AndyMFK

@AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Off the top of my head… Canada, Spain, Portugal, France, Monaco, Luxembourg, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, England, Ireland, northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, San Marino, Czechia, Greece. Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand.

  I’m leaving out Africa and South America because I’m not too familiar with what countries are and aren’t considered 1st world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great. I’m pretty sure you can sign in so you get your algorithm and subscriptions. But it’s an incredible app. Infinitely better than the normal YouTube app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My smart tube app wasn’t working tonight so watched YouTube on the normal app. I can’t believe people live like this, it’s actually unwatchable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So interesting to me that it’s the lower end phones that have the features I want

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they mean lithium ion batteries are far worse for the environment compared to a headphone cable you could easily replace

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Name a single country with no power outages

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they weren’t guzzling the worlds water supply, and using the electricity of a small nation, and didn’t steal small creators works, and weren’t hijacking the worlds supply of RAM, and wasn’t causing a bubble that will wreak havoc on the global economy, and it wasn’t causing people to go into psychosis by encouraging delusional thoughts, than i probably wouldn’t be against it.

  Other than those issues it seems fine, but until those are addressed, I’m pretty anti-ai

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trick question. The answer is none of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With your agreement, we and our 3753 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process your personal data

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sales =/= quality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally the more popular an artist or band is, the less likely I’ll enjoy their music.

  This is broadly speaking and not universal, there are big exceptions like radiohead, massive attack, aphex twin, BICEP and tool, but for the most part, if something is in the charts, I’m probably going to hate it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes you’re 100% right. Solid wood will warp and split, I did mean MDF and should have said as such

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speakers are made of wood, the good ones are at least.

  Unless your referring to the actual drivers, then yeah wood wouldn’t really work in that case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still absolutely blows my mind people willingly install these

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I came to the same conclusion., I need a “Spotify connect” type feature, and when I looked, tidal had just axed their equivalent.

  Until a competitor allows me to play music on a headless Linux box and control it with my phone, I’m stuck with Spotify

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad the idiotic decisions Microsoft makes doesn’t effect my computer. And I’m excited for the rest of the population to make the shift to Linux, at least on their personal computers.

  It doesn’t have to be like this, you too can be immune

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody have anything nice they'd like to share?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a new friend last night. She’s super fucking cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or even better, just run Linux and avoid Microsoft entirely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My school taught Indonesian. It was a very popular complaint among students that we should be learning a more ubiquitous language like French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, or Spanish.

  The only thing I know in Indonesian is ular besar (big snake)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Downloading isn’t stealing??? Are you delusional? It is in this case. Just because the law doesn’t recognise it is irrelevant, I’m not talking about legality, I’m talking about the ethics of ripping off small, underpaid artists.

  Download a game, or a movie, or an album without the required license. That’s piracy.

  If I download a Disney movie, and use clips of it in my game, how do you think a court case would go?

  Or if I download idk, a Taylor Swift album and use that in my game without a license, do you think the law would agree with me or Taylor Swift?

  And my only excuse is “I couldn’t afford to make my own music so I used yours”?

  Using ai is no different. You’re taking someone else’s work, not paying for it, and using it in your training model without permission.

  Just because they may have no ill intent is irrelevant, it only speaks to their ignorance on the matter.

  “I’m sorry officer I didn’t mean to speed, I had no ill intent”. Ok, you’re still getting a ticket. Ignorance is no excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strongly disagree. You’re basically saying smaller developers shouldn’t be punished for theft just because they can’t afford to pay artists.

  Ai use, as the article outlined, is based on cultural laundering and IP theft.

  So yeah, if you can’t make a game without stealing art, don’t make a game. And if you make a game with stolen art, you absolutely deserve to be review bombed.

  And before you say ai generated art isn’t theft, the models are absolutely trained on stolen art

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was taught BODMAS in Australia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These should be brought back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you could charge your vape?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when Valve releases a phone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I follow… A steam frame isn’t a phone. It can’t make or receive phone calls

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Australia, the fact that basically everyone has solar panels, combined with our aging infrastructure that can’t handle the exports, means feed-in-tariffs have dropped to basically nothing.

  So it really is a use it during the day kind of mentality here.

  Outside of daylight hours, we have the most expensive power in the world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m learning to manually change gears for my first time in my 30s, but on a bike.

  Agreed, it is incredibly humbling. I’ve been driving for over half my life, and now I’m struggling to operate a vehicle all over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the most frequently suggested beginner distros is Linux mint. It’s great, it’s stable, it’s what I use and while it’s not exactly cutting edge, or necessary the prettiest distro, it’s great for beginners and will feel pretty familiar coming from windows.

  Pop_os! And bazzite are more “gaming focused” if that’s more your style, but I’ve never had an issue gaming with Linux mint.

  Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter terribly much. Pick one, install it to a new drive and try it out. If you don’t like it, pick another one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a welcoming party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe 4 hours. LSD will last maybe 8 hours so perhaps a better(?) choice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re using your phone, definitely check out YouTube revanced. Or if on a tv check out Smart tube next. No ads, sponsor block baked in. It’s all the perks of premium (plus more) without the cons of supporting an evil company

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Found A Purple Mushroom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but its worth it