Dudewitbow

@Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They weren't wrong in the first post though⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. nothing free will ever be best, because you are the product

  2. best heavily depends on usecase, and not all usecases are covered by the “best choices”

  for piracy, you need vpns that dont keep logs, and allow port fowarding(a feature not all vpns support)

  for privacy from governments, especially western ones, people want vpns hosted in countries outside of the five/nine/fourteen eyes alliance

  for example, a common VPN choice that covers both usecases is Proton VPN, as i believe its swiss hosted, does not keep logs and has a form of port fowarding. someone using a vpn for privacy might not care about the use for piracy or vice versa, so they may spend time looking for vpns that give more value for their usecase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But what’s the alternative?

  the government hosting their own social media like how some college campus’ have their own mastadon server specifically for their universities news. It’s not like other organizations haven’t already done it before. Spin your own server, and in your alerts, link your own mastodon server, which should not require user login to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  personally i dont even know if my mom even knows how to remotely wire money digitally, or even understand what a gift card is. if shes ever given me money, it was always in person. it makes me a terrible candidate, at least if youre trying to scam my parents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its the mannerism that matters on the phone.

  the other part is for a scammer to create a model using broken english/asian language, which on its own, is a huge hurdle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  my family knows i hate using the phone in the first place so me calling without good reason is a red flag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t necessarily say it is or isnt spotifies fault, but how I see it is music kinda changed due to the digital age. Before the digital age, most people mostly needed to get into, or the eyes of a record label to get anywhere, and that had its fair share of dirty laundry (e.g whats happening with P Diddy). The digital age flipped the book around, where being able to publish music nowadays is extremely easy, but the problem is you’re competing against a wave of other users. It’s also significantly more expensive to do live concerts nowadays too (which is completely separate from spotify) as more and more concerts are getting canceled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  its not that they dont work on linux, its morelikely they just dont test for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just beat Luigi's Mansion for the first time! Happy (almost) Halloween everyone!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i dont think it was that spooky going in blind (except the basement of THAT house I was NOT prepared for and got jumpscared)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  mixture of housing supply shortage, empty homes, fucked investments, a bit of zoning laws, and nimbyism, and airbnb

  housing supply shortage

  younger generations want to live in cities because thats where both employment and “fun” is reletively speaking. the demand is very high for limited space.

  empty homes

  in some areas, there are homes that are completely empty, some due to negligence, inheritance and some just to artificially decrease supply. to put an example, San Jose, CA legitimately has more empty homes than it does homeless.

  fucked investments/nimbyism

  some people see housing as an investment instead of putting it into stocks. the investments keeps proces high because its seen as profit rather than a basic necessity to live. people who own houses will use all their power to prevent more houses to be built because more home lowers procing because of more supply.

  zoning laws

  some places, they restrict building to strictly residential or strictly commercial building. as WFH becomes more mainstream more land needs to be made as residential land. or remove the zoning alltogether

  airbnb

  airbnb gets you more money in popular areas. it takes away a potenial home for a local worker in favor for maximum investments, which is bad for the city, because it circumvents hotel taxes, and takes away potential income tax from someone who would have lived and worked in the area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean you still update on your command, its just that you update all the stuff at once, and theres virtually almost always an update at a given time.

• ⁨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 ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the reason why when people were saying they wanted competition to unseat x86, I didn’t want it to be ARM based, because I knew 100% that ARM would jump in and do some shit to rake in more profit and negate all the potential cost savings to the consumer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors, with their fancy-pants cache, are launching November 7th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  theyre hard to find because AMD sunset production of them. (despite the fact the 5700x3d and 5800x3d is functionality the same chip)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, the mmo at launch was a huge flop, so much so that the newer version of it kind of makes fun of the old world that was destroyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NAND density is always useful for the ultra portable end, be it used in applications like phones, portable gaming devices, microcontroller boards and such, where space or pci-e lanes is often the limiting factor. when the capacity of nand grows, options become better, as nand usually doubles in capacity per chip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  parking lots would require the government to own said parking lots. its why you often see them at schools (because its government funded)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  think of it similar to consumer examples like adobe products. there are a lot of people/industries toed o it where they can start to charge ludicrous prices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  thr manifest v3 version is basically ublock origin lite, whoch has extremely limited control of what you can and cant do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  basically the major points of change was launch, then cyberpunk edgerunners clothing dlc patch (1.0 but bigs fixed). 2.0 rewrote some of the games mechanics that dropped before the expansion. and then the expansion was released (which added new endings)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  well its usually not in your basement, but should be outside in a home sized battery cage (similar to those used in parking lots to charge EVs). in a more ideal time period, itll just be another external installment like outdoor AC units. to get there, home energy storage has to get cheap enough so that people installing solar at home also opt for energy storage.

  one of the big problems EV have is most charge at home at night when peak usage is at instead of the most opportune time, which is when the sun is up during working hours. Its why theres a movement to install charging stations at workplace buildings as a benefit to workers (no longer pay for “gas”). If the average home user had a battery wall, then you can just circumvent that problem alltogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not saying they wont be used of course, just less optimal because the size and characteristics of the battery may be less ideal. for example, while salt ion batteries wear level decreases at a slower rate than Lithium ion based batteries, when salt ion batteries go bad, they suddenly stop working (e.g goes from a wear level of say like 60% to almost immediately zero) which is not the ideal situation to be in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  its why their main benefit is cost and safety. for power storage in a standing field or wall density isnt as important compared to for mobile usages (EVs) so sodium based batteries make more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc the dev claims its more useful for firefox mobile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AOE2DE is the 72 most played game on steam currently in reference to RTS, its much higher than several other games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  theres definitely people in there for the long haul, but most people are just job hoppers jumping onto companies paying more till they land into one with the perfect work/life balance for their preferences. Part of the reason why unionization int he programming sector is hard, because most of the people already willingly leave jobs for higher paying ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FAANG looks good on the resume so people go there with intention to eventually leave for another company willing to pay for FAANG experience. unless you work in a very focused team (e. g Occulus) youre better off jumping companies for higher pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  anythings capable of it, but the companies behind the (premium) boxes have less of an incentive. While theyre all capable, its a matter if you have trust in them. At least for the Shield TV for example, go download a shield tv rom if you really don’t trust Nvidia. If you are paranoid that they all can do it, than any smart device can do it because its connected to the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is why you get a separate apple tv/android box and not connect your tv to the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  its more or less that yes. they saw the money but not the time and effort to get users to use your platform.

  and its not like impossible, as long as you can create games people will play and stay at itll work (e.g Riot), but they legit put such little effort in the launchers that it was creating a negative user experience, and never put in the money to make it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a couple of reasons, some being that 1, ip addresses are limited on the internet, and making it free would instantly fill it up. another is that there is still some work involved,because once you register for a domain, internet service providers and DNS providers around the world need to also add your newly established domain to ip to their DNS so that people get redirected to your domain correctly. the domain endings also have a cost attached to them due to popularity and who is allowed to hand them out. e.g country related domains (e.g .kr for korea, .fr for france has their reasons to charge or without handing a domain out, but some countries may get lucky and happen to have a domain thats desirable (e.g Anguilla has .ai) and thus will charge more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i meam the payment for a domain name is kinda worth it. as well as a functional vpn