Geth
@Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
Don’t use it if you don’t like it, but don’t give this bullshit Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda control of something just because you don’t like it.
It’s just as bad or good as any other algorithm based content app like Facebook or Instagram. If we have a problem with privacy for example then go after that like with gdpr.
- Comment on Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days 3 weeks ago:
Thanks MKBHD for not sucking corporate dick and actually showing issues with products and helping people make informed decisions on their purchases, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If I can’t notice a difference while playing games, web browsing, video and photo editing, and working in blender and cad software, what is left to define slow operation? It operating slow should be something noticeable for it to be an issue.
It used to be a problem in windows 98 days, I remember as much. And it is a problem on my work computer but that is day one config from the company, not over time degradation.
Like I said, I dislike windows and it’s dark pattern bullshit as much as the next guy, but performance has not been one of my issues with it on my personal devices.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That hasn’t really been my experience. The computers I own have had windows for multiple years. I tend to install it when first setting up and never again.
The work laptop has good specs but trash performance from day one that I got it. I had a laptop that I gave away that was much lower spec than the work laptop and it ran better in every way, probably because it had none of the bloat.
Windows in my opinion has huge issues in other areas but performance hasn’t been one of them in the last 15 years for me, probably in part because I avoid running any heavy services in the background.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I have that behavior as well, but it’s not a Windows issue, it’s all the bloat software that IT installed on it. It’s wild how much it kills this laptop compared to any other PC, not just in login times.
- Comment on Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden 1 month ago:
Wait, why would anyone have the right to free interpreters at any time? That sounds like such a waste of public resources and like you said, enables people to never even try to learn the language.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I’m sorry for you. But you can be the change you want to see. Break the cycle.
- Comment on What is the average temperature of earth? 4 months ago:
Genuine question, how would mass vs volume change the answer?
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 4 months ago:
that most real, non childish adults don’t care for? You are simply making things up. The reboot sold incredibly well, about 5 times more than the originals in fact, and received universal acclaim. People have grown up with the character and were happy to see that evolution. The original creator and you have become out of touch with the reality of this franchise.
Your expectation for things to never evolve and grow says more about you than you seem to want to face. But the same as you think that there are plenty of games that fill the void of deep narrative action games, I can say there are plenty of basic hack and slash games to go around, just go enjoy another one.
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 4 months ago:
David Jaffe is unhappy that his generic revenge puddle of spit character has actually grown in depth and is truly interesting now.
- Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 5 months ago:
Let’s imagine we have massive departments for each one of those, like 300 people average for each of your example areas. For me it’s insane just thinking about it considering what the product actually is. I’m still left with 7200 people unaccounted for.
- Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 5 months ago:
Something that I don’t quite understand about Spotify is why they had the amount of employees that they did in the first place. What were 9000 people doing for work on a music playing and recommendation website. I know they used to be highly innovative and disruptive a long time ago, but has that been the case in recent years? How were 9k people contributing to this already established web music app?
- Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam 5 months ago:
This exists in Sync for Lemmy. I couldn’t live without it tbh.
- Comment on Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI 5 months ago:
I’ll try it but honestly at this point I don’t see any hope for it anymore, when the difference between the name Karolina and Carolina is enough to confuse it. Like, I give it first and last name and it says it can’t find it even though it heard the name just fine but decided its written with a C instead of a K, so it doesn’t exist in my contacts.
- Comment on Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI 5 months ago:
Every time I try anything other than the most basic things, like setting a timer, it just fails miserably. It would be so useful for hands free operation in the car but even things like calling or navigating are broken beyond belief.
- Comment on Toyota trials hydrogen-powered vehicle on public roads in Australia 5 months ago:
Totally agree with this although it’s a uniquely an american problem. In my neck of the woods, cars are more sensible and I would still say there’s a lot more room for improvement, both in what people are alowed to take on the roads and public transportation options.
But the circlejerk that is fuckcars makes even the people driving the Renault Twizy seem like monsters.
- Comment on Toyota trials hydrogen-powered vehicle on public roads in Australia 5 months ago:
The fuckcars community has their nose so far up their ass, they think any kind of personal transportation is the devils spawn and no amount of improvents will fix that. In their eyes, everyone should be forced to live in dense urban environments and ride some kind of shared public transportation everywhere.
There are good talking points in their propaganda, for sure, but just like everything today, the echo chamber is so strong, they are now extremists on the matter.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I never used the site but as far as I’ve seen, whenever you encounter an asshole the only option was to skip to the next person. Was there a report button? A voting system might have worked, where down voted people or bots would be isolated and excluded from the community.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Not trying to take the side of any one in this conflict since it seems to be such a complete cluster fuck, just trying to understand. How does one go from terrorists attack and kill civilians, take hostages and hide behind other civilians, get attacked indiscriminately by Israel as response, turn into Israel is just looking to expand and conquer just like 40s Germany?
- Comment on Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up 6 months ago:
It’s very confusing because there’s settings for it in the apps, then there settings for it in your account and finally some instances don’t even federate with NSFW content so you have to check at all 3 levels to get it working.
- Comment on Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook 7 months ago:
How is a month of Facebook worth as much as a video streaming service like Netflix? How doest that value compare?
- Comment on An emergency FEMA alert test will sound Oct. 4 on all U.S. TVs, radios and cellphones 7 months ago:
This has never worked on reddit and there’s no reason why it would work here. That’s why subreddits had moderation and things that were posted in the wrong sub got removed.
- Comment on An emergency FEMA alert test will sound Oct. 4 on all U.S. TVs, radios and cellphones 7 months ago:
It’s not even tech news, really. More like a service announcement only valid in the US.
- Comment on Is there a labour-friendly car company? 7 months ago:
At least for cars sold in Europe often times they are still being assembled within the European Union even if in cheaper markets, so protections are still in place and strong. But cars are made of millions of components manufactured all over the world so there’s always at least some human suffering somewhere along the chain.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
In that time we’ve had new people come and experience a lack of apps, many that we do have today we’re still in the works a month or two ago. We’ve had performance issues, shitty Active sorting that still shows week old posts no matter how many times you refresh, we’ve had instances simply disappearing over night, we’ve had ddos attacks, we’ve had horrible content spam like CSAM and issues with extremism.
All of that with the cherry on top that signing up for Lemmy, understanding how it works and using it day to day is not as easy as a place like reddit. Who knows what the future holds for Lemmy.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Potentially interesting threads are often empty. It’s more like having 50k people in a metropolis and your going door to door to try to find them. Often they cluster around particularly popular spots and that’s it. Most of them are ghosts - they don’t post anything.
- Comment on Google Flights will now tell you when it's the cheapest time to book | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
My experience with it is that it’s better at finding good prices than other more popular websites because it shows prices that are closer to reality when you go to actually buy the tickets.
- Comment on Google search is over 8 months ago:
Yeah, it’s basically bing with no Microsoft tracking. What the hell kind of timeline is this where bing is the best search engine?
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 8 months ago:
They have in the past and then they decided, no, let’s say it’s too difficult and use it as one of the excuses to guarantee limited lifetime of a product.
- Comment on Does anyone *not* love using their bidet? 8 months ago:
I have the type that is basically a little shower head with a hose attached to the water supply next to the toilet. We use it to wash with soap after every toilet visit and it is fantastic. When I am away from it on holidays or trips I suffer.