TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 14 hours ago:
Windows is far more jank than a lot of Linux distros/desktop environments.
Like…
- Multiple different right click menus?
- No consistent and cohesive design language even throughout system or first party apps?
- Having to search online for an exe download page, download, open downloads folder, double click, click next through an installer?
- Updates that happen when you don’t want them to, take forever, and break things?
- Fucking ads everywhere?
- Web results in your start menu before actual stuff on your system
- Multiple settings apps?
- Sleep that doesn’t work?
- Convoluted process for setting things as the default app?
- Dark mode that’s only functional for some apps?
It’s actually incredible how much money Microsoft has, and how much more they spend than probably all Linux DEs combined, but they’ve still yet to fix so much low hanging fruit.
- Comment on UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows 1 day ago:
I doubt it’d raise that much, as there seems to be an assumption increasing the tax wouldn’t lead to a reduction in SUVs, and that everyone would just absorb the cost.
However, I still say go ahead! Even if it only raises a quarter of that, that’s still money coming in, and it means fewer SUVs on our roads. That’s a win-win.
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 5 days ago:
- Comment on 5 days ago:
The difference is that Google decided this was a task best suited for their LLM.
If someone seeked out an LLM specifically for this question, and Google didn’t market their LLM as an assistant that you can ask questions, you’d have a point.
But that’s not the case, so alas, you do not have a point.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Yes, it. It’s not a person. Were you expecting me to call it anything else?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The only reason they are doing it is to blow up their numbers.
Ding ding ding.
It’s so they can have impressive metrics for shareholders.
“Our AI had n interactions this quarter! Look at that engagement!”, with no thought put into what user problems it solves.
It’s the same as web results in the Windows start menu. “Hey shareholders, Bing received n interactions through the start menu, isn’t that great? Look at that engagement!”, completely obfuscating that most of the people who clicked are probably confused elderly users who clicked on a web result without realising.
Line on chart must go up!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You aren’t wrong about why it happens, but that’s irrelevant to the end user.
The result is that it can give some hilariously incorrect responses at times, and therefore it’s not a reliable means of information.
- Comment on Behind bars and erased, Banksy's art speaks louder than ever 1 week ago:
He knew it would be removed, and wanted it to be.
That’s why, instead of spraying it on a random wall like usual, where it would’ve likely been left, he purposely chose a grade 1 listed building, where it legally must be removed.
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 1 week ago:
The only reason I’m still on Spotify is that I can pay like £2.20 to be in someone’s family.
But the incessant push towards podcasts bugs me. When I’m driving, I shouldn’t have to scroll through 5+ pages to finally get to the music section. That shit is dangerous.
As soon as Spotify inevitably enforces that families have to be the same household, as so many other streaming services have done before it, I’m gone.
- Comment on GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction! 1 week ago:
Already watched it when it came out, I guess I’ll play it in the background while I work, muted, to help the algorithm.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 week ago:
I enjoy using Jellyfin and hope it continues to improve, but it has some problematic security of its own.
- Comment on The Telegraph somehow out-does Farage on hypocrisy over tax dodging 1 week ago:
Honestly the whole Rayner thing has been very frustrating.
Woman who is not a financial expert or housing solicitor engages the services of a housing solicitor to sort out a house sale (as 90%+ of people do in the UK), then follows their expert advice on what to do throughout the process.
She later finds out that some of the advice given may have been incorrect, and immediately refers herself for investigation.
Investigation says the advice she received was likely incorrect, and that she owes tax. She pays the tax.
Media and right wing agitators, many of whom have purposely avoided tax, go apeshit, forcing her to resign.
What a joke. We had an ex Conservative chancellor who dodged tax, didn’t refer himself for investigation, then threatened to sue any journalists who talked about it. The media stopped talking about it after a few days. Total two-tier journalism.
Tories/Reform can do no wrong, Labour can do no right.
- Comment on The Telegraph somehow out-does Farage on hypocrisy over tax dodging 1 week ago:
Why would you assume local papers in England are awful and the ones in Wales and Scotland are better?
There’s a great deal of romanticism about Scotland and Wales, but they’re culturally virtually identical to England. The only major thematic difference you’re likely to see from local papers from those three home nations is if you’re reading a Scottish nationalist one.
- Comment on Child sexual extortion cases in the UK soar: Charities warn threat of sexual extortion (or sextortion) against children ‘not diminishing’ as new data show sextortion cases soar 72% in a year. 1 week ago:
This feels more like politics news than technology news. Sure it’s done over social media/messaging apps, but so are plenty of things that I wouldn’t really call technology news.
- Comment on The correct way 1 week ago:
You think any and all instances of a country’s flag being flown means the person who put it up are racist?
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 1 week ago:
Most likely your motherboard. Asus and ASRock have been fucking up recently.
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 1 week ago:
Sure, if by doing fine you mean looking alright in benchmarks while having zero supply because they don’t make money selling them and thus don’t want to produce them in any significant amount.
- Comment on Six arrested after red crosses sprayed on house 1 week ago:
I’m not going to get my knickers in a twist over someone waving/displaying a flag, like plenty of people do.
But when you go around spraying it on things that don’t belong to you, houses, roundabouts, bush shelters, etc… nah. You’re just a scummy little vandal, and your behaviour needs to be challenged.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 2 weeks ago:
It’ll probably be based on some silly WW2-era grudge, which I find stupid.
Or Dieselgate, which while awful, despite what the headlines would have you believe, the VW group was far from the only manufacturer with illegally high diesel emissions, in fact, they were far from being the worst.
There are of course other things, VW has started trying to get into the DLC for cars bullshit that others have, but IMO that pales in comparison to Elon’s bullshit or China literally using slave labour.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 2 weeks ago:
Modern times aren’t like the past.
Don’t get me wrong, the market will probably be worse if Intel were to go bust (certainly in the short term), but it wouldn’t be anywhere near as devastating as it would’ve been 10, 15, 20 years ago.
x86 isn’t the only viable architecture in town anymore.
Apple and others have proven that ARM is certainly viable for PCs.
Yes, Qualcomm’s X Elite was a complete dud, but that’s more on their/MS’s absolute shit show of driver/firmware/graphics API development, not on the hardware. Nvidia’s ARM stuff is already more mature.
Now imagine if Intel disappeared. AMD simply would not be able to meet the demand required, it’d tigger an arms race of companies pushing ARM and RISC-V development. Nvidia has not kept it secret that they want to get more into CPUs.
Shit, as unlikely as it initially seems, there’s so much money on the table that Apple could even consider selling SoCs (although even if they did, I imagine they’d retain the best for themselves, or charge a huge premium).
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 3 weeks ago:
When they were alerted to it, they did nothing. They simply allowed it to continue, and profited from it.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 3 weeks ago:
Because Russia was also on the receiving end of export bans. This isn’t hard.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 3 weeks ago:
I’m as against Israel’s war crimes as the next guy, but I don’t see why some people try to shoehorn it into completely irrelevant topics.
The video is about GPUs being smuggled into China, as well as the futility of this GPU export ban.
It is not about middle eastern geopolitics. That’s why middle eastern geopolitics wasn’t mentioned.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 3 weeks ago:
Which wouldn’t happen if uniforms were cheaper…
Hand me downs for other clothes still exists too.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 4 weeks ago:
Can’t believe I’ve lived to see Cloudflare be the good guys
- Comment on Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’ 4 weeks ago:
Conservatives fucking up public finances? Say it isn’t so!
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 4 weeks ago:
If you ask me, there should be a government-mandated spec of uniform, in a range of, say, 5 colours.
Schools can choose what colour they want to use.
All uniforms will be made to the same spec, purchasable basically anywhere (i.e. not just from the school itself), and can be mass produced by anybody.
Prices would drop like a stone.
- Comment on Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’ 4 weeks ago:
There are protests all the time, it’s Palestine Action (an organisation) specifically that the government is taking issue with.
After Palestine Action damaged business known to be owned or worked in by Jewish people (not all of whom expressed support of Israel), attacked a policewoman with a sledgehammer, drove a car through the wall of a factory with workers inside, had a leader that has expressed support for Hamas, and broke onto an RAF base and destroyed the engines of two jets, the government had them classified as a terrorist organisation.
That means that any support of PA is illegal, even if you’re not involved in anything PA does. Some people think that is an overstep.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it’s deleted your data.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 weeks ago:
My god, this is the LOTR Extended Edition of tech journalism videos
