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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I also highly doubt this screw is made with intention to keep users out of repairing their cars. I guarantee they are dress ups for engine bay/ interior. Having the bmw logo along panel screws looks far more diff than a bunch of torx screws. Every car requires either special tools or special software to work on, NO exceptions in modern vehicles. You cannot truly clear error codes from a Chrysler without a subscription to their gateway and internet access. You can go in limp mode where there’s no service and ur 5k scanner won’t help you without wifi. I don’t give a crap about special fasteners that’s the name of the game, my gripes are what they do on the computer side of things to lock you out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea I try to run my equipment as damn long as I can lol. Before the fx I was ripping a x6 phenom lmfao. Insane how every upgrade I have made has over doubled computing power and memory+ storage +pcie bandwidth. And to think our rigs are technically a gen behind given ddr5 and pcie 5 are out. Moving to nvme storage was the biggest boost I think I experienced. Sata ssd was sick when it came out but going from sata ssd to nvme was like going from a HDD to a sata ssd all over again lol. Looking back it is honestly incredible how many leaps and bounds in computing power we have experienced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude 2 years ago I built my first PC in a minute and last year built one for wifey (was running a rx580, ddr3 ram and fx6300 that I was milking as long as I could, built my rig and wife used that one till she had me build a better one on ddr3 ram and pcie 4.0 mobo etc) and didn’t think it was a great time to build because of prices being all over but now I’m just glad I didn’t wait any longer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh yea I have thought about trying to get away from FB, but a few years ago I moved to a more rural area than I was before and it’s incredible how many places -the regional dump among them - don’t have a website it’s just Facebook pages if you want info like if theres closures due to weather or operating hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mind if I ask how it’s helped you along? My lil bro used it to do basically all of his college work LMFAO. He also uses ai screening tools to make sure he changes shit enough that the professor doesn’t catch it, well one day he screened a assignment from the professor and it was flagged as AI produced LMFAO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The enshitification of the internet as a whole killed so many forums. I used to scour forums (and still regularly visit old forums) for info, but now it’s on discord or some bs facebook group. I miss old school forums and wikis and I fail to understand why everybody got away from them :c how on earth is an endless scroll of a FB page remotely conductive to finding information vs searching for the right thread on a forum?! I have no experience using discord so can’t speak for them but seeing all these articles makes me think I never will either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is pretty unfortunate! Crazy how discord managed to corner the internet like that in a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Man I miss when we had real forums. I used to go on nasioc for Subaru info now everybody is on FB pages. I have not yet found a need for downloading discord but I’m sure I’m bound to run into it eventually…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What discussions happen on discord? I’m late 20s and play video games regularly and I have never used it. Thought it was where people streamed themselves playing video games or selling bathwater or whatever. Back in the day my home boys and I used to chat on teamspeak while gaming, but who has time for that shit anymore? My gaming is almost all single player or with the wifey 3 feet to my left lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, any time your information is on a privatized network you might as well just assume it’s for sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How did you like 2 vs the first? Haven’t beat the first got it for free with my prime subscription and just got to monarch. So far liking it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to get into that game but couldn’t deal with the whole groundhog day stuff. Not into repetitive gameplay loops!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think these guys forget that ai is just a program written by drumroll please HUMANS. Sure we could shitcan every programmer and replace them with “vibe coders” and skate by for a year or two but when bugs crop up and backend issues pile up AI is not gonna unfuck the mess they created and it will require human intervention. If these pricks do away with the technical folk well get to that point and suffer a technological collapse because everybody that knew how to code fled or changed careers so they could pay rent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t love zorin if I’m honest. Felt like mint but worse? Don’t take my word for it but I’m surprised to see it recommended so frequently. Been thinking of trying catchy soon as I’ve seen it mentioned a lot lately and haven’t been on a good distro hop in a minute

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For real I cut my teeth on vista and grew up largely with w7, I can’t hold 7 on a pedestal though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People have too much rose tinted vision about 7, it really wasn’t that great. I don’t see anything it does better than w11, and if you have modern hardware (I mean like 2015+) your computer is being held back by w7. Sure it’s technically more light weight but it lacks support for modern hardware and any modern computer will by choked by w7 where w11 or Linux would run significantly better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Calm down there’s plenty of windows users in this thread lol. I’m sure Lemmy is one of the places that houses a disproportionately large amount of Linux users as most people on the fediverse are more technologically adept than the average joe!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped seeing all the copilot ai crap after I removed it from my windows 11 computer. Not sure what versions of windows people on here are running but I’m glad it’s not on my PC! It is unfortunate that windows needs to be debloated if you buy home version instead of enterprise (a mistake I made), if they keep making users need to tweak stuff they’ll be better off on linux soon! Windows was supposed to be the idiot proof is for office drones but it appears those days are gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played before phantom liberty and thought it was a neat enough game. Maybe I should give it another shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if he joking or not but seriously I started reading again regularly like a year ish ago and I think my attention span getting better. Just not spending as much time scrolling bullshit is a big W along with practicing a longer attention span weather it’s reading or something else. Go get a terry pratchet book !

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I just looked at the supported devices and I do not have one. Did lead me down a rabbit hole looking at the pine phones and minimal phones though… Hopefully next time I’m in the market for a phone there’s better options! I was not considering moving away from Android when I got my moto yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks a ton! Saved this comment as I do have a couple old phones kicking around I could try to experiment on that aren’t terribly outdated. If I can get a bank app to work on one I’ll run it as my daily ! Ive been hesitant about Ubuntu touch because it seemed adoptions low and I worried about lack of features, but I would like to get out of dooms rolling as much so something’s probably just as well without …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The other part of the equation here is not every body has 200$ to buy a cash phone, but these days you have to have a phone. So if ur poor what do you do? Spend 200$ you don’t have on a cheap phone or walk out of verizon for 0$ with a brand new iPhone that retails for 1400$ but only cost u an extra 20$ a month for the rest of your life? It’s the same reason a lot of poor people buy new Nissans (read about how they made money on subprime loans if ur interested) and it brings into perspective how expensive it is to be poor!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea I guess you can fix stupid, but you can’t fix willful ignorance when presented with facts and evidence. I have long thought it made no sense that all these govt positions don’t require any expertise in the area they legislate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am very uneducated on the topic so bear with me here, can you run android apps on Linux mobile? Thinking banking apps here- thats the main thing holding me back. Not that I really NEED to do mobile banking mobile most days but it has saved my hide a couple times lol. Been thinking about changing the os on my Motorola, my buddy told me to try graphene but it’s pixel only. Not sure where to start but would love to de Google my phone a bit, tired of having to go and disable “features” (Gemini, assistant etc). Android these days is so bloated and sheisty it makes windows look good FFS. If the next update adds one more bs “feature” that might be the last push I need lmfao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea it’s not the addiction or even the brainworms that disqualify him, it’s simply his stupidity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also try being frugal, there are plenty of smart phones for 200-300$ that will do everything your $1200 iPhone will do with a longer battery life. Most people I know spend more on a phone annually than I spend on my last car! And no u don’t need a new phone every year or two. Currently typing from my Moto G I got for 200$ new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you currently daily Ubuntu touch? How is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How did we get 40s Germany to stop being so Nazi? We all know what has to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wish somebody would open source these things… Was gifted a really nice flood light cam with audio and hate to bin it. Their decent hardware.