Venator
@Venator@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Law enforcement can now use Flock’s software to directly request doorbell videos from Ring users 5 days ago:
And use wired cameras so they can’t be easily disabled with a wifi jammer.
- Comment on What accent does this sound like? 6 days ago:
Could be: seems to wander between pronunciations from different accents, initially sounds American when he says “Wait”, then sounds sortof sounds Indian for a but after that before settling into a polish accent 😅
But I guess it might not be fake as I can imagine someone might pronounce some words differently if English is not thier first language and they learned some words from people with different accents…
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 6 days ago:
It happens if there’s a lot of traffic from the same IP, happened to me when I first imported my subscriptions into smart tube on my tv after I cancelled YouTube premium when they jacked up the price. Was just a temporary ban though.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
Might also depend on the model and if it does any sort of burn in protection processes such as pixel orbiting. My partner has been using a Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED for productivity about 4hrs a day for about the past 3 years and it doesn’t have any noticeable burn in yet(lots of other really annoying software UI issues though, because Samsung… 😅)
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
Probably not as bad as you might think:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEgQrigiLc
but yeah not sure how much worse it would be if always on…
- Comment on Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1 1 week ago:
It’s basically just a synonym for any adapter cable, but usually more specifically, ones that have a short cable so they dangle from the port if they don’t have anything plugged in.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 week ago:
Oh and another option could be to try to find emulators that run on mac, and maybe play some older games exclusive to a platform you didn’t previously own, or that you missed playing at thier time of release. Or buy an older second hand console that has games you haven’t played before…
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 week ago:
Might be possible to run proton in a VM?:
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 week ago:
Maybe try find some games that work on the mac?
There’s also this project trying to get linux in a vm to run games on a mac(and also trying to install Linux on a mac, but I assume it might break macOS since bootcamp isn’t a thing anymore):
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbJMPfXTbbE
(I haven’t tried it since I don’t own a mac, just happened to find it when another friend who does have a mac was asking for similar advice to you previously, but he didn’t end up trying it either)
- Comment on Street Fighter II: It sounds dumb but they really fixed a typo with a human leg 1 week ago:
The thumbnail is created by the video uploader, not google, but yeah, they do incentivise click bait thumbnails…
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 1 week ago:
It’s a list of general bullet points, each with 100-1000 sub-items…
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 1 week ago:
Oh interesting, I wad gong to assume it’s so you remember its there and est it faster so you buy more 😅
- Comment on Solder-It-Yourself DDR5: Russian modders pitch the Idea of making their own RAM 2 weeks ago:
I think it still needs ddr5 modules, might be more useful if it could use LDDR5 modules, then could get old phones with broken screens and desolder the ram…
- Comment on NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages 2 weeks ago:
Or you can just use git and review the changes to the packages when they change…
- Comment on ‘All is fair in RAM and war’: RAM price crisis in 2025 explained 2 weeks ago:
Seems like AI might be going to cause hyperinflation soon…
- Comment on NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages 2 weeks ago:
There are thousands and thousands of library packaged to support software releases
there are over 3.1 million packages available in the main public npm registry…
- Comment on NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages 3 weeks ago:
noone wants to do because developers want the latest and greatest model.
That’s not true at all, the OS doesn’t have, and shouldn’t have, everything that a package has…
The alternative isn’t for the OS to do it: its to implement everything yourself… Speaking previous from experience working at a company that did exactly that… It has its own set of problems… But it is at least secure 😅
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 weeks ago:
Silver lining: maybe it could be used to make some games more accessible for people with disabilities
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 3 weeks ago:
The ones that used to own tik tok
- Comment on Lebron James is popping up in Chinese videos shouting "What can I say?" - Is this a Chinese meme? 4 weeks ago:
Seems like an example of childlore, which describes a specific species of meme that only propagates among children.
- Comment on Is it true that one of the reasons VHS beat Betamax was porn? 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah true, it would’ve been 576i in NZ, so maybe that’s why I didn’t notice as much image quality difference between VHS and DVD(aside from the noise when VHS tapes get old)
- Comment on Is it true that one of the reasons VHS beat Betamax was porn? 4 weeks ago:
IIRC most TVs only supported 480i until DVDs came out
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 4 weeks ago:
In that case you protest from home with your sniper rifle 😂 (j/k)
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 5 weeks ago:
Therefore, the cure for fast food addiction is recreational drugs and alcohol!
- Comment on Is it true that one of the reasons VHS beat Betamax was porn? 5 weeks ago:
Porn is probably a correlation with those other factors…
Also that quality was the only differentiation in the age of 480p seems a bit crazy to then try to get a licence fee out of it. I barely cared about the quality difference between VHS and DVD when it first came out until I got a better TV where I could actually see the difference, and I imagine the difference with beta max would be even smaller than that 😅
- Comment on Wreckreation maker Three Fields Entertainment puts whole studio on redundancy notice 5 weeks ago:
Seems like they didn’t spend enough on marketing… As a fan of the Burnout games I never heard of it until now either…
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 month ago:
Post Processing - Low usually does the trick 😅
But then it sometimes turns ambient occlusion off too… 😞
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 1 month ago:
- Comment on [NSQ Friday] Are sunchips really from the sun? 1 month ago:
Also your shoulder.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
I think it’s an old UK only model of ford that they stopped making in 1982