FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on oi mates wtf is going on over there 3 days ago:
Solar is highly unreliable, requires endless mining of non renewable materials, takes up insane amounts of space to make the same power as any other method, requires endless manufacturing (and disposal) of batteries that are also made with mined non renewable, toxic materials that end up in landfill, and the cost of transmission infrastructure needed are in the trillions.
Nuclear as the backbone, topped up with solar, is the only realistic way to the fabled “net zero”.
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 5 days ago:
Nvidia are currently selling 95% of the consumer gpus that are sold, and have been for a long time.
Steam hardware surveys also aren’t good for getting exact numbers either. They’re good for trends and big picture stuff, like “Nvidia gpus are the overwhelming favourite among steam users”, but 80% in there could be 60% or 90% in the full world - and we know from sales numbers it’s not the former.
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 3 weeks ago:
Pulling numbers out of thin air
No, 95% is Nvidia market share.
20%+ difference is massive. 10% is massive to many pc players.
and so are lots of people
Just a drop in the ocean compared to the number of people who are happy gaming on windows, and these differences are making sure that Linux isn’t gaining any significant ground. Nvidia may as well be the only player in the GPU market, and with how poorly their gpus work on Linux, it’s a huge problem for Linux.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure neuralink could be considered a “fuck up”? It’s the closest thing we have to legit magic.
- Comment on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds 3 weeks ago:
Those 2 things - people being arrested, and having ADHD - are completely irrelevant to each other. Should they also screen everyone they detain for skin cancer?
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
Missing a bit of context from the article, clickbait headlines tend to do that (not aimed at OP but at the article writer):
The person uploaded a bunch of AI training data to his Google drive account. That training data has CSAM in it.
Like it or not, he uploaded CSAM to his Google drive account, which is why his account was banned. Will they unban him? Maybe, but doing so would give pedos a loophole to let them upload CSAM to Google drive without getting banned - just claim it’s AI training data.
- Comment on Age verification errors see some under-16s retain access to banned social media platforms 3 weeks ago:
That’s actually much better than what they’re currently doing. If all you had to do was verify with your phone that you are >16 it would mean that each social media app and then every other site that the government demands do age verification doesn’t need to verify you. It means you only verify once, on your device.
Unfortunately that’s why they’ll never do it - the government wants to ram through a universal digital ID, and this is how they do it.
- Comment on Leaked plan to limit blocking of abortion on moral grounds 3 weeks ago:
While I agree with the point you’re making, abortions are very rarely “life saving surgery”.
Pro abortion here before people go off, let’s just not distort the truth as all it does is hurt our point.
- Comment on Leaked plan to limit blocking of abortion on moral grounds 3 weeks ago:
How is blocking them on “moral grounds” even allowed in the first place when abortion is legal?
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 3 weeks ago:
Technically impossible? Not at all. VPN companies have exit nodes with IP addresses. Those IP addresses are regularly banned by services like Netflix already.
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 3 weeks ago:
Why do you think nobody does it anymore? Because no one cared about it or used it.
- Comment on Digital ID debate: Privacy group warns of 'unprecedented tracking' and 'surveillance' 3 weeks ago:
The government: “That’s the point”
- Comment on Time to stop tiptoeing around and step on the gas to ease inflation 3 weeks ago:
That’s driven up the price of gas and, by extension, sent electricity prices into orbit.
Oh no, they’re not really going to try to ….
Some of that has been caused by the extra costs associated with rolling out transmission lines for new renewable power plants.
….oh they did lol.
“Renewables” are the cause for the power bill increases, not gas.
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not a serious question, is it?
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 3 weeks ago:
Did you not look at the results when the user has a Nvidia GPU? Or when ray tracing is enabled? if you can even enable it on the Linux version, of course. Or when res goes above 1080p up to 4K?
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 3 weeks ago:
free and superior OS
Windows is essentially free too btw. 99% of people don’t need to buy a license, an unactivated copy will do just fine.
Superior? I guess that’s debatable, definitely not an objective fact.
What most people will overlook just to go “yeah suck that windows!” is the GPU market share - Nvidia has 95%! That means that Linux will be significantly worse than Windows for 95% of people.
- Comment on Opinion: Anika Wells’ expenses are within the rules but many politicians know these perks should be wound back 3 weeks ago:
Her blatant “abuse” of the system has shone a light on the terrible ripe for abuse, waste of taxpayer money system. It’s about time people started getting angry about politicians basically never having to spend a cent of their own money under any circumstances, while we pay for their entire families lavish lifestyles on top of paying them a salary to fuck us over.
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 3 weeks ago:
How do you know no one is being “hurt”?
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 3 weeks ago:
Hackers don’t report every time they hack someone, nor how they did it.
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just opening stuff to the internet, it’s opening stuff to the internet without any authentication in this case. If you don’t know how that’s bad…….
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts 3 weeks ago:
Just hire the best person for the job, no matter what colour skin they have or what sex they are. Anything other than that will always be racist and/or sexist.
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 3 weeks ago:
RIP Windows? Lol no, the tests all showed that at best Linux might get a few percent better performance if you have an AMD GPU, which virtually no one does, and at worst your games run significantly worse than on Windows, and you can’t play most of the big online MP games.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 3 weeks ago:
Which other self hosted communities are there on the fediverse with any real number of users? None. Lemmy being decentralized doesn’t solve the problem of dictators mods, just like saying “just make a new sub and move there” on reddit doesn’t work.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 4 weeks ago:
You’re not going to be able to do much self hosting with 1GB of ram.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy apps already have karma systems.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy started off over moderated and has only gotten worse. Moderation here is honestly worse than Reddit already, since we can see the ridiculous comment removals and bans and their reasons.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 4 weeks ago:
Why? Why would you remove a post that some people deem “low effort”? People can just ignore the posts if they think it’s low effort.
More censorship and gate keeping has never been an good option.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 4 weeks ago:
So it’s exactly the same moderation as Reddit and Lemmy then, complete with all the power hungry mod bullshit.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 4 weeks ago:
Ok so your original statement that I quoted is just 100% a lie lol. Off to a great start.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 4 weeks ago:
I see someone doesn’t understand what GitHub is lol