A_norny_mousse
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- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 1 week ago:
I meant it from the POV of 2021, so “wins again in 24”
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 1 week ago:
Elon Musk was a trendsetter!
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 1 week ago:
In 2024? Oh. In 2016, both Mary Trump and Tony Schwartz predicted Jan 6, 2021: If he loses the next election, he won’t go willingly.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 1 week ago:
You nailed it, except “huge generalization” is actually being generous. It’s simply wrong. The author is speaking esoteric gobbledigook:
The upgrade death spiral (…) happens because upgrading one component of your computer can unbalance the system.
It’s the sort of argument a husband might give his not tech savvy wife when she asks why he repeatedly needs to spend so much $$$ on something only he uses.
I think FOMO says it pretty well, or simply consumerism.
Now that hardware is getting more expensive again, this is really sending the wrong message.
And OP keeps doubling & tripling down despite basically every comment disagreeing. I think they wrote that article.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 1 week ago:
Aye.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 1 week ago:
Not sure what “future proof” means, but my PC still has its original case from Windows Vista times, has seen 2 mobo replacements, 1 PSU replacement, and I don’t even know how many hard drive / SSD additions / swaps. RAM extensions too. Used to have a GPU but after the 2nd mobo/CPU replacement I dropped it.
Different screens, keyboards, and mice.
None of this would have easily been possible on a laptop.
In a world where hardware is getting more expensive again you are really sending the wrong message here.
Not to speak of environmental impact & consumerism.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 1 week ago:
CPUs are the same with real performance needed a new chipset and motherboard. At that point you are replacing the whole system.
I find the quoted statement untrue. You still have all peripherals, including the screen, the PSU, and the case.
You can replace components as and when it becomes necessary.
You can add up hard drives, instead of replacing a smaller one with a larger one.
Desktop mobos are usually more upgradeable with RAM than laptops.
There’s probably more arguments that speak against the gist of this article.
- Comment on Pro-Russian Narratives Target Wikipedia, Marking a Dangerous Trend for AI Chatbot Data 1 week ago:
As soon as you leave English language wikipedia this happens fairly often. Not necessarily Russian, maybe adjacent. And not since yesterday! I noticed around Corona, and it’s been a problem for way longer. It’s relatively easy for 1 editor to slip through unnoticed if there isn’t enough eyeballs on the article.
- Comment on You can answer questions and question answers. 1 week ago:
Yes, it is.
- Comment on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location 1 week ago:
Is the article anything beyond iOS advertisment?
- Comment on You can answer questions and question answers. 1 week ago:
Isn’t questioning an answer just asking another question?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
forwarding can fail
how so?
i just connect to POP and get everything in bulk
That can also fail.
forwarding changes the original headers
Fixable
if i forward spam my provider gets pissed
Don’t do that then.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well I wouldn’t do that either, but what the other commenter suggests is not better.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s not an all-or-nothing type situation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
like switching from Walmart to 15 other stores just to buy the same stuff
As the other commenter pointed out: you do that once. And if you do it properly, nobody will be sending anything to a gmail address you don’t use anymore.
Then you have 15 stores all around the same parking lot, to stick with your analogy.And yes, it’s always a trade-off with convenience, but much less so than you make it sound.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Openstreetmap (OSM) is a much larger project than you seem to realize. At least OSMAnd is “theirs”, and there is many apps/sites/software that use OSM behind the scenes. E.g., all the official route planners of cities in my country.
And if you REALLY want to help, openstreetmap has very good tools for adding information, though you need to use the website for it since it can get quite complex which makes it a bit more cumbersome.
Every bit helps. Desktop apps exist. OSMAnd has editing built in.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
On second thought you’re absolutely right. Report created.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The normal process would be to tell these other accounts to send emails to your primary account. Why would you even authorize another software (or mail provider) to do that.
Filters are available (almost) everywhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks for pointing that out!
I had assumed one of the reasons the list feels so weak to me is because they didn’t want to add selfhosted alternatives.
But since that is not the case, the list is even weaker than I thought.This is a strong list: github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Some people are willing to contend with less perfect UIs to get away from Big Tech.
The list is incomplete, a bit dumb, and mostly advertising anyhow. Each heading should have many more and often better alternatives.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And as mentioned elsewhere, many cited alternatives are not degoogled at all.
And I’m pretty sure some aren’t F(L)OSS, either.There are better curated lists out there.
- Comment on Self-driving cars, autonomous robots and drones, and other AI systems get hijacked by custom road signs 1 week ago:
That’s how I read that as well.
- Comment on Self-driving cars, autonomous robots and drones, and other AI systems get hijacked by custom road signs 1 week ago:
Could it really be as simpe as that? yes, according to the article. AI sucks so hard, who let it out of a laboratory?
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 1 week ago:
Or rather how much it costs
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 1 week ago:
I don’t! Why?
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 1 week ago:
That’s what the whole nozzle assembly probably is => a Stanley knife should help. After you finished filling up of course.
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 1 week ago:
You would see me pointedly staring at the sky while filling my car. Maybe whistling a little tune. Pointedly.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 2 weeks ago:
Identifying Corporate Devices
The what now?
The author develops a tiling window manager for Windows. It comes with a dual license - free for personal use etc., paid for corporate devices.
I have no opinion on this because I’ve been using only Linux for over a decade, just wanted to clarify the term.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 2 weeks ago:
I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt for now.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 2 weeks ago:
Most people don’t even know the difference between an URL bar and a search bar, or more precisely: most devices use a browser that deliberately obfuscates that difference.
