LuigiMaoFrance

@LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  broom chads stay winning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t know how consciousness arises, and digital neural networks seem like decent enough approximations of their biological counterparts to warrant caution. There are huge economic and ethical incentives to deny consciousness in non-humans. We do the same with animals to justify murdering them for our personal benefit. We cannot know who or what possesses consciousness. We struggle to even define it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if I told you that refusing to trade your life time for money is a good and respectable choice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  3 days work, 4 days off is the sweet spot for me. Engage in wage slavery as little as you can get away with.
  I only make enough to cover rent with 200-300€ left over each month to spend on food and other things, but I can keep myself entertained on very little.
  Having more money wouldn’t be worth spending an extra day each week getting exploited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Replacement stick is less than 5 bucks on Aliexpress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather die

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  D O A O A

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a little annoying, but much less than I always feared. Make a note with every service you can think of, brew some coffee, put on some music and zone out for a bit haha. Pretty much done now, took less than 2 hours.
  You got this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This worked as a great reminder to ditch gmail. Just made the switch to Protonmail after a year of procrastination. Currently an hour into changing all my accounts to it, and about halfway done. Well worth it. They got a Black Friday deal right now. I went with the base Mail+Calendar package because I already got Mullvad for VPN, and don’t need cloud storage.

  Couldn’t be happier.

• ⁨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:

  To Newell “painful” probably means one less annual yacht’s worth of profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Men Who Stare at Goats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We should have figured when he kept doing the double-jerk-off dance to YMCA at his rallies lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when Valve releases a phone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  stable
  SteamOS is by far the least stable experience I’ve ever had out of all consoles and handhelds I remember owning. Linux phone would be nice though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Companies can just halt trading of their stock?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s just another fat dragon who got rich exploiting people through ownership of capital. Then he got children hooked on gambling because one billion wasn’t enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My Deck definitely had its fair share of hardware issues when I got it. Ended up getting a replacement for a faulty GPU, but the WiFi card also had its issues and kept disconnecting constantly. It was a first year LCD Deck though, so maybe they’re better now. I also used to be in a Steam Deck discord and the number of users reporting hardware (and software) trouble seemed fairly high there too.

  Valve makes up for these issues with above average customer service, but in an unsupported country I’d for sure avoid early adopting their hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No warranty in unsupported countries, and from what I’ve seen of Valve’s quality control you probably wouldn’t want to risk that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cops also love them because they make getting access to your entire phone including all accounts simple as cake if you use fingerprint/faceID to unlock your device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely 13 because I remember looking the word up after hearing it in song from a band I discovered that exact year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chaotic Evil⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  brush > rag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m paranoid so I view passkeys and similar streamlined login mechanisms as a way to make it easy for police to access your entire digital life once they unlock your phone. This is why manufacturers started pushing biometric unlocking so hard. Once someone has access to your person and phone they no longer need PINs or passwords to gain access to everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dragon Quest games make me laugh all the time. The NPC dialogues are beautifully written, and frequently have little humorous elements in them. The monster designs and animations are also often funny in their own ways. Can’t recommend these games enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuremberg trials

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Long live the new flesh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  just tip them over lmao

  It’s like the second half of Wall-E

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Zionist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because conservatives don’t argue in good faith and at this point the only way you should communicate with them is with bricks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively 90s.myretrotvs.com for real TV recordings you can flip through

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been complaining about no longer having access to the original Sonic game for iPod for years! There wasn’t even a way to pirate it up until now. I’m excited to finally replay it with the controls I first learned Sonic on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some franchises with characters that personify countries?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Punch-Out! Wii has you fighting caricatures of various nationalities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right now? Yeah, its very easy to do, and there’s a download link for it included in GrapheneOS’s preinstalled app-store.

  I am however worried that eventually Google will make running custom software (apks, alternate firmwares) so difficult that development for those will stop long term.