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- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Uhm… Yes. Like a lot.
- Comment on WTF is wrong with Killing Floor 2? 5 months ago:
It’s currently on a free weekend promotion on steam. You can play it either way.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 7 months ago:
That’s… Exactly what I was talking about. Master of the content.
I am fully aware that the windows search hides things that you are actually searching for. Particularly if they are system preference apps.
Also, I bailed as well. I use windows for work and school, otherwise I’m on linux.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 7 months ago:
They want you to use the search instead of a functional interface. That’s why they keep making the interface worse.
It let’s them spy on you through bing, allows them to fill the results with ads, and let’s them hide system applications unless you know exactly how to find them.
Its also them gearing up towards funneling the entire UX through copilot for largely the same reasons.
The entire goal is to flip the operating system from the slave of the user to the master of the content.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
I mean… Yes? I hate this idea and Roku will lose me as a customer over this, but yes they are specifically targeting screensavers. Idle time is ad time to these people.
- Comment on What can we do when something is too vast to provide representative examples for? 8 months ago:
The whole existence of an abrahamic God is self defeating at its basic premise.
If God is all knowing, all good, and all powerful, then he either designed all of this, including Satan, as some fucked up experiment, or he is not perfect and he messed up somewhere.
There are no other options.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
Because Tesla was fixing significant safety issues without reporting it to the NHTSA in a way that they could track the problems and source of the issue. The two of them got into a pissing match, and the result is that now all OTA’s are recalls. After this, the media realized that “recall” generates more views than “OTA”, and here we are.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 9 months ago:
Isn’t that because it can desync the actual keyfob?
Nvm… Clicked the link. That’s exactly why you shouldn’t do that.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 9 months ago:
Don’t forget paperclips, string, and aerosol cans. Hell, we should probably just ban wire altogether.
- Comment on Kagi is now partnering with Brave 10 months ago:
Kagi can go fuck right off with whatever guerilla marketing program keeps constantly putting it in my face.
It’s clearly not organic growth, and I will never try it because now I don’t trust it.
- Comment on What do you use to mount encrypted drives on boot? 11 months ago:
I’m not sure if this is helpful to you or not, because it’s not what you asked. I just don’t mount them on boot though.
I have a script that requires a unique password that decrypts everything. If that hasn’t been run, then the server starts emailing me every 15 minutes until I do.
The server is not setup to reboot unless I manually tell it to or there is a power outage, so logging in to run the script has never really been an issue. At most, I’ve had to SSH in from my phone maybe a handful of times.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
That’s the point my friend. The articles and the resolutions are mudying the water.
Finding one post that states “on October 12th, my adblocker stopped working and the resolution was to update the block lists.”
Searching three months of varied news articles all related to the issue and with completely different resolutions.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
Yes, they are rolling these changes out in stages to make it harder for the internet to collectively address the issue.
Trust me, you will get hit eventually.
- Comment on PSA: Try FreeCAD Link Branch (it's a big improvement!) 11 months ago:
I’ve been spending this weekend learning FreeCAD as well. Although I have found it frustrating at times, I’ve felt like its mostly just very unforgiving about “bad design”. For example, freeCAD has been working best for me when I actually sketch every single element out. Every face, every cut, every pocket is part of a sketch and then a 1 step operation. If you design like that then FreeCAD is actually quite powerful, and I’m starting to like it.
- Comment on PSA: Try FreeCAD Link Branch (it's a big improvement!) 11 months ago:
I know a bunch of people already told you that they are not the same program, but this is the way I always think about them:
Blender is like modeling with clay. You mold it, push it around, and stick more pieces on here and there.
FreeCAD is like modeling with building blocks. You measure the part you need and select the block’s that build that part. You can also swap out blocks for different blocks at any time.
- Comment on Finally got around to trying a .6 nozzle. 11 months ago:
What slicer are you using? I’m using Cura and I vaguely remember that being the reason why I didn’t do that.
- Comment on Finally got around to trying a .6 nozzle. 11 months ago:
It’s an ender 3 pro with the stock hot end, but it’s also running klipper and prints at 60mm/s
- Comment on Finally got around to trying a .6 nozzle. 11 months ago:
I also use .6 as my standard nozzle. Since the stuff I print is usually custom brackets and cases, a bigger nozzle would be even more ideal. The problem is my stock heating can’t keep up with anything larger than a .6
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
Yes, but car, home (or renters), and health insurance are required for the average person because all of those have a reasonable chance of absolutely bankrupting a regular person for life at any moment.
The alternative is to pay more taxes and have the government provide the insurance, which may or may not be better. There are pros and cons to both.
Either way though, you need the safety net that insurance provides.
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
I mean… Yea. Yea it is. They want to:
- Fill the thing with ads
- Control the entire user experience
- Track everything you do in that experience
- Prevent users from accessing any low level system changes
- Fill the thing with ads
They’re not even being subtle about it:
“The Copilot is like the Start button,” Nadella explains. “It becomes the orchestrator of all your app experiences. So for example, I just go there and express my intent and it either navigates me to an application or it brings the application to the Copilot, so it helps me learn, query and create — and completely changes, I think, the user habits.”
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
I have been playing both of those on proton with little issue, and I’m not positive that the issues I experienced are exclusive to linux.
- Comment on Kagi search has improved their ultimate plan 1 year ago:
Yea they are all over the place, and it is clearly not organic.
It makes me heavily distrust them.
- Comment on Is my ZFS partition properly setup? 1 year ago:
Ubuntu has ZFS on root as one of the options in the normal graphical installer. I have it running on multiple machines.
- Comment on My self-hosted home setup 1 year ago:
It’s not, look at postgres under both DB in the last picture. That’s not just the same writing, it’s identical.
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. 1 year ago:
Donald trump was never elected by the people in the first place, and he abused a ridiculous system created to fluff up the power of states with comparatively few people living in them. When that didn’t work the second time around, he started a misinformation campaign and flat out attempted to undermine the democracy our nation is built upon in multiple ways.
Including him in your comment destroys your otherwise excellent point, because the Donald is exactly the type of person that would abuse this system to censor information he didn’t like.
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
In this case it’s probably a case of repeated porch pirates. Or one of their neighbors ordering a bunch of stuff and reporting it stolen even if it wasn’t.
The scenario they are describing is more work for the driver, not less.
- Comment on 'Stunning' discovery: Metals can heal themselves 1 year ago:
“Autonomous healing of fatigue cracks via cold welding”
That’s the literal name of the paper. I’m quite over this story getting pumped around the internet. This is not news. This is not novel.
- Comment on Scientists observe world's 1st repairing metal — are self-healing robots coming? 1 year ago:
It’s cold welding, and not even in a novel way. They used a vacuum and pretended this was some new phenomenon that we haven’t known about for around the past 80 years.