magic_smoke
@magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 8 hours ago:
Eh, my early g9 civic is nice, though I think they ruined it only like coupla years later with cell radios.
- Comment on Despite cutting the gags, Borderlands 4's PC specs say it still needs 100GB of SSD space 6 days ago:
Yes, it depends the game.
There are 20gb games that require much faster medium than retail WoW which is like 80gigs, despite the engines lineage tracing back to when it would’ve been stored on rust made by Maxtor.
- Comment on Which stage are you at? 1 week ago:
Honestly could a just stuck Debian at the end XP
- Comment on bet you can think of more 2 weeks ago:
I agree in theory, but honestly I’d rather must fucking avoid them.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Likewise, if you set an iPhone to use Advanced Data Protection.
You can pretend your iPhone isn’t owned by a corporation that just swore fealty to the current regime, but until its running a custom ROM it isn’t fucking yours.
Only phone that comes your own from factory I’d maybe the pinephone. Otherwise, get a pixel, rip out the factory OS install, and throw Graphen OS on it.
Both Android AND iOS have taken code from Graphene and used it to secure their codebases. Its probably one of, if not the most secure OS available to the average person today.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
Its always going to be relevant, even only when emulated, simply because of how many code bases are stuck on x86/x86-64.
Open sourcing it and all of its extensions solves the licensing problems of not only itself, but Arm, while providing a battle tested architecture with decades of maturity.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
Imagine if x86-64 got blown open because of it? Might literally be the best thing to happen to computing in like 40 years.
Really fuckin’ doubt it’ll happen, but a girl can dream XP
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 5 weeks ago:
Actually the bastard won’t tell you what specific tire. Just that one of them has low air pressure.
Kind of a dick move since there’s no way the computer can’t tell which tire it is when they’re four separate sensors.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 5 weeks ago:
My Honda civic 2012’s head unit firmware isn’t that bad.
It tells your input source, volume, if your trunk is open, if your tires are fucked, and includes a hookup for a backup camera that only made it into other models, making it ezpz to retrofit.
Could be a lot worse.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 1 month ago:
Fuck that buy xmr.
Not because you should invest, but because you’ll need a way to pay for mullvad and diy E.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
As someone who used to use arch for years, I can’t stand its users who go around acting like running it is some herculean task that takes serious knowledge.
In reality its not much more than a misbehaved pet that requires constant attention and a blog post to be read every month or so. Not because its hard, but because its updates are just kinda slapped together and tossed out in the name of speed.
One of the biggest indicators of this is the AUR. For what it was worth, the Gentoo crowd it replaced at least knew how to compile a program.
Maybe learn to use git, tar, and make like literally anyone else on any other fucking distro.
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 1 month ago:
Same with the blahaj.zone room for 196. Got so icked I just nuked the account.
Still paranoid some of that shit is still cached somewhere on my phone.
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 1 month ago:
Smartphone where almost a solved problem til LG stopped making the V20 and made the next one with a sealed battery.
Combine the hardware features of an LG V20 and grapheme is, and you might have a phone actually fucking worth using. I want my DAC and 16 screw disassembly back, fuckers.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 1 month ago:
Already done! Actually one of the more popular things to do with a hacked Wii back in the day.
- Comment on Gen A(lpha) or Gen AI? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Eyes in the Sky: A Comprehensive Survey of Ukrainian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 1 month ago:
That takes more than firmware, and I don’t know how much thats worth it compared to just using existing fpv hardware.
- Comment on Eyes in the Sky: A Comprehensive Survey of Ukrainian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 2 months ago:
Huh TIL. Usually DJI locks you in pretty hard.
Either way the maviv certainly ain’t working off of analog.
- Comment on Eyes in the Sky: A Comprehensive Survey of Ukrainian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 2 months ago:
DJI Mavic/fpv
Analog Video
That’s not how that works, anyone who’s actually touched a flight controller have any insight on this stuff?
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 2 months ago:
It might feel wrong to call their last proper sit down at a couch/desk singeplayer experience a “classic”, but its older than Half-Life one was when it came out.
- Comment on The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might 2 months ago:
Its like skyrim, with wait… Yeah I think that’s just skyrim.
- Comment on And NO lube!?! 2 months ago:
I refuse to believe circle jerks aren’t several times more common than slumber party dildo sharing.
- Comment on And NO lube!?! 2 months ago:
Do straight dudes think this happens? Or just the ones who still have to attend homeroom five days a week?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sells 5 million units in first month becoming the fastest-selling console of all time 2 months ago:
How is this thing selling faster than switch 1?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
No you can use your own modem with xfinity.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yes but they also rob them when they are. Usually via hidden fees.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 3 months ago:
Oh no I wholeheartedly agree age verification isn’t the wrong answer, I was just playing devils advocate on the technological side.
Parents should be parents, it governments shouldn’t be getting I. the way of you being just another ghost in the machine.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 3 months ago:
Who under the age of 18 will have money to buy these, and who would be willing to sell them for the pittance teenagers would be willing to spend?
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 3 months ago:
Key signing maybe?
You get a cert which is cryptographically signed by your government. They can prove its signed with the governments root cert, showing that its someone over 18, but not who.
That being said the key identifiers will probably still be attached to you in some government db, just not on the porn site.
Though the government could force the pornsite to hand over any logged ids. Some people would say that’s private, as they trust the government not to do stuff without a judges warrant.
As a trans woman relying on HIPPA to not be put on a list of those on HRT, I don’t really trust that much more, to be honest.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 3 months ago:
Not enough to warrant uploads of your fucking license.
Also I really think its kind of goofy so many people are upset about porn when kids are exposed to violence in the media all the time.
Not that I think violent video games are the devil, my first memory of a game was GTA III lol, but I think seeing violence is probably worse than seeing sex.
At least if you take the American Puritan mindset out of it.
- Comment on Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins) 3 months ago:
The only regulated parts (I know of) are:
- receiver (considered the actual gun)
- suppressors
- autosears (or anything else that makes your gun fully automatic, or even act like it)
- big magazines (not federal but a lot of states have laws on em’)
