3abas

@3abas@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, air fryer has significantly more airflow than a additional convection oven, and the fan is right behind the hearing element instead of on the sidewall.

  It delivers heat and circulates it more effectively. An oven with proper “air fryer” function usually has multiple of large fans that go above the heating element.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing though, you don’t need to trust them, you trust public key cryptography. And unless the NSA has secretly solved that, Proton cannot hand anything to anyone, because they can’t access anything but encrypted data.

  If the NSA solved that, they don’t need Proton’s cooperation, they can just intercept the encrypted traffic directly.

  You don’t need to trust Proton inherently, all their apps are open source and you can verify the encryption yourself. They hold your encrypted data and you hold the keys.

  The only thing they could be lying about is keeping VPN logs, but there’s no credible reason to believe they are. They do annual third-party audits of their infrastructure to confirm no logs, but if you’re depending strictly on VPN to hide data you think the government is interested in, you’re doing it wrong.

  They cannot hand over your emails, because they don’t have the keys. But email is an inherently insecure communication method, and any email you send to a non proton recipient is visible to that recipient’s provider.

  They can see the subject line and the recipient’s address, because they need to know where to transfer the email and send notifications with the subject line, but they are transparent about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No they don’t. They believe they are superior, supreme. They believe they are better because they are more advanced and have more money, they don’t care about goodness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I reject the assertion that this is an American thing… I’ve been in enough other countries and they’re all mostly consumerist cultures that care more about perceived social value than actual quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Guessing: when the image is not being updated (you’re reading an article and not scrolling, you’re looking at a photo, etc), the display will change the referral refresh rate to 1 frame per second, which will drastically reduce power consumption.

  That’s how it works on other devices that have this feature, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t charge your phone and use your USB headphones at the same time, without a dongle.

  If this isn’t a use case for you, you should understand that it is a use case for others, and it’s a problem that was solved before manufacturers forced it on it. Give me two USB ports and maybe I’ll be satisfied, though I’m sure others still have a use case for 3.5mm and will still need a dongle…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The amount of sense NYE party glasses make has rapidly declined.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Find your nearest “liberal” and ask if they support Israel’s right to genocide Palestinians… Chances are you have a lot of Nazis near you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what they said…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, my carrier’s app isn’t super shitty, actually. No ads, no bloat, just account management.

  But… You get a new phone, you install the app and login to get your esim, then uninstall. Not exactly a difficult problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your carrier is the problem. I just login to my carrier’s app on the new phone and boom new esim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t follow. The 3 and y both have mechanical handles that only close flush by a spring for aerodynamics. Literally every manufacturer has copied that in at least one model.

  Only the s, x, and CT have retractable handles, and it’s mostly Chinese cars that copy that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not maga. You’re a moron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Palestinian. The ceasefire is not real. People are still being slaughtered.

  Not nearly at the same rate as under Biden. It is objectively better. We celebrated Christmas in Bethlehem for the first time this year since the genocide began.

  Israel is still a genocidal expantionist ethno supremacist fascist state that wants to eliminate all Palestinians and has eyes on Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The situation in gaza today is objectively better.

  You don’t get to simply dismiss facts as “propaganda”. The genocide is still going, but the ovens were turned off, and you’re telling me I should I have voted for the candidate that promised to keep fueling the oven because Trump is worse for you.

  I agree, he is worse for you, and while I didn’t vote for him, I choose the collapse of the American empire over the all out accelerated genocide of my people that a healthy American empire can afford to fund.

  And I don’t feel empathy for you for having to live through the death of your empire, because we told you loudly to help us and you called our genocide the lesser evil. You’ve destroyed all of countries and murdered millions of our people and you honor your war criminals and put them on a pedestal.

  I feel bad for my family and friends who are in ice detention, and I blame those like you without a backbone that insisted the champion of genocide was the only other option.

  First they came for the communists and all that. You didn’t help us, and you’re bitching at us for not voting to continue our extermination to save your cushy lifestyle at the very top of the world.

  Propaganda isn’t an inherently bad word, by the way. It’s not a “dark art”, it can be done through the use of only facts, as I’m doing, and you have no chance of defeating fascism if you don’t also participate in positive propaganda. You have to unlearn colonial terms and learn the true meaning of words, and read some books on how to influence public opinion with facts, then come back and call it a dark art as if it’s a clever insult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse for you, objectively the immediate situation in Gaza is better, our children are no longer being slaughtered inn the hundreds daily. They’re restoring and rebuilding some form of daily life, they have cafes running and they’re watching the Palestine team compete in the Arab cup. Things that seemed unimaginable when Biden was greenlighting 2,000 lbs bombs on tents while licking ice cream.

  Biden is our Hitler, Trump is yours, and if you were one of the people who saw what Biden was doing in Gaza and decided Kamala promising the most lethal military deserved your vote, you deserve Trump and I feel no empathy for you.

  If you refused to vote for both evils, I respect you and expect you to stand aside me when the revolution begins. I expect liberals to side with maga in a true revolution, and they’ll label is communist islamist extremist terrorists for disrupting their comfortable daily life at the very top of society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, they’re just not skin tight. You can’t really fit much into a pocket in super tight jeans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After watching Israel slaughter tens of thousands of our children while Biden lied and covered for them and have them everything they wanted, i have no empathy nor sympathy left for anyone who isn’t ready for a revolution and calls enthusiastic support for genocide “the lesser evil”.

  They’re all Nazis, both sides, and I have zero respect left for anyone who only cares about them and theirs and their life domestically. I have no empathy for anyone who lives in and benefits from the imperial core and doesn’t have empathy for the victims of the empire.

  I don’t have sympathy and empathy left for them. When a dear friend told me his mother died, I tried so hard to find an emotion, and I just remembered all the lost children he refused to speak up for and came up empty. Fuck you and your dead mother, I thought as I said I’m sorry for your loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grade: F (0/100) Your submission does not meet the basic expectations for an academic reflection or critique. Rather than engaging the article’s claims with evidence, you substitute personal belief as an argument and treat disagreement as a rebuttal. That is not analysis; it is opinion.

  You were explicitly expected to challenge the material using empirical findings, methodological critique, or testable alternative hypotheses. You did none of those. There are no credible sources used to support your counterclaims, no operational definitions, no evaluation of the study’s design, and no attempt to distinguish “I feel” from “the evidence shows.” The result reads as a refusal to participate in scholarly inquiry.

  Until you can separate personal convictions from evidentiary argument, and demonstrate that separation in writing, you will continue to fail assignments of this type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True. But the problem wasn’t that she used the bible as a source, the problem is that she didn’t answer the question at all, and used the bible as a source to describe her own beliefs. Beliefs she’s entitled to have, as the professor’s comment pointed out, but you can’t ignore the question of the assignment and use it as a platform to share your beliefs and expect to get a passing grade. If she wanted to use the assignment as a protest, she should be proud to get an F as a form of martyrdom, but as the Jesus pointed out, she opted to receive her worldly reward instead of a heavenly one (not that she would, but for argument’s sake).

  Her writing style, the quality of her submission, and the fact that TPUSA shared this publicly and think it shows them in the right as they continue to attack the professor who graded this garbage submission very gentle is a symptom of the complete lack of education these people are exposed to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, I’m sorry. That was a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m not.

  98, 98se, and ME are all 9x, pre NT.

  Windows 2000 was NT, but it was server and business focused, so I left it out as most people did not run 2000 on their personal computers. XP was the first consumer targeting Windows with NT, and it was a huge step up in security and stability over 9x, despite how awful it was.

  I’m not praising XP, I’m just refuting that 98 was great. It was hot garbage, and you could run a very secure and stable Linux distro back then, we stuck with windows back then because Wine wasn’t mature (Proton/bottles didn’t exist), the hardware wasn’t good enough for good emulation, and we needed binary compatibility because we wanted the windows exclusives. We never used Windows 98 because it was a good OS, we used it because it came with every computer you bought and all the software you wanted ran on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  98*/2000 was pure garbage. You could literally bypass the login screen on 98 because it had no real user account and tokens, just profiles for convenience. Driver support was awful, there was no memory protection so drivers constantly caused bsod. XP was the first time the consumer desktop got the NT foundation, meaning real user/session security, far better stability under load, and way fewer “one program crashed, so the OS is toast” moments.

  XP had its problems too, it’s still Windows afterall and Windows was always garbage. But 98 was awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You think Trump is worse than Netanyahu? Openly corrupt and ruling a fascist religious ethno-supremacist terrorist state that openly talks about eliminating the native population, celebrates raping prisoners, shoots children in the knee for sport, and actively committing a livestreamed genocide with your tax dollars?

  Expand your bubble, homie, Trump is a symptom not the disease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Care to elaborate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been really enjoying zen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism turns countries into businesses to support the lavish lifestyle of capital holders and the government into HR to silence the workers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your understanding of socialism is entirely based on imperial capitalist propaganda, then sure, why not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the argument presented the propaganda or the fact that it was negative?

  It’s NYTimes propaganda, not exactly Russian or Chinese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s it, the pain is coming back now. I didn’t use docker last time I tried, I don’t remember the issues I ran into, but I was running Plex on windows vm with the library on a nas share mounted locally through iscsi. Don’t ask why, it was a good setup at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t tried JF in over a year, but last attempt was full of errors. I’ll give it another shot.

  Only reason I’m still on Plex is I have a lifetime pass, and it’s working. But it’s sure inshitifying every day… Remote play with plex pass is super easy, and plex amp was promising but replaced it with navidrome and so much happier. I’m ready to ditch Plex if JF is better now, I’ll install it next time I have time to mess with my setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Statement with no substance. What do you desire that’s not there?

  Aside from the screen being softer and easier to scratch, name a practical difference between this and another 10" Android tablet…

  If a 10" tablet meets your desires, and your desire to fold it and put it in your pocket, what’s left?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it anti Firefox progranda to literally criticize them for reopening human contributed content with lesser quality AI generated one?

  Your response to that criticism is to bring up another topic (Firefox being open source) and calling everyone idiots?