Fubarberry
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Gal Gadot is just a more feminine Tommy Wiseau 1 week ago:
Probably comparing her acting in the new Snow White movie to Tommy’s acting.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
I feel like this won’t stop anyone who was already refusing to use a Microsoft account for windows. Anyone who was already bypassing the account requirement will still do so, it just will be more difficult. They’ve accomplished nothing except further pissing off some of their most competent user base.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Definitely agree. Most printers are sold at a loss with the plan to milk the buyer long term through ink and other services. EcoTank printers are more expensive, but Epson makes their money at the time of purchase. The ink is extremely cheap, and there’s no way for them to tell if you use 3rd party ink at all. We’ve been printing out textbooks with ours, which would be financially disastrous with a traditional inkjet printer.
Overall I’ve bought two, one for home and one for the office at work. The cheaper ink has paid for the printers several times over now.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
You won’t see much about protests until we’re closer to the next election.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 5 weeks ago:
Awesome, thanks!
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 5 weeks ago:
This is a pretty good writeup, would you consider cross-posting it to !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz?
- Comment on All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation 1 month ago:
Haha that explains where you got the number from, but still have no idea how you remember it. I suppose they do provide a helpful jingle.
- Comment on All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation 1 month ago:
How did you come up with that username?
- Comment on All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation 1 month ago:
This is also nice because every state doesn’t have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.
- Comment on All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days 1 month ago:
That still seems like a wildly high buyout.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 months ago:
I asked mistral/brave AI and got this response:
How Many Rs in Strawberry
The word “strawberry” contains three "r"s. This simple question has highlighted a limitation in large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4 and Claude, which often incorrectly count the number of "r"s as two. The error stems from the way these models process text through a process called tokenization, where text is broken down into smaller units called tokens. These tokens do not always correspond directly to individual letters, leading to errors in counting specific letters within words.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 months ago:
There’s also a “r” in the first half of the word, “straw”, so it was completely skipping over that r and just focusing on the r’s in the word “berry”
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 2 months ago:
I was installing chrome on a work computer, and windows defender was automatically flagging the chrome installer (official, directly from google) as malware and deleting it automatically as soon as it was downloaded. It wasn’t blacklisted for very long, I was able to download it without issues the next day, but I always have wondered if that was something they were testing out on purpose or not.
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 2 months ago:
I feel like Microsoft is way more shameless about their shady stuff. They’ve been messing around with impersonating google/chrome for awhile now, they recently had that thing where they would copy all your open chrome tabs, and then when you started your computer it would open edge with all your chrome tabs to trick people into using edge instead.
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 2 months ago:
Yeah that would be it:
Previously, we were limited in how we could apply our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection on Microsoft tracking scripts due to a policy requirement related to our use of Bing as a source for our private search results
I couldn’t remember the details exactly, but basically up until then they were allowing Microsoft tracking despite all their advertising claiming they wouldn’t track users.
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 2 months ago:
Microsoft does so many scammy things when it comes to trying to prevent people from using Chrome/Google. Even though Edge/Bing hasn’t caught on, I really think them abusing windows dominate OS position this way should be enough for an antitrust lawsuit.
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 2 months ago:
DDG was letting Bing track users. They may have stopped now that they got in trouble for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Cursing frequently seems like a sign of immaturity honestly.
- Comment on Former PlayStation Executive Says Its Time To Dial Back Game Lengths 4 months ago:
AAA games are clearly too expensive to be sustainable. Every new big games has so much money behind it that it can’t afford to fail, leading to a bunch of highly risk-adverse design decisions. With a few exceptions, players are increasingly having to turn to indie games and AA games for unique experiences because AAA games are getting bland.
I’m not convinced that game length is the main issue though. There’s a ton of game mechanic bloat, and far too many games are open world when they would probably be better as a more focused experience. Graphical improvements are also getting increasingly less important, with it getting harder and harder to see new improvements. Switch/indies/AA/etc clearly show that you can have great looking games without spending a huge amount of money on chasing realism in graphics.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 4 months ago:
Yeah, for all people here complain about every web browser being chrome, the average web browser experience is so much better now than it was when Microsoft controlled the typical web browser.
Google is far from perfect, but the chromium project has resulted in a generally good browser. But I have serious doubts about the future of the chromium project in the hands of Meta or some other tech giant.
- Comment on Brazilian Wandering Spider 5 months ago:
Alternative wording is gives you an erection for the rest of your life.
- Comment on ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton 5 months ago:
It’s based on top of the new Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) that recently had a first release, along with protonfixes to ensure everything works as well as possible.
Cool to see UMU starting to show up in the wild. And since it plans on using a compatibility list for games to automatically set up games correctly, the more UMU gets used the better it will become.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 5 months ago:
Windows is absolutely abusing their position as the dominant OS to push their other products. The number of “no don’t do that” messages and pop ups when trying to install chrome on a windows computer is clearly anti-competitive, and the only reason microsoft has been getting away with it is because Edge/etc hasn’t achieved enough market share.
- Comment on New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S. 6 months ago:
Do you live off grid?
- Comment on New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S. 6 months ago:
Definitely seeing that where I live. One of the local electric companies started offering gigabit fiber for $75, where most people were paying a lot more than that for DSL or low quality satellite (which were the only choices before). It’s been a huge improvement for those people, and it’s forced some of the long stagnant Telco companies to actually compete and start rolling out fiber of their own.
- Comment on What can be the reasons for self-sabotaging behaviours when it comes to relationships? 6 months ago:
I think some people sabotage relationships for the same reason they throw video games. They have fears/suspicions that it’s going to not work out, and rather than be a victim they want to have some control over the outcome. A loss or failed relationship doesn’t hurt as bad if they caused it to end the way it did.
However in your case, it sounds more like a fear of something different. It’s a lot easier to keep things like they are, when a relationship gets too serious or life impacting it can be easy to be scared of the change, and instead subconsciously decide you want to keep things like they are.
- Comment on Shadows of Doubt Review Thread [~70 avg, ~70% recommend] 6 months ago:
These scores are lower than expected, possibly due to issues with the console port.
I can vouch for the PC version being incredible though, I highly recommend it.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 6 months ago:
I’m not a lawyer: Many companies are updating their terms requiring that disputes are settled through arbitration, usually where a 3rd party selected by the company rules on the disagreement.
It’s meant to protect them from excessive lawsuit payments that can happen when you go to court.
Valve went the other way, and is saying that all legal disputes should go to court instead.