NotKyloRen
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- Comment on Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis 1 week ago:
“Well don’t look at me like I’m frickin’ Frankenstein or something. Give your father a hug.”
- Comment on Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? 1 week ago:
I’ve done this. I have a Google TV Stick. If Netflix starts preventing people from opening their app when it detects a VPN (in Android), then you can do what I did and run the VPN on the routers themselves. In my case it’s ASUS routers on both ends, and they support Wireguard natively.
The benefit to doing it this way is that neither Netflix nor the Google TV itself are aware they’re on a VPN. The ASUS routers I use have a feature called VPN Fusion, where you can put different clients on or off of different VPN connections.
- Comment on Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that 1 week ago:
Yes! For Spotify I’ve been using stats.fm (app/site). Iirc it’s paid (one time in app, but cheap). And they walk you through emailing Spotify support to get ALL of your listening history from day 1 to import into the app. After that it will just continue via connection to your Spotify.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
They don’t care about whether they live with you or not. It’s about providing less service than what you’re paying for. Like how mobile carriers say, “unlimited data*” – *after 25GB, we [may] slow your connection speed to 256kbps
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for the new knowledge; I thought this whole time that Opera was renamed Vivaldi after the sale. That explains my original comment.
- Comment on Single board computer for selfhosting 2 weeks ago:
You can also go on eBay and look for older mini PCs. I got an HP Elite desk Mini G5 for like $70. Didn’t come with storage (usually the case), but an NVME/2.5 SATA drive is cheap.
It has an Intel 9500T and 16GB DDR4 RAM. The N series chips are more efficient (I have one of those N100 mini PCs, too), but the full chips offer more power (if you need it). Of course both of them will be significantly lower in power usage to an old desktop/server, by far.
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 2 weeks ago:
Opera was bought by a Chinese firm years ago. I’m not saying to use it or not based solely on that; it’s just something to keep in mind. That being said, they do have some legitimately useful features, like being able to cap the amount of RAM used with a slider.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
And 16GB storage (because everything is being saved to OneDrive anyway).
- Comment on Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than it attracts, survey finds 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely both, but the latter is the #1 reason. Seriously though, it’s like every Tesla accident I hear about is FSD related. I get that people are dumb (in general), but it’s not entirely their fault when Elon keeps/kept talking about how FSD is really “full” self driving.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 3 weeks ago:
That’s incredibly messed up, especially when you take into account that someone affected had to do a double-take on their own video. People watching won’t know it’s edited, especially the further removed they are from the person in the video (which is most people).
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 5 weeks ago:
Even my CoD (Warzone) obsessed friend told me he barely plays anymore. He said it’s become boring and repetitive, and also he finally realized how much time and effort it takes (for a meh payout).
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 5 weeks ago:
How are you going to be on Lemmy, a super-niche, nerdy-asd platform, and call Single Player gamers dweebs lol?
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
It’s not their UI. It’s Gemini. But yes.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 1 month ago:
You what
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 month ago:
No no, you don’t understand. That doesn’t apply to us plebs (US citizens). It only applies to other countries so that the government can checks notes “strongly condemn” them.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 1 month ago:
So is he insinuating that communities should have IT people who keep things running for everyone (like a digital librarian of sorts)?
Because that takes time, effort, and money. Like a lot more than one would spend or need for themselves/family/maybe a couple of friends.
Also, community-run self-hosting just seems like a bad idea from a privacy and legality standpoint. One pirate getting caught isn’t usually so bad (usually a warning or small fine). But once you start distributing, then you’re going from a kiddie pool of consequences into an ocean of consequences.
- Comment on Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” 2 months ago:
Your Cybertruck now identifies as a WWII era Porsche tank.
- Comment on Brickadia - Early Access Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
Close enough. Welcome back, Lego Island.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 2 months ago:
I can’t bring myself to use a Pixel because I don’t trust Google-everything. I have so much to say, and yet I’ve said it a thousand times already. So I’m just gonna sigh.
And yes, I know I’m on Android either way.
- Comment on YSK - That there is a lot of trolling and brigading starting to happen around the LA peaceful protests to start violence. Here is a roadmap from 2015 on how they do it. 2 months ago:
Yup. Knew this would come to light one day, as soon as Trump thanked Elon for being “so good with the voting machines” and saying he couldn’t have won without him. Because he can’t help but brag, even when he thinks he’s being cryptic (he’s not).
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 months ago:
They should actually take to the streets (again). Not joking. What is this nanny-state BS?
- Comment on A Hitman co-op mode with Stone and Knight is in the works at IO Interactive 3 months ago:
It wasn’t even a good mission. You fight him. You “kill him”. Then there’s a cutscene where he’s revived in a lab… So what was even the point?
- Comment on MindsEye studio execs depart Build a Rocket Boy, one week before game's debut 3 months ago:
I remember getting ads for this months ago on social media. I was like, “Why is the guy from Mafia 3 in this?” Fast forward to now, and my understanding is that the game is simply a series of scripted sequences (“missions”) made in a Fortnite/Roblox-like platform called “Everything”.
It sounds like the game is just that, with FMV’s?
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 months ago:
Been saying this for years. Then they introduced Premium to “help fund things” (but they’re also taking $300 MILLION from Elon, and giving them access to user data.
So will basic features stop being paywalled now? Or are people going to have to keep paying to stop random people from messaging them?
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 months ago:
I don’t know why people stuck with it. I’ve used it; I get that a lot of the initial success/hype was:
- It’s not owned by Meta
- "Putin hates Durov!"
- “Unlimited” storage (lots of people using it as free cloud storage, which is dumb if you value your files)
But your messages are not E2EE by default (only “Secret Chats”, which aren’t synced across devices)…Telegram (the organization) could always read your messages. I said this so many times and got called everything under the sun.
“Why would they care about my messages though?” ------> Because $300 Million.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 months ago:
Thanks for the info. I’m sure it’ll also be useful to others reading the comments.
This sucks because, functionally I have zero issues with Emby. But morally, this bothers me a lot. I thought it was going to just be because of the license (I think I paid $99 around Christmas a few years ago for a Lifetime license).
Guess I’ll be switching to Jellyfin then and donating to the project. If I paid for Emby, there’s no reason I can’t donate to a free, open-source project being developed and maintained by volunteers.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 months ago:
Do you mind elaborating on that? It sounds like I got in on Emby after the rugpull. It works fine for me and I use it without the Connect (online account) feature.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 months ago:
Can I ask why nobody recommends Emby? I’ve been using it for years with zero issues. The only thing I can think of is that Jellyfin exists and is free. Emby is sort of a middleground between Plex and Jellyfin; it has a paid license (lifetime option exists), but it’s closer to Jellyfin than Plex on the whole.
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 3 months ago:
Don’t forget the Xash3D engine for GoldSrc games (e.g. Half-Life and mods). It runs on everything from a PSP to a PC. And it’s faithful. It relies on the original assets.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 3 months ago:
Which Android phones did you have?