spaghettiwestern
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding 2 weeks ago:
I want to know how to switch groups.
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 2 weeks ago:
How about a bot that types slowly, so it can have time to consider what it’s going to say? Or perhaps a web page with an “Analyzing problem” status bar that takes several minutes to complete, because computers just do better if they’re given time to work on a problem?
- Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding 2 weeks ago:
Another example of Republican principles. Corporations are protected by laws but not bound by them, while the average citizen is bound by laws but not protected by them.
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 2 weeks ago:
“We’re always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience.”
LOL!
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 weeks ago:
Overdrive’s being phased out and being replaced by Libby according to the 2 libraries I frequent. I wonder if it will still be supported on Kobo OS once the website and apps are shut down?
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just Amazon. Libraries (and Libby, the app they use) are also making it difficult to do anything but read in a browser or use Kindle.
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 3 weeks ago:
The really amazing thing is that spez’s planet-sized ego created the whole user exodus. People were willing to pay a monthly fee to continue to use the site ad-free via our mobile apps. Hundreds of other companies remove ads when people pay fees, but all of that revenue is just gone along with a big chunk of contributors because spez had a tantrum.
- Tesla has sued customers and journalists in China — and won most times, review findswww.cbsnews.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 3 weeks ago:
“NaziAI” has a real ring to it.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
I have mine behind a Pihole too. It blocked all the ads at first but Roku seems to actively varying the ad servers and they’ve started showing up again. I haven’t had a chance to see if I can block them again.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
Roku is chocked full of ads too, and regularly sets the default for the “Select” button to open those ad sites or apps. Roku used to be great. It has now been completely enshittified.
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 6 months ago:
I have a convertible laptop with a MicroSD slot. A 4TB card would be great for backups.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
This would be of limited use for many people. Carriers lock people in by selling lots of phones that are missing frequency bands and cannot be used on their competitor’s networks. For instance, many of TMO’s phones cannot be used on AT&T and Verizon’s networks. My Oneplus 9Pro is a great phone, but if I wanted to switch to Spectrum (on Verizon’s network) or AT&T I would be forced to buy a new phone.
Some phones like the Iphone and Pixels are compatible with every U.S. network, but plenty of others are not.
- Comment on TeamViewer responds to security 'irregularity' in IT network 8 months ago:
Teamviewer has a history of lying about serious security breaches. The company’s networks have been breached before and they literally spent years denying it and blaming it on their customers: securityweek.com/teamviewer-confirms-it-was-hacke…
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 10 months ago:
An article about how to bypass the account requirement from February of this year:
tomshardware.com/…/install-windows-11-without-mic…
It requires numerous steps to bypass the account requirement or the creation of special installation media.
Perhaps the screenshots you posted were accurate at some point or in some situations, but you need to do better research before accusing others of spreading misinformation and stop spreading it yourself.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 10 months ago:
Regular users are absolutely forced to use a Microsoft account, no matter how tired you are. People shouldn’t have to be techies to keep their information private.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 10 months ago:
Windows 11? Let’s see here…
Spyware/malware since that infamous Windows 7 update sending everything (including passwords) to Microsoft. Ads spread across the UI in W11. Simple features disabled. Bing Internet search results in the Start Menu that can’t be disabled unless you edit the registry. Search engine in the Start Menu cannot be changed. Numerous other previously simple settings changes that now require registry edits. Menu items gone, and others that still exist but inexplicable have been removed from the Start Menu search. Edge browser forced down your throat no matter what you set as the default browser. Upgrades that you can’t do at your convenience and forced restarts that happen even if you have open files that you’re editing. Long (sometimes really long) upgrade restart times. Forced Microsoft account use to install and use the OS. Internet access required to even install the OS. Absurdly inflexible hardware requirements that make no sense for most people. A taskbar that can’t be moved. Numerous programs and garbage spread through the OS that cannot be removed or disabled.
Besides that, what’s not to like?
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Where do you think you are? The E.U.?
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 10 months ago:
Linux is actually becoming easier to deal with than Windows in many cases. Microsoft has removed so many settings fro the GUI that editing of the Registry has become required even for simple things. That’s much less user friendly IMO than backing up and editing a text .conf file.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
Assumptions, assumptions… My company is a communications company and actually produces networking equipment. Almost no one uses Ethernet because we have the knowledge and experience to implement reliable wifi. Perhaps your company should hire us since they’ve done such a bad job with their own implementation.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
Sorry to hear your company doesn’t care about productivity.
My company produces networking equipment and actually knows how to implement reliable wireless and wired networks. If your company’s wifi network is unstable it was not designed and implemented correctly.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
Don’t most of (maybe all) dell and lenovo laptops come with ethernet ports by default ?
Nope. Ethernet ports are gone. >
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
And in the offices I worked in nobody had a docking station. They aren’t everywhere.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
Lol! One Ethernet cable in a conference room? What if someone else is using it? Next you’ll proudly state that you carry an Ethernet switch everywhere you go. But, you be you.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
Not my last job with a Fortune 100 company. Nearly all of us used wifi all the time. Our engineering and software development groups did use desktop computers with Gig E though.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
My last job was with a Fortune 100 technical company in a sales position. No one used a docking station and no one bothered with an Ethernet cable. Neither did any of the customers we dealt with. People with desktop computers were wired up but most everyone else used wifi all the time.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
Moan and groan all you like, it doesn’t change the fact that wireless is almost always an option and wired is almost never an option.
Even desktop PCs come with wifi adapters. Finding a laptop with an Ethernet port is damn near impossible.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
Long time since you bought a laptop, or even looked at them? Even most of Dell and Thinkpad mobile workstations no longer include an Ethernet port.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
You do know that laptops no longer even come with those “make do” Ethernet ports, right?
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 11 months ago:
It’s absolutely making do. Having to plug an Ethernet cable in every time you take your laptop to someone else’s office, break room or conference room simply doesn’t work.