EnsignWashout
@EnsignWashout@startrek.website
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 day ago:
There’s a delightful DC Comics Elseworlds story that amounts to this. It was fun.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 1 week ago:
Hmm. That matches my recent napkin math guessing where they would land.
It’s a little short of what they probably need, but they can always raise prices in a few months.
- Comment on Looking for ARPGs like Ys Origin and older Zelda gamma 1 week ago:
You might try Wayfinder.
It feels like classic World of Warcraft without the grinding for levels or loot.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 1 week ago:
Oh. Good to know. I’ll keep an eye out for that one. Thank you!
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 1 week ago:
You may want to check out the new “One Piece” game on the same engine. It has the same game play loop, interrupted by a accessible surprisingly nicely animated story line.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 week ago:
Good info, thanks!
I route my email through my domain names, and so I can reroute emails at the DNS level, but I can see this being important to some folks.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 week ago:
Tuta deletes free accounts that have not been logged into for 6 months.
This, and I heard that some legitimate newly registered free accounts have been wiped a couple days later by anti-bot automation. So I guess one would want to age their Tuta account (or you know, just pay for it) before they trust it with too much.
I’ve had a free Tuta account for some time without any issues.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 week ago:
I see Proton and Tuta recommended here, often.
I also see complaints about both (Proton’s politics and Tuta’s tendency to lock and clean free accounts).
Both seem better than Google, who seem to be tightening their grip on those unable to walk away.
- Comment on Looking for an Itch Recommendation? 1 week ago:
Simon’s Puzzles is what i use when I’m trying to reduce my own doom scrolling.
Luanti (a very nice free Minecraft clone) is also great for a few minutes (…or hours) here and there.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine?
I’m hearing you like to reboot your machine unusually often.
The reason I can think of where clicking would be a huge pain in the ass is an automatic task. I have some of those, but I put them on machines that I treat as servers, and the time between reboots is genuinely counted in years, for those machines.
At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.
I wasn’t before, but now I am.
I find your argument distasteful. If you want a server, use a server. But there’s no need to shout to the world that servers require command line use. That’s normal in 2025.
If you treat your laptop like a server, that’s okay. No one is judging. But my grandma isn’t doing that, and it rings hollow to complain so loudly about it in a thread about average users enjoying Linux Mint.
An average user will never even notice the issue you have been complaining about, while enjoying the product for free.
I don’t normally tell people to go open a pull request, but you should do so, if only to get a better understanding of what the community has already given you for free.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
Yes. I guess that’s fair though. Most people don’t like change.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
So you’re complaining that you have to click on it - once every two years - when you reboot…
That’s rough, buddy.
I joke. But also, I guess if you feel that strongly about wasting my a click, Linux is definitely the OS for you.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
In contrast, I set my nephew up with Linux Mint, and he is now slowly converting the rest of his family to open source solutions.
My understanding is that they keep having conversations about privacy news, and he keeps knowing a solution, which sometimes is Android or Linux based. So now his parents will ask me “Is it true the XY protects against YZ and is free?”
It’s been a pretty cool thing to watch.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
I find Garyjay helps with this, by mingling videos from other services.
Sometimes by the time I’ve tried one of the first videos to load from other services, the PeerTube results have loaded for me.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
Yes.
At this rate, we will be having a “local files are hard for the average user” debate, here, in another decade.
Which, maybe it will be, at that point.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It’s often the ones we most suspected.
- Comment on Google Messages is rethinking how link previews work, but we're not sure it's for the best 5 weeks ago:
Oof. Hopefully a security professional will slap some sense into someone before it gets out of beta.
- Comment on Windows 11 update takes out USB ports in recovery mode 1 month ago:
Perhaps Microsoft realized that a device can’t boot to Linux install media, if it can’t boot at all.
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 1 month ago:
Imagine what she can accomplish in an echo chamber, though.
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 2 months ago:
@retrolemmyusername…hm… - Comment on Are There Any Pastebin Alternatives that Allow Editing and Long-Term Storage? 2 months ago:
This seems like a job for a WordPress blog or GitHub pages.
- Comment on Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS 2 months ago:
Yes. To be fair, free is too high of a price to add an EA game to my Steam collection, to the distaste goes in both directions in some cases.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
they say it’s worth it
Narrator: They did not.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
because you probably don’t know how software is built.
Oh shit. Nevermind then.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 months ago:
What I’m hearing is: I can replace saying “I have a dumb little WordPress blog that no one reads” with "I host a part of the ‘Deep Net’.
Sweet.
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 2 months ago:
What do I do if adult tells me they want to play with hot wheels with me? I say yes.
Fuck yeah. Hot wheels are great.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I find it bizarre that people find these obvious cases to prove the tech is worthless. Like saying cars are worthless because they can’t go under water.
This reaction is because conmen are claiming that current generations of LLM technology is going to remove our need for experts and scientists.
We’re not demanding submersible cars, we’re just laughing about the people paying top dollar for the lastest electric car while plannig an ocean cruise.
I’m confident that there’s going to be a great deal of broken… everything…built with AI “assistance” during the next decade.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 2 months ago:
I can accept stupid decisions. I don’t have to respect them.
- Comment on Been looking into getting an "Indexed Universal Life" insurance policy. Are these trust worthy? 3 months ago:
I hate investing
Mutual Funds / Index funds are your best bet. If you can, pick out one named “target retirement YYYY” with roughly the year you will turn 67.
It will automatically follow investing best practices based on your current age - agrressive earlier, and very cautious later.
I’m not familiar with all the details of how it works
Perfect recipe to get ripped off. (Most people I know say this is a bad product you are considering buying.)
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 months ago:
I can’t prove anything, but:
- There’s evidence that billionaires are taking much more than they earn, and that we (everyone else) would be dramatically better off without them (whether we tax them away or… Come to some other compromise.)
- Billionaires own most media outlets and social media sites, even those these don’t actually make much money compared to everything else the billionaires own. This makes some people ask why they bother…
- There’s a noticable tendency in billionaire owned media to focus daily on divisive topics. The specific topic changes, but the divisiveness continues.
- There is history of powerful authoritarians investing heavily in divisive propaganda, primarily to break apart and distract groups of people who could overthrow them.
What I have laid out is not proof that today’s billionaires are directing their staff to verbally attack minorites at any opportunity.
But it certainly is something to think about next time a vicious rumor about a minority group comes along.