neon_nova
@neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 1 day ago:
I always wondered how any head of state could feel like they were not being spied on if they were using windows.
Can governments really ensure that windows has been secured that well or is there always a possibility that Microsoft is spying for the United States?
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 2 days ago:
Sure, I just don’t think it’s really that much different than what we have now. I guess I’m just indifferent to it and don’t think it’s that big of a change.
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 2 days ago:
I saw some things in the videos, but I guess I don’t really care about design too much. So maybe that’s why I don’t care. I’ll have to ask my wife what she thinks.
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 2 days ago:
I just checked the Apple website and it doesn’t really look any different to me.
I can see there are changes, but I don’t even know if the average user will really notice it.
- Comment on Resident Evil Requiem - Reveal Trailer 6 days ago:
I’d add 4 into that list. I really hated that game. I never played 5 though. Maybe I should give it a go.
- Comment on Spot The Difference Free Online 1 week ago:
I just tried one match of it and one of the differences was not different in either picture.
- Comment on Undertale will be 10 years old in 3 months 1 week ago:
I just started Shin Megami Tensi 4 on the 3ds. It’s my first time playing a game in this series and it seems cool. Maybe after I get through that.
- Comment on Undertale will be 10 years old in 3 months 1 week ago:
This has been in my backlog for 10 years?!?
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 week ago:
I can’t find it now and I do not think it really applies here. But someone stated that being high IQ could lead to academic problems as the high IQ learner would understand or see things that the professor could not causing the professor to mark it as incorrect.
I guess this is the idiocracy version of it.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 week ago:
Kinda lame, but at the same time I get it.
So, I guess I’m sticking with OneDrive and Microsoft email.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 week ago:
That is such a crazy amount of money on license fees, especially when you consider that there are mostly free alternatives. I am always choosing foss options as I build my small business.
Right now, I am using onedrive, and Microsoft for my business email. Which I think comes out to like $5 a month.
My understanding is that for reliable email, you need to host with microsoft or google otherwise you are more likely to get sorted into junk mail. If that is incorrect, please let me know.
- Comment on A Sealed Copy Of Fallout 3 DLC Is Selling For Over $2,000, And Fans Have No Idea Why 1 week ago:
I don’t really think so, the person buying it would need to use laundered money to buy it otherwise it could draw suspicion.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 1 week ago:
I think we might not be seeing all the advancements as they are made.
Google just showed off AI video with sound. You can use it if you subscribe to thier $250/month plan. That is quite expensive.
But if you have strong enough hardware, you can generate your own without sound.
I think that is a pretty huge advancement in the past year or so.
I think that focus is being put on optimizing these current things and making small improvements to quality.
Just give it a few years and you will not even need your webcam to be on. You could just use an AI avatar that look and sounds just like you running locally on your own computer. You could just type what you want to say or pass through audio. I think the tech to do this kind of stuff is basically there, it just needs to be refined and optimized. Computers in the coming years will offer more and more power to let you run this stuff.
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 2 weeks ago:
My point is that a tax expert will need to actually do it.
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s a bad thing.
As you may know, due to lobbying from tax preparation companies, filing US taxes is extremely over complication and typically requires you to pay someone to do it.
Even though I’ve done my own taxes in the past, I just paid someone else $300 to do it as it’s such a confusing nightmare of paperwork.
Well, the IRS had a program that let you file for free if you met certain conditions. Basically, the average American that is low income could just go through the IRS website to very easily file their taxes.
The current administration got rid of that program. It looks like someone posted the source code that was used to file your taxes.
I guess someone could modify this code so it could be used in a limited way in the future, but it would require constant updates as the tax code changes.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 weeks ago:
I think you know.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 3 weeks ago:
Good, I never used pocket and I never heard of the other thing.
- Comment on By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall 3 weeks ago:
I agree that they can’t be trusted. I’m getting a Mac this fall to switch away from windows.
Sadly, my work can’t be done on Linux yet. I keep checking though. I’m really just waiting for a single app.
- Comment on By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t realize an app could do that. Won’t most apps just make it an option or enforce blocking recall?
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
Tldr?
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 3 weeks ago:
Not relevant
- Comment on After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS 3 weeks ago:
No, Epic just recently won the court case against Apple. The Epic submitted this game to the App Store after winning, but Apple didn’t approve or reject it.
Epic then brought another court case against Apple for not approving their app and now, without going to court, the app is back on the App Store.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 3 weeks ago:
If it didn’t ask me irrelevant personal information
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 weeks ago:
I’m visiting my parents in my home country after many years of not being there. I’m hoping my dad’s old pentium 2 laptop is still around.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 4 weeks ago:
At least there was an upgrade path from them.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 4 weeks ago:
Part of me still does not think Microsoft is going to go through with it. There are too many Windows 10 PCs that will just become infected.
Part of me thinks the government will intervene as I think it could genuinely be a security issue to have so many unsecured devices in the wild.
But, another part of me has no hope for the future.
Sooo… I guess we will just have to wait and see.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 4 weeks ago:
I’m so happy that I went intel instead of gen1 ryzen that generation.
I still use it for work and would be so pissed if I needed to buy a new computer just to use Windows 11.
I genuinly need windows or mac for my work. I use linux on my personal laptop.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 4 weeks ago:
Long story short, my Dad just got a new computer. (His old was was actually really old, but he could have used Linux.)
Anyway, I told him not to throw out the old computer and that I would take it. He was baffled that I would want it or could even do anything with it.
I am going to set it up as a backup server in the house for my parents and myself as it will be a nice way to have an offsite backup for free.
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 4 weeks ago:
This is it exactly. I use ChatGPT to double check things when I’m second guessing myself and I use it to make assignments.
Almost everytime, I need to tweak things but it turns 40 minutes of work into 5-10 minutes.
- Comment on Jellyfin troubles - phone cannot reach 4 weeks ago:
You will not be able to access Jellyfin with Apple relay turned on unless you open ports on your router to access Jellyfin from outside of your house. That’s true even if your in you own home WiFi.