Zink
@Zink@programming.dev
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 1 day ago:
I’m the dude in that meme looking at the other girl, and she is my icon collections in Steam, GOG, even Epic, etc. Icons with native Linux versions get slight preference.
- Comment on Investors flee U.S. stocks as markets react sharply to Trump's tariff plan 1 day ago:
You mean Trump’s massive tax increase that’s crashing the value of assets that other rich people would love to buy up?
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 5 days ago:
Jellyfin was more work on my end so that family could connect with https, but for me to set them up it’s literally just “here is the URL, login, and password.”
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 days ago:
Mint is ubuntu with the icky stuff removed and given an extra layer of polish. Still loving it here.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
No worries. I’m glad I explained it then!
The first thing that comes to mind for popular media using “no notes” the way I did is probably John Oliver. I spent 10 seconds stacking for a clip or a montage of him saying it but came up empty.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
The way I edited the quote, it was just a like joke about braking vs breaking.
Like I could make a pedantic reply about spelling, but no teslas in fact brake unexpectedly AND break unexpectedly. So, no notes!
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
And Tesla is infamous … for breaking without reason.
No notes!
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
And if you’re using a full featured turnkey kind of distro like Mint, LibreOffice is pre-installed and ready to update via the repo.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 week ago:
Does it support ublock origin still, or has it gone the way of Chrome?
- Comment on this bad boy can fit..... 2 weeks ago:
Alternate second frame:
Car salesman in ambulance headed to the hospital because a giant piece of steel that’s GLUED to the car came loose and sliced him.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 2 weeks ago:
There were some hoops for me to jump through in order to get secure remote access working for sure. Fortunately for my family that connect remotely, it’s transparent for them and doesn’t require any kind of VPN or tunnel. They just need URL, user, and password.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 2 weeks ago:
I have a lifetime Plex pass.
I tried out Jellyfin last month.
Now Plex is uninstalled.
Even if we ignore the differences when it comes to matters of FOSS, cost, corporate control, privacy, etc, Jellyfin’s performance is just so much better.
Setting it up to run over https while fully self-hosted was a learning process for somebody who isn’t a web dev, but holy crap was it worth it.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
It’s the Baldur’s Gate saga for me right now, and I’m still in the BG1 campaign.
It is such a great game to play on the couch with a trackball while chilling with the family.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
You know, that very sequence of words entered my mind while typing that comment!
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
If I think of what causes the average person to consider another to be “smart,” like quickly answering a question about almost any subject, giving lots of detail, and most importantly saying it with confidence and authority, LLMs are great at that shit!
They might be bad reasons to consider a person or thing “smart,” but I can’t say I’m surprised by the results. People can be tricked by a computer for the same reasons they can be tricked by a human.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
It’s important for everybody to not just assume the people on your own team, or the people that look like you, are being truthful and arguing in good faith.
That goes for everybody, but it seems pretty consistent that you need to me more wary of it as you move towards the conservative end of the scale. And conveniently for those politicians, the citizens on that end of the scale are the worst at cutting through the BS. Arguably that’s what landed them there in the first place!
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 4 weeks ago:
My wife likes her kindle hardware.
I love stumbling upon EPUBs and using Amazon’s website to send them to her kindle.
- Comment on Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells 4 weeks ago:
sudo exit simulation please abracadabra # Rumpelstiltskin
- Comment on Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells 4 weeks ago:
But not beyond the brain-in-a-box’s comprehension!
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 4 weeks ago:
I cannot help but respect any organization that has “here are the conditions that make our product useless” in their FAQ.
It’s an effective way to describe what their proxy does, for sure. It’s just nice to read public-facing text that doesn’t feel sanitized by committee.
- Comment on YouTube is stepping up its efforts to sell you other streaming services 4 weeks ago:
Oh YouTube. You are in such a dominant position for talented individuals who want to create their own TV show. You’ve been pissing people off for a long time, but changing what “YouTube” even is seems way worse.
I will even pay the $15 for my family to be able to easily watch or listen to whatever they want in a native app on whatever platform they’re using. And I like how it makes my views more valuable to the creators I care about.
But if it’s not cheap, easy, AND ad-free, it is not difficult to block ads or even download videos I care about onto my Jellyfin server.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 weeks ago:
It looks like the latest firmware on their website for my old-ass black & white brother laser was released in 2019.
Hopefully that thing lasts another few decades on top of the ~15 years I’ve already had it, because it sounds like it’s the last printer I’m going to buy.
- Comment on I'm not original at all but feel a bit amusing about thought somebody takes it to heart 4 weeks ago:
I just opened my app and saw your post, because 3 hours ago I saw it and closed the app!
It was good timing moreso than me changing my plans (was just about to move on to something else) but putting the thought in my head was enough at the time.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Beautiful. Thank you for reminding me of this.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s like not being able to look away from a train wreck, but it’s a humongous fiery train wreck that has been advertised and teased in every form of online media for the past two years.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
Maybe we should all throw some kind of support behind ladybird.org with an eye to the future.
That project isn’t problematic for some reason I haven’t heard about, is it?
(Problematic other than web browsers being gigantic pieces of software, and ladybrid itself not even being in alpha yet)
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how much this affects things if you’ve already gone through Firefox’s settings to max out privacy and turn off all telemetry.
I resisted switching to Librewolf because Firefox works great (including M365 in Linux at work) and seemed to have the options you’d want for privacy and security.
This doesn’t feel like an emergency, especially in a chrome/edge dominated world. But it’s back on the list of things to investigate transitioning away from.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 4 weeks ago:
As I have been transitioning more and more of my stuff to FOSS, it has become clear that the infrastructure to push shit on you is a huge problem in itself, even if you block and avoid it all.
The user experience benefit in performance alone makes it worth it for me. Even if we ignore eeeeeverything else, it’s so nice to have your computer just do what you ask it to do, and not triage your request with 50 other corporate priorities.
My favorite two recent examples are replacing Windows with Linux, and replacing Plex with Jellyfin.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this image before. This time, however, I am half way through watching The Expanse. I had a much stronger reaction to it this time, for a couple reasons, lol.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 5 weeks ago:
Excellent post! Any time I see one of these from you I’m going to upvote and comment just in case it gets it onto more screens.
I still haven’t tried the steam deck, but it seems like such an awesome system. I won’t be in the market for one any time soon but maybe by the time I am, there will be a Deck 2.