Flaky

Flaky , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

To be honest, I don't think I would mind ad supported YouTube. For me, it's the obvious scam ads that Google makes it really hard and obtuse to report that made me block them indiscriminately.

If it was regulated like TV commercials are, I don't think I would've minded too much. Twitch has basically no scam ads in my experience, I just get a lot of gaming-related advertising which makes sense for a gaming-centric streaming site. Quality over quantity (at least by advertising standards, lol.)

Of course, this is just YouTube and Twitch. The rest of the Internet is pretty fucking awful and they'll need to clean up how advertising is handled before people even think about giving up their adblockers. Yeah, ads are annoying, but people gotta eat.

Flaky , 20 days ago

jesus christ how horrifying... then again, the 3DS used SMB and I doubt people knew how to set it up beyond techy types (or people who want to run an exploit)

Flaky , 20 days ago

Yeah, this is why I get very skeptical or even dismissive of Glaze/Nightshade working. It's an interesting concept, using machine learning/generative AI to "poison" the models, but I'll have to believe it when I see it. I see people defending it by saying it has an academic paper - that doesn't mean anything on its own. It still needs to be independently evaulated.

Saw a post on Bluesky from someone in tech saying that eventually, if it's human-viewable it'll also be computer-viewable, and there's simply no working around that, wonder if you agree on that or not.

Flaky , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

I think the problem is both technical and cultural. I use both Mastodon and Bluesky pretty regularly, and am dipping my toes back into Lemmy after the instance I used has seemingly died. A lot of the technical and cultural problems the fediverse and specifically Mastodon - being the most well-known ActivityPub project - has, that made people flock to Bluesky instead (during a time when invite codes were needed, adding a layer of friction to joining Bluesky at the time), is well-documented on this post by Erin Kissane.

The tl;dr: fractured federation amongst other problems, and a very scoldy audience turned these people away from Mastodon.

Hell I consider myself a very techy nerd, but I moved Mastodon instances after being frustrated with the inherent lossiness of federation with ActivityPub on the Masto instance I used to be on, which sucks because the instance I was on had no other problems.

Flaky , 20 days ago

Most people are more likely just looking for any sort of laptop to buy and aren't caring about the make of laptop. (unless it's Apple, of course)

Yet to see a HP loyalist... and I hope I don't lmao.

Flaky , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

Just got back into Lemmy after a few months of not coming in (joined during the Reddit API protests), and yeah it really is lmao.

If it's the firmware update itself that's faulty, the faulty update could've been applied on Linux, as HP uploads their updates to LVFS. If it's the process that's faulty (i.e. application corrupts memory while writing the flash), then the commenter might have a point given that Windows Update doesn't discriminate between working and broken updates.

Flaky , 19 days ago

oh god. A friend of mine who works in IT just had to deal with them and their customer support, they had him wipe the drive and now they're wondering why they can't get logs from Windows anymore.

Flaky , 20 days ago

I try to get physical where I can, but I'm tempted to go for digital and then brush up on my data hygiene instead due to space and money. Even if it's as simple as hooking up a hard drive to another computer, that is still better than not backing my music up at all.