chronicledmonocle
@chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
- Comment on Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options 1 day ago:
Why would a USB accessory need PoE?
Zigbee 4 support lacking in it is disappointing.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I know speculation is fun, but until we know the price officially, all of this is moot. Wait until next year when they announce actual pricing and judge it then for its value.
I, personally, don’t think it’ll be a successful product if it isn’t less than $800. They don’t have to have it cost console prices, but it does need to be at least somewhat within spitting distance. If the price is the cost of an Xbox or Playstation plus, say…a year of their online service subscription, I think that could be marketable.
If it’s closer to a grand, it’ll be a flop like the first Steam Machines.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 days ago:
I don’t understand the obsession with presenting the terminal as “the best way”. There are literally app stores on every Linux distro for normies to use. Installing LibreOffice from Flatpak in Discover is literally “Search” and “Click Install”.
For those of us who love using the terminal…sure…but that’s not most people.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 days ago:
I’ve literally never heard of someone “asking for” Cortana outside of the C-suite at Microsoft.
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 6 days ago:
I had a Gen Z person ask me how I got a “3D printer save button” when I had a floppy disk for some reason.
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 6 days ago:
You tell we’re all old as fuck Millennials, because nobody else would make this joke. Lol.
- Comment on Finally. 6 days ago:
Would anybody even notice if Google Cloud Platform imploded, since nobody uses it?
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 week ago:
My Roborock is genuinely an important cleaning tool for keeping my messy house with three kids clean.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 1 week ago:
At least he doesn’t have to worry about it. God can’t inhabit his brain because it’s non-existent.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 2 weeks ago:
I suppose, but I’m skeptical of car manufacturer claims, too, until independent testing is done.
I hope this is real and think it’s awesome, but will wait to see if they exaggerated.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 2 weeks ago:
Until someone tests it independently, this should be considered BS.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 3 weeks ago:
That’s just what they fucking want you to think.
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds 3 weeks ago:
All WiFi routers should run OpenWRT or another open source solution. There is nothing in these black boxes that needs to be closed source. They’re WiFi and NAT FFS.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 3 weeks ago:
At least in the rest of the world you don’t end up with crippling debt when you try to get mental healthcare that stresses you out to the point of committing suicide.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever read in my life.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 4 weeks ago:
Not really surprising. Windows hasn’t had significant investment from Microsoft in a while, unless it’s cramming bullshit AI and telemetry “features” in.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 4 weeks ago:
Nice idea to make Xbox and PC one platform, but given how badly the ROG Xbox handheld was implemented (since you can’t play Xbox games on this “Xbox”), good luck with that.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
It’s just a search engine choice.
I agree with the sentiment, but this is quite possibly the least offensive idea Mozilla has had in a while.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 month ago:
Oh yeah. The DLC doesn’t add an incredibly large amount of content, but there are a lot of awesome nuggets in there. The Citadel DLC for ME3 is flipping hilarious and incredible, too. Easily adds 10-15 hours of gameplay. Wrex’s “MOAR ICE” loves rent free in my head as one of the funniest ME moments ever.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 month ago:
Yup. Especially with The Arrival DLC.
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 1 month ago:
Meanwhile in LibreOffice-land…
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 month ago:
Playing the Mass Effect Trilogy for the first time.
Sure the ending was a bit disappointing, but the ride was absolutely phenomenal.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
That is fair. My example was extreme, though. These people are just assholes. Do you throw away the code of an asshole because they’re an asshole?
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
That’s fair and I knew someone would make this argument. My example was a bit of an extreme, though. These people are assholes spreading asshole-ry. Not murderers.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
See…when it comes to open source, it’s a little different for me:
I don’t support or condone any of these pricks, but I can mentally divorce, somewhat, the open source code contributions from the person, because their contributions are useful. If this was a closed source solution, it’d be different, because the code wouldn’t be released into the community. There are a lot of weird, closet-dwelling shut ins that fall into the extremist margins.
A lot of early medical knowledge, for example, was acquired from…less than morally clear ways. So do you just take that information and throw it away on principal? Does that make the death and pain of those people for nothing? Or do you use it and don’t condone the person or their actions? This is a difficult moral choice to make that is heavily debated by philosophy, media, etc. There are entire SciFi TV episodes, movies, and books written about just such a debate.
That said, I don’t know the usefulness of Hyprland. I’ve never used it and I feel like it’s pretty niche, so I’m surprised Framework aren’t telling this person to fuck off.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If you add --delete-before, it absolutely can delete stuff.
- Comment on this level is amazing 1 month ago:
Which Batman game is this from?
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 1 month ago:
EA has no values, because they’re a soulless, shit hole company, so they’re not lying (this time), I guess.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 month ago:
I know Plex is a business that has to make money, but if I hadn’t bought a lifetime pass for $50 a decade ago, I’d have dropped them at this point.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 2 months ago:
Devices don’t “need breaks”. This problem is indicative of a memory leak, which means they coded something shitty.
Sure, playing for 7 hours straight is excessive, but this shouldn’t happen.