NutinButNet

@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Showing off your badass karate moves in the MRI room is strictly forbidden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really crafty and nasty. And it also allows users to go through the process without requiring admin access.

  We needed to stay on Windows 10 for a few reasons at work. I had a few users tell me this or that broke and they could no longer use this function. Remoted on and found the computer was somehow updated to Windows 11. Users swore it was not their doing. I know what happened; it’s an update screen that has a decline at the very bottom corner far from the button to allow the update to proceed that most users don’t see so they are being intentionally misled by Microsoft to think they have no choice but to accept the update. And worse is that none of these users were admins. So what the fuck, Microsoft?!

  It’s so infuriating and disgusting.

  Thankfully we can now move to Windows 11 without issue, but that was a really frustrating time to be an admin and Microsoft deserves every bad thing that comes of users getting upset over this. Hopefully lawsuits to lose some money over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is trying to patent a 'universal' rewind button that could fix your worst gaming catastrophes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So Recall for PlayStation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HORI Steam Controller releases in the USA in December⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m stoked. But sad it doesn’t have vibration. I wonder why they did that.

  Does it have Hall effect sticks? I’m not seeing any information on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Respect⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love seeing all the people get mad that they can’t do this now that my local city has effectively banned visitors during flower season :)

  You can still see it from afar, but a bunch of people got mad because they drove over two counties to trample and crowd the flower fields for their own selfish desires only to find that the area has been blocked off completely to cars and people.

  Get fucked in the nicest way possible. Enjoy it from a distance like a normal person so everyone else can enjoy it and so the damn flowers can keep coming back each year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Rumble went from a family-friendly Canadian startup to a megaphone for U.S. election deniers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I thought those people moved on from 2016 already. Gotta give it up and accept that Clinton lost 2016 fair and square already!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kill it with fire!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But why? This makes it taste better!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fantastic game. I haven’t finished it, but it was a really interesting atmosphere and I loved the horror game mechanics combined with that Bethesda feel it had. Felt in between Fallout 4 and Starfield with good components taken from each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fast and the Furriest Scrtiches⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cats are family too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luma Island devs spent an 'enormous amount of effort' to make it smooth on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds amazing. I’m just now hearing about this game and hearing it’s made with the Steam Deck in mind is an added bonus.

  They know their audience because this is going to be very popular with people on the go and wanting something on the Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices in new edict⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nearly all Islamic followers in the US are Democrats, so what are you on about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EchoChamberinator 9000!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony of this post lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming subscription fees have been rising while content quality is dropping⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much every industry as of recent. Fast food and theme parks and other subscription-based services are much the same.

  It would me easier to name off subscription B services that haven’t increased prices, and the only ones that come to mind are VPN service providers like Mullvad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some home Internet plans do. I’ve seen AT&T had in their terms that if you hit 99GB, they would throttle your speeds.

  This was years ago, so not sure if that changed or not.

  Satellite plans often had limits too because they didn’t want to encourage lots of usage on their satellites. I haven’t checked in a few years, but last I checked, these weren’t throttle limits either, sometimes they had hard limits where you just couldn’t connect anymore once you hit the limit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a YouTube prankster?

  It’s close to Halloween, dressing up in white hoods is similar to the KKK attire, it’s a hot election season as usual…all sounds perfect for some idiot pranker to use for a new video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is testing its cheaper Premium Lite subscription again, but it now has limited ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yay! I get to pay for the privilege of having ads…

  What I hate more is that there are idiots who will pay for this too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Mirage arrives on Steam as Ubisoft return to Valve's store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But still requiring that piece of shit, knock off launcher “Ubisoft Connect”, so this means nothing.

  Only benefit to users is better customer service and refund practices through Valve and integration with Steam community. Other than that, fucking useless if you’re still requiring users to download and install that shitty launcher, Ubisoft.

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

  Time for everyone to purge Google Chrome from their systems. Google needs to learn the hard way that people aren’t going to tolerate this kind of hostility and reminded that they aren’t the only browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare come to PC on October 29⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of fitting since it follows the events of RDR2. There were a lot of people who had never played RDR, so they will get to experience it for the first time as the story is meant to be told, chronologically speaking.

  I imagine a good handful of people will be disappointed by some of the outdated mechanics that were improved in RDR2. Hopefully people understand that this game came out 8 years before RDR2 and had massive differences.

  One still annoying thing about this release is that according to the Steam page it “Requires 3rd-Party Account: Rockstar Games”. For a single-player game that’s always a nuisance since there’s no multiplayer content in this release.

  This really sucks and makes zero sense. GTA V has it too, so not too much of a surprise considering how scummy every “AAA” game company is becoming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like it used to be where you absolutely needed to know command line and memorize them. It hasn’t been that way for at least a decade now.

  Most Linux distros look identical to Windows that the average user would assume it’s Windows with a different skin.

  And with WINE and Proton, Windows apps (except Windows Store apps) can be run with little to no issues in many cases.

  The biggest obstacles are going to be:

  • Choosing a Linux distro, which can be fun in some ways
  • Making some apps compatible or finding an alternative if it doesn’t already exist there or isn’t compatible with a translation layer like Proton
  • creating the USB to install, but this has been made a lot easier in the last decade and the installation process has been simplified on many Linux installations

  I’m currently on KDE Neon which I love. Thinking about moving over to it fully on other computers too.

  I’d say getting a distro with KDE Plasma is a good thing if you are accustomed to Windows.

  GNOME if you are more accustomed to Mac.

  Just in the way it looks and behaves. KDE Plasma feels a lot like Windows 7/10.

  Some good distros to try with this would be KDE Neon, Zorin, or SteamOS. There are others out there to try.

  YouTube is fantastic for any setup questions or just to follow for a painless experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC lets Starlink provide service to cell phones in areas hit by hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I didn’t know the FCC oversaw this. I remember that satellite services like satellite television and satellite radio, allowing them to host content that would normally violate FCC guidelines like speech and nudity.

  Why is cell service different? Or has it always been like this that the FCC still has jurisdiction in some areas?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld boldly announces upcoming mobile game despite Nintendo's lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The mobile adaptation will be handled by PUBG Studios, the same team behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.

  TIL wow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so fucking annoying.

  All week we’ve had issues with users using Outlook only to discover today that it’s due to a faulty update on Microsoft’s part and they haven’t released a fix for it so we need to revert.

  I’m getting realllllllly tired of having to fix Microsoft’s mistakes and be their beta testers while we pay for that privilege. And this is all with them offering a program for users to be actual beta testers. Their stable channel is riddled with bugs too.

  People need to quit putting up with this.

  I’m personally moving away from it and wish my job would follow suit instead of rewarding them with more business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do bigger organizations handle spam calls/large volumes of spam calls?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so. Either that or it’s going to be pricey and not likely to work with a cell phone natively like how it is now with your wireless carrier.

  One of my pervious jobs used RingCentral which is what I had in mind with my comment. They do have an iPhone and Android app that can send and receive texts and calls, but it’s all strictly through their app. I suppose you could do a forward to your number, but you’re going to need to have an existing number for that which kind of defeats this purpose.

  You can manage call queues and the like on the backend in the browser to create something like this where it would send callers through a maze of menus to eventually be able to get to you.

  Additionally, you could program a key press to you that wouldn’t be made known to callers such as pressing 7 to immediately be “transferred” to you (something you’d only tell trusted callers calling you) but that’s not stated in the call queue prompt.

  I also imagine any business VoIP has a set minimum of numbers/users to sign up with them since they’re really for business, not personal use. But hey! Give it a shot and see or try one of their competitors.

  Kind of an interesting thing to think about since you mentioned it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do bigger organizations handle spam calls/large volumes of spam calls?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The VoIP services they subscribe to usually help with this to some degree in identifying common patterns to cut down on some of the spam.

  Beyond that, businesses implementing call queues & bot menus is what helps cut down on the rest of it.

  It’s becoming more rare to actually get in contact with a human from many businesses nowadays. Businesses seem to want users to use a bot that will help the customer do whatever it is they’re doing as much as possible.

  And the only way to get to said human is through a series of menus and questions, usually confirming they actually are a customer.

  Long gone are the days of calling and getting a human to give your information to.

  When you call something like Bank of America, they prove you are a customer because you give them your account number or they recognize that based on your caller ID and also have to still provide SSN or date of birth, so even if someone spoofs an actual customer’s number, they’re stuck in the menu and never reach a human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XR glasses on Linux / Steam Deck get vastly better with the XR Gaming Plugin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the issue you faced? Or was it multiple issues?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the differences is that Osama bin Laden was not the leader of any recognized state in the world whereas Putin is.

  Putting a literal bullseye on another country’s leader would be seen as an act of war.

  Also, the US is not currently in (direct) war with Russia while the US was with Osama’s group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromebooks are getting a new button dedicated to Google’s AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really new as it’s just replacing the search button which is where the Caps Lock key is on every other computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll start the bidding at the reasonable price of $0.50

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam players no longer require a Microsoft Account to play multiplayer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish they had implemented this sooner. For a very long while, Microsoft logins were broken on the Deck and only just got fixed a few months ago, if I remember right. Before that, you had to blindly enter your credentials and hope you were clicking the right spots and it was picking up your typed words. It was a mess.

  But this is good news to hear. While Sony shoots themselves in the foot by requiring it, Microsoft’s studios’ devs are going the opposite direction. Hope to see more of this.

  I wasn’t really sure what the benefit was of having the account linked anyway. Because I was hoping to sync my backyards across devices so I could play on the go, but it didn’t seem to do that when I finally could log into Microsoft successfully.