orclev
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- Comment on How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growth 5 days ago:
It’s an alternative to Twitter in the same way Pepsi is an alternative to Coke, it’s still essentially the same thing. This is just trading one really shitty corporation for a different not as shitty yet corporation. As it grows it will eventually become the exact same thing and everyone will be back here celebrating the rise of some other corporate social-media network.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The opt outs don’t work. Even if you opted out of the telemetry that only disabled some of it, not all of it, and MS constantly re-enables it with updates. I can’t count how many times I’ve had to uninstall OneDrive, But. It. Keeps. Coming. Back. Windows 10 you could previously disable most of the worst crapware that MS shoveled in. Windows 11 you can’t disable it, they just don’t give you the opt outs anymore. It’s all mandatory. Even worse, they started backporting that stuff into Windows 10 as well. Did you notice when MS silently installed copilot on your Windows 10 system?
Ultimately though, I just don’t want to keep fighting a losing battle against a company I despise. I’m done giving my money to them. It would be one thing if they provided a good service that I enjoyed like Valve does with Steam, but the last time I actually liked a version of Windows was when XP was released. It’s basically been downhill since then. If there was a decent alternative to Android I’d switch that as well, but unfortunately Linux phone just isn’t ready for prime time yet. But thanks to the amazing work by Valve, for gaming systems, Linux is finally a viable alternative.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you don’t see the point, then Microsoft has successfully boiled the frog.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
One thing you’ll have to do (which is kind of annoying that it isn’t enabled by default) is go into the steam options and toggle “Enable Steam Play for all other titles”. That enables proton/wine for everything in your library. In the early days of Steam on Linux Valve setup a white list of games that ran under Wine that mostly contains their own titles in it, and for some reason they just never removed that behavior even though that list is unmaintained these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not every game that uses anti-cheat, there’s plenty that do run fine in Linux, but the major ones it’s unsupported. Technically the games run, and run really well, it’s just you’ll get banned for running under Linux. The big ones I’m aware of that don’t work are Valorant, GTA5, Destiny 2, LoL, and Apex Legends.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Steam is available and runs great. Valve has really put an insane amount of work into making Linux gaming smooth and painless. They have their own flatpak equivalent called pressure-vessel that steam uses by default, and everything that steam supports in Windows is 100% supported in Linux as well. If you check out protondb.com you can put in your steam account name and it will scan it and tell you any games in your library that will have issues in Linux, but outside of a few of the competitive shooters that have super aggressive anti-cheat generally everything either works out of the box, or after some minor tweaks (typically adding a few launch parameters).
Additionally, there’s an excellent unified launcher called Heroic that lets you connect with and use the GOG, Epic, and Amazon Gaming stores, and provides a convenient wrapper around Wine/Proton for actually running the games.
Finally there’s another launcher called Lutris that a lot of people swear by and supports some of the less used stores like Itch.io, although when I tried it recently I ran into some problems getting it to work.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The EOL of Win 10 and MS silently installing copilot on my desktop was the final straw for me. I’ve been running 100% Linux now for a couple months with no real issues so far. I expected a few games to give me issues but so far if anything I’ve had fewer issues with games than I did even in Windows. Had a couple hardware problems, although those I’ve mostly been able to solve.
I’ve got it setup to dual boot “just in case”, but haven’t actually needed to which is great. If I still haven’t needed that partition a year from now I’ll probably just reformat it as extra storage and keep a Win10 VM around if I really get stuck on something.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong, but this rant isn’t really going to accomplish anything useful I don’t think.
- Comment on Russian TV companies demand 2 undecillion rubles from Google 3 weeks ago:
They should have just committed to the bit and demanded a googolplex of Rubles from Google.
- Comment on Why did Raspberry Pi make their own SSD? 3 weeks ago:
Oh? What’s wrong with hackaday?
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that was part of the brand reshuffling they did to obfuscate things. Lync was their shitty chat app they tried to convince businesses to use that everyone hated. They bought Skype, renamed it to Microsoft Teams, renamed Lync to Skype for Business, and killed MSN Messenger. When people still didn’t want to use
LyncSkype for Business, then they killed that as well, and now it’s just MS Teams. - Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
Which Microsoft then shit all over (to be fair, Skype started that process even before MS bought them) and eventually renamed it to Microsoft Teams.
- Comment on Clevo reseller wants get coreboot ported, ends up throwing a temper tantrum and banning Germany, Texas and AMD over unsatisfactory experience 4 weeks ago:
Holy shit what a nut job. Reading the comments the real gold is apparently their terms of service. They’ve got a giant laundry list of things that will get you banned including using Chrome or having a gmail email address.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 1 month ago:
You can have my Brother laser printer when you pry it from my cold dead hands, and because it’s not an HP, I’m sure it will still work when you do.
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 1 month ago:
Yeah, never use a work device for anything you’re not actually getting paid to do. To do otherwise is just stupid. Save non-work stuff for your own devices.
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 1 month ago:
Sounds like all the meetings should just be done by video and nothing would be lost.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s 50/50 because the executives really don’t like it, but the actual data supports remote work being far more efficient. They’re working really hard to cook the books to make it look like the opposite to appease the execs but they can only do so much. Give them a few more years to cherry-pick data and bury inconvenient results and they’ll be back to the same bullshit that justified productivity destroying (but cheap) choices like hot desking and open plan offices.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Quality programmers are a finite resource. Amazon chewed through the entire unskilled labor market with their warehouses and then struggled to find employees to meet their labor needs. If they try the same stunt with skilled labor they’re in for a very rude awakening. They’ll be able to find people, but only for well above market rates. They’re highly likely to find in the long run it would have been much cheaper to hang onto the people they already had.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
That would run face first into proprietary info and corporate classified info.
Behold all the fucks I do not give. If it’s that critical they lose all claim to being propriety. It’s just like patent, there’s no such thing as a secret patent, so anything that safety critical doesn’t get to stay secret either.
Regulation won’t detail what a company does to that level. They might say something like “fasteners shouldn’t come loose” but it wouldn’t have a torque spec.
It doesn’t now but it’s utterly trivial to fix that. Just make the regulations say that components must meet the manufacturer specifications and require manufacturers to publish and maintain all the specifications of all safety critical components. If they want to keep it secret then that means it’s not safety critical and they’re responsible for any accidents resulting from its failure.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
It’s OK for manufacturers to say using aftermarket parts voids the warranty, it’s not OK for them to prevent using them entirely. Likewise if there’s a safety concern that should be handled by regulation and things like safety inspections, not by forcing all repairs to go through the manufacturer. If whatever it is is that critical to the safe operation it should be publicly documented so that third parties can manufacture it correctly to the needed tolerances.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
Banks usually have the absolute worst password policies. It’s typically because their backend is some crusty mainframe from the 80s that limits inputs to something absurdly insecure by today’s standards and they’ve kicked the upgrade can down the road for so long now that it’s a staggeringly monumental task to rewrite it all. Thankfully most of them have upgraded at this point, but every now and then you still find one that’s got ridiculous limits like a maximum password length of 8 and only alphanumeric characters (with no 2FA obviously).
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
Trimming whitespace from the start and end of a password is fine but you absolutely should not remove whitespace from the middle of a password.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
But not really. The Settings menu has never been as useful as Control Panel and there’s still a ton of functionality that can only be accessed from the Control Panel. This is many other moves by MS recently are why Windows 10 is the last version of Windows I’ll be using. With the work Valve has done to support SteamDeck I can finally go 100% Linux.
- Comment on With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market 2 months ago:
For now. If enough of the market shifts to Linux those companies will support Linux. Particularly since the CrowdStrike fiasco has spurred Microsoft to crack down on kernel level access which means the days of anti-cheat rootkits are numbered. It’s not going to be long before there’s no functional difference between gaming on Windows and gaming on Linux.
- Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why? 2 months ago:
It’s debatable if D-Wave is actually a quantum computer at least in the sense most people use the term. There’s a lot of unanswered questions still on exactly how to use and design a quantum computer and we’re not likely to get those answers until we can reliably produce and run systems with at least 8 qubits. Maybe DARPA and the military/CIA has such systems, but I don’t think anyone else does.
Quantum computers are still mostly theoretical. We have some of the building blocks of one, but there’s still a few critical pieces missing. Quantum computers are in about the same place as fusion reactors are. Theoretically possible but not currently producible in a form that’s useful without a few more technological breakthroughs.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Seems to be a combination of students too distracted playing on their phones and difficulty policing behavior on social media bleeding into school time. They give an example of students filming a student being bullied on school grounds and the video being uploaded and shared on social media. I’m not sure banning smart phones during school hours is the right solution, but it’s certainly a tricky problem to deal with.
- Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 3 months ago:
I’m sure in his wet dreams Reddit is no longer a community site but a thinly veiled astroturfing platform that’s paid billions by large corporations to get their
adsposts in front of users. - Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 3 months ago:
That sounds like the only acceptable use of that sub to me.
- Comment on Discussion about Ceramic Keycaps: CeraKey Ceramic Keycaps 3 months ago:
Topre, for when chocolate keycaps are too mainstream and you want even fewer choices. Seriously though, that’s the tradeoff with a super niche format. Anything besides cherry and you’re going to have a hard time finding cap options.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Boring Company Hasn't Produced Anything but Safety Violations 3 months ago:
Yeah, that was the laughingstock I mentioned. It’s basically a really terrible highway underground that’s worse in just about every possible way from a normal highway. If I recall it’s a 2 lane road and the top speed was only like 35 mph or something. It’s a complete joke.