SuperSpruce
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- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 16 hours 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 17 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 2 days 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 3 days ago:
If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em?
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 5 days ago:
Don’t forget the $800 30mph electric skateboards!
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Agreed but much of this applies to 10 only.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Time to short the stock then, if they are not gonna invest in their own future.
- Comment on Roguelite atrategy 1 week ago:
Let me know how it could improve! I’m always looking to try to make it better.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 1 week ago:
I’m not so sure about Chromebooks not being a threat, at least for people who just want to browse the web. A crappy laptop that Windows 11 will bring to its knees will run ChromeOS well. If people compare the performance of both OS’s on an equivalently priced laptop, they’ll notice ChromeOS is way faster and buy it. To get the equivalent OS performance of a $300 Chromebook, you need a $1000 Windows laptop.
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 1 week ago:
“AI” motorcycles are apparently also somehow hot in trade shows. But the entire purpose of getting on a motorcycle is to get out and ride and enjoy the ride yourself.
- Comment on Roguelite atrategy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want to toot my own horn too much here, but I’m developing a card game that is much more roguelite than rougelike, with strong meta-progression. It’s all free and open source and playable at superspruce.org.
If you like strong meta-progression, you might also like incremental games, such as Cookie Clicker, Antimatter Dimensions, and Realm Grinder. These games are satisfying due to the pure progression you experience within them.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, I don’t expect the sequel’s base game to have more content than the previous game with all its DLCs, but I do expect the base game to have at least as much content as the previous game’s base game.
- Comment on Just a few attention-grabbing retro game ads that would land studios in hot water today. (more in post body) 3 weeks ago:
I’m a nerd and I’d give up both motorcycling and gaming for a girlfriend.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
Even more importantly, no junk “fOr YoU” or “tReNdInG” in the search.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
Okay, then in exchange can I get a UI that doesn’t suck?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There are multiple tiers of lightweight.
“Middleweight”: Something like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or anything with KDE or XFCE, or MATE
More lightweight: Lubuntu, anything with LXQt
Super lightweight: AntiX, something with Trinity Desktop Environment or just a window manager instead of a full desktop environment
Most lightweight: Just a command line with no GUI (barebones Arch maybe?)
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I’ve seen screenshots of it. It actually inserts ads into the conversations, hence why Snapchat is trying to push it on you.
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 3 weeks ago:
It turns out most people want to socialize with their friends, not some corporate AI constantly trying to sell you stuff. It’s way closer to a stuffy car salesman than a friend.
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 3 weeks ago:
Teams is so garbage that it’s actually like 5 programs all called Teams trying to launch on startup. I have no idea which one is the real Teams.
- Comment on He's got a point 3 weeks ago:
Look up East Germany for one of the milder examples.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
My battery drains by a negligible amount while my Windows laptop is hibernating. The same laptop battery drains by 2% per hour while on sleep mode running Linux.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ubuntu is heavy for a Linux distro, because it uses the heaviest DE (GNOME), uses the less optimized Snap packages, and perhaps has other Canonical telemetry or something.
If you want better performance, try something with a lightweight DE. I have a laptop running Lubuntu (essentially Ubuntu with LXQt instead of GNOME), and it’s actually quite responsive, at least for basic system functions.
Because if you run anything on the web with a 10 year old CPU, it’s gonna suck due to the huge web browsers accompanying the bloated websites. Even on a well optimized website, the browser overhead is significant on bad hardware, especially regarding the launch time of the browser.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I found out that if you download PowerToys one of the toys is a better start menu that runs 4x faster and without the web crap. I use it more than the actual start menu now.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is what I’ve been saying for years. Windows 11 is a big step backwards for performance.
I have a beefy laptop with W11 and a Ryzen 9 5900HX and 32GB RAM and a high end SSD, but the start menu takes up to a full second to open, the File manager takes 2-3 seconds to open and 1 second to “work on” the directory I entered, task manager takes like 5 seconds now, and sometimes my CPU randomly spikes to 80+ degrees C while the desktop is idle.
On Ubuntu (not known for being lightweight, quite the contrary in the Linux world), there is extremely minimal lag and basic system functions are near instant. I’d use it more if the WiFi was more reliable (my average packet loss is 39% in some frequently visited areas where Windows doesn’t struggle at all)
Also, for work I used a W10 desktop with a i7-8700K CPU and random SSD, and nothing in the OS lagged or was unresponsive. File manager was nearly instant, even when the system was hit with significant load elsewhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
More like my #1 reason lol. If Linux wasn’t more performant than Windows there would be no way I would become a Linux nerd.