Fizz
@Fizz@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Day 532 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Create is such a cool mod. I wish it was around back in the days when i played nodded Minecraft.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 6 days ago:
Oh yeah linux people have been building like crazy these past 10 years.
Sometimes the user experience is so slick its boring. But the great past of.linux is even when the usage is simple I can always tweak it or modify it to my exact liking.
On Mac it either works nicely or I’m fucked.
- Comment on Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high? 1 week ago:
Not it’d go up the chimney and you’d waste a ton of money.
If you closed thr chimney then it’d smoke so must you’d be forced to leave the house due to lack of oxygen. You would get high but it would not be a good way.
- Comment on The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos 1 week ago:
At Christmas the topic of what videos we watch came up and I was shocked to hear over half the people there mention watching AI videos. Its insane, these are decent intelligent people watching shit like that stupid weightlifting cat and bigfoot vlogging. It seemed mostly because they couldn’t get rid of YouTube shorts but still. The family members who used Instagram had it way worse they only consumed reels slop and didnt watch any long form video. It was really are “we are so cooked moment”.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 week ago:
There are versions that ship with the proprietary nvidia driver. The reason people have issues is the distros shipping the open version due to philosophy or distros shipping the open version for compatibility reasons.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 week ago:
Thats not actually a problem. Every other OS has that problem.
Mac will never get 100% market share because there will always be people that hate their workflow. Linux can offer a tailored version to everyone’s liking.
- Comment on How Seedit handles moderation and anti-spam in a privacy-first Peer-to-peer protocol 1 week ago:
What’s MintPass? It wasnt clear how to get a token and Im not entering a ph number.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 weeks ago:
There was a YouTuber I like who went to view some of the new state of the art factories and they were operating at 1/6 capacity due to very low demand. The world economic terrorism trump is doing is making it tough out there for every country.
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 2 weeks ago:
We also have the citizens advice bureau. They will help you make sure you’re within the law and not being taken advantage of.
Love the citizens advice bureau they helped me not get scammed out of a $2000 bond by a cunt of a landlord.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
Ok let’s take a look at the numbers. They might be unreasonable I dont know.
I couldn’t find YouTube’s profit or net income. So I’m going off the 2024 net income for alphabet which was 100b
YouTube is considered to be about 30% of alphabets valuation.
Let’s assume YouTube’s net income 2024 was 30b
Now they have 2.54 billion users. Divide that up and its about $12 profit per user and that is in their best year due to the election driving massive 30% increases in traffic and ad revenue.
I think $12 profit per user per year is reasonable margins.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
Why are you comparing the market cap of a company that runs multiple services for billions of users to the average American salary. That really shows where your brain is at and why you keep landing on the conclusion that this is unfair.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
The cost of running YouTube is constantly growing. New features cost extra to develop and maintain. Monetizing existing features lessens the burden and allows the platform to keep providing their core service for free.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
So because they started off offering something for free they owe us?
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
Do NOT do it. I dont think the time saved is worth it. It hasnt changed irl stuff for me but any media feels painfully slow. I had to listen to a 1hr video conference with a group on 1x speed and I felt like I was being tortured. I had to refocused myself every sentence because i couldn’t hold attention on sentences that were being said so slowly.
If you want to consume info fast then reading is way better.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
How is that any different from shifting existing features to premium? If you aren’t paying you’re lucky to get anything.
I dont pay and I ad block everything. I’m surprised I can use the site at all. These features are nice to haves and not core to using YouTube.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
How would you suggest they get people to pay?
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
Have you seen people who complain about written jnfo his video info? Its because they can read thr info faster than listening to it be said. But if you speed it up to 2x or 3x then it becomes the same as reading in terms of time. You get used to it over time. I can’t listen to anything at 1x speed anymore.
- Comment on Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting 2 weeks ago:
Chill bro grok was just trolling…
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 3 weeks ago:
Last of us and rimworld
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 3 weeks ago:
It seems to be popular with people i talk to in real life. It also seems go be very popular with leftwing people outside niche internet spaces like this. Most people are viewing this as a good way to prevent misinformation brainwashing and not paying attention to the removal of internet freedom. From talking to these people its because they dont think there is internet freedom as internet is only 5 sites which all spy on you already.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 4 weeks ago:
No. Its ecc ram and most PC motherboards aren’t compatible with it. If it crashes we might have cheap GPUs and cheap cloud gaming.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 4 weeks ago:
I love l4d2 and when i saw b4b on sale for $5 I was so excited. Surely I can get $5 of value of out this game. Nope after playing the first level everything was off with the game and I refunded it.
I instantly disliked the shooting and quickly grew to hate all the colourful effects they added. None of the effects fit the style of the game.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 4 weeks ago:
You can’t be out of the game this long and think you’re going to make another left 4 dead. We saw that with back 4 blood and we will see it with this one.
- Comment on Bread mold 4 weeks ago:
just remember, when it feels like someone is twisting you inside out as you slowly lose consciousness, you chose this because you wanted that bread more than you wanted to live.
I once left pasta out on the bench all day and night then the next day I ate it and moved the rest to the fridge. I then spend a 16 hours in the feral position in so much pain I thought i was gonna die. Then the next day I was really hungry and the pasta tasted pretty good so I ate it again and spent another day curled up in immense pain. My stupidity knows no bouds.
- Comment on Bread mold 4 weeks ago:
Hiv can fuck you up or require you to take drugs the rest of your life. Mold tastes a bit like dirty and might make you feel sick. The stakes are lower I think.
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 4 weeks ago:
Make a joke about them using it as a way to escape the point of the argument and continue on.
- Comment on Bread mold 4 weeks ago:
I’m not a scientist. Is there any reason not to just eat it if its only a little bit of mould? I see so many people freak out. Bro just eat it you won’t even taste the mould over the peanut butter. Or if you’re really worried you can toast it which kills all the mould probably.
- Comment on 4.3 Million Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign | Koi Blog 4 weeks ago:
I really dont wanna do that. Firefox should add 3rd party repos so my distro packagers can handle that.
- Comment on 4.3 Million Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign | Koi Blog 4 weeks ago:
So what’s the lesson? How can we trust browser extensions? Ublock could go bad and cook half the globe.
- Comment on MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down 4 weeks ago:
Here being the situation described here.