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VeganCheesecake ,

What Stream support have sent that person is probably an accurate representation of what happens when you apply their policies as written. Write another article if they are seen enforcing it.

Luckily, SteamDRM is usually easy to bypass, so if that happens one could prepare accordingly.

VeganCheesecake ,

Yeah, my point was, if they do try to enforce their policies, we could probably find a way to work around it. It's probably cheaper and easier than for your heirs to test those digital inheritance laws in court.

VeganCheesecake ,

I personally don't value them differently, but I see your point.

The wonky ownership of these games is actually the reason I've been pretty much exclusively buying stuff on GoG for a few years. I don't know their stance on inheritance, but at least the hypothetical grandchild won't need perpetual access to the account to keep playing the games.

In the end, clear legislation is kinda the only thing that can resolve this mess.

VeganCheesecake ,

If you wanna bet that AMD accelerators become a viable alternative while the bubble is still going, maybe bet on them. It's all gambling, in the end.

VeganCheesecake ,

I've been happier worth with Bricscad, but I mostly just need it for designing stuff to 3d print, so your mileage may vary.

It's also not FOSS, of course, but I haven't yet found FOSS cad software that works for me.

VeganCheesecake ,

All the new AMD Chips have had an integrated fTPM for quite some time. Dunno what else the problem could be. But as long as you don't really need Windows, I'd go Linux.

VeganCheesecake ,

Yeah, but the article itself uses a downsized version of the image. Actually being able to see a lot more detail when opening the full size one is nice.

VeganCheesecake ,

Torx till I die.

VeganCheesecake ,

Can confirm, my brother is a furry and on bluesky.

VeganCheesecake ,

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/telegram-gibt-nutzerdaten-an-das-bundeskriminalamt-a-0e4d3fcb-8081-4b87-b062-db412bbc294b

Well, Telegram seems to be giving user data to the German Federal Criminal Police Office, and if they're cooperating with the German authorities, I don't see why I'd presume they aren't cooperating with others as well.

All this is actually documented, compared to those nebulous "important people".

VeganCheesecake ,

Uh, if they want to use ROCm (kinda like CUDA, but for AMD), they do have to install it manually. It is available for some distros, so that hopefully shouldn't be a problem.

VeganCheesecake ,

Reuters has something like that too, called Reuters Plus. It's less blatant, and isn't pushed in with their proper content, but I find paid articles by purportedly quality outlets extremely questionable in anyway.

VeganCheesecake ,

Like that song, but my first association with ashes to ashes will always be Bowie.

Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App (lemmy.world)

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a....

VeganCheesecake ,

Was that in question? I thought it was clear from the beginning that it does pretty much everything in the cloud.

VeganCheesecake ,

Uh, I understand the sentiment, but the model doesn't know anything. And it's legit really hard to differentiate between factual things and random bullshit it made up.

VeganCheesecake ,

I use tumbleweed on my desktop, but run arch on a secondary machine. From experience, pacman is much faster than zypper, even on a slower machine.

VeganCheesecake ,

Pretty sure they really don't like ads they don't make any money from.

VeganCheesecake ,

I feel the SODIMM. Every time I need Memory for an old machine, that's half the results.

VeganCheesecake ,

Why not just a physical TOTP token? There's ones that do 100 Tokens, probably won't need more than that. Smartphone for 2fa seems overkill.

VeganCheesecake ,

One thing I was kinda wondering about - as long as there's nothing in the T&Cs of your instance, don't you implicitly hold the copyright to your comment? Isn't the CC license actually more permissive? Or is it more about "that model was trained on content available under this license, to comply with it, they have to follow it's terms"?

VeganCheesecake ,

- but explicitly allowing non-commercial use. Neat.

VeganCheesecake ,

That's an angry looking Blåhaj.

VeganCheesecake ,

Curiously, for me it's more or less the other way around, in a sense. I run Linux on both my Desktop and my Laptop, and feel that after setting them up the way I like, I am more productive than under Windows. In Windows, I oftentimes had the feeling that I had to work against the OS whenever I wanted to configure it in a way that wasn't quite standard, while I tend to feel that I can work with the OS when using Linux. Especially Win11 introduced lots of things that detracted from the user experience for me, and where only changeable by editing the registry, which isn't great.

I do recognise that parts, or even most of that probably isn't applicable to the standard user, but as what could reasonably be called a power user, I never really had any problems working with Linux.

I'd also say that for non-power users, people who mainly work within Word processors, or their browser, a stable LTS distros can in some cases be less hassle than Windows.

Regarding Excel - gotta give that to you, I always felt that Excel in isolation was good software, and I am not aware of any replacement that's equally as friendly to non-programmer users, while also being equally as capable.

Regarding your last point - Dunno, I don't work there. I would however raise that inertia can be quite powerful. No one ever got fired for buying IBM, no one ever got fired for licensing Windows. Doesn't mean that there aren't other, possibly good, reasons.

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

VeganCheesecake ,

Well, Munich decided to switch back around the time Microsoft was negotiating about building their Germany HQ there. There have been allegations of backroom dealings, but I dunno if there's ever been anything proven. There is a very big, very shiny building with a sign that says Microsoft near where I lived when I was there, though.

Though I also read some articles about them partially going back to FOSS, so who knows what they'll do in the end.

VeganCheesecake ,

Perform better is pretty relative. My Pi 4 running home assistant is super responsive, while also using little power and being completely silent, but it only runs a network of zigbee lights and sensors, controlled by zigbee switches.

I agree that more power is necessary for any local voice applications, but depending on the use case, the pi probably isn't worse than the alternatives.

VeganCheesecake ,

I'm gonna keep not buying Teslas all year.

VeganCheesecake , (edited )

Is that necessarily bad, though? I always felt that the infrastructure around snap, and not the underlying technology, was what people had problems with.

Also, this feels like an appropriate time to shill for Aegis instead of Authy. Or any foss 2FA solution, really.

VeganCheesecake ,

Huh. I gotta admit that I never tried using it, but that does suck.

Generative AI Is Coming To Your Home Appliances (www.forbes.com)

Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become...

VeganCheesecake , (edited )

If you really want that for some reason, that sounds like a job for one AI Smart Assistant. Doing it by having a different App and LLM implementation for every appliance seems stupid in so many ways.

Especially if they don't run them local, but essentially bundle the completely different service of a cloud hosted LLM with a fucking Tumble Dryer.

VeganCheesecake ,

I mean, it's Forbes. They probably assume you lease your appliances and have them replaced with the hot new model every 12 Months, or some shit.

VeganCheesecake ,

My ISP's a dick, but to my knowledge, unlimited has to mean unlimited around here. There where months where we had Problems with our fibre, so I did everything over a hotspot from my phone. Used 100's of GB's no one ever complained.

Get proper consumer protection laws, people.

VeganCheesecake ,

It wasn't supposed to be quite serious, but yeah, depending on where you live it's pretty much a lost cause, at least in the short-, or even mid-term.

VeganCheesecake ,

Dunno if 300k is necessarily a lot for an ISP, but having rules and fining firms for non-compliance is pretty nice.

VeganCheesecake ,

Yeah. I mean, the state I live in right now just passed a bill to forbid officers of the state from using gender neutral, but technically grammatically incorrect language, while the ruling party is campaigning on not being a party of bans, while claiming their rivals are, so things aren't all that green here either.

I say take the wins you can get.

VeganCheesecake ,

Great for seeing a headline and then finding an article yourself. Less great for finding articles. Half of you people here have a penchant for linking super weird news sources.

Looking for Cloud Storage Replacement, but I don't like NextCloud

I'm looking for something to replace cloud storage for myself and family. I've tried to use/like NextCloud but honestly I despise it. The UI/UX really bothers me, and administering it is a pain. It also just does way more that I want or need....

VeganCheesecake ,

OwnCloud has been acquired by KiteWorks a few months ago. Doesn't have to mean anything, but makes me feel cautious about it's future.

VeganCheesecake ,

I mean, as long as you are the one prompting ChatGPT, you can probably get it to spit out the right recommendations. Works until they fire you because they are convinced AI made you obsolete.

VeganCheesecake ,

Let's look at the bright side. Since an appalling percentage of the stuff will either be working, or broken but salvageable, the scavengers might turn it into something useful after the collapse.

VeganCheesecake ,

I have the same issue, but without Tor. For me it comes from using Cloudflare/1.1.1.1 as my DNS Resolver. Apparently they've been beefing with archive.is over some dns implementation specifics for some time.

I think some Cloudflare guy replied to a question about that on HackerNews some time back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

VeganCheesecake ,

If the Problem comes from the DNS configuration, then yes, probably. Might be coming from elsewhere, and just have the same symptoms as mine.

VeganCheesecake ,

Debian, Manjaro, Fedora, Endeavour, OpenSuSE Tumbleweed.

VeganCheesecake ,

I am using Gnome with Wayland and a 1440p display, and it seems to work surprisingly well. Or maybe I jut got used to dealing with the problems, and would be surprised at how well things work under a different DE.

VeganCheesecake ,

I'm on opensuse tumbleweed. It might just be that all the apps I use are Wayland. I'll take a look when I'm back home, currently I'm on a trip visiting family.

VeganCheesecake ,

Wouldn't providing the circumventing measure themselves potentially open them up to be fucked by the states with the bans? Pun kinda intended.

VeganCheesecake ,

Hmh, not my cup of tea, but more variety is good, I think. Though hosting a popular instance might get pretty expensive.

VeganCheesecake ,

Huh. I used to boot into Windows to use Acrobat because I never found a linux pdf editor that does everything I need, but this looks like it might cover most of my use cases. Nice.

Thanks for the recommendation.

VeganCheesecake ,

Would it have been? I mean, I certainly don't like Adobe, but Acrobat has been able to edit pretty much any aspect of a pdf for quite some time.

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