hornedfiend

@hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Trump dreams of a civil war. That will be the perfect excuse to hurry the slow dictatorship takeover.

  That is slowly happening anyway, while people are still having wet dreams of democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While I hate LLMs with passion and my opinion of them boiling down to them being glorified search engines and data scrapers, I would ask Apple: how sour are the grapes, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I mean technically paypal was a rather innovative idea for its time, but again, the guy basically associated himself with smart people that had bright ideas.

  Yes, he does have a knack for growing businesses to a larger scale, but most millionaires/ billionaires do, cause they outsource brain matter and decision making to a select few.

  I’m not sure if I ever liked the guy or his largely exaggerated marketing, but being a POS nazi isn’t helping either, so i’m biased towards nazi hate I guess. Either way, he will need a paradigm shift for people to accept him back into the decent human beings club. I do hope he will find a way, but doubt it really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but credit for what? For being born privileged and buying talent? If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em, right?

  Yeah, I guess he deserves praise for being a good liar and basically selling pipe dreams?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to go iOS because of… reasons,but you can sideload modded youtube app, with sponsorblock. exactly as on android,but with many headaches like token expiry every week and other bullshit issues like google not allowing IPAs directly in github repos.

  Lame, but it can be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth saving this article for future class actions. Go go go!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, most radicalized chats are on Telegram, or so we were led to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catchiest video game song?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  for me it’s perhaps Metro Exodus end scene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is true, given everyone used good quality nvmes, which is not always the case, but honestly, 1Gbps fiber is enough for a home with multiple users. Even if, assuming the storage is not the bottleneck, unless you need often very large lan transfers should be more enough with 1Gbps.

  Anyway, I guess i’m sidestepping the initial topic. bottom line: cool cheap tech for companies, not so much for home users.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s fine. iphones are so cheap, people can handle even 50% tariffs. apple is worth every penny /s.

  going to buy a cmf phone 2 now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when doing that, the bottleneck is the storage write speed. you can have 1Tb internet connection and it wouldn’t matter unless you have enough users in a home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never watched any of his videos. They just don’t appeal to me and never have. However, given his apparent fame, it’s good for linux.

  The more people acknowledge linux’s existence, the more engagement, the more growth.

  Here’s hoping someday Windows will be a nasty memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always “Recall” how shitty windows is, whenever I see the word mentioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I read somewhere they want to buy Chrome from Google if they are forced to sell. So not many changes, just switching owners who ultimately do the same thing.

  i’m not a Chrome user, so screw both google and perplexity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t forget the rudeness of some people. they behave like the whole building is a hotel and they can do whatever they damn well please.

  If it were up to me, I would obliterate this concept. Hotels are for holidays, not people’s houses where everyone brings along their holiday brains and are being generally disrespectful towards the communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe Sam Altman should invest in LLMs that appreciate his insights and pretend to give a shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • cries looking at iphone remembering the good old “free” days.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I would totally move to GOG, however my entire games collection is on Steam, so it would be very very difficult and it’s rather tedious to have and use 2 platforms like that.

  Oh well, I do hope they can get more people onto their platform. it’s a better Epic store for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I guess there is no universal answer and it obviously can’t be some generic method of achieving this,but what I did was to explain in detail how MsOffice is basically just a standard because people made it so out of convenience and lack of true alternatives and it’s not cheap, plus whatever is made freely available by a corporation means it’s actually you paying with your data for it.

  It’s a process and you’d have to convince him to at least allow you to show them side by side or explain how it’s always up to date and you don’t have to throw money at it every x years just because it’s called MsOffice202x, because the benefits of upgrading are not worth the money.

  It ain’t easy, I know… but I am also providing support myself when requested, which can become a headache fast, especially with “difficult” people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I managed to get my father in law to fully switch to libreoffice, which is in itself a great achievement, as he’s almost 70 and he used to be an msoffice user for most of his adult professional life.

  Libreoffice is just great and Europe should start backing and using more open source, non greedy corporate backed projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i’ve had none of those issues and i’ve been a jellyfin user for the past 5 years or so, but I do use containers for the server.

  Android client is not great, but there are alternatives like Findroid, which is pretty great.

  Last point is literally a couple of clicks. You just need to understand what libraries are and how to add them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EA doesn’t open source old games: EA are scum and anti-consumer.

  EA open sources old games: EA are scum and anti-consumer.

  If it’s good it must be bad, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was planning a holiday in the US this or next year, but decided not to proceed with it. I’d rather go anywhere else now really. Currently for me Russia = India = China = North Korea = USA now. Plenty of european countries I’d rather throw my money at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  tell me about it. i’ve recently been sort of forced to switch from android to ios (some special circumstance) and holy shit, the virtual keyboard is atrocious.

  I would immediately jump on a blackberry keyboard phone when and if one ever gets released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Ends on January 5th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  only for it to be a safari wrapper on ios…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not really the same thing but it could happen to anyone: reuters.com/…/apple-pay-95-million-settle-siri-pr…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My brain is always struggling with upping a post,when the context is so vile. I just don’t understand how could this kind of angry POS people exist and the education their parents are giving them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump calls for prosecution of Google over search results he says favor Harris⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude’s always been crazy. Nothing to see here.