EngineerGaming
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- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 2 days ago:
Not just that, it forces to create an account just to view!
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 2 days ago:
I don’t like physical copies. For convenience, I would be ripping it anyway, and then what? CDs and DVDs take up way too much space, then I would have to eiher throw a perfectly working disk away (which just feels bad) or bother selling it (which is not even guaranteed). I understand it if you’re into the collecting aspect, but I am personally not. If I was really set on paying for the media, I would rather go for a DRMless purchase. Or if it is not available, do it like with my Steam games - buy a DRMed copy and then pirate a DRMless one corresponding to it.
- Comment on Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ 5 days ago:
I would phrase it this way. If there is a noname token, especially if it “can generate profit” seemingly out of nowhere - it is a scam.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
The games I bought were fairly new indies. Didn’t think about that though!
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 1 week ago:
What I looked for were product categories. Ye, seen these models. $200 is very, very expensive for me, it would be weird to spend on a player more than you would on a phone.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
I do pirate games that I buy on Steam - just to have a backup copy in case something happens to my account. I want to truly own my media. Nonetheless, this is the only place I have paid for media since we ditched the DVD player)
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 1 week ago:
Why necessarily “used”? Also I have this exact thing already. I just wanted a device that has no cell connectivity option and thus no tracking, and also (maybe even more importantly) - is smaller and lighter. Going for sports with a phone is inconvenient af.
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 1 week ago:
I really want an mp3 player right now - my last one broke and I don’t want to carry a phone instead. But it seems like they’re either ultra-cheap, overpriced or don’t have features I need (like Bluetooth). It is so sad that the midrange audio players pretty much disappeared now. So instead looking as DIY projects, cannot believe.
The original ipod looks very cool btw, even if I would never use one myself - way too large.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
How easy is the telematics unit to remove and whether disabling it affects the functions that are important to you.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 1 week ago:
and the opportunity to give you money
What? Remembering myself as a preteen, even if I didn’t consider microtransactions as a no-no, I don’t think I would be able to do it anyway. Preteens don’t have bank cards. If we are talking about begging their parents - I don’t think it would have worked either. Mine, just like average parents, would have probably thought spending money on games was stupid and not allowed it. That is the reason I had pirated Minecraft too - just like most kids around me.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 1 week ago:
Yes, I am aware. But nonetheless it is far easier to use anonymously than “traditional” payment. Like, exchanging BTC/LTC from Monero, and buying said Monero via a non-kyc method as well. And whatever protections you want to layer, depending on how much effort you think “they” would spend on you.
- Comment on Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ 1 week ago:
On a phone, I actually rarely get stuck for hours. Not only because most of my personal data has to stay off of it (it cannot have LineageOS or similar), but also because it is inconvenient af. No keyboard, small screen, everything is slow. The problem of infinitely going into rabbit holes solves itself, while on the laptop there has to be a lot more self-control - it is far more comfortable.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 1 week ago:
Some registrars accept crypto though.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 1 week ago:
Given the giant amounts of storage and bandwidth needed for video hosting… A platform is not a solution. A protocol is.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I used free Spotify in hopes of finding new music, and the experience was very subpar. It wants you to enable DRM, the web interface is the laggiest I have seen, and the button to “not recommend this song anymore” doesn’t exist. Also recommendation, the whole reason I tried the service, are just meh.
I also cannot imagine having your main music collection on streaming and not locally.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
I honestly don’t even distinguish 10 from 11. For me, both are not acceptable on my machine, both have to be fought during daily use. Most problems of 11 originated in 10 and were already too severe.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 2 weeks ago:
I am skeptical about listening not only because it was not proven, but also because almost the exact same result is achievable via much, much simpler and omnipresent means.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
Pixels are completely unaffordable new, still overpriced when secondhand and only really cost normally when EOL. This is just sadly not an option for many people, so Lineage seems more accessible and realistic.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 2 weeks ago:
Local establishments can use cash, so this is not a problem. Problems begin when you try to pay, say, for a domain, or a server.
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 2 weeks ago:
Would it count if the application is the same but all the TOTP is handles by a different database with a different passphrase?
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 2 weeks ago:
Yea, crypto is not without its problems. But it is the closest we have to cash for online world. What would you really do when you can’t go somewhere physically? Send cadh by mail? This is indeed an option in some places, but in other the cash has a high chance of not getting through at all.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 2 weeks ago:
Using Venmo anonymously is much harder than XMR or even BTC, and probably illegal too.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 2 weeks ago:
Crypto is cash for digital world. The only existing analog I can think of is sending cash by mail, which is obviously slow and not guaranteed to.npt be stolen or confiscated on its way.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 2 weeks ago:
Monero exists and is constantly being improved in that regard. And even traceability aside, you’re forgetting one massive usecase: unlike debit cards, its usage cannot be denied or restricted.
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 2 weeks ago:
I am not beginning to drive any time soon so not much knowledge on cars, but seen from videos and discussions that at least in some models telematics are done by a box that can be unplugged, and it depends what functionality you can lose from this. Buying only old is probably not a longterm option, so would instead be looking at disarming upcoming ones. We really need a database on how eadily it is done by model and what impact it would have.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to encounter Osama Bin Laden Finger Family song.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, in my uni only the programming courses depend on using computers for homeworks. Most are still on paper.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 2 weeks ago:
For a while recently, I had my laptop not working properly so had to use just a phone before the needed part arrived. And after that, I refuse to believe someone could willingly and longterm live with just a phone as a primary device. No. This is actually frustrating.
- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 2 weeks ago:
Funny that this started with 10 in my experience. Our family laptop did an involuntary upgrade back in 2016, and its 2 cores, 4 gigs of ram and hdd just couldn’t handle it. And none in our family was savvy enough to downgrade to 7. Thankfully same did not happen to mom’s similar one, it was saved from running an EOL system by Linux)
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
I would have thought the same if there wasn’t a counterexample right in front of me. We had some major social media blocked, and while there was a noticeable dropoff, they are nowhere near dead. Quite popular, in fact, including among children.