stephen01king

@stephen01king@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell them to copy and paste that text from their phone to their TV and tell me how it goes. First, you gotta explain what apps are available on whatever TV they’re using, though.

  You also conveniently forget to mention the amount of work you need to setup a domain name that points to your Jellyfin server vs just telling them to sign up for a Plex account and tell you the email address they used.

  Btw, the average person have no trouble signing up for an online account. How do you think people create an account for their social media, email address, and online shopping? Just google Plex and sign up. It’s a familiar process for them, unlike dealing with URLs or VPN apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but the proportion of people who used computers during that time is much smaller than the generations after, meaning they only represent a very small minority of non-technical computer users.

  Not to mention that my country lagged behind in terms of computer adoption during the 90’s and 00’s compared to developed nations, so it is even less likely for you to find that category of people around me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They can if forced to, but they never have to do that normally. What you’re telling people to do is make normal people do things they don’t normally do when browsing the web and saying its as easy as making them sign up for a Plex account. Most people have done similar things as the latter, but they only have to type a full URL once or twice in their lifetime.

  That is way beyond the comfort zone of most people I know. The general use case of web browser for normal people is googling the website they want and clicking the link while being blissfully unaware of what a URL is or does.

  This does not mean they are mentally deficient, it just means they spend their mental processing and memory on other things they deem actually important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then, you are completely out of touch with how most people use computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its pretty common to be that level of knowledgeable. A lot of people are casually interested enough about animals and biology to have heard discussions about muscular structures that they can determine when something doesn’t work. It doesn’t mean they can form their own hypothesis on what a spinosaurus skeletal structure is used for, especially if he knows that even experts are still arguing about it until today.

  It’s wiser to trust the words of someone who knows his own limitations and admits to it than someone who confidently uses a word without knowing the meaning. You can’t seem to grasp that people can have a varied level of knowledge about different things within the same subject.

  You’re basically saying that someone being confident about your car having a puncture is being paradoxical if he also doesn’t have the confidence to say what punctured it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The article literally mentioned AGI, which is why he commented about the relationship between LLM and AGI. I agree with him, LLM by itself will never be an AGI, but it can definitely be a part of it, especially if it takes the role similar to the human language centre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its impossible to know if your joke might be offensive to others when you live different lifestyles.

  It’s like telling people not to serve food that might be prohibited by the religion of one of their dinner guests when they have never interacted with the religion before.

  What OP does here is trying to educate himself, which is the right move, in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not an expert doesn’t equal he lacks any knowledge whatsoever. He might lack the knowledge to theorise what the bones are used for but has enough knowledge to know that it doesn’t work as a muscle attachment point. How is this paradoxical?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC, they uses to have radar, not lidar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨>:)>⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depth perception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because you don’t save the bullshit along with the content. Also, it is a lot more organised than saving the html.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack overflow is almost dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But if it results in edge issues that’re similar to another problem but not to the point of having the same solution being closed for being redundant, is it really helpful to the overall quality of the answers on Stack Overflow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack overflow is almost dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a pretty recent development, isn’t it? I remember ChatGPT being a lot more matter of factly earlier on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So one is a bug, and another is a feature I actually use everyday. Did you mean the selection prevents you from quickly changing between recent windows? I don’t remember it actually slowing down my switching at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In what way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, did you forget how hidden and inconsistent some of the setting location was in control panel? The windows 11 settings app may have brought some new issues to the table, but ease of finding settings is not it.

  If I wasn’t already familiar with how the control panel is laid out, I wouldn’t have any idea how to find most of what I used to do on it. Also, you can only set static IP per adapter in control panel, not for each WiFi connection. That was stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please explain what goalpost did I move?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, so you can’t? The scale of the theft is so big that you can’t even list them out, is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you list out this sheer scale of theft that Nintendo is suing Pocketpair for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great that we’re losing this feature in OneUI 7. Makes me never want to buy another Samsung phone ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OneUI 7 actually downgrades the Dex experience by removing the feature to launch it in Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like using Dex on my work laptop so I don’t have to mess with logging into personal accounts on them. Too bad Samsung is removing this specific version of Dex in One UI 7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I do agree with the sentiment, I don’t agree that this qualifies as weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you don’t have an actual argument and can only say it’s wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not advisable to expose Jellyfin to the internet. Telling people they don’t need VPN means you are encouraging them to expose it to the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t technically need it on Plex. They do have a relay feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re telling people to expose Jellyfin to the internet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its definitely a brick wall to a majority of people using Windows right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When did they do that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the answer. How does it compare against other Android forks in terms of security update speed?

  Also, isn’t Fairphone once also criticised for falling behind on Android security updates or was I misremembering this?