blind3rdeye
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- Comment on jared 3 days ago:
Ads make everything worse. Block them without hesitation or remorse.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 4 days ago:
and yet somehow google made it worse. Not only are there more ads than ever before, but now it’s also a panopticon.
- Comment on How to love 5 days ago:
Repeat yourself? Why?
I’m confused.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 1 week ago:
Making porting gog to linux a priority which has by far the smallest market share for computer gaming is the dumbest thing anyone in this thread is saying
Building a bridge across the river is totally stupid, because no one crosses that river to get to where they are going.
Building a house on that hill is dumb, because no one lives there.
Creating that new type of device is a waste of time, because no one has ever bought one like that.
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You see the point, right? Not that I’m trying to give business advice. I’m just saying that these things aren’t necessarily as stupid as you seem to think.
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 1 week ago:
Are you suggesting that this particular type of CP should be acceptable? (And suddenly “but I used AI” becomes a popular defence.)
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 1 week ago:
I’ve been using OsmAnd for years, and offline maps has always been one of their main things.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
Something bizarre is happening to media organizations that use ‘clicks’ as a core metric.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
As someone who has taught many children how to use excel, the new AI features make using it easier but teaching and learning harder. A lot of stuff now happens automagically, and that makes it harder to see the reasons and structures and language of how it is meant to work. So doing basic stuff is now trivially easy, but learning to become competent enough to do more creative and advanced stuff is more difficult.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll check out Rnote sometime soon.
(As I said, I do like the writing & drawing features of xournal++; and so I’ve been doing a bit of basic file / folder organising with that already; but it certainly isn’t as easily browseable as OneNote.)
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
I’m very interested in OneNote alternatives. I’ve been using OneNote for longer than I’ve disliked Microsoft… and I still think it’s a good app. Pretty much the only thing I don’t like about OneNote is the increasingly close integration with Windows accounts. I’d rather my notes were not scanned and uploaded and processed by a US mega-corp…
Anyway, people keep suggesting stuff like Joplin. But that isn’t even vaguely close to OneNote in terms of stylus and inking. For me, inking is the main core feature. And so in terms of alternatives, xournal++ is a closer fit. (xournal++ has essentially no organisational structure for notes; but it is really great for inking.)
What I’d really like is basically the organisational structure of Joplin (or whatever other alternative) + the inking power of xournal++. And ideally being able to import my vast amounts of handwritten OneNote work! – But that last bit is probably too much to ask.
- Comment on Not today 2 weeks ago:
For example, I bought some beer a couple of days ago, and after I paid the guy said “have a good evening and enjoy the beer”; and I said “you too”…
I guess I hadn’t processed the second part quickly enough.
- Comment on SHUT UP ABOUT NICOLE 2 weeks ago:
Does Nicole like that movie or something?
- Comment on Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use 4 weeks ago:
Need more advertising in Firefox to keep pumping those exec salaries.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, sound is better than light for that kind of test - but also still not good; because there are many things that block sound but don’t block wifi, and visa versa. (eg. a well insulated double-glazed window is good vs sound, but doesn’t stop any wifi; and a metal mesh can block wifi while stopping very little sound.)
I remember one time I spent ages trying to debug a wifi problem with my laptop. I was messing around with computer settings and router settings for ages trying to work out why my wifi had stopped working. But in the end, I found that it was entirely due to where I was sitting. I sitting in front of my desktop computer’s very large monitor, and the router directly behind the monitor on a shelf in the room next door. The monitor was blocking the wifi. If I move the laptop or the monitor, it worked fine.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah? Well I know shit all.
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 4 weeks ago:
For computer services, I generally just look at the EU guides - because the EU is pretty good, and my main goal is to avoid mega-corps (not necessarily buy local stuff).
But for physical goods I do make some effort to buy locally made stuff. And fortunately we have good enough labeling laws that it is easy enough to tell what is Australian made and what isn’t. (Not so easy to tell which companies are ‘independent’ though.)
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s a psychological thing.
Like, while thinking about what kind of phone we want - a small phone sounds pretty good. But when it comes time to buy it, we start comparing phones, and we see some small ones, and some slightly bigger ones, and some really big ones. We tend to go bigger than we’d originally intended because of psychological anchoring effects.
The slightly bigger phone is seen as a slightly better phone. “not too big” we think, as we compare it to some monsters; and the key stats such as screen resolution and battery capacity sound slightly better. So we tend to buy that bigger phone even if it isn’t what we actually thought we wanted.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 weeks ago:
They wouldn’t have to do every country. A single example would be helpful, for context and clarity.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 weeks ago:
They’re not that cash strapped though. Their blog post says that they need the revenue to ‘grow’, and they go on to talk about the new people they’ve added to the board. So it isn’t really about getting enough money to survive. It’s about getting money to support a top-heavy company structure.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 weeks ago:
Mozilla are a non profit organisation. Their recent blog post says that they will invest in advertising to increase short-term revenue that they need to “grow”. The blog goes on to talk about the increase in board members, and new leaders being added. The CEO and these new leaders are highly paid…
To me this looks bad. It looks to me that Mozilla’s new leaders have pushed out the old; and are now moving towards advertising and selling user data not because they need it to stabilise and survive, but because they need it to pay the people making the decision to burn trust and reputation. It has become a top-heavy organisation, and greed has seeped in.
A few people will be self-enriched by this, and then the orgasation will be weaker as a result.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 5 weeks ago:
The change was accepted after a short conversation. So to talk about “refusing a small change so aggressively” is total bullshit, like you’re trying to start a fight or something.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 5 weeks ago:
Don’t be a dick. The dev is not transphobic, and you know it.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 1 month ago:
Civ is a bit exploitative in that they deliberately release a half-arsed base product with glaring flaws, charging big $$$ for it; and then release a chain of expansion packs to flesh it out and make it complete.
I was on the beta team for Civ 5; and it was a real eye-opener to see that this is a deliberate strategy. It isn’t just that games are hard to get right. They deliberately hold back to squeeze more cash out. I haven’t bought any civ game since then.
But yeah, I agree that it isn’t the same type of exploitation as gambling.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 month ago:
Seems like the person wants to learn something, but with zero effort. (i.e. won’t read the article; and certainly won’t look for additional context or information.) So maybe it would be better to post the question into an AI chatbot. You can just ask whatever question, and get some plausible but possibly-bullshit answer; then feel good for satisfying your curiosity.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
For sure. I’ve been looking for a solid OneNote replacement for a few years now. Inking is the only major barrier.
I really like OneNote, and I’ve been using it for more than 10 years. But in recent years, my dislike for Microsoft has grown to the point where I feel I need to stop using all their products.
Right now I’m using xournal++ a lot. It has really excellent drawing functionality; but zero organisational functions. (I’m organising my xournal notes using just file names and folder structure.)
What I really want is integrated xournal support with Obsidian, or Joplin. In Joplin, I’ve tried inserting a pdf into my notes, and telling Joplin to open the pdf by launching xournal++. That sort of works; but the viewing of the pdf in Joplin shows a window-within-a-window; and the creating of new notes is fiddly; so I decided it wasn’t quite good enough.
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 1 month ago:
One must be careful with this kind of reasoning, because often the time is not a cost - but actually a valuable part of the experience in its own right. Walking to the corner store is slower than driving - but can be a worthwhile experience for its own sake - as it give a bit of time for quiet reflection, and light exercise, and fresh air. Depending on your tastes, a similar thing could be said about doing some maintenance work on your bike vs paying someone to do it for you.
Getting too bogged down in time vs money can potentially lead to miscalculations and stress. Is it better to give someone a quick blowjob for a bit of extra cash so that you can pay someone to vacuum your house? Perhaps the calculation is not really one-dimensional.
For me, simply spending less time thinking about money is worth quite a bit of ‘wasted’ money & time; because I value the headspace that would otherwise be consumed by that!
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 1 month ago:
I don’t know how many users reddit has, but it is a lot more than lemmy. Lemmy is quite small in terms of number of users.
But I think focusing on relative numbers of users is a mistake. Forty thousand people is still a lot of people. And we can see that it is enough people to create a vibrant community with a steady stream of good content and conversations. So the fact that it is small compared to other social media is not really relevant, in my opinion. Having a thousand times more users doesn’t make things a thousand times better - that’s for sure.
(That said, I do think its worth noting if the number of users is going up or down… because if there was a significant downward trend, that would be a bad sign.)
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 1 month ago:
Right, but in the context of social media feeds, “algorithm” always refers to an algorithm for personalised content.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 1 month ago:
Apparently it doesn’t use a personalised algorithm. So I’d say the first one.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
which is less than bsky, but more than lemmy.
I think a lot of people get sucked into the idea that more is better. But that isn’t necessarily the case. I don’t think any of us really want to talk to a million different people anyway. We just want to talk to a suitable subset.