freeman
@freeman@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 days ago:
You can add non-steam games to Steam Deck, not sure how that’s walled off.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 6 days ago:
Motorola is based in a freedom respecting country not the EU so certainly they won’t get compromised by the hardware.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
I mean if you control the software on the “player” you don’t really need a dedicated dvd format. Think about mp3 CDs, it never became a real format with specs and everything yet most CD players after a certain date supported them.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
Unless you get new DVD players to support AV1, just put the AV1 files on a data DVD…
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 2 weeks ago:
You are missing the parts where MP3 is made by a company that makes a music player, publishes a spec to get recognized as an open standard, then starts diverging from this spec to prevent interoperability while of course still pretending to be an open format.
Said company has also been convicted for anti-competitive practices, against the other spreadsheet software.
Do you work with office workers? Tabbed design does not help them. I literally had a co worker ask me to if I could put spellcheck from the revision tab to the main one (or have it always showing).
- Comment on Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement 2 weeks ago:
They did not admit it. I don’t think anyone could have have proof they didn’t. Only the ridiculousness of their arguments.
- Comment on Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement 2 weeks ago:
Considering the bullshit spewed by them to justify their ban of pro-Luigi comments, claiming they consulted a lawyer, I doubt this ever happened.
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
People 18 and over are adults. I know the US somehow forbids adults from drinking but I don’t think more countries should dilute people’s rights.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
Is the issue tanks ? Because the National Guard has killed people during Vietnam.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
Well a big part of the world needs to cleanse it self of US loyalists in it’s politics, military and intelligence/security. It’s going to be tough, a lot of expertise is going to be lost and the rebuild is going to be hard.
After that they can boycott and sanction the USA but they need to militarize to protect themselves. Expansion of nuclear weapons is a good tactic if you can get it to happen fast. Tactical ones as well to strike at US expeditionary assets.
It’s not going to be pretty, stopping the Nazis was not pretty.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 2 months ago:
So it’s not about all decks being the same.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 2 months ago:
Money, gambling is (even if obfuscated via tokens) about money.
Monopoly is not gambling because there is no (real) money involved. Uno is not gambling because there is no money involved.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 months ago:
Reactionary forks don’t have a great record of success (or even getting off the ground).
- Comment on Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues? 2 months ago:
Your coach is a moron. Don’t take his stupid advice.
- Comment on I sometimes can't sleep at night. Perhaps my brain's "CMOS Chip" battery ran out and my circadian rhythm defaulted to my "factory settings" of Beijing Time (UTC +8), which would explain my insomnia. 2 months ago:
Timezones, not even once.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months ago:
AMD is a member of the HDMI consortium and is probably bound by private agreements to not make open source drivers without permission from the consortium. They did try to get them to budge but they didn’t.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 months ago:
Well it’s science fiction. Being ‘genetically perfect’ (rofl) will impart less of an advantage than actually existing, mundane factors such as wealth and which country you were born in. Hell, the biggest advantage they could get is making sure their children is of the ‘right’ color.
I do not even think the biggest assholes like say Musk would genetically modify their children. He already thinks he is perfect.
I can also think of a few factors that would disadvantage poor people more than lack of eugenics.
Lack of healthcare. Climate change leading to people having to abandon their homeland and also exacerbating another factor. Bad nutrition. Bad education in combination with disinformation by wealth controlled media.
Genetic modification is not really a problem. It could also help some people if we fix our politics and make sure people get access to healthcare based on needs rather than means.
Seriously, fiction is not necessarily a good guide for politics.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 months ago:
It’s fiction.
You can find actual discrimination based on genetics or wealth or class into the present and past of the real world.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 months ago:
I agree that Play integrity is a huge problem and a way for Google to maintain control of Android.
However a Linux phone wouldn’t solve that at least in the beginning.
The devs who don’t allow apps to run on devices that do not pass Play integrity are unlikely to make a Linux phone app.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 months ago:
That does not make sense. Even in the worse scenarios Android would be more open than Apple and there would be Android options unaffected by this. Not many and not the most mainstream, though certainly more so than non-Android Linux phones.
But compared to a picking a non-Android Linux phone it makes even less sense. Unfortunately it’s true.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 months ago:
Unfortunatel, even here on Lemmy, that is a not techier/fossier than the mainstream, a lot of people say they will switch to… IOS.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 months ago:
Doubtful, phone vendors already had access to binary blobs to run Linux (Android) on them.
It’s no surprise Valve who is buying those SOCs is also provided with them.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 4 months ago:
There are android phones outside Google’s garden that will remain outside it’s walls. Apple’s walled garden vs Google’s future wall garden is a false dilemma.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 4 months ago:
Delusional apple fanboy.
I don’t need a my phone to be a ‘flagship’. I am not an influencer. I also wonder what loads are you running on a phone that you meet performance issues.
You can get an android with microSD and 3.5mm jack for 250€.
You can still run all the software you want. Adblockers, torrent clients, emulators, even… browsers! There will still be new android phones that won’t suffer those limitations. They will also be cheaper than iphones.
Don’t get me wrong android is in a bad trajectory, it’s true that’s Google has been enshitificating as much as it can get away with. It’s still light years ahead of iOS.
If anybody cares for privacy or control of their devices, saving Android, even in alternative versions/vendors, is a much more viable option than switching to iPhone.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 4 months ago:
Developer ID verification will be part of Google Play and won’t be present in GrapheneOS
Straight from the horse’s mouth. The rest of the post is a good reminder that GrapheneOS are morons.
But why would you lie about this?
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 4 months ago:
Because one walled garden does not exist yet. Because it’s possible to get around the proposed walled garden. Because there are android manufacturers that ship phones that are not going to be affected by this.
But no lets just promote the whole iOS and Android are 100% the same (not Apple and Google, those are the same) and give up on fighting those changes.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 5 months ago:
But if you break the law after on 2026 you don’t get any excuse for not having time to adapt to the new circumstances.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 5 months ago:
Well I had the displeasure of having to use a candybar style phone my mother was using cause it was ‘easier’ for her.
- Ages to write a message
- Very difficult to navigate through very similar SMSs (automated ones like electronic prescriptions) and pick the correct one based on date. Or even get an accurate broader picture of how many SMSs you received and when.
- Did not setup email but I believe it would also be horrendous
But in my case, I disagree with the base premise of this post. The biggest anxiety and distraction caused by my phone is via phone calls. Asynchronous communications like sms and email are much better for me.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 5 months ago:
Does that work on the Mars colony as well?
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 5 months ago:
So you are saying videogames fixed them?