JustARegularNerd

@JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV Is Spying On You⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the reason why I take good care of my little 24" dumb TV. It’s on the lower end (poor viewing angles, absolutely no adjustment on the legs) but I still have a use for it, so I won’t be replacing it.

  The other concern I have with smart TVs is because manufacturers basically install a smartphone SoC, the TV’s lifecycle is now the same as a smartphone. Most people probably won’t connect a new smart TV box to their discontinued, laggy (thanks to bloated apps) smart TV, the completely functional unit just gets replaced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza order shows the world is on the brink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s news.com.au for you, just rubbish clickbait

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed - the end of the article does state compiling untrusted repos is effectively the same as running an untrusted executable, and you should treat it with the same caution (especially if its malware or gaming cheat adjacent)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s certainly no light read - I’ll admit that I’ve only read the first six sections of the document for now

  The crux of it that I could see was the initial repo that was backdoored contained a malicious Windows command in the PreBuildCommand field of .vbproj file

  My initial thoughts would be that it might be advisable for build tools to confirm any defined build commands with the user when it detects a command not seen before?

  I suppose otherwise the argument could be made that if you’re downloading and compiling code that is backdoored, if you’re not checking .vbproj or equivalents, you’re probably also not auditing any source code either and you’re being pwned either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t think so - it depends on your priorities.

  The open source and offline nature of this without the pretenses of “Hey, we’re gonna use every query you give as a data point to shove more products down your face” seems very appealing over Gemini. There’s also that Gemini is constantly being shoved in our faces and preinstalled, whereas this is a completely optional download.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the FAQ of stopkillinggames.com website

  Q. Aren’t you asking companies to support games forever? Isn’t that unrealistic?

  A: No, we are not asking that at all. We are in favor of publishers ending support for a game whenever they choose. What we are asking for is that they implement an end-of-life plan to modify or patch the game so that it can run on customer systems with no further support from the company being necessary. We agree that it is unrealistic to expect companies to support games indefinitely and do not advocate for that in any way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought from the headline that it was just a downgrade to Business Standard, no this is to Business Basic! That’s a huge yikes, it’s so much harder to be productive in those web versions.

  I honestly would not be surprised if users work out installing LibreOffice et al. so they can still have a desktop app experience because of this move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not seeing it either. I found an article about this that explains this was due to the USA sanctioning the ICC lbc.co.uk/…/british-icc-chief-prosecutor-lost-ema…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The anecdote at the start of the article is insane; “I didn’t hit you, otherwise my sensors would have gone off. You rode into me!”

  Outside of that, the statistics in this article are very eye opening, especially as someone who has to ride their bike along an unprotected bike lane on a major highway just to get into town if I don’t want to use the car. 38 deaths / year is a lot less than the ~115 for pedestrians, but considering how many more people walk than ride, those odds are still pretty terrifying to me.

  And speaking of that car, funny the article outright says “If you’re in a Mazda 2, you’re not coming off okay [against a collision with an SUV]” because my daily driver is an early 90s Mazda 323. It’s always felt unnerving to drive it alongside large cars, especially as it’s so old it doesn’t even have *an" airbag or ABS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fair bit older than yours, but I’ve been so pleased with my X260. I originally got it as a side to my T480 but I find myself just taking the X260 when studying and leaving my T480 as a docked laptop because of the smaller form factor, battery life is way better (6 hours for my use) and for what I do (attending online classes, programming, and other studies) the performance is good enough (on LMDE, it probably wouldn’t take Windows well anymore)

  The later X series like the X280 have options for quad core processors I believe if you wanted more performance. Given I only paid $120AUD for my X260 and I like the slight chunkiness of it (feels more rugged for on the go) that the X280 lost, I’m not upgrading anytime soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, completely agree. Taking a photo of a TV screen showing the headline is just lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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.