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- Comment on Only 37% of Japanese people favor diplomatic support for peace on the Korean Peninsula: Poll 3 days ago:
Yeah. Japan as a whole would rather not support korea in anything.
- Comment on South Korea's ex-first lady accused of taking over $200,000 in bribes 4 days ago:
I mean that’s the cash amount. Usually there’s a lot more than that spent wineing and dining them before and after. Those numbers make much more sense at least to me when you remember that.
- Comment on Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order 1 week ago:
I’m genuinely contemplating paying for kagi at this point. Only one I haven’t heard people (fairly) talking shit about recently.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 week ago:
In the same way it’s true that elon musk is a millionaire I guess lol.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 week ago:
According to the other article I read Spotify has about 256 million tracks. Not sure why guardian is saying over 100 million.
- Comment on Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture 1 week ago:
Over 250 million total so about 1/3.
- Comment on Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture 1 week ago:
Pirating music is genuinely just not worth the effort so I honestly belive them. Probably didn’t scrape all of them simply because that’s a petabyte of storage or more.
- Comment on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone 1 week ago:
Why do people love openSUSE so much? Its noticeably slower on my systems I’ve tried it one at the very least.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 weeks ago:
I mean if people aren’t buying new games it’s def a bag thing for the developers and publishers. Feel however you want about them but modern AAA games don’t get made without crazy investments. Hell even AA games are starting to eat 10s of millions.
- Comment on AI kids' toys give explicit and dangerous responses in tests 2 weeks ago:
When you inherently can’t understand what you are creating there is no sure way to control it.
- Comment on [The New Republic] Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment: Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor to file criminal charges. 3 weeks ago:
Hold on is your veiw that video?/text can not be directly harmful or that nothing on meta platforms is?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Showing off that Florida education lol.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 5 weeks ago:
Hi I can explain the difference. The three other things you listed are necessary for a multitude of reasons. The current boom in data centers is for a solution in search of a problem wasting shit for no gain to humanity as a whole.
Hope that helps :3
- Comment on The Internet Archive Now Captures AI-Generated Content (Including Google's AI Overviews) 1 month ago:
When we get past this historians of the future will be able to use this to figure out what happened here.
- Comment on How System76 & Red Hat Hope To Finally Improve The Linux Multi-GPU Experience 1 month ago:
Are these mutually exclusive? Also far more people have a CPU with an iGPU than are worried about passing through the GPU to a VM.
- Comment on Android will let ‘experienced users’ sideload unverified apps as Google makes case for verification 1 month ago:
If you can find an app on github you more than qualify.
- Comment on Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS 1 month ago:
I haven’t been hyped for anything like I am for the steam frame in years. Really just the idea Linux might finally be getting proper VR support is more than exciting.
- Comment on Ubuntu LTS Releases Now Get 15 Years of Support 1 month ago:
This is a good thing even if you, like me, have a strong distaste for ubuntu/ canonical. The more buisness adopt linux the better.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 month ago:
Banking apps are something that need to be working before most people will even be able to attempt to switch to a linux phone. If the options are call and be on hold for at least an hour when I probably am working got to a physical location also open only when I’m working or using a banking app that’s available 24/7 the last one is the only viable option for many people.
- Comment on E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone 1 month ago:
After watching this review I am actually going to say yeah probably. The ghosting has gotten way better than I remember it being for real time apps. If youre interested watch the review he goes over most of your use cases.
- Comment on E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone 1 month ago:
If it’s the same as past e-ink phones it’ll be slow. But nothing you’re going to do on an e-ink phone is super likely to require that much power anyways unless you are using your phone far differently than I am.
- Comment on E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone 1 month ago:
Man I really am far too into e-ink lol. These aren’t even close to new they have mostly been for the domestic (chinese) market in the past though. Most people who have got one have been happy though because they are exactly as advertised. An e-ink phone.
- Comment on Australian police design AI tool to decipher predators' Gen Z slang 2 months ago:
No cap 😔
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 2 months ago:
Really all of the “classics”. No way apple would have ever dreamed of putting 2Tb of storage in your music player but you can do it because they didn’t specifically make it impossible like they would now.
- Comment on Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam 2 months ago:
I wonder if the US tech oligarchs have realized they traded in soft power the world over for hard power that likely will not even last that long by backing a monarch.
- 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 months ago:
Their proton ran BL4 about 10% faster than Valves for my specific hardware. IDK what they are doing but it might as well be magic.
- Comment on UK | Sex offenders to be denied parental responsibility for children born of rape 2 months ago:
Am an american and would like some clarification. Does the effect things like child support at all? Is that a thing in the UK I always assumed it was but through my reading of the article I didn’t see it mentioned but I am a dumbass anday have missed it.
- Comment on Ukraine uses British Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike Russian chemical plant 2 months ago:
I feel like articles with titles like this have the intention of making me go “why would they escalate like that” when my reaction is always. “Good hope they do more things like that. Make the russian public feel like the longer this war goes on the less safe they will be.”
Might be reading into it too much but it really is the vibe I get from a lot of the russia-ukrain war news.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 2 months ago:
Does the context make that better? As it stands that sounds like something Kanye would say.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 2 months ago:
I really should pay more attention to firefox news. I’m not even sure what to do in the even mozilla implodes before a new non-chromimium browser actually becomes viable.
Fingers crossed for ladybird.