JustARegularNerd
@JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 day ago:
That’s about as ‘judging a book by it’s cover’ as it gets.
Ultimately OP isn’t trying to sell it to you, they’re just saying that for them, they’ve been happy with it.
And hey, if you choose your distros based on their name, I’d like to see you sell that idea.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
And what’s the insinuation here, given that being told the instance admin is a woman your response was “That explains a lot”
- Comment on Considering a refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q for use as a discrete HTPC / SteamLink console. Is this a good idea? Does anyone here have any experience with these? 1 week ago:
Open source Windows activation scripts
- Comment on With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before 3 weeks ago:
I got absolutely fooled by a tech YouTuber posting that Microsoft added OneDrive ads to the blue screen, so it felt good to get got for once.
However with real life news, I tend to agree with you. The distinction between satire and real life is getting ever more minuscule
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
This happens on the Google side of the fence as well - this article immediately came to mind.
I’m glad I started self hosting so I still have a “cloud” convenience while still owning all my data and being the sole person responsible for it.
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, completely agree. Taking a photo of a TV screen showing the headline is just lazy.
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 3 weeks ago:
Here I was thinking this was satire. Then I actually searched it up (source: CNN) and wtf?!
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 4 weeks ago:
I really want to see what the bullshit looks like - shame the article doesn’t actually show a sample, guess I’d have to make my browser look like an AI crawler
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 4 weeks ago:
Kind of. They’re actually trying to avoid this according to the article:
“The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts—such as neutral information about biology, physics, or mathematics—to avoid spreading misinformation (whether this approach effectively prevents misinformation, however, remains unproven).”
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 1 month ago:
Oh, would’ve been so frustrating! I remember having a Pentium 4 laptop with an NVIDIA GPU and that thing unsurprisingly cooked itself, so I then tried 1NSANE (Codemasters’ soft body physics car game) on my crappy little netbook and it just couldn’t handle it.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 1 month ago:
Colobot - don’t think it was “shareware” but it absolutely came as a demo on ceebot.com (still hosted there today I believe). Literally THE game that got me into computer programming and whatnot.
Otherwise for actual shareware, I loved Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Crazy Gravity and some game unfortunately titled “Worm” (snake clone) with MIDI and sound effects still stuck in my head to this day
I really wanted to play a couple shareware games called Jetpack Joyride, and Hot Chix n Gear Stix as a kid, but neither of them would play on my Windows XP netbook as they had a hard check for if you were on either Windows 95 or 98, even with compatibility mode.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 2 months ago:
I still have mine as a secondary work phone. Love the size and format of it in general, although I think I’d still prefer a phone slightly bigger (~10%) and with a higher resolution (1080p?) display, mainly for media consumption.
Outside of that, I second the slow and buggy comment (although in my experience this has been mostly with Microsoft Teams, which is a buggy mess regardless)
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 6 months ago:
Working at a computer shop, Lenovo ThinkPads are usually pretty fine, but the main fault we’ve seen with them is lack or completely missing thermal compound. On one occasion I saw my colleague’s machine not post, and IIRC we had to reset the CMOS to get it back up.