nehal3m
@nehal3m@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on World Without Corporations 1 week ago:
If you’re going to be an asshole about it, pick something other than Blender. That is one of the best examples of how organizations produce cohesive software that adheres to design standards with the express purpose of making it user friendly. User friendly is not the same as easy. It means ‘respect the user’, not ‘fisher price’.
You’re espousing the exact attitude that drives people away from contributing to FOSS software to solve problems so please crawl into a deep hole and spam neofetch on your Arch Thinkpad, cretin.
- Comment on World Without Corporations 1 week ago:
I’m not saying it’s fundamental, sorry, I should have specified. You’re exactly right, GNOME is driven by it’s Foundation and so there is leadership in place to make sure that the software ends up as a cohesive whole. Software projects that don’t, or that create one after the fact, tend to be a lot less so.
- Comment on World Without Corporations 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree that it is a feature of organizations, but if you’re talking about creating a product that has been designed around a common philosophy and UX, that is diametrically opposed to fucking around with stuff. There’s a place for that and it does improve people’s skills, I also don’t disagree there. All I’m saying is there exists a tendency for software produced by organizations to adhere to a UX philosophy.
- Comment on World Without Corporations 1 week ago:
Eh. One thing proprietary software has going for it is clear design goals and the leadership to create a cohesive UX. Open source projects tend to be a grab bag of tools that work well for developers.
Not saying I don’t love FOSS, but there’s definitely stuff that proprietary software does better in a practical sense, whatever else your opinion of it.
- Comment on Magic Beneath The Forests 4 weeks ago:
LOL
You can always talk to trees though. You need the fungi to hear what the trees are saying.
- Comment on Apple to settle Apple Watch defect class action for $20 million. 5 weeks ago:
Batter swelling caused the display to detach or crack, exposing the user to sharp fragments. Buried a couple paragraphs in, behind terms of use. Thought I’d save you a click.
- Comment on In a new manifesto, OpenAI’s Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia – and reveals glaring blind spots. 2 months ago:
In 15 words: deep learning worked, got predictably better with scale, and we dedicated increasing resources to it.
Are you sure about that Sam? Because one, you’re the snake oil salesman writing this and I wouldn’t trust you as far as I can throw you, and two, yeah maybe it scales predictably but the prediction is that training the next model for marginal improvement will cost an exponential 100 billion (and that is taking your Microsoft discount for compute into account). You’re hitting a wall hard and the profits are still not in sight. This avenue of progress is a dead end and Sam knows it, because OpenAI is selling PPU’s instead of stock and looking to Saudi investment. Don’t get stuck with the bag folks, the few thousand days Sam claims to need aren’t survivable.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 2 months ago:
As in my profits, our losses?
- Comment on They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling 2 months ago:
Oh so I guess piracy is fine if it’s citizens getting robbed huh? Funny how that works.
- Comment on SJW upgrade to v19.5 2 months ago:
Hey thanks for all the effort that you’re putting into this dude. You don’t owe us anything, we owe you.
- Comment on "what happened??" 2 months ago:
It’s possible, sure, but if pressed Valve will ban the account.
- Comment on "what happened??" 2 months ago:
No, it’s not. If Valve goes belly up you can kiss your games and the infrastructure they need goodbye. Also you don’t get to resell games you already own or give them away and selling accounts is against ToS. If you die your games are gone, you can’t give your account away legally.
- Comment on Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates 2 months ago:
Love it. Haven’t tried it yet. Are there any cheap used handhelds (like sub 200 eur) I can try this on? Steam decks go for around 300 which is just a bit steep for an experiment. Unless it’s blow your buys nuts off amazing?
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 2 months ago:
Thank you for choosing “Tyranny as a Service!”
How would you like this wrapped? [] Terrorism [X] Child porn
- Comment on So Starbucks’ CEO commutes to work by private jet? Let’s not pretend the super-rich care about the planet 2 months ago:
You can’t eat money. They might live comfortably for longer but eventually they’ll be just as turbo fucked as we are.
- Comment on Be an influencer. 💅 2 months ago:
Cory Doctorow wrote a great article about academic publishing a few days ago: pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not…
Things are looking up!
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
All that backtracking is what got you here Microsoft. Make a fucking decision and follow through. Or don’t, I left Windows 3 major releases ago.
- Comment on Pondering my anomaly 2 months ago:
Unbelievorble.
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 3 months ago:
So in the vein of no stupid questions I’m going to ask you a stupid question. It sounds like you didn’t particularly value the relationships you used to have with your “friends in law”. Do you actually want to meet people to build friendships with, or do you feel socially pressured to do so? I’m here to remind you that you’re not required. A preference for solitude is perfectly fine.
Maybe you don’t have that preference in which case others have written up some good advice, but don’t feel guilt. Maybe getting to know yourself for a while is a good thing. It’ll make any attempts at bonding with others in the future easier and more rewarding.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 3 months ago:
Yeah the new interface has restrictions it doesn’t tell you about until you try to apply new settings.
- Comment on With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market 3 months ago:
Really, games run that far away from metal? Amazing, I didn’t have a clue.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 3 months ago:
It’s not like a well compensated, prestigious job like prime minister requires accountability, a sense of duty or decency in 2024. Take it on the chin Liz, even if you’re fired. That was part of the deal.
- Comment on Microsoft Ruined Windows 3 months ago:
If you try doing it on your Steam deck you might find that it’s replicable on your Linux machine.
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
No, it’d be more useful just on account of the harm they are not doing. I don’t give a rat’s ass what they do instead, hell, do a huge UBI experiment and just let them chill. Might as well.
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
Agreed. I’d rather they be paid that wage NOT to bother me.
- Comment on What a day, hmm? 3 months ago:
What a terrible day to have eyes.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
Sadly, yes.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
…You joined 3 days ago. 🤣
- Comment on 'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots 4 months ago:
Ah, the Torment Nexus is coming along nicely I see.
- Comment on Why do men call their father their "old man", but their "old lady" is their wife? 6 months ago:
Funny, I’ve always thought of them as terms of honour. At least that’s why I called my father old man. He called his captain that back when he was a sailor.