TheFeatureCreature

@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I always did find it amusing that they are called the United States when it seems like it’s constantly teetering on brink of another civil war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But think of the shareholders!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the company and where you live, I feel. Some has gotten worse, some has improved.

  But they have all gotten more expensive. So goddamn expensive. These days I can order a well made, flame-grilled burger at a burger joint for the same price as fast food slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Average users do not even remotely care about federated software and/or decentralisation. That is techno-babble to them and their eyes will glaze over if you try to market that to them.

  That being said: Mastodon does a shit job at explaining how it works, how to use it, and what it’s advantages are. The Joinmastodon landing page just assumes you already know how a fair bit about instances work and what federated software is and does a very poor job explaining it. And even then, most users won’t care either way. They just want to click a Join button and be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU slaps Meta with a nearly 800 million euro fine for engaging in 'abusive' Marketplace practices⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Should’ve rounded it up to 1B. And then tripled it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Linux users here think the conversation begins and ends with game support. A lot of us use our computers for work and there is a lot of productivity and creative software that does not play nice with Linux. I’ve probably said this a dozen times here before but I’ll say it again: Not all of us use our computers solely for gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I expected them to charge more, to be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is secretly building its own search engine.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh goody. Another SEO-infested, ad-riddled, AI-plagued search engine that gives me everything except what I searched for. Exactly what I wanted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta spokesperson told us that it’s “aware of this type of behavior, and continues to take action against accounts and content that violate our policies.”

  “It doesn’t seem to be something that’s being actively moderated,” Johnson told The Register. "The accounts have been around for a month, two months

  lol. lmao, even

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flying taxis move closer to takeoff with issuing of FAA rule⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see these being used for anything other than tourism or light general aviation use… And even then the areas they can fly/land will be so restricted because of how loud they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic’s ambitious digital asset shop is now open⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, that makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic’s ambitious digital asset shop is now open⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still having a hard time understanding what niche this marketplace is supposed to fill and what Epic’s plans for it are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People assume that the secrets of the universe will be revealed to them in an afterlife, but you might just remain your same dumb self and have to spend eternity going to church.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not wrong nor necessarily bad to constantly question things and to desire to look deeper into information presented to you

  But continued denial of something that is extremely well understood, studied, tested, and researched isn’t healthy skepticism - it’s wilful ignorance for the sake of soothing one’s fears.

  The human brain (the brains of most creatures, really) is now better understood than it ever has been and new technology is making studying it easier and faster than ever before. At no point, past or present, has there ever been even a tiny minuscule sliver of anything even remotely similar to a soul or afterlife being detected or observed. What we have observed, however, are the parts of a brain that are responsible for emotions, memory, personality, logic, reasoning, etc dying and ceasing to function.

  The brain is an extremely awesome and complex thing but it is not powered by magic. I am trying my best to not mean any disrespect here - like I said I believed in an afterlife well into my 20’s - but the entire premise of an afterlife is basically magic. It’s fantasy. It makes the crushing pain of our own death easier to deal with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People assume that the secrets of the universe will be revealed to them in an afterlife, but you might just remain your same dumb self and have to spend eternity going to church.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty damn sure. Your brain, everything that makes you you, is a biological computer (for lack of a better word) of which we have an extremely comprehensive understanding of how it functions and the processes, both biological and psychological, that form a personality. There is no magic sauce or spirit that leaks out into the void when you die.

  I say this as someone who believed in an afterlife well into my late 20’s. It is a belief we tell ourselves to cope with the reality of our own mortality. We will die and there will be nothing, so we tell ourselves that maybe there will be something because it makes the pain easier to handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of my favourite monitors have been from LG but these days I get by just fine never buying any of their products and I will continue to do so. Eat shit, LG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung's latest software update may be bricking older phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The primary reason I moved to iPhones was because I got absolutely sick and tired of my android phones being abandoned by the manufacturer after a year. I’m sure it is better these days, but those earlier days of extremely slow Carrier-based updates completely ruined my trust and I know I’m not the only one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of want a flip phone for the compact size when folded so it will fit more easily into my tiny pockets. But I don’t want a phone with a screen that likely need regular (and expensive) replacements if I want to keep using it long past the 2 year contract window like I do with most phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro 2 Reportedly Entering Mass Production In H2 2025, Sporting The New M5 SoC, Spatial Computing & Generative AI Could Make It A Hit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The price was definitely a primary factor, but it wasn’t the only one. The Vision Pro is a bulky thing with a dingleberry on a string and many reviewers noted the uncomfortable headband situation. It, like may headsets, is also a royal pain in the ass to deal with if you wear glasses and/or need really specialized lenses.

  But a really big factor was that it’s an Apple product. Word travelled fast about how limited the software is and how you can’t really do much with it. Apple is going to have a hard time selling these things until they crawl out of their own ass and actually let people use their products how they wish to. One of the biggest appeals of AR computing is how it bridges together computing with your imagination, and that doesn’t really work when Apple says “no, you can’t do that because it doesn’t match our company vision”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a Fiverr account once for my art services. I deleted it within an hour of creation after reading how much money they would steal from my commissions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I put some of the blame on retailers as well. Retail stores just don’t want to carry inventory anymore, especially tech-focused ones with many of those just turning into glorified showrooms. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard some version of: “Sorry, we don’t have that in stock but we can bring it in for you.”

  We needed a short length of garden hose here for the house so I went to two hardware stores and one garden centre looking for one. Nothing. Not even in their dedicated gardening sections. I had to order it off Amazon. A goddamn garden hose.

  Amazon has done a lot of damage for sure but retail is suffering from several self-inflicted wounds too. Home Depot, for example, is a multi-billion dollar corporation and even they have a weaker retail presence now. That’s not Amazon’s fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The hardware and bandwidth demands of the first game were why I stopped playing it. I had a machine that could run it (and an even better one now) and internet that could handle it, but it still just wasn’t a smooth experience. I don’t have a cap on my internet data but my speed isn’t particularly high, which meant the 80-150gb per week of data the game consumed was certainly felt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 1926, TV Was Mechanical⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much to the chagrin of those of us who can see and are bothered by the colour flicker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google and Microsoft would be scrambling to pay off every single person associated with that before it ever hit the first courtroom floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything to help them take on Nvidia and stay competitive is a good move. However, I wish they would also announce a recommitment to driver and software stability. I had to move to Nvidia for my workstation rig after having constant stability issues with numerous AMD cards across multiple builds.

  I wish their GPU line received even a portion of the polish and care that their CPU line did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Make History Come Alive With AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People do tend to hate theft, yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh. They had plenty of time to move to Firefox but they ignored all the warnings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple indeed, but getting people to actually stop using that trash heap website has proven to be very difficult.

  I am very tired of Twitter users doing nothing but complaining about site changes and Musk yet they still just sit there… doing nothing about it. You’d think it’d be easy to rip the bandage off when it’s covered in fascist propaganda but apparently not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a given for many kinds of services. Always purchase subscriptions on another device or direct through their website - never use your Apple devices’ app store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk urged to take X responsibilities more seriously⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how they’re asking him gently as if he’s a toddler having a tantrum and not the criminally liable fascist he actually is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel was once a Silicon Valley leader. How did it fall so far?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Large amounts of greed, corruption, and complacency.