jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 days ago:
They probably want that, but also at the same time, that would kill software development.
- Comment on Trump orders firing of labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed 3 days ago:
This one is a big deal. This report is just the tip of the iceberg as we have only just begun to feel the pain of the federal layoffs (and don’t get me started on tarrifs). If he removes people from accurately reporting, we’re going to have a crashing economy with no metrics on what’s really going on.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
Thanks for the info.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 days ago:
I don’t disagree with you on the first point. I put “unlawful” in quotes to imply that lawful/unlawful is ambiguous and gives Mastercard the cover they need to not really be lying in their statement, even if effectively they are.
Its corporate doublespeak to a T.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 days ago:
What they’re saying is: “we haven’t called out any specific games, but we told steam if they can’t prove a game is “lawful” well cut them off”.
This effectively has a chilling effect because it means anything that could be illegal becomes toxic and risky for steam.
Its a way for Mastercard to dictate what can be sold without actually dictating what can be sold. Now the real issue is that at the end of the Mastercard is in a position where this matters and they can influence things. Should work just like cash and leave the government to decide what items are legal/illegal.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
Wow! I appreciate your thoroughness.
After hearing you found it in a setting I went looking around again, and while I couldn’t find any official Kubuntu documentation, it does seem like Flathub has a setup guide that mentions it as a setting config.
Also, I generally lean towards Ubuntu as most support I find online leans Debian, but curious what distro you use.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
My example was just to highlight that the “average user” may not be as technically capable as many in this thread propose. But that’s also why I called out I may be underestimating the average user.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
It’s possible that I underestimate the average user, but I did work IT at one point in my life and I still vividly recall needing to point out to someone that their computer wasn’t turning on becuase it wasnt plugged in.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
I just looked it up again and it seems like they require you run a command in the console to enable flatpak. I’m not sure if it’s cause they use snaps, given it’s an Ubuntu derivative. I suspect as flatpak continues to win out it’ll all tend that way.
However, the fact this its even a discussion is kinda my point.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
I feel like clearly everyone here is smarter than me or something.
I’ve been running Kubuntu for a while and here is a recent anecdote and you can tell me if I’m just an idiot. I went to install an application so opened up the software store. After installing I found out it was an out of date version of the software. I went to the companies site and they recommended a flatpak install. Kubuntu doesn’t have flatpak enabled by default, so I have to lookup how to install flatpak and could then install the flatpak. However another piece of software recommends using the apt install, and another the Kubuntu store is fine. All of this is okay, but now there are three different ways I have to manage my software.
Its fine for me, but if that’s really the case, you’ll loose the average user at using the command line to install flatpak.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
Cause there is literally nothing stopping the average user from trying, and yet they typically choose windows or macs.
But also, let’s be honest, most people just use a tablet or their phone now anyways. If you believe these numbers, people are choosing even more locked down OSs like android and IOS. Trying to get them to use linux just isn’t likely.
I’m not anti Linux, I use it all the time. But trying to convince the average user to change their OS is an uphill battle.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 days ago:
I wasn’t asking for guidance, I’m just pointing out that these are all things that reduce usability. While you’re right that some of these issues also exist on the windows side, it’s not as prolific.
If more people grew up using Linux it might not be as bad, but even still Linux can still break easily and in many ways offers too much freedom for the average user.
I think that a lot of technical people forget that the average user is quick to give up and has a knack for breaking things. Many of the restrictive elements in Mac and Windows are to protect the average user, usually to the bane of the super user.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 4 days ago:
Usability.
Windows and Mac are both easier to use for the standard user.
I’m a technical person and even I struggle with what/how the hell I’m supposed to even install applications on Linux:
Should I download the binaries? Should I use snap/flatpak/etc? If I do one vs the other which is more up to date? If I can’t find it in the software store can I trust random online sites?
And that’s just finding applications. Most people don’t have hours of free time to read forums to understand how to fix something that broke (assuming the distro they choose even has a thread relating to the issue).
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 6 days ago:
I don’t disagree that competency is an element, but your analogy is lacking because the user provided the information that increased their risk (sharing their photo IDs and real information).
Its more like the share buttons on porn sites. If you’re logged into a social media site while browsing porn and accidentally dox yourself, it’s partially your fault for creating a situation where that was possible. Yeah, having the share buttons is a terrible design, but also you have to be doing insecure stuff too.
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 6 days ago:
It has nothing to do with the company, it’s an issue about privacy and not sharing personal information so freely.
I mean the company was incompetent, but the primary issue is privacy.
- Comment on Home sales are down. So why are prices at an all-time high? 1 week ago:
I mean, generally speaking in our fiat system housing prices go up so that houses keep their value (if prices didn’t rise with inflation, then houses would loose value over time).
The reason why we see housing prices not coming down right now (if I had to take a guess) is high interest rates. Since a lot of buyers have locked in low interest rates the sale price for existing homeowners must offset the new interest rates, otherwise they’ll loose money on the sale.
This would be true in a hard money standard too, as even if the prices of the houses remained constant, higher interest rates would make mortgage payments higher (thus increasing the true cost of the house). So existing home owners would increase prices to offset higher interest rates.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
I’ve been saying this a couple places recently, but why not pass legislation requiring every site to provide a content rating. Then parents can choose if they want to restrict content by ratings or not. Yeah, you could have malicious actors, but it makes it easier and simpler for everyone to work than having ID laws.
- Comment on Inflation outpaces wage growth for over 40% of Americans 1 week ago:
This article is about recent changes, under Biden wage growth was doing a lot better. But that’s stagnated under Trump (to my understanding) and is being hurt by rising costs due to tariffs.
Effectively tarrifs and bad trade policy by Republicans is causing inflation that can’t be offset by wages (because the costs are caused by taxes making everything more expensive).
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 week ago:
I wish that was the case, but there are a lot of people that see government provided services as waste/fraud. I mean look at how the federal government is being eviscerated right now.
It would be nice if everyone could be guaranteed a safe place to manage money though.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 week ago:
I didn’t know that existed!
Its decline reads like everything else going on in the US. Government provided a service a lot of people liked, private enterprise lobbies to have it shut down and lock people into nickel and diming them.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 week ago:
I’ve long held the belief that the US postal service should also provide basic banking services too in the US, that way no one can be denied a bank account.
- Comment on crypto investment 1 week ago:
It’s actually the more practical of the crypto currencies from my perspective. It’s setup to enable things like smart contracts and exchanges and was a big driver of web 3.0.
Not that I’m a big proponent of web 3.0, it at least tried to be a currency unlike every other crypto currency.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft 1 week ago:
While it got a lot of flack, I thought the smaller contained worlds of Outer Worlds can be a better in between. Open spaces to explore and run into things accidentally, but constrained enough that the world and plot can still flourish.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft 1 week ago:
I thought the world and travel mechanics were fun, and the leveling system was cool (basically get better skills by using other skills).
Overall though, it falls into the trap of most open world games. Big, beautiful, and boring.
But I also don’t care for BOTW and TOTK over more traditional Zeldas, so maybe I’m just anti open world games.
- Comment on Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t know why this is so difficult. Can even have players that autoread the signature to tell you the source/etc.
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 1 week ago:
Or the reverse, find an 18/19 year old who looks 35!
- Comment on Metroidbrainia: An in-depth exploration of knowledge-gated games 1 week ago:
You can have mysteries where progress and knowledge aren’t tied to each other. For example in Professor Layton games, there is an overarching “mystery”, but it’s a linear game you progress by solving effectively random (and mostly disconnected) puzzles.
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 1 week ago:
I think he means that there should be an OS API to tell recall to shove it, or that apps should have to opt-in to recall.
The fact they need to leverage private browser sessions means it’s a workaround not directly built into the OS.
- Comment on My first colonoscopy 1 week ago:
Actually the torso/feet are just wrong in general, as in not a legitamte Lego piece. Such a weird detail for the AI to mess up.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 weeks ago:
I thought it did a good job at capturing the Star Wars feel, but yeah it feels like every open world game. Lots of fetch quests and running around in a massive world where every encounter/quest/battle feels the same as the last.
It may just be me, but most open world games suffer from trying to be too large. Although I think BOTW and TOTK are some of the weakest Zelda games, so maybe my opinions on open world games aren’t popular.