relativestranger
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- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 9 hours ago:
people got lazy about plugging them in
always have been, here. the old cdma flip phone went about a month between charges, even when it was 5+ years old. the new volte one sucks. with a higher power draw and the shitty 4g signal here, i have to plug it in every few days. the only ‘plus’ is that i always know where a charger cable is now, because it’s usb-c and i use that for other things, too.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 1 week ago:
if you’re being paid to run windows software… that’s a little different.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 1 week ago:
i’ve run across a couple prebuilts where shift-f10 didn’t work at any screen of the oobe. those just got clean installs via rufus.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 1 week ago:
rufus can download the latest 10 or 11 iso direct from ms servers (incorporating the fido ps1 script, made by the same guy), so you only need rufus and a flash drive.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 week ago:
And no, 4k desktops do not “look nicer”, it is stupid and tiny for no reason. Unless you have like 250 shortcuts on your desktop what is the point?
if you have an ultra-high desktop resolution, you’re probably using a scaling factor to make everything look about the same size it would otherwise be at ~ 1080p… windows will even default to something around that… just no ‘jaggies’.
so yea, it does ‘look nicer’ and no, everything is not ‘stupid and tiny’.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 weeks ago:
my sister (born in the late 1970s) graduated from high school and tech college without being able to tell time on a regular clock.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 2 weeks ago:
fuck airbnb. rents have tripled here with so many apartments and homes taken off the market and turned into untaxed and unlicensed hotel rooms.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 2 weeks ago:
demolished is the only answer.
it won’t be built to code. shortcuts will be taken as everybody looks to score some free cash along the way.
no one will know what ‘extra’ items were planted during its reconstruction. even more significant if the security bunkers underneath the demolished east wing are also rebuilt.
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 2 weeks ago:
and the “DRM” of the day was typing in the third word of the second paragraph on page 6 of the printed booklet that came with the game.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 weeks ago:
at the wm here, if you even look at the scanner cross-eyed, it sounds the alarms and halts the register until the babysitter can come over, review the footage and unlock it. if anything passes anywhere in the cameras’ very wide fov and a scan isn’t registered… anything… it stops.
they got sam’s club-like checkers at the exits, now, too. anything not in a bag gets ‘checked’… at least that’s what we’ve concluded is their criteria, based on when we have been stopped trying to leave.
me thinks they’ve had a slight uptick in ‘customer-applied discounts’ lately.
- 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:
my ‘arch based’ system is a cinnamon-flavoured manjaro. manjaro gets shit on for reasons, one of them being they hold back updated packages for a bit… which is basically what you recommend, and it’s what i usually do anyway–defer updates for awhile (even on windows), unless it’s a super critical issue that could actually be a problem.
that manjaro desktop has been solid, never once messed-up an update even with the aur packages i have installed, and even if it’s been a month or two since it last updated.
- 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:
2000 ran the best and was the most stable of all of them for me.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 weeks ago:
apple did their part by putting siri front-and-center on iphones.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 weeks ago:
opera has been owned by chinese company since 2016.
- Comment on GOG say their preservation program has been "harder than we thought", thanks to DRM and elusive creators 3 weeks ago:
just because one person you believe to be the keepers of the code says it’s ok. doesn’t mean it’s the correct person or all the persons permission is needed from, and modifying or distributing the code yourself is still quite risky.
- Comment on ParanoidAndroid was the perfect name for a privacy focused android custom rom 5 weeks ago:
it was… is PA still around?
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 5 weeks ago:
yea. it might be a good time to buy ‘older’ hardware, but ‘refurbs’ that are blessed by microsoft (gen 8+) are already higher in price than they should be.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 5 weeks ago:
reads like an old copypasta.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 5 weeks ago:
the same tool that can… uh… ‘remove the waterMark’… yea, that’s it. can Also help keep your soon-to-be-abandoned windowS updated.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 5 weeks ago:
it’s not happening ‘after’. ytdlp is likely downloading a higher quality file than what the browser or app is receiving for streaming.
- Comment on Can you please help me pick a gaming desktop for my son that can run Monster Hunter Wilds? 5 weeks ago:
either one meets or exceeds the requirements you posted for the game.
note that if you’re able to shop in person at microcenter, many more options are available, including their own brand of prebuilts (powerspec) and custom-builds assembled in-store.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 month ago:
the only grocery around me that had one took it out when they quit selling coffee that way, a few months into covid.
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 month ago:
“hey cortana, slo-mo!”
- Comment on 1 month ago:
i have a trial to cancel soon. betcha it’s still faster and easier to ask ddg ‘how to cancel prime’ than it is to find it solely via clicks on azn’s own site.
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 1 month ago:
‘greeters’ are also part of security or ‘loss prevention’, even the old guy who can’t stand-up during his shift and needs to sit on a stool at his post.
- Comment on We're all going home early today 1 month ago:
a bag of popcorn set to 30 minutes instead of 3 might be all it takes and is an ‘innocent’ mistake anyone could make.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 1 month ago:
we would all be ‘shareholders’ of public services for public good.
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 1 month ago:
the ‘veni’ usually comes last, tho.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 month ago:
i have only ever had basic phones, dating back to my first nokia ~ 25 years ago. i don’t have the need or desire to have an android or iphone. one time. just once, ever–i enabled cellular data on my phone so i could look something up–the current weather forecast (in the kai weather ‘app’) because it started to look like i might get stranded out in a bad storm and i forgot to check the forecast before i left.