GnuLinuxDude
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- Comment on Peloton to ruin the secondhand market by charging a $95 ‘used equipment activation fee’ | It doesn’t apply to refurbished models bought directly from the company 2 months ago:
This company has already laid off a bunch of employees, too.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Comedy is legal on Twitter again
- Comment on Good laptop to use as Owncast server? 3 months ago:
The one caveat to building is if you build a PC and a single component is faulty, you are now responsible for determining which component is to get the RMA done. That can be a big hassle. One time for me it was actually two different components that needed to be replaced by the manufacturers, and that was a pain to figure out.
- 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 wish I could get an x201 with an identical form factor and keyboard, indicator lights, etc, but otherwise upgraded components (cpu/ram/display/ports). That is my dream.
I also have an x201, but it runs too warm and too noisy for me to keep up with it. I now have an M1 Macbook which I use Asahi Linux and macOS on with about a 50/50 split. But the x201 feels better in the hand and on the desk.
- Comment on Mozilla has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym 4 months ago:
“Don’t show me personalized ads”
Oh so you will continue to try and track me, you just won’t show me targeted advertisements?
That’s what passes for privacy on the internet today.
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 4 months ago:
native tab grouping would be a much more desirable feature, to me
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 5 months ago:
Maybe power is more reliable in central Texas, my family still has no electricity from the derecho that hit Houston. And they lose power frequently from all the heavy storms or hurricanes that pummel the gulf coast.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 6 months ago:
What kind of stupid world is it where 8GB of RAM is actually not enough? I’m not doing anything that fundamentally different to what I was doing 10 years ago, and back then 2GB was fine on the low end of things.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 6 months ago:
Ok so, “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”
But secretly selling services to a genocidal ethnostate does belong in the Google workplace and will be tolerated? Palestinians just don’t matter if you can you make a dollar off of their death and destruction??
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Compared to windows 11 all of them are
- Comment on Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
feels like you can’t even exist anymore without all your data getting leaked by someone who aggressively must consume as much of it as possible.
Hulu you can say, “well at least I can pirate and avoid giving my info up.” But what can you do against things like when Equifax was hacked?
There needs to be real privacy reform and real data privacy laws in the USA. bullshit ass second-tier country
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
My first car had a curb weight of 2400 lbs. It’s absurd how fucking huge these planet-destroying, environment destroying, life destroying monstrosities have become.
- Comment on Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought 8 months ago:
Taking the joke a little too seriously, huh?
- Comment on OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it 8 months ago:
The phenomenon you describe is called Jevons paradox. Absent a law to safeguard the increased efficiency, the waste will follow quickly.
- Comment on OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it 8 months ago:
Wake me up when “ai” makes the amount of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere trend downward. Generative AI is just a way to burn electricity to take value produced by humans and then replace those same humans, all to line the pockets of the companies that can afford to churn all the data in the world.
For the handful of genuinely cool and interesting things it can do, the number of extremely awful costs and externalities is like 1000x worse.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 8 months ago:
I like to imagine that one arm of the American surveillance state started the exploit and the DOJ wrapped it up only after Fancy Bear noticed exploitable routers. I mean, there wasn’t any evidence that this originated from Russia in the article, just the assertion that it was so. Who’s checking?
- Comment on France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe 8 months ago:
Russia has a certain flavor of lying that I don’t see elsewhere. They make claims that are so utterly ridiculous that everyone knows it is complete bullshit. It’s like some weird gaslighting / dominance thing.
There is one other place I do see this strategy replicated, which is from the IDF.
- Comment on France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe 8 months ago:
Ya I gotchu, fam. washingtonblade.com/…/Bernie_Sanders_in_speedo_46…
They moved mountains with this one.
