SuperSpruce
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- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 3 weeks ago:
If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can’t trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
I’m sorry driving isn’t fun, it was never meant to be once we obliterated mass transit in the US. It’s meant to get you to the destination, preferably safely.
You’ve never been in a fun car on a fun twisty back road. This is what driving should be, as we should not be dependent on driving to get everywhere.
- Comment on Bread 2 months ago:
I bounce between lawful neutral and chaotic neutral. Huh.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
Yes by default, but there should be an option to make them public
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Make it optional and opt-in.
- Comment on This shitpost is preventing shutdown 3 months ago:
Ubuntu sometimes does this to me, because of either some Snap thing or some CUPS thing.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 3 months ago:
I spent way too much time with Bob’s+Angel’s with SpaceX, 160h in and I just unlocked the final tier of modules and now I need to scale up the whole base to get enough science to make the millions of science I need to research everything.
I haven’t even started Space Exploration (which is very different than SpaceX = Space Extension), but I won’t have enough time to play that before the Factorio DLC comes out…
- Comment on Good game soundtracks? 3 months ago:
Pokémon music. Especially the route themes and battle themes. If I had to list the bangers it would take hours
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
I wish they could provide more storage for paid users, or allow users to a la carte add storage. $4/mo to merely match Gmail’s 15GB feels a bit steep, and it must be feasible for them to offer their mail service with 100GB+ for $5/mo.
- Comment on VPN by Google One shuts down 4 months ago:
I think that YT should open up APIs to make a better frontend for third party apps, like what Reddit had, at least to premium users.
- Comment on Economics 4 months ago:
I use Calc84 on the Google Play store, free with minimal ads and a one-time fee to remove ads.
But it seems like others have found FOSS versions here.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser 4 months ago:
So you’re saying I can get away with anything as long as I somehow legally declare myself a corporation?
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 5 months ago:
Reminder that because the Windows 11 taskbar is slower and buggier than the Windows 10 taskbar, it uses much more power due to the extra CPU cycles.
- Comment on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content 6 months ago:
Couldn’t she just copy the text to a text file or .odt file and perhaps email it (or better yet, physically copy it with a USB drive) if she can’t direct share it?
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 6 months ago:
It also really depends on what “home” is. My current home is a tiny room in a cheap apartment (to save money) with a tiny kitchen, a small living room, and a joke of a dining area. I feel inclined to go to the office despite a 45 minute commute because there isn’t anywhere good to spread out and focus on work at home. Plus in-person connections with colleagues is another benefit. I’m currently hybrid with WFH 1 day out of 5.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 months ago:
Hard disagree. I dual boot both Windows 11 and Ubuntu on my main laptop and Ubuntu is usually way faster feeling, except sometimes on shutdown due to some snap or cups bug. Almost everything opens in a second or less, and I get better battery life on Ubuntu as well. My bigger problem is that it struggles with WiFi under crowded conditions.
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 6 months ago:
Three things:
- Governments need to regulate exclusive third party content so that the platforms compete on quality instead of just amount of content.
- Companies should go back to pay as you use. I hate subscribing to things.
- Users should push back hard on new bad things that the corporations do.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
Simple, just buy a new Honda… Motorcycle /s
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
I’m just gonna keep exploiting the 3 month free trial with all my accounts. I still have my own local library as well.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
Weren’t all the answers already trained on ChatGPT last year?
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 6 months ago:
Glad I dropped prime 1.5 years ago. I’ll never pay monthly for something with ads. If I pay monthly for software, it better treat me like royalty.
- Comment on After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail 6 months ago:
I don’t necessarily believe ACAB, but I do believe there is systemic corruption among the police at large, such that a majority (but not all) of the apples in the barrel are bad.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 6 months ago:
If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em?
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 6 months ago:
Don’t forget the $800 30mph electric skateboards!
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
And even on hardware that does theoretically support Windows 11, budget hardware will make the most basic of tasks take forever and lower midrange hardware will feel slow. On most Linux distros and ChromeOS, budget hardware will feel slow (mostly due to bloated websites), and lower midrange hardware will feel quite snappy for the most part.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
On a related note, YouTube just gave me a pop-up advertising premium again, only this time the cancel button was “No, I like ads.”
I was gonna sit back and watch an hour of YT (with ads) but that pop-up rubbed me the wrong way and I didn’t watch anything so that I might skew the A/B test in favor of no dark patterns.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
Agreed but much of this applies to 10 only.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
Nailed it. This round of layoffs is not just “trimming a bloated labor force,” it’s cutting off investment into the future of Tesla as a company, which is a really bad business move when you had an advantage in the past but are now losing it. Turns out not only Musk is a filthy rich a-hole, he’s also terrible at keeping businesses competitive. He absolutely needs to resign if Tesla wants to not fail.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
Time to short the stock then, if they are not gonna invest in their own future.
- Comment on Roguelite atrategy 6 months ago:
Let me know how it could improve! I’m always looking to try to make it better.