TheFeatureCreature
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
Hello!
I’m a nonbinary Canadian Blender artist! You can find my work here: Galleries, commissions, prints, and more!
she/her
- Comment on New Letter Warns Next Grok ‘Mistake’ Could Be Leaked National Security Files 6 hours ago:
Just his handlers.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 9 hours ago:
Base model Macbook Airs are very hard to beat for price:performance, especially now the new base model has 16gb of RAM. I’ve been to numerous local computer shops and felt and tried numerous Windows laptops that were around the same price and they all felt like flimsy plastic trash.
The Mac Mini is also very good for its price and size. My dad is considering a base model Mini to replace his Windows office computer which is on 10 and reached EOL and he doesn’t want 11.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 3 days ago:
No way in hell I’d pay its nearly $100CAD asking price.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Should be said that some alternative search sites, such as Ecosia, share some of your information with their upstream search providers which does include Google.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 1 week ago:
It unironically is, and it’s not entirely the fault of the users either. The average person doesn’t know what FOSS means, what instances are, or what a federated service is and many platforms do a poor job of explaining what those things are and why they are superior.
Additionally, people need to understand that FOSS is not a selling point to the average user and that throwing that term around will go in one ear and out the other. As far as they are concerned their apps are already free because they don’t have to pay a transactional monetary value for them and “open source” is beyond meaningless to them and they couldn’t care less.
- Comment on Anthropic CEO Amodei warns of AI’s fast-coming changes 1 week ago:
The cult demands more capital. More sacrifice. More more more more.
- Comment on Solargene, a space colony-builder where you can expand on the planets and moons of the solar system (including space stations), with complex, modular building mechanics (with support for Z levels) released on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Ouch, those user reviewers don’t paint a very pretty picture. Sounds like this could’ve used more time in the oven.
- Comment on White House tech chief slams EU AI Act, champions Trump's approach as Davos begins 2 weeks ago:
Considering US tech companies helped overthrow their democracy - they should all be considered extreme threats to national security.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that tends to happen when you blow billions on snake oil.
- Comment on Microsoft warns that China is winning AI race outside the west 3 weeks ago:
I’d imagine because AI in China isn’t a massive for-profit cult propped up by technofascists with speculative values greater than the combined GDP of entire countries who have basically seized political power and are now running amok.
China is many things but they are not stupid. Handling AI the way the west has would be an extreme threat to their own authority and control.
- Comment on The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Razer’s AI wearable is a headset with built-in cameras 3 weeks ago:
E-waste.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCsDell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’ 4 weeks ago:
Goddamn Dell of all companies is the only one that seems to get it. I’m shocked.
Welcome to the world outside of your own ass, Dell. The air is fresher out here.
- Comment on The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate 4 weeks ago:
3D artist here. I am active on numerous art websites, including DeviantArt and Cara.
I joined Cara quite a bit later than everyone else so I can’t give too much commentary on it yet, but I will say that it is very much not dead. It certainly has an active and growing community, but it is still a niche site so don’t go in there expecting it to be the next Twitter in terms of userbase size.
DeviantArt, on the other hand, is quite a bit more unfortunate. It actually has a rather sizeable community still but the heartbreaking part is watching the owners systematically sabotage it. Nearly everything they’ve done in the past several years has been catered towards driving AI use/growth while letting every other part of the site fester and rot. I don’t share my DA profile with clients or family members because if they click off my profile there is an extremely high chance they will be hit by a wall of untagged fetish porn and AI slop that will never be tagged despite the ToS requiring such.
Just a few months ago DA removed their official app from mobile app stores for some reason and it became very clear that that was how many users engaged with the platform. Myself and many other artists on DA noticed a very sudden and very large downturn in user engagement and views. They also made some back-end algorithm changes that made this even worse but they have never confirmed that and I doubt they ever will. Membership subs basically exist just to give you extra AI prompt credits and cloud storage space and maybe better selling rates assuming you actually sell anything. The other features, like boosts, have been broken for months now.
Platforms come and go over the years but DA should go down in history as the one that turned to their core userbase, the very people that built them and funded them for so many years - and punched them right in the goddamn face.
- Comment on There should be a way to upvote a post/comment while selectively downvoting a *part* of the text. 4 weeks ago:
There is.
It’s called commenting. You leave a comment talking about the issues you had with the post.
- Comment on Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again 4 weeks ago:
Got a 4b running Pihole and Tailscale. Love it
- Comment on Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes? 4 weeks ago:
Slight correction: Two-party, first past the post democracy means that only 51% of the population decide which dumbass fucks the country while the other 49% effectively get zero say or representation in government.
- Comment on NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if we’ll see a shift towards graphical stagnation with upcoming game releases. With RAM and GPUs being so expensive, there will be a lot fewer customers that can afford the hardware to play upcoming, graphically-demanding games and so targeting that demographic is economically unwise.
It sucks that this is the situation we find ourselves in, but I’m actually kind of interested in what will happen. A new age of hyper-optimisation would be so awesome.
- Comment on Why do SO MANY reviews now talk about "phone wobble"? 5 weeks ago:
The majority of phone reviewers (and modern tech reviewers in general) get their review units for free so they lack that feeling and awareness that comes with spending $1000+ of their own money on a new device.
So what they feel are issues and what everyday customers feel are issues becomes skewed. Quite often I have seen reviewers ignore major software issues because they personally feel they are not that significant… on a device worth hundreds of dollars.
Or you get the opposite where they get hung up on something that most people aren’t going to care as much about. They can’t feel ripped off because they got the phone for free so they have to find something else to complain about. Phone wobble is kind of annoying but I forget about it like 10 seconds later.
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 5 weeks ago:
I use an electric bed heater (goes on top of the mattress, under the sheet) and use it to preheat my bed before I get in. My bedroom doesn’t have any source of heat so it feels so goooood.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 month ago:
Often the people that buy those tiers of computers don’t know enough about memory to know how limited they’d be.
- Comment on Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete 1 month ago:
Prions are absolutely wild. There is no cure, no “vaccine” - not that that would even be possible because they’re not viruses, bacteria, or even living things from outside your body. They’re just a faulty version of something that already exists in your system and they make your body self-destruct.
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 1 month ago:
You don’t. Mandatory crunch produces a mediocre result and drives away your hired talent.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 month ago:
Now is a great time to invest some time and effort into offline hobbies, whether they be on your computer or otherwise. Limiting or eliminating your time online these days is just a straight net gain for your mental health, especially if you can fill that gap with some other fulfilling activity.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 2 months ago:
Alec out there fighting the good fight for us.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 months ago:
Not that I’d ever buy it, but I’m looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 months ago:
Microsoft has gone all-in on AI to the detriment of basically every other aspect of their business. They are in deep deep shit when the bubble finally pops.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 2 months ago:
I remember when this garbage used to be called malware.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 2 months ago:
Paradox really needs a management shakeup.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
So glad I switched email and calender services years ago.
