Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of a Russian drone manufacturer: what is known 9 hours ago:
it depends if the one that’s tech savvy enough to prevent that it’s paid enough for his job, or if the money allocated for that went to fund the yacht holidays of some general
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 19 hours ago:
Try to run it on 4/8 gb RAM (officially supported configuration and many brand new laptops still are sold with 8gb soldered) and experience how worse is compared to w10
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 19 hours ago:
ChromeOS is going to the Google graveyard, to be replaced by android
(Maybe this is a good thing as Chromebooks have an expiration date averaging 3-5 years where they stop getting Chrome updates, when if it’s android can get updates to the browser for a much longer time AND have Firefox as default)
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 1 day ago:
Realize what? They’ll say “fucking Biden, look at the state he left the country”
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
Instead of buying a license for a game for $70 you subscribe to a rental service that gives you access to 500 games for $10/month.
Or, instead of buying a $500 console or a $800 PC you just buy a $60 controller and you stream those games running on “the cloud” (=someone else’s console) for $15/month
Problem is that the service is provided by Microsoft at a loss and when they’ll get enough critical mass, they’ll enshittify it.
The economic proposition is good, but I think it’s just to teach gamers that “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy”
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 1 week ago:
That data is independently researched or Samsung gave that to the EU and it’s published as-is?
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
now they try to backtrack by giving another year of w10 updates if the user:
- logs in with the microsoft account
- enables backup to onedrive (presumably filling it so they can nag all the time “hey buy our cloud subscription”)
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
question: if i’m using steam in linux under wine, it counts as windows or linux?
- Comment on I've written a series of blog posts about a "hands-off" self-hosting setup intended for relative beginners. 2 weeks ago:
Set up automatic updates
Immich
You like to live dangerously, right?
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
You mean Teams or the other incompatible Teams, with the colors inverted on the icon?
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 weeks ago:
Imagine a country, they spent billions over the last two centuries to build influence and they got to the top. Foreigners are willing to pay thousands of dollars for getting a degree in such country but no, let them go to a different country and get influenced by somebody else
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s completely impossible to create a fake account that worship trump and has a lot of maga posts
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 3 weeks ago:
nah it’s a lazy fork so seeing how he chooses people (they’re either cheap or friends of friends or both) “truth” can easily have a totally new security issue
maybe the server has a root password that’s “trump454748$$$”
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 3 weeks ago:
And then retrain on the hallucinated knowledge
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 3 weeks ago:
From the color and the amount of liquid in the result picture I seriously doubt that the core went even over 40 C
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 4 weeks ago:
the channels you follow
I knew they would use that info for targeted advertising
It’s Facebook 101, let the users themselves tell you what they like
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 4 weeks ago:
But the world’s best professional bullshitter wrote on Truth that it’s built in the USA, it’s not a China phone
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 4 weeks ago:
Ugh at work I was forced to use MacOS and i find i3 + arch way more intuitive than that.
Very nice eye candy but every keyboard shortcut is stupid on MacOS, productivity is ruined
Also window tiling is stupid too on MacOS
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 4 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to read from which part of China this “American built” phone is made
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
They saw the horrors that our species can do in wars and promptly left the planet
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 5 weeks ago:
It depends by the size (smaller is less taxed), but the law is old and it’s exempt only if under 1gb
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 5 weeks ago:
70s? My country every year still steals from everyone millions of euro “because that phone can be used to watch pirated content”
We pay 7 euro on each smartphone, 7.50 on each USB drive, up to 18 euro on each internal drive (sata or name, but under 160gb is free) and products are castrated with regional firmware because if it’s just a TV then it’s 4 euro tax, but if it allows recording it’s the 5% of MSRP
- Comment on [JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS. 5 weeks ago:
So it will censor stuff as requested by governments
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 weeks ago:
I think it is extremely hard because they are served from the same servers (technically, ads are YouTube videos)
And if the logic on the client isn’t removed, it will hang waiting for the ad
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 weeks ago:
Android, option 3 (Better): newpipe from fdroid. 0% algorithmic feed, exclusively show who you’re following, in chronological order
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 5 weeks ago:
It is a serious problem when it’s not possible to know if a screenshot of a “truth” is actually true or it has been faked
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 month ago:
I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
When phones were made of plastic, yes
Like the Google Nexus 5X (with a vinyl on the back because they chose the shittiest rubbery coating that get sticky with permanent fingerprints)
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 1 month ago:
The headline seems to imply that the real news is that the “Obese woman” has FIVE lovers
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 month ago:
Problem is that it had bidens sign on it, so he was forced to kill it without even taking care of its contents