GenosseFlosse
@GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
- 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 week ago:
I think enshitification is a product of public traded companies promising infinite growth, not necessarily a problem of US only companies.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
In the past, people assumed computers would get much easier to use. But instead you now need a comp aci degree to turn off all the BS Microsoft intentionally added to make your PC experience worse.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Look how much a Chromebook costs. Amazon can afford to sell them at a loss now, if they can charge you $20/month later or so, stuff ads into everything or bundle it with other Amazon services to make it appear like. Good deal. The question is not “how much can we make on this hardware”, but "how much can we get from the customer over 5 years.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They will sell it like streaming services or printers and ink. The first Amazon PC is free, then the subscription price and amount of ads go up. Eventually people will stick because all their files are there, and their Amazon PC does not support mass storage devices like USB sticks to download all of their work.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 3 weeks ago:
expertsexchange I see they have rebranded their domain with a dash. When did that happen?
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 3 weeks ago:
Your company can save a lot of money by replacing him with an used laptop that only opens chatGPT on startup.
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 4 weeks ago:
To hand wash dishes, fill the sink with some water and a bit soap. Then take one dish, clean in the sink, wash, rinse with some warm fresh water, put it away to dry. Start cleaning the the non greasy dishes like glasses, coffee cups, then move on to the dirtier and greasy dishes. Empty the sink if the water gets to dirty. For dirty dishes you need hot water to get them clean, otherwise the grease won’t disolve. Leave the dishes out to air dry for 1 to 2h, but must cutlery must be hand dried otherwise you might get spots on them.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 4 weeks ago:
Unlisted videos don’t show up in the search as far as I know.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 5 weeks ago:
Why do need this on a fist place? So a 2 ton SUV can be 0.0058% more aerodynamic?
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 5 weeks ago:
And this will benefit the average worker by giving him more free time while keeping his job and salary, right?
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 5 weeks ago:
I am Guybrush Threepwood, mighty music pirate!
- Comment on The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos 5 weeks ago:
YouTube did nothing to it, why would they, it’s their dream business model.
They could still cut the crap without change in revenue. People would just click on other videos instead of AI Slop.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 5 weeks ago:
Nope. Install metube on your PC. Give it the link to your YouTube music playlist. It will download the playlist into your local folder in the background. Install syncthing and it will push your music folder to your backups and phone. To add new songs, simply save it on YouTube to your music playlist.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 5 weeks ago:
Some Indy games using unreal engine can still bog down a fast PC…
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 5 weeks ago:
Have not built a PC since Windows7, what is the difference between a 150 and a top of the line motherboard?
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 5 weeks ago:
In web development it’s impossible to remember all functions, parameters, syntax and quirks for PHP, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, vue.js, CSS and whatever else code exists in this legacy project. AI really helps when you can divide your tasks into smaller steps and functions and describe exactly what you need, and have a rough idea how the resulting code should work.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 5 weeks ago:
Running windows 11 is already uncomfortable, but not for RAM reasons.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
Could you connect it to wifi, but then block the tv on your router from Internet access?
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 month ago:
Why did not just keep windows 10, change the background picture and call it windows 11?
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 month ago:
Don’t need ai for that. Before AI, bots would simply copy top post from a year ago to farm up votes, and then sell the account to marketers.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 month ago:
They did exist before reddit as forums, however they where fragmented across different languages and websites. At some point Google started to show reddit more often, because it was more search engine optimized and mobile friendly. This means new users found reddit first, and old users where slowly pulled away from their forums into reddit.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 1 month ago:
An flashlight concentrates it’s light in a small cone, a projector must spread it over a larger area, while still being brighter than the ambient light if you want to use it as a projector. Take a guess why any good projectors cost more and use expensive hardware, instead of “hurr durr let’s just juse a 10 cents flashlight LED!1!!”
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 1 month ago:
I think the problem with 2 folds is that you get a square screen, which sucks for most websites, videos and games optimized for 16:9 screens, either landscape or portrait.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 1 month ago:
If a projector is $99 it’s rubbish. And what kind of light source would fit into a cellphone that is bright enough to throw a picture from 2m away from the wall, possibly during day light hours, without eating the battery in 5 mins?
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 months ago:
No, it was more a turn based game with npcs, and you had to extract people, kill targets, or return objects from the map. By strategically placing mines on windows or doors you could take out enemies, and remove cover for other enemies, or accidentally start a chain reaction that would blow up other barrels nearby.
The downside was that the game was terrible slow, with what feels like 5seconds per npc to make a turn (even when they where not revealed yet), which is annoying with sometimes 20 npcs per map, who can take sometimes multiple rounds to finish if you are unlucky and miss. And any explosion that would destroy the environment would also bring even modern PCs to a grinding halt. The game was from 2003, but only runs on a single core.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 2 months ago:
Well if they know that, why spend time and money on all the other consumer products only to drop them a few years later?
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 months ago:
Destructible environments like in silent storm. You could remove walls and floors with grenades or mines. Unfortunately it was a bit buggy and slow. Teardown is fun, but it feels like a tech demo.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 2 months ago:
Surprised Google search and YouTube is not on the list yet …
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 2 months ago:
What changed? I don’t see any difference?
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 months ago:
Maybe one folder was so full, they had to open up a new, bigger folder…?