Starbuncle
@Starbuncle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 5 months ago:
I think the implications behind there being infinite time in the past are fun if you assume that the universe works like a stochastic state machine. It means that either every finite event that has happened and will happen has already happened an infinite number of times or the universe is infinitely large.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 5 months ago:
Preinstalled stores are limited to manufacturers and distributors and they suck, so nobody uses them. It’s pretty easy for someone with a tiny bit of tech knowledge to do some research and find out how to enable the ability to download APKs from the internet, but sadly, that’s not most people. Google doesn’t have a monopoly because Play Store is good (it isn’t), they have a monopoly because they’re anticompetitive.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 5 months ago:
Google made the Play Store the primary (and only, for most people) way to install apps on Android.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
My experience has been that singleplayer and indie games work best, so that’s not surprising!
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
Maybe I’m just really unlucky when it comes to liking games that don’t work on Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
Sure, but it’s not impossible to play any Blizzard games because the launcher login page is broken like it is on Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
Not just the bandwidth, but RAM usage, energy consumption, and cache storage space. Ads cost us money.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
I have high hopes for the future. It’s just not quite there yet.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
Microsoft did ruin Windows with Windows 8, then they made it even worse with Windows 10 and now they’re making it even fucking worse with 11. Windows 7 was the golden age of Windows.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
I had Windows 10 on an older (but not ancient) machine and it was literally unusable. 10-15 minute boot time and another 5 or so just to get a browser to open. The misery didn’t end once things were open; everything was still slower than when I had windows 7 on what would now be considered a truly ancient machine. I put Linux on it and experienced a roughly 5x speedup.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
Trying to get games to run without being a Linux pro is much harder than I was led to believe. Some games just work out of the box, but a lot of them absolutely do NOT, even if protondb says they will.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
I think that any operating system that mostly runs 3rd party software should be legally required to open-source at least the components necessary to run said 3rd party software. Also, OSes should just straight up not be allowed to show ads, full-stop. Making people buy hardware and then bloating the OS with ads in updates is a bait and switch and if our government had any balls, would be illegal.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 5 months ago:
microsoft.com/…/bitnet-scaling-1-bit-transformers… use 1 bit instead of 8 or 16, yay performance gainz
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 5 months ago:
How so?