knexcar
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- Comment on What car stickers say about you 3 days ago:
Why would anyone care that you take lots of trips and vacations? Does it let you show off that you have a fulfilling life?
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 4 days ago:
Yeah but who doesn’t have at least a cell phone these days (unless you’re making many accounts)? They’re useful for 2 factor authentication too.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 4 days ago:
I’ve never had an issue with viruses, I’m not a big company nor do I download sketchy files. I feel like if there’s something serious enough to affect me (like the iPhone Unicode character exploit), I’d hear about it.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
I frequently see comments saying stuff like “don’t trust them, they’re from Lemmy.ml” or “I’m glad Hexbear defederated” usually in terms of tankies/pro-russia anti-Ukraine support. Or occasionally, a random dislike of Lemmy.world because it’s too much like Reddit (isn’t that the point?)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
To be fair, the pandemic feels like it was ages ago. It was so long ago that the economy recovered, crashed again, companies reversed WFH policies, and are now apparently not enforcing RTO (at least that’s what I heard from a friend of a friend who works at Google).
But not everywhere has moved on at the same rate. In Wisconsin it feels like a distant memory, but in California the buses still have signs saying “masks strongly recommended but not required”
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 5 months ago:
What was your prompt?
- Comment on Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024 9 months ago:
Hey, quite a few people bought Game Pass for a month to try out Cities: Skylines 2, because it was quite a lot cheaper than the game itself (and considering the poor state the game was released in, probably not much more than a month of replay value anyway)
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 10 months ago:
But with WiFi, you don’t have to pay extra for more data usage.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 10 months ago:
WiFi?
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Because they care about your experience and want to ensure you’re getting the most out of your computer by suggesting helpful productivity apps?
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 10 months ago:
Why not leave the defaults as-is? They’re probably set like that for a reason.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 1 year ago:
Agreed, just glance at the linked Reddit thread and it’s refreshing how little Linux is mentioned. I’m really tired of seeing it (and related FOSS circlejerking) on every vaguely related Lemmy thread and I suspect that’s where most of the “Linux bashing” is coming from, they’re just sick of it.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed 1 year ago:
What’s the troll card?
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 1 year ago:
I think the hurdle isn’t money but time, and yes it takes quite a bit of time to learn a new OS, figure out why your graphics card is running so slow, move your files to an external drive and back, find alternatives to the programs you use and learn their quirks and missing features, learn the difference between apt-get and snap and flatpak when programs only support one, figure out what a .tar.gz file is and how to install one (what was that chain of commands with “sudo make” in it), find tweaks and workarounds to get certain games working in Proton, and do that all again if you don’t like the distro (because Linux users love suggesting new distros)
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 1 year ago:
Trying an orange is a lot easier than creating a boot USB, copying all your files over to an external hard drive, installing a new OS, fixing weird things like the graphics card having crap performance or the laptop screen brightness not dimming, learning the weird 3 letter file structure, being bogged down by apt-get vs snaps vs flatpak and adding repos (why not search and download an .exe like a normal OS), realizing that your more specialized programs don’t work, etc.
Besides, it’s not just ONE person, seeming everyone says it every time a lemon has a scratch or a blemish or too many seeds. And then they dramatize it by calling it an “abusive relationship”.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 1 year ago:
Did Lemmy even exist 3 years ago? I thought the Lemmy migration was only last summer.
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 1 year ago:
It would be useful for electric bikes and things that you could feasibly own alongside a car and use for 90-95% of trips.
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 1 year ago:
I’d love gel and lithium-ion batteries in an ebike or a velomobile. It would result in a 40% increase in range with no extra weight, making them more of a viable alternative for somewhat longer commutes (think 10-15 miles). Sure we should be serving those by high speed public transit, but this would be a faster stopgap/alternative.
Oh and it would be useful for electric trucks too, even short-range ones could be made lighter with less batteries.
- Comment on Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars 1 year ago:
So steam engine cars then?
- Comment on I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software 1 year ago:
First of all, it’s fine to write code on Windows. In fact, many companies have windows-only development workflows.
Second of all, many Linux programs also use standard shortcuts like Ctrl+S. Linux is more than Vim.