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
Avatar and banner artist: Heatherwolf
- Comment on We all deserve better than this 9 hours ago:
Steam Deck is awesome. Highly recommend, especially the OLED
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
No offense taken at all, you’re right to draw attention to it!
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
Fair point, I think I agree. Just makes me feel ever so slightly called out for mentioning them frequently myself, though it’s pretty clear you’re not talking about regular users giving honest feedback so that’s more a “me” problem
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 days ago:
I like that idea, but it’d have to come with some mechanism to prevent parasites from buying a bunch of them up and renting them out.
fuck if I know what such a mechanism would look like though…
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
you see ads on Lemmy?
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
It’s had it for at least months but even if its years old it’s still a cool feature and deserves attention
- Comment on Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it? 2 days ago:
Veracrypt
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 days ago:
Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 5 days ago:
These motherfuckers are actively making tech as a whole less secure by destroying any trust the public may have had in firmware updates.
Urgent security fixes are gonna go unpatched on a lot of shit because consumers are seeing more and more firmware or software updates actively making things WORSE.
- Comment on The police state has always been bipartisan 6 days ago:
That seems like an entirely reasonable suspicion to me.
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 6 days ago:
I’m not quite that far yet
spoiler
I smashed the mothercrystals and there’s the big dark crystal and Mid made the hideout a boat, I gotta get back into it tho clearly!
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 1 week ago:
FF16 is at least advanced medieval fantasy setting
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 1 week ago:
I’ve played 7, 8, 7 Remake and Rebirth, and 16. I love each and every one of them.
16 can be tough sometimes just with how much cruelty exists in the world that the game is set in. Otherwise I find it quite excellent. The combat is really fun and varied, music is really good, characters are deep and complicated, visual design and graphics are really really good.
7 Remake and Rebirth are outstanding. I just put 150 hours into Rebirth since it launched recently on PC. I played the original back in the day and loved it back then, the nostalgia that remake and rebirth give me is like a highly refined illicit drug and it’s great. Nanaki and Cosmo Canyon are some of my most beloved gaming memories ever.
I barely remember 8 but I played it a ton as a teenager, still have a bunch of music from it (great salt lake music still sends chills down my side!)
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 week ago:
That’s a fucking wiretap, yo
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 week ago:
same
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 week ago:
Sure it can:
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 week ago:
it had a ridiculous amount of safeties to protect people’s privacy
The hell it did, that shit was gonna snitch on its users to law enforcement.
- Comment on IBM’s $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition cleared by UK 1 week ago:
Bad. Tech is way beyond being far too consolidated as it is, this acquisition should have been laughed out of existence the second it was so much as rumored about.
When it was first announced, I was out to dinner with most of my team (devops and infra and such), and the mood was very much “ugh SERIOUSLY??” Not because it had any direct effect on us mere “community edition” adopters, we’re all just so sick and tired of the tech industry having such a disgusting M&A fetisg
- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 1 week ago:
Same concept just feet instead!
- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 1 week ago:
That’s pretty much how I feel about breasts, though not even when I’m worked up does that change for me!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
my inhaler is $70 per month with insurance. though it’s a bit different from an albuterol inhaler, mine is a dry powder steroid thing, and it has a VERY short 30 day shelf life once opened.
was $10 last year with insurance, but of course that shit changes every year…
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 1 week ago:
Is a prompt which results in output that satisfies the user in and of itself art, in your view? or only the actual output?
- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 1 week ago:
Tarantino reflects so very poorly on folks who like feet non-creepily
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 1 week ago:
Photography is absolutely art. Humans put a lot of thought and intent into what and how they photograph and how they process and exhibit the photos.
I’d say that some stuff like JWST images definitely count as art, and some such imagery is far more technical and research focused than purely emotional. Maybe some visually boring but scientifically significant images aren’t artistic to laypeople. Nuance here is totally fine.
I vehemently disagree that all machine output is art.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 1 week ago:
Art has to be made by people. It’s literally not art otherwise.
- Comment on Im thinking we still have a deeper bottom 1 week ago:
Yeah that seems like some Facebook shit
- Comment on Im thinking we still have a deeper bottom 2 weeks ago:
What tool do people use to make these images with big text? Let alone why bother generating an image where text alone would have been equally sufficient, what even causes these things to come into existence?
- Comment on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Performance Loss Confirmed, Multiple Vendors Affected 2 weeks ago:
I’d be pissed too if my 5090 didn’t come with Really Opulent Poodles too
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 weeks ago:
You don’t mind the harm to consumers and the anti-competitive results of Amazon establishing a monopoly on e-readers? Interesting take…
- Comment on Little know fact 2 weeks ago:
based
