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- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 1 week ago:
I would recommend playing a mediocre game you don’t intend to replay. If you’re anything like me, I associate movies and games with the feeling of sickness I felt watching it. So Shadow of the Colossus, for some reason, is strongly associated with the feeling I had being home sick playing it as a teenager. I still replay it but have that kind of aftertaste of the memory lol. I similarly associate the movie Dark City with having chicken pox!
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
One day, literally every Gsuite product immediately and incessantly started nagging us to use Gemini. Fortunately our tech staff quickly switched it all off. We have slowly been re-enabling features that are useful like meeting transcriptions. I just wish these corporations could have more restraint. In previous waves of improvement in tech, usage dictated investment in new products. These days, they seem to feel the need to coerce us to use their products as they insist we should. I think users are getting fatigued by this dynamic. I used to be the first to install every update and try new apps and products. These days, I’m excited when I can stop using a product, and I don’t think it’s just due to age. It means I can stop having to be vigilant about some company I know is searching for ways to exploit me.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 1 week ago:
Oh that’s good news! I really only use it for myself, so that sounds like I can stream my music without worrying
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 1 week ago:
Dynamic DNS does cost money. But not $8 a month. Development also costs money which falls under the $8 a month, but really not my problem, which is why I use Jellyfin. I used to run Plex off of my Nvidia shield, which was a cool gateway drug to self hosting and I’m grateful to them for that, but I like handling the technical stuff myself.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 1 week ago:
The first one, yes. That’s what I do. But IIRC hosting media via cloudflare tunnels goes against the TOC and they reserve the right to ban users over it
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 5 weeks ago:
Yes, Civic hybrid looks good. Too bad no plug-in option for it :( The discontinued Honda Clarity plug-in might be a used option, but it’s kind of frumpy to be honest.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 5 weeks ago:
The thing that really frustrates me is that I can’t buy the car I want. I would like a successor to my Chevy Volt but it’s become very difficult to find a compact hybrid hatchback in the States. It’s basically Prius Prime or bust, and the Prius is not nearly as fun to drive as the Volt.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 weeks ago:
Graphics are great. Hardware requirements are low, but there are bugs that accumulate with more play time. Learning curve is infinite and permadeath is only option despite a bunch of claims to mod/patch it. PVP is broken, constant spawn camping and pay to play behavior. Microtransactions are a pain. Huge variety of mission types, yet it still ends up feeling like a bunch of fetch quests sometimes. Side quests are the way to go, the main campaign is not super rewarding
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 1 month ago:
They’ve been bought out and gutted a couple times over. It’s very sad
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 1 month ago:
They needed a safe space for their ideas. Less scary stuff like pronouns that make their brains hurt
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 month ago:
A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require “some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements” to be tragic.
To me this is tragic even in the Greek sense
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 2 months ago:
I feel like there have always been buggy releases. But I do feel they have gotten more frequent and have become the actual norm, with people being impressed when AAA releases don’t have deal breaking bugs on release
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
You are making a common mistake of being too literal!
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
I am honestly surprised it took this long! Kindle has been around a long time and it’s not like Amazon was any less evil back then. It makes me wonder if the competition has been starting to make them nervous!
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
You might try one of the larger Kobos to be able to read PDFs comfortably. The little ones might be a bit cramped with most PDFs. For html I’ve never tried that with Kobo, but a lot of people swear by the Android e-ink tablets from Onyx and Boox, though those are sometimes pricey!
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
I used this guide from a thread on Reddit. It relies on Calibre and a set of plugins reddit.com/…/2024_guide_to_dedrm_kindle_books/
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
I’m pretty happy with Kobo. I’ve had the same model for about ten years and it’s still working great. They had color temperature changing for the backlight before it was cool. The syncing to Pocket was neat before stupid Mozilla killed it, and now they’ve pivoted to Instapaper. Plus I can install KOreader to also read stuff on my own ebook server, though I find the Kobo firmware is quite nice so I often just stick on that.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
They also consistently put their ebooks on sale. I’ve gone cold turkey on buying from them and have noticed they often have the best prices on books. They want people to build a library and be locked in.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
I think this explains why Amazon is locking down their books and making libraries non-portable. There is more competition
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
Fairly intuitive, if you can drag the right file to the right directory on the device.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
Between Kobo and Google Books I haven’t had a problem of not finding a book. Are you talking about small authors self-publishing on Kindle? I could see that being an issue
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
It is remarkable how many books available for free on Gutenberg are sold in the same format on Amazon (it’d be one thing if they were special editions, new translations etc, but they’re the same!)
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
Yep, I had a Kindle library of a few dozen books, when they started their shenanigans locking down the desktop client earlier this year I downloaded all of them, de-drmed and converted to epub with Calibre. Hosting them on Calibre-web and accessing with KOreader on a Kobo. I continue to buy books on Kobo and Google Books, which let me download copies (albeit with DRM).
Makes me wonder after all these years why Amazon is locking down ability to move books around. I wonder if they’re starting to feel some real competition and feel threatened! The market of cheap e-ink Android ereaders seems to be growing more and more
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 312 comments
- Comment on Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? 3 months ago:
I considered setting up a Pi for WireGuard at my mom’s house (her router doesn’t support VPN), so we could share subscriptions still, but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle and risk that they would start VPN detecting from the client: could just imagine them sending her emails about it that would confuse her lol
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 4 months ago:
Exactly. It’s an very niche library (tmap for R) and just was completely overhauled. Gemini, chatGPT and Copilot all seem pretty confused and mix up the old and new syntax
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 4 months ago:
LLMs are useful to provide generic examples of how a function works. This is something that would previously take an hour of searching the docs and online forums, but the LLM can do for very quickly, and I appreciate. But I have a library I want to use that was just updated with entirely new syntax. The LLMs are pretty much useless for it. Back to the docs I go! Maybe my terrible code will help to train the model. And in my field (marine biogeochemistry), the LLM generally cannot understand the nuances of what I’m trying to do. Vibe coding is impossible. And I doubt the training set will ever be large or relevant enough for the vibe coding to be feasible.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 months ago:
Mozilla is a bizarre Matryoshka doll with a for profit company inside of the nonprofit. If anything, I believe this structure is responsible for Mozilla’s problems
- Comment on What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside? 4 months ago:
I use Wireguard via PiVPN and it’s pretty much foolproof. I don’t bother with Dynamic DNS but have in the past