Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 20 hours ago:
I don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.
I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 day ago:
Small computers are more powerful than you think, if used properly. I stick with a bunch of containers instead of VMs and it all just hums along nicely on a Raspberry Pi 5.
Pi-Hole running all the time barely registers as a workload.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 2 days ago:
If you liked em dashes, you’ll love ligatures.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 2 days ago:
On top of all the damage AI unleashed into the world, there’s that: it ruined em dash for people who appreciate typography.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Are you sure about that? They sure exhibit a distinct lack of humanity.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 6 days ago:
Checks Steam
So it is. My bad. So that means I bought nothing this year. 😅
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
The only 2025 game I recall buying is Darkenstein 3D. Simple and fun, just the way I like.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
Respect.
- Comment on The USA and Europe are now enemies 1 week ago:
The Trump administration will hopefully be replaced in January 2029, and up to then, it’s not unlikely Dems take back the congress in 2026.
“The emperor does not share your optimistical appraisal of the situation.”
At this point it seems simple for Trump to hold on to power like all the other cleptocratic dictators have done. You already have military on your streets and paramilitary forces cleaning the unwanted elements.
I hope you are right and I’m wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Today I asked AI to remove all the lines in a file that had some string in them.
It worked. I felt awful thinking how much power I wasted doing that when I could have just read the man page of sed or awk.
I did, and it was ridiculously easy to do what I needed with a fraction of the power. And I got some nice knowledge to go with it, that I proceeded to add to my aliases file.
I’m not afraid of AI. I have a local instance to play with. The technology is just too wasteful and fallible as it stands today.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 2 weeks ago:
I was expecting Comic Sans.
- Comment on ChatGPT down again 3 weeks ago:
Just checked, my local llama.cpp instance is still up. No, you can’t use it.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 3 weeks ago:
I see what you mean, and I have that (old PC with a bunch of 2.5" HDDs formatted as ZFS).
For me power consumption is more important than performance, so I’m looking for a lower power solution for photo sharing, music collection and backups.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 3 weeks ago:
Just another reason not to buy earbuds. You are sticking a fairly large amount of power inside your ear.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled 4 weeks ago:
My opinion is that YouTube became an unusable mess, and I avoid it as much as possible. I guess that’s enshittification at work.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 4 weeks ago:
Bingo.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 4 weeks ago:
That’s how you level up in Linux. You break things, learn what you did wrong and do better next time. Linux won’t hold your hand, you can and will shoot yourself in the foot.
You are doing it right by having backups and playing it safe. You’ll be ok.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 4 weeks ago:
Right there with you.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 4 weeks ago:
Feels like you bought into the MSCE religion of the early 2000’s and are annoyed at all the infidels that didn’t.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 4 weeks ago:
True, I’ve experienced that bug.
The big different is that, depending on how knowledgeable you are, you can either report the bug, you can diagnose it (check the logs, trace and profile the calls), dig in the code, patch it or try a patch someone developed for the bug, or simply ignore it and use a different file browser. That freedom is priceless.
With Windows you’re stuck waiting for the next upgrade that may or may not break something else and brings new and exciting AI and telemetry shoved into it.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 4 weeks ago:
Nailed it.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 4 weeks ago:
You’re blaming Linux for less than perfect support of a proprietary filesystem that had zero documentation and was painfully reversed engineered by volunteers to a working state so you could say it sucks to have to reformat your precious drives. I’m so sorry you were inconvenienced.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 5 weeks ago:
I’m not looking to be anonymous, I want access to Stargate Atlantis that Amazon Prime is geo blocking from me.
For that, VPN works as advertised.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 5 weeks ago:
To clarify a bit: Windows may not be the only reason my work machine is slow as hell, corporate endpoint protection is due to play some part in that slowness.
Having said that, colleagues that use Macs and Linux mock us Windows users everyday for all the troubles we have with, well, everything, and they have similar endpoint protections in place.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 5 weeks ago:
You know what would impress me? That I would be able to start using my computer when I boot it in the morning.
As it stands I have to wait some 5 to 10 minutes before the mouse pointer decides to cooperate with me. And god forbid I attempt to start a Teams meeting, either the camera, mic or screen share will not work at all.
What the hell is this dumbass operating system doing that is more important than responding to the damn user?
Same machine, booting Linux, lets me start working right away. No stuttering, no freezes. Go figure.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Excellent. I’ll text you my IBAN so you can transfer me some of your irrelevant money.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’m not a musician, but
Exactly.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I agree with you. I don’t mind local AI searching the web for topics I’m interested in and providing me with news and interesting tidbits. I’m not OK with AI having any kind of permission to run executable code.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
May I join you?