JasSmith

@JasSmith@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You're probably right but wagons can be cool now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I crazy, or are Americans going insane?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn't agree with OP, but here you are, doing your damnedest to prove their point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish wagons were more popular. They're great for fitting all the stuff in for the family, but lighter and much better handling. I don't know why SUVs became the thing, but I wish wagons would be a come-back. A Tesla wagon would be awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This seems to happen more and more recently⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t use Apple Maps. Use Google Maps. It gets it right far more often. I still haven’t forgiven Apple for sending me on a Sydney motorway toll road loop. I know Apple Maps looks better, but that’s useless if the directions aren’t reliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nintendo Switch 2 NEEDS to be backward compatible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Japanese customers are eternally married to physical media. Nintendo also relies on high resale value to sell their expensive games. If they tried to destroy the secondhand market, they couldn’t justify the prices of their games anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The method you describe is untenable for 99.9% of the population. If that is truly the only way to migrate, then this move to passkeys is a catastrophe for security. In the coming years, millions of people are going to be permanently locked out of important accounts. Accounts will be written about the clearly flawed implementation of passkeys by Apple and Google, and a whole generation of people are going to shun passkeys forever. Myself included. This is a nightmare for vendor lock-in. I can see why Apple and Google are so ready to implement this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As you point out, the single point of failure is access to the passkey repository. Of course, this will usually be 2FA, so much more secure than simple passwords which people usually employ.

  One major issue, IMHO, is vendor lock-in. I’ve no doubt Apple is going to make migration away from iCloud a huge pain in the ass. It’s just another way they’re going to make it difficult to leave their ecosystem.

  I’m also worried about backups. People lose access to their Google and Apple accounts routinely for any and no reason at all. Will these keys be stored in the cloud? If so, access to EVERYTHING is just a capricious random algorithm away from being lost.

  I wouldn’t touch any passkey system which doesn’t provide a seamless way to migrate away especially if I’ve lost access to my Apple/Google account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just 9% of British voters think Brexit has gone well, poll finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The country needs more people.

  No it doesn’t. It certainly didn’t need 1.2 million people last year. The only reason to support this insanity is a desire to increase homelessness and impoverish the middle and lower classes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just 9% of British voters think Brexit has gone well, poll finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think having enough homes for people is an awful policy. Where do you want the migrants to live? Tents?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just 9% of British voters think Brexit has gone well, poll finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a LOT of voters wanted to slow down migration. Leaders lied to them, and claimed the only way to do that was to leave the EU, so they did. Now they're realising the reason migration is high is because both major parties are neoliberals who want high migration to pump house prices and keep wages low. It won't change until they elect a party which cares about the working class, and campaigns on reducing migration to no more than the number of homes built in the previous year. This is such common sense policy that the only reason it's not already in effect is because leaders in all major parties don't care about the middle class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98 years worth of progress.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Teachers were giving kids actual child pornography. Sorry, as a parent, I have a right to demand my children not be taught how to give gay blowjobs with graphic illustrations. You went too far, and now you have to stop. Cry all you want. Most people are not okay with your degeneracy.

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

  There was nothing accidental about Linus. He did it on purpose, the system very clearly told him not to.

  No, the system asked him if he was sure he wanted to install Steam. He was.

  And Proton works much better than you imply. I don’t know about their new “tiered” rating, but 30% games get Platinum rating (top 1000 most popular titles by player count).

  You think telling players that 30% of their games are playable without issue is a benefit. What I read is that 70% of my games are not guaranteed to run.

  And please don’t say anything about “UI polish” on Windows when it can’t even keep all its UI consistent - it’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.

  I’m not sure how you can compare different menu styles with allowing the entire OS to self destruct. That’s quite the disingenuous comparison.

  And Twitch… almost every game in top #10 works perfectly without any troubles, so what’s your point exactly?

  Of the top 10 video games playes on Twitch right now, these games either don’t run at all, or Proton reports game-breaking issues:

  • EA Sports FC 2024
  • Valorant
  • Fortnite
  • GTAV
  • Apex Legends (Linux players keep getting banned
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Linus fucked up his os by entering the command that prompted him “are you absolutely sure this is what you want to do? if you don’t know, then it isnt.”

  From his perspective, he was sure he wanted to install Steam. I don’t understand why you find that confusing. It’s only people with experience who understand that that message might indicate a system incompatibility, and it might nuke the OS. IMHO, no consumer OS should ever run the risk of being broken by installing Steam. There is no excuse for that.

  No, this kind of thing doesn’t happen all the time on Windows. There’s no way to nuke Windows by installing Steam.

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

  I'm technical and I still prefer Windows at home. Linux, as great as it can be for development, is not great for everyone. It doesn't "just work." My favourite example of Linux not "just" working is when Linus tried to install Steam on Pop_OS. He accidentally nuked the entire desktop. I could have easily done the same if I wasn't paying careful attention. One should never, ever be able to destroy their OS by installing Steam. That's part of the issue. When things go wrong, all of the instructions which present on Google are people providing terminal commands. Unless one is very comfortable with using the terminal, they're going to be copying and pasting these commands in and hoping for the best. This is what went wrong for Linus. This is far worse than following GUI based troubleshooting techniques which guide the user through defined and safe resolutions.

  This over-reliance on the terminal is pervasive, and I find myself having to use it for everything from basic OS configuration to software installation to software configuration to drivers to hardware installation and troubleshooting. Every year I boot up a new flavour just to see if things have improved, and they haven't. Ultimately Linux is built by developers, for developers. That's great, and it does many things really well. I've just come to accept that it doesn't do consumer stuff very well. It lacks the UX polish present in Windows and MacOS, and most consumers like that. It fails especially hard when it comes to gaming. I literally cannot install any of my Fanatec wheel/peddle/shifter peripherals in any distro. Only 18% of games on ProtonDB are Tier 1. Even of those, it doesn't guarantee a trouble-free experience. Half the top streamed Twitch games just don't run on Linux at all, or require absurd workarounds and suffer from terrible performance.

  I'll keep using Linux for my home server, but it's along way from replacing my PC or laptop OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As yes, the Ibram Kendi school of, “I NEED to be racist to correct historical racism. My racism is good though, promise.” All racists think their racism is justified. It’s not. You’re just racist :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Kagi is fucking amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s good for women is good for everyone.

  While true, what's good for men is also good for everyone. Inasmuch, we should also be working to address major systemic issues men face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You quoted a Jezebel article. Would you read an article I quoted from Andrew Tate? Don't insult our intelligence please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s feminism, not “men’s rights”.

  No, that's men's rights. Feminism has done great things for women, and that's awesome. But feminism is by women, for women. It doesn't make any space for men's issues. That's why the men's rights movement exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not clear from your comment. Are you also accusing the trans women at this conference of lying about their gender?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The event could be “thousands of women and non-binary folks”. Did all these male-presenting people identify as women or non-binary just to be able to attend this event?

  According to their Chief Impact Officer, yes. Apparently they "lied about their gender identity when signing up."

  What do you think identity politics is, exactly?

  Performative politics centred around identity. White is perfectly happy to pretend that men can be women - until it impacts him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the best solution is to just treat people the same regardless of gender so nobody has an incentive to lie.

  I couldn't agree more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  These aren’t guys who claim transgenderism or non-binary identity, these are men.

  They didn't poll anyone already at the conference. This is Cullen White making a prima facie observation of people who present as men and claiming they "lied" about their gender identity when sighing up."

  It sounds like both you and White feel entitled to dictate to others their gender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cullen White, AnitaB.org’s chief impact officer, said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, that some registrants had lied about their gender identity when signing up, and men were now taking up space and time with recruiters that should go to women. “All of those are limited resources to which you have no right,” White said. AnitaB.org did not respond to a request for comment.

  Who picks their gender identity? The individuals or Cullen White? If anything this underscores the insanity of identity politics. If gender is whatever an individual feels like, then this event was just thousands of women and non-binary folks, and White needs to stop being such a bigot. However I think most of us understand that this is nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows had a grater than 95% market share during their biggest anti trust suit.

  There is no legal definition of a "legitimate monopoly." 95% or 30% or even 0%. Anti-competitive practises which distort the market and prevent consumer choice are illegal. This has nothing to do with the market share Apple holds. It is about them restricting competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The big difference in such a situation is that you have the freedom to choose a different bank if their payment app is bad. You do not currently have the freedom to choose a different payment app on your iPhone. This is the fundamental issue the EU and US are addressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The existence of other options isn’t sufficient defence against anti-trust suits. There are other options to Windows, but Microsoft has been the target of multiple anti-trust suits over the years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They make up 70% of the desktop OS market.

  Which is why Microsoft has been the target of multiple antitrust suits over the years.

  Apple makes up less than 30% of the smartphone OS market share

  iPhones command more than 50% in the US. In fact, iOS accounts for 67% of all app spending. The latter is what legislators care most about.

  It should be noted that antitrust laws are broad, and don’t have any arbitrary market share requirement to trigger. Players can distort markets in many ways, directly and indirectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They might use a workaround. QR codes, barcodes, etc. Some banks have done this, but the user experience is poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They make up 70% of the desktop OS market.

  Which is why Microsoft has been the target of multiple antitrust suits over the years.

  Apple makes up less than 30% of the smartphone OS market share

  iPhones command more than 50% in the US. In fact, iOS accounts for 67% of all app spending. The latter is what legislators care most about.

  It should be noted that antitrust laws are broad, and don’t have any arbitrary market share requirement to trigger. Players can distort markets in many ways, directly and indirectly.