Feyd
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- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros was blocked by having only slightly old and perfectly serviceable hardware.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Why would it involve re encoding?
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
MMA has rules that don’t exist in real fights that almost certainly affect the dominance of styles
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
It’s better today than it was a year ago, and WAY better than it was 3 years ago, and is still improving. There are a few categories of games where you are likely to have problems though.
- competitive multiplayer games [kernel level anticheat, that one will probably remain a problem]
- very old games [getting better all the time, because wine is getting better all the times]
- very new AAA games [they mostly use one of a handful of game engines, so they tend to get fixed in batches]
I would say whether linux is ready for (windows) gaming depends on is different per person predicated on:
- What categories of games you play
- Any specific problematic game that is a dealbreaker for you
For me, I tend to play some older games, and there are a few that don’t work well. I don’t want to boot windows, so I just decide I can wait for it to get there for them.
For some people, “ready” means will run every windows program as if running on windows. We’re still a ways off from that, if we ever get there (it’s a moving target, as windows is still being developed…)
- Comment on Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them. 2 months ago:
It was target not walgreens, and it was probably not even real. Please stop belligerently pushing unsubstantiated bullshit as if it’s incontrovertible fact. kdnuggets.com/…/target-predict-teen-pregnancy-ins…
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
Meanwhile, llms are less useful at helping me write code than intellij was a decade ago
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
That is a very rudimentary understanding of the system that doesn’t always pan out in a particular time frame or due to external factors.
- It takes time for that effect to occur
- It doesn’t take into account barriers to entry, of which there are many for food
- It doesn’t take into account that there are are actually a small number of companies that own the bulk of our food supply chain and it’s in their financial interest to keep prices high for things that are perceived as luxury
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
It’s literally just because people will pay the price they’re asking…
- Comment on Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows 3 months ago:
That doesn’t make any sense. How does arguing against your position do anything but harm it?
Maybe just give them grief over the myriad negative things they do that don’t counter your position?
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
It’s slower than chrome or webkit based browsers, hangs out with Safari in terms of standards support, and can’t hold a candle to either other browser when it comes to battery life.
Sources?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
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This is completely besides the point, but I personally view factory farming as different than what happens in nature.
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This is also beside the point, but you are making some wild logical leaps here. The fact that I personally don’t want to support factory farming because I think it is cruel in no way means that I think other people “enjoy animal suffering” and assuming that is arbitrarily assigning thoughts I have never had to me.
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None of the above is really relevant because I should be allowed to go about my day without justifying my dietary choices just as people that eat meat should.
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- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
In my experience it’s usually more like: Them: here have some of this meat thing Me: No thanks Them: why not it’s really good try some Me: i don’t eat meat Them: but why? Me: to reduce animal cruelty and environmental harm Them: wow how dare you be so judgy
I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to not offend this type of person in this situation and frankly I don’t think it’s my fault or my problem they’re offended. My theory is that that agree with my reasons but rather than change or live with the cognitive dissonance they just lash out at anyone that reminds them they could be living more ethically even if they basically MAKE them say it.
Blaming vegans for that is bullshit, frankly
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 7 months ago:
Trivial? What information does this whitelist hold that can’t be spoofed? It’s not like apps have to tell the truth about what they are.
- Comment on What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? 11 months ago:
You might be having the problem specifically because the controller was paired with windows on the same machine. See the “dual boot pairing” section. wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth