BaardFigur
@BaardFigur@lemmy.world
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
Why even pay subscription for something if you’re still gonna see ads?
In this case, piracy will give you a better experience tham actually paying for the service
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 week ago:
Then it has a surprisingly strong cpu
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 2 weeks ago:
It’s also good for safety.
Getting your credit card stolen and emptied? That’s your creditprs problem.
Getting your debit card stolen and emptied? That’s yout problem
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
I buy Android Tablet as well. Android devices are powerful, but software support for more advanced stuff (beyond spreadsheets) is really lacking. Appearently Ipads are far better than Android tablets on that departments.
Which is why I just buy the cheapest Samsung tablet with a 10 inch screen, and use it for youtube
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 weeks ago:
Kind of like how shitty of brand video sites does it. Nice job cannibalizing yourself, youtube.
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 2 weeks ago:
GNU Privacy Guard
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 2 weeks ago:
Protons free service doesn’t offer mail forwarding. Free gmail does that. Which means that in many ways, protonmail will lock you in. Which is not great.
If you’re gonna switch protonmail, at least use a custom domain. At least then, you can easily switch your provider, without having to change address.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 3 weeks ago:
EU, please do something about that.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 3 weeks ago:
Remember they’re just doing damage control. They are still acting in their own interest
- Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram 3 weeks ago:
They won’t but, that also means that Facebook have to comply, which is nice at least
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 4 weeks ago:
Tencent VPN
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 5 weeks ago:
It’s more expensive to build in western countries due to higher wages though, and probably better safety standards
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 1 month ago:
Was it a bug?
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 1 month ago:
Laws vary between countries. A lot of stuff that doesn’t break US countries will ersily break the laws of multiple european countries.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new $8,990 lizard-embossed leather jacket, also says something about AI GPUs | Tom's Hardware 1 month ago:
Then it makes more sense. Jensen is one of the most common surnames in Norway. It means son of Jens.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new $8,990 lizard-embossed leather jacket, also says something about AI GPUs | Tom's Hardware 1 month ago:
I see. Then it makes more sense. Just a bit weird reading Jensen as a first as a norwegian
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new $8,990 lizard-embossed leather jacket, also says something about AI GPUs | Tom's Hardware 1 month ago:
But Jensen is a scandinavian surname.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new $8,990 lizard-embossed leather jacket, also says something about AI GPUs | Tom's Hardware 1 month ago:
Why did they put his last name first? That’s like saying Carrey Jim
- Comment on Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation 1 month ago:
Nothing is gone forever on Discord. Maybe for you, but not for them. They’re literally tracking everything
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Hasn’t that been a thing since… forever? I remember it from back in the day when I started using reddit, around 2011
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 2 months ago:
Hasn’t it been possible for a long time?
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 2 months ago:
I’m from EEA. I downloaded the update yesterday, but I’m still not able to uninstall edge
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
The problem is dropping of software support
- Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 2 months ago:
I haven’t noticed any changes
- Comment on Just doing my part 🤡 2 months ago:
Mushy pfas straw
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 2 months ago:
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 2 months ago:
Funny thing is, I settled on Fedora for being more stable than PopOS. Maybe it’s time to hop again, though?
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 2 months ago:
After a recent update, Fedora won’t even boot to grub for me. Linux has some stability issues
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 2 months ago:
That’s not a problem with capitalism, just deregulated capitalism. In Norway higher education is essentially free
- Comment on Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built 2 months ago:
You’re wrong. All the revenue is sent to our sovereign wealth fund, which is mostly just left alone.
Plus stopping our gas exports will just make everything worse, since Germany is addicted to natural gas and lignite coal.