Guidy
@Guidy@lemmy.world
- Comment on GameVault - The Identity Update 2 days ago:
I don’t understand the need for any such clients in the first place. Steam is used to sell you games, and install/manage/run them for you.
But unless you’re a child you shouldn’t actually need any of that. I’m perfectly capable of going to Factorio’s web site, buying it, downloading it, and running it. On any platform it supports.
That’s not a critique of this software project, I bet it’s cool. I just don’t need a middleman between me and video games. It’s the store that wants to sell me more and more and more or the publisher who wants that.
- Comment on So, Linus Torvalds is a jerk 5 days ago:
It’s typical. At least one Windows kernel developer is an asshole as well.
- Comment on Substack prompted a Nazi blog again 1 week ago:
Fucking watch me.
Nazis bad. <- note the period that makes that a full sentence.
Don’t use substack. Or Twitter.
- Comment on Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees 4 weeks ago:
0x0 must be for 0 compassion and 0 IQ.
- Comment on Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees 4 weeks ago:
No that’d be the executives, you dickhead. Hey - please remember to breathe.
- Comment on French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
Well put. I was mad at first and then immediately remembered that they’re not wrong. :(
- Comment on Twitter opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots 5 weeks ago:
Stop fucking using twitter. Stop posting about it, stop posting things that link to it. Delete your account like you should have already.
- Comment on It’s too easy to make AI chatbots lie about health information, study finds 5 weeks ago:
Meh. Google Gemini has given me great medical advice always couched carefully in “but check with your doctor.” and so on.
I was surprised too.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 5 weeks ago:
And adding advertising to various parts of the OS.
Hey, Microsoft: de-shitify your OS if you want it to be more popular.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 month ago:
RFK jr’s wants, needs, desire to continue breathing move me not at all.
He can fuck off.
If we had a science-backing and non-Nazi government who I had any belief in their ability and will to keep our data safe, this might be really cool. When I first got an Apple Watch and saw all the ways it benefits me I honestly wished everyone had one by default.
Instead, something like this would simply be used to further control people especially women since it can track monthly cycles (to my knowledge at least.)
- Comment on GOG now ask for donations when you buy games 1 month ago:
Jokes on them I’ve basically stopped buying video games.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 month ago:
YouTube can die in a fire and take its fucking premium with it.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 1 month ago:
The worst was Tony Stark pulling up like the movie was a car commercial in Endgame. That was pathetic.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 month ago:
LOL. I loved the Borderlands franchise, until Epic made their evil dog shit app store and the Borderlands devs sold out to them. Motherfuck Borderlands forever now. Thanks for the warning so I don’t accidentally reinstall any of it from Steam.
- Comment on Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store? 1 month ago:
See I bet you think that would make things better, don’t you?
It won’t. It will make them so much worse.
Unless the EU (government) runs it, you’re going to get the world’s shadiest App Store or Sores possible.
“Just don’t use the shady ones then.”
That’s great until:
- It’s your SO or kid accessing it and they don’t know any better.
- You just bought something (an appliance, a vehicle, an FPV drone, whatever) and it requires you to use an app, and that app is an exclusive on the shadiest App Store possible.
“That doesn’t happen on android!”
It will absolutely happen with Apple, because there’s so much money that will be up for grabs.
I hope you like signing up with all your personal data and credit card information on app stores that make Apple look like saints, because that’s where this is headed, and sadly you’ll drag me with you.
Because again this hypothetical thing you bought might be a family member buying it, so it won’t even be up to you at that point.
This is what I see happening in the future.
The way to avoid it is to get rid of app stores completely, and have users download and install apps one by one. Like that’s going to happen.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
My self hosted projects have someone to appreciate them - me.
Marketing means bothering people. Two of the raspberry pi’s I own are dedicated to fighting unsolicited marketing. Marketing is anathema to me.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 2 months ago:
I have a 20TB seagate exos drive in my main pc and I hate it. Partly due to my case, but it’s noisy and does an obnoxious head reset (or whatever) every 7 minutes or so. It’s so loud.
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 2 months ago:
ROFL no. I once knew someone who got offered an upgrade from whatever to Windows 10, only for it to fail half way through because their CPU was some weird corner case that the OS thought it supported but when it was time to boot… didn’t.
Also if you want to talk e-waste, look no further than Chromebooks.
Windows 11 has problems, this is hardly one of them.
- Comment on Community Notes vanishes from X feeds, raising 'serious questions' amid ongoing EU probe 2 months ago:
If you still use twitter (no, asshole, you don’t get to own a letter of the alphabet - fuck off) then you are part of the problem.
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 2 months ago:
Ok that’ app is deleted.
- Comment on Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers. Job brokers run their lives 2 months ago:
All the soulless companies that employ temporary tech workers in the US for the mega corporations here just collectively got erections. This is their goal.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 2 months ago:
Unlike social media?
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 2 months ago:
The fucking healthcare conglomerate (owned by UnitedHealth, yes that one) that bought up the majority of medical practices in my region just sent me a completely unsolicited debit or credit card.
They don’t provide my health insurance. They’re just who owns most of the doctors offices around here.
- Comment on Is Washington state falling out of love with Tesla? 2 months ago:
The early adopters certainly are. You still see plenty of them including cybertrucks, unfortunately.
One of my friends is considering replacing his with Lucid cars.
They’ve had Teslas since well before Elon was problematic publicly.
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 2 months ago:
Doom E1M1 on my soundblaster and my Roland MT-32, all pumped through my surround sound system in my concrete dorm room in late 1992 and I won’t hear otherwise.
- Comment on YSK that editing Wikipedia is easier than it looks (and where to start) 2 months ago:
I made a very minor edit once that was perfectly legitimate and corrected an error. It was immediately reverted, ensuring I’d never donate so much a $0.01 to Wikimedia. Probably over 20 years ago now.
I hope it has turned around since then and that OP’s words and effort aren’t in vain. I’ll never know.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 2 months ago:
Hey remember when Google used to have a motto, “Don’t be evil”?
Used to.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 2 months ago:
Yup it’s mostly bullshit. Someone, somewhere might benefit, but certainly not any of the people within two thousands miles of where the rich guy lived. Which is still better than nothing, but Bill Gates could end homelessness in America immediately if he chose to do so. (I’m not saying it would be easy or fast, just that he has the money to make it happen.) He could make ALL COLLEGE FREE for students. Musk could have too, likely for less than he spent on Twitter.
- Comment on Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' instead of raising prices 2 months ago:
Walmart: No.
- Comment on Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI 2 months ago:
It sounds like Klarna is a nightmare that should be avoided as much as possible.