YurkshireLad
@YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse 21 hours ago:
Any half decent company would fire its CEO after that disaster.
- Comment on Mozilla is launching a free built-in VPN on Firefox 149 — but with some conditions 1 day ago:
Sorry Mozilla, I just switched to waterfox.
- Comment on Microsoft quietly scraps plans to bring Copilot to notifications and Settings on Windows 11 as it moves to reduce AI bloat across the OS 4 days ago:
I just updated Linux and Windows on different drives on the same laptop. Fedora took 2 minutes to download, reboot and install. Windows? 20 minutes.
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 1 week ago:
So the MOFOs have FOMO?
- Comment on Microsoft gaming head Phil Spencer is retiring, replaced by an AI exec who promises no "soulless AI slop" 3 weeks ago:
My brain read it as “AI soup”. Oops.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I think it’s McNallyOfficial.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 5 weeks ago:
It’s possible. Sorry I can’t remember the name.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know the answer but there’s a guy on YouTube who easily opens all locks, sometimes by just hitting two together or by insert part of a beer can to, well I’m not even sure what to call it. It’s interesting stuff.
- Comment on Epstein files leak personal passwords including #1Island and ghislaine 5 weeks ago:
Mostly Trump, so he could throw everyone under the bus?
- Comment on Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes 1 month ago:
Maybe the patch will get merged in.
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 2 months ago:
Who are “they”?
We use MariaDB at work but I don’t know why it was originally chosen over PostgreSQL, as that was before my time.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 2 months ago:
Microsoft aren’t content with 20 different UI styles in windows, they need a 21st. Especially after they saw the latest iOS design.
“Hey! Let’s take the new iOS design but without the transparency!”
Desperate move, desperate times.
- Comment on Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill 2 months ago:
That’s pretty good!
- Comment on Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill 2 months ago:
How much storage is it using?
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 months ago:
Revenue and data.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 3 months ago:
THIS is the year of the Linux desktop!
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 3 months ago:
I wonder if ZorinOS gathers runtime statistics and can tell if those new installees stick with Linux or switch to Windows or MacOS.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 4 months ago:
“more pervasive”?
Must have been auto corrected from “more invasive”.
- Comment on Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet 4 months ago:
I’m sure the police will notice that crime suddenly only happens when it rains.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 4 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s my phone or wifi, when home, but Apple Maps will often be incredibly slow, or just refuse to display tiles when I zoom in or out. Particularly if I change the zoom by quite a bit in one action. It’s very frustrating.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 4 months ago:
It’s all about portraying authority and trying to give off the “trust me” vibe.
I’d love to see an interviewer respond with a bizarre hand gesture in response.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 4 months ago:
I worked in a couple of pubs in england back in the 90s and there were definitely regulars that would come in every weekend night and quite often, some week nights.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 5 months ago:
The iOS app on my phone doesn’t have that option.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 5 months ago:
Hopefully they improved face tagging. I can’t work out how to add a new person’s name.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 5 months ago:
Awesome! But damn, I just installed
v1.144.1last night to play around with it. 😁 - Comment on Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to his Gen Z factory workers: ‘They were saying [they] had to have three jobs’ | Fortune 5 months ago:
“CEO of company that produces cheaply made, sub-standard products realizes he underpays his staff”?
- Comment on Electronic Arts to be bought by Saudi-led consortium for $55 bn 5 months ago:
Anything involving Kushner is bound to involve a quick downward spiral.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 5 months ago:
Windows 11 will turn this into a 486.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 5 months ago:
Exactly!
“We hate the fediverse! Join us on our Lemmy server in the fediverse!”
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 6 months ago:
Copilot? No thanks!!