sorghum
@sorghum@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on We Finally Know How Much the Xbox Handheld Will Cost 1 week ago:
But can it run SteamOS?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like the income tax in the USA. They won’t tell you how much you owe in tax, but if you’re wrong then they’ll bring the hammer down.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Before Trump, the “traditional” social media was likely pushing the Democrats’ agenda (like the Twitter files under the guise of more moderation. Now the tactic is being used by the Trump administration just more in the open and in more traditional media (Jimmy Kimmel). Big media is such an easy target for govt influence when it’s all ad supported.
I’d bet they see the writing on the wall that the government has too much influence in social media. So this time they don’t want to be caught with their pants down when Democrats come back into power. The other thing I feel is on the horizon is the end of the ad supported internet. I’ve said it before, be prepared to do it yourself or pay for it. I guarantee the guys behind this instance is in the do it yourself camp.
Disclaimer: I am libertarian and view both DNC and GOP as different sides of the same authoritarian coin. Right wing flavored, left wing flavored, both are disgusting when it’s authoritarianism.
- Comment on Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal 2 weeks ago:
There was a time she you could have a platform that ran with components from all 3. Intel CPU, AMD GPU, and nvidia’s nForce chipset on the mobo.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 5 weeks ago:
So is it YouTube family or YouTube household?
Either way, probably need to setup site to site VPN and route YouTube traffic through a central location, if you can block geolocation.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, long term goal is a self reliant total internet experience. I figure at best, I’ll still have to rely on a handful of more trustworthy companies to do some things like search.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 5 weeks ago:
Already am, but it still pulls results from the companies I want to separate myself from. I’d rather see what it takes/how well it performs to have my own indexer.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 5 weeks ago:
Looks like for the hardware requirements for self hosting some of the open source options, I’ll be saving up quite a bit for SSDs.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 month ago:
Yeah, I think it’s more related to the inherent security settings in librewolf and the sandboxing flatpak does not meshing well, which is fine as that’s a great upside for it. It’s not a big deal to have a dedicated browser, but I’d rather be able to block most if not all the crap when I do need to use the webcam which is why I avoid Chromium browsers when possible.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 month ago:
I know that my preferred browser (librewolf) does not and doesn’t have a native build for OpenSuSE and often has problems with video conferencing in the flatpak. Its the only reason I’ve kept vanilla firefox installed.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 month ago:
OpenSuSE is German, I’m having to wonder if I need to prepare switching distros in case they have to remove Firefox from their repos. I’ll need to research the flatpak to see if it works with webcams for video conferencing.
- Comment on Google will now let you pick your top sources for news search results 1 month ago:
This used to be a thing iirc. Then too many advertisers were getting “don’t show results from this source” and Google nixed it.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 1 month ago:
Yeah, if you really want a taste of Debian desktop, LMDE is probably where I’d start.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
Amish: techno vegans
- Comment on Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat 2 months ago:
3% and growing. Be sure to remember the publishers that catered to Linux in the transition and those that cast us aside.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 2 months ago:
- Comment on Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update 2 months ago:
- Comment on Nextcloud and Thinkfree Office sign partnership agreement to add more choices for users - Nextcloud 2 months ago:
I’m still leery after coming over from a TrueNAS app deployment of NC that crashed and I was never able to get back running. AIO has been good so far, but NC is the reason I validate backups.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 months ago:
No
gloveblock, nolovebrowse - Comment on so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down. 2 months ago:
In this instance there were 6 downvotes to 83 upvotes for over 93% positive rate in 3 days on an announcement community for an instance. If 6 is mass downvotes, then I suspect your are looking for any excuse to justify toxic moderation.
- Comment on so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down. 2 months ago:
Anyone banning for downvoting is incredibly petty or thin skinned, just my observation. If it wasn’t for the instance shutting down, it would have made a good post on yptb. Reading other comment threads on this post support the thin skinned theory imho. I just happened to be browsing all when I found the post. Looking at my subs, I wasn’t subscribed to any community there.
I won’t forget the mods of the star trek subreddit banning people for just criticizing Disco and Picard not for being woke or whatever other conservative dog whistles at the time, but for legitimate reasons. That’s the behavior I avoid. I don’t need a mod to protect me from differing opinions. It’s the internet ffs. Then there was the crusade against all the “_trek” subreddits. Claiming harassment to get Reddit to shut them down so that no one with differing opinions about the shows could have a community was absolutely inexcusable. That’s why I avoid your instance like the plague.
It’s also the best part of Lemmy and fediverse on the whole and what we agree on. No one person can control everything.
- Comment on so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down. 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s fair. I only see the interaction put in front of me, what’s been posted, and anything I might catch in certain matrix channels. The only known interaction I had with PTZ directly was a ban and him giving me the finger.
- Comment on so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down. 2 months ago:
Better phrasing would be “this experiment within the fediverse”. His phrasing still comes across as the fediverse (as an experiment) being a failure to me. I’ve not seen fediverse used as an adjective before.
It’s the same reason I’m not on .ml and try to limit interactions on the instances that are notorious for their heavy handed moderation. He can do whatever he wants, but so can I within the limits of the sh.itjust.works instance or even spinning up my own. That’s the reason I think he got butthurt. He got called out for how he ran things in front of the fediverse, didn’t like it, got mad, took his ball and went home and likely banned me and 5 other guys for his bad phrasing at best or his opinion at worst. He’s free to do that and I believe that the fedivdrse is better for it.
- Comment on so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down. 2 months ago:
This fediverse experiment was a failure.
The whole notion that the fediverse is a failure. Ptz is entitled to his opinion, but he couldn’t be serious that everyone would hold that inflammatory opinion as well. I still stand by my opinion that the fediverse is better off without toxic admins like this.
- Comment on so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down. 2 months ago:
The post was fine, the premise is wrong about the fediverse. That’s why I downvoted and didn’t intact further.
- Comment on so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down. 2 months ago:
Yeah, not so nice for just downvoting a post of his though. Fediverse is better off without that kind of toxic behaviour.
- Comment on Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices 2 months ago:
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 3 months ago:
Eat shit Pirate Software
- Comment on Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2 3 months ago:
7 was the last good iteration of windows imho being that it wasn’t loaded up with a bunch of telemetry being sent to Microsoft like 10 and 11 and didn’t have the terrible UI stuff like 8 and 11.
- Comment on Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2 3 months ago:
2000 was marketed as business and server only, like NT before it.
