Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 5 days ago:
On the other hand, all I have in my Epic account are the free games. I expect those cost his company money.
Even so, I feel dirty and will close my account. I can get the titles I really like in Gog or Steam.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 5 days ago:
Selling artificial intelligence to natural idiots.
- Comment on The MP3 Revolution: How a German Innovation Changed Music Forever 1 week ago:
I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.
Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.
Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 2 weeks ago:
Should not have allowed them in the first place.
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 2 weeks ago:
I tried Tidal and could not go back to Spotify.
I guess it also depends on what type of music you are listening to. Simple FM pop or hip-hop works fine compressed. Rock, classical, melodic or more complex music gets the high range completely smashed by artifacts.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
True, idiocy is universal. You can see the roaches crawling out of the rocks already.
- Comment on Dying Light 3 weeks ago:
Started playing Amnesia: rebirth.
Kept me hooked for way longer than I planned for the day.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
If you liked em dashes, you’ll love ligatures.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Respect.
- Comment on The USA and Europe are now enemies 4 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
I was expecting Comic Sans.
- Comment on ChatGPT down again 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Bingo.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Right there with you.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Nailed it.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month 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.