AlecSadler
@AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses 3 days ago:
Similar to how some laser pointers or whatever can damage phone cameras or how lidar can too, is there simple device that can damage meta cameras?
Could just start carrying that around and breaking their shit.
- Comment on AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds 5 days ago:
Also startups are notorious for 7-day work weeks because they’re…well…startups.
- Comment on TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE 6 days ago:
If/when Signal has complied historically, they hand over what they have…which is to say, pretty much nothing.
I’ll take Signal any day over private Facebook chat, Whatsapp, or even telegram.
- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 1 week ago:
Super early on I mined probably 500+ bitcoin.
And later in life sold them all at various points for maybe a total sum of $8k.
So, yeah.
- Comment on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network 1 week ago:
My immediate response to everyone around me when that commercial aired was a loud, “fuck no” followed by a, “if any of you get one I will no longer visit”.
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 1 week ago:
xrdp or a usable alternative primarily
tried rustdesk, AnyDesk, parsec, nomachine - also no go.
Bluetooth issues as well, mouse and keyboard issues. Bluetooth earbud issues in meetings where I keep cutting out or audio is distorted.
Those are the two biggest, a lot of other minor things
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 1 week ago:
Custom built desktop so we can get into that if we want
Minisforum MS-01 running Proxmox
Minisforum S02 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy Book…5?
Surface Laptop something with the Snapdragon elite X or something
I need them to all be able to easily and quickly integrate and interact.
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 1 week ago:
Mouse drivers, CPU something, USB issues, and Bluetooth.
It varies between my different servers and systems. It’s just one of those things where like, yeah, maybe I can solve it, but it’s going to take hours and I need to be able to constantly move forward.
If I didn’t have to work 12+ hours a day it might be different. So I don’t necessarily fault the landscape, it’s just that I can throw Windows on any system and it works and I can RDP into it and it works and it adjusts DPI and such automatically.
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 1 week ago:
It isn’t just an adjustment period, it’s that some things straight up don’t work though.
Happy to be proved wrong, but I’m not exactly a novice.
- Comment on Not that limit 1 week ago:
ChatGPT is such garbage.
- Comment on halal paintball 1 week ago:
ilu
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 1 week ago:
I’m 8 distro attempts in so far and have yet to not sink substantial time into driver and general usability issues.
In another life I’d be happy to sacrifice productivity to grind on fixing the issues, but presently it costs has real costs.
For now, I run Proxmox and a slew of linux containers and VMs - but still unfortunately use windows as my primary :/
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 1 week ago:
Rufus let me install windows with a local account and debloat scripts let me nuke/hide OneDrive.
And, INB4 anyone says “switch to linux”, I’m sorry but it just isn’t viable while maintaining the same seamless experience for what I need. I hate Windows, but I also value my time.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 week ago:
The only time this breaks down for me though is that I still struggle to pay $0.99 for a mobile app I use often sometimes. Really not sure what it is.
- Comment on Just say the word 2 weeks ago:
Luckily she’s hardly that way. She’s actually got really bad guilt about it and has wanted to abandon things just to work a paying job so she can tell people that’s what she does.
- Comment on Just say the word 2 weeks ago:
That’d be awesome.
- Comment on Just say the word 2 weeks ago:
Oh, yes, she does a lot, but for opsec reasons I’m not really providing details.
She just doesn’t get paid to do it, call it hobbies mostly.
- Comment on Just say the word 2 weeks ago:
People feel weird about it, but it’s perfectly fine.
My wife doesn’t work a paying job, we don’t have kids, but in almost every conversation when I’m meeting someone when they ask what my wife does and I tell them, they always follow it up with like, “Oh does she work from home?” or “Oh, does she sell stuff online?”
It often breaks their brain that she doesn’t work a paid job.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 2 weeks ago:
Damn
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 2 weeks ago:
Compound it with Trump taking over the federal reserve.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 2 weeks ago:
My guess is that because OpenAI is the worst of the AI offerings in the industry, NVIDIA is trying to reposition themselves with other companies that are worthwhile.
OpenAI is garbage. It is the household name, but not the go-to solution (in my anecdotal experience).
OpenAI has positioned themselves well as the…Kleenex of AI (where the brand name becomes the sort of…name) but they just aren’t good.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 2 weeks ago:
Bricks on wheels. They leverage AWS services last spelunking showed.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 2 weeks ago:
lol this is hilarious. kick the bucket+++++++. this may be fun to watch.
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
I switched all my EVs over to GM-related products and, despite a variety of differences, some good some bad, I am overall happy and fine with the change.
- Comment on Trump’s Pal Mark Zuckerberg Censoring Site That Names ICE & Border Patrol Goons 3 weeks ago:
Guess he’s on the list.
Oh wait, he already was.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 3 weeks ago:
Based on recent evidence, maybe the CCP > US Government.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 weeks ago:
Funny because I don’t think we’re making it to 2070+
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 weeks ago:
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Prepare for a continued (fraudulent) red wave. Arm yourselves.
Far too many people think the midterms are a panacea, they aren’t. Please please take steps to organize and protect yourselves and your community.
- Comment on US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leaked 3 weeks ago:
Boycott the US. Destroy our economy. Please.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 4 weeks ago:
Cry more. Half the problem is Copilot is anecdotally worse than just running a model locally myself. It easily ranks at or near the bottom for everything IME.
The other half is Microsoft shoving it everywhere including fucking Notepad.