CeeBee_Eh
@CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 1 day ago:
I hate using a phone. It’s small, the screen is tiny, the keyboard sucks (all touchscreen keyboards suck), you can’t have more than one thing in the tiny screen at a time (yes split screen exists and Android has freeform windows, but they suck even more).
A desktop is a breeze to use. It feels liberating to use after being on a phone.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 4 days ago:
trying to solve a parenting problem with technology
That was never the goal, just the excuse.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 4 days ago:
Gonna be weird to age verify yourself to use a smart thermostat.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
Is that the show with the liars and thieves?
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
Is anything in the tech world interesting or good any more?
Steam Machine?
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
you might find a priest that tells you to stop smoking for your health no matter how you phrase the question about lighting up and prayer. What people are receptive to is going to vary.
Ya, I’ve read the thing about praying and smoking in another comment. The funny thing is that I have very specific opinions about smoking and would argue that smoking while praying is disrespectful, but God would listen in any case.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
Are we surprised some people’s thought processes and decision making might turn extreme when exposed to this?
Yes, actually. I’m not doubting the power of language, but I cannot ever see something anyone ever says alter my sense of reality or right from wrong.
I had a “friend” say to me recently “why do you always go against the grain?” My reply was “I will go against the grain for the rest of my life if it means doing or saying what’s right”.
I guess my point is that I have a very hard time relating to this.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
Would you also claim the diesel cars are worthless because you can’t use regular gas in them? No, I thought so
Photoshop is trash.
Minecraft works just fine (it’s Java for crying out loud)
Steam works natively. Valve’s most popular hardware device runs Linux.
Media player classic
You want to use a garbage Windows built-in application on Linux?
without having to deal with work around and terminal garbage as easy as I can windows?
Two things here;
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You can get around on Linux without a terminal
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The terminal is king in functionality
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Windows requires a command line for many things also, this isn’t a Linux only thing
If you come to Linux expecting it to work like Windows and run all Windows applications, then you’re setting yourself up for failure with bad-faith expectations.
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- Comment on Presenting ilias, yet another dashboard because obviously the world needed one more 1 week ago:
You had me at “no Node.js”
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 2 weeks ago:
They’ve been pushing the thin client for years
I think it’s been decades at this point, and I hope it never takes off.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 2 weeks ago:
My specific issue is a buried line at some point between my house and the next ISP demark. I did say “all the time”, but that was hyperbolic. It only goes down when it rains or when snow is melting, which suggests a cable somewhere is cracked and water gets in and degrades the signal.
It happens maybe once a week in the spring, and is back as soon as I reboot the router.
But your assertion that just because a single person’s internet goes down that the entire country’s internet is not “the best” is childish and a reductionist argument.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 2 weeks ago:
I do live in a 1st world country. I enjoy socialized (free) health care. And actually my country has some of the best internet in the developed world.
Maybe this is a product aimed at 1st world countries.
I guess that rules out the USA.
Expected downtime for 1st world countries is normally under an hour a year
Citation needed.
If your internet is shit you do not need to buy this.
Nobody should buy this.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 2 weeks ago:
yes but how often does your internet go down?
I have a 1Gb connection. I work in software development. I live in a nice neighbourhood. My internet goes down all the time.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 2 weeks ago:
Dear lord I hate being right!
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 2 weeks ago:
But I don’t see anywhere in this specific Colorado bill trying to restrict OS level features or go anywhere near open-source
Because the people proposing the bill don’t understand or know what open source is.
I guess my example “realization of open source” dialogue wasn’t in your face enough, eh?
This is about a single signal (kid/no kid) at the user-auth level, without slurping up PII and shipping it off into the ether.
You claim to be a developer, but seem to not understand the fundamental truth of “you can’t trust the user’s computer”. The proposed law, would make it law that operating systems have some mechanism to verify age. Now if it’s a law to guarantee the verification flag is available, then that would also mandate the mechanism be free from tampering, otherwise the law means literally nothing and is unenforceable.
So once they learn about open source, root access, jailbreaking, etc, those things will very quickly become illegal.
As I said in my other comment, this problem has been attempted with gaming client-side anti-cheat for decades now. There’s a reason most online games still are riddled with cheaters, despite anti-cheat software being near Orwellian in what they can do.
Age verification is nothing more than the new guise of forced online tracking.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 3 weeks ago:
And I will tell you this: the operating system is 100% where you want to do age verification.
Oh, what’s that you’re using? It’s Linux? Sure that’s fine, just make sure the age verification check works on it.
Wait, what do you mean you have “root access”? Why do you keep repeating “it’s my hardware and I own it”? You removed the age check system? You can do that! Hey, he’s not supposed to be able to do that!
Colorado proposes bill to ban open source operating systems
As a parent, systems and web developer of both open source and proprietary software. This would single-handedly be one of the most damaging things to ever happen to the world of personal computing.
From a technical point of view, having OS-level verification is the least worst, and in my technical opinion, the best option.
It’s a horribly bad opinion. It’s the same old problem with client-side anti-chest. You can’t trust the hardware. If the user has full access to the computer, then they can do whatever they want with it. This is a core issue in security modelling. So what’s the answer? Try to lock down the system. This is why anti-cheat software, to play a video game, has more access to your computer’s hardware than you do as a user. Full access to every single file, data in memory, webcams, things on screen, etc.
What’s going to happen if it becomes mandated that age checks must happen in the OS? We’re going to get computers so locked down that you won’t be able to open a .txt file without some kind of authentication check.
No thanks. I’m happy to avoid every single age-check required service.
- Comment on Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead! 3 weeks ago:
Silicon Power
They’ve been around for a long time, they’re decent.
- Comment on Trill Symbiont Lifespans 4 weeks ago:
Some of us like moldy bread
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 5 weeks ago:
Micracoslop
- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 5 weeks ago:
Sublime 3
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Lol, why? I don’t use Piefed and besides, I work on my own open source project.
But seriously, why would I contribute to a project I don’t use and have no association with?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Piefed seens to have a lot of issues baked into the code
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Try Greyjay for YouTube
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 1 month ago:
People in the 90s and early 2000s were the ones most paranoid about that. I don’t think people in the 60s were anywhere near as worried or aware of wiretaps.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 month ago:
It isn’t. Otherwise security research would never happen for proprietary software and services.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 month ago:
Any claims around E2EE is pointless, since it’s impossible to verify.
This is objectively false. Reverse engineering is a thing, as is packet inspection.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
Cannot read a German news article about German news? Your problem. I’m 100% correct.
Did you read the article? Because nowhere in there does it say how many Linux or Windows desktops are being used.
The previous administration did.
Yes, Dieter Reiter. He’s the one quoted in the article. He’s the one that made that “deal” with Microsoft.
“We want to go back to the “industry standard,” said Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter.”
Which the previous administration did do and the new administration did not reverse on desktops
Clearly you didn’t read my sources.
There was no “hell no”. They adopted a few FOSS tools on Windows. Windows and MS Office remain in use. I already provided a source from June 2025, so quite recent.
Like I said, your 2025 source does not back up your claim that all the desktops are Windows.
You clamed there was no Microsoft migration. You claimed that any sort of Migrosoft migration is garbage misinformation.
I never “clamed” anything. But what I said was that the declaration of LiMux being a failure, and a reverting back to Windows wholesale is false.
You’re a blatant liar.
Apparently you are also.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
They use Windows and MS Office on desktops to this day and use Linux on servers and some FOSS tools ON WINDOWS DESKTOPS.
Citation needed.
I know for a fact that there are no official numbers, and it’s estimated to be a split between the two OSes.
You claimed that Munich said “Hell no” to Microsoft Migration but here you spell it out yourself: The politicians did sell out to Microsoft and only newly elected politicians partially reversed it.
Ya, I’m not sure which part confuses you, but I’ll try to help:
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Politician A sells out to MS
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Migration back to Windows begins
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Politician B gets elected
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Politician B says “hell no” (hyperbole) to Microsoft switch back
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Politician B halts the migration
Still confused? Then I can’t help you.
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- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
Are you afraid to provide any reference to your claim? Do you need extra time making up stuff?
No. Just calling out your double standard. If you didn’t provide sources for your statements, then it’s rich for you to demand sources from me.
zdnet.com/…/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shift…
“In May 2020, it was reported that the newly elected politicians in Munich, while not going back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux wholesale, will prefer Free Software for future endeavours.”
There are no official numbers, but the rollback to Windows was halted. It’s estimated that it’s currently a mix of Linux and Windows. And it’s been acknowledged that the move back to Windows was almost entirely political due to influence from Microsoft.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 month ago:
You first