AndyMFK
@AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 2 hours ago:
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- Comment on sales =/= quality 1 day 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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' 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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" 2 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" 2 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 2 months ago:
I was taught BODMAS in Australia
- Comment on These should be brought back 2 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 3 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? 3 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 3 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
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 5 months ago:
Google doing everything they can to anger everyone.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 5 months ago:
Any company that pushes this shit doesn’t deserve your money. Don’t buy their TVs.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 5 months ago:
And this is why I avoid Samsung products entirely. Vote with your wallet.
- Comment on Thanks satan 5 months ago:
That is not correct
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 5 months ago:
Essentially banning any apps that would hurt googles profits.
I thought that was pretty obvious.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 months ago:
We’re just not gonna see eye to eye on this.
I want privacy and freedom. You want Google to dictate what apps you can use even though it doesn’t effect you.
You don’t give a shit about people who rely on apps that aren’t from the play store. You cant seem to understand why it’s bad because it won’t effect you. It’s selfish
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 months ago:
You need an ID for those activities because it is required by law. Apples and oranges. Your argument is a logical fallacy of false equivalency.
A government dictating what you can and cannot do by law is a completely different thing than some random company telling you what you can and can’t do with a device you own.
And again, if you’re uncomfortable with that - then you still have the option of only downloading apps via the play store where identities are already verified.
So again, it’s the gay marriage argument - do you support the freedom of others to do something you may not want to do? Or would you rather restrict others freedom when it doesn’t effect you? If it’s the latter, then I think you’re an objectively bad person.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 months ago:
That’s interesting, where did you grow up? I grew up believing everybody had the right to privacy. And to not provide your identity to strangers on the internet
It’s like gay marriage. If you don’t want to do it, you don’t have to. But don’t support restricting the freedom of others because it won’t effect you