CriticalMiss

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Note: I’m not from the US, so in a lot of cases going to a manufacturer’s website and purchasing computers is not an option. Resellers are still the ones in charge here.

  I work IT and when it time for a hardware refresh the reseller we are in contact with said they don’t stock AMD as there’s no demand. Which in a way creates a chicken and egg problem. I asked them if it would be possible to get laptops with AMD chips and the reseller said yes but we have to wait. So we bought 4 Intel machines for the meantime and placed a custom order for ones with AMD cheap. The ThinkPads we are buying are significantly cheaper if they come with AMD chips, I was honestly a bit baffled there was no demand. Regardless, we are happy with the purchase and so are the users who claim the computers are relatively cooler to their Intel 8th gen predecessors. It just goes to show that for the most part, enterprise makes a huge chunk of the desktop market share nowadays (as younger generations tend to simply not use a computer and do everything on their phone) and that market just isn’t ready for the transition yet. They’ve been going strong with Intel for about 30-40 years. Weening of that tit is gonna take some time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Between shit like this, Crowdstrike, and Microsoft Recall I wonder why anyone even bothers with Windows anymore.

  It’s mostly a habit. I’m tech savvy I can even work on BSDs if there’s a necessity but the finance and legal teams at my workplace lose their mind whenever a button changes its place in an app update.

  So we’re 400 macOS machines and chugging the remaining Windows users who won’t let go. Wish I could manage a single system only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe because their company produces pure shit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so, to be honest. The bitwarden-sdk had been there for a VERY long time and you could always compile without it. Not being able to build a FOSS client wouldn’t hurt bitwarden’s bottom line too much. Most people use whatever is provided in the app stores (which is compiled with the source available sdk).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. The majority of the BitWarden client is licensed under the GPL, which categorizes it as “free software”. However, one of the dependencies titled “BitWarden-SDK” was licensed under a different proprietary license which didn’t allow re-distribution of the SDK. For the most part, this was never a problem as FOSS package maintainers didn’t include the dependency (as it was optional) and were able to compile the various clients and keep the freedoms granted by the GPL license. However, a recent change made BitWarden-SDK a required dependency, which violated freedom 0 (the freedom to distribute the code as you please). BitWarden CTO came out and said this was an error and fixed this, making BitWarden SDK an optional dependency once again which now makes BitWarden free software again. For the average joe, this wouldn’t have mattered as BitWarden SDK contains features that are usually favored by businesses and the average Joe can live without. So everything now returns back to normal, hopefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When Twitch this I rented a VPS in Russia that costs me $3 a month. I now route all my traffic through it and have no ads in Twitch (and im assuming YT too now?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Our organization is configured to install N-1 of current release specifically to avoid this type of stuff. Does it matter? No, we got hit just like everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, not really. They just register a new domain.

  I.e xyz.com buys xyz.net and the cycle never ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean the game devs they provide CDN at no additional costs, networking features a dev environment that is far more comfortable than any competitor and various additional revenue streams (such as trading cards and items)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically we only dislike it because it’s a half baked solution. I know that if those LLMs actually did anything useful we wouldn’t mind them. But all these LLMs do is spam the documentation, which is already on the vendor website anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a legal mastermind by a long shot but it seems like a DMA violation. Someone needs to get the EU on their ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The devs of this planet are lazy and rehashing content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure bud, pirating some Microsoft Studio video games and windows ISOs right now. What? I found them on the open web!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whataboutism doesn’t help. It’s a wrong practice regardless of nationality. But since the house and senate is bought by the corporations, at the very least ban those who you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Immich core team goes full-time | Immich⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the license to be changed every team member needs to submit a written agreement that he agrees to the change, otherwise their contributions must be removed as they were written under a different license, the only exception is usually permissive licenses such as MIT/BSD 3 clause.

  Usually, to rugpull FOSS contributors, companies who maintain FOSS software ask contributors to sign a CLA which waives their rights and lets the control their contributions. Immich isn’t doing any of that, and it will likely remain AGPL forever because changing the license will be a big hassle for them with the amount of contributors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a scare tactic. You as a customer won’t care if the business gets a new owner but if they threaten to shut down all the kids they have will start kicking and screaming to make the government dial back the decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GPG has a chicken and egg problem. I have mine publicized on Ubuntu’s key server, which is likely one of the bigger ones (but iirc it is of little relevance as it syncs with other keyservers). Out of the emails I am sent only one of my contacts bothers with encryption. Which is sad, but what can you do? The web mail interfaces rarely if ever support GPG, and even if they do sharing your key with them defeats the purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Arm machines that are repairable to compete with Apple would be very cool in my opinion. Maybe team up with an integrator like sys76. Could be very cool. I’d personally line up to buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When vaultwarden supports this I’ll play ball. If I don’t have control over my authentication methods, then they aren’t my authentication methods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What web services do you subscribe to?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a 3.50€ VPS on OVH. Gets the job done. For music I just use firehawk52’s Deezer ARLs to download the music. For TV shows/movies the obvious is piracy. The whole subscription model drives me away from services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately the “management” (aka spyware) software is not developed with Linux in mind. I tried pushing it in our environment, it was shut down very quickly once the spyware didn’t support it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I take it as stage 2 of enshittification?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker or podman?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Docker Engine is open source. They could’ve easily contributed patches to it which just further proves that it is a NIH syndrome response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker or podman?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Docker exclusively. Podman is the NIH syndrome response to an industry standard. It has its benefits but Docker just works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello, I’m from the future. We didn’t handle it responsibly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot twist: he’s a BSD user

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta tells Instagram, Facebook users how to avoid Apple’s fees⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read a while back they started charging a monthly subscription for ad-free experience. That’s likely the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m still waiting to open source Pocket. Silly me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 24H2 to enforce hardware requirement - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering Debian still ships 32bit, this likely won’t affect my distro of choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Although im part of the Linux crowd, if you’re tired of reapplying debloat scripts every update, you could get the W10 IoT LTSC edition that only has security patches with no updates. You will have to pirate it though.