laurelraven

@laurelraven@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, the US military machine may not be that impressive for very long the way they’re going

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my thought… Don’t hide it, really, more like toss a blanket over that part while people get settled. Most will stick with the defaults (whether a single default like lemmy.world or regional defaults like lemmy.ca), but they’ll get the option if that’s something they want to change later (I do wish there was a way to move instances rather than having to make a new account, that might also help improve adoption… “Just go with this one while you settle in and move when you know where you want to go”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t dodge it, ram it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their own browser?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See also:

  • wank panzer
  • swasticar
  • incel camino
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rules bring PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay under federal oversight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was, more or less, my immediate thought

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the only interpretation I’m getting from it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I’ll check that out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t asking about a Linux client for Teams, I was asking about an open source alternative to Teams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there some open source Teams alternatives you’d recommend?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New mobile features are sh*t these days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, the reason they aren’t is they want people to buy new phones, not fix and upgrade their current ones. This is not hard to figure out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A popcorn bucket with 3 holes, to share with friends⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the sand is the opposite of a non-newtonian fluid, is solid at rest but becomes basically fluid with vibration

  Though I imagine sand would naturally behave this way if it isn’t packed too densely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well of course, that makes perfect sense to me! What would we do if the ISPs ran out of bits? Can’t just use them anywhere you know, those suckers aren’t cheap!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it does, but only blocks competing advertisers

  (Note: I actually have no clue if they do and I’m talking out my ass; that said, I would absolutely not be surprised one bit if they did exactly that)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers achieve first successful communication between dreaming individuals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Such an underrated movie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Any time paying customers get treated worse than pirates, they’re only incentivised to pirate next time. It absolutely blows my mind that corpos seem incapable of figuring that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heavy emphasis on maybe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Python exists but I personally like PowerShell more. I’m not crazy about it being Microsoft owned, but it’s at least open source at this point, for whatever that’s worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it’ll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there’s no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PowerShell is another advantage, oddly enough, though I’ve been worried for a bit the direction they’re going with that… Everything they’re doing now is Azure and they’re pushing everything to Graph, and the way all of it works is a massive pain for anyone trying to use PowerShell the way it was designed to be used

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just pointing out, Plex and *arr work on Linux too…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, I’ve got a laptop who’s CPU was too new for win 8.1 to have drivers or support for it, and is too old to put win 11 on it…

  This is the first time they’ve intentionally cut off the ability to run their OS at all just based on hardware age when it could otherwise run it just fine.

  Not dedicating support to old hardware is one thing, blocking it intentionally is something else entirely.

  Oh, that laptop? High end gaming laptop that was 6 years old when Windows 11 released. The fact it’s blocked is flat out ridiculous, and defending it is equally ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or I could switch to Linux…

  OH WAIT, I already did that, darn. Such a shame I can’t ditch Windows twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield: Shattered Space Expansion Getting Mixed Reviews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too busy with Satisfactory 1.0 to do anything else at the moment, but I’ll probably check it out eventually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I follow your logic there, it looks to me like it has the opposite long term effect by removing what competition actually is there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This sort of buy-fatten-milk-kill acquisition should just be flat out illegal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just any corporation, but one that’s done this exact kind of thing themselves

  There is no good guy here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why that’s so surprising actually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bypassed their DRM ink cartridges years ago by buying literally anything other than an HP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers build AI-powered security systems that predict criminal behavior, claim 82.8% accuracy in predicting felonies with CCTV monitoring⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if someone gets arrested because a machine predicted they would shoplift but no actual shoplift had been attempted, I’d like to believe the case would be thrown out for lack of any crime having been committed, but I don’t know if I have that much faith left in humanity anymore