GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
And many of those activities include consumption. If you’re doing more than casual hiking, you probably aren’t using second-hand shoes from the thrift store.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 4 weeks ago:
There is a hydrogen fusion reaction that releases beta particles, i.e., electrons. This could be used to produce electricity directly without boiling water, but I think the heat output would be such that you could also boil water for more electricity.
- Comment on Reminder, you can subscribe/comment/like Peertube channels from PieFed 4 weeks ago:
There is also Veronica Explains. One more reason to get off Lemmy and onto PieFed.
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 4 weeks ago:
I don’t hate them because they’re women, I hate them for what they eat! Which they do because they’re women. 🤔
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 4 weeks ago:
I’d say harming mosquitoes (females only, that feed on blood) is better than vegan!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
A-Train? That you?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it would be less happy without the pain!
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 5 weeks ago:
If people were doing this, how would you know? And if other people aren’t, what do you expect the people who are to do about it? Are you hoping for a Streets of New York scene where the non-intrusive Christians duke it out with the loudmouthed Christians until only one group is left?
I’m not saying what you’re saying is wrong, it just doesnt address the question of the guy who responded to you.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 5 weeks ago:
That’s pretty funny. It’s been legally mandated that bootloaders be unlockable in my country, which I’ve done before.
- Comment on Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work 5 weeks ago:
Claiming that someone stole what you stole is a little hypocritical. Not having a Pebble, and having discovered them just after they were shut down by Google, I’m glad Rebble did what they did. But claiming ownership seems a little over the top. Having an archive of apps available via a third-party site sounds like a win for both parties, except for the financial side. Certainly, not paying anything would be a benefit for RePebble, and not having an option to charge anything would be a loss for Rebble, but it sounds like an unmitigated win for Pebble and RePebble users.
RePebble seems to be very committed to going FOSS, up to releasing some or all of their code as GPL3, which is hard to argue around. I’ll be revisiting this saga in 6 months or so when I’m in the market for a smart watch.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 5 weeks ago:
You can mostly disable them. Delete your Samsung account, don’t agree to their terms of service besides the most basic one or two that is required. No defense of Samsung, just what I did to deny them as much as I could of my information until I replace this phone and never buy Samsung again.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 5 weeks ago:
I’m a pretty big fan of using fuck, but holy fuck, that was a lot. I wonder why you feel that passionately about it?
I deleted my Samsung account when an update about 6 months ago came along that basically wanted ALL your personal data so you could use AI for photo search, etc. Then I found out about all the other minor things they insist you have an account to use. So, yeah, Fuck Samsung! Now I need to find a phone I can live with to replace it when it stops working.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
Android isn’t FOSS, AOSP is. If you keep conflating that, I’m not sure what you’re getting at. And having a sandbox or VM that allows you to run Linux apps is not the same as having native support. That would be like saying Windows had Linux support 20 years ago because VMWare existed.
And no, control of your phone doesn’t equal Linux, but native support for a FOSS OS at the base level means that if the maintainers decide to go in a different direction, you can more easily part ways with them. AOSP used to be a more complete version of Android, but that has been clawed back repeatedly as Google transfers functionality to Google Play services and elsewhere, which has caused difficulties for LineageOS and GrapheneOS to be maintained over the years, including Graphene exploring moving to another device for support from the one line of devices they support now.
Clearly, this isn’t solely the fault of Android and Google, hardware vendors bear a lot of blame, as well as their desire to exert more control over their customers. But Google and Android have the exact same issue and certainly won’t be pressuring hardware vendors to open up their standards.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 1 month ago:
I can’t remember how many OSs I’ve installed at this point, and if the amount of frustration I feel when Windoes does an update and decides it’s time to ask half or more of the Starting for the First Time! questions is at all indicative of the fear and dread someone who has never installed an OS in their life before feels, these people would rather return the machine than pay $200 for Windows+installation, and installing it themselves is out of the question. I might be surprised, but the average user, even the average gamer, is unikely to want that hassle.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
Can I compile FreeCAD for Android? Can I run Linux apps that are compiled for ARM on Android? As far as I know, no. So it’s even less Linux than MacOS is BSD, and how is that helping for software freedom, or placing the control of the phone you bought in your hands?
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
So the question becomes when, not if, a Linux phone reaches parity with AOSP-based phones.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
Shit, these are all the things I’m looking for. Now I have something to do this weekend. Do you run SteamOS beta? I do, and it’s been pretty good, but I’m not sure how the plug-ins feel about it.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
Interesting, I’ll have to look it up. Not having times isn’t world-ending for me, but I do like having them. And achievements are nice, too.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
Yes, but you can expect almost no useful updates from AOSP anymore, which means it’s up to groups like those who develop GrapheneOS to keep up with what people expect while Android ostensibly keeps advancing, and they only support one hardware line.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
AOSP has been neutered as much as Google has been able to. This was the reasonable next step.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
The vast majority of the software updates they do appear to be open sourced, which makes it really hard to lock the market using anti-competitive measures. And making Linux more mainstream makes it better for everyone, not just gamers. And if Valve makes games that are optimized for their hardware spec, how is that any different than an XBox, Sony, or Nintendo game, except for the part where it will also work on other PCs without having to wait for a port?
It’s reasonable to be cautious about any actor, especially one as powerful as Valve. But nothing I’ve seen, except for the loot box stuff, has been actually anti-competitive, to the point where my GOG and Epic games work well enough on Linux these days that even the games that warn me I’m on an unsupported platform work just fine.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
Im currently playing a game from Epic on my Steam Deck, I’ve recently played games from GOG, and of course Steam. The biggest drawbacks with non-Steam games are having to go to the desktop to install them, and not having my time in big picture mode tracked for those games. So, not seamless, but exceptionally playable. I’ve even customized button maps for non-Steam games, and also had to do nothing at all to have them work well.
If Steam keeps extending like this, people will stop buying Windows for gaming. I will acknowledge that my gaming requirements aren’t as extensive as some, and I’ve never installed Fortnite or Roblox for my own use.
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 1 month ago:
It’s worth noting that there are (shitty) people in the world who consider cis people who are unable to, or merely choose not to, have children as lesser or not Real men/women. It’s a distinction that has relevance in some limited ways, but has no logical bearing on your identity.
- Comment on Aliens Probably Exist - But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason 1 month ago:
The number show that with the right technology, meaning ships can accelerate to 0.05c and we can convert asteroid fields to self-sustainable habitats, a civilization could colonize the Milky Way in about 200,000 years. A blink of the eye in cosmological time scales. FTL isn’t necessary, except perhaps for cohesion.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 1 month ago:
Aren’t all the names ObviouslyNotBanana?
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 month ago:
I had an Apple ][e I could use at school. It was preferable to the ][census for the same reason.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 month ago:
True, but if you control both endpoints, e2ee and https look very similar.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 month ago:
Fair point, and if ypure worried about privacy while transferring images, a VPN should have already been considered.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 month ago:
I would think e2ee would be important if youre uploading files when away from your local network. If that isn’t enabled, then it’s far less important. At that point, it would only matter if there was a compromised client harvesting your wifi packets.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 month ago:
The world needs those two gifs combined so we can more easily (and awesomely!) answer this question in the future.