theunknownmuncher
@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
- Comment on iPhone New iOS Age Verification Sparks Outrage as Users Say 'I Will Switch to Android' 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never had an iPhone, but I had a gen 2 or maybe gen 3 iPod touch way back in the day. I definitely jailbroke mine, so maybe that has skewed my memory of its usability, but it was not bad like trying to use an iPhone today.
- Comment on iPhone New iOS Age Verification Sparks Outrage as Users Say 'I Will Switch to Android' 2 weeks ago:
I had to spend a lot of time interacting with someone else’s iPhone recently while traveling, and the experience was shocking. Can’t believe how bad Apple has gotten.
- Comment on Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature 2 weeks ago:
it’s hard to be anti corpo-state surveillance when assholes like that get picked off so easily
No it’s actually still really easy, even more so in this example where it was just corruption for personal benefit and not used against any kind of legitimate threat to the public.
- Comment on iPhone New iOS Age Verification Sparks Outrage as Users Say 'I Will Switch to Android' 2 weeks ago:
Android users 🚶♂️switching to
iPhoneGrapheneOS - Comment on Lentils; Which, why in what? 2 weeks ago:
I cook green ones with a little rosemary and bay leaf, then salt and pepper them and mix them into rice. It’s pretty basic but cheap and not bad for lunch.
- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 2 weeks ago:
It’s definitely rare but it is not unheard of for disreputable dealers to spray cannabis or fake cannabis with synthetic cannabinoids to fake the quality or increase the strength.
- Comment on AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor 2 weeks ago:
More AM4 please
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 weeks ago:
Is that why it’s 10s of thousands of dollars, or more?
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 weeks ago:
So absolutely nothing new? DLSS has always been slop.
- Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically? 4 weeks ago:
Yep, pretty much all servers are. You could say that about anything. Lemmy is just someone else’s computer. Wikipedia is just someone else’s computer. 100% of network infrastructure is just someone else’s computer.
It’s actually least accurate for VPN in general than anything else, because it’s common to host a VPN for access to a local network and homelab services, in which case the VPN server is not someone else’s computer.
- Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically? 4 weeks ago:
Wrong. VPN is the encrypted tunnel between your computer and someone else’s computer.
You’re thinking of a VPS.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
Okay, so yeah if you’re not a software developer, then forking it and developing the software is not an option for you. Your only option is to simply continue waiting for all of the software you use to be created by other people and handed to you, like you do already.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
software gets forked and continued all the time
If you understand that this is true, then I don’t really understand your argument. If this happens all the time for other software, then why can’t it for Lutris? You’re just saying that people who are not software developers cannot develop software? Okay… yeah.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
It’s not like just anyone can fork any project and continue developing it.
Why not?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
While I may not agree that letting AI write the code is a good idea, the complaints are dumber. It’s open source. Just fork it if you have a problem with it.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 5 weeks ago:
A stream deck is not a steam deck
- Comment on Considering self hosting my own git repositories. What are some options? 5 weeks ago:
Forgejo is the way
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 5 weeks ago:
I used to use html.duckduckgo.com as my search engine before I started self-hosting SearXNG. The duckduckgo website works fine on a phone, the same as desktop
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 5 weeks ago:
Mobile firefox is compatible with desktop addons, so you can still use ublock origin on your phone. I also use pihole to cover my whole local network and wireshark to VPN my phone to my local network when out of the house.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 5 weeks ago:
Why would I ever want to see youtube comments? Literally zero impact for me.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 5 weeks ago:
I often entirely forget that youtube and most of the internet is plagued with ads. It’s a shock to use a family member’s phone or laptop that does not have adblock
- Comment on What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth 5 weeks ago:
There’s nothing illegal about using Tor, which was developed and published by the US Navy and supported by the US State Department. Like other users have said, this is not an exit node which is the only type of node that I would be concerned about running.
Definitely look into I2P which, in a nutshell, is a peer-to-peer version of Tor. Hosting an I2P router comes with no legal risk, too.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 month ago:
That’s not at all what that means, nor does it make any sense.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 1 month ago:
I’ll come back to this in 4 weeks. See you then 😉
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 1 month ago:
The parts of the economy that would be heavily impacted by oil prices
Literally all of it. www.investopedia.com/…/oilpricesinflation.asp
are already in the gutter.
You’re not wrong. Does not refute my claim though.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 1 month ago:
Two things that have also failed to manifest, in large part thanks to the prolific state spending following COVID.
We’re still only 3 days into this war. And yet this is already manifesting right now in real life as we debate it on the internet. …yahoo.com/…/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq…
Trump’s very obviously not going to do that.
Yes, agreed, this is very obvious. Because Trump does not have control over the interest rates.
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 1 month ago:
oil skyrocketing in price and the economy and stock market taking a huge hit could cause the investments required to prop up the bubble to run out of steam
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 month ago:
Then why won’t you say that artificial insemination IS rape?
Because it is not true.
regardless of how much you try to derail the conversation.
Actually, I’m the only one who has stayed on topic and avoided strawman arguments here.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 month ago:
I advocated for broadening the scope of what we call rape to more than just humans. It’s anthropocentric to think that only humans can be raped.
I’ve never contested this. We agree on this point.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 month ago:
No, I never make personal attacks or ad hominem. The fact that you’ve stooped to this level shows that your argument has failed and you cannot use logic or reasoning to back it up.