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- Comment on not so free thinking now are we? 1 week ago:
Jokes on you, I don’t have that reaction.
- Comment on Microsoft May Remove Windows 11 Online Login Requirement 1 week ago:
25H2 still supports it. I just did the reset option on a fully updated 25H2 machine and it had no issues.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 2 weeks ago:
AI isn’t altering databases or knowledge. AI is telling the writer there’s a better way to do this, and the writer has to explicitly change their wording.
You only know to look at a dictionary for alternative wordings if you know there’s a problem. How do you know there’s a problem?
If you ask someone else what if that same someone else uses your regional dialect and not the one that has problems? Your average writer can review every single word used in the dictionary for every single article they edit. But AI can, and that’s something it’s actually good at. You may only know 5 Spanish speakers, but AI knows everything it was trained on.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 2 weeks ago:
Why should we use (insert tool) when we did just fine before?
Because when used correctly it can be great for helping you be more productive, and find errors/make improvements. The two exceptions are for grammar which AI does a surprisingly good job with. Would you have gotten mad if they used Grammarly >5 years ago? Having it rewrite an entire article is gonna be a bad idea, but asking it to rephrase a sentence, or check your phrasing for potential issues is a much safer thing. Not everyone who speaks Spanish uses it the same way. Some words are innocuous in some regions, but offensive in others.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
I mean in terms of disk space sure it takes up a good bit. From what I can tell winsxs takes about 10 gigs of space. But the actual wow64 subsytem only takes a 1-2 hundred MBs of RAM which is nothing for giving you that much backwards compatibility.
Rosetta 2 is going away in the next Mac OS, but that’s not going to have a massive impact on anything. The biggest impact will be the installer will be half the size since it doesn’t need twice the executables. You can download an Intel or Arm specific installer of Mac OS and it’s already half the size.
why doesn’t Microsoft treat Windows in a similar vein?
Because then nobody would use Windows. People use windows because it runs all of the programs they love. If it didn’t people wouldn’t put up with their bullshit.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 2 weeks ago:
When I vote on the machine it fills out a paper ballot for me, then I just check it and turn it in.
It all depends on your state, city, and county and how they have it set up.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
Windows’ bloat isn’t because they have to maintain backwards compatibility. It’s because they keep adding more shit, and the shit they add isn’t exactly hyper optimized.
If something like Windows 11 requires specific hardware in order to install it, why does it need to accommodate compatibility for archaic devices/software?
Because my computer from 2024 doesn’t run software made in 2024 or newer. I use a mixture of the latest and greatest™️, and old stuff.
Apples transition to arm was not a rewrite, nor is the software any better. It’s the hardware that’s better and makes using Mac OS on an M1 MBP so much better than an Intel one.
- Comment on Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. 2 weeks ago:
Or just burned too quickly on poor quality media. It seems like as dvd drives got better the media got worse. But 15 years ago they stopped getting better, and the media kept getting worse.
- Comment on How many crts yall have? 2 weeks ago:
I have a questionably broken PVM and that’s my only CRT TV I have. I have maybe 4 or 5 more CRT computer monitors.
I only use them when absolutely necessary. I detest CRT coil whine, and at least currently have nowhere to put them so I’d also have to dig them out to use them.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 weeks ago:
If they’re already into your phone there’s so many legitimate ways to extract your data. The ability to sideload an app won’t impact that.
- Comment on Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address? 2 weeks ago:
My dynamic IP almost never changes. I’ve had 3 in the last 10 years. How often does yours change?
There’s also dynamic dns if yours changes often.
- Comment on SSL certificates for things inside the lab 2 weeks ago:
Once you accept the certificate it being not blessed isn’t much of an issue. And just turning it on should just generate a self signed certificate on anything not a piece of shit.
- Comment on Retro yet? 3 weeks ago:
An iPhone without the phone??? When will Apple stop innovating!
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
Back to the ol pysx GPU days. Except physx made the game cooler.
- Comment on Is there a software method to "rotate" music around my head? 3 weeks ago:
On iOS with AirPods there’s spatial audio which does this.
- Comment on The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025) - from Anubis creator 3 weeks ago:
Then you’re losing pcie lanes, and you have to deal with split storage or software raid which doesn’t always work the best.
- Comment on The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025) - from Anubis creator 3 weeks ago:
VMs mostly. What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?
Also ZFS.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 3 weeks ago:
When Google Fiber came here every ISP shat themselves and dropped prices, and raised speeds. And Google Fiber has been by far the most reliable ISP.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What post is on your profile that’s deleted?
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 4 weeks ago:
Could you imagine how the fans would react to a skip button in Elden ring?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much every modern laptop runs on 20v internally so USB Cs 100w was super easy to switch to. To get 240w you need to intake 48v and then convert that down to the 20v ish that laptops crave.
The framework 16 is the only laptop I know of that runs on the new spec. MacBooks will do 140w via MagSafe, and the new ThinkPad P1 does it over actual USB C. But almost nothing uses the new spec yet. Given more time I’m sure it will be more popular.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 4 weeks ago:
What if you like the game, just not that one boss?
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 4 weeks ago:
Someone submitted it into a form at work like 10 years ago.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 4 weeks ago:
Sure, if you’re a masochist. Not everyone has the time/energy/willpower to not even get close to finishing a boss after 50 attempts and need to do another 150 more. I can’t tell you how many games I’ve completely given up on because one specific boss does something that I just can’t manage.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 4 weeks ago:
People who are stuck on a boss and can’t get past it.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 4 weeks ago:
Try a touch of salt.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
A keep difference is arm machines will get a full days worth of battery life and perform well. X86 machines only can get a day’s battery life.
X86 CPUs must race to idle to get decent battery life. If they don’t idle they’re guzzling power. Arm CPUs seem to handle the light but constantly active loads much better. My m1 MacBook gets me 10-15 hours of battery life no problem. My ThinkPad gets idk like 4 at best. Even factoring in the battery capacity difference they’re nowhere close.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
To be fair the firmware situation ain’t great on arm. The second thing your computer does after it turns on is hands off from firmware to the OS and that process ain’t exactly great or super standardized on any ARM system.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 4 weeks ago:
Tell them the landing was real, because if it wasn’t then how would the aliens on the dark side of the moon have told us not to come back?
(This is something my co worker unironically believes)
- Comment on Is "dark humor" generally acceptable or is it just my parents/culture more sensitive towards jokes? 4 weeks ago:
Dark humor is how I live my life.