Squizzy
@Squizzy@lemmy.world
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 hour ago:
NewPipe told me I was IP banned last week but it went away.
I’d rather stop using than give them money.
- Comment on Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's 3 days ago:
Dedicated chips, fair enough. That said they dont appeal to me whatsoever.
- Comment on Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's 4 days ago:
In what aspect are the leading? Their AR/VR was their last innovation and it flopped. It was like the fourth of its kind to market.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 4 days ago:
In what way is it restricted? I dont do much but being able to explore to find my files is necessary.
- Comment on Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's 4 days ago:
They are the least innovative tech company listed. They are aimless and fear change. Apple Intelligence being what breaks them is unfortunate because they will take the wrong learning and take away their uniqer characteristic of being privacy focused.
I would actually move to apple if they werent so closed down and boring, if they stay with on device provacy focused AI people like me would switch. Then again teir pricing is shocking.
- Comment on PS5 may get more price increases in the US, analyst warns 4 days ago:
Got astrobot for my son and GoW for myself.
Other than that it was useless and both of those are not enough to stay. Finally committed to building a linux gaming setup.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 4 days ago:
Get a pixel secondhand and put an android fork on it. Its what I will likely do because I am sick of Google in my life and dont want to pay through the nose for a glossy shit that doesnt even have a file manager from apple.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 6 days ago:
Ffs if I have to move to apple before the third option is stable.
- Comment on France has ‘no lessons to take’ from US on tackling antisemitism, says minister 1 week ago:
It would probably just be a less hateful world
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 week ago:
Exactly, but they do.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 week ago:
Pretty sure the boss cant take tips legally speaking. Tax the income, let the business survive based on its ability to cover its costs.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 week ago:
You left out the part that is actually being tipped for, bringing the food to you. The chefs are salary.
People should be able to go out and buy thenfood at the prices listed.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 week ago:
Its insane, I hated visiting there because tipping is so weird and ingrained like something theyncant explain. People will tell you its simple just do x, other say yeah well I do y, and the next I will only do y if abc otherwise I omly give x.
I just overpaid for everything there and considered it expensive and weird
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 week ago:
The NYPD have offices in Israel.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 week ago:
It wouldnt finish a lyric for me yesterday because it was copyrighted. I sid it was public domain and it said “You are absolutely right, given its release date it is under copyright protection”
Wtf
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
So you repkied to me qualifying that it is an effective duopoly by saying that there are other companies which is what is implied in what I said?
Who is dense when you can’t understand the practicalities of real life and how business interact with our lives. You can get a linux phone, which is probably below .5% of market share and then sandbox android to use these apps…which is in itself necessitating the use of a google product.
I could walk into the bank also or not talk to people but effectively there are two manufacturers with a duopoly on consumer mobile communications enviromments.
“There are ways” is some cop out bullshit.
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Sold my Audi when they started this, VWs are already overpriced basic shits.
Give me asian cars.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
Ok show me a phone that is readily available that has the ability to log into banking apps etc.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
The piece on using the tech is a bit much. We cannot get by without a smartphone in modern life and they essentially do not exist outside of apple and google.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 weeks ago:
Just do it, its simple. I moved to Linux Mint and it is essentially no different. Loads the same browsers for everything. Every major piece of software, in my case, has a linux version or at the very least and linux based alternative.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 2 weeks ago:
Email your MEPs, push back on the narrative that it protects children. IF it even did protect children it would be at the cost of any semblamce of privacy. Politicians are also exempt despite a pedo politician leading a major world power right now.
I got an immediate response explaining their stance is based almost entirely around the disemination of csam.
It is a noble goal but akin to ending traffic deaths by mandating getting and checking the coast is clear every 10 meters.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 2 weeks ago:
I am having a really difficult time getting grandparents on board with this, it is infuriating.
I dont want them to be luddites but I dont want dependence until it is necessary for socialising and career etc.
- Comment on OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models 2 weeks ago:
We moved to m365 and were encouraged to try new elements. I gave copilot an excel sheet, told it to add 5% to each percent in column B and not to go over 100%. It spat out jumbled up data all reading 6000%.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 2 weeks ago:
The cows yearn to be milked.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 weeks ago:
Accenture is an Irish consultancy firm that did the same.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 2 weeks ago:
You could save nearly a couple hundred a year in most instances. LG have a dev account path, android is relatively simple I hear and various foss apps and patching apps will cover most.
Google are undeserving of more money
- Comment on IGN Boss Leaving After Six Years Following Latest Mass Layoff 2 weeks ago:
I cant specifically remember what IGN did to make me avoid it. There was a revoly.on reddit years ago that stuck with me.
They also rank shit games high and are a but boring, but I think maybe there was a lot of ads or something.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 2 weeks ago:
Fuck youtube and their shit premium pricing
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 3 weeks ago:
I buy merch or direct where I can. I generally pirate older stuff or stuff I would not pay for or cannot find anywhere. I got a rip of dogma and I wll buy the4k to encourage a sequel.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 3 weeks ago:
They do not want you offline.
I hate that it hangs loading for so lomg before admitting defeat and showing the offline listings.