TheFeatureCreature
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
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I’m a nonbinary Canadian Blender artist! You can find my work here: Galleries, commissions, prints, and more!
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- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 2 days ago:
Social media and news is overwhelmingly controlled or otherwise influenced/flooded by the right or those acting on their behalf.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 6 days ago:
They truly have zero clue how users actually use their software. Not a single person is going to use this just like every other stupid gimmick feature they’ve added in the past and then promptly removed.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong, but that is not the point I was making.
Adblocking YouTube is 100% the best option. I agree there. But if someone does want to pay for membership then YouTube is, by far, the best deal. Their competitors are absolutely horrendous.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 week ago:
And if you pay for Premium you get all features and zero ads. Many of the competitors have paid options that still include ads.
Whether or not Premium is worth it is another debate entirely, but the fact of the matter is that it is simply a better deal compared to other streaming services.
- Comment on Steamdeck or.... 1 week ago:
They were much too big for my thumbs (going off the theme of the Deck in general being made for hands clearly bigger than mine). Too tall, too wide on top, and while I never had to deal with any drift - the deadzones suck to play games with. I keep a gamepad at my desk for racing and flying games and I switched it to a hall-effect gamepad about a year ago and I’ve never looked back. Potentiometer-based joysticks just feel like garbage in comparison and I think are inexcusable to use in a highend gaming product these days. I ended up using the touchpads instead for many things.
- Comment on Steamdeck or.... 1 week ago:
Poor ergonomics is actually a large reason why I sold my Deck. It is quite heavy and clearly made for hands bigger than mine, which made holding it for more than 20 minutes quite uncomfortable. Also the joysticks are just awful, awful, awful awful awful. Id say a hall-effect stick mod is basically mandatory.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 1 week ago:
Don’t forget the cost and time investment in getting your pilots licence.
Also there is no way this is going to be legal to drive on public roads in most countries - just look at the massive tail boom that sticks out. This is just a fancy aircraft for people that want an overcomplicated Cessna.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure they will. It’s Microsoft, so I’d expect nothing less than that.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong - this is awful and is just another misstep in a long line of missteps by Microsoft.
But I also can’t help but chuckle at this. It is so clear that “AI” as it has been developed today is hitting a peak of what it can do. These corporations are desperate to shove it in every product they possibly can to drive sales and valuations to make shareholders wet and yet the only things they ever advertise AI being capable of are crap like summaries, background removal, background insertion, grammar/typo checking, list making, web searching, etc. Most of it being crap that I have never once heard of a person being even remotely interested in… and why would they be? Why would someone want to edit their photos to add a different sky, new people, etc to create memories that never happened?
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 2 weeks ago:
“Load up and play” is a very loaded statement. When I tried it, about a year ago, it was a buggy, glitchy, crash-prone mess that ran like deepfried garbage.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
Buying a game post-launch:
- Better prices; often on sale.
- Fixed and patched up.
- Extra content often included.
- DRM often removed.
No brainer, imo.
- Comment on US Government officials have coordinated with Musk executives to pressure small african countries into embracing Starlink 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, but I have to say it. What the heck does this have to do with technology? This is just US politics again.
- Comment on Sony considers further price rises, as it braces for £500m tariffs impact 2 weeks ago:
This is what got me about the RTX 50 series cards from Nvidia. People with 4090’s getting upset at the prices and lack of supply as if they must purchase one.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 3 weeks ago:
It isn’t. Not yet, at least.
Most Americans still have jobs, can afford food, can find food, and have their cars and homes. Some have lost some of the former, it’s true, but not enough to ignite any real change.
Imagine a scenario of Trump enacting martial law and beginning to mass arrest and imprison US citizens in detention camps. Not immigrants, refugees, or tourists - actual US citizens taken from their homes. Imagine the US government gathering troops on the Canadian border. Imagine the government disappearing members of the Democrat party. Imagine the government enacting a China-styled internet blockade.
Those are the things that will likely spark some kind of call for change.
- Comment on what are your thoughts on Bidirectional brain-computer interfaces ? 3 weeks ago:
The guaranteed abuse of this technology far FAR outweighs the benefits, imo.
A better solution to combat those disorders would be to prevent their formation in the first place with early detection and improved medical sciences and procedures.
The human brain is one of the last places we have left that isn’t entirely owned and controlled by some corporation or state agency. I do not trust any government to regulate it properly and I do not trust a single corporation to develop it with good intentions. It would be abused instantly as shareholders pitch tents in their pants over selling it to law enforcement and advertisers.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 4 weeks ago:
The general populace isn’t going to switch to Linux. They’re just not.
The path of least resistance is to continue using Win10
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 4 weeks ago:
Affinity Photo is an excellent Photoshop alternative. I switched a while ago and have used it for all of my major projects since.
- Comment on AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers 1 month ago:
The monster that is Infinite Growth can’t do that.
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 1 month ago:
I’m sure if you follow the paper trail enough it’ll lead back to either Russia or the Heritage Foundation from the US.
It is yet another grifting disinformation factory.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That doesn’t sound like government efficiency.
- Comment on OpenAI is building a social network 1 month ago:
Coolio. More technofascist-controlled social media. Nothing could possibly go wrong here.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 1 month ago:
Especially when he has basically admitted that it is stock market manipulation. Everyone knows the tariffs will return or potentially even something stupider.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 1 month ago:
He isn’t. He can’t be; not the way he has handled them.
Bringing industry and manufacturing back to US soil is actually not a bad idea at all but it’s a problem that needs to be tackled smartly and over a period of time so businesses can react. He is trying to force decades worth of economic migration in the span of a few months. For (hopefully) obvious reasons, that is impossible and the US economy is about to collapse.
And considering Trump, along with Musk at DOGE, have systematically destroyed economic and social safety-net programs… the aftermath of this is going to be catastrophic. The only way Trump is “right” about these tariffs is that they are an intentional sabotage of the US economy so him and his wealthy backers can cash out as the walls come crashing down. That is the goal and it’s going according to plan.
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 1 month ago:
Pushing your middle finger tightly into your thumb to build up pressure. Vary the pressure slightly and your middle finger will slip off your thumb, and due to the pressure built up, quickly slam into the base of your thumb and produce a loud sound.
- Comment on Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages 2 months ago:
Do you know how I can tell when I have an incoming call or message? My phone, which is in my pocket, makes a noise and vibrates. Why the absolute hell would I want my vacuum cleaner to notify me of a call?
And the washer too? Do they seriously think people just sit around at home taking calls every 5 minutes that they need every appliance to be able to make/take phonecalls?
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 months ago:
Elizabeth Holmes comes to mind. She manoeuvred herself into a position of wealth and power by defrauding other rich people and got herself 11 years in prison for it. That’s 11 years more than most other rich scumbags get.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 2 months ago:
Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
- Comment on Nvidia creates gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs on your GPU, locally. 2 months ago:
Is it missing ROPs too?
- Comment on How effective would sanctions on US by the international community be? 2 months ago:
Depends on by whom and how long. The US produces a lot of things but also imports a lot of critical goods and materials as well.
If Canada, Mexico, China, and the EU & UK all banded together for sanctions or embargoes? The US economy would be pushing daisies pretty quick.
But the countries issuing those actions wouldn’t be in good shape either. Trade wars are a 2-way street.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
This is why blaming conservatives or getting them to admit fault doesn’t work. It only makes them become more defensive and entrenched.
A better approach is to appeal to their victim complex. IE: Instead of “Trump is ruining this country and its your fault for voting for him!” try “Dude, Trump is screwing us! This isn’t the great America we were promised!” or some variation of that. Gotta use different tactics.