laurelraven
@laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
I may be off base but I think that might be referencing what the computer chips are made of…
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
For me it was AOL chat rooms and Star Trek role play that got my typing speed up, later followed by wow when voice chat was uncommon and communicating during a dungeon or raid required typing fast to not interrupt what you needed to do
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
As the old Microsoft saying went, “it ain’t done til Notes don’t run”
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
It really is about the best settings app I’ve ever used, especially where it highlights the settings that have been changed from defaults
- Comment on With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market 2 months ago:
What does the login screen have to do with mobile? They’ve had them since at least Windows 95 (I forget if 3.1 had one), and they’ve been evolving every release.
If you mean the screen before the login, that’s been around since at least Windows 95 too, though it didn’t used to be default and required you to press Ctrl+alt+del to dismiss (which before win95 would reboot your computer)
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 2 months ago:
Just taking a guess here but the controller was probably brought up as evidence for how much they were cutting corners and disregarding safety and good sense, not as the cause of the failure
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 2 months ago:
This is what happens from only reading the title and making assumptions…
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
I’ve had good luck with Roku so far, I know they’re questionable but short of building a system to handle casting/streaming for me they seem to be the best bet right now
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
This is why they have no great products, they kill all the ones that are
- Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' . 3 months ago:
I also find this acceptable
- Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' . 3 months ago:
I really hope it’s tossed out with prejudice
- Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' . 3 months ago:
Because he’s only a free speech absolutist for himself and for people who agree with him
- Comment on Google Begins Testing 50 Gig Fiber Internet 3 months ago:
Every few months I check to see if anyone’s built fiber to my area or if I’m still stuck with the choice between shit tier cable marketed as 1.2gbit (but rarely even gets halfway there, often below a tenth of that), something else that’s barely better than what we had twenty years ago, and wireless claiming to be 5G but performs like crap for everyone I know who’s tried it
I’ve only been looking for the last dozen or so years…
So damned sick of the bureaucratic bullshit
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
I don’t think anyone is suggesting otherwise, but continuing to say that as a reason not to work towards that goal makes no sense
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
Hell, I could just bolt a laptop to the dash if I really wanted that
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 3 months ago:
Why buy a Hyundai with 300 mile range? Because it’s available today. And if I’m concerned enough about missing out on upcoming tech, Hyundai/Kia have good lease terms that give you the option of buying out or trading up at the end if the tech improves that much by then.
But yeah, I’m still annoyed with them championing hydrogen that hard when it was super easy to see how limited it would be compared to BEV for general purpose commuting, and how much easier the infrastructure would be to start up (a small amount of BEV infra will easily support a small amount of BEVs, but a small amount of hydrogen infra will support basically nothing at all since you can’t refill at home)
- Comment on Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware 3 months ago:
I really liked Cinnamon but switched mainly because I kept having occasional video problems that didn’t seem to affect KDE… But, that might have been the lack of a proper video driver, I’ve not tried switching back since fixing that
At this point, I’ve found enough with KDE that I like having in my workflow that I’ve been reluctant to try switching back
- Comment on Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware 3 months ago:
Some of those with anti cheat even work, I’ve been playing Helldivers 2 with no issue
Last I heard, Destiny 2 could be running fine, their anti cheat supports Linux, but Bungie still bans people for trying
- Comment on Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware 3 months ago:
Oh, there’s an upgrader? I’ve been looking for upgrade instructions since it was first announced released but all I’ve found is them saying they’ll put out instructions next week
- Comment on Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware 3 months ago:
You can put Plasma on Mint, I’m running that right now myself
When I rebuilt my PC I was planning something similar, got two nvme drives to dual boot, but started with Linux Mint… And never wound up installing Windows on the other, never felt the need, so I finally last night formatted it for more room for all my games
- Comment on Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not 3 months ago:
It’s an acronym, it means “But It’s Not Good”
- Comment on Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes 3 months ago:
Car companies won’t be happy until cars become yearly upgrade items like phone companies have convinced us to do with mobile phones
- Comment on Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes 3 months ago:
But not as much on the lower end models… That’s what’s confusing to me.
- Comment on Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes 3 months ago:
I’ve got a few capacitive buttons in my car, none of them critical, but I’d gladly replace them with the physical buttons in the lower tier version of that car…
Like, how is this considered the nicer option? Hell, I think they’re actually cheaper for the manufacturer than proper buttons at this point…
But sure, I really want to have to try three times to turn the vented seats on because I don’t hit the exact right spot on the pad, only to accidentally switch it to the heated seats in triple digit weather while reaching for the AC knob (which actually is physical, thankfully)
- Comment on New youtube layout? 3 months ago:
So, if it’s so much worse than the old/current layout, they’re almost guaranteed to adopt it fully
googie can’t help but fuck up good things
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
Absolutely agreed on that… Got a fair number of companies I’d like to see taken over by the people working them or the communities they serve
- Comment on Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Making Them High-End 3 months ago:
Yep, not seeing any downside here, bring on the bling
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
If regulation didn’t work, corpos wouldn’t fight so hard to dismantle them every step of the way. If they didn’t work, we wouldn’t see things get markedly worse every time they’re removed.
And ancap just sounds like all the worst bits of libertarianism taken to their illogical extreme and would produce one of the worst possible societies imaginable so why do any people here not hate ancap?
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 3 months ago:
What the hell are you talking about? Where did I contradict that argument, and hell, where did I even make it in the first place?
I said that it will take far more resources to terraform and colonize another planet than to fix this one. I didn’t even touch on the pollution and use of finite resources (which is also an issue, mainly because of how much we’re doing it)
I’m all for space exploration, we have so many breakthroughs that are usable here on Earth through it that not doing it at all would be foolish. But you’re kidding yourself if you think we’re going to succeed in leaving.
This planet will be our grave, sadly. We might, if we’re very lucky and can actually change what we’re doing finally, make that be a very distant thing.
But settling another planet, as much as I would absolutely love to see it, is likely never going to happen just from the sheer logistics of it, not to mention the fact that we still haven’t managed to build a self sustaining and isolated ecosystem that can support humans indefinitely on this planet, where we can truck everything to the site rather than have to shoot it into space a tiny amount at a time and then have it spend 9 months to 2 years to reach the nearest planet
And unless we want to save a tiny population living under domes, we’d have to extend that to an entire planet that’s far, FAR further from our target than this one which already sustains life, and which doesn’t have a magnetosphere in the first place so even if we managed to give it a thick enough atmosphere with the right blend for us, it’ll simply bleed away into space anyway.
And unless you’re thinking of going to the hellhole that is Venus, the next nearest potential candidate is probably going to be one of the moons of Jupiter, which have plenty of their own issues.
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 3 months ago:
We need to leave the planet? For where?
For a planet that’s completely incapable of sustaining life?
Do you realize that it’ll take many, many orders of magnitude more resources, time, and effort to make literally any other celestial body within several years of space flight of us capable of sustaining life than it will be to fix the habitable planet we have right here?
We’re not getting off this rock without stabilizing it enough to sustain us long-term first. And by then, we won’t need to leave. Either way, though, evacuating isn’t a viable solution.
And if you don’t believe me, go talk to some biologists.