Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 17 hours ago:
eugenics
Not science.
atom bombs
No argument here. Science was also used to develop airplanes and buildings. You can create with the knowledge earned from science, but religion (can) give the justification to misuse those creations.
t is not about the tool but how we choose to use it.
Well said.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 18 hours ago:
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 2 days ago:
Glances nervously at Ford, BMW, VW, Mitsubishi, etc…
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 3 days ago:
This is it 1000%
In the US, probably 75% of the population will irreparably fuck up their entire life from a single missed paycheck, which can happen if you miss a single day of work because you were illegally detained.
Not like “oh, I’ll need to pay a late fee fuck up”, I mean, “you and your kids will die cold and hungry under a bridge” fuck up.
- Comment on The ID_10_ts 1 week ago:
Layer 8 issue.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 week ago:
Did you miss the part about unencrypted admin creds being widely available on the internet?
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 week ago:
Reading flock their own response about their security and recording it via one of their active and installed cameras was fucking great. I mean, it was nightmare shit, but at a certain point, you have to appreciate the irony.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 week ago:
Rain is a thing.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
You’re absolutely right, the current start bar I coded is not fully featured…
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
Kill it in the registry.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
It’s still there.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
So, to cater to the maximum number of users at once, Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.
I call bullshit, because nobody uses the “modern” devices and printers interface in windows 10, because it fucking sucks. Everyone goes to the control panel instead. In windows 11, you have to use the “modern” interface, and it drives me crazy, especially because the old, fully functional, and reliable one is still in the OS, but Microsoft decided to hide it/make it a PITA to get to.
- Comment on No it won’t 3 weeks ago:
cries in sciatica
- Comment on No it won’t 3 weeks ago:
That’s pretty dope. I would totally donate some of my skin to make a sick wallet for one of my family members (they’re into weird curios).
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
I vote for school tax levys. I don’t (and probably will never) have kids.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the game and platform really.
Been using game cheats since IDDQD and IDKFA. I’ve never used a cheat in a multiplayer competitive game, that’s like cheating at golf. No one really cares what your fucking score is, and cheating ruins any and all accomplishment and personal validation from competing. At that point, you’re just being an asshole to other people for imaginary clout, and you should really consider what is gratifying about playing in the first place.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 5 weeks ago:
Managing printers in 11 is the worst. The sad part is that the old-style devices and printers menu is still in the OS, you just have to dig for it a bit, and it works 1000x better.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 5 weeks ago:
This is true. Rumours I’ve heard is that all your data will just be in one big blob, and every application is just an AI agent sorting and displaying the info for you.
So you could open a word document in Excel and it would format the info as a table, or you can open a PowerPoint in Visio and it would make it into a workflow chart. Same data, just presented differently by AI “wrappers”.
- 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 5 weeks ago:
Who?
- 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 5 weeks ago:
Windows 8 came out in 2012, and was in development years before that.
Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available for download via MSDN and TechNet on August 15, 2012, and generally released for retail on October 26, 2012
Laptops is a subset of PCs. Only 10% of laptops were touch, not 10% of computers.
80% of users are dumb. A touchscreen laptop is an expesnive way to get your screen dirty.
- 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 5 weeks ago:
Ah a windows 8. I remember reading the promo materials for it. An OS designed around touch, with the goal of doubling the number of touch enabled PCs on the market.
Guess how many PCs were touch-enabled when windows 8 launched…
1.5%. Whomever is driving at Microsoft needs to be moved to an Amish community and prevented from interacting with any kind of electrical device ever again.
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
Tell him loudly that he doesn’t know shit and to shut the fuck up. This is the year you let it all out. You’ve been building a dam of tolerance for this person, a dam which he’s been trying to undermine because he’s too fucking dumb to understand the extreme restraint you have shown against the potential flood right behind those walls.
Let him have it.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 5 weeks ago:
All user logons to a non-persistent OS installation such as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or equivalent as application packages must be installed each logon in such scenarios.
Cries in supporting multi-user AVD Hosts
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 1 month ago:
rabbits might get stressed and piss in the corner or something.
Oh yeah, they’re little pissers.
However, we already had a pent addendum, and laid out the pet fees and conditions for keeping the rabbits in the apartment. We also don’t let them on carpet because eating synthetic fibers can bind up their gut and cause them to die horribly.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 1 month ago:
My apartment complex tried outsourcing their payment portal, attaching a fee to it, and making it the only way to pay.
I ended up going down to the office to write a check in front of them once a month, making sure to complain loud enough to be overheard when they had other people inquiring about apartments.
Apartments these days will nickle and dime you to death. Late in my tenancy, they wanted me to sign up to have my pets put into a database. They were also going to charge $25 per pet per month to have them in the database. You bet your ass I was in their office the next day with my pet addendum to discuss their breach of contract. My rabbits were not the dogs that kept getting loose and shitting all over the place.
- Comment on *Yawn* 1 month ago:
Snake yawns are the most cute of yawns and I will fight every one who says otherwise.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
Real answer is that the direction AI is going right now is to save money for billionaires, not to improve the lives of everyone else.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 1 month ago:
It’s less “hate the poor” and more “being good dogs for their wealthy masters”
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 1 month ago:
Oh yeah. If you’ve got 4 GB ram, win 11 is going to absolutely skullfuck that machine.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 month ago:
That’s when I juggle knives for you.
Yes, I own a set of purpose-buily juggling knives.
Thought about doing fire this year, but I worked late, it was raining, and I didn’t get a chance to do a few days of practice to make sure I’d be in good form to safely do it