bassomitron

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve always said that extended support would be available. It’s like this with every single enterprise product. Red Hat Linux, VMware, etc all do it.

  I’m all for circle jerking against Microsoft, they fucking suck. But this particular example is just such a dumb thing to get on a soapbox about. Businesses can’t be expected to indefinitely support a piece of technology for free. Some Linux distros can do it because people volunteer their time and skills to do so. But that isn’t feasible for a business to just pay dozens of developers to continuously work on a product that isn’t actively pulling in revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling people dumb for using an insanely popular product is pretty unnecessary. Some grandma just playing solitaire on her old PC that she uses to pay bills and whatnot on and you walk by, “you dumbass, use Linux instead!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So all your users are working on Macs or Linux? That’s an impressive accomplishment for an enterprise scale work environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All fair points. I can definitely see the appeal of wanting the same functionality that the Deck controller brings, as I myself really enjoy the extra flexibility the trackpads and back buttons provide. But the ergonomics in this example just looks awful and feels really reminiscent of the original Xbox controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this looks awful to use. It’s okay on the Deck because that’s a mobile device and has a lot of functions it needs to satisfy on the go. For a dedicated controller? Why the hell would you prefer this over the better ergonomically designed SC 1 or literally any other console controller?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Persona 4 Revival and Stranger Than Heaven will both release in FY2027 or beyond (after April 2026), according to SEGA fiscal report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Atlus has zero shame with milking the hell out of the Persona IP. I truly don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: WD-40 is perfect for removing adhesive left behind by stickers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Goo Gone is what I’ve used for years. It’s quite effective at the getting rid of the super stubborn ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know times are hard, but you could build/find a PC for <$300 that doesn’t run that badly. Hell, even a ~$150-200 tablet would be way better than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This. YouTube is extremely helpful for anyone who can’t afford to take their stuff to a repair service or hire someone to fix something at their home. Just a few months ago, I thought my washer was done for, but it turned out to be a super simple fix that no website mentioned except for a super obscure YouTube video with only a couple hundred views. Saved me hundreds of dollars. There’s countless other anecdotes like that over the years.

  This is what sucks so much about Google’s monopoly. I truly wish a cooperative of governments of academia created a publicly funded alternative as well as hosting an archive of YouTube on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, ampersand is the “&” symbol. Not sure if your post is missing them or if you meant the angle brackets. Not trying to be pedantic, just trying to be helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is amazing, hahah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is, nothing short of NA and EU governmental intervention will force Google to stop being such a nefarious, monopolistic, antitrust piece of shit. They’re just so utterly ubiquitous for Western businesses. You literally cannot have a small business and hope to be successful without partaking in either Google or Facebook/Meta’s ad services. TikTok was becoming a huge threat to both those companies and look how viciously they were attacked.

  The whole thing is beyond fucked, man. Kudos to you for trying to break free for your business, but I feel like you’ll just be fucking yourself in the long run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Munchausen, oof… brutal, sorry you had to endure that as a kid. My wife is a children’s therapist, specializing in play therapy for traumatized kids. It’s definitely opened my eyes to how much misery in society could be dramatically reduced by simple early intervention in young children. So many problems in adulthood are rooted in untreated trauma. Anyway, I hope you’re doing well now, despite having to go through that gauntlet of a mentally unwell parent as a kid.

  Also, very much agree that these places should absolutely be nationally outlawed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some states absolutely have cracked down on these types of places, as they were notoriously used for conversion therapy, among other terrible purposes. I definitely went to one of these places when I was a rebellious teenager, but I was fortunate in only having to go on the weekends during the day. I was also fortunate that the place had some oversight by my state, as I quickly learned that all their “punishments” could easily be defeated by simply refusing to participate (e.g. refusing to run laps, clean the gym floor with a toothbrush, etc). I lasted maybe 3 weekends there before they kicked me out of their “program.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try using the extension that can spoof what browser you’re using. Last year, Firefox was being hindered by YouTube until I downloaded that and made it think I was using a Chrome browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, good to know. It’s hard to keep up with their constitutional crises blitzkrieg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention that both the SCOTUS and other courts have ordered this administration to cease deporting people without due process, which they’ve unsurprisingly have gone on to ignore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially when both that city’s mayor and state governor explicitly do not want those troops there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tango Gameworks is back with a new look... and a new website!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, and I did enjoy some of the side content and thought some of the optional quest stories were good. When I say smaller scale, I think a game like Expedition 33 nailed the balance of having plenty of side/extra content that’s fun to do while also ensuring that completionists don’t go mad from trying to hunt down everything.

  Regardless, I agree with you on everything you said; it all boils down to preferences :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tango Gameworks is back with a new look... and a new website!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the core of GW: Tokyo was pretty good, but it suffered from far too much open world bloat. I’d love to see them revisit that world, but it’d be great if they made it focused on a smaller scale. Just my two cents, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, like my old, late cat (RIP buddy 😞), they hate most humans and other animals. Once he warmed up to you, he would absolutely get lonely without his favorites around. Didn’t care if our dog was around or not, despite our dog being sad for awhile after he died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to clarify, properly trained and handled drug and bomb sniffing dogs do actually have quite a high accuracy rate. However, in the hands of shitty police officers… sigh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re being downvoted, but it’s true. Will it further enable lazy/dumb people to continue being lazy/dumb? Absolutely. But summarizing notes, generating boilerplate emails or script blocks, etc. was never deep, rigorous thinking to begin with. People literally said the same thing about handheld calculators, word processors, etc. Will some methods/techniques become esoteric as more and more mundane tasks are automated away? Almost certainly. Is that inherently a bad thing? Not in the majority of cases, in my opinion.

  And before anyone chimes in with students abusing this tech and thus not becoming properly educated: All this means, is that various methods for gauging whether a student has achieved the baseline in any given subject will need to be implemented, e.g. proctored hand-written exams, homework structured in such a way that AI cannot easily do it, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have to do this ourselves in the government for every decommissioned server/appliance/end user device. We have to fill out paperwork for every single storage drive we destroy, and we can only destroy them using approved destruction tools (e.g. specific degaussers, drive shredders/crushers, etc). Appliances are usually the worst, though. It can be tricky sometimes finding all the writable memory in things like switches and routers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CIA 2010 covert communication websites: How I found a Star Wars website made by the CIA.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s terrifying, honestly. As sociology, psychology, and neurology research becomes more and more understood, feels like it enables governments to become more and more effective at mass manipulation.

  The worst part is, there’s barely anything that can be done to combat it. The general population can’t be assed to give up the worst offending platforms that enable it (e.g. Twitter, Meta, TikTok, etc), despite the plethora of warnings that have been issued over the last 10+ years. The one sliver of hope is the youngest generation not using those platforms because, “those are for old people,” but it’s just a matter of time for the next “cool” social platform becomes just as corrupted/infested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump calls US program helping boost internet access 'racist'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% this. Our local cable company, a subsidiary of Spectrum, refused to lay fiber to anywhere but our core metro centers and even then, only to businesses. It wasn’t until our metros collectively agreed to subsidize another, smaller ISP to come in and lay fiber to every neighborhood across the region (I live somewhere that has like 6 cities all closely clumped together). The monopoly cable company sued for years trying to block it. They allllmost succeeded, too, until a state appeals court finally overturned their injunction. Now we finally have competition and it’s glorious. I pay less than half what I did before and get twice the speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the waitlist is often very long. On top of a limited supply, there are other limiting factors, e.g. if you’re already really old and sick, the organ that becomes available will likely go to a candidate that’s more likely to have a successful transplant instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Broadcom. We’re still dealing with that bullshit, as there aren’t a lot of viable alternatives at the enterprise scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got into it for the first time back around this last December/January. I was amazed how active the community still is. I didn’t even play on the most populated English server, and chat was always active. Sidenote: There’s only a quasi-global chat thru Yelling while in cities, you have to join Linkshells for more consistent chatting (that game’s version of guilds, and yes you can have more than one linkshell at a time).

  As for the gameplay itself: It’s a very clunky game, and it’s very slow. But, that’s part of the charm when compared to today’s MMOs where everything is designed for instant gratification. Fortunately, there are tons of add-ons the community has made to enable some Quality of Life features, such as updated HD textures, a minimap, auto-inventory manager and sorter, etc. I got to around level 70 after about 6sh weeks/120 hours of game time, until my annual MMO interest dried up. I might dive back into it again next year whenever the MMO itch hits again.

  Supposedly Square was working on a remaster of the game back around 2018, but it got scrapped a couple of years into development. Which is a shame, because the game with some modern UI sensibilities and graphics would be really nice (as long as they didn’t change hardly anything of the core gameplay).

  Overall, it was nice/kind of sad to see it still had a lot more depth than FF14, which I consider to be very watered down nowadays even compared to its 2.0 re-release. But again, for anyone considering trying it out: It is a slow game, and it has alllll the jank of a 2003-era MMO. Just getting it installed and your account setup is janky, so make sure you watch a video before even attempting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their Guides feature didn’t come out until 2012sh, same with workshop. The only thing Steam had in 2010 that Epic doesn’t have right now is Community, which launched around 2007sh.