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- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October 5 weeks ago:
Linux is still not viable for creative work, office work or competitive gaming, 3 of the most important uses of computers.
I’d love to see Linux be more widespread, but until I can play any game, use my required abobe products and run Microsoft office it’s pretty much a useless operating system. Open source alternatives don’t exist for many uses, or if they do they’re a significantly worse experience
- Comment on Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months 2 months ago:
100% my Lightroom libraries are a non-starter when it comes to still needing Adobe. Literally hundreds of thousands of photos from this year alone are cataloged there, and I’m not sure any of the FOSS alternatives can manage that
- Comment on How do I get rid of my dead name in iPadOS settings? 2 months ago:
Also same, this just seems to be a rite of passage with Steam
- Comment on The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites 2 months ago:
JS and Python are both extremely bad for this. I’ve been working with data scientists and it’s hell trying to tell them that no, they can’t just install whatever libraries they want
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 4 months ago:
Gonna be honest, I prefer to be in an office over WFH, despite WFH technically having “advantages”.
Home is an awful environment to work in. I get less done, worse quality and in general dislike it more. While that’s technically a personal problem, it’s not fair to say no one would voluntarily work in an office 5 days a week. I do, and know multiple other people who do as well.
WFH when you’re just starting your career sucks. Both my internships and start of my FT jobs were WFH, and it made it near impossible to learn to work with a team, get information from senior developers, get IT help if there was hardware issues and a ton of other minor things that aren’t a problem for someone who had been working at the company prior to going 100% remote, but are huge sticking points for new hires.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 4 months ago:
Seriously. They had a completely open market, then essentially signed a perpetual deal where something like 40% of gross income is paid out to the labels. It’s absolutely insane how poorly run they were in the beginning.
If they had become a publisher, distributor and/or a label, they’d be on top of the world now.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 4 months ago:
Spotify negotiated shit deals when they were a startup and they’ll basically forever be not profitable because of it.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 4 months ago:
Definitely thinking about cancelling with this. I’ve used Spotify as long as I can remember, after finally switching over from pandora radio.
Their shuffle and discovery algorithms suck so much now that it’s nearly impossible to listen to more than 20-30 songs they just keep repeating.
Add on the extra, inserted ads in podcasts, there’s really no reason to continue to use their platform.
Then again, I’m probably going to YT music, which is only marginally better, but since I pay for YT premium already there’s no additional cost
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 4 months ago:
To get the same resolution and quality of image in all lighting scenarios, cameras are actually going to be more expensive than LiDAR. Cameras suffer in low light, low contrast situations due to the physical limitations of bending light. More light = bigger lenses = higher cost, when LiDAR works better and is cheaper
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 5 months ago:
Again, these kinds of news pieces don’t have articles written because they’re real time updates.
On top of that I really have 0 interest in opening a ton of webpages to find simple info. RSS has never been a solution to what I want.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 5 months ago:
There is absolutely a need for an alternative. Just because you don’t think something is important doesn’t mean that others don’t. People aren’t just going to give up features that they expect because “they’re not a necessity” - it doesn’t matter if it’s a necessity. It’s the reason people still use the platform, and until something replaces it people will continue to use it.
People hate FOSS because the people around it are fully ready to condemn you for using anything but, and when you ask for alternatives they tell you that you don’t need an alternative cause your use-case is “not a necessity”
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 5 months ago:
So basically “don’t use it, we can’t offer a replacement, but since it’s not food or water you can go fuck yourself and not have it”
And people wonder why everyone doesn’t join open source projects.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 5 months ago:
I’m looking for live updates from race teams during endurance events, gaming news from specific creators, local traffic notifications and real time updates from sports teams leading up to games.
These things don’t typically have articles to link to, so aggregators don’t work well, and are often behind the curve. RSS has no adoption anymore and doesn’t quite work anyways.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 5 months ago:
It’s still the perfect one-to-many communication method. Best way to get news from people you kinda give a shit about, the rest was just noise.
I miss so much news in racing and gaming due to not being on Twitter anymore
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 5 months ago:
What’s the alternative for one-to-many communication? I don’t use the platform anymore, but I miss a massive amount of news related to most of my hobbies due to it, normally relying on Reddit users to repost them. It’s incredibly annoying to have to search through 10+ social media pages to check for updates about a race team during a race or an ongoing gaming event.
Mastodon doesn’t have anywhere near the adoption necessary, bluesky still hasn’t taken off.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 5 months ago:
Reddit managed pretty well, let’s be real. The 3rd party app protests were essentially a speed bump that lost a tiny subsection of users that advertisers didn’t want anyways. Everyone else just migrated to the official app or website.
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 5 months ago:
I use my AirPods daily for 5-6 hours and still only have to charge for 20 minutes once a week. It’s really not that big of an issue
- Comment on A disease that makes crops inedible would be so much worse than any pandemic 5 months ago:
It is. The corn is all dying and is so monogenetic that it is all susceptible to the same diseases.
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 6 months ago:
These 2 pros have performed at lan multiple times and the type of cheats used would have been immediately noticed on any stream.
The hacker (destroyer2009) also gifted in excess of $8k worth of lootboxes to multiple streamers, suggesting that they have access to some remote APIs they shouldn’t.
On top of that a few months ago there was a widespread issue with top players being targeted in lobbies where they’d drop and then 57 bots would drop and zombie rush, all named the same thing and controlled by some kind of rudimentary script.
Pretty much everything together has ruled out the possibility of either of the players involved being the ones who are purposefully cheating.
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 6 months ago:
It’s very likely not EAC that’s the problem. Best guess is the hacker has some kind of server side access, be it allowing unsigned/unauthorized operations to be executed from a client or having access to the servers themselves via rce
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 6 months ago:
It’s a major inconvenience and I’ll stick to one. If it can’t be accessed from Lemmy.world it’s not really my problem tbh and I’ll just act like it doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 6 months ago:
For the most part Americans are so desensitized to the gain Violence that it’s not something most of us think about much.
I’ve grown up in a post Columbine world, and mass shootings have been a part of my life since it started. They’re just a really unfortunate part of life here that won’t change unless there’s a massive culture shift.
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 7 months ago:
This is a net win. Now they won’t be recommended to everyone trying to do hardware comparisons. The bias in their results has pretty much made them worthless as a source since Ryzen released.
- Comment on Why do (desktop) PC have so few USB ports ? 7 months ago:
Bluetooth is pretty much useless for peripherals and I’d never trust it.
Cloud storage is slow, expensive and small. External drives are still significantly cheaper per GB than cloud storage.
- Comment on Why do (desktop) PC have so few USB ports ? 7 months ago:
100% I hate this dumbass trend of putting multiple optional standards into a single cord. They did it with HDMI and confused everyone, and USB-C is the same.
- Comment on Why do (desktop) PC have so few USB ports ? 7 months ago:
Bluetooth latency makes that extremely unattractive
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 7 months ago:
Exclusively Voyager for Lemmy. I’m also not really interested in making custom tools.
There’s also the problem of that filtering out half of the active content on the platform.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 7 months ago:
Seems like this is a constant spam on Lemmy and it’s starting to drive me away from the platform. So much Linux spam.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 7 months ago:
Mines not even pointless. Lightroom and Photoshop are essentials for my side business, and there isn’t viable alternatives to either.
Linux works for a lot of things, but not everything.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 7 months ago:
That works until they explicitly say they won’t support Linux, eg. Adobe, Bungie, GoXLR, etc
Plenty of companies know that it’s trivial to implement. They just simply do not care, nor will they ever care.