ArmchairAce1944
@ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 4 days ago:
I never understood online ads. I have been online since the late 90s and the amount of times I bought something because of an online ad is… I think never? I did find something I was interested in (an online coding school) but I don’t recall ever signing up.
I did use sites I was told by ‘live’ ads (youtubers plugging in their sponsors) a few times. But those weren’t conventional ads. I used expressVPN once and used the Angry Video Game Nerd’s sponsorship code, and godaddy web hosting once (because it was learning webdev) from Penn (of Penn and Teller fame). But it was because I was also looking for very specific services.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 4 days ago:
Yes. Those are critical.
I hate to say it. But some of the best minds out there often don’t have the money to pay for all books and material. And often times those that DO have the money don’t always have the curiosity or desire to learn.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 6 days ago:
Tech feudalism needs to be made 100% illegal.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 week ago:
I remember the smug internet atheist era that said that Christianity would fade away soon to science… and then slowly but surely many of those same atheists either became Christians or allied themselves with the same vile Christian nationalists who are actively exporting their filth all over the world.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 week ago:
That sounds more reasonable. I mean driver updates for many items I used weren’t mandatory or searched for by my computer. Not even my windows machine. I had to go on their website to download them.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 week ago:
I worked in tech support for several years last decade… and the amount of people who tell me ‘my Facebook isn’t working’ to mean their internet connection is bust is insane. And they aren’t getting any smarter. Last time I worked tech support was in 2021 and I got fired when I nearly lost my shit with an American client who demanded to know why he couldn’t enter a company store without a mask.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 week ago:
Exactly. Local connection. Why the fuck does it need access to some server somewhere? I am sorry… but if they have updates for their shit available they need different ways of making it available.
Also why the fuck does the company need audio recordings from your home? That is literally spy shit. And why does it need the layout? Even if they were doing it purely to improve their products and make them be able to work around confusing layouts and obstacles then that shit needs your full knowledge and consent… and you can withdraw consent at any time for any reason.
I am too tired to rant further.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 week ago:
I don’t understand why these devices need an internet connection?
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
Big mike! Or gros Michel. Whichever you prefer to call it.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
Gaming is not the issue for me. All my games work fine. The problem is using some cheats that I did for some games like cyberpunk 2077. I cannot get PINCE or cheat engine to work on it.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
Same here. I actually had windows 11 for a bit… but not any more. I went linux and never looked back.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
I use discord via browser on my Linux.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 weeks ago:
What? The frame? The most important part of the bed is the mattress!
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 weeks ago:
The only thing my bed has that my previous beds didn’t was a removable charging outlet with USBs and stuff. That’s it. That requires only electricity and is literally something that could have existed last century with no problem.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 weeks ago:
I never shoplifted. But if I saw a shoplifter I have to say no, I didn’t. No idea what you are talking about. None whatsoever. Here is my receipt for my stuff… what other guy? I don’t look at other people. Kindly leave me be. Good day!
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
Glad I ditched windows 11 for linux mint.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 weeks ago:
smart BEDS? Look, I got a bed that has a removal part that has USB chargers, that is all I need… What the FUCK do I need a bed with an internet connection?
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 2 weeks ago:
Bricks? I used mine to process diamonds. Cracked them up real good. It still had its shine, too.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
Yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
I love fitgirls.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
Well it ultimately just keeps score snd achievements… but why the fuck do the achievements need to be cloud based? None of the other games I have are like that.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
If this was the work of a hacker then I never want to know their name.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
Same.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
I bought just the hitman game because I am a completionist and I just want that one. I don’t care for many other games.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
I need to download more shit!
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
Games that require persistent internet are baffling to me… I mean the hitman games cannot store your mission achievements offline…
But games are games… if my stove and fridge and showers (fucking showers with wifi?) Need internet connectivity than that is bullshit. They are being too fucking optimistic about everything.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 2 weeks ago:
Or old school Nokias…
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 2 weeks ago:
I love you, my coin operated boy!
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 2 weeks ago:
I never thought I’d be siding with 4chan.
Just to let you know I was never a 4chan user.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 3 weeks ago:
Damn fucking straight. I hope it starts an privacy movement so big they realize that all the laws passed since 2000 against terrorism were abject failures and repeal all of them.
Canada is trying to pass major surveillance shit on par with the patriot act on steroids and effectively nullify the need for warrants, all in the name of ‘strong borders’ and anti terrorism even though it literally gives many US owned and operated companies full and complete access to digital information on Canadians, ironically weakening borders in every way.
And for what? What is the terrorism threat? Al-Qaeda was a always a joke, and the fact that 9/11 happened was far more due to a monumental failure of all intelligence services combined and not due to a lack of resources. Terrorist schemes have been thwarted in the past without the need for extensive surveillance… and most plots are still thwarted primarily by informants and insiders speaking to authorities. The whole 'we need to be super proactive ’ has yielded shit results.
Most of the stuff that they claim was 'prevented proactively ’ was literally entrapment. They found some mentally ill and/or lonely people who would have done nothing on their own, but ended up being goaded into stupid crap when undercover agents flirted with them, encouraged them, and even offered weapons and explosives for them to use, and if they agreed… well, that’s when they nabbed them. No terrorism would have occurred if agents didn’t do shit.
Have you ever wondered why so many people are highly distrustful of people talking about doing violent shit? Fed posting? Its because agents have such a long ass history of doing that that you cannot tell who is and who isn’t a Fed.