Geth
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- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 21 hours ago:
Isn’t that the same case for Facebook, Instagram, x-twitter?
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 day ago:
Tbh I learned a lot about other cultures through tiktok and recently the US have proven that no matter how much chest pounding about freedom they do, they can be just as authoritarian as any other, even ignoring the invasion of other countries, literally murdering their citizens in the streets and abusing women and minorities, so the app being owned by a Chinese company was not really as big of an issue as others have made it out to be.
Now that ownership has changed, there’s an active suppression of american sensitive topics on the platform, so that’s already a visible downgrade.
I wish someone more neutral could offer a real alternative that people would jump on.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 6 days ago:
I have a nagging feeling the general public does not hate Microsoft as much as computer nerds do and so probably overall their image is muddled to not that bad overall.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t actually catch the info that they managed to bribe officials to stand down so this is a pretty satisfying answer to my question. Thanks!
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 2 weeks ago:
Crazy. Thanks, I couldn’t find similar cases when I looked. Considering all the other coups the US has done, this is just a time honored tradition for them.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 3 weeks ago:
You see, I thought you can’t just go in a foreign country and kidnap the leader…
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 3 weeks ago:
Technically you are right, but we already know the us is in love with Israel so them having nukes would have no effect on the hypothetical situation of clearing out the trash in that particular country.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 3 weeks ago:
Does pakistan have a particularly problematic leader? Or why are we taking about them?
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 3 weeks ago:
North korea didn’t have them for the longest time. None of the middle east countries have them to this day. I wonder if Rusia would even retaliate like that, I suspect not.
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- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 4 weeks ago:
What control are you losing by going with esim? They already had you by the balls with the physical sim. Now its just more convenient and esim is also globally defined/accepted.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 4 weeks ago:
Usb-c has already proven itself to be reliable, it was designed to be reversible, it is easy to insert and remove with good tactile feedback and is compact while having lots of versatility. All traits I would love to see in an universal power plug.
To me USB-A was what schuko is today. It works and is mostly fine but I’m sure we could do better if we put our minds to it. The problem with todays plugs and sockets is they all work just about, enough that no one with any authority is going to bother with the topic. Any improvement needs to be by an unrealistically huge margin to be worth the investment required.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. It’s best technically but worst for the end user. I am an end user and I would hate to be stuck with that monster of a uniderectional plug. I don’t care that it washes my dishes for me if it doesn’t fit in my bag and kills me in the night when I step on it.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 4 weeks ago:
We can’t agree which one is best. When Tom Scott proclaimed his home plug to be the best I scoffed. I thought my own home plug is better. But in reality I think they all suck in their own way, every single one of them.
I think a new more research driven approach like the USB-C design would be better, something that protects your fingers, is easier to locate when behind furniture or in the dark, works in more than a single position, is not going to stab you if you leave it on the floor, does not get stuck in the socket, I think it might even be possible to add a fuse without making it larger than a typical phone charger, but to be honest, the smaller the better. One can only dream.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 5 weeks ago:
I framed that a bit weird, what I meant is that as far as steam and the stats are concerned I disappeared off the face of the earth for the last 4 months, when in fact another old game has consumed me.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 month ago:
Looks like this year I played exactly 0 new games. But what steam doesn’t know is that in September I started Cyberpunk on GOG and haven’t dropped it since. Has to be my game of the year now.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 2 months ago:
Can’t really remember the last time it wasn’t a horrible time to build a PC.
- Comment on Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month 2 months ago:
Was it really easier to post this question instead of reading the article?
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
Proton locks automatic email forwarding behind a subscription, so if you ever want to move away from them but not immediately lose any emails that go to that inbox, your only choice is to pay.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I still remember the time of the great Miele shilling by the vacuum repair guy. Every thread about vacuums had the same conversation about how only this single company is the best company of all. It worked, my brother bought one of those vacuums.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 2 months ago:
So immch is dead before it even matured enough to be reliable? Sad.
- Comment on AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline 3 months ago:
Forced upscaling and blurry TAA is compensating for the fact that they can’t push graphics much further on the hardware we have. The current hardware progression has stagnated, combined with the fact that we are seeing more diminishing returns in graphics as they improve, requiring more power to deliver less of a noticeable difference.
But it doesn’t mean these games won’t look great when you disable the fakeness and run it with brute force GPU power 10 years from now.
I honestly think the current graphics we can achive are fine and where the true improvements should come from are better animation and actually good art direction.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Humans are the ones that are harming and dividing us. If religion is gone they’ll find a new way to do it. Us vs them mentality is part of human nature and has always attached itself to anything that can be called ours vs theirs. Religion, politics, sports, skin color, language, the fucking phone brand you use, you name it.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 5 months ago:
I liker Cyberpunk 2077’s soundtrack so much I incorporated that specific style of music in my general listening habits because of it.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 months ago:
It’s also why I think people say they don’t want lemmy to change, that they want to filter out people, whenever the state of the platform is discussed, how it’s not user friendly and properly thought out to be scalable.
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 5 months ago:
What is it with everyone being obsessed with porn censorship suddenly? Why is this a trend?
At first I thought it’s about control and data gathering, but this seems like too much of a genuine attempt at such a system. Why is the government so obsessed with parenting and nannying the citizens?
- Comment on Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up 5 months ago:
Individual countries already have their own versions and an EU level version is beeing rolled out. Let’s see how it works out.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 6 months ago:
The protocol is 30 years old. It has been replaced 3 times over by thunderbold. The connector doesn’t fit on most modern devices and has been replaced by usb-c.
Why would anyone want it back?
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 6 months ago:
Is the wish to bring back an outdated communication protocol or an outdated connector?
