PieMePlenty

@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… all I wanted was Freelancer 2.
  Then I realized, Microsoft had to step in, get rid of Roberts so Freelancer could see the light of day. And it dawned on me, we’re not seeing Freelancer 2 from this guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its to hype up stock value. I don’t even take it seriously anymore. Many businesses like these are mostly smoke and mirrors, oversell and under deliver. Its not even exclusive to tech, its just easier to do. Musk says FSD is one year away. The company I worked for “sold” things we didn’t even make and promised revenue that wasn’t even economically possible. Its all the same spiel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh classic, punishing paying costumers while pirates don’t have to deal with any of this shit. I guess the beatings will continue until profits increase!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, been porting all my music to navidrome the past few months and it’s pretty sweet. I like that there are native subsonic apps for most platforms (using tempo on android at the moment) and that navidrome also comes with its own web player to use on the fly.
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  Although my setup is much more simple, just using samba to get files to it and mp3tag to prepare the files if needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨H1 2025: China installs more solar than rest of the world combined⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  According to globalsolaratlas, solar output is among the highest in Tibet.
  China is also known for high voltage DC power transmission over very long distances.
  Are you claiming they’re building solar power stations and not plugging them to the grid? That doesn’t make much sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’m “Its all metal” cause I don’t judge and will listen to a lot of it as long as I can understand the vocals. But I’ll lean more towards the classic stuff like early Sabbath and Dio (both rainbow, sabbath and solo) and if its more modern it just ends up being Iron Maiden (I still love The Final Frontier or Book Of Souls… which are 15 and 10 years old now… fuck me). No idea of any new artists after like 2000 lol. I don’t see myself here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  be me buy new phone, chose android cause I can install anything on it get free iphone from work sell iphone on ebay cause I can install anything I want on my android google doesnt want me to install anything I want

  Fuck me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden v2.12 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually don’t! I’ll check it out if it fits my needs. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden v2.12 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do host an instance of it but rarely use it. I’d love to see more in depth archival features like deep link archiving and archiving resources behind authorization. My use case is more archiving than bookmarking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Run? Probably. Work flawlessly? Questionable. It needs to be built (as with every OS update) for every specific device. The developers only do builds for pixel devices (faq). You can take the source and build it for your device. I have no idea how you’d even begin to do that or what that would entail, but most probably, you’d to be able to add drivers for things like fingerprint sensors or cameras unless you are ok with losing access to some functionalities.

  My understanding is that phones are hard to support with one “do all” operating system. Thats why all manufacturers take AOSP and modify it with their own code - specific to each device and make builds for each. A bit different mentality to what we do on PCs, where one build of an operating system will just work everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They throw buzzwords at venture capitalists in hopes of one day selling out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MD = oMega Dumbass⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I didn’t know that. I’m glad I’m protected for longer. Thanks modern medicine!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh yes, border free travel… wait a minute, why are the Austrian police on the border here? Wait a minute, why are they stopping us…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because its not a legal entity. And when it becomes one… well lets just hope it never becomes one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t be racist against white people.

  Racism is discrimination or prejudice based on race. By definition, you are incorrect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got one last September and works really well. Used about 2000 kwh over the winter for central heating for a big house, central Europe. Thats nothing compared to previous use of wood pellets and/or oil.

  We also have solar water heating (via vacuum tubes) so water heating is practically free in the summer. Though you do need a large tank to store it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it comes to Lemmy, I quit. I’ll go touch grass all day, I don’t mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why doesn’t valve simply restore games back then? Tell payment processors MC is OK with them (as evident by this statement) and tell them to come back with a reply from MC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This implies every drink and its display is handled by its own computer running linux. Potentially mtndew has a different IP than coca cola. You need to ssh to this thing multiple times to do maintenance!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Snapchat, the social media platform notoriously most popular with younger users, has long incorporated location sharing with its Snap Maps feature

  Fuck me. I dont even share my first and last name with any social media site, much less my photo. My current location? The fuck is wrong with people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just kind, it's kinder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean a core memory?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 update introduces Power Saver option with a trade-off | Polygon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s gonna depend on the game. It reads like it’s a system setting that games can read and adjust their resource demand. Like a game boots up and checks if power saving is turned on and if it is, renders at a lower resolution or something like that. The system software will probably do that as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks good to me. Venting of gasses, ear protection, two hand safety. It’s not prefect and its menial work but it looks like they have certain standards which are upheld.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So you see school children grow up through the years, see how their behavior, biology and culture changes. You’re a book away from being an anthropologist,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does a grill need a screen and buttons? Maybe I’m living in the stone age, but what I call grilling involves putting charcoal to a flame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking the generational barriers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also fucks up the main plumbing system right down to the water treatment facility and while there, it fucks that too.

  If your taxes pay for wastewater management, you’re fucking yourself up.
  If you pay in addition to your taxes, you’re fucking yourself up.
  If you have your own septic tank, you’re fucking yourself up.
  If it flows to the river directly and you enjoy clean nature, you’re fucking yourself up.
  If it flows to the river directly and your taxes pay for nature maintenance, you’re fucking yourself up.

  Grease down the drain is fucking yourself up and you deserve it. You can not win with it. It will come back to bite you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no, you don’t get it. It’s the other country that pays the tariffs… duh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: If the first Smart Search in Immich takes a while⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, calmed me down. Never thought of doing anything like you’re doing it here, but I do like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: If the first Smart Search in Immich takes a while⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, you pull new images every time you boot up? Coming from a mindset of having rock solid stability, this scares me. You’re living your life on the edge my friend. I wish I could do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve owned one since the beginning, and the only major downside to the controller is that it requires relearning. No d pad, touch pads, back buttons are something not found on other controllers, so there is no familiarity you can bring to the device. As a result, you need to rethink and relearn how to use a controller. If you do end up learning it, it can bring a lot to the table because there is nothing like it in terms of customisability.
  Sadly i never put in the time and only played simple games on it. I still bist it out for mario kart.
  The other minor downside is its not exactly comfortable to use. The handles are angled upwards instead of down which feels unnatural to me… again, probably because no other cobtroller does ot that way.
  I keep saying to myself if I ever boot up cities skylines on the TV, I’m waking up the steam controller for it.