rozodru

@rozodru@pie.andmc.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “Cannot be deleted”

  sure. Based on ALL the youtube vids from India of unlocking phones or bypassing FRPs, etc I imagine it won’t be long before you start seeing videos from India on how to easily bypass this.

  I mean some of those FRP videos are wild with the steps they go through to unlock an Android phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  amusing thing is that when it came out someone ripped all the wallpapers from the app and put them online for free. most of it was AI slop anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  in the late 90s/early 00s I went through a few of these drives. OP, they break, they just die. once you start getting the “clicks of death” it’s only a matter of time before the entire drive craps out on you. it generally doesn’t happen all at once. few clicks here and there. but eventually it’ll become more frequent until every zip disk you pop in just starts clicking. Just how it goes. and the thing is they’re pretty much impossible to fix. when it’s dead, it’s dead.

  All I can suggest is enjoy it while you can because it WILL die and the fact the thing has lasted this long is impressive.

  Eventually after the 4th drive died my Dad was done with them, had enough. Spent the money to get a CD-RW drive.

  So they’re great for nostalgia. they’re neat in that regard. but don’t put anything you would consider even moderately important on those zip disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quitting Spotify for Navidrome⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah for iOS ply:sub is the way to go. my friends and family who use my Navidrome server and have iphones all use ply:sub. Android friends use Symfonium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Think I went through 5 or 6 360s due to RRoD. Remember trying EVERYTHING to get those things to work when it happened. Like wrapping it in a towel and turning it on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He has his own private chef to make him food, he has maids to take care of his house(s), he has assistants to do all his errands, if he has kids he has nannies to take care of them. So in his backwards ass head he can easily “work” more than 70+ hours a week and doesn’t understand why us lowly peons can’t do the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t know what Paradox was smoking with this one. They get the license, cool, they hand it off to a studio that…while is known for being a support dev or doing ports they DID manage to get the original Bloodlines writer on board and then it was delay, delay, delay, fire the creative team, more delay, switch studios, start completely over, call it a day, and then claim “yeah we’re not going to make one of these style games again…we’d rather continue to nickle and dime our customers with strategy games.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many people stopped posting on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you’re now interacting with unhinged strangers or unhinged family members and no one wants to deal with that in their daily lives.

  This isn’t like the days of Myspace or early Facebook or even old PHP forums where you essentially chose who you interacted with and in turn selected who could interact with you. But it’s also the fact, at least for me personally, I just don’t want to share all the details that go on in my life anymore with everyone. It used to be I could post something personal online and only the people I trusted or very close friends could see it and thats who I wanted to see it. I didn’t want my Parents to stumble across the fact that a girl I was dating had a weird/unique fetish or whatever. Once my parents got on Facebook then it was over.

  Social media is fine when you’re allowed to keep it within a contained, personal, and customized environment. Once you open the flood gates and allow EVERYONE into your life you might as well be screaming on a street corner about what you had for breakfast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see it’s your first time reading a furry dev blog post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many people stopped posting on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  add to the fact that these platforms are still relatively small so I can recognize usernames thus making it feel more personal I suppose?

  Also I run my own instances of everything in the fediverse so I have more control of what and whom I want to see/hear from. If you’re a person I don’t agree with and have negative opinions then I can easily block you from everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if a lot of it is because Microsoft will say your computer isn’t compatible to upgrade but meanwhile it actually CAN be upgraded and users are just taking what Microsoft tells them as truth and not investigating further.

  I myself have upgraded a couple of family members machines to Win 11 even though “technically” Microsoft claims they can’t be. just went ahead with it anyways. I could have just thrown Linux on them like Mint or something but some people are just comfortable within windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the issue is at one point, like say a year or so ago, LLMs weren’t that bad. they were fairly accurate in their solutions. But lately within the past few months they’ve all collectively gotten noticeably worse. They ate up all the content available and then proceeded to start eating each others waste and vomiting out that as a solution. Claude for example at one point was a decent coding assistant. now? now 8 out of 10 solutions are hallucinations. GPT5 is a clear downgrade from previous versions and now the thing just rants and rants in hopes that somewhere in it’s rants and info dumps there’s potentially the correct solution. It also now fails to remember the context of a prompt most of the time. If you can’t get the correct solution within one answer from GPT5 you might as well just close the tab because it’s never going to get there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stranglehold. I friggin love this game. It’s the John Woo videogame that is technically a sequel to the movie Hard Boiled and has Chow Yun-fat as the lead. I don’t know but I just really dig this game. Similar to it Enter the Matrix I also love. I go back and replay both every so often.

  It’s also a bit of a comfort type of thing as those came out in the early 00’s when I was in my early 20s and still living at home and had more money than I knew what to do with hah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  after looking at their site….oh fuck no.

  they offer lines of credit to pay your rent. but you have to pay back said credit by the end of the month so….why? If you’re having trouble paying your rent getting a line of credit to cover it and then having to pay back said credit by the end of the month on top of a percentage AND membership fee it just sounds exactly like a payday loan where you KNOW they hope you roll over so you’ll never be able to catch up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it and don’t hate it. If one of my projects took off like that and gained traction the absolute LAST thing I’d want to be is CEO of the whole damn thing. That’s just not who I am. I’d hope I’d be able to find and hand it off to someone more qualified for that position. So I totally get where Eugen is coming from as I would have done the exact same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  sorry I just went off the article and didn’t watch the video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the problem is two fold and this applies to all LLMs.

  1. according to the article the person asked HOW to increase the font size. Copilot then tells Aura to go increase the font size so it’s not exactly what the person asked.

  2. like all LLMs it MUST provide a solution. it MUST do something. Copilot asks Aura to increase the font size to 150%. it’s already at 150%. but instead of going back to the user and saying “the font size is already set to 150%, would you like to increase it more?” it just goes ahead and bumps it up to 200 because it has to. it has no choice, it must provide some kind of solution. LLMs like GPT5, Claude, etc will do similar crap which ultimately shows that recent models are all collectively garbage. they now must ALL provide some sort of solution even if the majority of the time said solutions are actually hallucinations. LLMs aren’t allowed to say “I don’t know” or “it’s already done” or whatever.

  So this video/article just shows how pointless and unreliable LLMs/AI are at even the most basic things. They’ve all been told that they must provide some kind of solution, always. It’s especially bad now with recent updates. Claude will hallucinate 8 times out of 10 for its solutions. GPT5 now just info dumps on you hoping something in there will resonate, it can’t provide an accurate precise solution anymore it just vomits on your plate and calls it a meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah the battery life was horrible. it would eat 6 AA batteries like they were candy. I only ever used mine when it was either plugged into the wall or plugged in the cars cigarette lighter which my dad hated cause he smoked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  sounds like one of those free use songs that youtube provides when you upload a video so you don’t get copy striked. people actually LIKE this drivel? wow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What personal dramas have you witnessed with/among your fellow players while gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh yeah it’s huge. As of right now Pandemic Horde have lost over 16,000 characters that have quit the alliance. they’re pretty much done. End of an era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What helped me when I was a kid were games like Quake 3 Arena, Worms, and Mechwarrior 2, 3, and 4.

  Q3A was because of the speed. you had to be fast with the mouse if you hoped to compete. Add to the fact that the bots in Q3A, at the time anyways, were quite good. you can play it offline with bots or even over a local LAN.

  Again going back to a LAN staple but Worms is also good. you need precision with the mouse on that one. lots of geometry at play.

  Finally the Mechwarrior games which really emphasize the mouse and keyboard combination. Torso Twisting and Flicking, positioning of your legs in regards to your torso, etc. really helps with mouse coordination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What personal dramas have you witnessed with/among your fellow players while gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I play EVE Online soooooo this happens daily? multiple times a day?

  The political dramas in that game could put actual real world political drama to shame. I mean take what’s currently happening in game right now. A massive alliance named Pandemic Horde decided to evacuate the space they held. fair enough, the issue? Leadership made the announcement they were leaving said space and then…leadership quit. in the same message. Thus all the regular members, literally hundreds of them if not well over 1000, were left on their own in hostile space with all their assets stuck in stations that were now actively being shot at and destroyed by opposing alliances. The players are essentially stuck because all the upper leadership of Pandemic Horde have the massive capital ships that they could have used to save their members by getting them out of system or aiding in destroying the attackers but they said nope, we’re not going to do that. It’s a cluster fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 480 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loved the first game. I still have my Max Payne mouse pad that came with it. Second one was alright. I don’t think I ever finished the third.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  just upgraded my instance. pretty good, very smooth and yay animated profile avatars!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes if they want you back you NEED to demand higher pay. Many companies, even some of my clients, are trying to pull the “we need you back but we’re going to pay less than what we previously paid you” bullshit thinking devs will be desperate enough to take it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand what exactly this is as it doesn’t go into great detail especially the whole “flavors” thing. There’s Ember, Social, Community, and Corporation so what’s the difference between each. in the documentation for installation it tells you to pick a flavor but again doesn’t describe what each “flavor” actually is.

  So is this like meetup or some kind of neighborhood app/social group thing? I’d be willing to set up an instance on my server of it today but I don’t even know what this really is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sins of a Solar Empire. It’s a space based strategy game that I’ve sunk hours into. years ago I used to have really shotty internet so it would go down all the time. I’d play that game for 8 hours a pop easily and the time would just fly by. I’m not even a big strategy gamer but I adored that game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which year was the most stacked for game releases?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2001 or 2011.

  2001 easily had the most games that were highly rated and as others have said you some real classics. The PS2 was hitting it’s stride, the original Xbox Launched, and the Gamecube was right there.

  2011 also had some damn amazing games: Arkham City, Portal 2, Skyrim, Skyward Sword, Minecraft, Mortal Kombat 9, Starcraft II, Bastion, Uncharted 3, Battlefield 3 to name a few.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried it, paid for it, cancelled it. I tested it with the same queries with ddg, startpage, brave, and qwant via 4get. The results were essentially the same. Kagi did provide more context in the description of the results but it wasn’t anything I would pay a premium for. the majority of features I just didn’t use, the assistant and fastgpt were a waste, lenses were fine and having fediverse on by default is neat but nothing I’d call home about.

  If it were cheaper sure, I might stick with it but I can’t justify the price to anyone wanting to use a search engine. $5 for 300 searches a month is a joke. I also don’t like the fact that if you want to pay with something other than a credit card (paypal, venmo, etc) you get charged extra cause Kagi doesn’t want to eat the fees. Also there’s zero option to opt out of paying for the “AI” features, you can turn them off sure…but you’re still going to pay for them.

  If your internet usage consists of constant searching and LLM use for searching then sure, you’re going to be paying $10+ a month and be happy with it. But there was nothing Kagi offered that knocked my socks off. if anything, felt like I was getting scammed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Up until a few weeks ago I was running my own private SearXNG instance and it’s not just you, even I noticed on my OWN instance that it had progressively gotten worse. Initially it was great so I just left it be but then the performance and results just became horrible. It was hit or miss if the thing would even load or not when other instances on my server like my akkoma, piefed, redlib, forgejo, etc all ran smooth as silk.

  Eventually I ditched SearXNG and switched to 4get which much better and faster results. thing never goes down and the search results have been fantastic.