PotjiePig

@PotjiePig@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is ending its deals to pay for Australian news content. This is how it could change your Facebook and Instagram feeds⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s the full story.

  How often do you think people ask Google a question, either to the assistant or just in the search bar and get served the answer scraped directly into the search results, and never need to actually click into the article at all.

  Facebook does this too.

  Between that and needing to adjust ones journalism style to appease click throughs and the algorithm just to get eyes on ads, dilutes the quality of the write ups as an added problem.

  I think making social media pay might be misguided, but there is definitely a problem, maybe even a form of plagiarism done by alot of these social media giants by taking other people’s work and serving it up directly, and summarized on their own sites next to a link that many people won’t click on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2866: Snow⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Invert this graph for Londoners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confused with Santa⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure wish I knew what they were sensoring /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch a murder... with crackers!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes Ritz. The real cereal killer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Rockstar animator reckons it's "gonna be a long time" before GTA 6 comes to PC⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s much easier to bug test and build for a PS5 as they are all the same. To get a resource intensive game working on PC means a lot more resources going into tweaking texture packs etc for a myriad of combinations of graphics cards processors and drivers and drives. Running on similar architecture is only part of the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Late reply, sorry just going though my messages here. But I get all the Linux love, however I assume you’re a developer or a writer. Linux is incredibly niche and basically a non option for a vast load of industries.

  Im a professional video editor and animator. Adobe is my bread and butter. I can’t use another option realistically either as it mostly doesn’t exist or I have to send out my projects to other creators and need to be able to talk to other PCs.

  Linux doesn’t support Adobe, it doesn’t support about 80% of my other creative softwares, it won’t play nice. Windows, for my use case runs like a dream.

  Until Linux gets broader adoption of actual pro level applications for the film industry (and many others), it will always be a niche OS for coders and web devs sadly. I’d sooner roll back to windows XP than use Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unusual scene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Rick, rolled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Strike 1: upload an AI racist post changing a person’s ethnicity

  Strike 2: not even paying her for her work, and taking her only ‘income’ away which is exposure. (Silly of people that work for exposure but that’s another topic.

  Strike 3: apologize in the form of a thinly veiled threat of legal action

  Strike 4: feign ignorance, by saying you did it because you were overwhelmingly popular on social media, and weren’t paying attention and had no idea you didn’t pay your models. (Don’t lie, you absolutely knew). Pass the blame further by blaming the fans, because apparently someone else had a vested interest in changing the race of one of his models.

  Strike 5: try and turn the narrative by making sure everyone knows that the event is in honour of his dead wife, and actually WE should feel sorry for HIM.

  Sounds an awful lot like narcissism

  This guy seems to be a bit of a racist scumbag, who not only takes advantage of young models, but is happy to throw those around him under the bus or throwing his lawyers at the problem before dishing out an honest and humble apology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't allow others to consume you...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  day day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use Edge BECAUSE they keep begging and throwing ads at me for it. It’s off putting, desperate and exactly what I don’t want.

  I don’t use it because the Edge splash screen is chokka ads and news stories I don’t want.

  I don’t use Edge because I find Bing annoying, and prefer duck duck go and google in that order, and I’m sick of constantly being nagged to use shit I don’t want.

  Microsoft get it in your head, you are an operating system. Your job is to Operate MY system. Do that well. And by all means build more software, make it optional and installable by choice. If it’s good and works for me and not for you I will use it.

  I don’t use Chrome either. It no longer works for me. It now works for Google first.

  Ive recently downgraded Firefox from browser number 1 to number 2. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not the best.

  Currently I’m enjoying Opera because it feels fresh and zippy and works for me , but I’m not loyal. Edge if you do good, maybe I will use you too. But stop your pathetic shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the ticket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Really useful tool, especially it’s simplicity. No need for too many frills actually.

  But just a note on your pricing, Microsoft Word has this built in and you get a whole word processor and their onenote and drive ecosystem for cheaper than your base package. There’s no way on this planet I would pay that, even if I used it professionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but Linux isn’t much good for professional creative work. Would love to try it out, but without a functioning Adobe suite it’s not gonna happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was getting a bit annoyed at Firefox and after recently formatting my PC, I decided to freshen things up. So after the mandatory new PC Edge Google, I must say I’m really enjoying the new UI of Opera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Super late reply to your question, but when you add Windows and punch in the key it links to the motherboard of the PC (laptop or desktop, doesn’t matter). Once you sign in to your Microsoft account, the key and mobo serial gets stored there. If you bought a new PC and with it a new motherboard you can find your key in your account or use the one on the back of your old laptop and delink it from your old device so that you can reuse it on your new one. It moves with your account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has your Lemmy experience changed over the past few months?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant what I said! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has your Lemmy experience changed over the past few months?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could upvote tits twice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m not mistaken your key is linked to your motherboard as well as your Microsoft account. So I think you should be fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinosaur known as 'Barry' goes on sale in rare Paris auction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it’s spelled ‘Barney’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  More like,

  Dear builder, Im the hardware store that sold you your bricks. I’ve decided that from January 2024, every time somebody enters a house that you built using my bricks, I will charge everytime they open the door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people runs aground in remote Greenland⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Chartering a giant polluting pleasure vessel full of rich people past the glacier melt and one of the most awful human caused disasters of our time actually makes me ill. We don’t deserve this planet. We are truly awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Muskrat IS a genius! Every time I try to close one of these windows, I end up back at the homepage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't explain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Glib’ - when the words come out your mouth are fluent, but insincere and shallow.

  McDonald’s Sprite tastes good, it has just the right sweetness and fizz. It’s always exactly the same wherever you go yet somewhat fake and hollow. Similarly, hotel conditioners in my experience, are cold and effective - in the way a walk in fridge is designed to keep meat fresh. Purely functional and devoid of tangible comfort. ‘Glib’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it was a bit of a shock to me too, but also considering the level of polish it already has and the features it can still get, I feel like it’s more than worth it for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is. You can remove ads. It initially wasn’t an option as he didn’t feel like it was at a point yet to have a charged option, while the subscription service was aimed at users willing to help fund development. That confusion caused the back lash so he added the remove ad option in the next update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix removes its basic tier in the US and the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ditto. I’m on Kodi / The Crew + Real Debrid. Such a pleasure to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Cameron on AI: "I warned you guys in 1984 and you didn't listen"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mate, a bad actor could put today’s LLM, face recognition softwares and functionality into an armed drone, show it a picture of Sara Connor and tell it to go hunting and it would be able to handle the rest. We are just about there. Call it what you want.