miguel
@miguel@fedia.io
Just a person who likes media that you actually can hold in your hands and computers that only do what you tell them to.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 1 week ago:
I've added the link below the quote, which may help in the future.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 1 week ago:
I like that take.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/disney-says-google-ai-infringes-copyright-on-a-massive-scale/
I wonder if this being right on the heels is related to that.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 1 week ago:
I'd love that to be the outcome, tbh.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 1 week ago:
I appreciate the suggestion. It quite literally hadn't even occurred to me, so I'll be sure to do that for future posts intended for wide audiences.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 1 week ago:
Oh that's wild! On fedia there definitely is, as in attached screenshot.
I guess they decided that since nobody on reddit ever read the articles anyhow, why implement it :D - Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 1 week ago:
I posted the link to Ars, a pretty solid tech news source, but thank you for the direct link to Open AI's announcement as well. The more sources the merrier!
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 1 week ago:
Pretty much. In effect, they just paid 1 billion dollars to shovel their IP into the public domain woodchipper.
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- Comment on GOG survey: "My thoughts about games are connected to GOG, especially when it happens automatically." 4 weeks ago:
Entirely possible. I mentioned it on a couple signal chat groups I was in, and so my sample size is only like 15-20 people, but still a bit odd.
- Comment on GOG survey: "My thoughts about games are connected to GOG, especially when it happens automatically." 4 weeks ago:
Everyone I know who got the survey was told they'd already taken it.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Ok, apparently on steamdeck? Maybe I can give it a shot this time
- Comment on Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this" 5 weeks ago:
Cool cool cool. I'm sure this will go great for them.
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 1 month ago:
I just tell people "It's free and I don't get twenty thousand 'license term updates' in my email every month"
- Comment on NaNoWriMo2 1 month ago:
Writing month is exactly just that. Just an excuse for those looking for one :)
I hope the new community does well, since none of the writing communities on the fedi are especially active. - Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
Karabiner FTW.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
Basically it's garbage, Siri effectively just posts your query, sans context, to chatGPT. What comes back is hilariously bad.
If they'd integrated it "correctly", it'd probably be as bad as MS. I've played with it a bunch in the store, though my device (intel) doesn't support it at all. - Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
I do. They're garbage cleo laptops with a badge and no support. I had one, when it failed they refused to stand behind it at all.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
I cooked (literally) 3 'gaming' laptops in 5 years. It seems that even with a riser and constant (monthly) cleaning, heavy GPU use pretty much kills the later gen nvidia chips.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
Makes sense, I did. Granted, mine was an old model for $40 that I have now upgraded to 16GB of RAM, but yes. Good plan.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 month ago:
I can't speak to pre-1950s, but before the modern internet (not counting ARPANET), I spent most of my time hiking trails and reading.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 month ago:
The most first world of all first world problems has arrived
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 month ago:
In my case, I simply ended up buying a subscription to Brittanica, which I started using instead. I just don't trust wikipedia in this era.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
How is the color? I've been told it makes the screen less sharp, is it noticeable?
I kinda want one, been using a tablet for comics lately and it's nowhere near as good at night. - Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
In fact just a few minutes ago I got another bundle from Humble that I loaded onto my kobo with no issue
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
I have owned 5 kobos over time, and just love them.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
"Almost all"... Unless you read a very specific niche, I've rarely looked for a book that I wanted to read and not found it elsewhere.
There certainly are some that are specific to KDP, but hardly "almost all". - Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
My kobos have been excellent, I've had a few over the years. MUCH sharper screens than the kindle by and large, and they support loading epubs, pdfs, cbz, all sorts of things.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 months ago:
All my parking meters require an app, and all of my work logins require pressing a confirmation in an app.
- Comment on A Brief History of Trapper Keepers. 3 months ago:
We had peechees, no compartments or anything to speak of and still managed to use them for artistic expression.
The distraction was coming from inside the student
