jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 33 minutes ago:
I’ve consistently refused to buy in to Game Pass. I still buy physical games where available. If it’s only digital, I’ll get the Steam version for my Steam Deck.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 3 days ago:
Yeah, weird how he skipped the universally acclaimed game of the year.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 3 days ago:
It’s not #1, it’s alphabetical. 😉
- Comment on No contest 5 days ago:
This is like asking “Who would win in a fight, a submarine or a jet?”
The two combat styles aren’t comparable. Star Trek is based on naval battles, in fact, IMHO, the very best OG Trek episode, “Balance of Terror” was based on a WWII set submarine combat novel and movie called “The Enemy Below”:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below_(novel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below
Lucas specifically wanted Star Wars to emulate air combat and dogfights.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 5 days ago:
So manufacturers can bill you monthly for the same features…
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 5 days ago:
Rebadge them with a fancy name and sell them for $20 to the gullible. 😉 “Toroid Choke Core”.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 5 days ago:
Always use the indefinite article… “a”, never “your”. 😉
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 5 days ago:
“But on the flip side, my family and friends will see a scary looking command and immediately be put off.”
More to that… these are exactly the people we have all been telling “If you see someone on the internet telling you ‘type this!’ DON’T DO IT!”
ALT-F4 being the benign one.
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root - not so benign.
I remember a story of someone getting the recursive tag wrong on the chmod command and managed to chmod 000 themselves out of everything on the system… including chmod.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 5 days ago:
For years and years the barrier to entry was mom or gramma buying a clipart CD for $4.99 at the grocery store, bringing it home, and expecting it to work.
Now that’s not a thing anymore, but they still aren’t using it. So I guess the barrier to entry now is they see that ad for the casino app that “pays you real money” and they expect to download it and expect it to work.
Until mom and grandmom can load up the computer with all sorts of malware that breaks everything, they really aren’t interested.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 6 days ago:
This was actually a thing in Hogwart’s Legacy, you had the option of capturing and breeding animals.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 6 days ago:
My favorite story along these lines…
Someone compared Monster cables to un-bent coat hangers.
gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-…
“Seven songs were played while the group was blindfolded and the cables swapped back and forth. Not only “after 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire,” but no one knew a coat hanger was used in the first place.”
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 6 days ago:
Freestyle Libre was my first CGM and as soon as I had the opportunity to switch to Dexcom, I did.
Each new sensor was wildly low or wildly high, with no option to calibrate. It was really only good for measuring changes, not the actual glucose reading itself.
So "Oh, it’s going up, +5, +10, +20… probably accurate, but is it 80, 180, or 240? Use a finger stick to know for sure.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 6 days ago:
What about the voltages and the hz?
- Comment on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone 1 week ago:
“I have another device running Windows 11. It’s festered with ads”
I have 3 Windows 11 installations, one work machine, one home machine, and an SSD boot drive for the Steam Deck (some games require Windows 11).
I agree, the ads enabled by default on Win 11 are annoying. But it’s not rocket science to turn them off. In fact, it’s easier to remove the ads from Windows 11 than it is to spin up and learn how to use a Linux distro (and I have three of those myself).
pcmag.com/…/how-to-remove-most-annoying-ads-from-…
"Settings > Personalization > Start and disable Show suggestions occasionally in Start (Windows 10) or Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more (Windows 11).
If you have a problem with any of the live tiles that Windows 10 has stuck on your Start screen—some of which are pre-installed junk or trials—right-click on the one that’s bugging you and choose Uninstall to remove the app. Alternatively, right-click and choose More > Turn Live Tile Off to turn it into a simple shortcut to the app.
Settings > Personalization > Lock screen and switch your background from Windows spotlight to Picture or Slideshow.
Settings > System > Notifications & actions and unchecking Get tips, tricks, and suggestions as you use Windows. You can also untick Show me the Windows welcome experience, which shows those annoying tours after Windows updates, as well as Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device.
In Windows 11, open Settings > System > Notifications and disable Suggested from the Notifications from apps and other senders section. You’ll also need to scroll down and unfurl Additional settings to disable options like Show the Windows welcome experience and Get tips and suggestions.
Disable Ads From Bloatware
Some of the “ads” you see pop up as notifications may not be from Microsoft at all. Instead, it could be bloatware installed by your PC maker. For instance, working on a Dell laptop, I found that SupportAssist, My Dell, and Partner Promo are added by the manufacturer. A Lenovo ThinkPad, meanwhile, has Lenovo Commercial Vantage. But I noticed that Microsoft no longer includes these apps in my Notifications settings. Instead, I had to track down Lenovo’s app, open to its Preference settings, and disable certain messages myself. These programs can also be uninstalled completely, if you prefer.
Settings > Privacy & security > General and disable the Show me suggested content in the Settings app option.
Get Ads Out of File Explorer
Open File Explorer in Windows 11, click the ellipsis icon, then select Options from the menu. If you’re still on Windows 10, click View > Options > Change folder and search options.
Click the View tab in the window that appears, scroll down to Show sync provider notifications and uncheck that box. This should prevent ads from showing up in File Explorer again.
Settings > Privacy > General and turn off Let apps use advertising ID, if you’d rather have non-targeted ads. In Windows 11, it’s called Let apps show me personalized ads by using my advertising ID.
- Comment on Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform? 2 weeks ago:
Hey, if that’s what Justin Trudeau is into…
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
And more significantly, the Switch 2 is for kids. There’s no sizable youth market for the Steam Deck.
But out of all the handheld PCs, the Steam Deck is #1, so that should give you some idea about the sales on the others. 😉
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I was looking at getting a Switch 2 MicroSD card for a gift and shit’s bonkers, yo.
I get they changed the standard for the Switch 2, but $300 for 1TB?
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I say this as someone who loves their Steam Deck… Steam Deck sales are insignificant compared to consoles.
6 million in 3 years:
birchtree.me/…/steam-deck-sales-numbers-are-in-an…
The Switch 2 has sold over 10 million, June to September. 3 months. There has been another 3 months since then.
- Comment on Picture test for how old you are 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like this.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
If the disc exists, yes, but I’m talking about going to a store on launch day and not being able to find the big new release.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Yup!
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
If it goes all digital next generation I won’t be bothering. I didn’t leave gaming, gaming is leaving me.
Cool, cool, plenty of backlog to get through…
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
This is about physical sales, not digital.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
For physical software, it’s super hard to buy it if stores aren’t stocking it.
The Xbox section doesn’t really exist at Target, Walmart, or Costco anymore, and it’s on the way out at Best Buy. Naturally that’s going to have an impact on sales.
Further, Microsoft doesn’t seem interested in physical sales anymore. I probably would have bought Avowed if it existed in meat-space, it doesn’t. I had a really hard time sourcing Indiana Jones and Outer Worlds 2.
On the hardware side, I already have this generations worth of hardware (PS5, XSX, Steam Deck), and I’m not interested in all the baggage on the Switch 2.
Plus, hardware prices are up.
So the surprise would be if sales hadn’t gone down.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 weeks ago:
Crystalline / Holographic storage has been hyped since the 80s… still not production ready.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 weeks ago:
“a 5-inch glass platter.” Found the weak point…
- Comment on Typeframe 2 weeks ago:
Oh, oh! That’s not a brand sticker, it’s a display screen! Nice!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
Jar was empty too… I guess my wife cleaned it and didn’t re-fill it? 🤔 Honey is more her thing than mine.
- Comment on Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me 2 weeks ago:
Modos is promising 60hz but on an eInk monitor, not a tablet. I don’t see a tablet hitting that spec any time soon.
- Comment on Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me 2 weeks ago:
60hz is coming which would be fine, but author is saying “old” tablet so that could be anywhere from 1hz to 20hz and that’s not going to fly for a monitor.