yuriy
@yuriy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 6 months ago:
I feel bad for anyone with no linux experience who bought a steam deck. There’s a good amount of weirdness with the UI sometimes, and modifying desktop mode controls can lead to it ignoring inputs until steam launches on occasion.
I know these issues stem from this being a brand new device with a brand new form factor, using whacky proprietary track pads and shit. But someone who’s only used windows might attribute them to linux and be left with a bad taste.
It’s good that the Ally exists so we can have a windows handheld to compare against.
- Comment on tikatalik 6 months ago:
that sounds dope as FUCK
- Comment on DEAP computations 7 months ago:
Smalls is a really great slot too, Opal and SHOP: A Pop Opera are both fantastic, and they’re a great introduction to Jack Stauber’s art/music.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
I reckon you could kill it with a pin in a casual enough way, maybe make it look like you’re just putting a hand there to lean? Also you have like 4 other people come throughout the day and get gas at that same pump, and they do a similar casual hand movement around the speaker.
You’d be safe as houses, probably!
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
Left side, second from the bottom iirc
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
Yep. Just shell stations around here (so far at least)
They’re super loud and in my experience usually political, think local office smear ads and oil lobbyist propaganda.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
If the gas pumps have those unlabeled buttons around a screen, try pressing all of em. The pumps around here (nebraska) will mute the audio when you press one of the buttons, it just isn’t labeled. I’ve taken to writing “mute” on the magic-button with a sharpie whenever I pump my gas.
- Comment on acceptable screws 7 months ago:
I got a dinky electronics repair kit that included a wide range of those bits and god DAMN. It feels like they outperform phillips heads on phillips fasteners.
- Comment on “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 7 months ago:
There’s settings that only exist in the older menus too. I hate the settings overhaul from 10, it turned troubleshooting into a goddamn scavenger hunt. Toggles that used to live in dialog boxes on the taskbar are suddenly behind 2 separate settings windows that both somehow always take a second to load. Just so I can click a single button, usually to open another superfluous settings window.
I swear to god microsoft is the only company simultaneously making their product worse and harder to use for both general AND power users.
- Comment on Beautiful 7 months ago:
It does go hard unironically. It’s clean, the sparkles come across immediately, even the text is surprisingly consistent given the font choice. Honestly, the only big gripe I have is some inconsistent line width in the hair, but I had to look for it.
If it was done to be funny, they nailed it. If it was done in earnest by a fan, fucken equally cool. It’s genuinely not a bad tattoo IMO.
- Comment on Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM 8 months ago:
It’s a point and click puzzle game with rpg elements, that’s how I’ve been explaining it
- Comment on relatable 8 months ago:
MRW the jester improvs a silly little song about how i take way too long to shit and the guards start readying the guillotine but i genuinely didn’t realize i was taking such long shits and i just KNOW all these other fuckers have been making fun of me behind my back for weeks over it
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 8 months ago:
I have linux on everything except a surface pro 5, which ONLY exists for adobe and autodesk apps. Probably only works because I’m using the versions I’m comfortable with (from 2012) and they’re not too terribly bloated.
It’s not ideal, but fuck if I’m gonna try learning freecad AGAIN.
- Comment on And why you gotta touch my back with those ice blocks 😩 9 months ago:
if we wanna be semantic, it does make it funnier by comparison to this new, absolute-funny-zero
- Comment on Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage 9 months ago:
and i’ll be the last person to argue for SMS. media messages are a fucking MESS, it’s a terrible standard in 2024
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 9 months ago:
I had a great time, but thank you very much for all the unsolicited advice. The suggestions that I had a bad time are kinda weird though, maybe reapproach the way you talk to strangers!
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 9 months ago:
replies like this are why it was a highlight 💖
- Comment on Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage 9 months ago:
you’re assuming there’s a right way of owning a phone.
Except I’m literally not. I have a hard opinion about which is better, and sometimes I’m judgey.
Lotta people got a lotta piss in their cornflakes over something that, in my experience, more apple users do anyway. After all, it’s a well known phenomenon to get ghosted over wrong colored message bubbles. I don’t plan to cut contact with anyone over their phone preference, but I will make a couple inferences about their priorities when I see they’ve got the new $1200 iphone that just came out last month.
Doubly so when they also complain about how expensive something is. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 9 months ago:
People get too embarrassed about publicly being wrong. I went in on someone recently in a comment thread, typed up like a whole paragraph tearing down what I thought was an indefensible point.
Homeboy replied like “hey you misread my comment”
Rather than edit everything away to hide my shame, I just replied with “you’re right, I’m drunk on a cruise!” and it was honestly a highlight of the voyage. Maybe some randys can get the same enjoyment out of rereading the interaction, and that’s way more than anyone would get out of “edit: whoops”
- Comment on Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage 9 months ago:
When I found I could speed up every single transition animation and functionally halve the time it took me to do anything, I lost all patience for that walled garden. It’s literally just a single box in dev settings, I can also turn off any flashy bullshit that only serves to waste my battery.
Also when something doesn’t work on android, I actually have some recourse beyond waiting for apple to fix it for me.
- Comment on Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage 9 months ago:
At risk of sounding like a pretentious fuck, I do actually lose a tiny amount of respect for someone when I learn they have an iphone. It’s like baby’s first smartphone, great for elders and children.
- Comment on Wafrn is a tumblr clone that connects to the fediverse 9 months ago:
I just registered with a novelty email address, but it IS real I swear.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 9 months ago:
Yeah, unfortunately most of the danger fell on the (usually female) factory workers who painted the radium on. Fun fact, we do absolutely still use radioactive shit to make watches glow today, it’s just much less dangerous and sealed in tiny vials. Also it’s a gas that won’t eventually flake and turn into super fine particulate, like the radium paints of yore.
- Comment on Real committed 9 months ago:
Would you have this open at work?
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 9 months ago:
“asking for something” and “seeing something and deciding you like it” are two different things, but go on and type another 3 paragraphs about how I’m weaseling.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 9 months ago:
God, I should’ve seen you take this out and followed suit. Instead I engaged, and now unbeknownst to me I’m afraid of AI and putting words in people’s mouths, gotta love internet discourse
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 9 months ago:
You’re acting like I’m crazy for taking issue with this, I’m just explaining my perspective. You’re free to enjoy whatever gizmos and gadgets microsoft bundles into the next windows release, just as much as I’m free to say it’s a piss-poor decision on their part to do so.
It shouldn’t be the user’s responsibility to seek out replacement programs for shit that has been baked into the OS since 1983. I genuinely haven’t seen a single person ANYWHERE EVER say “boy howdy I sure do wish notepad had more features, maybe an AI cowriter!”. If that’s something you really actually wanted before you heard about this, then I’m sorry for putting words in your mouth.
As it stands though, you’re just dying on a stupid hill for semantics.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 9 months ago:
I couldn’t care less that the addition in question is AI related, it’s unnecessary bloat that no one asked for! I hate bloat, that’s my thing. I didn’t like when the start menu was ruined, I didn’t like when user accounts were eschewed for microsoft accounts, and I don’t like this.
I’m completely off windows now anyways, so I don’t even have skin in the game. It just boggles my mind that anyone would defend this whacky decision. Streamlined bloat is still bloat.
Why not just clone notepad and then start adding garbage? They already announced the intention to remove word pad, just replace that with whatever this ends up being!
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 9 months ago:
You’re free to believe that this will not bog down the program at all, and also that this isn’t just the first bad decision they’re making with notepad. I really would like to impress upon you that that is wishful thinking, and not at all the most likely outcome here.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 9 months ago:
Any additional functionality added to an already feature-complete program is bloat, no two ways about it. If notepad+AI was a separate program, this would be a different discussion. Even if you can hide it completely, the fact that it’s there at all will affect performance. And even if it’s just a tiny blip in relative performance, it’s still the first step on the road to enshittification.