stephen01king
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- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
That’s another result of people not having enough money to be experimental with their movie choice. If movies are too expensive for you to go regularly, of course most people would choose those that they know are gonna be safe for them to enjoy instead of giving unknown original movies a try.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 4 weeks ago:
Might be his only joy in life. Let him be, as long as he’s not too rude about it.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 month ago:
Anyone blindly saying a tool is ineffective for every situation that exists in the world is a tool themselves.
- Comment on idijt 1 month ago:
And so does the internal surface of a diamond.
- Comment on idijt 1 month ago:
By that logic, glass mirrors also work by refraction, because it refracts out of the glass before it reaches your eye.
- Comment on idijt 1 month ago:
Isn’t it caused by internal reflection? That, by definition, is what happens when the light doesn’t refract out of the diamond.
- Comment on idijt 1 month ago:
But isn’t their shine mostly due to the internal reflection rather than external refraction? That’s why the gems are cut angularly, to help with the internal reflection.
- Comment on DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers 1 month ago:
Tell me where in this thread are anyone expecting privacy from any online LLM service, or anyone saying encrypted traffic guarantees privacy?
- Comment on DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers 1 month ago:
Yes, so not only are they doing something shady, they’re doing something shady and exposing your data to anyone wanting to snoop it. What’s dumb about criticising the latter part?
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 1 month ago:
But with less people, the chance of you finding the subsets that interests you or fit your interests better is much lower, and that’s one of the main issue.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 1 month ago:
And that’s fine. What the exodus to Bluesky is doing is making it easier for people to stomach switching to similar platforms, so if Bluesky also went to shit, the inertia is much lower for people to abandon it.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 1 month ago:
And how many users does Mastodon have?
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 3 months ago:
How many people has all the waste we’ve produced kill up to now?
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 4 months ago:
No, the average person understands how to make a Gmail account. They don’t understand email whatsoever.
- Comment on Capsaicin 4 months ago:
Because our brains are amazing and can just fill out the missing word while reading.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
I think those places need more support systems to reduce the number of people that becomes desperate enough to do that.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
Who’s coping here when you’re the one completely dismissing my own experience with using Linux. That’s not a good look for someone supposedly giving ‘good’ advice.
That experience I had was from earlier this year, btw, so don’t tell me that whatever I want will work out of the box. This is why I hate whenever people say “just switch to Linux” without taking any responsibility. You don’t know what hardware people have and going to install Linux on.
You also claimed Linux is good for people with no money to buy new hardware, yet barely care to even make sure the people you tell this to doesn’t have hardware that might not be supported. What are they gonna do after your advice made the only hardware they have no longer connect to wifi or ethernet? I doubt you’d go out of your way to help them, then.
As for simplicity, I don’t see how W11 is any more complicated that Ubuntu. More resource heavy, yes, but that doesn’t affect the user experience much. Give me concrete examples on how they’re easier to use.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
That’s hilarious. Just because you have experience with Linux doesn’t make it easier to use, either. And 90% of people in the workplace has experience with Windows and Windows only, so that means the majority of people already can use Windows easier even if both OSes are equally easy to use.
Considering all my experience with using Linux has been painful, I don’t believe you when you say Linux is easier. I can Google any issue to do with Windows and find the solution without delving too deeply. You know what happened the last time I tried to find the driver for the wifi card in my laptop for Linux? I had to find an obscure website that lists third party drivers for Linux only to find that it doesn’t exist for my specific card. The card that works flawlessly in Windows.
Imagine not having that knowledge before jumping all in on installing Linux. Most of the people in my office would’ve already sworn off Linux forever the moment they encounter such setback, especially if they were being lied to about the level of difficulty they would face.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
What are you referring to here?
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
No, it’s useless advice for people who don’t already have knowledge about Linux.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 5 months ago:
Trust me, if you’re used to the AutoCAD workflow and UI, BricsCAD is just different enough that it can be a bit jarring and a huge drop to your productivity.
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 5 months ago:
The only way I could think of is the ease of setting up a collaborative spreadsheet.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 5 months ago:
It just sounds sarcastic to me.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 5 months ago:
Can you suggest a few.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 5 months ago:
1 reason for me, the algorithm. I can never find a lot of new thing to discover or new people to follow on Mastodon when I first started, which makes me not use it very much even now.
- Comment on Equinunerous Sets 5 months ago:
Does that mean you cannot distinguish between the two?
- Comment on Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers 5 months ago:
So you can see what their brain is doing.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 5 months ago:
I mean, you’re clearly using them because they still work, not because of a hatred for increasing productivity for the overlords. Your choice was based on reasonable logic, unlike the other guy.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 5 months ago:
Oh, so do you use a 13 year old PC because a newer one increases your productivity without increasing your salary and paid time off?