MrFlamey

@MrFlamey@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or mine on Vivaldi. It was showing me the notice the other week, but seems to have stopped now. Either they are now time limiting youtube before the ad blocking thing comes back, or uBlock upped the ante.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great, but I honestly hate the way that windows treats zips like they are just folders on your computer when they are fundamentally different, and I want to do different things with them. Sure, it’s nice to be able to browse the files inside, but I can do that with 7zip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well can’t they just call it Meta Threads or Threads by Meta if it isn’t already, and nothing has to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there have been mistakes, but calling them incompetent is a bit of a stretch. Yes, it’s an absolutely eye watering amount of time and money, but they are trying to make an online universe with a high level of detail in which you can move between planets and all kinds of environments completely seamlessly. If they weren’t trying to make something with such a high level of difficulty, then I suspect they would have released a finished product by now, but they are making stuff nobody has made before, at least not at this scale.

  Perhaps inability to scale things back is a bit of a problem, but I think Chris Roberts realises he’s not likely to get a chance to get a basically unlimited amount of money (in game dev terms) to make the ultimate dream game he and many other people always wanted, so I’d imagine that’s the reason they are just going all out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. When I can’t be arsed to grind beans and boil water. Doesn’t taste as good, but it’s fine with a little cookie or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this before or after it destroys the economy for everyone but the super rich by replacing them and making them compete for fewer and fewer scraps? Sorry, there will be lots more new jobs created by AI probably, like AI wrangler, AI safety consultant and the like. Probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’d only bought fewer iPhones and avocados you could have bought a 5 bedroom house with 3 garages, a pool and a white picket fence and take a holiday abroad twice a year. You just need more discipline, pull yourself up by the bootstraps*!

  *I am now going to research what bootstraps are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I can tell, they aren’t doing a very good job. I’ve seen the notice that an ad blocker is not allowed, and even without upgrading the ad blocker I use I can still just click the close button on the notice and it goes away and I can continue to watch uninterrupted.

  If Google does figure out how to prevent people from using ad blockers on YouTube, I think it will help me break my honestly unhealthy habit and reduce the amount I watch, or perhaps even quit entirely, since there are far more ads on YouTube than there were in the past - especially if you also include sponsor ads that are embedded in videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Konami’s Motocross Maniacs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s basically the new Trump, in that for five years you could not escape Trump’s fucking face on every website you visited. Perhaps Musk isn’t quite that level, but he’s not far off. He’s in the news an insane amount, and it’s basically as annoying as Trump, only is not quite as ugly or stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even understand why Windows 11 exists. I thought Windows 10 was meant to be the last version and then it was continually upgraded. They never add any particularly good new features, so I’m happy with security updates and staying behind a few months on feature updates to avoid being a beta tester.

  Oh, and Windows 11 removed the ability to put the taskbar on the left or right, and I would have thought that perhaps teams of engineers and designers paid 100k+ in a trillion dollar company would be able to make that a reality, regardless of whether or not it’s only 1% of users (millions of people) that use that feature. I heard the right click menus have been fucked up by some idiot as well, and the sad thing is they probably spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make them that way, after many many depressing meetings and someone had to task it all out in Azure, whilst gradually losing the will to live, just to eventually make an already existent feature worse. Nice job Microsoft.

  I’m happy to wait until Windows 11 is at least at feature parity with Windows 10 and thoroughly tested before I “upgrade”. I suspect some things got better, but it isn’t worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I heard that usage on desktop is something like 1 in 4, which is pretty good. Mobile is another world altogether, since it requires different browsers that support adblocking and then accessing websites through the browser instead of the app for the website, which many users would definitely prefer to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Closing the tab and moving on with life is what I do when a Twitter login prompt or paywall appears. I’ve often thought it would be better for me to unblock ads, at least on timewasting sites like Youtube, just so that I get pissed off by the ads and close the tab, making it easier to stop wasting time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t really argue with that. Downloading large files while on the move is going to be very unreliable, and you also don’t want it to happen on your mobile data. I guess I can also see why some of you guys are paranoid about things making the machine overheat, or an unscrupulous OS vendor using the feature to spy on users. Windows Update was one of the worst experiences I had with an OS trying to force my hand, and the thought it could “upgrade” when you think the machine is off would make it even worse.

  I was probably just annoyed that my laptop gets hot when the lid is closed and wondered why it can’t just do whatever the hell its doing more efficiently, and partly jealous of the way Apple seem to be able to implement all these nice features properly, but Microsoft just changes the wallpaper and whether app windows have curves on the corners or not in each update of Windows. Perhaps it’s time to try Linux again now I’m not forced to use software that is Windows only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, but I hope it would be something that is able to be enabled or disabled by the user and easily configured to avoid using too much power or data. I was just unsure of why PC laptops seemed to apparently lack the ability to sip power when not in heavy active use, such as when the lid is closed. It’s not the electricity bill, but the battery running out when not on AC power, or the laptop getting hot and generally being inefficient when it’s supposed to be a mobile device that bothers me about just having it keep working as normal with the lid closed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the excellent response.

  I wonder if Valve will try to implement it in Steam OS for the Steam Deck’s successor, as a lot of people complained about the lack of downloading while asleep after the Deck was launched. It would still need cooperation in hardware I assume, but they were able to get resuming games working, so it doesn’t seem like an insurmountable problem if there is enough desire from both gamers and Valve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Intel did make efficiency and power cores separate parts of their CPUs a few years ago, and I wonder if AMD’s can do something similar. Perhaps if Intel and AMD would work with Linux Kernel developers and Microsoft on this feature we could see “power nap” like functionality in the future. Personally I’d like if whatever we had on PC was a bit more configurable than power nap seems to be though, allowing users to set allowable power budget, battery saving conditions and exactly which tasks can run in this mode as well as some power tracking features like on phones to see which apps are using the most.

• Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The system goes on-online August 4th 2023. Using a virtual city model Tesla Autopilot begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time, August 29th. In a panic, Elon tries to revert to manual driving mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just eat whatever. I’ll eat the fucking box if enough sauce has gotten on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android 14 Features | Android Authority⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wish they would fix the back gesture to never take me back to the home screen, or at least give me that as an option. It’s the one thing that frustrates me to hell on an almost daily basis when I’m using Android. I don’t need another gesture that takes me to the home screen, and especially not one that often closes the app I was looking at altogether, meaning it needs restarting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people just not use the YouTube subscription feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I try to only use the subscription feed because the home feed is addictive. I installed the unhook addon to block as many recommendations and other algorithmic things as possible, and try to just search when I want to find a particular thing.

  However, sometimes I find myself running out of ideas and just disabling unhook and watching a few things from the home feed before reenabling it and going back to subscriptions only. I think if I also disabled ublock, youtube would be infinitely less addictive, since it would shove ads in my face constantly, and I’d soon get fed up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So he bought the users and is hoping some of them stay while he rebrands? Or he genuinely just wants to destroy Twitter? I just have no idea what this man is doing, but perhaps he’ll prove us all wrong and show that he really is a genius in a five years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think listening to audio only (no video wasting bandwidth) with the screen off and Youtube Music seem like actually valuable things to have if you do a lot of driving. I don’t listen to Spotify at home, but when I was driving a lot I sure did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhm, so what extra value to subscribers did they add recently? Is it just a case of Google’s costs going up or simply their need to make more profit to delight shareholders?