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- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 1 week ago:
Gun
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- Comment on They deported my Chihuahua 1 week ago:
I can’t believe I pressed the play button…
- Comment on Down into your very cockles 1 week ago:
Bring more snoots
- Comment on How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries? 1 week ago:
Considering only the queries ommits all the energy used in training models, scraping and preparing data and all the indirect energy from putting a greater load in servers all around the world from scraping them all the time. oh, and all the energy in the manufacturing processes of the hardware, and from building the servers. We must consider the consumption of the industry as a whole, or we’re being biased as well.
Articles keep showing up explaining how queries aren’t so power-hungry, but the corporations keep draining more and more energy, building more and more power plants that never keep up with the demand, and so on.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 1 week ago:
How do normal people survive?
Simple. They know a fix-it-all tech person that will help them!
I’m not even kidding, that’s how communities grew strong all over the world for millennia, and still do, on smaller scales, depending on the place. People create a network of specialists in each domain, and one calls the other when needed. Sometimes they pay for the work, sometimes they exchange favors, sometimes they just help for free. If you go to smaller neighborhoods in developing countries, you will see this in action all the time.
Part of the success of large corporations and the spread of consumerist culture comes from promoting an extremely individualistic lifestyle and destroying people’s networks and relationships.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
Downloaded from pirate sources!
- Comment on Being honest - same answer for me 1 week ago:
I floss every day. Installed libreoffice just this morning.
- Comment on Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name 1 week ago:
Would be a nice plot for a game
- Comment on Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth, Forbes list shows 1 week ago:
Soon there will be news about the world’s first trillionaire… and some people will even be excited about it. Sigh…
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
I don’t get it either. I have a couple of friends who pay for music streaming just to listen for the SAME music over and over. They don’t even make use of those so called recommendation algorithms or so. I tried to guide them into putting the music they like into their phones for offline listening, but they ignored me. I guess some people just have some sort of love for corporations.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Here in Brazil (and problably most of the developing world as well), piracy used to be the standard way to get console games. People would buy unblocked consoles from street merchants and then buy pirated media from them, or download the games from pirate sites.
But with the newer xbox xs series, they made it so that piracy is impossible, and people got forced to buy games from microsoft. Since most people around here don’t have much money to spend, game pass became an option to have a selection of games always at disposal for a reasonable price, so it became popular. Sadly, that’s how microsoft expanded their business to the developing countries.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
Well, to each their own. I’m also a fast reader, but it doesn’t bother me at all. I just give a quick scroll with my thumb from the bottom of the screen all the way up, in an instant, read everything and repeat, like paginated content. My mind ignores everything that happens between each new text to read. I care more for the content I read than about the device I use.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
But I don’t scroll while reading or read while I scroll. Also, my mind just cancels the scrolling, and I’m not even aware of it.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
How does higher frequency help with reading static text?
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
Maybe you will like e-ink phones
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 week ago:
A 360° rotation
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 weeks ago:
About keeping the children safe
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 2 weeks ago:
But would a rearrangement of our atoms into identical beings be the same person as us? Maybe it would be just different consciousnesses having the same experiences, and we would never be back.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 weeks ago:
It’s always security when someone wants to take our freedom away. Always security…
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think this is the point of the comic, but rather make some humorous speculation of a tech future.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 2 weeks ago:
In metal gear solid snake eater there’s a scene where we cross a river seeing every enemy we killed.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 2 weeks ago:
People uniting themselves against corporations, oligarchs and consumerism culture
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 weeks ago:
That’s interesting to know. I’d be devastated if I spent more morey for one and felt like it wasn’t worth it. Those devices are too expensive around here.
By the way, don’t you find it useful for reading stuff on the internet, like web articles, news, etc? When I looked for one, I also imagined myself connecting a bluetooth keyboard and using it for writing.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 weeks ago:
Maybe my different experience comes from living in the global south. All of the are expensive in here, so kindle has no price advantage
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 weeks ago:
I mentioned some in this other comment: lemmy.zip/post/49532624/21704502
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 weeks ago:
I used a cybook odyssey for more than 10 years, so I guess bookeen devices can be a good choice. I’m currently using a refurbrished tolino vision 2 and the experience is also much better than the kindles I tried.
But if I had more money, I would probably have bought a device from boox. They make nice ereaders, some even with android,being much more flexible than a kindle. Devices from bigme and the meebooks also look nice, but I don’t know if they have good cases.
I’m sure there are other good options around. These are just the ones I know.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 weeks ago:
There are so many alternative ereaders that are better than the kindle, that I don’t get why people buy it.
I once borrowed one from a friend and it didn’t even let me organize media in directories from a pc. The directory structure got all messed up and it was a pain to follow my study sequence. Any cheap Chinese ereader would allow that.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you’ll be interested in this project: github.com/evanman83/OURS-project
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
My list will be biased towards brazil, but I’d suggest trying tapioca, moqueca, churrasco, farofa, empadão, escondidinho, pão de queijo, broa, boliho de aipim, brigadeiro, paçoca, açai, pé de moleque, pé de moça, beijinho. That’s what came to my mind, but there are a lot more. And also, it’s hard to explain our culinary to others, because it’s not just about the food, it’s much more, like how it’s prepared, how we eat (we tend to eat together and socialize in these moments, people invite others to eat, etc) how we eat the good stuff like on a daily basis, and not just on special events, etc.
And to pay respects to our friends, you will also find great food in west africa, argentina, chile, and all of south america!
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
F is one of the best choices, but most people from the northern hemisphere will miss out because they never had a chance to meet our culinary.