AnotherHelldiver

@AnotherHelldiver@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I also with two of you. I also think, personally, that us, humans, are really bad at taking decisions.

  We are not seeing the long term vision of things or the whole. Someone having a lot of resources will not be eager to share those with its less fortunate neighbor. In the US, doing so would be called socialism. On the long term it would be the most profitable option for everyone though.

  Governments in democracies should totally have those steering bodies composed of people having a long term vision of things. Maybe engineers, scientists, lawyers… But also with objectiveness about matters presented to them.

  That vision cans be projected in dictatorships but you are right. The whole thing will crumble when the person at the top will die. Be it a king, president or anyone else at a position of power being nearly venerated.

  I would support a mix of both personally. A government represented by its institutions and not people. Taking information from the population itself and processing happening at the top. Information is a weapon by itself too, many insider groups would try to steer the whole or a part of it for themselves and profit from it.

  The human component is a variable component here. It seems there is no outcome to that equation as long humans aren’t aware how people are different around them and accept those differences. Plus being able to share when one as a lot and another nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Printers are known in IT to be a utter pain in the ass. Most brands are also using a lot of proprietary stuff and it limits interoperability. Drivers for example.

  Well known example is about ink cartridges. HP added identification chips on them, so if you want to use an other brand, not HP, to fill your printer, you can’t because if no chip is detected despite a cartridge being inserted, the machine will tell you it is not genuine.

  Another example with Rycoh. I don’t know if their printers still use this method, so take it as an example of capitalist greed more than a current situation. Laser printers are using a sealed container to process waste created during printing. Rycoh had placed a led detector inside to know when it was full and trigger an alert, stopping the machine and request for a change. Good idea in theory but in practice the detector was placed very oddly or on purpose near or in front of dust intake. So it was bathed very quickly in electrostatic dust and thus triggered the alarm very quickly, even if your container was not fully filled. The only way to solve this was to shake your waste storage, hoping it would clean the led enough to keep going for a few days or change it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck printers

  Nom one inventée a good printer still

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if EU has some specifications regarding odometers.

  It can’t believe we don’t have a standard on how that it needs to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If your state requires ID verification, then most apps will probably comply. You can try Matrix with Element or just Signal with a group.

  More more “off-the-line” alternatives you can look at Mumble and own your own server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fairphone brand is basically saying to everyone “Hey look at our generic Android phone with everything you need from Google, including AI stuff and data collection” and when you ask if you can have a privacy friendly features they basically say “Nope, we just do a phone with replaceable parts, that’s all. Don’t ask for more”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo vs Ladybird.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a dev but does Swift will restrict it to Apple platforms since it is Apple language?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raiders arrived on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had luck and got one of few keys available during the playtest of October and boy oh boy it was amazing for an Alpha!

  I was aware devs still had a long road to do on some parts and mechanics but the game was stable on my end, a BP to test was present, you had stunning graphics and more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raiders arrived on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope.

  I tried to announce the creation of the community. It didn’t exist here.

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