7rokhym
@7rokhym@lemmy.ca
- Comment on First Look at Google’s Unfinished DeX-Like Desktop Mode for Android 1 day ago:
They were just waiting for Microsoft to add advertisements to Windows so they can do the same. Now it can be a new revenue channel and will see the light of day.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 2 days ago:
The Windows Webcam camera settings, when I finally find them on Windows 11 to control pan and zoom, have been the same for 25 years, maybe 30. The thing is, it used to be easy to find the controls, but they keep making Windows slower & harder to use. It’s such a rat nest.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 days ago:
Everyone is too busy doomscrolling TikTok to notice.
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 2 days ago:
I use FolderSync. Works well and I prefer one app synchronizing files than 6. I still use the Nextcloud app for files I don’t sync that I need access to, but overall it’s really bad. The camera upload erased a ton of my pictures on a vacation. I deleted the synced pictures on my phone storage and the Nextcloud app overwrote the images as the new photos had the same file name.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 4 days ago:
I use Linux, so encryption is easy with LUKS, and Free File Sync to drives that rotate to a safety deposit box at the bank for catastrophic event, such as a house fire. Usually anything from the last few months are still on my mobile devices.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 1 week ago:
I think OpenAI’s recent sycophant issue has cause a new spike in these stories. One thing I noticed was these observations from these models running on my PC saying it’s rare for a person to think and do things that I do.
The problem is that this is a model running on my GPU. It has never talked to another person. I hate insincere compliments let alone overt flattery, so I was annoyed, but it did make me think that this kind of talk would be crack for a conspiracy nut or mentally unwell people. It’s a whole risk area I hadn’t been aware of.
- Comment on There's probably some kind of deal between cellphone and pants makers to keep pockets small 4 weeks ago:
My Lenovo flip has a vegan leather back a.k.a. rubber. It never falls out of my pocket and I always have a firm grip on it, which I love. Unlike my Samsung flip which was so slippery. Once pulling out of my pocket, I somehow squeeze it in a way that went flying up hit the elevator ceiling, wall, wall, floor. Lie down on the couch cell phone hits the floor, sit down on a recliner, Cell phone is somewhere hidden in the bowels of the recliner. I was always dealing with Samsung repair for that thing. So I’d ask, why do they make them so slippery, but I already know.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 month ago:
The new M365 Outlook is just webmail. Every upgrade is actually a reduction in functionality as they align to the web version. The good news is this eliminates the need for Windows.
- Comment on Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech' 1 month ago:
It’s trolls, trolls are what Facebook stands on. But what do the trolls stand on? It’s trolls on trolls on trolls all the way down.
There is nothing trustworthy on Facebook. Shut it down.
My father is a prepped in his 70s and my brother has become a flat earther. Down with Facebook and YouTube, the two halves of the most evil and vile existence on this planet. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 months ago:
Indeed. Charcoal filters are to catch some odours, the aluminum will catch some grease, but ‘natural gas’ is a whole lot more than methane, and think the same is true for propane.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 2 months ago:
Thought this was an Onion article!
Hey plebs! I demand you work 50% more to develop AGI so that I can replace you with robots and fire all of you and make myself a double plus plutocrat! Also, I want to buy an island, small city, Bunker, Spaceship, And/Or something.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 months ago:
The studies I read, there was no ventilation / exhaust fan. The point was that low income households using these stoves often don’t have proper ventilation and it makes them dangerous. I didn’t find much evidence that using them with proper ventilation is actually a serious problem.
Further, cooking releases all sorts of chemicals from incomplete combustion in the air if something is burning, as well as the toxic chemicals release from nonstick cookware at very high temperatures, so cooking without ventilation is bad for your health would be the message I’d take away. I find most people are completely unaware of the hazard.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 2 months ago:
Just a lack of Nazi hunters.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Somehow most people figured out email. It’s like picking Gmail, Outlook, Proton, Mailbox, Yahoo. Doesn’t matter, pick the one you like, ceate as many accounts as you want, or make your own.
This isn’t a Fediverse or Lemmy problem, but is speaks volumes of how broken the Internet has become and how far we’ve fallen. 😔
- Comment on After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected 2 months ago:
I’d be more forgiving, but what MS Copilot sucks at the worst is working with Office files: PowerPoint: completely useless Excel: useful for some tasks if I reformat all my sheets into tables, so mostly useless Word: can’t even answer why the formatting of the file from my coworker is a mess (which is every coworker), let alone try to fix it. But it will gladly take a succinct piece of information and make it into an insufferable 50 pages of fluff. It summarizes documents well and helps with reviews. OneNote: creating content it’s ok, but useless at retrieving info. Outlook: It tries to help, mostly confirms that my language is may be perceived as cold and offensive. Which is good, because that was my intention.
It is surprisingly helpful with PDFs and extracting data and cleaning up formatting.
Unsurprising, it does great with CSV and other open data formats. Maybe there is a lesson here?