accideath
@accideath@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 1 day ago:
Yea. Used it for four things. To keep up to date with creators I like, to keep up to date with friends, to keep up to date with a bunch of webcomics and to randomly rant into the void when I felt like it.
- Comment on Potoo Potions! 1 week ago:
I mean, that at least didn’t look like a student film production. But the contact lens work in that show is so godawful, not just Geralt.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
Back is already bullshit. We have a few trashcan mac pros at work and usually they’re just turned so all the cables stick out towards the user because then you can easily reach the power button. Which makes it look worse than just having a power button in an accessible place aka the front or the top in the first place.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
On the one hand, I agree. Apple has positioned their power buttons with the assumption that the devices wouldn’t be turned off very often for quite a while now. It was on the backside of the previous mac mini design and also on the backside of the 2013 trashcan mac pro, for example.
That still doesn’t make it less annoying though. We use a lot of macs for work, including aforementioned mac minis and mac pros and we do turn them off regularly because there’s no need for them to use power 24/7. Having to turn them around to find the power button is just stupid. That’s form over function in its finest. But if you’re the type of person who never turns off their computer, obviously it doesn’t really matter.
That’s not to say, that the new mac minis aren’t remarkable machines. The redesign was necessary and is very good in general. It’s a tiny powerhouse. They could’ve just chosen less of afterthought of a power button location.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
We live in the 21st century. Anything is possible. Also, women have last names, too.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
Or whose last name is Blimpson.
- Comment on New song just dropped 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Do you have what it takes to become a geologist? 5 weeks ago:
I believe licking asbestos is fairly unproblematic. You just really shouldn’t breathe in asbestos dust.
- Comment on 18 treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing 5 weeks ago:
If the artists can live out their bloody fantasies in the safety of an opera house, they might not take over the country and commit genocide, again.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 5 weeks ago:
No Problem with buying games that launch broken and get fixes later. I‘ll just get them once they’re fixed.
- Comment on Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player 1 month ago:
Nah, they defs do. Just less. Also, the trend seems to go towards single player again, so maybe there’s hope for the future. Big multiplayer releases bombing is definitely a sign for devs, too.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
For ebooks in particular, owning what you buy isn’t that difficult though. You can legally buy DRM protected epubs in a lot of online book stores and then use the software calibre (open source) to strip the DRM. Much easier than with music, movies or software.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
I‘d recommend the software calibre. Great for managing your ebook library and it can convert epub into amazons azw, mobi or kfx formats (depending on which generation kindle you have). With the right plugin you can even create WordWise data for your kindle-converted ebooks.
You don’t even necessarily need to illegally download the books, as calibre can also handle the DRM of .ebub books you bought from almost any store. Of course, sailing the seven seas is still always an option though.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
The game’s not different. But the launcher is missing some features and also, it’s not just a launcher but a store and some percentage of the money you pay for the game goes to them. And if you don’t want to give Epic Games money (which would be fair, considering their relations with for example tencent), buying a game there is out of the question.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
But if you don’t like the platform and don’t want to support it, what do you do then?
And a lot of people don’t like epic games for a number of reasons.
- Comment on MKBHD is getting cancelled over $12/month wallpaper app, ad overload, and excessive permissions 1 month ago:
He is one of the largest tech reviewers on YouTube and you should care because his platform is big enough for him to be able to actually influence a lot of people and even companies.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
Yea, it’s definitely not for everyone yet. But the average user (who needs a browser, a file manager and maybe an office suite) has no reason to stay on windows besides the convenience of being installed already.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
If they can’t bring the people to Win 11, they bring Win 11 to the people instead?
Just install Linux, it’s not that hard. Or at least get a Mac or a Chromebook…
- Comment on Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11 2 months ago:
There are still a few devices that can‘t read exFAT or NTFS. If you want to softmod a Nintendo console for example, you‘re tied to FAT32
- Comment on Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client for iOS and Android 3 months ago:
Surround sound didn’t work for me with the Jellyfin player and with the native player language selection didn‘t work. If you don’t have to transcode and spare a few quid, Infuse is great. Sadly can’t recommend it to my friends accessing my server from outside my home network because of said lack of transcoding.
- Comment on Break science with this one weird trick 3 months ago:
I always wondered what would happen…
- Comment on After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts 3 months ago:
I do. Because some of them might be able to be brought to reason. I still don’t use Ex-Twitter anymore though, since they’ve blocked third party apps.
- Comment on After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts 3 months ago:
Because one website with millions of users is more reach than 100 websites with few users. Doesn’t mean you should use Ex-Twitter but it makes it understandable why lots still do
- Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons 3 months ago:
It‘s a very solid adaptation. Sure, it will always sit in the shadow of the game because that’s a masterpiece but if you haven’t played the game yet watched the show, you’re getting a well produced and complete package that isn’t offensive to the source material. Because that’s what happens if you let the writer/director of the source material actually guide you in creating the show.
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 4 months ago:
You got it the wrong way round. It’s awful because it is the most popular os. If you look back at Windows XP or 7, they were clean, consistent and a pleasure to use. Everybody had XP, then 7 and by then it was too late and everybody was used to it and Microsoft can do whatever they want now and people will just take it because they’ve always used Windows. No need to put in effort.
- Comment on Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag 4 months ago:
The regular chats are encrypted though, just with an (encrypted) server in the middle. Telegram also claims in their FAQ, that no one singular person has the power to decrypt and the keys are stored such that no singular government could force them to give up any data.
How far that is true is a different question though.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Does anyone know why there are barely any WebKit based browsers? WebKit is open source and at least Safari works really well. Is it hard to work with? Do people just hate Apple that much? Is there some limitation?
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
I do, generally. But there have been situations where I couldn’t. And most of my friends that are using my server don’t. Dunno why.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
The problem is, most user don’t want to pay. And every time mozilla tries to monetise differently they get community backlash…