Pika

@Pika@sh.itjust.works

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t. I passively mention lemmy when I’m discussing my activities, and if they show interest I go into further detail. They have never shown an interest past “Whats a lemmy”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think this policy is enforceable in my state. Not that we have much of a mixed language anyway.

I don’t think its appropriate to have as a rule in general. I can understand having a universal language for work related topics if there is someone who doesn’t speak the language present (or isn’t fluent), but a straight out ban on all other languages but the target language? that’s just unneeded and creates a hostile work environment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I hadent heard of him until BL4 was released, but man does he seem like a real big piece of work lol
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It depends on how you are looking at it. Since you called it “Investment properties” I have to assume you plan to maximize profits on it so I would have to say yes it is. However if you are renting the property out for market value and only doing a modest increase to cover costs and the mortgage I don’t think it is. Obviously you need to cover expenses for the property or else someone else who won’t do the same is going to obtain it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I do the same thing at mcdonalds. “Will you be using myrewards today?”. It doesn’t matter what you say it won’t help you get your order done any faster
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Woah, you separated it already? that’s insane. Defo checking it out!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, this is a really innovative project. I wish it came in an extension because I feel that is likely your biggest bottleneck for getting people to try it. I don’t think many are going to build a browser from source & then port all their stuff over strictly for the integration.

If an extension version ever releases I would for sure be looking at that!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
You just answered my question. I was going to ask you earlier and then forgot to hit send. Because I thought plasma actually looked really slick, so I was going to recommend it. Especially with how customizable it is.

The biggest annoyance that was to get used to was the change in overall size of the menu bars, but once you’ve been using Linux for a week or two, it actually hurts your eyes going back onto Windows again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Of course, your metrics may vary because every person’s situation is different, but I went through my associates and my bachelor’s CIS degree with very minor issues issues., Many colleges will state that it requires windows for the course, but then you’re able to use something like LibreOffice just fine. Like technically, the only course that I ever had to actually use windows for was my Microsoft Office course and that’s self-explanatory of why I needed Windows for that lol
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’m sorry, but you’re misreading what they mean by support in that article because I did read it. They’re still gonna give support regarding he ESU program as a whole(otherwise they would be sued for fraud), which includes installation, activation, and regressions of the program. What they’re not going to be providing is general technical support which is a different beast, If you would like more information, you can read about it here as well.

It’s easy to blindly hate something When you only see what you want to see…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a different system if I understand the article correctly. It looks like its just a Microsoft account not a one drive sub. I’m expecting they are just going to only allow 10 computers per account and then when it hits max it stops getting support on new systems (since updates are involved I doubt they will let you remove devices like with the current activation system). Now I do expect that the payment is the same system, and considering their dark tactics at trying to get you to subscribe and update, I do assume this is going to make it easier to accidentally spend money or subscribe to other services though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly I firmly agree with this. If it doesn’t work with wine nowadays unless it’s a big thing i just don’t involve myself with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

LOL That’s literally a classic window bug. Try borderless-windowed. You’re welcome!

this doesn’t work sadly, I tried it already. it’s not the act of tabbing out that causes it, it’s the fact the window loses focus which is still done with borderless

Another one of those games was “The Isle” which has a raving disco ball sky during the night time.

I tried it 2 weeks ago but i guess I’ll try giving it another shot

Then theres phas… which while it functions the mic support is iffy cant work in lobby and night vision video is broken

I don’t know what to tell you here. The proton db page for it is filled with others having the issue. Mic works in game, spirit box requires text mode, and no communication in lobby. I have tried GE 9-20, experimental, latest and bleeding edge, the issue remained. I have been waiting for another major update to hopefully address it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
10 games that /launched/ on linux. there is a difference. It was for sure not 10 games that ran the same as if in a windows enviroment. For example one of those games in that critera you can’t tab out of it or it hard crashes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
it will be a slight downgrade, but they do have a Minecraft bedrock wrapper program that uses the Android version of Minecraft, so technically Pocket Edition, and that’s probably the easiest currently at getting that version of Minecraft to run on Linux.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’m parroting old talking points because those talking points still exist. They existed in 2022. They existed in 2012 when I started, and they still exist today August 2025.

I said I agree that wines gotten better, but I’m sick and tired of people thinking that it’s some sort of magical unicorn that can just resolve all the inner communication issues with Windows & Linux.

In the last 2 months alone I have had several games that have failed to launch completely. at least 10 games that have required me using a specific proton version. One game that required me to install a custom wine runner that’s specifically configured for the game to function, a handful of software incompatibilities, The most annoying of which being the software that is supposed to make my headset compatible with the computer, which required me due to the fact it’s not compatible with wine, to have to make my own audio profile to split the two mixes it has, and I’m currently working on a custom user interface for it to allow me to actually change the settings on the headset.

All of these examples are completely ignoring the reason that you provided of companies not wanting to support it. It’s just the support doesn’t exist in the current wine infrastructure. If we’re including the games that are using kernel level AC or disabling the usage on Linux, that list becomes bigger.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
hatred against Microsoft aside, this change doesn’t surprise me. With forcing an account, it allows them to tie your support subscription directly to an account instead of having it be a product key, which is annoying for both the user and the agent in trying to validate whether or not it’s in support or not.

Like, I hate the mentality of needing to use Microsoft services to use a Microsoft system, but this is one of their decisions that I can somewhat understand, it makes it far easier for subscription based setups.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I just wanted to chime in that there’s far more reasons that your software doesn’t work on Linux than just the developer saying no.

Basically, if your game or software has to interface with anything at the driver level, such as a keyboard or a headset configuration software, or anything that needs to access complete system access such as kernel level access or being able to see processes outside of the wine environment. It’s going to be incompatible. This is by design for system security and is unlikely to change on official releases any time soon.

Additionally, if the game requires any type of integration into basically anything Microsoft, so be it the Microsoft account services, the authentication token services, multiplayer services, applications on the MS store etc, it’s going to be a no go as they have yet to make a decent translation layer for those systems. Being said with the push for demand of Game Pass on PC, there are people working on those projects, but I haven’t personally seen anything that had decent progress.

I have to hard disagree with the statement that it’s a myth. Yes, many games will work with minor tinkering. However, We are still a long way from having something that is just a click play and it works style system and it’s not usually from developer choices (outside of choosing not to make a Linux distributable)

Being said, it has gone a long way since I started using Linux back with Mint Maya. ProtonDB is an excellent resource to find known workarounds when it breaks, But you definitely should not go into any Linux system expecting it to “just work™”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Managing Proxmox VE via Terraform and GitOps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
My main complaint about the deployment of this, is from a security standpoint. The password is hardcoded as “changeme” for the GitLab Runner container. which when run from an automated script like this the script itself doesn’t make the user aware of that. Like the script itself mentions that you should move credentials.txt but it never makes you aware of the hardcoded password.

it would be nice if it prompted for a password, or used a randomly generated one instead of that hardcode
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm archiving Picocrypt · Issue #134 · Picocrypt/Picocrypt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Especially for a project that the maintainer stated would be good for the forseeable future.

Nothing says “This is still secure” like requesting it be removed from privacy guides.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm archiving Picocrypt · Issue #134 · Picocrypt/Picocrypt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The sad thing is, it isn’t going to hinder scrapers anyway. Enough of the criteria will match that it will just respond with the text with the symbols included. It won’t impact scrapers at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Hard agree. AI is not currently at the stage that CEO’s think it’s at. A few years down the road there’s going to be a hard crash, when the problems overthrow the benefits and they realize they are just throwing money away. Sadly this also will be accompanied with a IT/Software “sinkhole” because many who were competent in the field will have moved on to the next thing as the jobs wern’t there anymore.

Something similar happened with the Nursing field during COVID, prior to the event, there was a steady if not overflow of medical professionals, but when COVID occurred they started being treated like tools, medical facilities started having to pay mad amounts of money on traveling staff that jumped from facility to facility due to it to even partially make up for it as many left the field. Jump to today, the problem still exists, an educated field like IT or nursing can’t have an event that results in tons of people leaving the profession, as you can’t just snap your finger and get that knowledge back. It will take years to regain that trust and get people back into the fields again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
, Agreed. Like, I’m not surprised that it was allowed to interface with the ATM because at that layer, I think the jump would have been from the switch to the ATM(although the ATM should habe not accepted the connection imo). So it would have never gone through any security. But it blows my mind that it was allowed to access a mail server as part of the routing, And even more so that it was allowed to go from that mail server to the outside world to establish a second route into the establishment. Like, how did it never hit any type of security or blocker anywhere in that process?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
agree with this as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Like for real, the only reason I’m associating them with these games now is because they’ve actively brought it into the limelight, so we can see that

I wouldn’t have even thought anything of association if they hadn’t done so.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I didn’t have this experience, because I very regularly had college classes that didn’t start until 5, 6 in the afternoon, but I would expect that if your college doesn’t offer those type of classes, that they likely have some sort of college sport and that’s a pretty big income source for them, because that’s the main reason that most high schools still run Early in the morning to early in the afternoon, despite it’s been proven that’s during a period that is not good for actual information retention, with newer generations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
honestly, pretty poor security here. I can’t say much cause I don’t have inter-device restrictions either… but I’m also not a bank that handles money.

There’s no reason a random device should have been able to interface with any of the other devices tbh, I’m guessing the switch wasn’t smart so didn’t support Mac filtering or port disabling cause that should have not been a valid attack vector.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
honestly, my opinion of epic is starting to improve more and more with every legal case they open.

They are bringing what everyone knew was going on into official record and forcing the countries to do something about it. I’m rooting for em
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That makes sense. I hadn’t really looked at it from the angle of most apps are going on devices anyway. Mine was just because of the fact that it’s super annoying having to have my phone on me at all times for two-factor authentication. Especially considering that most 2FA apps require you to sign in in order to use them anyway.

Also, yeah, that was my ideology when I threw them into my password manager. That if they can manage to breach a device, find my private key that’s used to lock the database and figure out the password for the database. Something far worse has gone wrong and losing my passwords is the least of my issues.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The alternative for people who want a convenience factor is putting it all in the same location. For example, the only thing Authy for desktop closing did for me was make it so I no longer had an isolated app for both 2FA and passwords, because now it’s just all in my password manager.

I don’t always have my phone on me 24x7, so the inability to access things on my desktop is a massive nope for me.

The way I looked at it, it’s no different than having a mobile device with a password manager on it, because if someone steals your mobile device, they have access to everything as well. So the two-factor authentication apps shouldn’t be on desktop argument never made sense to me, mobile is the same way.