Buelldozer
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- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 2 hours ago:
Lemmynsfw.app
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 1 day ago:
Alpha Centauri is a game I’ve had since release. Ended up building a dual P3 1Ghz box so I could play without experiencing extreme slow downs during end game when the whole world is visible.
I still do a playthrough once a twice a year.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 2 days ago:
Assuming its not cheap piece of crap that isn’t UL listed and that’s where the problem is.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 3 days ago:
Well…we’re waiting!
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
The easy answer is to use commercial displays. They are more expensive and may not have the latest tech BUT they last longer and don’t do the spyware shenanigans.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
Add Illinois to the list.
- Comment on By bullying Anthropic, the Pentagon is violating the First Amendment. Here’s why. 1 week ago:
Because not everybody is willing to roll over and give up.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 2 weeks ago:
MSO and EXO have a value proposition that Cloud PC doesn’t and Cloud PC at minimum doubles the cost.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 2 weeks ago:
It was never crazy and people were predicting this since the 90s. It’s essentially a return to the dumb terminal & mainframe paradigm that was in use prior to desktop pcs.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 2 weeks ago:
Business’s will not adore this. Cloud PCs in M365 or Azure cost money, often as much per year as it would cost to just purchase a pc to begin with.
- Comment on An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification 2 weeks ago:
Read the legislation. It’s not just operating systems,mit applications as well! All applications, there are no exceptions.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have enough AI-ready GPU cores so Teams is running the local copilot model on the CPU with your most recent outlook emails in order to prepare a dummy to send to the cloud for further analysis
That’s a depressingly probable reason even though its techno-babble.
isn’t it time to get off Windows?
I’m already using Linux everywhere I can both personally and at work, heck even my work laptop is running Linux. The blocker on my work desktop is that the remote access tool I use multiple times a day doesn’t have a functional Linux version.
I could switch my work desktop over to Apple but I’ve never liked MacOS.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 2 weeks ago:
I’ll hate it because this already happens with links in MS Teams where despite having a high spec work computer it makes the system so sluggish that the mouse cursor won’t move smoothly for 15 seconds or so while it sorts itself out.
I mean I’ve already got a Core i7 with 32G of RAM and an NVME sitting on my desk Microsoft. How much freaking horsepower is THIS little stunt going to take?
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 2 weeks ago:
It’s also happening in areas where education HASN’T been defended or dismantled. It’s happening in areas that aren’t Republican controlled too.
Fuck MAGA with a moldy pine tree but blaming this problem solely on them means it can’t be solved because whatever is happening isn’t being caused by them.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
Used to be a video on YouTube showing the whole process.
- Comment on Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media 3 weeks ago:
Article about the UK, comments immediately start talking about the United States.
Stop it.
- Comment on Is it just me or is there a lot of Spam and abuse on Lemmy lately? 3 weeks ago:
Nope, that’s a user created account and a user created note. 😊
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 3 weeks ago:
SMR are for site or temporary power, not grid scale. On paper they’re a good fit for data centers and other localized power needs.
- Comment on Is it just me or is there a lot of Spam and abuse on Lemmy lately? 3 weeks ago:
What context are you asking for? Seems like Draconic has explained why that account exists and even put in a note explaining.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 3 weeks ago:
Yachts and mansions are depreciating assets. You aren’t borrowing against those and then passing them along as an inheritance.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 3 weeks ago:
Getting a half dozen 24tb nas drives this morning was painful. They twice the cost of last fall and most vendors, even big ones, only had one or two available. This is insanity.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 weeks ago:
+1 for Reolink. I have those and UniFi cameras tied to my UniFi system.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 4 weeks ago:
As near as I can tell the HP PSC 1315 was released in 2004, over two decades ago. I can see how it’s aggravating for you but there can’t a double handful of those clunkers still working anywhere in the world. There’s no way it could be worth it to HP to rewrite drivers for the 10 or so people still using them.
Switch to Linux. :)
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps but the next Windows 11 update is NOT going to “break your printer”. If you already have a printer setup it will keep working even if its driver is an old V3 / V4.
Most of the old drivers are not distributed by vendors since we are talking about the era when CDs were included in the box.
I dunno about that. I just looked up an HP LaserJet P1015. It was a very inexpensive laser printer released back in 2003, over two decades ago, and it has drivers available for download from HP both Windows and Linux. The P2035 was released in '08 and it has available drivers to download.
Granted that is only two printer models from a singly company but I think you may be overstating the impact of this.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 4 weeks ago:
This article isn’t accurate - techradar.com/…/scared-your-printer-will-stop-wor…
- Comment on Italy says railways hit by 'serious sabotage' as Winter Olympics begin 4 weeks ago:
We really don’t need to drag American politics into every single post.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 5 weeks ago:
This has been predicted and worked towards since the 90s.
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 5 weeks ago:
You can also install ad guard home as an add on INSIDE Home Assistant. Works great!
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 5 weeks ago:
Combo of ADHD and living through the 2000s with Internet Explorer where ads often installed malware and viruses. If you DIDN’T use an Ad Blocker you were playing a game of Russian Roulette every time you opened a web page.
Popups, pop unders, blaring audio, malware, slow page loads…ads a scourge.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 5 weeks ago:
Funny, I’ve been calling Flock the same thing.