the_crotch
@the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 2 weeks ago:
Wow, what a horrible idea. But assuming you have a compatible device and didn’t disable this feature, blacklisting it in your router wouldn’t help much.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 2 weeks ago:
Or you would just not connect it to the wifi. It’s not like it’s going to guess your WPA key.
- Comment on Chavs are the British version of the Australian Drop Bear 2 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting that OP is a chav?
- Comment on How the "only two terms per president" amendment will be playing next election 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see anyone making laughably ignorant statements about German or Brazilian politics in this thread. If they did, someone more knowledgeable would probably correct them.
- Comment on Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’d actually prefer a breathalyzer if they feel they need to do something
- Comment on Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US 2 weeks ago:
Per bidens Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, that’s going to be every new car starting this year
- Comment on so i have an ultimatum... 2 weeks ago:
No need to imagine, Linus Torvalds exists.
- Comment on ReFS is better than NTFS, but Microsoft refuses to let regular users have it 2 weeks ago:
Why would you use zfs over fat12?
- Comment on Muad'Dib Dib Dib 3 weeks ago:
He was a better Paul Atreides as well. I didn’t get a “affluent duke’s son raised in privilege” vibe from the new Paul, I got more of that vibe from Zendaya ffs.
- Comment on Wise horse 3 weeks ago:
Who’s we?
- Comment on Wise horse 3 weeks ago:
Your device
- Comment on Wise horse 3 weeks ago:
It gets stored to your device
- Comment on Fallout Game in Development at Xbox-Owned Studio Might Have Been Canceled; Bethesda Would Rather Staff Up Than Give It (or Elder Scrolls) to Others 3 weeks ago:
So go ahead, make a better game than fallout 4
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 3 weeks ago:
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein
- Comment on Auckland teacher Lisa Edmondson made urination videos, posted on Pornhub, social media 4 weeks ago:
Really weird you got downvoted for this.
- Comment on Auckland teacher Lisa Edmondson made urination videos, posted on Pornhub, social media 4 weeks ago:
Maybe if she’d been doing this at home. She was doing it at work, at an elementary school, leaving her classroom reeking of piss. At that point it’s not only shockingly inappropriate by any metric but a public health concern as well.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 4 weeks ago:
We had a project that, by law, could only be touched by people within the US. We constantly caught Deloitte trying to sneak their (undoubtedly cheaper) off shore staff in there.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the tips but I’m a very experienced windows user, I did all of that immediately after install lol. To put it in perspective, my first step after installing bazzite was to join it to my personal AD domain that lives on my hyper-v cluster. If there’s something I could have done to get this performance on win 11 it would have probably been significantly more complicated and time consuming than any of the basics.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I ran my steam library past protondb before I started and a surprising number of games had Linux native versions. Of the rest, everything I actually want to play was rated either gold or platinum.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 4 weeks ago:
I get all that, they’re all very good points. I had windows tuned to the best of my abilities, I try to use windows whenever possible at home because I manage windows servers professionally and it’s helpful to get as much hands on time with the platform as I can. But this was such a dramatic difference out of the box that I’m going to stick with it for now at least. I’m not willing to invest the time into tweaking windows to run this well (if I even can) and it’s a dedicated gaming rig so many of the “Linux on the desktop” complaints won’t apply to my use case.
Mostly I’m shocked that getting significantly improved performance when running through a compatibility layer was even possible. I expected proton to be almost as good as native. In this instance it ended up being a huge improvement.
- Comment on 🤘🤘🤘 4 weeks ago:
“They’re not gay. They’re not straight. They’re puppets”
I like that quote because it’s the most polite way possible to call people speculating about Bert and Ernie’s sexuality a bunch of dipshits.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t sure about that article at the time, but it did inspire me to finally try out bazzite on a spare nvme and I found that a lot of my issues in games went away. Particularly fallout 4, the painfully slow loading screens between map changes are like 70% faster now. So I’m sticking with it for my gaming rig.
I never would have though running games through a translation layer could actually improve performance. Id heard a lot of people say so but I assumed it was just Linux devotees being fanboys. They were absolutely right.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 4 weeks ago:
Surely more regulations will fix this
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 5 weeks ago:
You were very clear that you believe everyone is stupid except for you, yes.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 5 weeks ago:
No we’re not. I’ve already addressed this, please scroll up.
Yes, we are. If you believe people have to be tricked or manipulated into valuing different features than you do, you’re just using a lot of extra words to say “everyone is stupid except for me”.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 5 weeks ago:
they were swindled
So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.
It’s absolutely not. It’s not about what the consumer wants at all.
So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.
These companies didn’t remove them because customers wanted them removed.
Customers want thin, light, and good water resistance. Removing a port barely anyone uses was an easy way to achieve that and the vast majority of customers don’t miss it.
Are you beginning to understand how things you don’t buy still affect you yet?
So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 5 weeks ago:
2026 even has newspeak in the form of bullshit like “unalive”
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 5 weeks ago:
No, lots of other people also understand that they’re swindlers.
And lots of other people like their stuff and might want to buy this. I’m not one of them, but I’m happy they can get something they like. Why isn’t that good enough?
It wasn’t about “the average consumer”
It’s absolutely about the average consumer. Do you honestly believe Samsung removed the 3.5 jack simply because apple did and they’re conditioned to follow apple? They follow money. The money is in thinner, lighter, and better water resistance. The money is there because that’s what the average consumer actually wants.
Did you not notice that they also released another product simultaneously that now makes enough money on its own to be a Fortune 500 company?
And how does that help the competing manufacturers who also removed their 3.5 jack?
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 5 weeks ago:
Jobs is dead, had been dead for 5 years when apple removed the 3.5 jack, and was never in charge of the myriad other phone manufacturers who also removed their 3.5 jacks. I’m not sure he’s as relevant here as you’re implying.
Anyway, as an adult, “company made a product that isn’t catered to my specific preferences” is well below my threshold for outrage. I actually can’t imagine living like that. It must be horrible.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 5 weeks ago:
Bread doesn’t rot, it molds. Whether mold can grow depends on the conditions it’s kept in. The ingredients are availble to the public, the only preservative in the bun is calcium propionate which you’ll find in just about any other baked good on store shelves.