refurbishedrefurbisher
@refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on We're Back! 2 weeks ago:
But were they MATA stickers?
- Comment on Amateur Entomologists 3 weeks ago:
But the world refused to change
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 4 weeks ago:
I don’t own a VR headset, but I thought SteamVR worked fine on Linux.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 4 weeks ago:
There’s Windows 11 IoT LTSC if you really need Windows, but Microsoft is going to continue to fuck its users, and I don’t know why people in the know would choose to continue to use an OS that’s actively working against them when non-corporate alternatives exists (Linux or for the more niche people, BSD, Haiku, Redox)
- Comment on Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures 1 month ago:
Yeah. Windows XP SP2 was a more reliable OS than SP1
- Comment on Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess. 1 month ago:
Then whatever that specific subgenre of sci-fi that Star Trek falls into is called.
- Comment on Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess. 1 month ago:
The entire reason the cyberpunk genre was invented was to reflect what modern society looks like, and the inevitable outcome if technology improves, but government policy and power dynamics stayed the same.
The counter genres to cyberpunk are solarpunk (merging society and nature together) and sci-fi (Star Trek being the main example here, being a socialist, post-scarcity society)
- Comment on AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem 2 months ago:
As a Linux user, I had to trade in my Nvidia laptop for one with an AMD GPU due to how unstable the Nvidia drivers were and how many problems they were giving me. With the AMD laptop, I have had zero issues.
- Comment on 1337 2 months ago:
Holy shit, you said the word woman
Cartoon noises start playing
- Comment on That's a big burger 2 months ago:
Especially after we sent our space marines there to kill all those demons.
- Comment on Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to the US 3 months ago:
Sure, but this isn’t about the person; it’s about legal precidence.
- Comment on Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly 3 months ago:
Other app stores that are approved by Apple while giving Apple a cut after a million downloads of an app.
You still can’t install whatever .ipa file you want on iOS, even in Europe.
What really needs to happen is that the consumer needs to own the device they bought. What this means in the smartphone world is a few things: root access, unlockable bootloader, and replacable signing keys for the primary bootloader while providing a firmware package to go back to 100% stock (so no Samsung Knox that irrevocably triggers after unlocking the bootloader, or DRM keys that get irrevocably wiped when unlocking the bootloader) (all of these being optional features that the user has to explicitly enable). Anything short of that is not ownership.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Overly concerned parents want their kid to always carry a phone/tracking device.
I’m sure Life360 parents played a not-so-small part in that decision.
- Comment on 3D printer maker Bambu Lab faces patent infringement lawsuits that could threaten hobbyist 3D printing in general 3 months ago:
Which is most of hobbyist 3D printing. Resin printing has its issues, especially with strength
- Comment on This shitpost is preventing shutdown 3 months ago:
If the Windows VM stays on, then it will take an extra 5 minutes to shut down (after 5 minutes, the VM will force shutdown)
- Comment on This shitpost is preventing shutdown 3 months ago:
RIP if you leave a Windows VM turned on and it does an update.
- Comment on Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon 3 months ago:
Ladybird is an up and coming web browser. There’s also the Servo browser engine project in the works.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
Press stop, then stop again, then play on your remote. That’s a fairly universal way to skip straight to the movie.
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 4 months ago:
Linux is free.
- Comment on The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again 4 months ago:
We need to archive the Internet Archive
- Comment on Jaw-Dropping SNES Mod Fixes One Of The Console's Biggest Problems | Time Extension 4 months ago:
SA-1*
- Comment on a 4-dimensional creature appears 4 months ago:
Lovecraft wrote more about how finding out about new, unknowable information and understanding (or attempting to understand) can drive someone insane. So similar, but without the physical aspect.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 4 months ago:
They already have a free version of Windows. Just don’t activate it.
- Comment on FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days 4 months ago:
How did you go about doing that? I wanted to ask them about being able to replace the primary bootloader, including signing keys for any device that a user has paid for, which is a step above bootloader unlocking.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 4 months ago:
Microsoft would prefer that you pirate Windows rather than use Linux, as it further entrenches their dominance in the market.
They mainly make their money off of business licenses anyway, similar to Adobe and Autodesk.
- Comment on McCafé 4 months ago:
Took me a min
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 4 months ago:
Well you see, they put it in page 69 of their EULA that got updated last week that they emailed directly to your spam folder. Since you didn’t opt out of that clause my sending a registered letter to their offices in Uganda, Japan, Washington, and Ukraine, it is considered that you agreed to the EULA.
- Comment on Finally my old saves are backed up! 4 months ago:
If you had access to wLE already, why didn’t you just back up the saves to a flash drive?
- Comment on $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era 5 months ago:
Yeah. There’s the ao486 core available on MiSTer.
- Comment on Starbuck milkshake is like tobacco 5 months ago:
Sugar is an extremely addictive substance.