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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Well shit, that’s interesting. Thanks for the link.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I have been staring at the original comment trying to figure out how to basically say this, so thank you. lol. “The customer is always right” just means don’t tell the customer that green and purple polka dot curtains are fuck-ugly because it will hurt the company’s bottom line.

I don’t think Capitalism has ever been this romanticized version, at least not in my lifetime. It has always been about how much money “they” can squeeze out of consumers, and they have been inching more and more constantly for a long time to get where we are now. The companies have always wanted to manipulate to make more money, and the only slight road blocks or steps in the right direction have come from government regulation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You can download Proton for use outside of Steam, I use it in Lutris and Bottles pretty regularly. Also, you should be able to get just about anything to run just as well in Bottles or Lutris as it will in steam, but I will admit it can take some tinkering with some games or software and there is a much easier option: Add “non-steam game” in Steam library and run whatever program you need through Steam anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The trick is that isn’t a capital i, it is a lowercase L. Now with AL integration. Every program you run just has a picture of Weird Al and a snippet of a random song from his greatest hits album as a splash screen.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

One company decided to not sell consumer ram anymore

One of the only 3 companies making it. And a second has mentioned following suit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today in “Google Broke Email”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Jesus christ my eyes are bleeding. What the fuck is even that?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I liked it briefly, but it fell off for me. I feel like there needs to be an area to go to, or missions to pick up, or something that is a higher difficulty. I feel like a mid-range quality ship and weapon will do everything in the game without issue, and when you continue to get upgrades and suddenly everything the game has to throw at you poses so little of a challenge you could afk while being shot at with little issue… Well, it didn’t hold my attention anymore unfortunately. I really want to like it more than I do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This rugged phone lets you hot-swap batteries without turning it off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not solely an affordability problem though. A big problem for me is being expected to toss out a piece of tech that still works perfectly fine because the manufacturer said so.

Also, who’s to say this thing even still exists in 3 years to just buy another one. Realistically, the hope is what? They just keep releasing a new version every year so you can always just buy the newest one? Sorry. I hate the mobile phone market so much. :( I should be able to get excited by a phone that looks like you could throw it down a mountain and then still use it without issue, but this industry has me so beat down I just can’t.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This rugged phone lets you hot-swap batteries without turning it off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s kinda my point. Android 18 is likely to come out in or around 2028. So you’ll get 4-ish years of updates. I know batteries got headlines a few years back, but the complete lack of software support is the real “planned obsolescence” pandemic.

Also, this is not an gripe specifically about this phone, but the phone markets in general. 4 versions of Android is on the high side for a lot of Android phones… I’ve seen several that only get 2 and its disgraceful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This rugged phone lets you hot-swap batteries without turning it off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Seems cool and all, but if it stops getting OS and security updates 2 years later, then I don’t really give a shit about the removable battery. My last 2 phones were replaced because the OS was SUPER old and no longer getting updates, and the batteries would still last long enough to get through the work day.

Really, the swappable battery is not the “headline” feature imo.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
No it isn’t. At the right-most side of the graph “unknown” is higher than OSx, and “other” is above Linux and ChromeOS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It is barely on the graph at all, and really only in 2012 - I’m assuming they released some product around then that is enough like a desktop computer that it made the list but ultimately fizzled out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
There are so many factors playing into this. Also, I don’t want you to think this post is suggesting we should give up on alternatives, because that is not my belief. We need to transition to something, and really we should have started this process much earlier. This is more to illustrate why it is a slow process.
1. Energy density is unbeatable. Around 100 pounds of gasoline (15-ish gallons) will push most small road cars 300-400 miles. To get close to that range from an electric car you are going to need 1500-2000 lbs of batteries.
2. Transportability. We have yet to really figure out how to get several thousand kilowatts of electricity from where it is easy to produce to where it is needed without losing a good percentage of it. You can fill a tank with Gasoline and haul it across the planet and lose basically none of it.
3. Safety. Batteries can be very nasty things if damaged, the fires they can cause are astronomically harder to put out compared to traditional gasoline fires after a nasty car accident. Hydrogen is so much more violent in a fire/explosion than gasoline as well.
4. Economics. Yes, Oil Companies have a huge grip on massive chunks of the world. MANY countries entire economies would collapse if fossil fuels were removed from the equation. And those countries are powerful, and scared, which is a dangerous combo. They are fighting tooth and nail to maintain their GDP as there is not a good replacement. It could be a civilization crumbling event if all money tied to fossil fuels just stopped in an instant.
Our habits need to drastically change as a society. Fossil Fuels are not the only problem we need to change, as an example, industrial farming is also pretty catastrophically bad for the environment (as we are currently doing it). We need to consume less (both power and stuff), we need to travel less, we need to eat less meat, and we need world governments on board for these changes in a meaningful and peaceful way. Or we need someone to invent a way for us all to survive the problem or reverse it without us changing a damn thing, but that sounds like magic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
They already know the age of their users… They bloody well know. They backed that bill because it gives them a legal leg to bully out smaller 3rd parties and solidify their respective monopolies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The entirety of what little remains of independent media discovered the apparent undiscoverable over a month before our Tech-corp’s AI super-intelligence overlords. Amazing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’m pretty sure I watched some random youtuber’s video explaining how circular this shit is nearly a month ago… I guess it’s 2025, so human observations doesn’t matter, what matters is “what does the AI think”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Holy shit this comment came out swinging… A+ job.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve mostly been using alexandrite.app on both PC and mobile. I have Jerboa installed as well as back-up but only occasionally use it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Same dude, lmao.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
They are done wrong a lot in my experience, unfortunately.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
AppImage is still kinda trash though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
If it’s a company computer, it is probably safest to let the company manage it. If it is your personal computer, your job shouldn’t be requiring you to install anything on it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This is pretty accurate. Wine (and really Proton) have gotten very good recently. Most software that isn’t actively hostile to Linux users will work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Winboat is apparently working on and close to “hardware accelerated graphics”. I haven’t tried Photoshop with it, as I never learned Photoshop, but it is one of the flagship programs they claim works well by default. It likely won’t get to the point of being an option for gaming (KAC wouldn’t work anyway as they all flag VMs, so that feels like a moot point) without setting up GPU pass-through, but I can’t imagine those programs need full bare-metal access to a GPU to work well?

Worth keeping an eye on anyway :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
1. Winboat or Winapps - Both will let you use Adobe programs in linux pretty well with a sandboxed vm. Getting better every day. That is assuming you can’t get done what you need on Open Source software alternatives - some are really good, others are a bit of a let down.
2. If you are fully on board with Kernal Anti-Cheat, then you have already given up on actually owning and controlling your PC. That said, there has been talk recently by windows about kicking 3rd parties out of the Kernal, so KAC might actually die soon (we can only pray).
3. I’d be curious to know what you are regularly using regedit and group policies to change. For a start, I bet a lot of it can be changed in the settings GUI or aren’t problems that need changing to start with in Linux. Secondly, I think learning CLI is significantly easier than learning regedit - the navigation at least is a lot simpler imo. Unless you are just running .reg files you find on the floor of the internet, if you learned to use regedit you can definitely learn the Linux CLI (as much as you’ll need to in order to do what you want).
Just saying, it is constantly evolving and most of the road blocks are out-dated or hinge on reliance on some other big tech company besides microsoft that is just as far down the enshittification rabbit-hole. It is not a decision you made once and have to keep living with. None of us swore a life-debt to our “team”. :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have experience with Mumble?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Damn it, it’s been too long and I forgot the name of slow fall… I think that means you won the internet today.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have experience with Mumble?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hope you’re quick on the levitate, cause we are going to summon you off a cliff.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oracle makes money. They don’t care how.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have experience with Mumble?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Shit I miss Ventrilo… Setting up custom binds so I could talk shit about the raid leader directly to the other warlock in the group just by pressing a different “talk” button was amazing. And I can still here the push-to-talk notification sounds… When the guild moved to Discord, I died a little inside and didn’t even know it yet. Yea, we have a meme channel now, but at what cost??
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Your username is a downright lie and you sound like you haven’t actually used windows since 7. Keep drinking the microsoft propaganda, you are clearly the target audience after all.