JustARegularNerd

@JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FL wants more child labor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.