DaddleDew
@DaddleDew@lemmy.world
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 4 days ago:
Stolen value.
- Comment on Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there 1 week ago:
The best part is that for the article Valve supplied a picture of Blue Scout standing speechless in front of pornographic pictures of his mom, as the punch line of the best “your mom” joke to ever exist.
- Comment on 'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future 1 week ago:
Elon Musk’s Optimus robot has been coming to work in factories “by the end of the year” for over five years now.
It’s just another unsubstantiated promise he reuses every year just like the long promised full autonomy of his self-driving cars.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 1 week ago:
It didn’t just “Run a red light”, it downright attempted a left turn in a lane meant to drive through. They’re just lucky that the incoming traffic was stopped when it happened or they might have been t-boned.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 1 week ago:
If a death threat doesn’t leave an impression, what will?
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 1 week ago:
They’re designed to keep people with poor impulse control caught in a constant loop of short garbage clips. A bigger screen is not going to change that.
Also I don’t normally watch YouTube on my phone unless I’m travelling and when I do I use NewPipe.
- Comment on President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before' 1 week ago:
Whenever a company has reached a critical size or control of the market that it is no longer incentived to serve the interests of its customers and starts serving its shareholder’s instead, it should be broken up. This is the only way you will see actual innovation and positive growth again.
Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta are only a few in a long list that are long overdue to be broken up.
That being said, Trump is more believably saying that to scare them into giving him a bride. He just pulled his head out of his ass just enough to hear about a “new” company with deep pockets and smelled the money.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 1 week ago:
I use a plugin on Firefox. I’m not in my desktop right now and I don’t remember the name but it was easy to find if you search “YouTube shorts”
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 1 week ago:
YouTube shorts are cancer already. I’ve had them blocked ever since they appeared.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 2 weeks ago:
In my area geetting that higher bandwidth is at least an extra $50/month and I’m being conservative. That’s $600/year just to download games quicker.
That means that if you’re buying a new massive game once every month and a half you’re paying just as much for bandwidth to download the game as you’re paying for the game.
This is not good value unless you have so much disposable income that you don’t even know what to do with it.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 2 weeks ago:
Which supports my point that average bandwidth is not an indicator of overall quality of internet accessible to the public. It is an indicator of household size.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 2 weeks ago:
I grew up with dial up. Now I have 75 mbps and it’s plenty enough except maybe for that one time once in a while where I’m downloading a game on Steam. I see no point of paying three times what I’m paying right now per month to get 300 mbps. Even if it’s available, even if it’s worth it.
Average internet speeds can be very misleading.
- Comment on Trump says Ukraine should not target Moscow 2 weeks ago:
But Russia can target Kyiv anytime they want.
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally 2 weeks ago:
It’s like I had already acknowledged that or something
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally 2 weeks ago:
This will absolutely be used to facilitate the collection and reporting user profiling data.
Better accessibility for the blind is only a side effect.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 4 weeks ago:
Corporate jargon translation:
“It’s going to limit innovation” = “We won’t be able to use those new ways of ripping off our customers anymore”
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 4 weeks ago:
Unknown Worlds was already dead anyway.
The team had already lost any chance of recreating the greatness of the first game when their sound designer made unbelievably stupid comments on social media, leaving the company no choice but to fire him.
This is very sad because I loved their stuff ever since the Natural Selection Half-life mod.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 5 weeks ago:
Good on them. The earlier they can shut down those coal plants, the better.
- Comment on wtf 1 month ago:
“He’s running so slow…”
1 hour later
“How can he still be running like that?”
- Comment on He's a role model 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 1 month ago:
Also Microsoft products have become enshitified beyond recognition.
- Comment on HIGH ON LIFE 2 Official Trailer 1 month ago:
One thing that I hope they didn’t carry over from the first one is the ad-libbing of 90% of the NPC’s lines. The voice actor is not good at improv and constantly resorts to swearing and throwing insults out of no where for shock value whenever he hits a block. At first it was funny because it was different to what you’re used to but it got old really quick.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 month ago:
A government that cares for is people would ban this shit and procecute any company trying to find ways around it.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
It’s some sketchy pre-cracked Jack Sparrow edition I torrented to run exclusively offline in a VM and will never let it connect to the internet. I’m not too worried about security updates.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
I have a copy of Windows 10 LTSC that I have installed on a virtual machine just in case I need the one last program that I use that I cannot get to work on Linux.
Lately I upgraded my machine and had to reinstall everything. As I was installing Windows on my VM, it started demanding that I create an account and wouldn’t let me proceed without one, asked be to associate third party accounts to my OS and was generally being extremely intrusive and forceful in ways I didn’t remember it being before, like opening Edge and forcing me to click through an introduction that I didn’t want without giving me the option to close it. I then realized that I had forgotten to disable network access to my VM and that Windows had downloaded updates during the install.
I immediately destroyed that VM and started over again, this time without allowing it to connect to internet. Suddenly the experience was far better.
The moment I had let Windows connect to the internet it had thoroughly enshittified itself. It let me appreciate how badly Microsoft has enshittified Windows 10 over the years ever since its release. We are far away from the Windows 7 days.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
Install Linux
- Comment on This graph but with fediverse apps? 2 months ago:
9gag is a cesspool of trollbots.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 months ago:
For me anyway, my loss of interest in the DOOM franchise started when they started dehumanizing the Doom Marine and started stacking fantastic/medieval elements to the main protagonist and his arsenal.
I like my DOOM games when it is a battle of sci-fi military forces against demonic forces. Human technology versus brutish monsters. But now with Dark Ages Bethesda turned the franchise into a more violent and edgy Skyrim.
- Comment on What could go wrong? 2 months ago:
Neither would a human therapist be inclined to find the perfect way to use all this information to manipulate people while they are being at their weakest.
They are also pushing for the idea of an AI “social circle” for increasingly socially isolated people through which world view and opinions can be bent to whatever whoever controls the AI desires.
What we are currently witnessing is a push for a human mind manipulation and control experiment that will make the Cambridge Analytica scandal look like a fun joke.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 2 months ago:
Teams will die for Copilot somehow.
