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- Comment on 11 hours ago:
Oh the PROFANITY!
- Comment on NVIDIA Says You're "Completely Wrong" About DLSS 5 Being Slop - Gamers Nexus 1 day ago:
Have you heard of this new thing called thr “K-Shaped Economy”?
It’s this gross thing where corporations have realized they bled all they they can out of us pleebs and are now resorting in sucking off the rich.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 days ago:
It’s missing the arm that has the gun pointed at themselves.
- Comment on The US in one image 3 days ago:
Looks like his name is Dow Jones to me.
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 4 days ago:
I’m glad to hear that you don’t have a family, a pet, or other unit that you need to support other than yourself, and do not have an illness that requires medical insurance in a country that requirrs it for care, that a capitalist cannot exploit.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 1 week ago:
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 3 weeks ago:
So fighting against this new understanding of the term is either pedantry for the sake of it, or you have some sort of stake in Google perhaps?
Great use of a bad reason fallacy with a touch of ad hominem in an attempt to discredit.
Your claim is that the term has been used to mean something negative. You present no evidence to back this up other than your feelings.
I don’t discredit that major corporations do evil shit.
However, I presented you with the experience I’ve had with the term dating back nearly 30 years where I, and the people I talked tech with, was sideloading files onto our PDA and Rio MP3 players.
The term started out as a technical distinction in the circles I ran in (Detroit area) back then.
Aside from your feelings on the term, I see no valid justification to stop using it when I’m trying to clearly communicate something. I work in tech (and no, it’s not Google or Apple. Fuck publicly traded companies) as a lead on the platform support group, and I need to be able to clearly communicate with my peers and reports. Sideload is a widely recognized term in the spaces I have worked in.
I’m not going to stop using a precise technical term because some internet strangers have unfounded negative feelings about the possible marketing connotations.
Present me with evidence that it actually means what you’re saying and maybe I’ll consider working on making the language change. Just like I’ve done with actually real problematic industry terms (master/slave, black/white lists. Etc).
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been using the term side loading since the early late 90s/2000s for installing software or files to a device via a transfer cable. And by the time Android came along, the early app development community was using the term to push the app to your device via ADB. And from there it’s expanded from transfer cable push to download and install from an unmanaged 3rd party source on a mobile computing device.
So the term has existed in some form throughout the tech/power user community before modern mobile computing. Now did Apple and Google usurp the term? Ehhh, possibly? I’ve yet to encounter somebody that uses sideloading to mean something negative, but I’m sure there is a group out there that does. I’m not convinced that group is large enough for me to stop using language I started using nearly 30 years ago to mean something specific. “Why use more, less precise, words when this single term says it already?”
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 3 weeks ago:
There is.
It’s called Parental Controls.
It also does a fairly good job at preventing stuff from getting through.
One of the big issues right now is that there’s a lot of sexualized content on social media right now that’s bypassing parental controls because the social media services are doing a poor job of limiting that content when encountering a parental controlled device.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
You don’t need a native mobile app to use the Progressive Web App (PWA) installation.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
Federation of self-hosted servers is on the Fluxer road map.
However, the team has had massive growth in the last two weeks and pulled enough visibility that assholes being assholes decided that it would be fun to DDoS them while also dealing with sudden growth.
Fluxer’s majn benefits are that it is so close to discord that it, in theory, supports existing Discord bots with minimal effort, and the kid behind it is obsessed with the tech stack and FOSS.
- Comment on I dunno 3 months ago:
The multiplication is implied and has been part of the standard mathematical notation for far longer than any of us have been alive.
- 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 3 months ago:
You have to view this from outside your tech knowledge bubble.
I have friends that are “stuck on windows 10 because fuck windows 11”. I urge them to give Linux a try via Live USB and they’re hesitant to even do that.
The paid support path is there for people that want to try and escape and need the comfort of that safety net. They don’t feel comfortable trying to figure out even where to search for information. And if they’ve gotten that far, having various instructions for different distros can make things confusing because they probably did a generic “my issue, linux” seqlarch or just did a “my issue” search and are seeing cryptic answers,including Mac and windows. If somebody needs that paid safety net, ZorinOS for an existing machine is great, System7/PopOS for something new.
If there is something that provides value (customer support or even thr OS equivalent of a hat cosmetic) to the user, I have no concerns at all. With that being sold. If that optional value could easily be done yourself with effort, those of us that know how to put in that effort ,are willing to put in the effort, or not afraid of the effort when unknown, will continue to do so. Those of us that don’t match those criteria at least have an option.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 months ago:
Be forewarned, Bazzite has some install issues and can lock up or appear locked up during a painfully long install process. Also, VR support is meh on Bazzite and their immutable distro and managed packages make it more challenging to get non-managed solutions rolling.
As somebody running Bazzite and loving it on their HTPC, I am looking at switching to CachyOS using the Handheld (SteamOS) Display Environment or launching directly into Kodi.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 4 months ago:
Bosch makes a few descent models.
Things to skip on all brands.
External water & ice dispensers,doesnt matter the brand. You’re cutting a fucking hole in the thermal envelope to put a faulty device that’s experince ing mechanic stress on parts every time you open/close the door. It’s not a matter of if it will fail, but when. Also, increased operational cost. Internal water dispensers and automatic ice makers are always the better option if you want those features.
Smart features. Why the fuck do yiu need smart features on my fridge? Even if it’s using AI vision to scan for recorders… Just no, fucking no. That’s more personal data on you to be bought, sold, data breached, and utilized to fuck you somehow.
Fridges that split the freezer and fridge on a vertically.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 4 months ago:
Escuse me, but I’m aging at just the right rate. Not rapidly, not slowly, but exactly as the universe planned it as we hurtle through time and space on our planet size space ship.
- Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 4 months ago:
So, back to hand written reports, and physical books only found at the library?
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 4 months ago:
Yes, hence the second part of the sentence.
Unless you need to use the precise word for communicating the “context difference”, just use the word impact(ed/ing/s). Makes it a lot easier for ESL speakers as well.
Even then, most people can understand the meaning of the misused word due to the context of what’s being discussed anyways.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 months ago:
Games still crash on windows for multiple monitors, or launching in full screen for the first time, and more. Often without an error message without digging into event viewer or game logs.
And TBH, once you learn how to troubleshoot on Linux, it’s actually quite informative. For instance, I resolved a cryptic error message being returned by steam on launch by launching steam from the CLI and then used the steam gui to launch the game and was given live event stream logging.
Once there’s better GUI tooling and and more passionate techs with a design/UX passion join the community, I can only imagine how seamless things will get.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 4 months ago:
Effect vs affect: Use ‘impact’ and not have to worry about two words that essentially mean the same thing but are context based.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 4 months ago:
Did they do Tripple Band at your show at the very end as well with the opening act joining in with Double Band? Was a ton of fun.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 4 months ago:
Twinsies!
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 4 months ago:
I saw Jeff & Pup last month. Was such a blast to party with punks of all ages at that show. Even bought myself a nice Death Rosenstock (yes, death), that has a nice “Fuck ICE” message on it.
- Comment on Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers 4 months ago:
How does a massage parlour help with your brother’s eye issues?
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 4 months ago:
Since a lot of Furries work in STEM, and Seattle has a ton of STEM folk, a furry that’s flirting or making a nuclear innuendo joke has a much higher probability of happening in Seattle than most other places (except for maybe Portland).
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 4 months ago:
You probabaly won’t have to wait too long. At this rate, the US is going to fracture and as a result I predict a large part of WA will become a new Canadian territory/province.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 5 months ago:
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 5 months ago:
She now uses an even more masculine pen name for her detective novels.
Hilarious that a TERF is using a masculine pen name for her book sales.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 months ago:
Doorman was a cheater that made his own game hacks, not a god!
Context: =DiG= (Doorman is God) was the FPA clan where that boycott started. I was a member of that clan for some time (before it came out about Doorman’s cheating and no longer playing the games they were a clan over), and one of the mods of that boycott group that failed so hard due to consumer apathy.
AMA.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 6 months ago:
UE5 performance is fine these days if the game developer actually utilizes the tooling in place to catch problematic assets, sequences, blueprints, and more. Now, those tools may not be the easiest to use, but they do exist, and, with official documentation. It’s got challenges, but the tooling exists. In 5.6 there was even an expirmental plugin released that’s supposed to help with the burden of integrating this work, so it’s obvious there’s effort being put into providing tools for developers to make performant games
The problem is that takes additional time in a production pipeline, and is uaully pushed off to the side til the end of a game’s dev cycle instead of the beginning, if it’s done at all. And due to the way that many game studios are funded and operate, it’s not uncommon for product quality to follow the model of delivering features first to meet funding milestones instead of focusing on making sure the work that’s being introduced is also performant.