FireWire400
@FireWire400@lemmy.world
well, how did i get here?
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 13 minutes ago:
More RAM doesn’t just benefit the GPU, there’s plenty of games today that use more than 16GB of system RAM on their highest settings and that’s only gonna become more common in the future… Besides, with this being literally a Linux PC, there’s more ways it could make use of the extra RAM than just games.
- Comment on Police need more powers to stop ‘naked racism and hatred’ after allowing Sydney neo-Nazi rally, premier says 23 hours ago:
Thanks for the context. Sounds like the Police either fails to see the criminal energy coming from neo-nazis (c’mon…) or they don’t really care, don’t know which is worse.
I’ve heard of NSW, I’ve been there a few times^^
- Comment on Police need more powers to stop ‘naked racism and hatred’ after allowing Sydney neo-Nazi rally, premier says 2 days ago:
I don’t know how it is in Australia but in Germany it is a constitutional right to hold rallies, so they can’t easily stop them from happening (even if they wanted to, which I’m actually not sure they do given how many of our police officers are neo-nazis themselves). Chanting NSDAP and Hitler Youth propaganda during these rallies is an offence but guess what, they do it anyway.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 days ago:
Oh that’s cool, didn’t see that. I have no idea why Valve didn’t mention that in their reveal, that’s a huge advantage over consoles.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 days ago:
I’m not in the market for the GabeCube but if I were, I’d find a price point of $500-$600 attractive, given it’s mostly just laptop tier hardware. I would prefer it over the current gen of consoles, although I don’t know if there’s gonna be the same level of optimisations for games on this as there is on consoles.
Upgradability would’ve been nice, too.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 days ago:
I can’t wait for that whole AI bubble to blow up. Shame it’s most likely not gonna kill Microsoft…
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 4 days ago:
What’s the Lancia logo doing on there?
- Comment on Incredible Sunset. 11/10/2025. 4 days ago:
I miss being in Australia…
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
It’s nice how, in theory, some crackhead silicon valley startup would be allowed to single handedly fuck up just about everything
- Comment on Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart spotted at Donald Trump’s Halloween party 1 week ago:
Please, no disrespect for cows
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 1 week ago:
It’s like the song Well Done by IDLES, more sarcasm than anything
- Comment on Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart spotted at Donald Trump’s Halloween party 1 week ago:
Disgusting people like to be around each other
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 1 week ago:
You can loosen up the dust with the bristles and then pull it out with the toothpick. I wouldn’t recommend using metal tools.
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 1 week ago:
Yeah, a toothpick or even a toothbrush will do the trick if you’re careful. And without creating unnecessary waste.
- Comment on UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate 1 week ago:
As Arnott’s aptly says on the box “There is no substitute”.
Which is bad news for me because the only supermarket that sold TimTams where I live stopped selling them…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Just usage pings or actual data?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s weird that I can’t just login using my existing Affinity ID, also Canva’s privacy policy states clear as day under section 2 that they’ll use your data to train AI models and that policy applies to Affinity
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 2 weeks ago:
Why not just, you know, employ an actual human to do your chores in the first place? It’ll almost certainly be a lot cheaper than this clanker…
Besides, there’s no guarantee that those teleoperators won’t be sweatshop workers.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 weeks ago:
They realise that A LOT of those videos are not primarily about Windows? I’ve seen many reviews of vintage devices where the uploader just casually installs Windows 11 in a “nonstandard” way, just because it’s the only way.
- Comment on Australia: Child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads being offered on China's Temu, Shein to get around laws forbidding the importation of sex abuse material 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s down to each individual case, but I’d fear that some, if not most, users would eventually want more than just screwing a doll…
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 3 weeks ago:
Raising unrealistic expectations is what companies like OpenAI are all about
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 3 weeks ago:
Well, he too needs to stay relevant somehow. Making ragebait statements is one way.
- Comment on Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy 3 weeks ago:
I’m still not sure if Microsoft just doesn’t get it or if they just love making stuff nobody wants… but then again, nobody wanted clippy back then either. I’m not sure Mico will age as gracefully as he did, though.
- Comment on 36 hours of record heat, winds, storms predicted for south-east Australia 3 weeks ago:
Oh how I like the Aussie way of life lol
- Comment on 36 hours of record heat, winds, storms predicted for south-east Australia 3 weeks ago:
Drink plenty of water guys… Seems like a great time to WFH if you can.
- Comment on Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops? 4 weeks ago:
Reminds me of that uWink restaurant lol
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 4 weeks ago:
So basically, getting rid of tech that spies on you and can’t be used anymore after a certain point I guess.
There are enough people that are perfectly fine with having any phone or any device to do basic stuff like making calls. And besides, if you wanted to get rid of something there are more responsible ways to do that than “me don’t like, me smash” IMO
And that’s not getting into brainrot AI content and manipulative machinations of social media.
It’s very easy to not use social media and not consume brainrot AI content in my opinion. Sure, it’s getting more difficult to differentiate I guess, but it’s still not that difficult if you try even a little bit
Comparing to book burnings is only a false equivalence
Which is why I didn’t make that comparison, I guess you wanted to reply to @Buffalox@lemmy.world
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 4 weeks ago:
I have no idea what smashing perfectly functional devices it supposed to accomplish. I mean yeah, it’s an anti-tech rally, but creating e-waste is kinda shitty.
Actually, I don’t think I get the point of this whole thing at all. They’re not rallying against climate change or fascism, it’s just “phone bad”. I guess I’m just too old to get it…
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 4 weeks ago:
“Meet the computer that spies on you in totally new and innovative ways”
I mean the whole “AI” trend would be just “whatever” to me if they didn’t force it onto people that hard.
- Comment on Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner 4 weeks ago:
Would’ve loved to see the gang-gang cockatoo win…
But it doesn’t look as funny I guess.