A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 hours ago:
last windows install in my house was on my rarely used laptop, windows 10.
As soon as Win10 was end of life I threw linux on it. First time in…god…30 years? Theres not been a windows PC in my house… Ran Windows from 3.11 all the way up to 7 happily (and then my laptop came with Win 10 from factory and, well, thankfully I only had to use it when traveling… )
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 hours ago:
Sorry for being an idiot, but what is an agentic OS?
Whatever it is, it sounds fucking stupid.
The OS doesnt need to be a focus. the OS is best when you completely forget its existence and can just do things without worry.
Which is why Windows 7 is the best operating system microsoft has, and seemingly will, ever produce.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 day ago:
But now Steam is the last man standing between us and corporate greed.
Man how quickly people forget what things were like before the lawsuits forced valve to make steam more consumer friendly and regulatory abiding…
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 day ago:
HALF. LIFE. FUCKING. THREE.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 day ago:
I give exactly zero fucks about any of this until they show prices.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 day ago:
because most people got exposed to steam on HL2’s launch. Where they bought the physical game, came home, installed it off like 5 CDs… then had to run steam to decrypt it and download more files because the fucking install was encrypted, and the goddamn fucking decryption took like 8 hours if you didnt have the worlds greatest computer.
Nope, I’m still totally not salty about not being able to play the game I fucking bought until the day after cause bullshit encryption fuckery, why would you ever think that.
I still have that goddamn box somewhere… i need to dig it up and see what release retail HL2 is like compared to HL2 you’d downlaod today from steam…
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 day ago:
Holy fuck.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 day ago:
he mostly disappoints his rich, affluent parents by poorly cosplaying as blue collar.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 5 days ago:
What? The man who rivals the spying ability of many nations isnt totally on the up and up? Whuda thunkit!
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 5 days ago:
Breaking News.
Man with vested interest in selling his services, insists buying his services is the only way to save us from the evil foreign menace
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Dogs have been used to manufacture probably cause for decades.
Only once have they ever been scientifically tested, and they failed… and shockingly, cops refused to participate in any future testings.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 weeks ago:
AI also recently decided a bag of chips that a black kid had was a gun, and summoned a horde of cops on him.
an accident I doubt AI would make with a white kid, because AI gets all sorts of inherit biases from the data its fed.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 2 weeks ago:
Yes, yes. Go for the low hanging bait, that certainly makes you look more righter.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 2 weeks ago:
You are likely to get away with this if your website doesnt get much traffic.
But to much and your ISP is likely to tell you to knock it off, or just close your subscription.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 2 weeks ago:
“There’s a monopoly” — proceeds to list 3 separate providers. Don’t forget there’s also Akami, now we’re up to 4. Oh, and Cloud Flare… so that’s 5.
Thats called a Cartel. and a cartel can fucking monopolize shit, dumbass.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 weeks ago:
hell most TOS shit isnt even legal in America.
But most people are stupid, and those that arent don’t have the money to engage a lawyer to fight it.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 weeks ago:
For instance, those heart-tugging ads for St Jude’s Children’s Hospital. It’s a great thing they do, taking in cancer kids, and covering all the expenses, even housing and food. They show grateful parents crying, because their kids have a chance because of the charity of St Jude and the viewers, and viewers shed a tear and donate.
What really gripes my ass more than anything else is how all these horror stories are twisted and presented as “feel good” stories that should make us all go “Awww, isnt that wonderful?!”
Like the stories about 6 year olds putting in hundreds of hour of labor to earn the money required to pay off their classmates student lunch debt (and don’t even get me fucking started on the abysmal fucking evil idea that that created the idea of student lunch debt to begin with)
Or those “feel good” stories about someone with a wheelchair thats in complete shambles and a hardware store or something cobbles it back together and fixes it, for free, so the owner isnt stuck sitting somewhere with no mobility.
Or someone coming down with cancer, and their coworkers donating vacation days to them so they don’t lose their fucking job and the insurance they need to pay for the actual fucking treatment.
Like…
How are these feel good stories?
These are fucking the most egregious failure of civilization horror stories.
and Americans, ever indoctrinated, see these stories and smile and feel emotionally uplifted because of the “good” that was done.
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 2 weeks ago:
Paladins Quest for the SNES.
sorry for the delayed reply
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 3 weeks ago:
I wouldnt call this nickle and diming.
I would call this a desperate life line in a world before the internet.
I spent a week smashing my head against a problem in a SNES game before giving up and calling the Nintendo Hotline. Which gave me the the solution to my problem, and did it relatively quickly and without much wasted time… Which I found amazing, and always wondered how they had that information in the era before Gamefaqs.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
I know, its just SO HARD to not buy your latest shiny. You just cant resist, so it must be someone elses fault.
Its always someone elses fault.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Only person that thinks reading the packaging is a mountain of effort, is the kind of lazy person who buys stupid home automation devices to avoid walking five feet to turn off a lightbulb.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Very simple.
Does the product say requires an internet connection? Does it say on the packaging that it requires an app to use? Do you get home and find out it needs those things despite the packaging not saying it?
Then don’t buy it/Return it.
Its not that hard to avoid falling into this pit. But I guess if you are too lazy to walk the five feet to turn your living room lights off, maybe you’re too lazy to actually read anything… and if you’re that lazy, then I dont give a fuck about how you get screwed.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Only people that dont want to blame the consumers for buying the shit… are the idiots that buy the shit, which is why they get so incensed when you argue that landfill shovel shit wont stop being sold until they stop buying it.
Stop buying shit, and companies will stop dumping billions into its R&D and advertising. They’re not doing that shit to waste money, They’re doing that to sell products… and if you stop buying it, they’ll stop making it.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
if consumers acted in their best interest, none of this shit would exist.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
if idiots stop buying this shit, they wont keep making it.
the problem is the idiots keep buying
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 4 weeks ago:
real sad that she’d throw away all her family and love, for the expense of crazy online conspiracy theories and obsession.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
how many times does logitech specifically, and these companies in general, have to do this before idiots stop buying this shit?
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 4 weeks ago:
I’m convinced AI content generation was created with the sole intent of manufacturing outrage material for gullible idiots.
because the rate at which these technophobic illiterates have adopted AI, and expertly use it to generate bullshit, is too high to be otherwise plausible.
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 5 weeks ago:
Its okay to have a different name as long as your conservative.
Just ask Rafael Edward Cruz, famous Texas Magician who disappears everytime things go bad for his constituents.
- Comment on cleansing 1 month ago:
Damn, posting images like pixels cost 2.50 a piece to post.