PlantObserver
@PlantObserver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Should I use Microsoft Copilot? 5 months ago:
Do not use any AI other than self-hosted offline, opensource models
- Comment on Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam? 6 months ago:
Having used many distros (gaming-oriented and otherwise) Nobara would be my recommendation as well.
People saying “doesn’t matter” aren’t reading between the lines that this is someone who isn’t familiar with Linux and would probably benefit from an out-of-the-box gaming ready distro (nvidia drivers ready, rgb drivers built in for gaming laptops, other gaming specific tweaks and fixes that they won’t know to install on say mint, a perfectly fine, general use distro). Not to say they wouldn’t be able to do all that on mint or Ubuntu or whatever with a bit of googling and effort, but they’re asking specifically for gaming.
- Comment on Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data 6 months ago:
I tried it for awhile. Speed was good, unfortunately for my use case had some show stoppers.
Pros: -It worked good on Linux. -Custom pricing plans (you can pick exactly which nodes you need and only pay for those) available month-to-month, makes it easy to try
Cons: -Android app couldn’t remain connected as I move from mesh WiFi pod to pod. It would think its connected still but I would have no internet connectivity until I manually reconnected the app. (Everytime I crossed my house I would have to manually reconnect). -No port forwarding (torrents)
Ended up switching to airvpn. Use “openVPN for Android” which handles the mesh pods, and openvpn on Linux as well. Works perfectly.
- Comment on Nintendo vs. Garry's Mod: Dissecting the 'Fake' Domain Behind All the Chaos 6 months ago:
Constant cunty moves like this is why I will not spend one fucking red cent on anything Nintendo ever again.
Yet again, this was not impacting their business/profits in any way shape or form, if anything it helps keep their brand relevant, and they still fuck it up for everyone.
Pirate everything Nintendo.
Retroarch + Vimm’s lair is one good source for ROMs for those starting out.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 9 months ago:
Fair but thats your choice to upgrade. No one says you have to, and they don’t lock games behind needing insert current gen CPU or gpu
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 9 months ago:
Just go PC and don’t worry about corporate lifecycles anymore
- Comment on Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready 9 months ago:
I can vouch for airvpn if any of you poor saps need to get one. I’ve been through several and settled on airvpn in the end.
General rule if you see YouTube sponsor ads for a VPN steer the other way. (IE Nord, Surfshark, etc.)
- Comment on Paramount Global Laying Off 800 Employees as CEO Bakish Cites Need to Trim Costs 9 months ago:
That’s one fat meal
- Comment on First game you played 9 months ago:
Pokemon blue on gameboy or Super Mario 64… both were around the same time I think.
Just got retroarch setup with all N64 games so the nostalgia train is about to start rollin’!
- Comment on are people still all riled up about beehaw? 9 months ago:
Umm what? Most of the comments there are telling them to get lost? Seems like them defederating for every little reason rubbed the rest of the fediverse the wrong way
- Comment on What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)? 9 months ago:
Not having any experience with this I find it hilarious that most of the spam comes from googlegroups
- Comment on Midcentury-modern mantel clock 9 months ago:
Awesome thanks! This is going on my to-print list
- Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? 9 months ago:
How many HDD are you running? Set to spin down or no? Those spinning all the time add up quickly.
Sleep state and power States are different things… I’ve never heard of power profiles causing issues. I’d try keeping sleep disabled in BIOS and then look into what you need to change to allow the processor to idle. There’s no reason this shouldn’t work I’m aware of.
Could try undervolting as well.
- Comment on I created an app where you can share your thoughts fully anonymously and vote for the weekly "Thought of Humanity" 9 months ago:
“Fully anonymous”
“will track IP”
“Have my word I do no track or log IP address”
“I will track IP addresses”
Wow is this the first time a dev advertising anonymous software has admitted they plan to sell their userbase (once that userbase builds their content for them enough) right off the bat?
Its like a enshittification speedrun
- Comment on SIM-swapping ring stole $400M in crypto from a US company, officials allege 9 months ago:
I wish the companies that decide to only allow SMS 2FA (or none at all) will fucking realize this sooner rather than later
- Comment on The creators of Twitterrific are making an app to read (almost) anything on the web 9 months ago:
This sounds like tech-bro RSS.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
Ya simple solution: don’t buy no-name chinesium crap regardless of the storefront and you won’t be disappointed
- Comment on Any suggestions for overcoming addiction to capitalist big tech social media and streaming etc? 9 months ago:
Get a library card and go to town on some books. I’m using reading to replace my social media/Netflix/YouTube time. Aiming for one book every two weeks for 2024 since I’m a pretty slow reader.
Bonus: If your library has Libby you can rip the DRM using calibre and build out your collection on your ereader. My library offers free DRM-free music streaming and 5 mp3 downloads/day from “freegalmusic”. They also offer free streaming services for movies and TV but I haven’t used those since the point is to read more not watch more bullshit, but could aid as way of weaning yourself off after cancelling other subscriptions
- Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click 9 months ago:
NordVPN literally will not let me delete my account. My 3 years is over, there is no method to delete when signed in to their site. You have to fill out a form with your payment details and shit to “verify your identity” (who remembers that shit from 3 years ago).
Literally emailed from the email associated with the account, called, logged in, etc. they won’t delete it until I send my credit card info in the clear, over insecure email.
FUCK NORDVPN
- Comment on Apple to over 100 California employees: Move to Texas or lose your job 9 months ago:
Good point
- Comment on Apple to over 100 California employees: Move to Texas or lose your job 10 months ago:
Have you not noticed how fucking stupid Texans are? Good luck finding talent
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 10 months ago:
Hey Proton how about you quit privacy-washing and actually prioritize and release feature parity products for Linux so your customers aren’t being herded onto windows’ data harvesting platform just so they can use your supposedly privacy forward products
- Comment on jellyfin freezes on TV every 2 minutes 10 months ago:
Had this issue ages ago, then my dad did too a year later on a different client version. Manually changing the “preferred media player” option fixed it on my firestick 4k, 4k Max, and my dads standard firestick.
Jellyfin app>settings menu>Playback>Video section>preferred media player>libVLC (in my case, Exoplayer seemed to be causing the crashes approx 2 years ago but you can try both, I just tried exoplayer again and it doesn’t seem to be crashing either when set manually now so it may have been patched)
- Comment on Tempo – An open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android, now with Android Auto support 10 months ago:
Damn FOSS Android Auto development is starting the new year off strong! First grapheneOS successfully implementing it on a non-stock OS and now this too. Too bad I got rid of my vehicles last year and no longer have a use for it on my ebike.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
I wonder if thats because most of the traffic was just bots all along who obviously aren’t going to leave in protest
- Comment on Google to pay $700 million in case over whether its app store is an illegal monopoly 10 months ago:
There’s other frontends for fdroid available like neostore that handle it automatically
- Comment on PeerTube stress tests: resilience lies in your peers! 10 months ago:
Most (all) of the creators I watch have patreon/buymeacoffee/merch/sponsored videos. I’ve heard from many of them that the amount of ad revenue they receive from YouTube is a rounding error compared to that. No reason every single creator on peertube cant put a link in the description to donate, sell merch, etc and its not conditional on tiptoeing around youtube’s ai fuelled demonitization that constantly steals the little ad revenue they would have otherwise received
- Comment on Spotify starts 'disinvesting' in France in response to new music-streaming tax 10 months ago:
Anecdotally, about 25% of my circle have moved to various other services, so maybe not a huge disruption but they’re definitely losing some customers to competitors at least
- Comment on Useful apps to self-host 11 months ago:
Clearly just upset you got conned into paying hundreds for an inferior product
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 11 months ago:
Wow you have alot of patience trying to actually refute/educate this dumbass