alphabethunter
@alphabethunter@lemmy.world
- Comment on YouTube to give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback 1 day ago:
Gamers Nexus is nowhere near that relevant for them to care. More likely to be related to Davie504 that recently got his third copyright strike on a video where he plays the Moonlight Sonata on bass.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 4 days ago:
While we still have that option… I’d bet money that the second when most people start deciding to DIY their own home tech, they’ll lobby these techs as unsafe and dangerous and potentially ban their use outright, or require special licenses and degrees.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 6 days ago:
This is the problem with the “we’re not talking about politics in here” approach. A lot of smaller companies, entities, “influencers”… will attempt to become apolitical, a ploy to market to as many people as possible, but it’s ill advised. You have to make your beliefs actually clear from the start. And after a certain size, you must avoid becoming too personal about things. Get a PR specialist if you can, even. It’ll save a lot of headache to kearn you can’t please everybody, and there’ll always be someone dissatisfied with you, so you better choose early who they’ll be.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Again people on Lemmy show that they can’t do basic reading and interpretation. For fuck’s sake people, it was obviously sarcasm.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the famous communist fascist… You liberals are just insane.
- Comment on BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos. 3 weeks ago:
I feel like I have to watch it again, but it’s brilliant. A fine piece of satire, subtle and to the face in the right measures.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
Same. I’d pick my home turf no questions. I like pasta and chinese food, but I’d miss rice and beans way more than those.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I’m doubtful for sure. But being light on RPG elements, especially of the source material elements, is not actually a concern for me. I’m much more worried about their plot direction. But… Who knows, it might be good. I’ll wait for the reviews and see what’s up.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If it has a solid enough story, I’m probably fine with it. If you’ve ever played the TTRPG of Vampire, you probably know that it has always been the weakest point of the game, while the lore and stories of that world have always been the highlight.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 5 weeks ago:
It’s not particularly about him, his channel, or his content. If his channel had been declining, that’s usually a downward trend. What happened instead is that LTT lost 50% of their viewers suddenly in the last month. Other YouTubers have also stated that in the last month, out of nowhere, their viewership dropped crazily, up to 60%. However, LTT analyzed that although they have half as many viewers, ‘like ratio’ skyrocketed and ad revenue stayed the same. Josh Strife Hayes made a video blaming YT’s new feature “restricted mode” for this, which, when active, blocks a lot of videos for seemingly no reason. Some others have also noted the problem and are investigating, but a lot of information points out to something youtube did as the cause of the issue.
- Comment on High Quality Offline Music - マリウス 2 months ago:
(not the same album, but) PINE AWAY…
- Comment on FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hour 2 months ago:
Yeah, this is the way to go these days. My bank offers this feature in app, and I have a separate virtual credit card for each service. All I need to do to cancel a service/subscription is to cancel that credit card. Good luck trying to get more money from me. This is especially useful for those “free trials”, sign up with a credit card that deletes itself after 24h, and bye bye.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 3 months ago:
I’d hazard a guess that it’s Brazil.
- Comment on First server: Buying hardware in a developing country 3 months ago:
You do know that above 50 USD taxes are 92% right? Check it out, a product for 1000 reais will have 900 reais in taxes. It’s bonkers. But technically, it has always been like this, but it wasn’t truly enforced/audited. Now that they are collecting the taxes at the point of sale, you pretty much pay for two products to buy one.
- Comment on First server: Buying hardware in a developing country 4 months ago:
Below 50usd the taxes are considerably lower, and just above 50 usd they get a 20 dollars rebate on taxes, so it’s okayish to buy.
I bought a seagate 4tb drive, cheapest 4tb at the time, on Amazon if I’m not mistaken.
Oh, you’re lucky then. NET/Claro locks down all their modens for consumers, and I know that most other ISPs around here do the same.
- Comment on First server: Buying hardware in a developing country 4 months ago:
Nothing of the sort in Brazil. Stuff only gets replaced when broken or completely outdated. And any stuff that might work gets poached by insiders before seeing the light of day. You might get some stuff if you work in IT, out of question for anybody else.
Here people sell 2nd gen I5 + rx 580 pcs as “gamer pc” at 70% the price of a modern system. It’s absolutely bonkers.
- Comment on First server: Buying hardware in a developing country 4 months ago:
Hi fellow Brazilian!
Yeah, second-hand here sucks. You can get x-99 mb + cpu combos on alliexpress for 400 reais though, old xeons are good for server/jellyfin, just not very efficient. For Jellyfin, my biggest money sink is in HDDs. 4tb drives are 700 reais each, and there’s no second-hand refurbished stuff in the market, so you have to buy brand-new. For a GPU I have an ancient 750ti, but I’m looking to buy an intel A310 card if they drop lower than 800 reais. At the very least you’re looking at 3000 reais in pc parts for a server though. Mb + cpu + ram is somewhat cheap if you buy from china through alliexpress, but GPUs are a no go there. Keep in mind that when buying from China you have to avoid products above 60 dollars (around 350 reais) because of the super high taxes. If you want to buy domestically, I’d recommend a b450 AM4 board + a 3200g or something around that. You can avoid buying a dedicated GPU with a 3200g or similar, and get a nice modern platform, but the cpu will be quite weak for game servers, and have low support for pcie lanes, memory channels and sata ports though.
Also, for a game server, it’s very likely that you’ll have to work around being behind CGNat. I currently only self host Jellyfin inside my own house because of that, it’s just a huge pain in the ass to deal with it. There are solutions though, I just haven’t bothered. I’m still in the process of buying hard drives, so right now it’s not a huge priority.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 4 months ago:
They have clips from songs, so yes, I guess. I’m not sure if anyone can host a video there though.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 4 months ago:
Pirating windows and adobe is never wrong.
- Comment on Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternative 4 months ago:
I just realized it’s on the post. Sorry for that. This looks like a solid thing, for sure. Since we’re talking, do you ever worry about people making use of the privacy features for nefarious purposes?
- Comment on Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternative 4 months ago:
Do you have voice calls/group voice calls and streaming already in or in the roadmap?
- Comment on KIOXIA and Linus Media Group Set World Record for Pi Calculation 4 months ago:
The calculation technically only takes 12 straight days to compute, but they had many interruptions over the process, sometimes having to fully restart the whole calculation.
- Comment on The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists 5 months ago:
I unironically love this ai tune. This is what AI is supposed to be used for.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
I’m waiting to make a pc upgrade and buy new storage, then I’m switching.
- Comment on The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy 5 months ago:
You live in a bubble. As a teacher, a lot of young students have already been indoctrinated into religion by the age of 12, most of them will never escape.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
It’s crazy that “lobbying budget” and “buying lobbyists” is a thing said in the openness and not illegal. Thanks for sharing this report, it’s a great (disgusting) read.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 5 months ago:
It’s a huge part of the business model. Social Media is valuable for its data on people, and for its ability to manipulate and influence people.
- Comment on Generative AI is reshaping South Korea’s webcomics industry 5 months ago:
For good chinese Manhua, take a look at Ancient Sovereign of Eternity (aka Ultimate of All Ages), possibly the best ever Xianxia/Cultivation story in comic format. Magic (or Demon) Emperor is also great. And Martial Peak is good for the first 2000 or so chapters. Chinese comedy stuff tends to be fairly good as well, like Top Tier Providence.
Also, Solo Leveling is typical op MC done as cliched as possible, just the art style that’s quite good, although a bit overdone these days. Everybody is trying to copy Redice’s art right now. Koreans have crafted some amazing wuxia manhwas though: Gosu, Legend of the Northern Blade, and Red Storm are examples of amazing completed works in the martial arts murim genre.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry. 5 months ago:
Billionaires are a
systematicrisk*. - Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 5 months ago:
Because of the early 2000’s movie Minority Report that has this exact same plot and is starred by Tom Cruise.