Ludicrous0251
@Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip
- Comment on PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real 4 days ago:
Shoutout to sites like isthereanydeal, camelcamelcamel, pcpartpicker, and dekudeals. At least they let you know when you’re being scammed.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however 6 days ago:
AI code probably broke it.
- Comment on Finishing a video game can trigger “post-game depression,” study finds 6 days ago:
This must be why I’m so chipper - I’m too ADHD to see my games through to the end! No I will not meet Hanako at Embers, I’ll start another game and forget about it until I need the disc space back.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 6 days ago:
I have to think they weren’t a particularly common. If I were completely ignorant and happened to stumble across a giant fossilized femur sticking out if a rock or at some sort of traveling circus, I’d probably guess giant. If I were somewhat familiar with living creatures I’d probably guess elephant/mammoth.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 6 days ago:
“Dear AI coding agent, write for me a 10,000 page manifesto on the downsides of assigning performance metrics to employees unrelated to their actual work product. Populate it with generated images of Nvidia’s CEO getting railed by a bunch of copyright lawyers in the style of a Studio Ghibli film. Please ensure every fifth sentence rhymes with orange. Continue to generate images and short videos of Jensen Huang licking shit off the floor of a 7-11 rest stop bathroom until you have used enough tokens to meet my salary target.”
- Comment on Oopsie, Crimson Desert's weird AI paintings weren't supposed to left in for release, Pearl Abyss claim, outlining plans to remove them 1 week ago:
New rule, all AI content “accidentally” left in game releases should be replaced with Weird Al (with an L)
Too cheap to hire voice actors? Now all your NPCs sing Amish Paradise. Slop together some brick textures? Now Weird Al’s face gets tiled on every surface.
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 1 week ago:
Considering 8GB systems are back in vogue, that’s a fuckload. More than half your ram just going to the computer existing.
- Comment on Microsoft ditches plans to inject Copilot into a key part of Windows 11 2 weeks ago:
You mean that thing I disable right from the start anyways?
- Comment on Office.eu officially launches in The Hague as Europe's fully sovereign office platform 2 weeks ago:
Like the article said, alternative to Google/Microsoft, not something private or secure
- Comment on 79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns. 2 weeks ago:
Am I going insane or is there nowhere in the article where they mention which 6 dash cams have no security concerns?
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
Just FYI you don’t need a special router to block ads on the DNS level, you just need to point the DNS settings in your current router to a server that does filtering. Theres a couple of public ones set up to do that for you but you can also point them to a LAN IP and roll your own DNS server (like Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home)
- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 2 weeks ago:
Conservatives often have two key defining characteristics that they build their entire belief system around:
A lack of empathy, and a fear of “other” individuals and cultures.
These lead to a whole host of outcomes, and vary by individual. When it comes to travel I often see it expressed in how vacation is viewed.
Many conservatives I know view vacation as being 100% about them - relaxing, eating their favorite food, seeing their favorite sights, doing their favorite things. They do not care about leaning about someone else’s experience or culture because they cannot empathize with them, and the xenophobia means they’re scared of how to even broach the subject.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, it varies. Businesses are starting to get wise to DNS adblockers, and are serving more ads from their primary domain (this is part of why you can’t block YouTube ads with a DNS blocker anymore - you can’t block them at the DNS level without blocking all of YouTube).
You’ll see a noticeable downtick in phone ads from web browsing and ad-sponsored games, but something like a TV or fridge will probably be unaffected because the ads will be served directly from the same host as the content. You’ll see fewer ads but far from zero.
Also why are you connecting your smart fridge to a travel router? Do you travel with a smart fridge?
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 2 weeks ago:
Unless there’s a particular feature you’re after, like following microblogs, or better mod controls…. Meh, it’s all about the same for the end user.
I shifted to PieFed because I like the direction they’re heading, the flexibility/volume of potential contributors Python provides, and to just generally show support for more options in the fediverse.
PieFed features come more quickly but the apps/front ends are slower to adopt them so it’s not all sunshine and rainbows but the basic functions generally work the same no matter where you are.
- Comment on Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content 2 weeks ago:
Pepperage Farm remembers when Wikipedia was mass transitioning citations to archive sites because the original sites couldn’t be trusted to retain the information over time.
Oh how the turn tables.
- Comment on YSK you can fold fitted sheets neatly (guide by ratfactor) 2 weeks ago:
- That’s not a fitted sheet reaper. It’s… Something else.
- This article follows the same method as the Martha Stewart video I learned to fold from many moons ago. Normally I despise video tutorials, but given the hard-to-describe dimensionality of a fitted sheet, I find the video much easier to follow. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-a2FR1iwqg
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 3 weeks ago:
I’m with you - I’d pay extra for a phone that doesn’t take calls just so I can force everyone to just send it as a text.
- Comment on Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant 3 weeks ago:
They’re all generally fine. WiFi thermostats open up more security holes than the others because they are designed to be chatty. I have an ecobee WiFi thermostat that’s isolated to only talking to HA locally using the HomeKit integration, which is fine, but I can’t say I’d recommend it.
When I set up my thermostat the ZigBee/Z-Wave options were quite frankly ugly and had limited wiring compatibility. Nowadays there’s a bunch more options on the market - you should be fine finding what you need anywhere.
ZigBee/Z-Wave/Thread are all pretty comparable, so I’d go with whatever you already have on your network - me personally I’m all in on ZigBee right now so I’d probably get one of those.
If you’re undecided, HA newest official hardware supports ZigBee & Thread so I’d go with one of those.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 3 weeks ago:
Friendly reminder for those on work computers, Firefox can be installed as a user app without admin rights by just declining the admin request when it pops up.
On Mac, just drag the application to your user apps directory (
/Users/<you>/Applications). - Comment on Samsung TVs to stop collecting Texans’ data without express consent 3 weeks ago:
But definitely keep doing it everywhere else.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 4 weeks ago:
If people moved to Linux
When users connect to their organization’s WiFi…
You think my employer would let me use Linux? Creeping on employees is how management feels important.
I wouldn’t use Teams personally unless under extreme duress. Unfortunately professionally it is the norm.
- Comment on Californian pulls AI ballot measures, citing OpenAI intimidation 4 weeks ago:
Did the article link change? Why are there comments about Hegseth when this article is completely unrelated to any DOD bullshit? Are the bots loose on anything mentioning OpenAI?
- Comment on Resident Evil Requiem currently peaking at over 300,000 players on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Something something denuvo. I’ll check it out when they ditch the spyware.
- Comment on How does one go about contacting the admins of a Piefed instance? 5 weeks ago:
Probably not. But perhaps you can suffer through 2 min of clicking in the web UI? Once you find their info you can DM through Voyager if that tickles your fancy.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 5 weeks ago:
Great to know! Does the pen still generally work for writing/notes? Also any clue if things work well with the newer generations?
Last I dug into Linux on the SP, it was a 3-4 generation lag on stable compatibility. My tablet is nearing EOL (because the charge port sucks and mine doesnt support USB-C charging as a fallback). If I replace it I don’t love replacing it with something used, 4 years old, that may have a short life.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 5 weeks ago:
Touch inputs can be a little messy, driver support for closed source hardware (e.g., MS Surface) is understandably rocky, and I’ve had bad experience with battery longevity especially on open source hardware.
My 6-year-old SP battery still has ~70% capacity, which is teriffic. I have had other laptops lose 90% of their capacity after just a year or two, so I’m skeptical of the tablet market.
I’m not saying good Linux tablets don’t exist, just that I’m looking for recommendations since the waters feel murkier to me.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 5 weeks ago:
I’m on the hunt for a replacement for my Surface, but sure as shit not getting anything with copilot. Curious what alternatives are out there.
Linux options seem a little light on the tablet front.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 5 weeks ago:
Guess it’s time for everybody to find some grass to touch.
- Comment on Social Security payments predicted to be cut in 2032 5 weeks ago:
That’s fine because cost of living keeps going shown and we’re all totally not going to get royally fucked up.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that 2031 is the year the youngest Baby Boomers become eligible for full Social Security benefits, and this isn’t yet another example of the boomer generation pulling up that ladder behind themselves.
