EngineerGaming
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- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 1 month ago:
Yeah, that is a very valid option! I don’t like it when people not into collecting do it, though. Because it makes zero logical sense for a digital copy to be tied to a physical thing, unless you like the sentimental value of said physical thing as well.
- Comment on What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI. 1 month ago:
I am not saying church isn’t far from God. I am saying that the whole concept of using AI for this is pretty offensive by itself.
- Comment on How the Terrorgram Collective’s Neo-Nazi Influencers Groomed a Teen to Kill. 1 month ago:
Unless you build trust with the kid. So that if the child is having disturbing thoughts, you’d be the first person they’d find unconditional help from, and that in really bad cases - you’d help arranging professional therapy for them.
Source: worked on me.
- Comment on What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI. 1 month ago:
Now that’s blasphemy.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 1 month ago:
You don’t have to upgrade the TV itself. If the TV cannot handle the new format on its own, external box is enough.
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 1 month ago:
Most of what I download are webrips, though.
- Comment on Get Into Meshtastic On The Cheap With This Tiny Node Kit 1 month ago:
Now that’s tbhe Technology community I like.
- Comment on Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames 1 month ago:
You can trust your own relatives or friends though - as long as you encrypt the drive you give them. Doesn’t have to be a service.
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 1 month ago:
I do that. Every game I buy on Steam corresponds to a DRMless copy.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 1 month ago:
I don’t like that a paid plan gives worse experience than free tools. For example, the downloads not being files you can store indefinitely and play by anything. Or not all ads being guaranteed to be blocked.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 1 month ago:
Ew, it is still on by default :( Unless you set your browser to save site data for thos site, you would still see the AI :( Fortunately, the Javascriptless version has no such pest.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 1 month ago:
I have also seen a video discussing that Grammarly often makes mistakes because it doesn’t understand context and nuance as much as a human would.
- Comment on Lenovo testing glasses-free 2D / 3D computers with a ring controller. 1 month ago:
“This is how, with a few simple contraptions, a loaf of white (or black) bread can be turned into a trolleybus… But what for?”
- Comment on YouTube is stepping up its efforts to sell you other streaming services 1 month ago:
It does allow for actual downloads, it’s called yt-dlp.
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 1 month ago:
Instead of reripping, I can just recopy from a backup drive, which is easier. And I can loan it to people too if I load it onto a USB drive or, y’know, just send the file online.
- Comment on Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
My university told us outright “Y’all know how to use Sci-Hub?”
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Pixel 8, even now that 9 is out, is still around $400 compared to 7’s already huge $300.
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 1 month ago:
If I were buying a disk just to rip, I would rather buy a digital copy just to correspond to the downloaded file. I do that with Steam games. I would throw the disk out immediately after anyway.
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 1 month ago:
My collection just isn’t in very good quality. For example, all the music is mp3, and the movies are 1080p max (my laptop’s creen is only 1080p anyway). I would not fill even one 16 tb disk in a lifetime.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
First - you wouldn’t want to carry a purse everywhere, especially if you did go through the effort of expanding your pockets (which, since a lot of women’s clothing doesn’t have big pockets, is 100% worth doing). Second - it isn’t about carrying, it is about using. I have average hands, yet struggle a bit to reach my Pixel’s upper corner already when using one-handed. It’s just sad they forgot half the humanity has smol hands!
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
NICE
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Seems to not be supported by Lineage… I wonder if a more privacy-preserving OS can be installed at all? I don’t teust stock ones.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
To put that into another perspective: it is around twice my country’s monthly median salary. This is still very wild.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
That is insane as well. $300 for my Pixel was already painful enough. 870€ is a whole decent computer :/
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
I would rather spend this time on a device with a 15’ screen and a comfortable keyboard. A phone is just that - a secondary device. That needs to be comfortable to hold and type on with one hand while the other holds onto the subway railing.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Yeah, fair. I picked this as an example, but overall I’d consider a phone unusable if you can be denied apps. Especially when it comes to important things like censorship evasion tools, which are very likely to be deleted from App Store on request.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
I can’t imagine using a phone that I can’t even use adless Youtube on :/
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
I am a very average-sized woman with average-sized hands, and big phones would have been unusable for me. Seems like they’re all for big men’s palms.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
I picked the Pixel A because:
- It runs GrapheneOS
- It’s slightly smaller and slightly cheaper than the normal version
- The back is plastic and not glass
Glad I can use it and type on it one-handed, can’t imagine using a bigger phone.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 1 month ago:
Yes, true.