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- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 6 days ago:
I will wait until GTA 6 has been out a few years lol. I have a long enough backlog already. Still haven’t started Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Forbidden West, and about 30 other games I mean to play. Patient gaming is the best way
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 2 weeks ago:
The CNC plug in is so useful! I also made my wedding save the dates in it and some figures for a scientific manuscript: worked great.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s a false alarm, in the sense that it is totally reasonable to be alarmed. They are cutting crucial stuff before they know what it is. There are a lot of things being cut where we’re only going to understand the impact years from now.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
It’s messed up that there are still ways lead is used in this country. Ammunition, also, is a huge scourge on our environment, and sometimes people. I’m very sorry about your daughter having that problem.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
In fact, the industry did sue and win a lawsuit in 1991 narrowing the range of asbestos compounds banned by the EPA. There have always been huge waves of resistance to every harmful compound banned by the government, from leaded gas to cigarettes to chlorofluorocarbons that harmed the ozone layer. The difference is that the present consolidation of wealth in the hands of a small group of billionaires, who control a consolidating group of media corporations, allows for unprecedented ability to control public opinion. Meanwhile, the amount of junk information floating around in social media, and failing public education, has disordered our systems of discourse. There is much more limited ability to vet quality sources of information, leaving people to worry more about fictional chemtrails than about the very real pesticides in their food
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 4 weeks ago:
The Last of Us: The T-shirt The Last of Us: The Coloring Book The Last of Us: The Lunchbox
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones 4 weeks ago:
I used to use old phones (Nexus 6P, Galaxy Nexus, Moto X) as security cameras, stopped for exactly this reason. They all got really warm, even with the screen off, and I was uneasy about it. IIRC my Gnex removable battery started expanding a bit! That’s when I stopped using them for it.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how many ads on different sites are sketchy. I don’t feel like finding out, that’s why I block it. There have been plenty of reasons that all sorts of illegal stuff gets inserted on well-meaning sites, so it seems like it’s inviting all sorts of trouble to automatically click stuff without consideration.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 5 weeks ago:
Just curious- if ads are for something illegal, couldn’t this expose me to liability for theoretically “clicking” it from my IP/device? And if ads are for something unsavory ( like a “chat with local cougars” site or something similar), wouldn’t they start to deliver me more such ads, thinking, wow this IP is the only one clicking every sex chat ad, send them more!
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 month ago:
This story is about domesticated honeybees, which have been declining for decades due to Colony Collapse Disorder and other stressors. Native North American bees are in their own long-term decline, with 1 in 4 species at risk of extinction. However, domesticated honeybees are tremendously important for the pollination and yield of many crops important to humans, and this population drop, thought to be the largest annual losses seen, should be considered in the context of the longer decline, and the possibility that we could hit a tipping point when pollination, and a crucial pillar of our food system, could fail.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 month ago:
I have set up the original Fallout (fully modded and running through Fallout 1n2), but it’s pretty hard to get into. Not because of the graphics, which are actually fine, but just because the mechanics are quite intricate and I think my ability to learn new gameplay mechanics is declining (I’ve only played Fallout starting with Fallout 3). I’m going to keep trying to get into it!
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 1 month ago:
I didn’t attempt to import my onenote notes to Joplin, since they were old class notes and handwritten, which Joplin doesn’t handle that well yet (though they do have a new drawing capability). Googling around, it looked like there are some tools, and some that they’re actively working on discourse.joplinapp.org/t/onenote-importer/…/7
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 1 month ago:
It’s a great open source note app! I’ve been using it a couple years and like it a lot
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 1 month ago:
I loved OneNote as a student. It still is pretty unmatched if you want to take pen enabled notes IMO. I would download lecture slides and annotate them, also recording the prof. So I could highlight my annotations later and see what the professor said! Pretty slick and haven’t found anything comparable since. But I don’t need this kind of use case as much anymore and have moved to Joplin
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 month ago:
Oh boy, I shared the spacebar news article a year ago or so and was hit by a shitstorm of indignant comments.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 month ago:
I have offered logins to a couple family and they just say hmm, never heard of it, sounds illegal and don’t use it lol
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 month ago:
Yes, it took me a long time to figure it out. Which is why Plex feels comfortable charging for it
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 month ago:
Yes, it does introduce insecurity, so not for everyone. I have it behind a domain on cloudflare (let’s encrypt cert) with nginx reverse proxy
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 month ago:
I just confirmed it has it. You need to be on the same subnet, which is why VPN won’t work. But then everything shows up as castable
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
It is enshittification for sure. At the core it makes sense to not have it free, since dynamic DNS is not free. However it is a very small cost
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 month ago:
IIRC it has it. Not if you’re behind VPN or a tunnel. Only over HTTPS.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 month ago:
I use an Nividia shield that I’ve had for about 5 years. Have an alternate ad free launcher enabled. Still works really well. I use it mostly with Kodi streaming from SMB, some Jellyfin though I have Jellyfin hosted on a Pi4 so video quality is somewhat lacking. The 4k upscaling still works very well and is somewhat unique among streaming boxes
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 2 months ago:
I am not optimistic. Kevin Rose spent the last few years doing crypto/NFT nonsense, and is now on the AI train. Plus, link aggregators have tried to double down on AI with mixed results. See the example of Artifact, which crashed and burned just last year. There is no business model for this, and if there were, I wouldn’t trust Kevin Rose to deliver it. I say this as someone who was a massive Digg/Revision3/Diggnation fan as a teenager but grew disillusioned.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS 2 months ago:
The article discusses that. This is bringing the EUs approach to Brazil
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- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 2 months ago:
I completely agree. It is likely a constitutional amendment will be needed to institute a wealth tax/ceiling. But it is needed, for national security. The centre cannot hold.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 2 months ago:
Another comment suggested that helped with LibreWolf, but that is a closer fork than Pale Moon, so not sure
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 2 months ago:
That’s analogous to saying you won’t call any numbers on certain carrier It’s possible, but your overall service is devalued if you can’t connect to a large group of people.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 95 comments
