Crozekiel
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- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 2 days ago:
I like Jello! My favorite flavor is Lime, how about you? 😃
Also, 4G was the dominant mobile technology for over 10 years, there are probably close to 10 BILLION 4G phones on the planet, WOW! 🤯 It sure seems like someone was able to make a phone with such hardware!
- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 2 days ago:
but it is about software, not hardware.
Hey Bestie! Sorry, but you are absolutely wrong here. 😊
There are several options for free and open source software for mobile applications, and it only works with a teeny tiny sliver of the available hardware because almost none of the hardware is even remotely open. 😭
At this stage, it is absolutely about hardware that actually supports the OS community, because all the software imaginable is useless if it can’t run on any available hardware! 😁
Kthx, Lots of Love! 🤩
- Comment on [Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent? 3 days ago:
Just because they can be summoned, doesn’t mean every one you run into has been. They exist outside of being conjured. That said, I think if it has been conjured, no it cannot give consent until the spell wears off. If I recall correctly, even if you hit them, they won’t attack you while summoned. I’d say that is a pretty clear indication that they cannot decide for themselves while under the effects of the spell.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t find one out in the wilds and “befriend” it the old fashioned way, without magic, in which case yes, it likely has the intelligence and autonomy to consent. Which really makes the spell to conjure them pretty fucked up in itself…
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 4 days ago:
Oh good, so when AOSP is dead in the water, at least GrapheneOS can release hardware without an OS on it?
I guess there is logic to it, the most secure mobile device you can have is none…
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 4 days ago:
That’s good to hear.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 4 days ago:
Not sure why everyone seems to think GrapheneOS is going to be immune and unaffected by Google actively trying to fuck AOSP to death.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 days ago:
Ah, good point, it didn’t require source code release so much as self-hostability in some form.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 days ago:
I’m convinced it is some sort of insurance fraud a la The Producers. They found a way to make more money by flopping HARD than getting middling success, and flopping hard is a LOT LESS work. If their choice is A) spend a lot of money and time making a really good game that will capture the attention of the entire market; or B) spend a bit of money and time making something that looks convincingly like a real attempt at making a good game to some corpo-fuckwits at an insurance company and then nuke it hours after release… Well. Yea, they’ll do the second one.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 days ago:
That’s literally what the “stop killing games” movement was/is pushing for, at least in Europe. Really hope it goes somewhere, but it’s kind of stopped making noise lately (at least that I’m hearing), what with the US speed-running fascism more and more every single week.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 days ago:
released […] on January 26, 2026. The studio has announced that the game will be shutting down on March 12, 2026.
What the fuck is happening in “triple-a” game dev world?
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 5 days ago:
I’m not sure I’m mentally prepared to replay it. The first time through nearly kicked off an early mid-life crisis. I was waking up in cold sweats having an existential crisis for like a week. Such a good game, but at least in my case, absolutely zero replay-ability. lol
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 5 days ago:
Oh, yea, like in the game’s present you are right. I was meaning in the game’s past; where all the humans went and what info you get through the like audio logs or whatever.
spoiler
IIRC it was basically a cult thing where a bunch of them were convinced their soul wouldn’t go with their consciousness unless they died during or very shortly after the brain scan that was uploading them to the satellite thingy.
Guess it should be wrapped in spoiler tags just in case…
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 5 days ago:
he would need to leave his physical body to join her in the metaverse through a process called “transference.”
Wait a minute, isn’t that the plot to the game Soma? People sending their “soul” to the digital world through “transference”, and act of immediate suicide after a brain scan.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 6 days ago:
The text of the bill doesn’t mention anything about being able to “alter or disable the binary blob that performs the age verification”. You are adding a lot of interpretation that is not written, and would have to be decided by courts. The bill only says “person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.” They don’t define “control” anywhere to mean having anything to do with code or development. It could just mean administering accounts. Yes, it is a poorly written hack-job of a bill, but nothing about it is specifically carving out special treatment for servers or closed source OS’s.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 6 days ago:
I mean, I sort of get what you are saying but it also feels like Grimes’s boots thing from Terry Pratchet. Like, I can spend $200- $300 and get a phone that will stop getting security updates in 2-3 years… Or I can spend $700-$1000 to get a phone that comes with 7-10 years of security updates. Money per year, you are the same or better off if you can afford the up-front cost of the more expensive product, and we are generating a lot less techno-garbage clogging up the planet.
Generally, I hate the hard limit of use of these things. Coming from desktop computers, if you spend more money the machine is faster, but if you don’t need the speed you can use the cheap machine just as long (or longer if you really don’t need performance). All phones feel like they are just a subscription model.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 6 days ago:
Yea, except you aren’t getting security updates either… Basically anything connected to the internet should be getting security updates…
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 6 days ago:
You keep saying that, but nothing about it is carved out specifically one way or the other for FOSS. As it is worded, any network sysadmin is considered the “OS Provider” exactly the same under Windows or Linux as they “control the operating system software on a computer”. They don’t “develop” or “license” the software in either case, windows or Linux. They control the OS the same amount under either windows or Linux.
Maybe it could be argued they are more likely to choose windows since the people developing and licensing the software are a big corporation and is therefore more likely to be compliant? But it isn’t like Canonical and RedHat are just some guy in a basement - these are commercial entities developing and licensing software just like Microsoft.
I agree the definitions in this bill are absolutely insane - the idea that the developer, licensor, and administrator of a computer’s OS would ever be the same person is astronomically unlikely. Maybe they mean something different by “control”, but it isn’t defined so that makes it up to the courts to decide with no direction.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
I love the definitions section… So, first it defines the 4 age brackets a user can be: Under 13, 13-16, 16-18, or over 18. Then they define “Child” as anyone under 18. Then, and this is where it gets good, they define a “User” as a “Child”. So by these definitions, no one can be considered a user if they are over 18. (which, then, why is there an “over 18” age bracket defined earlier??)
Not only do these people not seem to understand technology, they also don’t understand that people over 18 use technology, or maybe exist?
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
Nothing about it specifically changes if it is Windows or Linux. By the definitions in the bill, they are just as much the “OS Provider” under Windows as they are Linux.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 week ago:
My biggest concern is the life cycle of the device. I almost went with Motorola for my last phone, but saw that you were lucky to get 3 years of OS updates. Is that likely to be better on GrapheneOS? If so, that is a huge win imo. If not, it still isn’t ideal because I don’t want to have to buy a new phone every 2 years…
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 1 week ago:
So the government wants “full self-driving” attack drones. You know, just in case the military actually disobeys a direct order?
How many pieces of science fiction do we have where the “bad guys” are literally just killer robots we created and then realized we didn’t have control over? Why would we decide it is a good idea to literally build terminators? I’m convinced the government will actually build the “orphan crushing machine” next…
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
I think you mean the Thanagarian Snare-beast.
Superman hides behind a rock
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
Yea, but isn’t a kind of big part of his brand that he is technically family friendly? Like he didn’t use bad language in his music and stuff, right? Django Unchained but rated PG-13 would have been an entirely different movie…
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
2 things:
- I just recently learned that the “monsters” in I Am Legend were not zombies, they were vampires and they were supposed to be fully sentient… The movie adaptation missed the mark so much it is basically a completely different and unrecognizable story from the book.
- why is there a tag or something next to your name that says “Bot”? Is that supposed to be there? Is that something buggy happening in the front end I am using?
- Comment on Turns out Generative AI was a scam 1 week ago:
I’m frustrated at the “was” in the title… Like we aren’t still sinking on that awful ship right now, like it is all behind us… But it isn’t. :(
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 1 week ago:
I don’t know who this guy is, but the fact that he is crying on twitter about being shadow-banned on reddit tells me I don’t really give a fuck about him, his opinion, or his perceived slights against him.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 1 week ago:
I’m absolutely flabbergasted that anyone walks anywhere without constantly scanning around them. How do people have the attention span to just look at where they are going and only where they are going??
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 1 week ago:
I really don’t understand any of this “age verification” bullshit or how it holds up under even a tiny amount of scrutiny. You have to be of age to sign up for a cell-phone contract or get internet installed at your house. Every internet access account is paid for by someone “old enough”.
It’s like if they wanted to check IDs at the drive through before you are able to order a fucking mcdouble in order to “protect kids” from eating trash… Someone old enough to drive is already involved for the kid to order the fucking burger.
These chucklefucks in office all over the world using their inability to raise their own kids without shoving a fucking ipad in their face now using that as a way to surveil and control the entire population is a really sad slap in the face…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
EDIT 2: I think I’m gonna go in and ask the workers today what they think.
Ya, you are rude. Don’t do that either. Just stop. Remove the snow before you leave the driveway. It is unsafe for you and everyone around you on the road. Also, in general, yes, making someone do extra work above and beyond what is being offered, at the same price, is a rude thing to do. By your description they “did a lot more work than usual” - did you pay them a lot more money than usual?
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 2 weeks ago:
I am so happy to live in a non-HOA neighborhood…