twinnie
@twinnie@feddit.uk
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 1 week ago:
I honestly don’t mind as long as it’s down with permission. At least Microsoft are trying to do something interesting, computers are so boring nowadays. You could take any of the operating systems and wind them back five years and I probably wouldn’t notice.
- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 1 week ago:
Everyone keeps blaming the aliens but I didn’t that they were that bad a fit. But the movie was terrible and at that but where LeBouf started swinging through the trees I was ready to walk out.
The newer one’s not too bad though.
- Comment on Serious Sam 2 was just updated after 20 years in celebration of its anniversary 2 weeks ago:
I always thought this was the weakest one. I loved TFE and TSE.
- Comment on Google Chrome to revoke notification access for inactive sites 2 weeks ago:
Has anyone ever let a website send them notifications?
- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 2 weeks ago:
Can’t they just reduce the tax on drinking in a pub so they can take more profit from what’s spent? Most alcoholics drink at home now anyway.
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been doing this for years now. Over the past ten years I’ve probably only bought about five games that were over £15.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never been asked for any of this stuff but I think it’s literally because my email account is so old.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 4 weeks ago:
Labour tried to introduce it about 20 years ago but it got killed.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 4 weeks ago:
I’ve just been reading the BBC article on it and it says that every other party is against them being compulsory. I don’t think this’ll make it through.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 4 weeks ago:
Now Reform will start piping up about how they will block this and they’ll get even more votes. Between this and the age verification stuff I’m almost considering voting for them but I can’t stand the idea of Nigel Farage being PM and they keep trying to emulate Trump.
- Comment on BBC ignores funeral of 31 Yemeni journalists murdered by Israel 5 weeks ago:
What is this headline trying to insinuate? The BBC does loads of Israel coverage on the shit they’re doing.
- Comment on This game is fantastic. 1 month ago:
This game bugged me, it totally missed the SCP vibe for me and it put me off. I also found the combat pretty boring.
I always liked the way that SCP is about a bureaucratic organisation trying to control and contain these supernatural entities. In Control they live inside an entity and literally let one control the organisation. That just seems so anti-SCP to me.
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 1 month ago:
I was in France the other day and a restaurant on the beach started playing it. Not sure they understood English around there. You’d think they’d know the word Christmas though.
- Comment on Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? 1 month ago:
I do this, it’s been one with other providers but I don’t use Netflix.
- Comment on Burkina Faso criminalises homosexuality in far-reaching family law reform 1 month ago:
Just a distraction from the shit state of the country.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
Everyone’s scared of Reform getting in and yet Reform are the only ones promising to reverse all this. All this is done based off the back of a 2016 survey where parents said they were worried about kids watching porn on the internet, but the survey gave no indication of what a solution would look like and gave no online age verification and banning VPNs.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 2 months ago:
How do these sites even know ads are being blocked? What’s to stop the ad blocker just downloading the ads and simply not showing them?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Giving birth is the easier part. At least you’re surrounded by doctors. When you get home and you don’t have a clue, that’s relentless.
- Comment on I replaced my truck's rusted out muffler 2 months ago:
I have to replace mine soonish. One of the brackets on it has broken and I’ve never gotten round to replacing it, even though it’s only £100 for a new one. What’s with the angle grinder and drill? Aren’t they just bolted on?
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 months ago:
I expect we’re eventually going to start seeing AI in more sensible places and these NPUs will prove useful. Hopefully soon the bubble will burst and we’ll stop seeing it crammed in everywhere, then it’ll start being used where it actually improves a product rather than wherever an LLM will fit.
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 2 months ago:
Thank God we’ve got the government here to protect us.
- Comment on Vibe check! 2 months ago:
BCDC
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 months ago:
I don’t see why people hate Spotify so much. I used to go out and pay £10 for an album decades ago, multiple times a month sometimes. Now I can basically listen to anything for the price of an album a month. Plus, you can play Spotify on just about any device, even all the open source solutions that Netflix blocked like 15 years ago. On top of that it’s Swedish rather than American.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 2 months ago:
Im genuinely curious as to what themes and DE you’re using that looks better. In Windows everything is slick and polished, stuff slides and bounces around, the colours are consistent and work together, it’s all pretty elegant. I’m using KDE right now and all that I get is the start menu thing changes shade when I hover the mouse over it. I also use Gnome and XFCE, Gnome is pretty good and XFCE is obviously really basic.
- Comment on What are the easiest types of internet videos to make that are not slop? 2 months ago:
Reaction videos I guess, but a lot of people are doing that.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 2 months ago:
I say this as a Linux user, Windows is still considerably easier to use and it certainly looks a lot slicker.
- Comment on The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir 2 months ago:
The couple claimed that their house got repossessed by the bank and that’s what inspired them to do this big walk that the book’s about. Turns out that when the author was unemployed a friend helped her out by getting her a job at the company run by her husband. The author then went on to steal loads of money over the next few years and nearly drive the company bankrupt; causing loads of grief for the company’s owners and causing lots of mental problems like depression, etc. The author eventually got busted and had to agree to a payment plan which they didn’t keep up with, and that was the point their house got repossessed.
- Comment on Day 381 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I liked this game but the combat really killed it for me. The enemies just move too quickly and in a game about conserving ammo it was way too hard to reliably hit them.
- Comment on Fiber 2 months ago:
This sounds amazing.
- Comment on Don’t Turn That Old System On, First Take It Apart 2 months ago:
No