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 AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 10 hours ago:
Nah, you have it backwards. GrapheneOS didn’t choose Pixels for any reason other than they’re the only acceptably secure devices out there. I can’t imagine they want this to be the case.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 6 days ago:
“Oh that’s cute, does it have a Spring Drive tho?”
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 week ago:
phrasing
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 1 week ago:
That, plus a portable CD-MP3 player, was the bomb.
I still have my iRiver iMP-350, a portable CD player that could read mp3 and wma files off a CD-R or CD-RW, allowing way more than 74 or 80 minutes of audio. Damn thing still mostly works 22 years later too, thanks in large part to them including a 2x AA battery dongle in addition to the gumstick-shaped rechargeable batteries in the main unit which have long since leaked.
When they started selling head units with aux in ports, I had to have one in my car. And when they started putting iPod connectors in head units, perfection.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 weeks ago:
I genuinely don’t understand what’s wrong with email in this situation? Stay on the phone with them until the email arrives?
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 weeks ago:
there’s this old thing called the telephone
or if they’re insufficiently modern (in a good way) a website
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 weeks ago:
not even available on desktop clients, or for group chats
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 2 weeks ago:
only a tesla could collide with the very road it’s driving on
I get that’s not what “hit the road” means but I stand by what I said
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
Tokyo Jungle, YES!
A game so sadly lost to time. My partner’s PS3 still has it installed, but no idea if the hard drive is still functional…
- Comment on I need to play this 2 weeks ago:
Fiveman hahahahahaha
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks ago:
great way to run into rate limits tho
- Comment on A Medicaid researcher attacked by Elon Musk's DOGE just killed herself 3 weeks 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. 5 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
Half Life 2 for me
- Comment on Disney wolves 5 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 1 month 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" 1 month ago:
he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor
- Comment on The MacBook looks like a Doctor Who alien species 1 month ago:
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 1 month 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! 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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?
