plumbercraic
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- Comment on Mafia: The Old Country - “Loyalty is Everything” Story Trailer 2 days ago:
It was completely broken at launch. Not like funny jank, like crash to desktop and wait for the devs to finish the unfinished game.
But in the year where no mans sky released I can understand if its hard to recall mafia3
- Comment on Mafia: The Old Country - “Loyalty is Everything” Story Trailer 3 days ago:
Looks cool. After the shitshow that was mafia3 I’ll be waiting to see if they actually finish the game before selling it this time around.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks 3 days ago:
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 1 week ago:
I never knew that “road mix 17” was going to be the final release
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 1 week ago:
I can hear the ‘just use Linux/BSD/etc.’ crowd already clamoring in the comments, and will preface this by saying that although I use Linux and BSD on a nearly daily basis, I would not want to use it as my primary desktop system for too many reasons to go into here.
Still though.
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- Comment on Special Edition 1 week ago:
Kiwi Marmite is awesome, but I do love promite.
Team Vegemite about to enter the chat…
- Comment on Special Edition 1 week ago:
must be the pal edition
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
Both, I think? Respecting the craft and expertise of the way we used to do things is important, but the author is being melodramatic and I wanted to poke some fun.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
That’s wildly incorrect and somehow serves to underscore the original point.
Scribes were not glorified photocopiers; they had to reconcile poorly written and translated sources, do a lot of research on imperfect and incomplete information, try to figure out if the notes in the margin should be included in future transcriptions, etc. Their work required real subject matter expertise, training and technique, was painstaking and excruciating, and many hand written manuscripts are absolutely works of art.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
The thing I hate the most about the printing press and its ease of access: the slow, painful death of the scribe’s soul—brought not by war or scarcity, but by convenience. By type. By machines. […]
There was once magic here. There was once madness.
Monks would stay up all night in candlelit scriptoriums with bloodshot eyes, trying to render illuminated manuscripts without smudging their life’s work. They cared. They would mix pigments from crushed beetles just to see if they’d hold. They knew the smell of burnt parchment and the exact angle of quill where their hand would cramp after six hours. These were artists. They wrote letters like master craftsmen—full of devotion, precision, and divine chaos.
Now? We’re building a world where that devotion gets mechanized at the door. Some poor bastard—born to be great—is going to get told to “review this Gutenberg broadsheet” for eight hours a day, until all that wonder calcifies into apathy. The scriptorium will become a print shop. The quill a lever.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 3 weeks ago:
I just get happier with each passing month that I don’t use windows anymore. The freedom of having my hardware and data no longer serving the corporate interests of the operating system vendor is great.
- Comment on I'VE BEEN WAITING TOO LONG 3 weeks ago:
These days it’s more Spinach Mail Transfer Protocol
- Comment on Accurate 4 weeks ago:
Ouch.
- Comment on Loving Doom The Dark Ages, only one issue I've had so far. 4 weeks ago:
Beatsaber has a good soundtrack
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 4 weeks ago:
The switch already results in online ban if you play an online game with a hacked console, which they need to do to protect against cheaters.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s illegal. It’s the customers hardware once they buy it. Still gonna hack it like every Nintendo console before.
- Comment on Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration 4 weeks ago:
at least they didn’t “slam” it - PLTR might not have survived
- Comment on Amazon says displaying tariff cost 'not going to happen' after White House blowback 1 month ago:
Why would they not though? It only makes sense to show ppl what the taxes are on a purchase
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 1 month ago:
I did, it is a little easier for me to use than libre.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 1 month ago:
I also tried Ubuntu 10 years ago and threw it away in anger. Have been using mint for over a year now and game on it regularly. All I really needed to know was: use proton and add ‘gamemoderun %command%’ into the launch option of the game.
Except for mods on Nier. That was a hassle.
Its actually more annoying on the work computer. Ms office windows apps are kind of great compared to libreoffice, especially with the collaboration options. But Linux is nicer to do dev work on so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 2 months ago:
He certainly running the country into the ground like one of his businesses
- Comment on Mexico: 200 pairs of shoes found at clandestine crematorium 2 months ago:
Across Mexico, more than 100,000 people are registered as disappeared. But that figure could be an undercount, given that many fear to report cases to the authorities.
Bloody hell that’s grim
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May 3 months ago:
I guess that skype-zoom clip was prophecy
- Comment on Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents 3 months ago:
That makes sense, thanks for sharing. We tried fully free buses here for a while but scrapped it because it was super expensive (the way it worked was that the government paid the bus company for all the tickets - and they chose to write a new app you could use to claim these free bus tickets)
I didn’t hear anything about crime or vandalism rising in this case. I wonder if the registration process was a deterrant; passengers still had to scan their tickets as they boarded, and getting one required identifying yourself.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 3 months ago:
I would think it’s a good thing that there are a lot of greybeards in FOSS? If the claim is true, then it should mean that once you get into FOSS you tend to stay there.
The article seems to be referring to FOSS code contribution more than user adoption, but the same idea holds. The more I learn about my distro and its packages, the less scared I get about something going wrong that I can’t fix and the less likely it is I will go back into an OS riddled with ads and spyware.
For code contribution I only ever managed to do a PR for a Kodi plugin, and even then it was only because this amazing guy from their team walked me through the whole thing step by step. It was quite intimidating figuring out how to do that stuff for the first time.
- Comment on Cross-platform Nexus Mods app expands Baldur's Gate 3 support plus further UI improvements 6 months ago:
OK this is pretty good news. I did not have fun trying to mod PoE. In the end I found a guide that showed me how to use UnityModManager, launch it with proton, choose DoorStopProxy then launch with the winhttp override option. Have no idea how ppl figure this stuff out.
- Comment on We're Back! 7 months ago:
I have decided that now is the time, finally, to read those Buffy and Angel comics.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 7 months ago:
