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- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 8 hours ago:
“Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift” For Now.
Give them 6-8 months, they’ll shove it back in quietly in a way you can’t see it happening as easily.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 15 hours ago:
OK Stegadon is pretty damned cool.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 16 hours ago:
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 16 hours ago:
One person’s red flags are another person’s dodged bullets.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 16 hours ago:
When a distro is ‘dated’ and get’s ‘stale’ updates, it’s not like the browsers don’t get regular updates. They’re just dragging their feet on kernel revisions and DMs, testing more and moving more slowly, gaining stability. Latest Firefox is still on Debian.
- 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 day ago:
Yeah, I guess I came off more negative than hopeful. Supposedly on of the big phone makers is partnering with someone doing pocket linux, and there’s Furi, Jolla and Volla. The real shining star is the EU rights causing (many/most/all?) phones there to be able to be unlocked and open to flashing. But open for the US is getting much more rare, and with oneplus’ recent hardware fuse breaking on flashing, I’m just feeling like (amongst many other things here) we’re losing the battle to privacy and open hardware.
- 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 day ago:
Yup, and getting fewer every day.
There are some projects (postmarketOS and half a dozen people forking it for other distros) trying to get kernel and drivers worked out, Linux is still sadly lacking at a bunch of the best tricks Android and IOS use to save power (most notably freezing applications), we’ll get there eventually.
The Halium stuff +Ubuntu ports works if all you’re worried about is privacy and as you said have a supported phone.
Postmarket can’t make it through the morning on a charge. Halium is Android kernel and drivers and also has power issues if you decide to run android apps. Neither one can do anything with NFC.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 day ago:
Even if it wasn’t an LTS thing, ‘dated’ means nothing to Linux. Stability but with security fixes is the real win. There’s a hell of a lot of room in the Windows install-base for “needs an os that’s not spying on them, but realistically just uses a web browser.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
That entire fucking add was just lazily written by an AI.
“Developer” can’t be bothered to add "don’t to use emoji or bullet points in prompts and dont add a summary and def don’t add a second summary at the end?
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 day ago:
I would think that one of these European datacenters could manage to raise a control plane providing cheap load balancers and stand up some file/data clusters. It can’t be THAT hard to compete with amazon
- Comment on Draw! 2 days ago:
No no, you just put that on the resume so they don’t ask.
2021-2022 Undisclosed work (still bound by NDA)
- Comment on 2 days ago:
tilvids.com isn’t horrible, but you have to go in with an open mind
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals 4 days ago:
unfortunately the game industry is full of that crap, that’s why unions are starting to pop up.
It’s basically contract gigs. Someone has a hit on their hands, so they have unlimited cash to get it out the door, someone else’s title does poorly in focus groups, they companies just shed their mid tier workers and they hop company to company
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals 4 days ago:
^^^ This is exactly how it works.
You ‘can’ bootstrap an indie with an Artist and a Dev, but they need to be the best ever at their job and be able to wear a ton of hats, work for nothing and somehow manage to never burn out. The vast majority of games that run that way never see the light of day.
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals 4 days ago:
Check out Camelot Unchained.
it can happen, but it can go very very wrong.
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals 4 days ago:
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: It’s like a 1:100 shot to make something even remotely profitable. You need to pay a team of people (with families sometimes) enough money to eat/pay rent/live long enough to release a game, which could be a year or two. Even with good management and a decent designer it’s a roll of the dice.
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals 4 days ago:
All the venture switched over to AI. Nobody wants to fund new studios. Games are brutal, only one in a massive pile ever become profitable. Gamedev is roughly full time work, but they still need to eat.
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals 4 days ago:
It’s messy, there are a lot of people laid off, but also there are a lot of companies snatching up talent. I know some games people that have been laid off three times in the past 2 years :/
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 days ago:
Good perf per watt, but super expensive, walled garden, internally spying and nearly unrepairable.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 4 days ago:
I’ve never heard of them. They look kinda neat, you’re still paying the processor fees, but they can save you a few percent.
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 5 days ago:
Ohh, i fully agree. but the second someone does a convincing fake of him saying stuff that would make him big mad, he’ll go off and start denouncing AI :)
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 5 days ago:
One way, or another, that revenue stream will go to shit, they’re just doing a smash and grab while they can.
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 6 days ago:
Man, are they gonna be pissed when people use this against them as well. Collectively we have more time to do stupid shit :)
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 week ago:
Careful on your uninstall, once my wife uninstalled from her laptop, all of a sudden her account can’t re-connect to delete her data. There’s lots of talk about this on the forums. Delete your account and uninstall all at once.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 week ago:
The vague part is:
say uninstalls are 1000 / day, so that’s 100%
up 150% is 2500 / day, so 250% of nominal
or is it :)
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
Ying and Yang. You don’t give us what we want, we don’t buy into it.
We’ll buy POS chinese laptops before we rent a desktop from them.
- Comment on Penetration 1 week ago:
To be fair, the fact that most of them pass right through the earth without interacting with anything, it knowing even that much English is excellent.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
I don’t understand, we had this in the 90’s and it didn’t work then. No company or user wanted their whole desktop to be offsite.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 1 week ago:
It’s the blanket name for their security architecture. The thing that makes sure your kernel is blessed, tries teo tell if you’re rooted, then sets a fuse flag if anything is off. It also provides a secure, encrypted profile for your phone that bifurcates apps, data, blocks screenshots. The data from the flag is available to apps to tell that your phone is potentially insecure. For the most part, they only block Samsung banking/pay apps and make your secure partition inaccessible.
My next phone will be something degoogled. hopefully something linux.
I’ve already wiped an old disconnected android phone for use with my drone/cameras that require a mobile device.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 1 week ago:
That means they were making money by people running their os.
If they spend the money on re-engineering their devices not to allow it, there was a cost advantage to selling your data.
