ArsonButCute
@ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 8 hours ago:
Then my comment wasn’t for you 😊
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 9 hours ago:
You should read the EULAs you sign when you Buy digital media.
If it isn’t on a physical device that someone can’t take away, you don’t own it, and even then you still have DRM in the way of you and the data you bought and paid for. That’s why game consoles are being sold without disc trays, and why services like game pass are being pushed so hard. The writing has been on the wall for years, and ubisoft’s director even said it out loud.
Emulation from backup file still requires somebody rip the game, and if you download that you’re stuck in a legal gray area, even if you own a physical copy of the game. For some, that’s a dealbreaker.
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 10 hours ago:
Retro gaming and media rips.
You can literally pop a ps2 game and just play with pcsx2, don’t even have to rip it. Given the recent pushes towards “you’ll own nothing and fuck you if you don’t like it” it isn’t surprising to me that a company is offering a path back to media ownership.
Based on the specs for the machine, that’s the goal as well. I wouldn’t consider a 16 GB kit sufficient for much else than a media/web machine anymore, and that’s the default on the advertised rig
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 2 days ago:
Amazon essentially killed local boilstones and then used the proceeds to become a massive megaconglomerate only challangeable by alphabet, apple, and meta in their sheer capability to control media flow.
They have spies in the form of Alexa enabled IOT devices basically everywhere. They also have the Ring camera. Recently they have stayed they will share data from Ring cameras with Palantir.
Amazon is insidious. Its evil is quiet in its spread.
The sheer size of Amazon, along with their business model, means they must employ vast swaths of people. In the US alone, over 1M people are employed by Amazon. Amazon plans to lay off half of them in the next 8 years while they shift to a robotic workforce.
These “too big to fail” companies are not evil out of some malaise for humanity. They are evil out of a cavalier disinterest in anything other than increasing the size of their hoards.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 days ago:
Same.
I think my school might have had a mirror of their d2l brightspace instance though because it miraculously was still up, but taking multiple minutes to load pages
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Use it or lose it. My partner and I are 5 and 3 years on E respectively and both have no issue with that particular function.
- Comment on arborholing 3 days ago:
Closer to omnicide, like, basically everything died.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 6 days ago:
That’s kinda what I’m saying though. Those aren’t randos! They’re other people taking the same commute as you, every day. Make a connection with one and you might start to notice them more. Maybe you have a similar hobby or interest.
Give people a chance to enter your life and they often become more than randos on the train. Maybe you find a commute partner, someone to chat with or bitch to about Jane in Accounting.
I’m not gonna try to convince you, Clearly you saw my point and chose to reject it, that’s your choice. I’d urge you to give different thinking a chance though.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 6 days ago:
Its a call to be present.
There is nothing inherently wrong with wearing headphones on the train, but ask yourself why you’re doing it.
If you put on Headphones to keep people from talking to you, you’re making the choice to opt out of the human experience.?Make that choice every day on a 45 minute commute and after only a week 7.5 hours where you’ve opted out of chance encounter, conversation, possibly meeting a new friend or partner. It might not be a bad idea to make the choice to NOT disconnect, actively choosing to engage in the world around us makes a huge difference in how we percieve it, and how it percieves us.
An experiment I’d suggest, if you’re the type to default to using your phone as an idle activity:
Next time you’re idle and get the urge to pull out your phone, instead look around you and find the most interesting thing you can see. Why is it interesting? Is there anything abnormal about it? Is it’s place significant? Take that and note it in your mind, have a conversation with a coworker about it later. Then take note, how did this pointless conversation make me feel?
Being present by choice, especially if done often, will create chances to engage with the World, and its inhabitants.
The other day someone told me life was boring. Put the phone down, make more than the 2 meter cone you can see from around your phone visible, and you’ll find the World has a lot of engagement to offer.
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 1 week ago:
I’ve been using flying Toasters as my screensaver since 2001, I never see it anymore because the display turns off, but its there!
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 1 week ago:
I highly recommend unplugging all network cables from your smartTV, disabling its wifi, and using a cheap PC as a streaming box. Adblockers, media ripping (is possible), it can do more than TV, you can play games on it.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
If you haven’t yet, question what being a man means to you, and what being a good person means to you.
You will, throughout your life, find those definitions challenged. How you respond to the first will help you to develop a stronger sense of how you relate to your gender, and how it effects the way you interact with yourself and the world. How you respond to the second determines your character, which is how the world will see you as a person, and with sufficient introspection how you will see yourself.
Keep growing. Keep learning.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 1 week ago:
Blocking people is good mental health practice.
Every month or so I go through and lurge my blocklist of all bht the most aggregious posters.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 weeks ago:
🤯
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 weeks ago:
Show of Hands:
Who’s heard of “about:profiles”?
🦗🦗🦗
- Comment on Picture framing is the NASCAR of carpentry. 2 weeks ago:
Looks easy but is incredibly difficult to get perfect?
- Comment on kya 2 weeks ago:
Side mirrors friend, just nudge to the side so they can see them and blast away
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 3 weeks ago:
I wish, Steam would make another steam machine with steamOS
The last thing I want is a gaming PC
The steam machine program was where OEMs could partner with Valve to make a gaming PC that shipped with a steam controller and Steam OS. That’s it.
You stated you wanted a steam machine, but also say you don’t want a gaming PC, but… That’s what a steam machine is
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
I stream but from my own server.
I’ve got a collection curated over the last 15 years by my partner with over 40k tracks. I can shuffle and it will play for over 3 months without a repeat.
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 4 weeks ago:
Remember that most Christians have been such their entire lives. This programming is deep, and more strongly cemented than their critical thinking skills.
I suggest backdooring in critical thinking skills. When helping do deprogram my ex-in-laws we did weekly brain teasers and logic puzzles before our dinners, and after we’d play investigative board games.
Eventually they left the baptist church, citing they’d been listening closer to what thwjr pastor was saying and it made them uncomfortable. They’re still Christian, but they go to a PCA Church now. Much less hateful congregation and clergymen (are they still clergy if they aren’t Catholic?).
Its all about baby-steps. You have to trust people to learn, but you may want to help supporting some of those learning skills.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 weeks ago:
You still occasionally should, let it go all the way to dead, but for calibration reasons instead of safety reasons
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 5 weeks ago:
They said nerds not “Placebo Obsessesed Rich Nerds”
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 5 weeks ago:
We don’t have flying cars because people are fucking dumb, and because the viable options are loud as hell.
We absolutely have the technology, and if there were a drive to make it affordable there would be more significant research into doing so.
To do a flying car, you need to simulate friction in the air, with significant enough force to prevent colision, while also maintaining low enough noise pollution to be acceptable to the average citizens. This second part is why we don’t have Personal helicopters, despite aircraft being relatively affordable (in my cursory search I found two Helicopters less than 200K, one barely more than 100k, if there were significant drive to make them mainstream for the public they’d presumably be much cheaper, benefitting from economies of scale.)
Additionally, how do we as a society handle ATC for flying cars? Emergency stops? Impromptu repairs? Birds in the props‽
I’m not trying to naysay the retrofuturistic image we all want for the world. I am saying it probably shouldn’t include flying cars. Especially if they’re just Personal quadcopters.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve actually got a speeduino conversion on the agenda, but the car needs a full plumb in place rewire first. Its been through like 6 owners before me, one of which let it get infested with rats so a ton of the wiring had been replaced (notice I didn’t say repaired, or fixed)
The thing is a mess under the hood, I’m planning to run conduits with access loops every few feet to keep the wiring nice and clean. The end goal is California Ready but tbh I don’t expect it to ever meet emissions requirements that strict with a carb instead of EFI. I guess since I’ll be doing a speeduino conversion it wouldn’t be that much more work yo convert to EFI, or at least mod a turbo blowby hat to accept a diesel atomizer with which to jury rig a carb into a carbuer-efi hybrid.
Idk, I’m spitballing at this point.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 5 weeks ago:
Their website advertises it as a homeopathic product, are you sure this isn’t a scam? It looks like its just some vitamins C and Zinc.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 5 weeks ago:
Guess i have work to do. Thank you 🙏
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 5 weeks ago:
Tuned to run slightly lean with an aftermarket catalytic convertor installed.
I do my best not to destroy the environment while still maintaining a vehicle I can work on myself
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 5 weeks ago:
Nope! Mid 70s MG, carbuereted. As far as I know it had a crank triggered ignition, ergo fully mechanical.
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 5 weeks ago:
Conversely, I’m a medical user exclusively for pain. I take 50mg twice a day and have very little effect on the mind but it stops my pain nearly completely.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 5 weeks ago:
My radio doesn’t even have a screen 😅
The only computer in my car is the radio, and that stays off most of the time. I’m honestly thrilled to not have so much tech in the car. Its nice to be able to fix nearly anything with some pliers, a multi-meter, and an adjustable spanner.