noxypaws
@noxypaws@pawb.social
Furry (feral dhole), he/him, feet/(hind)paw worshipper, car appreciator, mechanical watch wearer, cloud engineer, thinkpad/pop!os!!/i3wm user, occasional synth/guitar/handpan player, car/track enthusiast
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- Comment on YSK about No Thanks, the app to trace products linked to Israel. 3 hours ago:
What I do is have a ChatGPT conversation
Nothing worthwhile ever happens after chatgpt is invoked. Why even mention it, as if for some reason you aren’t ashamed to admit to using it?
- 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. 10 hours ago:
great way to run into rate limits tho
- Comment on A Medicaid researcher attacked by Elon Musk's DOGE just killed herself 3 days ago:
This is a case where “died by suicide” seems genuinely more effective at describing what happened than “killed herself”. She didn’t inflict on herself the conditions that led to suicide. Other people did that, and they are ultimately responsible for her death, even if it was technically by her own hand.
Those contemptable fucking bastard Nazi shitheads.
- Comment on Rust's new jungle update has finally brought me back to it. 2 weeks ago:
you’re absolutely right about the rush when everything is on the line.
my most memorable moment was at night, pitch black out, and there’s some idiot kid screaming about Shrek running around outside. I had a pipe shotgun and a small bunch of resources, and I was hiding in my tiny 1x1 shack.
that was the scariest shit on earth. and when he came knocking on my door asking me some shit about Shrek it gave me a few seconds to line up the shot through the door, so I quickly opened it and fired. immediately the yelling about Shrek ceased and I was left with complete silence and darkness.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 weeks ago:
Monster Sanctuary was so good. I tried it when I had Game Pass, and I loved it so much I bought it outright for Xbox, and then again on Steam. Also got the hardcover monster journal.
Aethermancer, made by the same folks, is looking really good from their demo. Clearly lots of inspiration from Monster Sanctuary but very much its own sort of game
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 weeks ago:
Monster Sanctuary. A superbly polished, extremely fun, and decently challenging metroidvania and monster collecting/battling game. If you played the first few Pokemon generations on gameboy and don’t find the newer games capture that same magic, check out Monster Sanctuary!
Pacific Drive. A station wagon building amd exploration game set in a STALKER-esque Pacific Northwest in the Olympic mountain range. Extremely original and unique game, and with an excellent soundtrack.
Hardspace Shipbreaker: spaceship salvage, with increasing hazards and challenges and complexity of ship systems to expertly disassemble. With a pretty cool workers’ solidarity and union struggle type of plot.
Rimworld. Hundreds of hours lost.
Stardew Valley. A literally perfect game.
Terraria. Also a literally perfect game.
Caves of Qud. Like if Dwarf Fortress adventure mode was actually polished, and also if distant future scifi with mutants and cybernetics and sentient plants and sapient gun turrets.
Dwarf Fortress. It’s Dwarf Fortress.
WolfQuest. Wolf simulator set in Yellowstone, with a focus on real world accuracy. So cool to raise a pack and manage territory and hunt and explore and howl a lot
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. A brilliantly executed spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio Future.
Descenders. Crazy fun downhill bicycling game.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 weeks ago:
+1 for Pacific Drive. Nothing else like it out there. And you get to form a relationship with a station wagon, which is peak passenger vehicle design.
And the soundtrack is outstanding!
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 2 weeks ago:
I still got lost enough that I’ve never finished the base game
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 2 weeks ago:
Bill Gates deserves the guillotine exactly as much as the rest of them.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 2 weeks ago:
Half Life 2 for me
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
For me it was mostly Charlie from All Dogs Go to Heaven, but yeah Disney’s Robin Hood was also a factor!
- Comment on What if 3 weeks ago:
but the garfield couch doesn’t even have garfield’s strangely detailed feet
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 3 weeks ago:
he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor
- Comment on The MacBook looks like a Doctor Who alien species 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 4 weeks ago:
I got like $50 a month or two ago from an Apple settlement.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 4 weeks ago:
One of the drivers mentioned in this article has a youtube video showing his odometer going from 124,999 to 125,001, completely skipping 125,000. One of the comments asks him to reach out to the law firm handling the class action lawsuit, but the owner replies with:
Happy to help if you’re interested in paying a consultation fee for my time-- but otherwise these actions only enrich the law firms and I’m not volunteering to do that.
This mindset is so frustrating. Class action lawsuits are legit, they hold companies accountable and they pay out cash to people. To say that they only enrich law firms is not just wrong, but I think actually harmful to repeat like he has, especially in the great age of enshittification where everything tries to force binding arbitration agreements into every contract and agreement.
- Comment on something's got to give 4 weeks ago:
I am so glad the image went the same place my mind went
now go enjoy this brilliant parody, “I Can Only Count to Four”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ccGjar4Es
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 5 weeks ago:
KDE stuff isn’t used on commercially-available products that need tech support
I’m sure there are organizations using Plasma desktop with IT departments supporting it, but I definitely take your point that Apple has orders of magnitude more spending on UI/UX and software development
I’m largely curious about Finder these days since I used macOS almost exclusively from the G4 days right up until about the time they switched to ARM, so it’s been a few years. I’m curious if Apple has made any significant improvements to Finder in the past, say, four years?
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 5 weeks ago:
Dolphin seems great to me! What do you think Finder does better than Dolphin?
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 5 weeks ago:
Appreciate isn’t the claim tho
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google give a 71% discount to US federal agencies for Workspace, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's cost-cutting push. 1 month ago:
the us government, if it’s ever run by non-fascists, could easily afford to hire developers to not only properly support it but actively maintain and improve it.
especially with how many software engineers are being constantly laid off from big tech monsters.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 1 month ago:
I don’t give a tenth of a rat’s shit. People gotta have a place to live, food to eat, and healthcare, and all of those require employment. Unless you can show me another employer in her field who isn’t committing or aiding atrocities, which I’m confident you cannot.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 1 month ago:
Do you know the origins of that meme? Are you sure you’re okay with repeating it yourself, even if it’s just meant as a joke?
- Comment on Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US) 1 month ago:
Not bad for a laptop with unreliable USB support. But that’s ok, USB is pretty niche, nobody really uses that…
/s
(speaking from personal experience with a fw16, multiple USB A and C expansion modules, after a mainboard replacement and firmware update and testing under several different Linux distros. but also, framework’s own community forums show plenty of reports of USB problems, and even more on reddit)
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 1 month ago:
No. It may involve the expectation of consequences, for the sake of planning for retaliation, but anybody who condemns atrocities should also oppose retaliation against the condemnation.
Maybe some folks commit civil disobedience with the intention of voluntarily facing the consequences, but that’s entirely up to those individuals. Even in that case, they then depend on the broader society supporting their disobedience and demanding their retaliators back down.
Absolutely fuck everything about this “well they had it coming” apologia mindset.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 1 month ago:
Someone broke into my house on Tuesday and installed Linux Mint on my previously windows ThinkPad so I’m setting that up with all my productivity software today.
Now that’s my kind of mischief.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 1 month ago:
No. Absolutely fuck everything about your argument against the fired employee. We should be appalled at her termination as well as Microsoft’s atrocities.
Did you mean to say we shouldn’t be surprised that she got fired, or do you truly believe everyone should support Microsoft’s decision to fire her?
