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Solarpunk noooo
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I’m playing the hell out of Escape from Duckov.
All the fun of a extraction shooter, only single player.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Yep. Every company I’ve worked at had a marketing team with a social media team.
And social media isn’t just fucking around on Twitter posting food pics. It also making a dozen fake accounts to share how your company is way better than this other company. Or write bad reviews about your competitors. Or shit on people who like a particular product while boosting yours.
Oh is that against the law? Only if it’s enforced. Which impossible.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 week ago:
I bought a $300 fake Roomba thing. It was on clearance.
And i fought against it for years. But ended it up coming in clutch for a lot of reasons.
It did not have an app, just a IR controller. Its pretty dumb. It bumps into everything. It gets stuck under things. I sometimes have to create a maze so it cleans a specific spot.
Its been a habit of mines to avoid anything with an app that requires internet access. But the product lines are shrinking, and I know at some point, if I want a Roomba, I’ll need to invite always-on AI or whatever.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 week ago:
Download the toaster app so you can make toast from anywhere!
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 week ago:
In addition, Narayanan says he uncovered a suspicious line of code broadcasted from the company to the vacuum, timestamped to the exact moment it stopped working. “Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.
“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”
In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”
They kill switched it remotely. Yikes.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
I treat it like, “Ah I see you shared an opinion in public that is the reason your family abandoned you. And here you are, alone in society - still holding on to your shitty thoughts, and you will die alone.”
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 week ago:
We had to buy a new (used 2022) car after we ran out old car into the ground. The touch screen controls temperatures. There wasn’t a single variant of the car that didn’t have a giant ass touch screen. It makes me really uncomfortable when the screen no longer works.
There’s also some other things that piss me off.
But Some of the pros (and why we accepted that trade off):
- all wheel drive
- fancy sensors when someone is in my blindside
- it opens when it senses the key is nearby.
- heated seats with controls. (Used to bring hot packs because it gets cold here)
- cameras for the rear
- it does that cool thing where it breaks if it senses you might collide. I hated it at first but I’m old now and it saved me once from collision.
Either way, fuck cars and if public transportation was better here, id use that.
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- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Controversial take:
If Autodesk products is how you make your money - Just use the OS your work provides you. Unless you’re a freelancer, of which that’s your work computer, and lock everything else down.
Work computer is not my problem. Nor am I putting anything personal on there. Microsoft wants to mine my company’s info, let those two deal with that shit.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 2 weeks ago:
This was my mistake when I started self hosting a few years ago!
I went all-in on FOSS. And my God, it was constantly a maintenance nightmare for some apps. Some would break with updates. Some times I felt I was playing wackamole replacing one set of problems with new ones.
Then I met a local who has been doing self hosting for two decades and he helped he unfuck my stuff by recommending commercial and paid services. And honestly, it was awesome because I’m too old for this shit. I just want working services.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Going on two decades now.
Me with Minecraft.
Me with MMOs.
Me with Dota/LoL and whatever this genre is called.
Me with DayZ/etc survival shooters.
Me with whatever chess auto battlere are.
Granted, games after the popularity winds down and they incorporate it into game genres I do like are neat. I freaking love V Rising.
- Comment on Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who travels quickly discovers how backwards America is for so many things compared to other modernized cities.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 32 comments
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say they’re worse. I’d say they’re confusing as hell.
For example: fan manga are absolutely okay.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What did you think of the Oblivion remastered?
Starfield looked pretty good. But for some reason, Oblivion in Unreal 5 looked incredible. I could be drinking the Kool aid.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Same!
Starfield crashed for me maybe five times in 150 hours. And I remember excitedly telling somebody and they gave me a disgusted look.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 3 weeks ago:
I run Pi-hole, and ublock.
I went to my pal’s house and turn on his TV, ad. He turned on his Xbox, ad. Was looking for a specific game on his Xbox, another fucking ad.
“Too complicated” he says when I suggested setting him up with a raspberry pi.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 3 weeks ago:
I made the mistake buying a Kindle Fire in 2015. A few months in, it was literal garbage. Everything lagged. Very few apps would work. Not much variety in the Amazon app store. Learned my lesson about Amazon products.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 3 weeks ago:
At my company, most of the IT team are hardcore Trump supporters who do not see a problem with working with LGBTQIA people and being polite to their face, while also wanting them to have less rights.
Yes, they are all white men. And yes, all of them will tell you how hard they worked to get there, completely oblivious of how much an advantage they got to get there.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 3 weeks ago:
I loved Hero’s Hour, mostly because of it was built using Game Maker Studio, that scrappy drag and drop game making tool.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 3 weeks ago:
Haha I absolutely bought ZoE1 to get the mgs2 demo.
I then forced myself to play ZoE.
I remember telling everyone I liked it. But at my age, I can’t remember if I actually did.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 3 weeks ago:
You gotta share the link: …steampowered.com/…/Heroes_of_Science_and_Fiction…
Oh man it looks great
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
even then it will still crash 4 times in the span of one day.
I feel stupid. This was always my experience even on Day 1 release date. That’s been my Bethesda experience since forever! FO4, New Vegas, Skyrim.
You’re telling me people play these games without it crashing every 1-3 hours?
- Comment on Punch Time 3 weeks ago:
“That will go well with my crackers and cheese because here’s a block!”
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 4 weeks ago:
Lack of education and training really.
I only knew of Linux because I saw some dude use Linux in 2012. And then a few years later, I finally decided to try it out as it was easier for work. After a lot of false starts, I finally started switching around 2021.
Going to imagine most people are the same - get experience from it and then have a reason to use it daily.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much. OP being a real dick for no reason with that last sentence.
Just ask if you’re okay with dating both in that scenario.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 4 weeks ago:
Oh God I hope not.
Can we just make a community called IHateWomen and have them migrate there?
- 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. 1 month ago:
Oh boy I’m glad you said that because I didn’t want to sound like an idiot. I’m 40yo and I have no idea who the VU are, nor does comparing them to the Beatles make me excited to look them up.
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 1 month ago:
This is going to sound weird but I never actually get Steam emails, outside of receipts. Maybe I disabled them years ago. And I wishlist/follow hundreds of games.
Uncertain if I’m a unique edge case who hates email clutter or not.
- Comment on The man show was a left wing attack on incels. 1 month ago:
Ugh Adam Carolla. That guy was against giving kids free lunches.
It was the first time I saw someone so loudly against feeding kids.
