dubyakay

@dubyakay@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They💸foster💸real💸human💸connections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not $10. It’s 10%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Laser Squad, playing couch hot-seat is what sent me down this path.

  I really liked Jagged Alliance 2, Afterlight and especially X-COM: Apocalypse. Apocalypse had such radical departures from the first two Ufo titles, which did not make it very well liked among enthusiasts, in particular the real-time battle mode. But the game had such fun mechanics and steep difficulty curve, I really enjoyed the challenge of it, as opposed to getting another Enemy Unknown clone that was TFTD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you find these peeps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you think farts are funnier. Then it’s Jerusalem Artichokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an iPhone user and I’ve never met anyone that gave a shit about iMessage. In the past ten years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to point out that this:

  see, for instance, the deliberate slowing-down-with-updates scandal from a few years ago.

  this never happened. What you may be referring to is Batterygate where they would intentionally throttle older devices based on their age and presumed battery degradation in order to give the devices a longer life span. The articles also mention that since iOS 11 / iPhone 11 the phones have better battery management and monitoring.

  My 11 Pro that I have bought in 2020 April is still working as well as on the day of purchase. This is after one battery swap in 2024 April, when battery degraded below 80% capacity and the system announced that performance would be throttled. It is expected that the 11 Pro lineup will retain new updates until at least 2026 September.

  Now here’s the thing: these newer iPhone Pro models age so well, with just a battery swap every ~3-4 years, I wouldn’t be surprised if some movement in the EU will step up to force legislation on extending support for them. But still, six years of support is pretty good compared to most other vendors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I read Cybercrab for some reason and was really confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Phone menu trees

  I assume you mean IVR? It’s okay to be not familiar with the term. I wasn’t either until I worked in the industry. And people that are in charge of them are usually the dumbest people ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So they could just use a service offered by (checks notes) T-Systems, Siemens, Lufthansa Systems, SAP, TeamViewer AG,… what’s that? In all these years these companies were relying on US service providers as well, instead of innovating? Well that sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The recipient of your messages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Xchat is an irc client though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. But I meant if SteamOS or Bazzite had that feature already for the ROG Ally, why reinstall an objectively worse OS when it also gains that feature?

  I may be misunderstanding something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But what for? Nothing makes it better, even if you would get this equivalent feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they are so far behind because they jumped on the same train but then failed at achieving what they wanted based on the claims. And then they started digging around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And then tar.bz2 on top so that no basic users of sidewalks can ever open it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But why? Again, the perception would be absence or presence of light on a standardized indicator.

  FYI signal lights are much more strictly regulated I. Europe, such as position, colour, shape and strength.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s doesn’t matter, since the absence or presence of light would still be perceived by colour blind people. It doesn’t change how they would drive, as they are already driving with the knowledge of colour blindness in mind when looking at tail lights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The relatively bad linux experience, plus all the news about nvidia being the scum of the earth, is what made me go with a solid AMD card instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨United Nazis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Actively defending war criminals makes you complicit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just do it like me and create a couple accounts here and there while also migrating settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first thing they’d do would be to defed ml, grad and hexbear anyway.

  Although I wouldn’t blame them for the later two, but the whole point of .ee was it’s reluctance to defed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the very reason I am using Arch, just so I can be true to spamming “I use Arch btw”

  I use Arch btw sniffs fart

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People keep saying Bazzite now for distro. But as a relatively new linux user (since last summer) I’ve managed to make things work with Linux Mint, arch and Fedora no hassle.

  Heroic launcher (GOG, Epic) or Steam will handle proton&wine for you. Just need to check a check-box in the game’s config on whether you want to run native or proton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding to what the others were saying, proton has an unaffiliated website for reporting purposes, protondb.com. It tallies user reports of the games working or not. The data is associated mostly with steam libraries.

  I don’t have a lot of games in my steam library, relatively speaking, barely over 100. But there are zero games that would not work on Linux for me:

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  In this context Platinum means it works out of the box, Gold means some users experienced minor issues (mostly older reports by nvidia users) that required some tinkering with launch options, such as setting an environment variable. Silver and Bronze mean gradually more tinkering required but still works. This excludes native apps (which do not use wine/proton) and borked apps (of which I own zero).

  Note, that this is a translation layer, not emulation, and often games can have better performance under Linux thanks to the system not getting bogged down by the OS itself.

  Also note, that 99% borked games are due to kernel level anticheat and DRM being implemented by the game developer, which proton can’t handle. You can still make it work under Linux, but you’d actually require emulation for that, instead of proton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Learn what? They’ve been relativly silent throughout the 12 years from announcement to release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was only for us nerds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was he?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been redeemed because they’ve opened such a rich world in the form of the TV shows and books. TCW and Rebels expanded on lore greatly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume this is London.

  And that’s fine, the train commutes were not for your specific needs. Weird that you had to switch three times to get to your destination, including the walks.

  But this is hardly the norm.

  If you want to have counter-anecdotal evidence presented, my daily commute used to be 5 metro stops worth 9 minutes of ride and 5 minutes of walking (in total). By car it was about the same, except for the added inconvenience of finding and paying for parking. This was Budapest.

  Then there was 15 minutes of train coupled with 25 minutes of walking, 20 to the train station at a brisk pace and then another 5 to the office through the underground maze. By car it’d have been 15 minutes, not counting traffic. Which there always was. Because this was Toronto, the home of “just one more lane, bro”. So in total it was more like 40.

  My current commute is 20-40 minutes by a single bus. Only ~2.5km. It’d be the same by car, because the route is entirely at the whims of the traffic.

  However it doesn’t matter, because I also bike, and it’s my preferred mode of transportation. Biking in cities that do have minimal infra (such as well placed arteries) and culture for it, as in driving lessons focus on awareness and there is no us vs them mentality, is like IRL cheat code to commuting. You are faster than transit and traffic, you get some well needed exercise and de-stress time. And you get to exactly from where you leave from to where you want to go to, all while saving a dime.

  Obviously biking is not for everyone. But if a fat dude with asthma in his late forties with two young children can do it, the barrier for entry doesn’t seem that steep.