magic_smoke
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- Comment on A New Form of Verification on Bluesky 3 days ago:
So they’re centralizing their ‘federated’ social media even more.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
If you want your site reachable that’s fine, but if you want to operate as a legal business with a local operation and all that entails, you need to follow local laws.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 1 week ago:
I think the takeaway is “The Nintendo Switch 2 isn’t the thing you should be pissed about when these tariffs are going to cause a lot more problems for way more people.”
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 week ago:
Oh no I’m aware of the resolution limitations as a first gen vive owner. That being said from what I’ve heard some of the newer high DPI devices handle this a lot better.
It’ll be a while but I think it will eventually have a practical use case as a portable workstation monitor.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 week ago:
I mean if it did multiple virtual monitors the way vr headsets can I could see this being worth it…
Yeah they make laptop monitors but no ones gonna carry two 24" panels and a 30" ultrawide in their pocket.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 week ago:
Depends the type. Some are essentially just a monitor.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 1 week ago:
My PC is so backwards compatible it can run games meant for OS’s my OS’s main competitor, and their ancestors as well.
Better yet it can literally run those OS’s over things like KVM/Qemu and DOSBox.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 2 weeks ago:
Yes but that group by in large won’t be buying a switch 2 for at least a couple of years. $450 per console plus $80 a game is brutal, especially if you’re buying for more than one kid.
On the other hand a switch lite can be had for like $100 and used games aren’t too expensive either.
The sort of people who bought a switch at launch, after drinking Nintendo NX leaks like kool-aid, aren’t as impressed this time around.
Lifetime sales won’t be affected nearly as hard, but I don’t know that the first year will be as big as the OG switch’s.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 2 weeks ago:
The steam deck can play literally any Mario Kart except for MK World…
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the difference?
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 2 weeks ago:
I think to the “early adopter” crowd, the people like me who where huffing Nintendo “NX” leaks back in 2016, the more “core” audience of people from the ages of late teens to however old James Rolfe is now.
Those people will probably buy a steam deck before a switch 2. There are a lot of them.
Though not as many people as there are like my ex-sister-in-law and her new bf who put together have 4 kids including my niece. The Linux PC I built them to make sure their kids had a good puter is enough trouble. I don’t see them even considering them for their kids.
- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 2 weeks ago:
Don’t host it on clearnet :p
- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 2 weeks ago:
Normal people can too, you can run an xmpp server on a fucking potato.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 3 weeks ago:
For transfers between systems you own yes, but when grabbing a Linux iso from a public server FTP works fine.
For years Firefox allowed you to crawl FTP sites natively.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 3 weeks ago:
I hope to god one day the developers at Mozilla finally get tired of this shit and fork everything under a new org.
Fuck off with more services and give me my integrated FTP client back.
- Comment on Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms? 3 weeks ago:
Wtf why do all the good jobs keep getting take by fucking robots.
I don’t want to dick with excel sheets, pay me to hug cows.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
What we need to see is a major studio pushing for Linux like valve has been doing.
That’s it. That’s literally what makes it special. You, me, and half the fediverse probably aren’t going to use it unless maybe we buy a steam deck.
The fact that there’s a multi-billion dollar company throwing money at both it and proton is what makes steam os special. Like it or not, that’s how you get normal people to use shit.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
Once steamos drops support and starts coming pre-loaded on laptops and pre-built desktops it’s over for their consumer division.
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 4 weeks ago:
Good I hope chrome does get fucking run into the ground.
Maybe then chromium can have some actual independence and spread ts wings.
- Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server? 4 weeks ago:
I like to run ufw on all my machines but I’m also a tinfoil-hat wearing wacko who believes that no computer should ever really be trusted. Just trusted enough to do specific tasks.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 4 weeks ago:
The real issues are capitalism and the lack of green energy.
If the arts where well funded, if people where given healthcare and UBI, if we had, at the very least, switched to nuclear like we should’ve decades ago, we wouldn’t be here.
The issue isn’t a piece of software.
- Comment on I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor 4 weeks ago:
I know that was my point. Thing was mostly finalized by my birth year lmao.
- Comment on Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War 4 weeks ago:
Fpv has a very storied history, yet we don’t see these bombings all the time.
Its almost like pre-made drones are locked down and tracked, and homemade ones take like 20 hours of sim time just to keep in the air.
That’s before we discuss the fact that the munitions Ukraine straps to them are unobtanium for normal people.
This is really cheap if you’re a military, but still a big pain in the ass for anyone else. I guess if you have a really angry hobbiest with hundreds of man hours of flight time, and explosives knowledge you’re in danger.
- Comment on I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor 4 weeks ago:
Bit of an unhinged and unreasonable nerd rant but here it goes:
The second dot com boom in the 2010s ruined us. Like holy shit. As someone younger looking down the line, living in tech bro culture, but exposed to the likes of the jargon file, y combinatorial and their venture capitalists literally ruined hacker culture.
We used to have a thriving culture that cherished freedom, real freedom, not freedom for the rich. What happened to the culture that spawned Windows buyback day? What of the dream that networked freedom would one day break the chains of economic heirarchy?
Like holy fucking shit. If you’re not here for the love of the machine stop touching a compiler or better yet go loose your fucking hands.
- Comment on What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab? 5 weeks ago:
- sftp for quick shit like config files off a random server because it easy
- rsync for big one-time moves
- smb for client-facing network shares
- NFS for SAN usage (mostly storage for virtual machines)
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 5 weeks ago:
Steam does most of the fucking around for you these days.
- Comment on Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 month ago:
Are they not both VoIP/Im clients?
Or is it only a viable alternative if they recreate the UI because god forbid it look different?
- Comment on How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history 1 month ago:
Well yeah in a better society where art was distributed freely and certain recreational substances weren’t illegal we wouldn’t need them.
That’s not the reality we live in today, however.
- Comment on How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history 1 month ago:
Okay I get the hate for capitalism and global warming, but can we stop acting like anonymous payments for drugs and web hosting g are a bad thing?
Do you like to get stoned and/or to trip balls? Do you like watching pirated movies? I fucking do at least, I imagine most people do lol.