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- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 1 month ago:
This is what finally got me to switch to Linux years ago. Back when Virtual machines were relatively new I was messing around with them and hated having to scrounge for windows licenses to use in the VM’s. (Back then you had to enter the CD Key to begin installing the OS, they didn’t have trial periods, or ‘activate later’ options) started using Linux in VM’s to try it out, and boom 15 years later, I’m never going back.
- Comment on Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast. 3 months ago:
Its a slope… Once you begin slipping, you kinda slip all the way. The US has been slipping for a looong time.
- Comment on Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast. 3 months ago:
No we’re not. The US right now, is WW2 era Germany. It will play out the same way, and as an American, I’m so frustrated that not many other people recognize this.
- Comment on Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change 3 months ago:
Ahh, Gotcha. I’ve never owned an apple product, so I don’t know how their walled garden works for app developers.
- Comment on Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change 3 months ago:
Wait… So if you develop an open source app and don’t charge for it, and 10 million new users install it, you have to pay apple $500,000? Wtf?
- Comment on YouTube and right-wing creators are profiting from anti-trans vitriol 3 months ago:
I mean… That’s all the right ever does: make money by spewing hate.
- Comment on US considering more than $10 billion in subsidies for Intel, Bloomberg reports 4 months ago:
You mean the government itself right? Not people in the government. Right…? Right…?
- Comment on ‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship. 4 months ago:
Yuuup. Have you seen anything less patriot than the patriot act? “We’re gonna strip the rights and privacy away of all our citizens, and treat them like terrorists.”
- Comment on Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation 4 months ago:
Its also kinda too late (at least in the USA) we have an election coming up in 9 months that has been raging since the last election with misinformation surrounding it. Kinda too late to pull all those Facebook memes and fake articles and go “just kidding! That was all lies!” Everyone who’s been spoon fed that crap has already made up their mind on who they’re voting for.
- Comment on Nitter is over - It's been a fun ride 4 months ago:
Riiight around Reagan is when things accelerated going south…
- Comment on Battery Draining by Private Service App on My Phone, Why? 4 months ago:
Yeaaah, don’t remove that, it’ll probably cause problems.
- Comment on Battery Draining by Private Service App on My Phone, Why? 4 months ago:
I had to look it up because I don’t have a newer phone, so I don’t have that service app, but according to google it’s part of their privacy and AI stuff
- Comment on Court To Elon: No You Can’t Just Ignore The SEC’s Investigation Into Your Failure To Comply With The Law 4 months ago:
Sure he can, just hire enough lawyers to stall the process until the public forgets and we’re on to being outraged by the next big asshole, doing asshole things. Rinse and repeat.
- Comment on A specific practical objection to modern blocking culture 4 months ago:
It won’t burn down, carriers won’t care. To them its a customer issue, they’re providing the service just fine, so they’re job is done. Whether or not your number is blocked by other clients is your problem.
- Comment on All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why 4 months ago:
Sure, but in its current goggle form, I’m probably not gonna do that. I’m more okay wearing goggles by myself to game in, than walk around with goggles to interact with virtual stuff in a real environment. I’m a huge SciFi fan, and I see the potential for the future tech, just not there right now. Still doesn’t make the current interaction any less impressive, the tech inside the apple vision pro and the programming making it all work is extremely impressive to me.
- Comment on All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why 4 months ago:
Same thought. I don’t really care much about the AR aspects of VR googles. I feel like I can see why people might game in them, etc, but for AR stuff I don’t really get the appeal. I did recently see a walkthrough of how to use and the features of the Apple Vision Pro and I can’t deny, the tech itself is really cool, I was pretty excited seeing the walkthrough. I just don’t really care about the applications of that tech yet.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 4 months ago:
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