I know they tried to explain it but why did the building vaporize that guy?!
Chapel’s DNA was used to open the door to get in, and the door don’t want anyone going through without her.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 3 months ago:
They left it until the very end of the article:
Consumer Watchdog found that the best deals were offered to the wealthiest customers—with the worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 3 months ago:
While Chapel is dealing with Batel, the Gorn hatchlings seem to agitate when the ship first goes close to the binary stars.
I think it was a CME that got the hatchlings agitated, not getting close to the stars.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 3 months ago:
The US has a law to limit the liability of gun manufacturers.
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) is a U.S law, passed in 2005, that protects firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when crimes have been committed with their products. Both arms manufacturers and dealers can still be held liable for damages resulting from defective products, breach of contract, criminal misconduct, and other actions for which they are directly responsible. However, they may be held liable for negligent entrustment if it is found that they had reason to believe a firearm was intended for use in a crime.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 3 months ago:
I’m pretty sure this supreme court would rule that people don’t have a right to electricity, or even water. They’ll probably be totally ok with people losing internet access as punishment for crossing media owners.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 3 months ago:
“Finally cancelling my Spotify subscription – why am I paying for a fuckass app that works worse than it did 10 years ago, while their CEO spends all my money on technofascist military fantasies?” said one user on X.
You shouldn’t be “paying for a fuckass app that works worse than it did 10 years ago” regardless of anything of CEO has done. Be less lazy and cancel subscriptions to shitty services.
- Comment on Senators Call for The FTC to Launch an Investigation into Spotify for Forcing Subscribers into Higher-Priced Subscriptions Without Their Consent. 3 months ago:
Current regulations allow digital music providers to pay a lower music royalty rate if their paid music subscription offering is bundled with other legitimate product offerings. Seeing an opportunity, Spotify has exploited this regulation by converting all Premium Plan music subscribers into a new, bundled subscription offering without consumers’ consent or any notice. Spotify’s intent seems clear—to slash the statutory royalties it pays to songwriters and music publishers.
Spotify has priced its Audiobook Access plan with 15 hours of listening time per month from a limited catalog of 200,000 audiobooks at $9.99/month. In contrast, Spotify’s music-only Basic Plan—which includes unlimited hours of listening from a catalog of over 100 million songs—is priced only a dollar more. Under the regulations, the higher the Audiobooks Access plan is priced, the lower the music royalty Spotify must pay.
- Comment on Infinite glitch 4 months ago:
The music labels have responded by trying to make artists wait much longer before re-record their music:
It’s significant, Greenstein said, that the first Taylor’s Version wasn’t released until she’d been off Big Machine for three years. Until then, she was legally bound not to re-record any of the material, and this time frame was typical of record deals in the past. But this is the part of the equation that Swift likely changed for good.
“For decades, major labels were somewhat rational when it came to the prohibition of re-recordings,” Greenstein said. “But now they’re going to be asking, ‘What’s the risk of a Taylor’s Version?’”
In response, record companies are now trying to prohibit re-recordings for 20 or 30 years, not just two or three. And this has become a key part of contract negotiations. “Will they get 30 years? Probably not, if the lawyer is competent. But they want to make sure that the artist’s vocal cords are not in good shape by the time they get around to re-recording.”
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 4 months ago:
Users on reddit and lemmy always seem to think ad-based stuff is going to fail, and then it turns out people in the real world are depressingly accepting of ads. I would bet that this program is more likely to be expanded than canceled.
- Comment on Australia could tax Google, Facebook and other tech giants with a digital services tax – but don’t hold your breath 4 months ago:
Australia has never contemplated imposing a similar tax. New Zealand tried but backed down last week after the United States threatened to impose higher tariffs on New Zealand goods.
What happened in New Zealand is almost certainly what will happen in Australia. This will go nowhere.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 4 months ago:
Microsoft owns id’s parent company these days, and Microsoft provides services to the Israeli military.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 4 months ago:
Well the AI companies should have understood that building an industry off of doing something questionable was risky and risks don’t always work out.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 5 months ago:
Slate: The Far Right Thinks Sydney Sweeney Killed Wokeness
It’s a common phenomenon, really. Sydney Sweeney is beautiful now, and would be considered so in any era. But because she’s no longer the only type of woman who’s considered beautiful, certain people on the right think they’re being oppressed and the world has gone to hell.
Why have these weirdos zeroed in on Sweeney in particular? There are lots of beautiful white women with big boobs out there—Kate Upton, Blake Lively, Katy Perry, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Ratajkowski, and more. As far as I can tell, part of it seems to be that Sweeney doesn’t shy away from talking about or sharing her body. On Euphoria, she does a lot of nudity, and she’s spoken in interviews about feeling comfortable with it. On SNL, she repeatedly joked about her boobs and even wore a Hooters uniform. The National Post praised Sweeney for “playfully owning her sex appeal with zero apologies” and criticized Vanity Fair for suggesting it might have been nice to give her some material that wasn’t about her beauty.
- Comment on ‘Make all women yours’: Rape game available online for Australian children 6 months ago:
The article is out of date. According to this one, the game was removed from sale on Steam yesterday in the UK, Canada and Australia, and the dev is going to withdraw it from Steam entirely.
Zerat Games has announced it will withdraw its sexually explicit visual novel from Steam after it was removed from sale in the UK, Canada, and Australia.
Posted to the game’s Steam page, which is no longer accessible to those who have not previously purchased the game, the developer defended its title but confirmed it would be removed from the platform.
“We don’t intend to fight the whole world, and specifically, we don’t want to cause any problems for Steam and Valve,” the developer said.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 6 months ago:
An x1 slot is an x1 slot, the PCIe version will downgrade but there will still only be one lane because that’s all the slot physically has connections for. It will effectively be a PCIe 3.0 x1 slot.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 6 months ago:
Pretty sure if you put a PCIe 3.0 card in a 4.0 slot the slot will drop to 3.0, and 1 PCIe 3.0 lane probably isn’t going to work great with a card meant for 4 of them.
- Comment on Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 7 months ago:
No, because they can afford the legal fees. It will be worst for smaller sites. From the article:
With Section 230, if a website (or a user!) wants to defend its right to keep content up (or take it down), winning such a case typically costs around $100,000. Without those protections, even if you’d ultimately win on First Amendment grounds, you’re looking at about $2 million in legal fees. For Meta or Google, that’s a rounding error. For a small news site or blog, it’s potentially fatal. And this includes users who simply forward an email or retweet something they saw. Section 230 protects them as well, but without it, they’re at the whims of legal threats.