DaddleDew

@DaddleDew@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot to mention that the product they’re sacrificing everything for is widely failing to meet expectations and that they will likely expect taxpayers to bail them out when their investments fail and threaten to take out the entire economy with themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK if I’m understanding their response correctly in the article but it really sounds like the people affected are left to pay for the repair themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a big oof for a product like Fairphone. They dropped the ball hard too by not standing behind their fuckup and left the consumer hanging. Fairphone just got off my list of potential new purchases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An open source repairable printer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t new. I remember seeing this printers many years ago already. I’d approach it with suspicion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet the “I don’t care that they gather data on me, I have nothing to hide” crowd is still clueless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is baffling that people hadn’t clued in about this sooner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sun is a deadly laser...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You constantly radiate heat. The warmer you are, the faster you radiate it away. In space this does not stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason why they prefer to attack unarmed people. That one time they encountered someone who turned out to be carrying a weapon they panicked and murdered him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That acronym is common in the military for reporting enemy sightings. How fitting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would have been unbelievable in the past as well. We are in the unusual period where the forces of capitalism have stopped incentivizing quality and efficiency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond All Reason⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO Supreme Commander failed to capture the original game’s soul had. You had a sense of an epic battle going on when playing. I think it was because it always devolved into playing all zoomed out, watching tiny strategic icons moving across the map, blinking and disappearing. I can’t even tell you what any of the units looked like because we almost never see them. The fact that they gave generic names to units and structures such as “level one point defence turret” didn’t help either.

  BAR does a much better job of keeping the player zoomed in and into the action, seeing and feeling so the cool details of the battle going on. Heavy plasma batteries blowing up chunks of advancing armies and terrain, lasers blowing up i dovidual targets in rapid succession, sending debris flying everywhere, this was all what TA was about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond All Reason⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand that, but if a third-party was to make a mod that restores the old names, I don’t see how they could possibly be held legally liable for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond All Reason⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish someone made a mod for this game that restored the names of the units and buildings to all their Total Annihilation equivalents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Specialists was amazing. Expect for the players who were min-maxing it, but they were rare. Most people were playing it for the fun of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a homegrown video platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zoume

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s performative. Sucks to be the student who will have his life ruined to be made “an example” out of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Map Men most entertainingly explained this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you really were still naive enough to think that a public tech company cares about your right to privacy at that point, it’s pretty much on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Step 1: Use an open source mail client that doesn’t contain trackers like FairEmail instead of Google’s app.

  No further steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Translation: Microslop is finally realizing that they vastly miscalculated the cost/benefit ratio of AI tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck this. I want to be primordial soup again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course they want that. So they can control and see everything that people can do on their devices. With Moore’s law there is absolutely no reason why centralizing computers should make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I work for a huge organization and my local IT guys have their hands bound. I couldn’t even make a ripple in that ocean even if I tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now Excluding America Treaty Organization (NEATO)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Happened to me at work where they force us to use Windows 11. I had turned on the autosave feature on a Word document I was working on. Little did I know this meant it stopped saving the changes locally and started saving them on a OneDrive copy. I work all day on that file.

  The next day I notice the file on OD, find it odd that it is there so I delete it because I want nothing to do with OD. I then open the local word file I worked on all day yesterday and realize that none of the work I did the day prior was saved.

  I figured out what happened and fortunately the file was still in the recycle bin. But fuck that whole system to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You ban aid groups and press when you want no witnesses to your atrocities.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine telling a war correspondent that they can’t go to a zone of conflict because “It’s too dangerous, there are people shooting each other there”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Bought them out” is a weak word too though. He placed loyal people on the board and had them vote to give him control of the company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk nearly bankrupted Tesla when he insisted that the door handles must be flush after stealing the company from its original founders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Major scandal': Trump's DOJ caught spying on journalist before Epstein's death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK. By ordinary standards that would be a major scandal. But by Trump standards, that’s just another day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The picture of the still half-destroyed white house will do wonders in the upcoming partial election.