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- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 13 hours ago:
Been pretty happy with Linux for the past year or two.
A few minor problems here and there. I was struggling to figure out how to adjust the screen brightness (pop!_os defaults). Found a command line tool to adjust gamma - my girlfriend was a little baffled. Then I realized I should just adjust the brightness on the display itself, on the hardware.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 13 hours ago:
I (cis man) always fully close the toilet when it’s not in use. Never would occur to me to do otherwise.
Some of my women friends leave the seat down lid open, but then their cats drink out of the toilet.
- Comment on Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% 16 hours ago:
Full time Linux here. No complaints.
Been playing expedition 33 and vampire survivors.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 3 days ago:
I’ve read your post a dozen times and I’m confused.
Are you at the $5 million cap in this scenario? You’re certainly not going to waste away with $500k/year coming in, labor free.
Or are you closer to median income of like $80k, and thus have no funds for a big passion project?
Either way, you can always pool resources and form an organization of some sort. We don’t really want a ton of power collected in individuals. Especially not if the only reason they have that power is because they had money.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 3 days ago:
No one needs more than $5 million. That’s enough for a conservative investment portfolio to give you a mid six figure income without doing any labor. Watch TV all day and eat chips, still net six figures.
Maybe then no one can afford mega mansions and mega yachts, but I’m okay with that. We don’t need that much concentration of wealth.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 6 days ago:
I fundamentally disagree that users should not be allowed to install whatever they want from wherever they want.
You can install whatever dodgy file from wherever you want. I (and many others) don’t think that should be the default
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
I know it may be hard to believe if you only browse Lemmy (like myself), but the average person actually likes these so-called “AI” tools or at least a significant amount of them do.
This is probably true but makes me sad. I tell all my friends not to use the lie machines but a bunch of people at work use them all the time.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
I don’t think there’s any evidence that AI needs to be baked into the browser. They have a robust extension ecosystem for this sort of thing.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
Microsoft doesn’t have to compete very much. They’re not a monopoly, probably, but a strict definition. Apple exists. Linux exists and is better than the terminal hell the average person thinks about. But that’s not enough pressure to make microsoft actually try to appeal to customers. Most people are basically stuck.
We should break up all of these companies that are so big they can coast with shitty products for years.
- Comment on Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers 2 weeks ago:
Hacker should make the phones explode or something. Trash startup funded by trash.
- Comment on AI Vending Machine Was Tricked into Giving Away Everything 2 weeks ago:
What an incredibly stupid thing to do. LLMs are not the correct tool for this problem. Especially not like this.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
Apparently there’s a couple free games. Never played
100% Orange Juicemyself but a friend was super into it when it came out. - Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
I think part of it is a lot of stuff goes on deep discount repeatedly. Like Overcooked is $2. That’s a steal. But I already have it. If this was my first steam sale, I’d be super excited about that.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
Nioh1 was pretty okay. Never finished it. Nioh2 is one of my favorites in the genre, and I play it like once a year. It’s an improvement in every way.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 2 weeks ago:
The data center haters are the strangest, to me. Because there’s this default assumption that data centers can never be powered by renewable energy
Opportunity costs
- Comment on Video game hardware sales had a historically bad November in the US 2 weeks ago:
People don’t have a lot of money to spend. All the money being sucked up by rich assholes.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
How will it reduce demand for parking? Do you envision the car will drop someone off and then drive away until it finds a parking spot that’s farther than the person would want to walk?
That sounds like a very hard problem , and people wouldn’t be happy waiting 5-10 minutes for their car to navigate back to them. Or it would just cruise around looking for parking, causing more traffic.
Cars could tailgate like virtual train cars following each other at highway speeds with very little separation, lanes could be narrowed to fit more cars side by side in traffic, etc.
Once again reinventing buses and trains
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
It took like 100 years to build the car-hell we have now. It’s going to take a lot of time and effort to fix it.
And people are, famously, stupid. They’ll fight like hell to avoid change, but once it’s in they’ll fight like hell to keep that change.
Plus there’s a lot of selfish idiots that need to be overridden.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
So leave that problem for later. Let them keep driving themselves, and focus on improvements where people actually live.
Most people live in or close to cities.
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2 weeks ago:
I learned today that the board of directors at this huge multinational non-tech company I’m at wants 80% of people using AI, and has a target for lines of code written by AI.
Both of those are insane.
The lines of code one is extra double insane. People knew lines of code was a shit metric in like the 90s.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 2 weeks ago:
You have to be careful at low skill/knowledge levels, because it’ll happily send you down a crazy path that looks legitimate.
I asked it how to do something in oracle SQL, because I don’t know oracle specifically, and it gave me a terrible answer. I suspected it wasn’t right so I asked a coworker who’s an old hand at Oracle, and he was like “no that’s terrible. Here’s a much simpler way”
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 2 weeks ago:
I found it’s useful for code where I know like 70% of what I’m doing. More than that and I can just do it myself. Less than that and I can’t trust and diagnose the output.
I’d rather have old fashioned stack overflow and tutorials, honestly. It’s hard to actually learn when it just gives answers.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have the means or motivation to do research now from the couch, so I’ll concede you may be correct. However, I think it might be even safer to take those same billions of dollars and invest them in mass transit and other infrastructure changes. That would mean fewer car accidents, less pollution, nicer spaces, healthier people, healthier economies, etc. private car ownership cannot be the long term solution. If it’s not an outright dead end, it’s certainly a side street instead of high speed rail (if you’ll pardon a strained metaphor).
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
Self driving cars are a great idea, but they aren’t a fix everything solution, they just one part of an overall solution.
Why are they a great idea? What are they making better? How is it worth the real and opportunity costs?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
Self driving cars have always been a stupid solution to the wrong problem.
We shouldn’t be investing billions in them. We should be investing billions in creating livable spaces that don’t need cars so much. Then people will be happier and there will be less pollution.
But I guess that’s not profitable so I guess we’ll just do idiotic garbage that gets people killed.
- Comment on Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, no. I mostly use the controller wired, anyway.
I did find some instructions that alleges to allow you to update the firmware in a VM: www.thrasos.dev/…/xbox-controller-linux-update/
Seems plausible.
But also my next controller won’t be Xbox, heh.
- Comment on Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I don’t have a spare windows machine, and I don’t think my girlfriend’s work would be happy with me installing the Xbox app on her laptop.
Oh well. Maybe someone will find a way to update it on Linux
- Comment on Celebrating anti-intellectualism is the biggest danger to humanity 2 weeks ago:
Tech giants have so much power in part because most people are kind of stupid and don’t want to think too hard.
“Don’t use that platform. It’s owned by a Nazi and pushing right wing lies” -> “uhh but it has memes lol”
- Comment on Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if you can do it in a VM, actually…
- Comment on Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading 2 weeks ago:
To fix these issues you must connect the controller to a Windows PC and update the firmware via the Xbox Accessories App.
Well shit. I don’t have a windows PC anymore.
Never should’ve gotten an Xbox controller. Always thought they were kind of shit, but my friends insisted they were the best and most standard.