ozymandias117
@ozymandias117@lemmy.world
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 days ago:
*backed off on 7 ?
I think you’re also overlooking that the driver model changed for Vista, so tons of hardware listed as supporting Vista was just extremely unstable at release until hardware vendors figured out the new driver model
- Comment on LineageOS 23 2 weeks ago:
They’ve been working towards killing it for 10+ years.
It does seem like we’re nearing the completion of their goals
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 weeks ago:
You’ve always been able to navigate to
about:profilesas well - Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
We’ll just set up another retrospective meeting and have a lessons learned.
Then we won’t change anything based off the findings of the retro and lessons learned.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 3 weeks ago:
343 needs to go back and rewatch the VODs Bungie put out explaining their weapons triangle, and the reason for shields and armor
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 3 weeks ago:
Frets on Fire is the one I knew of back when Guitar hero was at its peak
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to hit the sigils with lightning
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Canceled that one back when they fired Jon Stewart because he wanted to report on China and Israel
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Their point is Disney owns 100% as of 2023
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 month ago:
I moved somewhere where signs over a certain height (maybe 8 feet?) are illegal.
It’s glorious
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
That is part of the genre, yeah.
They’re procedurally generated within a range of possible effects and damage based off the “manufacturer” in-game
You’ll end up finding one you really like and using it for like 5 levels, while selling other loot, until you find one that jives more with your play style and is more powerful than your current loadout
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
::: spoiler If you’re having trouble with red flower buds, maybe explore a different area.
I found them much easier after I unlocked some other things :::
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 month ago:
If you truly understand the historical context of how calling it “jaywalking” rather than what it was at the time has been used to change the cultural narrative, and you understand how Google (and Apple) are trying to say “sideloading” is dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed on their devices, but can’t get to how that shift in narrative is being used… I agree, there’s no point in continuing
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 month ago:
If you actually care, you can start with things like “walkable cities,” look at city planning before Ford made it illegal, look into how NYC has made it no longer a crime, etc.
It doesn’t actually seem like you do, though
Ford’s work to reframe the action caused massive changes to urban planning, mostly for the worse.
Their work to change cultural views are apparently so strong, you can’t see how changing the language around it was “inaccurate or inappropriate”
That’s what Google is doing to the average user for “sideloading” - in a few generations, people will be saying it shouldn’t be allowed
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 month ago:
It wasn’t a word for crossing the street until Ford wanted to make it illegal to cross the street.
Maybe that’s the historical context you’re missing
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 month ago:
Which is why I linked two articles discussing the history of the term “jay” and how and why it was used to essentially mean “a stupid person”
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 month ago:
It’s extremely on topic for the thread you responded to.
Google has a concerted effort to make “sideloading” bad, so they can remove it without public backlash
The next comment in the chain mentioned how auto manufacturers did the same thing, villainizing people using public spaces by calling it “jaywalking” until it became illegal to walk on public roads
That was done to take public spaces away from pedestrians and give it to cars
This is being done to take software outside of Google Play away and give the only profit to google
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 month ago:
I assume you’re unaware of the concerted advertising campaigns by auto manufacturers to take public streets away from pedestrians, including things like
The industry hired actors dressed in old-fashioned clothing to illegally cross streets, making the behavior seem outdated
missedhistory.com/…/lobbying-trick-blamed-pedestr…
“Jay” had started as a word for drivers driving on the wrong side of the road
jaywalker was pre-dated by jay-driver – a driver of a horse-drawn carriage or automobile that refused to abide by the traffic laws by driving on the wrong side of the road
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 month ago:
Even with the PS4, the bluray couldn’t play the game.
It had to install to the internal drive and download updates
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 month ago:
Their point is that you don’t understand why you can’t cite any encyclopedia, not just Wikipedia.
It has nothing to do with the reliability, you just need to cite their source (the primary source) instead of citing the middle man.
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 1 month ago:
That doesn’t fix the problem of needing specific device tree files for every computer.
So you still won’t be able to say, swap your WiFi chip in your laptop and still have it work.
This just enables a small subset of (specifically Windows ARM laptops) to boot from an image.
This is very different from x86, where ACPI allows you to have a single image that knows very little about the hardware.
If ARM started using SystemReady, you could see a truly generic image, rather than having a specific list of laptops the “generic” image works with
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 1 month ago:
There aren’t any ARM manufacturers that upstream their drivers, and no SystemReady support from any manufacturers
This means ARM effectively requires a special build for every PC
RaspberryPi has worked on upstreaming their Broadcom SoC, Collabora had worked on upstreaming the RK3588 SoC…
None of Qualcomm’s recent chips are very usable (always missing something like audio, or other basic functionality)
Asahi Linux worked on Apple M1/M2 support
Unless a new ARM manufacturer comes along, general use ARM PCs are a long way away
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 month ago:
I would assume its in reference to the section of the video quoting YouTube’s policies that channels can be removed after 3 copyright strikes. Bloomberg has 10 days to appeal to YouTube and keep the strike active
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 2 months ago:
That’s why all of the major players have been frothing at the mouth to get rid of discs
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Alpine already doesn’t use systemd
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 2 months ago:
What? They haven’t changed anything since they were supposed to be banned.
Trump just keeps pushing back the deadline. Right now it’d be banned Sept 17th, but presumably he’ll push it back again.
It’s just too popular for the administration to take the flak for it disappearing while they’re in office
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
Freeze! Vegan police!
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 2 months ago:
He’s been trying to prevent the US from manufacturing their own chips, so that can’t be the real goal…
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s why I’d like some more insight.
The initial headline doesn’t exactly pass a sniff test… It’s possible, but unlikely.
If ~34,000 were added in the last year, that means over 30% of Steam’s library of ~114,000 was added in the last year…
If only 1/5 of those were AI, why was there such a massive increase over the last year?
Has Steam made it easier for cash grabs, or… it just doesn’t make a lot of sense without more information
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 3 months ago:
How many of the ~6,818 titles now disclosing generative AI use were already on Steam in 2024?
I.E. are a lot of these just games that had already been released, updating their disclosure statements based on Valve’s new rules?
The article says 1/5 games released this year use it. I’m not sure if ~34,000 games have released on Steam in the last year