Lfrith

@Lfrith@lemmy.ca

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Are You Guys Handling This?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I think money is better spent on Humble Choice since you can buy months that interest you and skip those that don’t, and the games stay in your library. I prefer to spend money to be able to keep games than pay to rent newer ones.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Are You Guys Handling This?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Cloud gaming is financially rewarding to end goal of turning hardware ownership into a rental service, so I’m staying away from that.

I think the way forward is to just be fine with older hardware and getting less demanding newer titles. There’s those who only game on a Steam Deck, and been happy with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Do enough people even like the added latency of cloud gaming? And is that going to be tolerated for popular games like COD, Fortnite, or Valorant?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You just come off as unusually worked up about the Microsoft criticisms is why I ask.

Its not even a lemmy thing exclusice either. From reddit to youtube there’s been lot of criticism of the direction of consumer Windows 11 that there’s people providing guides now on getting LTSC.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Ever since Sony and Nintendo switched to paid online that has no longer been the con it used to be for me. Back for the PS3 I didn’t jailbreak it since online was free, but for the switch and ps4 I didn’t hesitate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Are you upset at people criticizing Microsoft? Is that the point you are trying to make?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Switch to Windows LTSC. Doesn’t have copilot, no store, no onedrive, no candy crush and tiktok on a fresh install, and no need to figure out an account bypass.

Its the closest thing to what Windows was up to Windows 7 of a boring OS that you use to launch programs without it trying to be helpful or encourage you to login to an account.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I got hallucination from trying to find a book I read but didn’t know the title of. And hallucinated NBA play off results of the wrong team winning. And gotten basic math calculations wrong.

Its a language model so its purpose is to string together words that sound like sentences, but it can’t be fully trusted to be accurate. Best it can do is give you source so you can got straight to the resource to read that instead.

It’s decent at generating basic code, and testing yourself to see if it outputs what you want. But I don’t trust it as a resource when it comes to information when even wrong sports facts have been provided.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Innovative data collection for the shareholders so the line goes up!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Apple is already at the bad news stage and has been for years. Android is headed towards it, but people can make decisions to get hardware that is unlocked and has community support to install another OS on it. Devices that can already be unlocked and has custom roms will keep working with the ability to install apks without restriction.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I noticed that they show up in the next section of video game related videos before I blockeded those type of channels. It is interesting that video game clips tend to result in those type of podcasters showing up in those feeds, which is likely due to the strategy used by those groups using games to try to reach that demographic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You need an account for an algorithm, which I dont use with youtube. My algorithm has been blocking channels.

And when it comes to search results youtube isn’t great usually defaulting to showing the highest subscriber videos over what might be more relevant and pushing down smaller channels.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I hope China moves to Linux once they get around to pushing their own consumer PC parts and move on from Windows. It’s just madness to me that countries will use OS of countries they aren’t on good terms with and use it to do important work on it and store important data on it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah people will probably turn to China when it comes to consumer pc hardware in the future like how when it comes to drones its been primarily just China actually interested in selling to regular people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Gamer Nexus said it best pointing it out that the tech bros want to do to computers what private equity did to the housing market of turning everything into subscriptions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Incremental upgrades has been mentioned, but biggest is likely price creep over the years turning it into a purchase that hurts the wallet more and more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Whatever is assumed of them it’s been interesting seeing the anti AI sentiments growing on reddit subs like steam, pcgaming, pcmasterrace, buildapc, and buildapcsales.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
PC gamers among the first to see the direct effects with hardware costs skyrocketing. And hard to ignore with it affecting the pricing of things like the Steam Machine leading to uncertainty around it.

So that group is starting to get pissed off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
So the solution to algorithm being dictated by corporations or governments with little to no transparency is to move to another one?

Maybe its better to stay by the sidelines when it comes to constantly rushing to next social media and view them more from a position of curiosity than a participant when it comes to the meta, tiktok, twitter type social media run by big centralized money or governments backing them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah when AI first came out creative differences aside it seemed harmless. But, now people are noticing what the hell why is ram, gpu, ssd prices skyrocketing? And then seeing headlines of companies halting selling to consumers are companies buying up stock.

Now people are now seeing what was free to use coming at a price. And its made worse by people seeing something that interests them seeing they might need to upgrade see themselves priced out then get the added salt in the wound of AI assisted being marketed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Its not surprising when even people who like AI are now being affected by consumer hardware prices that is leading to shift in previously positive perception of it.

People are being affected by it now on the consumer side so being hard to ignore its affects now. Gone from a philosophical difference to actually actual tangible consequences.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Specs seem bad. Only 720p from the looka of it no mention of latency which makes it questionable for gamers. Better off getting a gaming monitor at that point over it.

I don’t think this is even worth buying and seems the type of junk TV that would be sold on black Friday as a deal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you are fine with controller, Steam’s Big Picture mode comes in real handy for launching and playing games without needing a keyboard.

But something like the k400 which has a touchpad does come in useful for navigating the desktop. Not great for games, but serviceable for typing and controlling the mouse if you ever feel like using the PC to browse the web or launch video files on the TV.

For keeping things neat I got a cheap packet of cable clips with adhesive and stuck them along the bottom of the baseboard.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah when I went from only Android to picking up Apple hardware I was shocked at how ad and subscription infested the Apple app store was after hearing for so long how much more polished it is.

And there isn’t even a foss app store like F-droid to turn to. Was such a headache just trying to find a calculator app that didn’t have ads and wasn’t a subscription back when iPadOS didn’t come with a calculator.

Apple and Google appstore sucks, but the obstacles Apple puts in so something like F-droid can be used makes it suck even more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Linux on minipc with a cheap wireless keyboard like the k400 is a great combo. Won’t be seeing ads with that, since on browser you’ll have ublock origin for things pihole can’t block.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If your TV isnt too far from your desk getting a fiber optic hdmi cable and a powered usb extension cable if needed might be more convenient and let you keep your PC where it is now. Fiber optic hdmi cables can get pretty long without issues.

I have one that is 22 meters long that supports HDMI 2.1 that I use to send a 4k/120 hz signal to the TV with VRR.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think laptop or mini pc is the best. Casting might not be an option, but its nice not having to deal with apps at all if you want to watch something on the TV, and picking up a cheap wireless keyboard with touchpad makes it a nice combo.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Safari has the worst adblock options of the browsers I’ve tried. So absolute bottom choice from me.

Brave is brought up as an alternative to Firefox but that has the same AI and also crypto on top of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If brave is able to have their own adblock integrated into the browser by default despite Google being behind much of Chrome I think Firefox forks should be fine. Sucks everything seems to have AI these days shoved in, so it’s hard to escape whether it is Chrome forks or chromium alternatives.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have one m.2 and multiple sata ssd, since on my motherboard occupying the second m.2 slot would drop the pcie lane for my GPU due to sharing bandwidth.

Do newer boards not have that problem?