Buelldozer
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- Comment on How my ultimate SimCity 2000 setup helped get Apple sued [15:26] | This Does Not Compute 3 days ago:
This wasn’t one of Colin’s better videos but I do enjoy his channel.
- Comment on How do we avoid the next airport disaster like Newark? An expert says 6G could be the solution 4 days ago:
Trump is worse than useless but these failures are the result of DECADES of underfunding and mismanagement.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
Got a link to an article or something discussing that?
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
That isn’t exactly true with Steam. Valve does allow a dev to offer a discount at a different store as long as that same discount comes to Steam in a reasonable amount of time.
[Straight from the docs: ] (partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys)“It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.”
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
Samsung Dex already does this with Android.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 1 week ago:
Very odd comparison…
Not really. There are more people using Steam than own a PS5 or Xbox X. So in what reality does Steam “not work for most people”?
you just need to sign up and you’re considered a user.
You’ll note that I used Steam’s ACTIVE user statistic. That’s not people who just “signed up”, those are people playing games on Steam.
Steam works just fine for most people.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 1 week ago:
Steam doesn’t work for most people? You sure about that? It has 132 Million active users, that’s nearly double the number of PS 5s that have been sold!
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered - Bugs, Glitches, and Fixes 1 week ago:
I’ll have to try the UET mod but the author’s changelog doesn’t inspire much confidence.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks ago:
And for a lot of people I would still recommend Windows.
Eh, only if someone needs it.
For instance my 75 year old father is happily using Linux Mint on his laptop. Why? Because all he’s doing with it is web surfing, watching youtube, and checking his email. At home that’s all most people are doing, especially older people. I set his up so that it backs up his stuff and auto-updates. It just works and if it does get broken I can recover it with minimal effort.
It’s the same for me at home. My main PC is Linux Mint where I do almost everything. For the occasions I need Windows I have an Intel NUC attached to my KVM. For work I’ve got LM installed on my work laptop and when I need Win11 I have a VM setup in QEMU/KVM with it.
Are there people who have workloads, or gameloads, that only run on Windows? Sure there. We all know that.
But there are a lot of people, especially home users, who could easily run Linux and don’t.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 3 weeks ago:
If you can buy a Tesla cheap enough the usable parts, such as batteries and motors, can be moved to a different frame or vehicle. Even an ICE vehicle that you’d like to electrify. It’s all just parts.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 3 weeks ago:
That sucks. If I can’t control the ads with settings, dns fuckery, or firewalling then I guess I’ll leave their ecosystem.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 3 weeks ago:
Some TVs already have the ability to connect to sidewalk. More worrying is that every newer “Smart” TV has the ability to cast to it so if anyone ever does that using an internet connected device like a SmartPhone then bam…your TV just got an internet connection and can now send out stored data and potentially grab a firmware update.
Surprise!
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 3 weeks ago:
It gets its internet connection from the PC; both HDMI and DisplayPort allow this.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 3 weeks ago:
but now that Roku has pop up ads for simply moving around the app menu
Huh? I have 3 Roku Ultras, a Roku Stick, and a Roku TV and none of them do that. Have you gone into the Roku settings menu recently and turned off all the ad stuff?
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 3 weeks ago:
Does “US gov funded” immediately make me suspicious of it happening? Yes.
As it should. Frankly NO Government should have sway over the CVE program, they are all shady AF and every one them would absolutely do what you are describing if they felt it was in their interest.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 3 weeks ago:
Good. Despite the fact that my Government is currently being run by baboons the US Government shouldn’t have been the sole carrier of such a globally important program. Companies, The CVE program is central to how security companies, Qualys being an example, make absolute shedloads of money.
These companies shouldn’t be getting a free ride; it’s only right that they contribute to maintaining the resource.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 4 weeks ago:
These people are all fucking idiots. No business can plan anything when costs are whipsawing back and our trading partners are already tired of reacting to these near daily changes.
I just don’t have language strong enough to convey my utter exasperation and the depth of my content for these people.
- Comment on Windows Defender Anti-vitus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption 4 weeks ago:
Saw this attack in the wild this week. Huntress MDR detected and shut it down.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 4 weeks ago:
It’s pretty easy in both places actually, just don’t talk about politics.
Turns out our Grandparents were pretty damn smart with that “Don’t talk about Religion and Politics” rule.
- Comment on Sensitive financial data feared stolen from US bank watchdog: OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago. 4 weeks ago:
Attack began in May of 2023. That ain’t Musk.
- Comment on Sensitive financial data feared stolen from US bank watchdog: OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago. 4 weeks ago:
Attack has been ongoing since May of 2023. That ain’t Musk.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps 4 weeks ago:
This is why I started “testing” Linux Mint on all my personal machines 6 months ago.
With that said the training data that Copilot Vision could generate may begin a sea change in both AI and the PC industry.
- Comment on JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Trump tariffs will boost inflation, slow an already weakening U.S. economy 5 weeks ago:
Three months ago Jamie Dimon was telling people to “Get over it” in regards to their fears with the Trumpican Tariffs. Fuck this guy.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 5 weeks ago:
Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts.
Of the Top 10 most profitable companies in the world 8 of them are American. Those 8 companies lost enough Market Capitalization in the last 24 hours to fund a mid-sized Country. “The Markets” are not fucking happy at all.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 5 weeks ago:
Inflation from the Fed helicoptering money around was probably the most predicted thing that’s happened in the last 50 years. It should have surprised literally no one.
It’s also no surprise that it hasn’t gone away. That’s called deflation and every central banker on the planet would rather be eviscerated with a rusty spoon than allow deflation to happen.
- Comment on How to easily add a backup internet connection to your home office - and why you should, A failover internet connection is a good idea if you work from home - and it's not complicated to set up. 5 weeks ago:
Setting up a dual wan edge device with fail-over isn’t difficult, it’s the paying for two ISPs part that most people don’t want to do.
- Comment on Gulf states refuse to be launching pad for any US attacks against Iran 5 weeks ago:
If the chatter is to be believed the gathering B-2s are headed to Yemen to rain GBU-57s on the Houthi rebels underground bunkers. This would clearly demonstrate to Iran that their bunkers wouldn’t be reliable in a conflict with the United States.
Trump is an idiot though so who knows.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 5 weeks ago:
This pen / pencil thing has been corrected so many times for so many decades that it’s ludicrous people are still bringing it up.
scientificamerican.com/…/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spe…
Random bits of pencil lead floating around in a high tech environment is such a poor idea that even the Soviet’s quit using pencils once Fisher’s Space Pen was available. A pen which Fisher itself paid to develop and then sold to both NASA and the Soviet Space Program.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 1 month ago:
- 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 month ago:
Syncthing
That is a very cool project that I’d never heard of. Thanks for sharing!