Kongar
@Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
All I wanted was cd quality audio (which I’m willing to pay for)…
You know you’ve screwed up when the lazy people (me) actually get off their butts to switch.
- Comment on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines 4 weeks ago:
Agreed, a good article and I learned a lot from it. One thing I learned is that while secure boot and tpm are neat, I’m more confident than ever that they are just overkill and unnecessary for an average user.
Whether intentional or not - they DO get in the way of using other OSs or bootable flash drives like ventoy. Either by by malicious intent, accidental non signing or delayed signing, or just general complexity of coordinating signing everything with all the manufacturers.
It’s just a lot of hoopla for…. What?
Anti cheating? There’s been cheaters in online gaming forever and that will never change. Give me the option to make friends and play private games with them and I don’t care who cheats.
Security? I mean I guess…. but “don’t boot shady crap and make sure you’re downloading the right stuff” goes pretty far.
I dunno - secure boot and tpm are the first things I turn off and I’m not interested in using software that insists I turn them on. The juice ain’t worth the squeeze.
- Comment on Fairies 🧚♀️ 🧚♂️ 4 weeks ago:
And the larvae are these giant gross green caterpillars with a horn on their butt. Big squishy things that love tomato plants.
I used to see both all the time on the farm. Both scared the crap out of me when I was small. (Thinking the caterpillar could sting and that the moth was a gigantic bee)
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 2 months ago:
LOL
I’ve been using it that long too, and I suppose you’re right.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 2 months ago:
- Reads this on his iOS phone
- While playing modern games on fedora workstation 42
- While all my backups and containers run on a synology nas
- with a literal blank 2nd hard drive that used to have windows 10 on it but now has nothing
- while his computer illiterate wife uses her hp laptop just fine with linux
Ya… Go f yourself Microsoft. You used to be the cool kid in town. Now you’re trash.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 3 months ago:
Obligatory “learn to use your computer and install another OS post”. You’ll probably find that your computer becomes MORE useful, not less.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 4 months ago:
I’m out of the loop. Why not virtualbox?
- Comment on Palworld devs confirm game changes due to the Nintendo / Pokemon lawsuit 4 months ago:
I’ve been a fan of Nintendo since the nes days. But their anti consumer behavior is too much. I haven’t bought anything from them in years, and I don’t think I ever will again.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 5 months ago:
I will try it! Never heard of it. I also hate the markdown nonsense.
- Comment on Github: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Ryujinx Forks 6 months ago:
Their insistence on sueing the world of emulation ensures I’ll never buy another Nintendo console ever again. (And I’ve bought all of them so far). Their actions cause the opposite effect of what they want - they are creating pirates.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
And the sunk costs aren’t even a thing tbh. You can just go pirate your books with zero moral dilemmas since you actually paid for it and they took it away.
- Comment on Where do I buy computer parts nowdays? 7 months ago:
I agree. Newegg used to be great but not anymore. Amazon often has what you’re looking for and at the best price. Not everyone has a micro center or equivalent nearby.
I agree, post an alternative instead of just bitchin!
- Comment on Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations 9 months ago:
The most annoying thing isn’t even the price hikes or the direct sales - it’s the ambiguity they’ve introduced into things. “Hey we need pricing for xyz”. “Ya, we’re not sure if we’re going to quote that”.
It’s like quote it or take the account - but the customer has a project and you won’t make up your mind. Seriously, we have quotes stuck in pergatory for over 6 months, yet they won’t call the end user and sell direct. Customers literally can’t buy VMware even if they are ok with a 1000x cost - and they wonder why people are moving on.
Budgeting season is sept-Dec. I think everyone I know is kicking off a migration project for 2025 to another platform - mostly because they can’t get a quote/licenses. VMware is screwed and it’s only just begun.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 10 months ago:
Anyone still defending Microsoft at this point has cognitive dissonance and deserves what they get. Seriously people - just use Linux. And for the 1% of you that can’t get that 1% of your programs working in Linux - just dual boot.
It’s like people forgot how to use computers.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Can’t you just use chrome for the camera feeds and Firefox (or something else) for everything else?