wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Microsoft is really serious about giving more products Copilot name on Windows 11 2 days ago:
Usage numbers for Co-Pilot don’t justify the expenditure, so they’re artificially pumping the numbers by branding more things as Co-Pilot, and integrating it with more software so there’s more people using it by nature of it defaulting to on.
A couple months back they added Co-Pilot to most existing Office 365 licenses for free for the same reason. Lot harder to tell higher ups no because of data leakage concerns when it’s free.
- Comment on Is there an extensive guide on how to protect kids on the internet? 2 weeks ago:
My daughter isn’t even two yet, but I’m definitely trying to plan a balance with this. It’s a huge part of how I learned, and I don’t think I would have learned nearly as much or as well otherwise.
At the same time though, I can’t help but feel like ads and the internet are far more insidious than they were when I first went online in 2000.
Malware is much more sneaky. There’s more spare resources for it to use without impacting performance. Ads have likewise had plenty of time to develop/advance/get worse.
Thankfully, ad blocking, anti-malware, and recovery tools have also advanced.
I think for the early days I’ll have her on an isolated, locked down, pre-protected device for learning the basics of using a computer (mouse, files, the type of stuff they used to teach in elementary school).
Then slowly take off the training wheels.
- Comment on You can get a free copy of both Breathedge and Dark Sector right now 4 weeks ago:
Dark Sector (Steam): store.steampowered.com/app/29900/Dark_Sector/
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 5 weeks ago:
Why are they using an axe and not any of the specifically made tools to break a window? A spring loaded window punch shouldn’t take up any appreciable amount of space or weight on a suited up fireman.
- Comment on It was rigged? 1 month ago:
Apparently the match was also delayed due to some medical issue Tyson had recently where he was seen coughing up blood during a plane flight.
And I’ve heard that his knee was in a brace pre-fight.
- Comment on Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could have featured an ice gun and blob monsters, as seen in new documentary footage 1 month ago:
Oh neat! I seem to remember some of the blob monster tech being found a long time ago, I think it was datamined from another Valve game or something.
Nice to see it officially aknowledged and some real footage.
- Comment on An MSX Core Has Just Been Released For The Analogue Pocket | Time Extension 1 month ago:
Outside of the original Metal Gear 1 and 2, I’m not sure what other notable games are on the MSX. That said, more cores are never a bad thing. I just wish the price for the Analogue Pocket would come down.
- Comment on Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law 1 month ago:
Is it islamophobic to point out that their holy prophet had a bride that is widely believed to have been between six and nine years old when they married, and to have been nine years old when the marriage was consumated?
I get that isn’t explicitly encouraging it, but I’ve never heard of any context that in any way justifies their prophet having sex with a nine year old (not that any possibly could).
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
Watch Dogs
Fun, but sometimes the difficulty seems to be all over the place, particularly with running from pursuit. Sometimes you can lose them in a minute or two, other times the game keeps spawning in new cars in front of you with no way to dodge them without the ones behind you catching up.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
If you’re a sucker for side content, there’s a ton of short stories and novellas (even a musical) that the fans have translated: I just got Ending E | The Ark Wiki
Kept the setting alive for just a little longer, and added some context to the world and characters.
- Comment on Sonic Adventure DX gripe 1 month ago:
You should look into the Dreamcast conversion mod and the Lantern Engine (lighting engine tweaks) at the very least. Pretty much everything that comes with the “Better SADX” modloader is great.
In short, when they updated the Dreamcaast original to DX, they changed the textures entirely along with most of the player models and broke the lighting engine. Every time the game was ported after that, the textures have gotten more compressed and lower quality, and more bugs have been introduced.
For example, you know the spot in Emerald Coast where Sonic can clip through the wall really easily and drown? Never happens in the Dreamcast original.
So mods that restore stuff tend to bring the quality up considerably and fix bugs. Personally I prefer the DX player models (the Dreamcast ones look barely better than PS1), but you can adjust the DC conversion mod to switch off whatever changes you don’t like.
- Comment on Windows Server 2025 takes admins by surprise 1 month ago:
The issue seems to be that Microsoft has started to reuse KB#s for updates across different channels, meaning update KB1234 can be a Security update for Windows (Desktop) 11, and be an optional OS upgrade for Windows (Server) 2022.
That appears to be what happened here, but additionally a mistake was made and the Server patch was labelled with the details (that it’s just a security update) for the Desktop one.
Also doesn’t help that Microsoft only has one documentation page for any given update number, and the one for this one only lists the details of the desktop update.
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 1 month ago:
Man, I want one of those living lounge chairs to ride around on.
- Comment on My little buddy (pack of 12) 1 month ago:
Yo, could you flag this NSFW? Don’t think most people would be fine if their boss saw this wonderful pod of dicklets on their screen.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 1 month ago:
except for flooding you with more ads between video recommendations
That’s literally it. The advertising and marketing teams within Google have politically maneuvered themselves into running the show, and the software/product engineering teams that want to maximize the quality of the system they work on (search, youtube) are overridden by insipid metrics that advertising needs more user interaction with ads.
They literally have been commanding that things be made more shitty to optimize their malformed metrics. There are email chains documenting this that have become part of the public record due to various court cases.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 months ago:
If you’re talking about crowdstrike… They didn’t all blue screen. That was caused by third party software that caused the same sort of issue (kernel crash/panic) on Linux boxes not even 3 months earlier.
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 2 months ago:
How could I ever forget
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 2 months ago:
When you show it they stop and stare
- Comment on STEINS;GATE REBOOT Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
Money
- Comment on X Payments delayed after Musk’s X weirdly withdrew application for NY license 2 months ago:
Man, he still isn’t over how Thiel snubbed him with Paypal and how his original “x.com” online bank idea failed, is he?
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 2 months ago:
They’re just calling this new thing BMI2 as shorthand
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 2 months ago:
Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme…
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, what about their comment made you think they were asking for reccomendations?
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 2 months ago:
So… blocking an instance as a user just hides the instances communities, if I’m remembering the implementation details right. It doesn’t block interaction with the instances users. Stupidly misleading.
You’ll still need to block the users one by one.
- Comment on Jason Bradbury’s Upcoming Retro Gaming Movie ‘Ctrl AI Delete’ Passes 50% Funding | Retro Dodo 2 months ago:
Literally who?
- Comment on Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in exactly one year 2 months ago:
As always, there will be ways to point Windows Update at the long term support channels meant for government and people who have contracted support with Microsoft.
CoPilot and Recall are both disable-able, and I beilieve CoPilot can be fully uninstalled. If you don’t have a Pro license for Windows (giving you access to Group Policy) it’s a good idea to use MASGrave to activate as Pro for free. Most of these settings are best controlled through Group Policy, as that is Microsoft’s official tool meant for SysAdmins to manage this zort of thing.
Still, terrible look for Microsoft, great time to try Linux. Just not so end of the world as a lot of articles seem to indicate.
- Comment on 700 Ubisoft staff in France hold strikes in response to worldwide return to office mandate from Assassin’s Creed publisher 2 months ago:
Pretty sure that’s the first one (I never played it) or Black Flag. Black Flag has intermissions in a game development office.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
This isn’t news, it’s just the standard notice that Microsoft isn’t going to spend time making their new shiny OS work on 10+ year old hardware.
- Comment on Free Long Awaited MMO & Limited Time Management Game! | (Sickfishsticks free game upd.Oct 6) 2 months ago:
If you open the Harbinger dev’s page on Steam, their last game (also a “boomer shooter” style fps) is also free.
- Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 2 months ago:
Was this not obvious at the very least when his own board kicked him to the curb due to an inability to trust him?