JigglySackles
@JigglySackles@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 2 days ago:
Por que no los dos?
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 3 days ago:
What’s the evidence of the name being scrubbed? Is it just that the Jews still use Yahweh and Christians don’t usually? I’m curious and would like to have backing if I repeat that at some point.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
Same people that lease cars and buy macs I guess. Ones that don’t care about anything other than the small subset of things they need and don’t want to hassle with anything else and have expendable income.
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 week ago:
It’s more work than the people saying that give thought to. I’m I’m the process of switching but finding replacements for the apps I rely on is no easy task.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 1 week ago:
And I’m with you. I think learning languages and other cultures is essential to a well rounded individual. I think more languages should be taught. I was just offering up a possible explanation as to why it may not be emphasized here in the US.
A lot of the bullshit here stems from a capitalist utilitarian mindset (ignoring the “fear of melanin” bullshit). If it doesn’t observably generate profit it’s looked down on. It’s why many of the good things we had are being systemically torn down by rich fucks.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 1 week ago:
LOL perfect. The thunderstorms were the only thing I missed when I lived in other places too. Love a good thunderstorm.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 1 week ago:
The problem in the US is that besides English, you might be exposed to some Spanish. And not much else unless you seek it out. Or have immigrant friends. Without consistent practice, and some more native speakers, any learned language just rots away.
I learned German for several years in college. It was fun. Went to a local brewhouse with my classmates and talked in simple german while we had dinner, it was a good time. Now, other than my own attempts at saving my whithered skill, and a couple bedtime songs for my kids, I don’t use it.
And even when I was better at it, using it as a tourist in germany was moderately helpful, but it wouldn’t have been nearly enough skill to pass any kind of immigration language proficiency exams.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 1 week ago:
I figure if some place is selling Jesus merch to amass wealth, it’s not intended as a holy item and shouldn’t be treated as one. Stomp away. Lol
That said though, the company demanding damaging product before chucking it is just shit tier behavior.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 1 week ago:
Speak for yourself. Love and miss that cooler, predictable weather. Sick of this shit where I send my kids to school in 30 degree weather and pick them up in 70-80 degree weather. ALSO…IT. FUCKEN. WIMDY. And to top it off stank ass Bradford pears spaffing into the breeze through spring and summer. Oh and lots of tornados every year. Oklahoma weather is bullshit.
- Comment on What's going on with lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago:
How did you find info on it? Never quite sure where to find info on an instance if the instance disappears
- Comment on GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple 2 weeks ago:
That’s definitely an opinion of all time. I think a lot of the replies cover the rant though.
- Comment on GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple 2 weeks ago:
Yup, I always hit FDroid first. I often look at alternatives to apps as well. I ditched Swiftkey as I mentioned. I’ve switched to organic maps for mapping but I hit the google maps website for business info. And lastly I’ll go to Aurora.
- Comment on GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple 2 weeks ago:
Not the person you asked, but fellow Graphene user here. I don’t whole ass into everything so I still grab a few things from the play store, but I use Aurora instead of play. The details on apps and ability to install older versions of apps is fantastic.
I honestly haven’t run into a con yet. It’s been equally or more stable than even AOSP for me so far. I’ve been on it for several months now.
Maybe one con might be that a non savvy user won’t know what to do with everything. Even if they don’t though, there is so much that’s just default in support of privacy and security they will be miles better on Graphene than on another platform.
I did decide to find a few alternative apps to replace ones I had used previously. Finding an alternative keyboard to swiftkey was the biggest pain but worth it. I got Heliboard and installed a swiping library and once I got the dimensions of the board dialed in it has been an excellent replacement.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 month ago:
It is a unicorn. I dread the day Gaben dies and Valve ends up going public. It feels like the last bastion of decent online services.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 month ago:
Until they lock it up where you can’t. Or they’ll decide on selling data and injecting ads into your convos or streams.
In other words this hasn’t been enshittified to the max yet at all. There are new and horrible depths to explore.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 month ago:
Prescription method does wonders for focus. Lol
I’m riding the same struggle bus and there are a lot of us. More like a struggle cruisliner, or struggle ark. Keep up the fight. I know it’s exhausting, but don’t let the bastards drag you down.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 1 month ago:
…fuck off.
- Comment on I should assume I'm not going tomorrow, right? 2 months ago:
Because all you bitches are supposed to have therapy to help you get over petty anxieties like talking on the phone. 😋
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 months ago:
I see about 3 I’m either interested in or played. CP2077 is definitely worth getting into. As is Baldurs Gate 3 from what I know of it.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 months ago:
Older stuff, nearly 100%. New stuff, still really high to nearly 100%. The only place you’ll run into trouble is with devices made with only windows drivers etc. So things like a USB label printer or glucose monitor or something like that.
Computer hardware though, very unlikely to see an issue. Servers use both the CPU and GPU. And most servers run some flavor of Linux.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 months ago:
What’s Realtek done? I haven’t kept up on them.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 months ago:
I’ve hated and avoided 11 since I first experienced it. After Xmas I had to help setup my parents new PC. It of course is win 11. I spent so much fucking time getting that shit just to a usable state. I’m more convinced than ever to fuck off from MS for good.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 months ago:
My favorite feature is honestly so simple. Denying network permissions during install.
- Comment on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you 2 months ago:
Yeah I was going to mention that incident. I see way more porn VNs on steam than on GOG.
- Comment on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you 2 months ago:
How much of that (the game related stuff rather than the GOG specific things) is due to publisher/developer restrictions I wonder.
Didn’t know about most of that though. Very disappointing hearing about non-drm-free games too. That’s the main and definitely most important reason I’ve been buying things on GOG. DRM free with an offline installer.
The only one not bothering me is the porn games. As long as I can filter things with a default filter if it gets annoying, I’m not bothered buy any type of game being sold there.
- Comment on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you 2 months ago:
In what way?
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 2 months ago:
I’m stoked to give it a try. I left my last PDF application because they injected AI into it. So I’ve been shopping around a little. I’ve been using Okular, but it’s really limited, even as a viewer. This looks awesome. Nicely done! I hope you keep at it!
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 2 months ago:
Lol wait seriously? Surely those are a joke.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 months ago:
New taskbar from ground up. And despite all the requests to bring the feature back, their reasoning amounts to “we’re too lazy”
- Comment on Open Fodder, an open source port of the classic Cannon Fodder v2.0 released 2 months ago:
Lol fantastic. My uncle introduced me to this one when I was a kid