heavydust
@heavydust@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 7 hours ago:
+1 for doing it. Have fun!
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 15 hours ago:
Try actualbudget.org It’s like the old YNAB. You can self host or use the desktop version.
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 19 hours ago:
I had a great time with my Switch. The Steam Deck is now the only device I would buy.
- Comment on iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs: Consumers ditch Apple for more advanced features and to support Chinese brands. 1 day ago:
I hope Tim Apple got at least a small hard on while licking Trump’s shoes. That would be unfair for a $million.
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 1 day ago:
Why would he fund communism in the first place? (/s before you try to hit me with that downvote button).
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 4 days ago:
Can you give some examples that I unknowingly use and improves my life?
- Comment on Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying 4 days ago:
malvertising and misinformation
You pretty much described most ads. What is the difference?
- Comment on Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first 4 days ago:
Free doesn’t expire IIRC but it has almost no feature. You can try it.
- Comment on Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first 4 days ago:
That’s good because I don’t think I subscribe to any service at all.
- Comment on Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first 4 days ago:
I’ll wait for the source code first. Mozilla is famous for pushing a lot of crap.
- Comment on EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption! 4 days ago:
I almost forgot the monthly “let’s make encryption illegal” from the EU.
- Comment on Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’ 4 days ago:
Implementation is easy. It requires respect for human beings though.
- Comment on Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first 5 days ago:
Data is sent to NVIDIA, you don’t and can’t know what is done about it. That’s the same for any AI usage that is not local, and most people don’t have the skills to do that.
- Comment on Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first 5 days ago:
will never use your email to train AI, flood your inbox with ads, or collect and sell your data
Like Firefox, it’s good to know. /s
which injects AI features into the service
A contradiction in the same piece of news.
- Comment on GameCube Coming To Nintendo Switch Online With 3 Games At Launch 5 days ago:
3 games is not a little weak. Its a fucking joke, but it’s Nintendo.
- Comment on Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services 5 days ago:
Tim Berners-Lee, who is a well-known proponent of internet privacy
The guy that advocated for DRM in HTML? We should have stopped listening to him a long time ago, he’s not a god.
- Comment on Silksong announced for 2025 on the Nintendo Direct 6 days ago:
2025 in the Fourth Coming of Jesus, which should be the year 5837 for us.
- Comment on Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison 1 week ago:
AI will replace human beings by generating shitty JS games and solving leetcode problems. But still no concrete example on a real codebase that is not written in JS.
Why are they spending billions on this?
- Comment on I still use a Palm Pilot in 2025, and you should, too 1 week ago:
You didn’t get a palm pilot to play games
Actually we did. There was a lot of good games. Also I don’t believe the author ever had one if he forgets this important detail.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 1 week ago:
The average user is pretty unaffected
The average user complains about Windows all the time around me and I have to fix their crap constantly. It is fucking over their daily life, either by preventing them from working or by swallowing their files into a black hole. Windows users at work don’t care about it, but around me when it’s their personal computer, it’s a disaster.
switching would require not only learning one new thing, but a large number of new things
Any Ubuntu from 10 years ago is identical to the latest Windows. It’s laziness, fear, or being hostage, but it’s certainly not learning something new. Also, Windows 11 is completely different from the previous versions and it didn’t seem to bother them.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 1 week ago:
People say Stockholm syndrome is fake, but when I see Windows users, I know it’s real. They have been suffering for years and never thought once about alternatives like Ubuntu.
- Comment on Sketchy social media post gives BlackBerry fans hope for the return of the smartphone brand 1 week ago:
As a new convert to GrapheneOS, I can testify that it has everything you need: Aurora for privacy (Google store proxy), the real Play store if you want, Android Auto, and a lot of privacy features enabled by default. It’s restricted to the Pixels though which is the only issue.
- Comment on Notes on Gemini 2.5 Pro: A new coding SOTA 1 week ago:
Every month. It’s hallucinating APIs and language features.
- Comment on Notes on Gemini 2.5 Pro: A new coding SOTA 1 week ago:
If you’re a coder, you’ll absolutely love it
Please show me some example of C++ refactoring on a real application, not yet another ReactJS template.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 1 week ago:
They have done that for years, and every time there is an army of geeks and gamers who look for registry hacks or PowerShell scripts to install Windows anyway. If even those geeks do not want to spend 5 minutes looking for doc on how to install Ubuntu (which is a billion times easier to use than Windows), you can be sure Windows will never die.
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 1 week ago:
Don’t forget that most people do not use external applications such as Thunderbird. You’re a blip on the radar.
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 1 week ago:
Browsers with a GUI was a mistake. We should have stayed with CLI tools: telnet, ftp, and Lynx if you really want to read a web site.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 1 week ago:
Ironic since the decrease of human made work (art of software) will decrease the quality or diversity of generative AI itself
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 week ago:
Moderators are outraged but will forget that in a few days and won’t leave reddit anyway.
- Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties 2 weeks ago:
Apple is free to sell phones where walled gardens are allowed. You’re also free to stay in the walled garden, Apple lied to you.