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- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 2 days ago:
I think what gets people about this one is the large amount of blood that comes from severing a major artery like that and it funneling out there such a focused point.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
Broadly maybe the viewers are just getting sick of all of the shilling for cheap shit that goes on with the ever increasing sponsor segments so many channels have these days. Arguments will be had about just how needed all of those marketing dollars are for the creator to keep doing their thing vs them getting used to a lot of money and wanting even more of it. But the end result is a worse viewing experience for the consumer. I know there are a lot of channels that make good content that I’ve stopped watching because they spend a quarter of the video shilling junk. Sure sponserblock would get rid of those sections, but it won’t send a message like unsubscribing and stopping watching them completely will.
Also maybe this is a larger Youtube usage hit due to their aggressive anti-adblock nonsense and uptick in ads and shitty UI design.
For Linus specifically, he has the above issues as well as having been very publicly outed as a slimy deuce. What his channels put out is not unique enough these days to justify dealing with the shilling and his companies bad behavior.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
Its called “ladder pulling”.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
Another possibility for why consumers don’t seem to care about 8k is the common practice by content owners and streaming services charging more for access to 4k over 1080p.
Normalizing that practice invites the consumer to more closely scrutinize the probable cost of something better than 4k compared to the probable return.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
These are the most supported devices, maintained by at least 2 people and have the functions you expect from the device running its normal OS, such as calling on a phone, working audio, and a functional UI.
If the below is where we are at still with PostmarketOS, it will be a decade or more before it is anything more than a curiosity.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry as the current OEMs continue to lock down bootloaders and lock required drivers behind copyright and other restrictive licensing schemes they will ensure nice things like PostmarketOS at beat remain fringe and never able to replace modern phones for daily usage.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Still using Android 11? Holy hell.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 2 weeks ago:
What has happened with mobile platforms has proven that the fact that we ended up with PC platforms that all us the freedom to largely do whatever we want with them was more an outlier than the norm.
Apple and Google have gone out of their way at every step with their new platforms over the last 20 years to make sure that process does not repeat itself. Even the stuff that seems more open like Android technically supporting arbitrary app installs from anywhere and the Linux container in ChromeOS still allows the platform holder to step in and stop you from doing something with those tools should they desire using mechanisms that the OS depends on to be useful.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 weeks ago:
The actual title of the video is:
Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg
Way less Click Bait sounding. And while a shitty thing for Bloomberg to do it is not any different than what tons of channels have been dealing with for years. So the Youtube sky is not falling any faster now than it was last week.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 4 weeks ago:
Are you being dense on purpose? I said you could absolutely do it, but it was far more inconvenient.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 4 weeks ago:
I tried feeding ChatGPT a Terraform codebase once and asked it to produce an architecture diagram of what the code base would deploy to AWS.
It got most of the little blocks right for the services that would get touched. But the layout and traffic direction flow between services was nonsensical.
Truth be told it did do a better job than I thought it would initially.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 4 weeks ago:
Sure they do, but all of the alternatives are not nearly as convenient. But you can absolutely get by without an iPhone or Android phone with Play services.
The example actually proves the point more strongly than LibreOffice vs MS Office does by the increased level of effort it requires of the user to go out of their way to not actively support the bad things Apple and Google do.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 4 weeks ago:
The problem: our desire for convenience
This hits it right on the money. As nice as open source and open standards are, at the end of the day none of that matters to the 99% that want/need to do X as fast and painlessly as possible.
To people like my wife MS Office/LibreOffice/Google Docs are all the same thing in the category of productivity suite. And one of those does not meet her where she lives in day to day life. And it doesn’t because there is no money in doing so for LibreOffice. And there is no benefit to her to seek out LibreOffice for her uses.
Hell, just take a look around at the number of people that preach about the evils of Microsoft, Google, or whoever but love them an iPhone and Macbook. As bad as Microsoft and Google can be for screwing over the user with vendor lock-in they don’t hold a candle to Apple. But they get the money despite there being “better” options technically and philosophically for nearly everything they make, but Apple knows all of that pales in importance compared to being convenient.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 4 weeks ago:
the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a “tech-neutral approach” and lower the average cost of serving each location
In other words don’t give the tax payer the best options you can, give them the cheapest options to implement you can.
- Comment on Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service 4 weeks ago:
It’s not the $3/month ad free Tubi type service that is the bad part. It is the part where it is attached to Roku. That company that proven the kind of trash they are already.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
Without having much knowledge of AI models beyond surface level stuff I read, but a good understanding on how computers work it seems fairly predictable to me that running an AI model in the browser session locally could be kind of heavy on the CPU usage. As such you would think as a developer you would start with adding the feature as off by default, so users that want it can turn it on and you can get some real world metrics on how bad that hit is going to be before bending the entire userbase over the AI kitchen table.
So both doing it for something as trivial as tab grouping and making it something you have to go into
about:configto disable seems really stupid. - Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 1 month ago:
Most western governments look at the ability of some of the more authoritarian places ability to just snap there fingers and make the entire internet go away with great envy.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 1 month ago:
You mean an LLM that doesn’t have ability to understand context fails to make decisions that require context to do properly? Shocking /s
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 month ago:
Then those EU firms should immediately make getting out of anything and everything Microsoft. As a US citizen, all our government and companies understand is personal profit and personal data hording. So make it hurt where they will feel it.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 month ago:
Petitions like this are meaningless unless they come with a viable solution to the duopoly in payment processing that is Visa and Mastercard.
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 1 month ago:
How very Reagan of them
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 month ago:
We have location sharing enabling via Find My since everyone but me uses Apple. I don’t think my wife ever uses it and I only use it as a means of checking they seem to still be alive when they are otherwise late to somewhere they planned to me if I get worried about it.
In years past I would just call them, but this way is less actively intrusive. But people that use it as a spying tool have issues.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 month ago:
Let me know when it is discovered that they in fact replaced MS Recall with their own version that was scraping your data in yet another sketchy attempt to make money.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re 1 month ago:
Tells you that the guy behind it causing some folks in the halls of power to get some uncomfortable questions.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 month ago:
If ad networks weren’t the number 1 way to get malware installed on your machine, didn’t slowly take over the dedicated space for the actual content of a website, or put pressure on the websites in question to only publish things inoffensive to the advertisers maybe adblockers wouldn’t be such an issue.
If your site can’t exist without being a cesspit of annoying and useless infomercials and a deployment mechanism for malicious code injection then your site should not exist.
Not too many people had an issue with static banner ads back in the day after all.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 1 month ago:
My mother using something similar to keep track of her passwords for everything. While I prefer a password manager like Bitwarden or Keepass. I would rather her use a note book like this over something like Google or Apples password managers.
Or even worse, the same password for everything.
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 1 month ago:
Willfully breaking an NDA with one of the most litigious companies in the world for what is essentially fake internet points is a bold strategy Cotton. Doesn’t look like it is going to work out for him.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
You can, but it is a pita. Having to buy dev certs and sign the .ipa file, etc. But technically, if you really want to, you can.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
The reason is that PC is made out of standardized plug&play components that you can make generic OS image for.
Yep, given the history of consumer technology as a whole it is really more amazing that the standard PC became a thing more than it is that people put up with what phones are today.
We all really owe a lot of gratitude to Phoenix for reverse engineering the IBM BIOS back in the day, and going to court to fight the IBM copyright lawsuit that resulted, as well as Compaq and all of the other IBM compatible clones.
