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- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 hours ago:
The other way to read this data is that 75% (a sizable majority) of people feel they can be comfortable on less than $150k. I also suspect this strongly correlates to location. Someone living in Washington, DC is going to need a lot more to feel comfortable than someone living in Bumblefuck, MO.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 2 hours ago:
Theoretically, browsers could even stop from the JS engine from being started for the site in the first place.
The NoScript extension is basically this. Most of the client side stuff is off by default and you can enable it per-domain. It breaks a whole lot of websites, but often in ways where the main content of a website is still readable. Over time, you can build up a list of “allow by default” domains and most of the web you care about works. Though, you may have to spend a moment or two sorting out permissions when you visit a new site.
- Comment on It is what it is 2 days ago:
If you care about your privacy, don’t use products from a company whose entire business model is built on invading your privacy.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 days ago:
That actually sounds like a reasonable response. Driving assist means that a human is supposed to be attentive to take control. If the system detects a situation where it’s unable to make a good decision, dumping that decision on the human in control seems like the closest they have to a “fail safe” option. Of course, there should probably also be an understanding that people are stupid and will almost certainly have stopped paying attention a long time ago. So, maybe a “human take the wheel” followed by a “slam the brakes” if no input is detected in 2-3 seconds. While an emergency stop isn’t always the right choice, it probably beats leaving a several ton metal object hurtling along uncontrolled in nearly every circumstance.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 4 days ago:
A good reminder that “the cloud” is a fancy way of saying, “someone else’s computer”. If you don’t own the hardware, you don’t own the data on it. This works for large businesses because they have actual contracts and lawyers to get their data back. For everyone else, the EULA amounts to one big “fuck you”.
- Comment on Fed keeps rates unchanged after Trump floats appointing himself to chair 1 week ago:
Fixed, thank you. That’s what I get for trying to create a link while on mobile.
- Comment on Fed keeps rates unchanged after Trump floats appointing himself to chair 1 week ago:
What’s the wrong that could happen?
see: Turkey
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 1 week ago:
This is just Microsoft engineers acknowledging that Windows 11 is about as welcome as Windows Vista was.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 1 week ago:
do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!
What is this “sort” thing you speak of? I don’t sort anything, I have NextCloud syncing my entire photos, videos and documents folders and they are just as messy as ever. Granted, I do go through my photos and videos once a year and dump them in a folder named for the year they were taken. Occasionally, I’ll go hog wild and try to sort some of a year’s photos/videos into folders named after events. Though, that hasn’t happened in a number of years. I setup NextCloud so I could have everything synced to my own server and just forget, not have to deal with labeling my data.
As for bookmarks. I already keep those in folders; but, I don’t sync those. I use my desktop far more than I use my phone for web browsing. And the types of things I use my phone for (mostly recipes), I just keep bookmarked there.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 1 week ago:
Same. I had gotten the paid version because the dev deserved something for such a great app. RIF died and I did a hard cutover to Lemmy. Deleted my Reddit account and probably caused some confusion for the cordcutters subreddit. I had a post which was part of the sidebar for about a decade.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 1 week ago:
Ya, sadly there is still a lot of useful content in the technical subreddits. So I find myself ending up there via search engines on a fairly regular basis. But, I specifically use the Redirector plugin for Firefox to auto-magically force the use of old Reddit. If I hit the site on my work computer, I’m quickly reminded about why I quit the site.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 3 weeks ago:
I work for a fairly large company, and we’re hearing about “AI” constantly. CoPilot is available and its use encouraged. Also, in the cybersecurity space, AI is fucking everywhere. Vendors won’t shut up about their “AI Enabled” products. And the new hotness is “Agentic AI”, which is basically automation, but we’re going to let AI hallucinations fire off the automated process which could bring production systems down.
Good times are surely coming. /s - Comment on How will we deal with all the broken images? 3 weeks ago:
It looks like archive.org is capturing some of lemm.ee. So, it’s possible that most of the images are there and could be referenced.
- Comment on Om nom 3 weeks ago:
With a long, strong, flexible tongue and a reputation for eating things, one of those collaborations basically writes itself.
I was talking about his mechanics in Brawl Stars, what were you thinking about, sicko?
- Comment on What a mess 3 weeks ago:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will accept you for your virtue. If the gods are unjust, then they weren’t worth worshiping anyway. And if there are no gods, then at least you lived a good life to be remembered by .
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 3 weeks ago:
But, we’ll know where the aircraft is. It’s a built in, instant location flare. No more aircraft disappearing and not being found.
- Comment on A two-player Elden Ring Nightreign PC Mod is already available 3 weeks ago:
It’s rather amazing that this one guy keeps churning out fixes for FromSoft’s complete inability to understand multiplayer.
That said, I do plan to try the vanilla setup first (finishing up Shadow of the Erdtree before we change over). I just worry about my wife and I dropping into a session and having some rando who either wants to faff about; or, we run into the type of toxic behavior which seems to inundate online games. We had pretty good luck with Vermintide 2, back in the day. But, with way too many years of playing WoW, we’ve also run into a lot of assholes. And we just don’t have the patience for that sort of thing anymore.
- Comment on ‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGs 3 weeks ago:
Well, the world should have moved on to IPv6 a long time ago.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 3 weeks ago:
Imagine the flight envelope as a graph. Going further to the right means going faster. Going further up means going higher. The goal of test flights is to push against the upper-right hand corner of that envelope. Unfortunately, that’s also where your postage gets stamped.
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 4 weeks ago:
Um yay, I guess. I’m always for more options. And maybe there is a market out there for the “game from the cloud” idea. Personally though, I’d rather just play a game on the Steam Deck directly. Or, if that’s somehow not an option, stream the game from my own PC to my TV via SteamLink. In no world do I want to pay for a subscription to play games on a device where I can just play that game locally.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 4 weeks ago:
Companies taking advantage of Linux to create locked down, proprietary systems is pretty common. For example, Android is Linux. Many smart TVs run some flavor of Linux. E.g. Tizen from Samsung is Linux based. If a company can short cut the software development process and licensing costs by using Linux, that’s often a first choice. So, my bet would be on Wall-E running on a version of Linux.
The dystopian part would be that the company locked it’s drivers behind a closed source model, and only included highly obscured binaries on Wall-E’s OS. Motors and controllers would be non-standard, requiring closed source firmware and the hardware would refuse to work with any software which isn’t signed by an original manufacturer’s digital certificate. Using an unsigned binary would blow a fuse in Wall-E’s CPU, killing him.
- Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 4 weeks ago:
it’s steam game which means there’s a key?
Maybe.
If the game is already in your Steam account, no. I can’t seem to run the actual policy down with a quick search, but games in your Steam library are not transferable.
If you have received a key in your email (It’ll be a long, alphanumeric sequence) then you can forward that to someone else, so long as it hasn’t been used by you or anyone else.
If the game was sent as a gift to your Steam account using the Steam gift system. Then no, you cannot transfer it. - Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 4 weeks ago:
I would look into three things first:
- Do the terms of the prize dictate transferability? In the rules of the contest in which you won the game, was there anything about not selling or giving away the prize?
- What type of game is it? Video game, board game, card game?
- What is the delivery mechanism for the game? Some things will be easier to transfer than others. A physical copy can likely just be shipped to a new recipient. A digital key for a game might be easy to just send to the recipient. Other delivery mechanisms may or may not have a system to prevent transfer.
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 4 weeks ago:
While an interesting idea, this sounds like an organization designed to separate some doofus investment manager with a lot of capital before inevitably folding because companies won’t give a damn. Sure, if we were to pass laws allowing us to hunt down anyone responsible for using blue LEDs on devices which did not specifically need blue light, and burn their eyes out with a hot poker. Then, such a certification might make sense. But, so long as there are no repercussions for companies making horrible design decisions, why would any company pay for a certification like this.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 5 weeks ago:
As many angels as actually exist.
- Comment on Xreal debuts first glasses to run Google's Android XR operating system to take on Meta and Apple 5 weeks ago:
Oh goodie, I missed my chance to be a glasshole last decade. Now I can miss that chance all over again.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 5 weeks ago:
Not terribly surprising, Google would often direct me to StackOverflow threads as I was googling for an answer to a question. And as often as not, either the question was closed; or, instead of anyone providing an answer, the commenters would spiral off into questioning everything about the original question asker’s life choices. While I do get the whole XY Problem, this sort of thing seemed to be over-used on SO.
Granted, I don’t know if AI answers are any better. Sure, they can answer a lot of the simple questions, but I’ve not seen them be useful on hard, more obscure questions. Probably because those questions don’t have ready answers on SO.
- Comment on Is there a way to avoid those holes? 5 weeks ago:
If someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows 1 month ago:
Azure Linux. Because you still want to be beholden to Microsoft, right?
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 1 month ago:
I don’t get why people think putting manifests on a blockchain is a good idea.
Because you can still separate many fools from their money by adding “blockchain” to whatever you are doing.