MrScottyTay
@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 1 day ago:
Because Amazon just have a shit algorithm. They don’t distinguish single purchase items but their algorithm is skewed to try and get you to come back to get the things you got in the past.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 1 day ago:
If you’re already taking about a product you’ve likely already been swayed by targeted marketing (not just online but physical/traditional too). And you only become more aware after you’ve seen an ad with it still on your mind. And this is the moment where some people say that their phone must’ve been listening to them earlier on, because they can’t seem to comprehend cohorts and marketing in general.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Nah it’s the thumb finger, like the index finger etc. We have fully truncated it to just thumb because of how it feels more unique to the others. Doesn’t mean it no longer fits the categorisation though.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 1 day ago:
Use smart tube for TV
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 1 day ago:
I don’t think it’s too bad. I can imagine those with some slight visual impairments it might’ve been awkward to see the buttons some times without a background for them
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 day ago:
Fucking preach! I feel like this falls on deaf ears most of the time though sadly.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 days ago:
Does it have proper .sln support with a solution explorer?
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 days ago:
I’m not being forced to use visual studio. But because of dev ops licenses we get visual studio licenses alongside it so because of that the company isn’t willing (and rightly so in my opinion) to foot the expensive (for a small company) bill for rider.
Which is why I’ve landed on vs code.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
Then I’m reliant on my current workplace rather than figuring out a consistent way to code at work, outside of work and at any other future workplace.
Don’t want to have to get used to one kind of workflow to then not being able to use it in another setting.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
I used vscodium for a bit but their latest C# Dev kit is locked to VS Code proper :(
I even made a cool bash script that would download and install ms vs store extensions and all of their dependencies before hitting this roadblock (to get the ones not available on open vsx).
Thanks for the password manager suggestions, I’ll look into them when I get a chance.
I’ve been looking into firefox forks too.
I would like to keep contactless via my phone as I don’t ever really carry my wallet with me anymore these days so maybe Google pay will have to stay. Bit annoying that it won’t be able to be used on whatever browser I end up going with though :(
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
I use it for work…
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
Yeah Skype was already dead by then and when normies wanted to start using video calls on the reg, they ended up with zoom either because their work were already using it elsewhere or from being recommended by others that had that as their reason.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
Or the windows phone too
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
NVIDIA GTX is still a crapshoot if you wanted to play games on an older system (at least with modern desktop environments that use wayland) and RTX is going to be fine for most things unless you wanted to use Steam Gaming Mode on bazzite (because it was built with AMD in mind and uses APIs that the equivalent in the nvidia drivers are buggy - but they seem to not matter when in games because devs make them work on both cards or have just accidentally avoided those APIs - I’m guessing that’s the reason - I think it’s vulkan related iirc)
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
It’s a non issue for most games, which is great but every now and then there’s a game that’s too tightly integrated into windows (like phasmophobia and it using the cortan API of all things for voice chat) or one that relies on an incompatible anti cheat system.
The Linux community need to figure out a new friendly standard to ensure anti cheat without out needing to act like a backdoor to the root kernel. I wish I was smart enough to help with that sort of stuff.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
All of my devices except my work one are now Linux.
I have an old surface go 2 that good a massive new lease on life from using arch plasma. Double the battery life and everything. It could no longer get updates from MS because there was no longer enough space on the main drive to download and install the next update.
Then I have an old retro gaming pc that used to be for XP gaming but I ended up sticking bazzite on it for a test and it’s stayed that way and because of that when I built my girlfriend’s latest PC we decided to go bazzite desktop for her. And after getting past a few growing pains at the beginning that made it look like we made the wrong decision (due to an old 10xx gtx gpu - now on 3050) she’s been enjoying it and now it’s just standard.
Then I have my proper gaming PC that I use like a console so I put bazzite-deck on it as soon as I got an AMD card. And I’ve never felt better. HTPC console like gaming on windows was a fucking arse-on, even with steam big picture mode, because it doesn’t get all of the cool bells and whistles that let you control basic system settings right from steam like you can on steam os and bazzite deck.
For work I’ve started moving away from visual studio to VS Code (i know it’s still MS but I do C# .NET work and rider is too expensive, I don’t want a subscription for an IDE) to allow me to easily transition to fully working on Linux if the opportunity ever arises. Whether it be with my current employer and me convincing them to let me to install Linux on my laptop or with a future company. We’ll see which comes first ;)
Now it’s time to get and decouple from Google. Currently figuring out with android auto maps app I want (waze won’t run for some reason, my current winner at the moment is tom tom amigo). Then it’s on to getting a password manager, then a new browser (preferably way more lightweight than chrome) and potentially a Google pay replacement(?).
Any suggestions and opinions from anyone here - even though this is tangentially off topic - would be greatly appreciated.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 4 days ago:
Wooooosh
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 6 days ago:
Issue with healthcare IT is they cannot just upgrade willy nilly. They have to make sure that whatever computer they’re changing isn’t responsible for something big and they have to make sure everyone who uses it can use it. You still have some critical system PCs in hospitals that run DOS and sometimes even older.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 6 days ago:
Linux mint is another really good windows refugee friendly distro. And if you want a gaming COVID one then bazzite is the one to go for (it’s basically steam OS, but there’s a full fledged desktop version too)
- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
Another comment explained what it is but to explain where the name comes from, you remember those capsule machines where you had to collect all the toys? Those were called gachapon machines, often shortened to just gacha (i might be slightly wrong on a little bit of the words, but they are the capsule machines)
- Comment on Spoon knows what spoon must do 1 week ago:
Yeah we have custard but that’s a completely different thing to ice cream…
Custard goes on cakes
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
For games and other media that gets “released”. Cancelled is usually the term that gets used if it doesn’t come out. A film that is no longer in the cinema doesn’t get said it was cancelled for example. For games that cease to be playable after release they are more often described as being shut down or being sunset. Like I’ve never read about an ongoing game being cancelled unless they were specifically talking about an originally upcoming piece of dlc or content being cancelled.
- Comment on Discord is verifying some users’ age with ID and facial scans 1 week ago:
Revolt
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
Shut down is the correct term. A cancelled game is a game that never released. No need to muddy that definition.
- Comment on Spoon knows what spoon must do 1 week ago:
Is this an American thing?
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
Yeah it was out for a year or two and went free to play for another before being shut down
- Comment on Spoon knows what spoon must do 1 week ago:
Egg in ice cream? What the fuck
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
Star wars 1313 was THE game I was waiting for. Got very sad when it got cancelled.
Also all is the in-progress and for some completed content that just got shelved for Disney infinity because the new management at Disney forgot why games mattered. (Same time when they absolutely gutted lucasarts). Just for them to start from scratch again a few years later when they realised they still need a videogame presence. Which makes the losses of what could have been hurt more.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
That game came out. I still miss it though, but it isn’t a cancelled game.
Still keep going for a private server. That game ruined other mmos for me.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
I thought that game came out?