DaddleDew
@DaddleDew@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
Considering that when people paid $100 for that OS they were told that it would be the “last Windows to be released”, shouldn’t there be a class action lawsuit?
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 weeks ago:
They removed the star system a long time ago. They removed the down votes again a few years back.
- Comment on Google is working on an AI agent that takes over your browser 2 weeks ago:
I’m imagining anything filling text and clicking buttons and it strikes me as an unbelievably annoying and unsafe.
Filing you tax report? Sorry now you’ve committed fraud because the AI sent false information on your behalf. Went in your banking website? Looks like the AI sent a bunch of money to some random account. Going on Amazon? How weird, the AI has ordered a bunch of useless crap on your behalf.
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 3 weeks ago:
I want to cancel. I don’t want to be put in line for over half an hour and then have to have a painful argument with some poor employee who gets punished somehow if I finally convince them to do their job an cancel the account
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 3 weeks ago:
A lot do myself included. But not enough to matter. Most ordinary Windows users don’t even know what Linux is or understand why they should care.
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 3 weeks ago:
Is there a technical term for when a company or corporation makes a statement that is a blatant bad faith argument like that?
I nominate “Corporate auto olefation crepitu”. Where they enjoy smelling their own farts
- Comment on Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in exactly one year 4 weeks ago:
In case you didn’t know, save yourself some headaches and avoid NVidia GPUs for your new build.
- Comment on Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in exactly one year 4 weeks ago:
Way ahead. I tried Linux earlier this year hoping I could learn to get used to it in time before the end of support for 10 and it turned out to be a far smoother transition that I anticipated. I haven’t booted my Windows partition since.
- Comment on My ship threw my bags out the window and left me 5 weeks ago:
“Take your shit and get off. We’re tired of waiting for you.”
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
Because them saying they’re “worth” that is just mental gymnastics about making themselves feel better about abusing the power of the position they’re in to take as much money from as many people as possible.
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
“BuT hE’s WoRtH tHaT mUcH bEcAuSe Of AlL tHe HaRd WoRk He’S bEeN dOiNg!”
You tell that to his delivery drivers who can’t even scratch their nose while driving or that 1984-dystopia-esque automated surveillance system he puts in their vehicles flags it as “distracted driving” and punishes them.
- Comment on jealousy 1 month ago:
Before we cut our food in perfectly sized bites with utensils our ancestors used to do it by biting into large pieces of food with their front teeth. That would wear them down evenly to form a nice flat bite.
- Comment on After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship 2 months ago:
It was exactly the reason I was thinking
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
That’s extremely uncharacteristic. Are they trying to prepare for an antitrust probe?
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated 2 months ago:
They’ll just do it anyway quietly later on
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
Carefully dremel a slot and use a flat head screwdriver.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips 2 months ago:
Nah, I’m just a bored guy on the internet
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips 2 months ago:
Day 1 after implantation: this is great! I now have photographic memory of everything! Best decision ever.
Day 20: I’ve memorized so much so fast, I’m going to have to go for the next higher up subscription level to unlock more storage.
Day 200: I’m running out of space again. Going for the plus subscription.
Day 600: ran out of storage space again. I can’t afford the next higher subscription. I’m going to have to start deleting unnecessary memories. My brain has lost its natural ability to make memories by itself. I can’t even function on a daily basis without free storage space.
Day 700: I have run out of memories that I’m willing to part away with. I still can’t afford the higher subscription. Luckily there is a cheaper tier. All I have to do is give NeuraLink full access and rights over my memories for marketing and AI training purposes.
Day 900: They have increased the cost of subscription. I can’t afford it. I’m going to lose half of my storage space. I have two days to choose which of my memories to keep. The rest will be no longer accessible to me, but will still be used by Neuralink for their own purposes as they own those memories now.
Day 1200: the chip will no longer be supported next month. I can’t afford the new model. It will be disabled in 30 days.
Day 1235: I have just found this diary. It explains a lot. I only wished it told me what my name is.
- Comment on NVIDIA stable driver 560.35.03 released for Linux with Wayland fixes 2 months ago:
I’m just waiting for them to move up from 550 for the production branch. And so is anyone else running an Nvidia card with OpenSUSE. Is there any way at all to tell when that will happen?
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 2 months ago:
You really shouldn’t believe the Corporate bad faith arguments used to justify anti-consumer practices. They are complete bullshit.
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 2 months ago:
So Microsoft wants to force everyone to ditch their perfectly good machines so they can make more money off of selling OEM licenses.
I’m just waiting for Europe to sue their greedy asses for planned obsolescence.
- Comment on McDonald's executives admit diners think prices are too high, say they're working to create value 3 months ago:
Their food is a result of decades of small incremental changes to make the food cheaper and profitable, a few pennies at a time. Fast forward to today and what MacDonald’s has to offer now doesn’t even taste like burgers anymore.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware 3 months ago:
I revived a 15 year old laptop by installing Linux Mint on it (and replacing the hard drive for an old SSD I had kicking around). It does everything a modern laptop would do except play new games now.
- Comment on "Vaccines Cause Autism" 4 months ago:
Look at how much better we’ve become at diagnosing autism over the years.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
I tried Fedora KDE spin first. IDK if it was my hardware configuration it didn’t like but the first time I booted it, it spammed me with crash reports. I poked around it for a few minutes, not being able to go far without things crashing. I installed the updates and rebooted it hoping it would fix it but it got much worse after that. I couldn’t do anything else as it immediately crashed at startup. I couldn’t be bothered to look any further into it and switched to OpenSUSE which has been rock solid for months. I’m running Plasma 6.1 with Wayland on it with no issues as well.
I’m certain that my Fedora experience isn’t typical but for me at least it was a disaster.
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- Comment on Windows 11 starts forcing OneDrive backups without asking permission 4 months ago:
Microsoft has been on a streak of providing everyone with a new daily reason to never install Win11 lately.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
I had a win 10 VM set up and it “boots” quickly enough that it doesn’t matter to me. I then tried a win 10 LTSC VM and it “booted” a solid 10 seconds quicker on top of that.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
Another easy solution for Photoshop is to run a virtual machine.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
My machine cannot run 11 because of the arbitrary hardware requirements so I was looking down the barrel of Win10 being no longer supported next year.
I proactively installed Linux Mint on a second SSD I had kicking around just to see if I could live with it without making any commitments. I never looked back since then. I switched to OpenSUSE soon after though but that was because I wanted something that ran the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment because I didn’t like how Cinnamon was handling multiple monitors. But I haven’t booted up my Windows 10 drive since then, other than to migrate some files I needed.