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- Comment on Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02] 16 hours ago:
From my memories, the price of appliances haven’t changed much in the last couple of decades. They maintain or increase margins with cheaper parts, less QA, looser performance tolerances while keeping the same sticker price. Whatever the quality sacrifice equivalent word for shrinkflation
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 5 days ago:
Most obvious thing to ever happen since ads being added to Instagram feeds. It’s a search engine replacement. It was going to end up with basic advertisments eventually. Then targeted advertisements. Then sponsored results as sneaky as they can be in the case of suggesting the best solution/product. Free open source models and stuff like proton and duckduckgo if you really want to use AI search engines
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 1 week ago:
Paradox has lately been really good at admitting fault and then mismanaging the next big game outside of their bread and butter grand strategy games. They need to shake up their management because it’s becoming clear they’re giving unrealistic timelines/budgets/demands for these games
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Practically everyone I’m friends with hates imperialism and colonialism but loves the benefits of visiting poor countries that were victims of imperialism/colonialism and feeling special because of the money they bring and the lack of developed domestic entertainment/art industries so that theirs and their countries artist/entertainers are way more competitive there
Everyone’s pretty hypocritical. People that get mad at other people for working for Google are extra and easily ignored. Damn all those Boeing and Airbus employees for working for huge military contractors. When a company gets big enough, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re lobbying for something terrible to benefit themselves.
I’m continuously confused how these standards don’t seem to apply to bank tellers, finance in general, large chain retail, fast food, large agriculture companies, fashion industry, film industry, music industry, alcohol, pharmaceutical, … etc
Some people fight the most inconsequential battles. If you work for JP Morgan Chase and someone gives you the cold shoulder or lectures you because so, ignore them. It’s such a small crowd that’s like that that it won’t change your lifestyle. It’s not like if you quit and struggled to find work and started to teeter on ruin that they’d be there for you. And someone like that probably fights so many small inconsequence battles that they’d be exhausting to be around anyways. And fighting such small inconsequential battles produces so little. Tagging, down with the oligarchy in a bathroom stall or sidewalk day to day. It’s small bubble activism
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
Besides myself being on Linux, I used to mix Linux and Windows since like 2010 but fully transitioned like 3 years ago, I’m still regularly using a laptop from 2016 as a zoom calls and internet browsing laptop. It gets too hot to have in my lap and the battery lasts like 30 minutes. That’s a dual core integrated graphics chip from 2016. Anyone with a discrete graphics card easily has a solid workstation PC. If you’re not gaming or your not doing something that really benefits from strong hardware, you’re good. No need to upgrade. If you’re not playing new AAA games at 4k maxed, you may be good. This is just same news as how people are holding onto their cell phones longer than before
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- Comment on Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 2 weeks ago:
It’ll be about as significant as chromeos so good for schools and professionaland enthusiast work on them will be by running regular Linux applications like you do on chromos. I’d say it’s a stronger plus for Linux desktops than Android. Google really can’t get out of their way with their NIH syndrome for desktops. Like 15 years of attempting to do desktop Linux but in a way users likely won’t use the Linux desktop designed and often free software. I’d love to see this to introduce people to Digikam, Darktable, Krita, GIMP, Kdenlive at the expense of Google Photos and adobe apps
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 2 weeks ago:
Emudeck person is working on this
shop.playnix.io/products/playnix-console
RX 9060xt and Ryzen 5600
Don’t need it. At least it’s RDNA4. Good bump up in performance compared to the Steam Machine and still fairly compact
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 weeks ago:
It’s certainly just going to end up being used as an advertising tool. Like the recent hype of trying to get people let AI do holiday shopping for them. Like the AI saw you opened paint, have you considered a subscription for Adobe cloud. You searched for cake recipes on Google and clicked links, why not sub to copilot+. It’ll have text to speech AI as well
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 weeks ago:
It’s still worse than before. Really need to break mobile away from Google and Apple. Preferably as close to standard Linux as possible
- Comment on "It’s not about security, it’s about control" – How EU governments want to encrypt their own comms, but break our private chats 5 weeks ago:
Chat control is definitely going to pass eventually in my lifetime. Resiliency for secure and private communications will continue to develop. Anonymity will be needed too. Right now our governments instead of trying to inspire patriotism through improving living standards for the masses are focusing on information and communication control
- Comment on Best Synology Replacement? 1 month ago:
You can buy the cheapest brand and run a different OS than the companies software. Like I have a TerraMaster NAS. Use what you want on it
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 1 month ago:
Grow up and learn basing your personality around what you don’t like makes you unlikable. Don’t spend eternity in teenage angst
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 1 month ago:
Do you enjoy anything?
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 1 month ago:
Nice to see the digimon comeback. This game is already a major stepup in production quality for digimon, the next is going to push towards persona quality I bet
- Comment on Microsoft Appears to Have Quietly Ditched the 10% Xbox Game Pass DLC Discount — Including for COD Points 1 month ago:
The next Xbox if it exists will certainly sell worse than the X/S and with it will see the decline of gamepass subscribers
- Comment on Entry-Level NAS recommendations? 2 months ago:
I have a 2 drive TerraMaster. I’m no advanced user of NAS’s. It was easy setup and use for me
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 2 months ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Protecting_Americans_from_Foreig…
I knew this shit would be abused eventually. A year and a half and this publicly though. With how bipartisan support for this there was in congress and publicly, an instance of leaopards eating their face for those certain that safeguards would work/future bills would pass to improve the safeguards (how often does that ever happen? Post-9/11?)
- Comment on Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices 2 months ago:
React Native applications may be nice if that in any way ever helps popular media streaming applications make their way to normal Linux even just make it as applications distributed in like Steam for SteamOS
- Comment on Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs 2 months ago:
Qualcomm is too big and we’ll established to be mediocre with day one Linux support
- Comment on Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again. 2 months ago:
Those rumors about a new Xbox console next year, no way anymore. Too expensive. Series X is $650 and something more powerful than a PS5 pro would be a pre-buiod gaming desktop at Best Buy price level. If they’re trying to have their own Wii U level of sales failure, they’ll push out an $800 console and bomb out
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 2 months ago:
Tried the first hour and it’s pretty nice. I did skip all the way to trails of cold steel the first go at the series and so far I like the gameplay differences. With this now I can just play the series in order as they already said they’re working on the second game
- Comment on French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors 2 months ago:
It’s an entirely different level of learning from fairly dry school and footage of massacres, slave mines/plantations-housing, exploring granular data of fatalities (age, civilian or freedom fighter), volume of rape, changes in life expectancy, images of indentured farmers dealing with famine as food is exported. Not a single country tries hard to convey just how terrible life was for generations of people under colonial rule. Not a single colonial country is treating their past leaders in their schools history books as they would treat Hitler when they should be. I regularly hear the delusion that post-WW2 was a peaceful transition for post colonialism as if Algeria and Vietnam weren’t millions of lives taken. That the decades after WW2 wasn’t western backed coup after coup, assassination after assassination. The US and Russia are post-WW2’s most prominent imperialist. 3rd place would be France across southeast Asia to the present in Africa though that coercive power waning
- Comment on French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors 2 months ago:
They don’t want kids to know too well how their government operates domestically and internationally. Don’t want kids to learn history much better than the watered down version they learn in school
- Comment on A demo for Digimon Story: Time Stranger is now available for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox – Digitally Downloaded 2 months ago:
That’s the kind of nonsense patent that when it’s finally challenged in court by someone that can afford to afford standing up in court, it’ll get struck down
- Comment on The EU has never been closer to agreeing on Chat Control – here's how we got here and what’s at stake 2 months ago:
Everyone should probably just assume that even if this fails this go around, it will succeed eventually and keep building and adopting tools to circumvent these rules
- Comment on The EU has never been closer to agreeing on Chat Control – here's how we got here and what’s at stake 2 months ago:
Fast forward to July 2025, Denmark reintroduced Chat Control as a top legislative priority on its first day of Presidency. While keeping the Belgian approach of limiting scanning to URLs and multimedia files, many experts feel that the text goes back to where it started – it reintroduces the indiscriminate scanning of unknown CSAM material, too.
The Danish proposal introduces new obligations for all messaging services operating in Europe to scan users’ chats – even if they’re encrypted – in the search for both known and unknown CSAM material.
Crucially, the mandatory scanning is expected to occur directly on the device before messages get encrypted, targeting shared URLs, pictures, and videos. Only governments and military accounts are excluded from the scope of the bill.
First day and that’s their most pressing concern, scanning everyones communications. This is EU, but after the Snowden leaks I knew it would all just be made legal since it was public knowledge then. Now trending towards making it all indiscriminate and mandatory. For a long time now I’ve come to always expect surveillance powers to eventually be abused
- Comment on A demo for Digimon Story: Time Stranger is now available for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox – Digitally Downloaded 2 months ago:
The game I’m most looking forward to
- Comment on Far Cry series will push multiplayer "more predominantly" going forwards, according to Ubisoft boss 2 months ago:
Ubisoft continues being the worst major publisher in the world for like 15 years now
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 2 months ago:
I’ve been following this since the initial Newpipe Linux flatpak release. I find it more exciting than Waydroid even though Waydroid is way more functional today