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- Comment on Microsoft opens testing for Windows AI search 22 hours ago:
Y’all remember when the start menu would actually do a good job searching and opening programs, instead of searching Bing for “Steam”. I don’t want to search Bing for Steam, I want to open Steam, that is why I am typing into the start menu and not into a browser’s search box.
- Comment on FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from over 4,000 US computers 5 days ago:
The malware allowed arbitrary code execution, it sounds like the FBI sent the malware a command to delete itself.
That’s pretty darn cool!
- Comment on 'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I want Facebook/Zuckerberg deciding what is and isn’t ‘fact’.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 weeks ago:
Regulating ISPs as a utility is a pretty big change, not simply a technical detail; it is in the purview of Congress.
Congressmen aren’t individually drafting bills, they direct their aids to draft the bills and hammer out the small details. We don’t need to overhaul our system, we need congressmen to do their job rather than offloading their job to the Executive.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 weeks ago:
Like most large changes, it requires an act of Congress. Doing these via the executive leads to weak outcomes like this.
- Comment on Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series 2 weeks ago:
The Switch mostly lives on the talent and creativity of Nintendo devs. Russia seems to be lacking in the quantity and quality in that regard as well.
Honestly, I would expect Russia to shoot more for PC gaming, rather than console gaming. But that would almost certainly require using home-grown or Chinese semiconductors. I’m not sure there are too many homegrown Russian semiconductor fabs, and Chinese chips aren’t known for their high performance like Taiwanese (TSMC, and by extension nVidia, AMD) and American chips (Intel) are.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 month ago:
Thank you for the solid points. People are dooming way too hard, simply because their preferred candidate lost this round.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 month ago:
teetering on brink of another civil war
Shit has to get much, much, much worse before people are willing to take up arms against their own family member 'en mass. A civil war isn’t one in which you fight a far away enemy, a civil war is one in which many of your family members and friends are on the opposite side. We are nowhere near a civil war, not even close.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 month ago:
Happened 8 years ago, it wasn’t the end of America then. It won’t be the end of America now.
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 2 months ago:
Trees are carbon neutral. They pull the carbon out and sequester it in themselves. When they rot or burn, the carbon is returned.
- Comment on Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now 2 months ago:
They should have stopped after they added tabs to notepad. That was an actually good change.
The whole point of the app is to be simple, any, any extra fluff is detrimental to the core functioning of the app.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Everything in low earth orbit (LEO) decays and falls back to earth due to drag; as there is a very, very small amount of air there. The starlink satellites are all in LEO.
Space junk is mostly a problem higher up. In the higher orbits, old satellites move themselves to graveyard orbits; places where nobody really wants a satellite.
- Comment on Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device" 2 months ago:
Personally, I use TVs as a simple screen and watch everything through other devices (Roku, or a Linux PC running MythTV).
This would be my suggestion. Get a mini pc or dongle and use the TV simply as a display. Internet connected TVs are never well supported.
Also, highly suggest disconnecting the TV from the internet. They don’t get security updates and they are notorious for spying on people’s viewing habits.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
Of course not, who would put a power button on the back or bottom of the computer? Front, side, or top are the places it goes for almost every computer out there.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
As long as no vents are blocked, should work fine. Anything with a fan is orientation agnostic.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
but you expect them to disable USB devices waking their computer?
He expects one to turn off their computer when they are done with it, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect.
- Comment on Reddit shares soar after company turns first-ever profit. 2 months ago:
This was the reason they made the API changes. They wanted to charge for easy access to the content. Sure, you can scrape every Reddit page, but nobody has time for that. Pay up and hoover down Reddit comments for you AI training.
- Comment on Dropbox decided to reduce their global workforce by approximately 20% or 528 employees. 2 months ago:
Why the hell do they have so many employees in the first place?
- Comment on We took on Google and forced them to pay out £2bn 2 months ago:
What the case was about is ~20 paragraphs down for some reason:
In its 2017 judgement, the European Commission found that Google had illegally promoted its own comparison shopping service in search results, whilst demoting those of competitors.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 2 months ago:
B&H and Home Depot have been my two replacements for things they sell. Former is computer parts and photography. Even been getting boxes from them faster than from Amazon pretty regularly.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Highly, highly recommend using GOG. Buying is owning. There is no DRM and they even provide offline installers for the games you buy.
But they updated the terms of use and apparently now, stating that buying is not owning
This has always been the case for Steam and every other service that isn’t GOG.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 3 months ago:
And it was something people were hoping would save the game. But, it’s unfortunately more confirmation that Bethesda can no longer produce quality games.
- Comment on Read this if you own a Juicebox EV charger 3 months ago:
Internet connected devices are a mistake. Not only is there going to be non-existent security updates for the device, it means there is a timer on the life the functions of the device. If a device cannot function offline, you will have a gimped (or completely dead) product soon.
functions like scheduling a charge will no longer work
Case and point. Why did the device ever need the internet to run a clock? It didn’t, but because it was ‘smart’, now it can’t operate a basic time function.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 3 months ago:
Yeah, I have zero desire to give them money. Luckily, there are solid options that aren’t them, notably the steam deck for portable gaming and pc/xbox/ps5 for home gaming.
- Comment on Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch 3 months ago:
Yeah, I still don’t want my computer screen recording everything I do. Nor do I want the computer of everyone I give my personal details to (think, DMV, etc) to also screen record everything they do. This is a massive security nightmare.
- Comment on In rare move from printing industry, HP actually has a decent idea 3 months ago:
- Comment on Which do you like better: Windows or Ubuntu? 3 months ago:
most creative work
DaVinci Resolve is pretty good. Works on linux and certainly has more features than I need by a long shot. I think Adobe products are the main bottleneck. Though, the Adobe set of products are so darn expensive, it’s really not a great solution if literally anything else can do the job instead.
- Comment on Kaspersky removes itself and installs UltraAV without permission 3 months ago:
I’m surprised at how many companies still use a Russian AV. You are relying on this singular piece of software to keep your computer safe, and you pick a Russian one?
- Comment on Ceiling lights, LED bulbs or fixtures? 3 months ago:
you don’t even have to find and turn off the breaker. Just turn it off at the switch before you mess with it.
One word of caution here. If the light fixture is hooked up to a three-way switch, it is possible for the light to be off and BOTH sides of the wire to be hot. This isn’t a common way to wire three-way switches and it isn’t to code anymore, but there are many homes out there with legacy switches wired as such. See: Carter 3-way switch.
- Comment on Ceiling lights, LED bulbs or fixtures? 3 months ago:
Agreed. The fixtures with non-replaceable lights are a giant headache waiting to happen down the road. Always go with the replaceable bulb fixtures.