Cris_Color
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world
Hello, my name is Cris. :)
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 day ago:
Dude that sounds rad! Thanks for mentioning them and explaining what they are, I’ll have to check that out!
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 2 days ago:
What is radio free fedi?
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 3 days ago:
I mean, if you can factory reset a phone to strip the need for authentication, that seems like kind of a bad thing, no?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 5 days ago:
I think thats fair, but I don’t get the impression most folks who eat meat consider it wrong at all, never mind in such a black and white way. I have a lot of respect for vegan ethics and even I have mixed feelings on whether I consider it explicitly wrong or immoral
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 5 days ago:
I don’t think something like duckduckgo is gonna be the eventual contender to take on google. I think it’ll have to be an engine with its own index or some kind of lateral solution.
Something like brave, kagi, qwant, or stract could maybe turn into something exciting with more momentum, but honestly I have a hard time seeing them be the kind of scrappy competitor with a new approach that unseats the old king who has lost their way in pursuit of more profit at the expense of product quality. None of them seem like they truly have a new approach, but only time will tell how that story plays out this time.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 5 days ago:
I think it takes a while for that kind of competitor to emerge and gain enough traction to become a genuine alternative option. The primary option everyone long since adopted kinda has to suck for a while :/
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 days ago:
I think you’re pretty out of touch with how most folks experience eating meat. I don’t say this as a personal attack, but I think the emotional experience you’re ascribing to folks who do eat meat is inaccurate
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 days ago:
As much as I’d like that to be true, I’ve definitely still seen vegan spaces online that are intensely alienating and hostile 😅 when I was using reddit, often anything from r/vegan that hit r/all was pretty hostile to anyone who hadn’t already decided it was an important issue for them and made big lifestyle changes accordingly, adopting veganism.
To be totally honest I’ve also never seen any beef industry propaganda encouraging people to hate vegans or resent veganism. If you can think of any examples off the top of your head I’d be curious to see them (if nothing comes to mind thats fine, I don’t intend that as a gotcha)
I’m not vegan (grew up with an eating disorder, not in any position to cut stuff out of my diet or make eating more complicated/difficult, though I have a lot of respect for vegan ethics) but I am a big nerd about open source stuff and linux, and I’ve observed similar things in that space. I have a friend who’s averse to open source stuff because folks have evangelized to her aggressively and with the same sort of superiority complex many folks perceive vegans as having. I’m grateful she’s excited to listen to me talk about the stuff I’m excited about anyway these days, but I’m careful not to make her feel pressured to drop proprietary software she’s using for open alternatives because I want her to feel respected even though she’s not invested in this thing I care about a whole lot
I think when you work hard to adopt a big change for reasons you’re proud of, it’s easy to view yourself as superior for having learned the thing, or made the dietary change
- Comment on SBC Case Builder v3.0 can create thousands of cases for popular SBCs and standard motherboards 1 week ago:
Dude thats dope!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not the person you replied to- you could consider adding a correction or [sic] or something while still including the original headline unedited
Hope you have a good day :)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Honestly my experience with pop OS hasn’t been great, which is a shame cause I’m rooting for the folks at system76
Though I also think it might be kinda hard to compare performance in that way with respect to the idea of the post, since you often use different applications for the sorts of resource intensive tasks where you see performance impacts, or the cross platform software available may be better optimized for windows. Which is absolutely relevant, it makes no difference to the user, but I think the post is meant to suggest that windows 11 just leaves a ton of performance on the table relative to what windows 11 could be like if it was better made
This is mostly just me thinking out loud into the void, I don’t intend to argue with you, I just like talking to folks and sharing my thoughts
Hope you are well :)
- Comment on Why I Lost Faith in Kagi 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate your added context and perspective! Thanks for sharing :)
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 4 weeks ago:
You’re very welcome, thanks for your initial post laying out a bunch of the options for folks to think about ☺️
Hope you have a good one!
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 4 weeks ago:
Brave uses its own index. It used to be supplemented with results from other engines but I believe they have now phased that out.
Brave is the best of the free options in my experience, and it supports “bangs” which let’s you send your querry to a different engine (typing “how far is it to the sun !g” will pass the search to google. Duckduckgo also supports bangs), this is especially helpful for image searches (!gi for google images) since braves image search sucks dogshit 😅
Quant seemed like the second best free option in my experience. Some people don’t like brave as a company for various reasons, so quant may be a good option for those folks. Its my understanding that Mozilla has worked with quant in some way, which is kinda neat.
Both have their own index making them a sustainable/viable option going forward, where meta search engines that use other engine’s results are at the whim of those they fetch the results from (but may provide better results by piggybacking off a larger successful engine)
- Comment on Please contribute your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! 5 weeks ago:
My 3Ds has never been played, I assume there’s nothing I can contribute here?
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 5 weeks ago:
ಠ_ಠ
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
Dude thats so cool! Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Very tactical 1 month ago:
I want those electric blue hot-pants
- Comment on I made this song! 1 month ago:
Fuckin weird, I love it
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 2 months ago:
I expect the latter
- Comment on Everyone agrees 2 months ago:
I mean I don’t exactly see stance cars out on the highway often, but maybe thats my area and when I’m awake. I think they’re usually more of a project you take to car shows/meets or whatever cause they’re lowered so far they scrape all the time in regular driving and the suspension can’t work without a meaningful amount of travel. Though it could be bagged (riding on air suspension that can rise and lower).
I think they look silly and they’re definitely not practical, but I don’t know that stance cars actually end up being a safety hazard, so I’m not inclined be judgey other than to say I don’t personally like them. I could be wrong about the level of risk they pose people day to day though- in which case my stance would change.
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 2 months ago:
Super interesting perspective. As a person with a complicated relationship with gender it’s always seemed purely like a nuisance to me: that it would only further complicate the conversations about gender that are already so semantically tedious and fatiguing in English.
I appreciate you broadening my perspective to include more than one way of looking at the subject
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 2 months ago:
The problem is that most of the things it feels we can currently see applications for are… Kinda bad. Actually repulsive frankly. Like I don’t want those things. I don’t wanna talk to an ai to order my big mac or instead of just getting a highlighted excerpt from a webpage when I search things. I don’t want a world where artists have to compete with image generators to make a living, or where weird creepy porn that chases and satisfies ever more unrealistic expectations is the norm. I don’t want to talk to chat bots that use statistical analysis to convincingly sell me lies they don’t understand.
I just wanna talk to actual people. I wanna see art made by people, I wanna look at pictures of the bodies of actual human beings, I wanna see the animations that humans poured their soul into, I wanna see the actual text a person wrote on the subject I’m researching. I wanna do simple things, in simple ways, and the world that it feels like AI companies are offering us honestly sucks, and as soon as that door is fully opened things will just be permanently worse. Convenience is great but I don’t want a robot to feed me a weird gross regurgitation of reality or approximation of human interaction to me like a bird that chews and digests its food for its babies. I don’t wanna consume the spit-up of an overgrown algorithm. Its a gross idea of how we could engage with the world. It obfuscates the humanity of whatever it touches, and the humanity is the worthwhile part. There comes a point where the abstraction is abstracting away everything of value and leaving you with the most sanitized version.
If ai was just gonna be used to improve medicine and translate books or webpages, or as interactive accsessibiltiy tool, or do actually helpful shit maybe I wouldn’t be so opposed to it, but it feels like everything consumer or employee facing that ai is offering is awful and something I absolutely do not want. But companies don’t care, and that shitty world is gonna be the reality cause it’s profitable
- Comment on efficiency 2 months ago:
The desks are clouds…? How would clouds even remotely look like desks??
Was this supposed to say rocks? I’m so confused 😅
- Comment on I made a Game Boy chiptune version of GIRL HELL 1999 by Femtanyl 2 months ago:
Thats fuckin dope! Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Please form an orderly line if you want to beat this dead horse 2 months ago:
The only explanation anyone should accept. Thank you.
- Comment on Icon pack creation tutorial with Android Studio ? 2 months ago:
I was thinking of something more akin to an open source app that developers would take and populate with their icons. If you download a ton of icon packs you’ll notice many of them share the same ui. I’m familiar with icon pack studio, and yeah that’d be a pain lol. Its helpful sometimes to fill in the gaps when I want something basic, but I was thinking of something different. I wish I knew a better way to describe it, or more about what projects folks might be using to package their icons for people, but this is really beyond my area. I’m much more an art/design nerd than a technical person
And thats totally fair :) welcome to android, and I hope you’re able to find what you need to customize things the way you’d like!
- Comment on Icon pack creation tutorial with Android Studio ? 2 months ago:
This isn’t something I’m particularly familiar with so this comment is largely just engagement, but I will say it seems like a lot of icon packs use some kind of template app that they populate with their icons. So the app will be the same but with assets swapped out for the given icon pack. It might be worth looking for some of those templates folks use for publishing icon packs
Maybe someone who knows more about this could chime in with more info
Also worth knowing about if you enjoy customization are kustom live wallpaper (KLWP) and kustom widget (KWGT), which aside from icon packs are often kinda the bread and butter of android theming. Custom launchers are also good to know about, nova launcher seems to be the gold standard to many when it comes to customization features (though they were recently acquired by an analytics company which has raised some eyebrows from privacy focused folks, though I’m not actually aware of any specific problems that have been identified at this point)
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 2 months ago:
Really appreciate the perspective, thank you for sharing
- Comment on 10 Spices That Make Your Food Last Longer 3 months ago:
I would assume the same is true for honey, since honey is just a solution of sucrose and glucose thats high enough in concentration of those sugars that it won’t mold, but it will if you dilute it