sonofearth
@sonofearth@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
Whatever helps you sleep at night :)
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
because you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or because you don’t see the benefit to you personally?
Bruh. Everything doesn’t have to be political. I simply don’t have the time, energy and willingness to learn and contribute to a project which people in my community are not even going to use. The incentive simply isn’t their for anyone when there is already a perfectly working solution—as much as I hate to say—from Google. I wish OSM and the maps & navigation apps using it were more popular and better but they aren’t simply because they don’t have dedicated teams.
Google Maps also get contributions from the community (which is much larger than OSM). So google benefits from volunteer contributions as well as their own teams mapping stuff around the world which OSM can never match. It isn’t something like Search, Drive or Photos that can be replaced by a community driven FOSS alternative. It requires huge funding.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
I throw a lot of shit at Google but Google Maps is the best piece of software they have ever created. I wish OSM was this upto date with their data but it has a long way to go. I think this that piece of software which needs a big dedicated team or at-least paid volunteers instead of community volunteers because there ain’t no way I am going out to volunteer for free to map out my neighbourhood accurately.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
Lol I used to think they scrapped the maps app entirely. Surprised it still exists. Who even uses it outside the US?
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 1 week ago:
Good. I will avoid those websites.
- Comment on Call me Barbie the way I lust after Ken Thompson. 2 weeks ago:
They bred and we got fedora.
- Comment on Did we win? 2 weeks ago:
It is always like this. Make a very anti competitive decision that everyone hates, then tone it down so the half of those people will say “we won”. This is a loss.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 weeks ago:
sushhh… the shareholders’ imaginary line has to go up.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
Repeat with me.
INSTALL LINUX!
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 weeks ago:
DLSS 8: Your eyes have AI
(Wasn’t that a Microsoft patent?)
Yep
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 weeks ago:
How does it sit right that a machine is making stuff that is fundamentally supposed to be human creativity and imagination. This is just going make every game look the same with more annoying imperfections that humans won’t make.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 weeks ago:
DLSS 6: You don’t even need to design your game. AI will generate it in real time.🤡
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 3 weeks ago:
I wish I had a cool aunt like Veronica.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 3 weeks ago:
If you think you’re wanking too much, go to a therapist, talk to a friend or parents or just try to find a partner. What the fuck a computer program is going to do to get you to do stop wanking.
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 3 weeks ago:
this is the way
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 3 weeks ago:
Share it dude!!!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
A person downloading a pirated copy of a book w/o any DRM for their own leisure use on their own device is different from a multi trillion dollar corporation who is using those books to train an LLM to make AI Slop and make money from it w/o even crediting the authors for their work.
- Comment on Western Imperialism 3 weeks ago:
Lol western countries are the ones who supported putting extreme islamists in power in the first place, creating a hotspot for terrorists and making life worse for the normal folks living in those regions.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 3 weeks ago:
Oh don’t worry. Some AI boot licker will come to defend this as well. “WelL yOu SeE nOt EvErYoNe HaS tHe TiMe To PlAy GaMeS. ThIs WiLl MaKe GaMiNg MoRe EfFiCiEnT.”
- Comment on I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using 4 weeks ago:
You should add a disclaimer stating that you have used an LLM. I have done so for a tool I built with an LLM that I needed, because I don’t know jackshit about coding and I am not gonna pretend I do.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 4 weeks ago:
Oh we do have a lot of Microsuckers in this world who will choose this over the Steam Machine because “It is well integrated into the system” bullshit.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 4 weeks ago:
Lol our store is doing billing customer management in google chrome on Debian With KDE Plasma on 8GB DDR3 pentium something. It was running Windows 7 6 months ago with 4gb ram for the same purpose. I then put a Sata SSD, increased the RAM to 8 and installed Debian.
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids - a Windows transcoding frontend for FFMPEG 4 weeks ago:
You are delusional, take yourself to the infirmary.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 4 weeks ago:
Imagine what the world could be if we had repairable Arch Linux Phones that can go full desktop mode just like the pixel rn. Aaahhh that turns me on!🤤
- Comment on WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship 4 weeks ago:
Fuckers don’t even have a Linux Client.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 4 weeks ago:
If it’s unsustainable for you, release the server and game source code for someone else to host it and patch it. Why waste developers’ time and effort into making of this game?!
- Comment on Is spreading. 5 weeks ago:
As in
- Comment on Is spreading. 5 weeks ago:
Distros are for noobs. Real men just use the kernel.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 5 weeks ago:
Ig then maybe they have just accepted that everyone will jump the OS ship sooner or later, so they are just trying to lock people in their ecosystem? That’s why they make us create a Microsoft account on Windows, the sudden “We Love Linux” moto, making Cloud your dependency stuff.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 5 weeks ago:
At this point I believe Microsoft pays the likes of Adobe to not make Linux versions of their software. Strange how MacOS has Microsoft office despite being them being the biggest competitor for their OS. It’s just that MacOS runs only on expensive MacBooks. Microsoft might have thought even if Macs get better than Windows in every aspect, people, businesses, schools and governments still won’t but them as they are too expensive.
But that’s not the case with Linux. Linux is pretty much better than Windows in almost every aspect. The only limiting factor is software support. And most people just use their computers for browsing the web and making spreadsheets and word docs — Microsoft office is the default here. If Microsoft Office were on Linux, Microsoft would have the potential to lose about half of their OS market share just because managers/CEOs will push it to save costs. Which will have a cascading effect — leading others like Adobe to make their creative suites available on Linux.
So Microsoft’s only card at play here is holding off Microsoft Office from Linux users as long as possible.
