Crozekiel
@Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta) 4 weeks ago:
Is it bad that I automatically don’t take them seriously just based on their links to socials? Didn’t even go for a Bluesky (let alone anything federated) and going for twitter and instagram like it’s still 2019.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 4 weeks ago:
They are also working to similarly kill custom ROMs. Just recently the GrapheneOS team mentioned that Google is no longer making their hardware drivers Open Source, and so compatibility with new phones means reverse engineering their own drivers - which is a big reason that custom ROMs support such narrow hardware options already and very often come with limitations and/or features that just don’t work. At best, they figure out how to make it work, but it takes time and updates can lag significantly behind.
We have a lot of options on the software side for avoiding google (or android), but very limited options on hardware. We need open source mobile hardware support ASAP.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 5 weeks ago:
As far as I can tell, it’s just de-googled android… It is going to have the same eventual problems as any LineageOS, e/OS/, or GrapheneOS phone will have.
Unfortunately we need to come to terms with the fact that 1) Android is not Linux after all of the bastardizations Google has done to it and the control they maintain. 2) We need hardware mfrs on board for fully Open Source drivers for mobile hardware.
Basically all of the Linux phone options I’ve looked at have been disappointing. You’ve got people making open source OS like Sailfish or PostmarketOS or UbuntuTouch, but they only work for pretty narrow (and old) hardware and they don’t get 100% functionality on basically any of the hardware. FuriLabs was the first one I’d seen claiming you could use all of the features of the hardware, but even then it is using a bunch of (basically) compatibility layers to trick android apps into running, so I don’t even know if that will work after Google gets done with their plans.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 5 weeks ago:
Yea… I’m really disappointed with the timing of FuriLabs new phone which is mostly a downgrade over the previous one. I’ve been window shopping phones for a couple of months and am at a loss for what to do. Even spent some time considering a dumb flip phone that can work as a wifi-hotspot and use a small linux tablet or something for the more involved stuff, but couldn’t find a good tablet option that wasn’t huge (would still want it to fit in my pocket) or come with the same problems.
- Comment on FLX1s is Launched 1 month ago:
This is hugely disappointing. They launched a worse all around phone and are trying to market it like good news. I was seriously considering them for my next phone purchase, but if this is all they offer when the time comes, I will have to skip it… The only “upgrade” is 2 more GB of ram, but the screen is worse (slightly bigger, significantly worse resolution), camera is worse, no headphone jack, not IP68… They also mention that existing orders for the old version are either being “upgraded” to this new version, or refunded. So it sounds like the original FLX1 is dead in the water. Very sad news.
- Comment on Looking to get my first 3d printer, any suggestions? 1 month ago:
I would do everything you can to avoid a second-hand (or otherwise used) printer as your first go - you have no idea what’s been done to it.
I started on an FLSUN Q5 and it was a great machine to learn on, but a little small build area. I don’t think they sell it anymore though, and their “entry level” printer is now the SR, which I think is around (or more than) double what the Q5 used to go for.
Not knowing what budget you are looking at makes it hard to make recommendations. Look for something with automatic bed levelling at a minimum. If your budget only allows the Ender 3 price point, keep an eye on Micro Center if you have them in your area, as they regularly have sales on them. I haven’t been paying attention lately, but they used to go for $99.99 every few months.
- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 1 month ago:
Not so far. The initial calibration was a bit of work to get right, but their discord was a lot of help. I went there with a bed mesh issue and found someone had already asked about the exact same issue and their solution fixed my problem perfectly. I also had to do a fair bit of testing to get a PLA profile that worked well (the already built ones I could find were for ABS and PETG).
- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 1 month ago:
RatRig. The build process was tedious, but it was easy enough I figured it out… I hadn’t built a printer before, not like that, and I’d say it took about a week or two of spare time?
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 months ago:
It is based on Debian (Droidian to be specific I believe), which to me reads as a fork or maybe a distro flavor with out of the box tweaks to specifically work with the hardware they are selling.
They say they aren’t stopping you from installing anything else you want on the phone, they just aren’t going to offer help getting a different OS to work, which is reasonable to me.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 months ago:
I’m already seriously considering giving this a go as my next phone soon. My current phone is desperately in need of replacement.
If it goes well I will be vocal about it.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 months ago:
Maybe shit like this will push them down that road faster. We need options for sure.
- Comment on Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive? 2 months ago:
In all seriousness, I’ve always thought the platters were extremely thin inside a HDD, but never actually had one open. That looks quite thick actually.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 months ago:
A big part the problem is also how they are marketed… Everyone is pushing AI as though it has the entire wealth of human knowledge inside it, it knows the right answer, and can explain it to you in seconds.
Not, you know, we fed this machine a bunch of words and trained it to spit back out words that look like they fit together.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 2 months ago:
Weirder to me is how many of them seem to work as a team or group… I saw one get into the back seat of the car when they left the other day… How many people you got crammed in that SUV making one below-minimum-wage paycheck??
- Comment on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines 2 months ago:
None of this is actually about cheating. All of these companies want control over as many people as they can get their grubby fat fingers around.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 months ago:
“hey guys, you have complained about our latest software, and we heard you. Our next release will literally rip out your genitals and you definitely can’t hide from it. 👍”
- Comment on Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 2 months ago:
The company did, however, say that Big sis Billie “is not Kendall Jenner and does not purport to be Kendall Jenner.”
“We don’t want to get sued by someone with actual money and power.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The person you are replying to never mentioned their stance on the rule in question, only the analogies used by the original commenter… Which are terrible analogies both for skisnow’s reasoning, and your comment as well.
They are not the same thing, because of the power dynamics at play, and I think most people in either a linux forum or PC gaming forum would react negatively if the mods banned people for one comment made while not being the “target demographic”.
Also, someone can use both linux and windows. Someone can play PC games and console. They might have valuable insight having experiences from both.
That doesn’t really apply to a women’s only community. (although I am curious what WomensStuff’s stance on Trans people is - I don’t know of the community that much to be honest).
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
Holy shit that is brilliant…
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 3 months ago:
One of the biggest problems is “what is porn?”. Time and again a clear definition eludes us and it comes down to personal perception. What one group of people think is porn is not to a different group. Also something to think and reflect about, why are you okay with a store selling intense and graphic violence, but not sex?
Then we get to the fact that it isn’t Steam calling the shots on this, not really. It is payment processors. The real outrage here is that Steam is not getting to decide what they do and don’t sell, and it isn’t a legal problem either. It is an arbitrary choice by the middle man monopoly. And there is nothing stopping their rules removing your ability to buy GTA or Dishonored next.
I think the backlash would be a lot less if this was truly a Steam decision. There would be people upset still, but I don’t think to the same degree. The massive outrage is that stores all over, including as big as Steam, are being blackmailed into making these changes.
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 3 months ago:
Someone’s gonna be disappointed when they get the hat and realize it is child-sized…
- Comment on ‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story] 3 months ago:
This honestly feels like an “everyone sucks here” situation. It’s obviously bad that the publisher just sacked the 3 founders of a developer and replaced them with a CEO from a developer they just scuttled… But then there is this terrible sell-out deal the devs went for where 1/3 of the sale price of the company was tied up in sales performance with the deadline rapidly approaching so of course they want to put out a shiny new title for people to buy even though they keep having to cut the planned content down to almost nothing. (supposedly, obvi I haven’t played it…)
AND THEN there is what I am calling Schrodinger’s Beta. It is supposedly right now ready for early access release (which means Krafton delaying the game is proof of being shady and avoiding the bonus), but also likely going to flop because they got rid of the founders and now they won’t have the devs to make it any good (making Krafton correct in delaying the EA because it isn’t ready yet…).
This whole thing is a mess of pointing fingers and no one knows what’s real. Truth of the matter is probably that both sides are right. Dev’s want to push the game out to get the rest of what they feel they are owed, whether the game is ready for EA be damned. Publisher wants to not pay for any of that, downsize the dev team to finish production as cheap as possible just to drop a steaming turd with just enough name recognition to keep their line going up, but not to make enough money they can’t plausible deniability sink another developer. I hope I’m wrong, because I was looking forward to Subnautica 2 (mostly just to have a multiplayer subnautica experience), but the industry has mostly convinced me to assume the worst in everyone.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 months ago:
Why the fuck do people ask ChatGPT for shit like this? ChatGPT doesn’t know facts. It’s a magic 8-ball with more words.
- Comment on Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain. 3 months ago:
‘Where my bitchat?’
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 3 months ago:
The amount of work I was spending to fight the recurring bloat of shit in Windows 10 was eating away at me for years… I had the OS drive in my computer die a little over 2 years ago, so I was having to re-install windows from scratch on a new drive, and going through the install process, see skype and one-drive horse-shit popping up - disabling both, running updates, and they pop back up again… It just killed my spirit. I went distro searching that same day. My laptop followed suit about 6 months later. MS will be very hard pressed to win me back.
- Comment on They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes 4 months ago:
Honestly, never trust a company replacing C’s with K’s, especially if it contains alliteration. They will shy away from adding the 3rd K too publicly, but they know what it means.
- Comment on spicy one 4 months ago:
You can’t convince me that isn’t a nipple snuck in by the image creator.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 4 months ago:
They said something they hate.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 4 months ago:
I’m still at a loss for words thinking that any real human people joined truth social. We really failed as a species…