ArsonButCute
@ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 1 day ago:
Its not a search engine, its a data digester. Dont use it as a search engine. Despite what alphabet, micro-shit, and DDG think, AI chatbots do not now, nor will they ever make good search engines.
This is a prime example of why access to these tools should be restricted to computer scientists and research labs. The average person doesn’t know how to use them effectively (resulting in enormous power wasted by ‘prompt engineering’), and the standard available models aren’t good at digesting non-linguistic data.
I’m not gonna downvote you, or be like all “AI is the devil and its gonna kill us all” but people need to use it correctly or agree going to kill ourselves with its waste heat.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 days ago:
When I’m spinning up the n-hundredth skyrim run I cheat my stats up a bit to skip the early game tedium, but otherwise I tend not to unless I’m getting bored of a game and want to sample endgame content to see if I wanna keep with the grind
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 2 days ago:
The cheapest tier is sold at low margin and recouped with ads.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 2 days ago:
Seems like if you’ve got the ad-free plan and an older chromecast you’re still ok… For now. This is indicative though that the service may not be viable for long for you.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 3 days ago:
Network Attached Storage
- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 week ago:
That’s a brilliant idea, I might actually propose it to my local library as a prospective volunteer for the service.
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 1 week ago:
Cleaning isn’t the goal, appearing clean and absorbing excess oil is the goal, which it achieves easily.
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 1 week ago:
That’s why they call it cornhole 😉
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
Right. That makes sense, thank you for clearing it up.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
Is that not common anymore? I remember back in the day I’d commonly end up with installers that were just self exteacting archives with a little extra. Idk I haven’t used windows basically at all in at least a decade
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
I’m not familiar with app bundles, and tbh my only experience with exe’s are the kind that are just zip files with a different extension. I’d assumed that under the hood they were similar, but I guess I never actually checked.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
If your distrobution’s maintainers have your package in their repos it will generally only be 3-5 clicks in the GUI package manager or 1-2 lines at the terminal.
Flatpak solved compatibility and library issues, becoming huge in the process. AppImage is basically like an Exe for windows.
can I run exe’s yet This has been possible for over 20 years, but with the more recent changes to WINE most (MOST not ALL) windows apps will work fine but you really shouldn’t be trying to use the windows apps unless there’s no other option
- Comment on Silly goose 1 week ago:
Context implied to me that a dismissal was meant by no contest, despite it being the literal phrase we hse when accepting the court’s opinion with no contest.
Maybe I’m wrong, Idk, text is tricky.
- Comment on Silly goose 1 week ago:
Its perfectly clear, i can Rephrase it in midwest english:
I was at the courthouse in my neighborhood to try to get a ticket dismissed. You wouldn’t believe it, but there were a bunch of white people getting dismissed easily while African Americans all had court dates set to have trials.
Surely this was a coincidence, especially with a town sherreif who looks like a good ol boy with a gun. Certainly coincidence. - Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
I think shotgun slugs would be good loot from a werewolf, but they should be a junk item or a crafting item to combine with gunpowder and casings to make new ammo, not ready to use shells that’s just silly why does a werewolf have those?
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
Linux doesn’t really have issues with NTFS, you just need to install the drivers.
My entire server storage is NTFS (except the boot drive) because its migrated from a windows system, but I use linux.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 2 weeks ago:
Its bleached and straightened. The bellend shape implies it would be curly if she didn’t cook it every morning with a flat iron.
- Comment on Downdetector is down 2 weeks ago:
I mean it all looks like its working now, it was around 1 hr 30 ago when I tried
- Comment on Downdetector is down 2 weeks ago:
I couldn’t view any content hosted on blahaj, kept getting a CF http 500 error. Poats that had already federated out were fine but links back to uploaded content were all broken.
- Comment on Finally. 2 weeks ago:
Omg please?
- Comment on Downdetector is down 2 weeks ago:
Its actually cloudflare.
tomsguide.com/…/cloudfare-outage-november-2025-x-…
Blahaj zone is down too, presumably anything that routes traffic through CF.
- Comment on Tell us the truth Donny. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about that, somehow doubt there’s a statistically significant difference in the population of gay fascists vs gay everyone else. I think given how they’d surround themselves with, they likely would hide it under the guise of sexual fantasy, but that doesn’t make them not gay, it just Makes them a gay coward.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 weeks ago:
Bud if its not feasible for you don’t do it then.
As I stated in my original comment, some people use readymade suites and pay for support, that is their perogative.
I find I do Better quality work when I build my own toolkit, and tie the tools together my way.
To borrow an example from my father in reference to working on cars:
Sure you can buy a mechanic’s toolbox that will have everything you need but those are cheap, mass produced tools desogned to fit the needs of the everyman. If you buy an empty toolbox instead you can fill it with the tools you use, then you can have higher quality tools for the things you actually do with them and not waste space on tools you don’t ever touch.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 weeks ago:
Use two tools if one doesn’t get the job done, is kind of my point here. Sure you can pay for the convenience of f360, or you can build your own toolkit. Its like 2-in-1 shampoo, if it does both things it probably isn’t the best at either of them.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 weeks ago:
Re: missing out
I’ve got friends who tell me they won’t switch to Linux because they want their anti-cheat games. I usually tell them if they took the time to learn their system they’d understand why they don’t want anto-cheat games.
In the last 20 years, I have not found a single piece of software (games excluded, i pay for art when payment is asked) that I, a regular person on the internet, have not been able to source a free open source alternative that while potentially equipped with a steep learning curve is often as good as if not Better than many corporate solutions once learned.
People can pay for pretty, super convenient UIs and proprietary solutions with support contracts if they want to, thats their perogative. I prefer to learn the software myself and if I hate the UI that much that I’d be willing to pay, its worth either just sitting down and making my own with pyside (its quick and easy, learning curve excluded) or paying a freelance dev to make one bespoke.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 2 weeks ago:
You can just do things. There’s no real rules.
Once I used some jewelry wire to connect pins from a vga port on my PC to pins on the svideo port on my tv. Worked fine. It was black and white but I had a display.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 weeks ago:
Corporate suicide is so fun to watch when you’re not stuck using their products.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 3 weeks ago:
While you do not need software devs for a button, once you have enough buttons doing enough things controlling them with a computer becomes much easier than controlling them using mechanical analog circuitry. This is the whole reason for SBCs like the Arduino, so people can make the transitionary step between “my project is simple enough to have physical logic built into it” and “my project is so complex it no longer makes sense for me to hand build the logic”
If you haven’t messed with physical logic gates before, I recommend it! If you don’t have a physical workspace to do it in, Minecraft actually Makes a ‘great’ sandbox for playing with logic circuits. Superflat Creative worlds are the bomb for that.
Start with a simple yes gate, then learn a not gate, then an And, then an Or, and build up from there!
You’ll find very quickly that once you need persistence involved, projects with physical logic can scale massively with each additional bit of storage added. Doing something with that storage? Good luck! As a result, nowadays we pay someone for a tiny computer they already made, and program it to make our buttons do stuff, instead of just having the buttons do stuff directly.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 3 weeks ago:
I had no idea, I’ll have a to keep an eye out for those 👀
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 3 weeks ago:
If I could have a Fully electric mid 90s chevy S10 style pickup with modern safety features and no surveillance I would be sooooo happy. But no, if I want a truck I can buy old as fuck or get a wanktank. Closest option to what I want in the US currently is a Ford Maverick (which is literally just a rebadged explorer sport trac for the modern age) but that would mean supporting Ford, and like, fuck Ford.
