Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 3 days ago:
It’s porn.
It’s always porn that decides if a technology lives or dies.
- Comment on Sync-in, a new alternative to Nextcloud 4 days ago:
The logo needs work. I read that as Syncoin and had a repulse reaction.
- Comment on Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites 5 days ago:
This leads to the question of where I can find rule 34 of this.
- Comment on Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites 5 days ago:
Each new technology immediately raises two questions: how do we destroy it and how do we use it for destruction.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 6 days ago:
Maybe its because Cameron is not one of my favorite directors. I love T2, of course but I can’t say the same about Titanic because (you guessed it) I still have not watched it and also didn’t buy into the hype when it was released. I remember that movie theaters were booked solid for weeks and you couldn’t get a ticket. No movie is that good or justifies that kind of hype, so I have skipped it so far.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 6 days ago:
It is sad to see the mental gymnastics people do to justify their inertia.
“It’s opt-in!”
“You can disable feature X easily by editing the registry”
“You can install this tool from a shifty site to restore that feature MS disabled”
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 6 days ago:
Am I the only one here that has never seen it or understands what the hype is about?
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
I can live with that.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
Somehow I’m pretty sure Google already had that information. You’ve never used Google Wallet to pay on the go? No? How about your Android keyboard to fill in some banking form?
- Comment on The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI. 1 week ago:
Best of luck. Cheers.
- Comment on SymbOS Is A Funhouse Mirror Look At A Future That Never Was 2 weeks ago:
It runs perfectly on a ZX Spectrum Next, and is quite impressive.
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 2 weeks ago:
Have a look at what came before Symbian : Psion series 5
In the end, when the Series 5 finally shipped, it was like being transported into the future, only through a very murky tunnel.
Gretton’s hardware clocked in at a meagre-sounding 18Mhz — but performed like a desktop Intel PC from just two years previously — and it could still maintain 30 hours use on two AA batteries. Once the circuitry was complete, the Series 5 performed the same tasks as its Windows CE rivals but used only a quarter of the power.
I still have two working Psion 5MX palmtops and love them to death.
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 3 weeks ago:
I thought long hair was a requisite for metal, especially headbanging.
- Comment on A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund 3 weeks ago:
I was very happy with The Print Shop. You could print huge signs and banners by stitching smaller pages together. Fun times.
- Comment on When tech hardware becomes paperweights 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a new phenomena, but it seems to be growing.
I remember when perfectly functional scanners and printers were ditched because the new Windows version would not support them and the vendor would not provide OEM drivers either.
Nowadays they unplug some servers and you are left with an expensive doorstop. That’s progress, I guess.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 4 weeks ago:
effluencers
It perfectly describes their contribution to this reality. Thank you.
- Comment on Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather. 4 weeks ago:
Depending on the aquifer the water temperature at the spring can be really cold, even in the warmest days.
- Comment on Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather. 4 weeks ago:
You never actually drank from a natural spring, have you?
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 4 weeks ago:
To me it is the inverse of socializing. It’s an escape to a world where I don’t have to deal with people.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Faraway 1, 2 and 3.
Really chill first person puzzle game.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 4 weeks ago:
There was the Homebrew Channel back then, but it seemed to have gone offline. I assumed people just lost interest and moved on.
Based on what you said I did a quick search and found that there’s still an active community around the console, so thank you!
I’m updating my Homebrew Browser to see what’s new.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 5 weeks ago:
Any platform that restricts how and what I can run in it has inherently less value to me. This is why I mostrly avoided consoles all my life.
The only console I bought was the original Wii. The games were extremely expensive, and they disabled all the services that made the console useful after a few years (weather channel, news channel, store).
Fortunately I added a few SNES, PCEngine, Genesis/Megadrive and Gamecube emulators otherwise I would now have a very pretty white doorstop.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You probably need them just to deal with the stress induced by teenagers.
I really admire teachers, in my country they don’t make much money and are subject to be placed hundreds of km away from their families for years.
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 5 weeks ago:
That may be the reason. I play the GoG version on Linux and it’s great.
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 5 weeks ago:
I have never encountered the bugs you describe. Maybe you got a bad version?
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 5 weeks ago:
This is one of the games that I always keep installed. Just chilling, gliding around, trying to climb higher and higher. Love it.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 5 weeks ago:
I jumped to Tidal many years ago because Spotify could not be bothered to provide high quality output. Yes, you can eat the difference, even on shitty gear.
For the stuff I could not get on either platform I started buying CDs on Discogs and ripping them to FLAC.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 1 month ago:
I’m sorry to disagree. I’ve been using Microsoft crap since the days where you had to free up memory in config.sys to load Novell Netware drivers, and never has Microsoft been the cool kid in town. It was always the fat bastard bully kid that would beat and extort the other kids.
- Comment on The end of humanity will come about through people's apathy. 1 month ago:
That’s, like, your opinion, man.
- Comment on Pornhub is Back in France. 1 month ago:
I see what you did there…