NutWrench
@NutWrench@lemmy.world
- Comment on How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us 1 day ago:
Use a VPN and an operating system that doesn’t spy on you and harvest your info. Use 3rd party encryption.
- Comment on 'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI 3 days ago:
I think the best way to turn people on to Linux is to give them a bootable live USB, so they can try it out. Otherwise, they have no basis for comparison.
Too many people just accept whatever Microsoft gives them, shrug and think, “Well, I guess this is just the way computers are.”
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Businesses have invested too much time, money and promises in AI to admit they made a mistake, now. And like all business models based on the Sunk Cost Fallacy, it’s going to do a lot of damage along the way before it finally dies.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
The whole point of “AI” is to take humans OUT of the equation, so the rich don’t have to employ us and pay us. Why would we want to be a part of THAT?
AI data centers are also sucking up all the high quality GDDR5 ram on the market, making everything that relies on that ram ridiculously expensive.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 5 weeks ago:
When even China has to ban your product due to safety concerns, you’ve probably made some seriously bad design choices somewhere along the line.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 1 month ago:
This is also why governments are pushing so hard for “AI.” AI won’t be used to improve the quality of our lives. It will be used for advertising, propaganda, surveillance and control. Only AI is fast enough to run all the bots and generate the blizzard of BS fast enough to counter the opinions of millions of people online.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 1 month ago:
Remember when we were worried that TikTok was going to be used by the CCP to spread Chinese government propaganda?
Good news! It’s STILL going to be used to spread propaganda, it just belongs to another group of billionaire dingbats, now.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
The problem is, the TV won’t let you. The Visio TV won’t let you do anything with it at all until you set up your WiFi connection first. So you can’t even use it as a dumb monitor.
And if you disable WiFi later, the TV will nag you to turn it back on every time the TV starts up. I’m sure this design is intentional.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
Here’s a 32" one on Amazon. Found it in just a few seconds.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
The problem is, you can never trust companies whose products can update over the air. (like “smart TVs”). The company can promise all kinds of things they won’t do and then sneak something awful into a future update. I will spend a little more on “non-smart” TVs in the future.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 month ago:
Microsoft wants to use the Taskbar for advertising. They can’t do that if users can move it around or hide it.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 month ago:
Vision TVs have built-in WiFi to promote their own, garbage tier streaming service. So you need to connect it to your home WiFi network to use it. But they can also monitor the TVs HDMI port.
So if you have a Roku or a DVD player connected to it, the TV can monitor what’s coming into the HDMI port and then use your WiFi connection to send that info home.
I noticed the Visio is very aggressive about you enabling the WiFi connection even if you just want to use it as a monitor. (i.e. if you disable the TVs WiFi, it will nag you to turn it back on every time you turn the TV on and not let you use the TV until you do it). I’m guessing this is deliberate because Visio values collecting the HDMI data more than their streaming service.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 month ago:
Yup. Make sure it’s not a “smart” TV with a WiFi connection. LG was one of three TV companies (Visio and Samsung were the others) that got caught spying on their TVs HDMI connection and sending usage data on connected devices back to their manufacturers through the WiFi connection.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 month ago:
So just how gay CAN the Calibri font make you? Merely fabulous? Or are we talking about midriff-baring T-shirt and nut-hugger shorts gay?
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 1 month ago:
Yup. Especially since “smart TVs” that are WiFi connected can spy on your HDMI connection. Samsung, LG and Visio were caught doing it.
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 1 month ago:
Hey ICE: Image
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 months ago:
Same here. I have Windows 10 on a separate physical disk (sdb). I have Linux and GRUB on sda, so Windows has no idea that it’s not the only OS on my computer.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 2 months ago:
The only game I couldn’t get to run on Wine was NOLF 1. Everything works except the music, which relies on DirectPlay / DirectMusic.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 months ago:
Look, It’s one of those articles again. The bi-monthly “China invents earth-shattering technology breakthrough that we never hear about again.”
“1000x faster?” Learn to lie better. Real technological improvements are almost always incremental, like “10-20% faster, bigger, stronger.” Not 1000 freaking times faster. You lie like a child. Or like Trump.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 months ago:
Steam has a native Linux client and every game I bought on Windows runs just fine on Linux.
All my older, non-steam games, like “Deus Ex” or “Giants: Citizen Kabuto” run great under Wine, using the default settings. Also, there are Linux versions of DOSBox, for older games.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 months ago:
“That’s harder than it sounds.”
Is it, though? Is it really? We’ve been making manual car door latches for 100 years.
It’s only hard for Musk, and only because he just doesn’t want to do it.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 6 months ago:
But supposed they invented a whole new kind of meat and your grill wasn’t ready to deal with it? How would you feel then? Pretty darn silly, that’s how!
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 7 months ago:
Because that bench was deliberately designed to discourage people from sitting there. To make people miserable. So which political party LOVES to be pointless cruel?
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 7 months ago:
A liberal didn’t build that bench.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 7 months ago:
I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 8 months ago:
Once again. Companies do NOT pay tariffs. They pass on those costs of those tariffs to their customers. YOU are gonna pay that extra 25% not Apple.
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 11 months ago:
Once again, “if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.”
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 11 months ago:
I’m only letting my latest Brother printer connect to my computer through the USB cable. No Internet connection at all.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 11 months ago:
Reddit is just a bunch of bots, jerking each other purple. They don’t have any content worth locking.
- Comment on Modding the Gulf of Mexico Back 11 months ago:
I also recommend downloading StreetComplete, which lets you contribute to the OpenStreetMaps database.
