RedstoneValley
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- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 1 day ago:
Oh let me know if you find a solution. This is a task I have to accomplish this year too.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 days ago:
I have an old Chromecast but it’s not 4k. The new ones are enshittified as well as far as I know
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 4 days ago:
First of all, don’t feel bad about it. That said if you want to improve yourself in the virtualization department and get rid of Oracle’s VirtualBox, I recommend having a look at virt-manager with KVM/Qemu as a VM host. It’s a bit more of initial setup but once this is done it works pretty much the same way as VirtualBox.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 4 days ago:
There is only a subset of Windows games left that does not run on Linux. Mostly games with kernelbased Anti-Cheat and a few other outliers. I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux for years now. Have a look at the ProtonDB website to see if your favourite games are running on Linux
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 4 days ago:
I had to setup a custom pihole LG blacklist to keep it from displaying ads in the menu. And LG is well known for spying on their customers in the worst way possible
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 4 days ago:
Well the problem is we only use the TV for streaming and my partner wants Netflix and other commercial stuff. Which means I would have to connect another internet device to the TV where the same problem happens again. Going exclusively Jellyfin or whatever is not a solution at this time
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 5 days ago:
I’m not going to buy anything from LG any more. My ongoing battle against my own LG TV’s enshittification (forced ads and AI everywhere, getting worse every update) has soured my opinion on LG. They can go to hell.
- Comment on Make Amazon Pay 5 weeks ago:
I did that one year ago, and I don’t miss it. Amazon degraded to a marketplace of low quality Chinese crap anyway. It’s really easy to avoid
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 month ago:
Exactly this. If you use it as part of a compound word or as a verb it’s totally fine. However “der Führer” (the Führer) is exclusively used to describe Hitler, and it usually has a negative or ironic vibe depending on who says it.
About the Führerschein… führen and fahren have the same etymological root… It is still used in “Führen eines Fahrzeugs” which simply means “driving a car” and that is where the term comes from.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 month ago:
Same here. I’m not actively using it, but it fills up with spam. Training AI on that… excellent idea 😈
- Comment on Nextcloud plans to invest over €250 million in digital sovereignty 1 month ago:
It’s also sad that Nextcloud with their pile of hot PHP garbage seem zo be the ony viable option (apart from selfhosting) when looking for an alternative to OneDrive.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 2 months ago:
“Somewhat disappointingly, the images and videos shared in the report were taken in the vicinity of the ROV shop at the Marine Institute”
There, saved you a long read
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I just saw your post during a meeting and I’m about to apply this mantra now
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 4 months ago:
Don’t worry, he’ll come back to developers crying for help when his precious coins get stolen due to sloppy coding
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 4 months ago:
They sort of do. “Alligator Alcatraz” comes to mind
- Comment on Help. 4 months ago:
Yeah I tried that with a local makerspace and it didn’t work out for me, sadly. I wanted a sense of community, contact with likeminded people to do stuff together. They just offered lots of machinery to be used in solitude. It went like this: “So, you wanna 3d print something? Sure, just go to person X, they will show you how to operate the thing. You don’t know how all of this works? We have some resources on our discord to get you started.” Okayyyy
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 5 months ago:
Compared to Spotify’s artist/song radio feature, Qobuz attempt at radio is absolutely horrible. They seem to sort everything into a literal handful of genres. The “similarity” seems to stem from song features like “has a singer” and “uses chords”. I switched from Spotify to Qobuz a few months ago, it’s comparable in available content, has much better audio quality but is severely underwhelming for discovering new music.
- Comment on Just how visible is your butthole to a gynecologist? 5 months ago:
butthole - Comment on [JS Required] How Performant are LLM Agents(AI Chatbots) on Real World Work Tasks? They Fail 70% or More of The Time. 6 months ago:
Similar to the crypto hype. Adoption is imminent, bro. Just a few more months, bro. Please, bro
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 6 months ago:
Did this Microsoft tactic ever work in their favour? Forcing people to use things they don’t like? Internet Explorer, Edge, Bing Search, AI and so on. I think it’s not a long-term success story. Also, why focus on tool usage instead of actual goals.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I personally try to reverse smartphone usage. Got myself a dumbphone and try to use a computer for everything else. The reasoning behind this is, I want it to be a conscious decision to do internet things at a defined physical place, instead of mindlessly using the smartphone everywhere. This should encourage me to reconnect to the world around me.
I’m still in a transition phase though.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 6 months ago:
That’s an excellent idea, in particularly because that service would use AI against the type of people who typically shill or welcome AI products. Let’s build more of those.
- Comment on Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand 6 months ago:
Hello??
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 6 months ago:
That’s a very long answer to my snarky little comment :) I appreciate it though. Personally, I find LLMs interesting and I’ve spent quite a while playing with them. But after all they are like you described, an interconnected catalogue of random stuff, with some hallucinations to fill the gaps. They are NOT a reliable source of information or general knowledge or even safe to use as an “assistant”. The marketing of LLMs as being fit for such purposes is the problem. Humans tend to turn off their brains and to blindly trust technology, and the tech companies are encouraging them to do so by making false promises.
- Comment on Good job 6 months ago:
Well, they are quite bad from a UI/accessibility perspective. While looking nice and fancy, it can be difficult to read the contents and makes it harder to identify information. That’s totally fine as an optional feature for those who like it, but the default should be a clean and easily accessible design.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 6 months ago:
It’s funny how people always quickly point out that an LLM wasn’t made for this, and then continue to shill it for use cases it wasn’t made for either (The “intelligence” part of AI, for starters)
- Comment on Good job 6 months ago:
We had transparent UI elements before and decided they were shit. Am I the only one still alive to remember?
- Comment on Programmer paradigm shift... Have YOU made the shift??? 🫵 7 months ago:
TBH I can wait for these fucks to find out that their kindergarden approach to programming won’t work. I’ll charge a premium to fix their shit later.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 8 months ago:
You can just use powershell. It’s that easy. /s
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 8 months ago:
Ding dong the witch is dead. I remember that. Good Times.
