RalfWausE
@RalfWausE@feddit.org
- Comment on AI could rebalance power between people and the services they use 1 week ago:
To hell with ‘AI’
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
Its IRC, it works, there is already a very mature ecosystem
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 1 week ago:
Also, blocking it entirely in your browser / firewall can do wonders in keeping one from relapsing… helped me personaly a lot.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 1 week ago:
But in the Fediverse you always have the option to walk away, join another instance or even host your own.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 1 week ago:
Buy second hand, rip, sell again.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
Back to the 70s and early 80s…
- Comment on LLM's poisoned with sleeper agent backdoors is the latest fun security threat to worry about 2 weeks ago:
WTF, why discredit your own article right at the beginning? Such a weird line.
Its “The Register”.
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 2 weeks ago:
I have tried it… its not bad
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 2 weeks ago:
There IS no leaving. If you are IN, you STAY IN.
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 2 weeks ago:
If you are on Linux, use a real editor like Vim or Emacs and not… THAT
- Comment on Our parental control software utilizes multiple programming languages. 2 weeks ago:
Eeeehm… this is ragebait, right?
- Comment on 'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI 2 weeks ago:
The last REALLY good Windows was Windows 2000… and i am going to defend this hill until you take this yellowed out PS/2 keyboard out of my cold dead hands.
- Comment on Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders 2 weeks ago:
I think to fill a cavity THIS big you need something like THAT
- Comment on Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders 2 weeks ago:
And if people are going constantly back to the red outhouse this will never change.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If the abominable intelligence is killing every corner of things we consider good its time to start killing the “AI”…
- Comment on Loops is Now on the App Store 2 weeks ago:
Well, it is what de create, right? Why not encouraging people creating short form videos that are decisively not brain-rot?
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 weeks ago:
May your optimism last.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If they would produce a super stable, backward compatible system without “AI”, without tons of dark patterns and with a traditional UI… let’s say, a Windows 7 reboot with compatibility to modern software and released under a Free license… then I would honestly take a look.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 weeks ago:
Just to be a bit heretical: Its absolutely possible to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, look up Rufus, download the ISO from Microsoft and on you go.
I have managed to get it running on a NUC with a two core and 2 GB RA.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 weeks ago:
Ah… you mean its better at providing a more potent form of a digital drug? Ok…
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 weeks ago:
The Iphone entered the marked in 2007, before that is what entirely possible to connect a PDA to the internet via you dumbphone (using IRC from my palm pilot in the 90s surely felt cool…)
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 weeks ago:
Recently i feel the years piling up on me… i mean, for me, personaly, in my feelings, a C64 is old, a Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM is still a pretty decent office machine, i still convert € to DM in my head and an Xbox 360 is still the console i was well too eager to buy
a couple of years… goddamn… about 20 years ago. - Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, i also have backups of my files… but every single time such a failure occured was when i under no circumstances needed a downtime like that (important project to finish, holidays where all shops are closed…) and i simply developed some superstition regarding SSDs.
It also wasn’t brand specific, i had it happen with Sandisk and Verbatim so far.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 3 weeks ago:
The thing is: With a spinning disk i can hear when things start to get spooky…
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 3 weeks ago:
Nah… i don’t trust SSD’s, had too many dying over the years without any form of warning.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 3 weeks ago:
I write this post from a Core2Quad machine with 8 GB of DDR2 RAM and a spinning harddisk… and the system feels quiet fast and nimble.
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 3 weeks ago:
There is already postmarketOS if you have an old supported phone somewhere in the drawer… it has still some rough edges, but it works and gives a nice glimpse into that ecosystem.
- Comment on Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite. 4 weeks ago:
I still like Opera but I would really wish they would move to a different browser engine…
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 4 weeks ago:
Bill doesn’t gave a shit either about me religiously repeating that in a world without walls nobody did need Gates or Windows… but it felt better reiterating this mantra.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 weeks ago:
You could say the same about drugs…