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kadu , 1 month ago

Oh that's absolutely fantastic. I already use Jellyfin as my music library, but the mobile experience is not good. This will fix my only complaint

kadu , 1 month ago

The NES is the most basic possible architecture you could imagine. There's no source code to be leaked here, there's nothing you would even call a BIOS.

kadu , 1 month ago

Gnome: "you know what we should remove the mouse pointer, users should be familiar enough with computers to just constantly picture and map it mentally anyway this will look much cleaner"

KDE: "hey you just tried to move your mouse, that's cool, let's pop up this panel right on top of the cursor to let you know the cursor is actually an applet and you can connect online to download 45 different types of cursor or replace it with a floating panel, there are also two extra icons next to it but we don't know what they do so if you click them let us know okay bye"

Windows XP: "so here's a mouse cursor, yes it looks like the Windows 95 one. You see, some old programs actually use the leftmost pixel in the cursor to map their memory so if we change it things break"

Windows 11: "welcome to Microsoft 365 Cursor Café, a simple subscription will allow you to move the cursor and you can share it with 5 other family members through OneDrive"

kadu , 1 month ago

I'd rather walk into my local library and ask my librarian for a prompt, then spend 3 hours searching an old encyclopedia for the answer, rather than ever resolving a domain owned by Brave. Thanks.

kadu , 1 month ago

Me suspecting my date is actually an Aedes spp. mosquito:

"heeeey so how about after this drink we hit the blood bank? You know, just the two of us and a lot, and I do mean a lot, of blood bags? How about that huh?"

kadu , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

YouTube's argument is the same as Linus' from LTT: if you watch a video without ads, you're failing to comply with your side of the transaction, thus essentially pirating that content and stealing the revenue source.

Regardless if we agree or not with that statement, I'll absolutely side with adblockers always for a deeper issue: it's my screen, so I get the ultimate say on what content gets rendered. Quite literally. It's my network, my cable, my screen, my graphics card, my web browser running JavaScript on my CPU - you do not, ever, get to overreach and decide what pixels show up or not. If I don't want your obnoxious ad for an AI girlfriend to show up, there's no moral argument to be had here.

EDIT: I think some of you are missing the point of this comment. There's no reason to reply to me countering the argument in the first paragraph, as it is not my comment, in fact, I specifically mentioned how it's YouTube (and Linus') argument.

kadu , 1 month ago

I don't see how that's relevant. If you want to engage in the paid YouTube subscription, go for it, it's an entirely different thing though.

My computer requests from YouTube's server a video, the server gives me a stream of data - I didn't steal it, I didn't hack it, the server provided me this because it wanted to - and this stream contains an ad and a video. What I do with this stream is only my concern, you can't force me to watch the ad. That would be like walking in the street and somebody says you're unethical because you didn't look at an outdoor advertisement banner, and that you will be forced to either pay a fee or look at the ad.

kadu , 1 month ago

My guy, that’s why there is DRM. Your screen are loading pixels, because they let you.

When I ping YouTube's server it provides me with a stream that contains an ad and a video. What I do with that stream is my problem, and if I want to chop it up it's something I can freely decide.

Your server can send any data it wants, but it can't decide what I do with it, are you nuts?

kadu , 1 month ago

I have no social contract with YouTube. The whole "if you access this site, you agree with this ToS" isn't even legally valid here.

kadu , 1 month ago

When I migrated to Lemmy, I left my Reddit account intact - just stopped using it. It included lots of tutorials, guides for things like buying a PlayStation Vita OLED panel, recorded Reddit Talks from the subreddits I moderated, the only source for certain bug fixes, and so on.

When Reddit started pretending this data belongs to them, and selling it to AI models, I replaced everything with gibberish and removed the comments. They restored a few, specially when they showed up on Google, so then I replaced them again, deleted everything, and deleted the account.

kadu , 1 month ago

Brazil did that. We have a new set of laws called LGPD that allows users to revoke the consent whenever they want - all data ever collected or provided to a service must be deleted. Not turned anonymous, not shared with Facebook, not "under the ToS it's ours" - deleted.

kadu , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I disagree - Linux actually tanks GPU performance if you're VRAM limited. It's extremely unfortunate, as many games now have atrocious VRAM usage for no particular reason.

If you're not limited though, you're absolutely right, the difference is minimal and generally within margin of error. Some CPU bound games are better on Linux though, in a measurable way, specially if you're running bleeding edge distros.

EDIT: guys I use and love Linux, but we don't have to downvote me to pretend it's perfect, how about a DXVK developer confirming what I said.

kadu , 1 month ago

Life is so much better after I gave up on these atrocious media boxes and TV operating systems and just use a small computer connected to the TV.

I control the interface, I control the connection, it works perfectly. Steam Link for games, Jellyfin for media - always working, never showing ads, never bothering me with accounts or updates.

kadu , 1 month ago

I have a little cheapo Chinese Bluetooth keyboard thingy. It's very small, with a keyboard and trackpad. I also use my Xbox controller, which works great with Steam's UI.

kadu , 1 month ago

Here's what I use but for the love of God do not pay 21 USD for this thing. Not sure why prices are bizarre in the US, but here in Brazil I paid what would convert to around 8 USD for it.

kadu , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I didn't follow a guide, but there are many good ones online.

For games, really just install Steam on your main computer and the TV client, make sure Remote Play is configured to use the most out of your connection and set to the desired resolution. This is about it.

For torrents, you want a downloading client (I use qBittorrent), software that will automatically download movies and TV shows based on what you want (Sonarr, Radarr, all the *Arr stuff) and some server that will store the media and organize it in a "Netflix-like" easy to use interface, for that I use Jellyfin on my main PC.

So in short, for games, I open Steam Big Picture, select the game, I'm playing. For media, my PC downloads everything I want at night and during the day it's all there with subtitles, episodes, descriptions, etc, ready to play by opening up Jellyfin. It's mostly hands off, but the initial setup can be a bit painful if you've never used these tools before, specially dealing with the *Arr setup.

kadu , 1 month ago

That's absolutely correct, and something to keep in mind in case you're already stressed out with work or lacking free time.

Nowadays, after the initial setup, tools like Sonarr rarely give me trouble - but once I a while I'll have to sit down and resolve a conflict with file naming, for instance. Or when series have weird releases like animes breaking naming conventions for seasons.

kadu , 1 month ago

As a biologist, I'm always extremely frustrated at how parts of the general public believe they can just ignore our entire field of study and pretend their common sense and Google is equivalent to our work. "race is a biological fact!", "RNA vaccines will change your cells!", "gender is a biological fact!" and I was about to comment how other natural sciences have it good... But thinking about it, everyone suddenly thinks they're a gravity and quantum physics expert, and I'm sure chemists must also see some crazy shit online, so at the end of the day, everyone must be very frustrated.

kadu , 1 month ago

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kadu , 1 month ago

There are indeed good aspects to this product.

But I won't join the "Fairphone good" circle jerk and give them the free publicity, because just like Apple and Samsung, they removed the headphone jack from their phones soon before the launch of these headphones, in other words, artificially creating the problem and need to sell you their expensive solution.

You don't get to ride the "we are pro customer!" free publicity train while also wanting to be the next Apple.

kadu , 1 month ago

So? Their over ear Bluetooth headphones came out on Q1 2023. Two years developing a new category for your company sounds about right.

Plus, their phones are expected to be used for long, so if they wanted to push people towards Bluetooth they'd have to start early.

Plus, this is still irrelevant - how does the fact they screwed customers over in 2021 somehow make it better?

kadu , 1 month ago

Yep, same excuses as Apple.

Analogue connector too old, too big, hard to make modular. All proven false by a multitude of other devices.

kadu , 1 month ago

I like that "AI Pin" sounds like "Aipim" in Portuguese which means cassava.

That's all I like about this product. Everything else I profoundly dislike.

kadu , 1 month ago

You can also use Obtainium to automatically check for new builds on GitHub and install them, so you can get it directly from there without worrying about the Play Store

kadu , 1 month ago

There's a literal native toggle to disable Copilot so that'd be really weird.

kadu , 1 month ago

They're not exactly "being blocked" but rather the legacy ability to tell explorer.exe to load the older style Taskbar, which those apps load then modify, is going away. I'm not defending this nor do I like it, but it would be like saying some Linux distro is BLOCKING customization because some legacy app dependent on Xorg will not work after they switch to Wayland.

kadu , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Not if you're using the preview build, where the entire functionality is removed. The warning is just a preemptive preparation for beta users. The bottom of the article indirectly mentions this.

But sure, downvote me.

kadu , 1 month ago

The article is actually incomplete. Some insider builds already lack the old taskbar, it can't be invoked and if an application relies on it you simply get a crash.

This is not new behavior from Windows. When legacy features are going to be removed, they do stagger updates when users have known software conflicts installed, they also might throw warnings. This is exactly what we are seeing now.

Though the fact this small article is just reporting on Reddit information rather than testing insider builds is not my fault nor my concern.

kadu , 1 month ago

I wonder how legislation is going to evolve to handle AI. Brazilian law would punish a newspaper or social media platform claiming that Iran just attacked Israel - this is dangerous information that could affect somebody's life.

If it were up to me, if your AI hallucinated some dangerous information and provided it to users, you're personally responsible. I bet if such a law existed in less than a month all those AI developers would very quickly abandon the "oh no you see it's impossible to completely avoid hallucinations for you see the math is just too complex tee hee" and would actually fix this.

kadu , 1 month ago

So no, if this law came into effect, people would just stop using AI. And imo, they probably should stop for cases like this unless it has direct human oversight of everything coming out of it.

Then you and I agree. If AI can be advertised as a source of information but at the same time can't provide safeguarded information, then there should not be commercial AI. Build tools to help video editing, remove backgrounds from photos, go nuts, but do not position yourself as a source of information.

Though if fixing AI is at all possible, even if we predict it will only happen after decades of technology improvements, it for sure won't happen if we are complacent and do not add such legislative restrictions.

kadu , 2 months ago

I don't touch Adobe software. Not only due to the abusive subscription, but even the pirated versions will install Creative Cloud and a thousand supporting applications that permanently modify your Windows shell, explorer, scheduled tasks and many more system features.

kadu , 2 months ago

Sumatra is fantastic for reading PDFs, but it can't edit them. In that case I recommend PDF Gear.

kadu , 2 months ago

First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions

kadu , 2 months ago

For a few packages, yes. You can change this behavior, but there's no GUI for it.

kadu , 2 months ago

I've grown with ICQ, MSN Messenger, TeamSpeak, Skype, several local chat apps, then people obsessed with Facebook Messenger, then Snapchat... I just know any particular chatting app is a temporary fad that will eventually end, it's just their cycle. Don't get attached to them.

kadu , 2 months ago

Today I'll update my Chrome version in my 2013 media box desktop running Debian in honour of your terribly written comment!

kadu , 2 months ago

You'd be surprised at what the custom ROM communities manage to achieve. The Galaxy S3 (not 23, I really mean S3) can run Android 11 or 12.

kadu , 2 months ago

Nowadays I've been seeing lots of people porting Super Mario 64 as the challenge, as Doom is honestly beyond trivial at this point. I'm totally onboard, SM64 is a fantastic game, it shows off traditional shaded polygon and rasterization performance pretty well, and it's just plain fun to spite Nintendo.

kadu , 2 months ago

Arch users overreacting to a meme is not helping refute it. I use arch, btw.

kadu , 2 months ago

But by that logic, absolutely everything other than standing still in a fethal position in a dark cave is a cyber security risk.

Are you using an extremely solid version of Linux? Wellllll, sometimes bad actors can push bad code to open source projects! It's a risk!

kadu , 2 months ago

Yes, which is why that can't be used as an argument against one specific tool.

kadu , 2 months ago

Not using a browser extension but loading JavaScript isn't limiting your attack surface

kadu , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Having two drives is sometimes not enough, either. I have no idea why, but anytime Windows installs for the first time or goes through a major update (not the small security patches, but the periodic feature releases) there's a random D20 dice throw to determine if it will randomly decide to create the bootloader and recovery partitions in another drive, even though your main installation isn't there.

I kid you not, Windows 10 once decided that my external SSD enclosure was the best place to put the bootloader.

kadu , 2 months ago

Sneaky mfs trying to get me to use systemd by exploring my female domination fetish

kadu , 2 months ago

Need? No. Are though? Please mommy

kadu , 2 months ago

Using hashes to verify against a known bad list isn't exactly new or concerning, it's how all these password managers claim to protect you against leaked information.

That being said, I really hate when browsers try to intercept what I'm doing, so I hope this can be turned off.

kadu , 2 months ago

I recommend using this: https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper

A couple years ago, Google decided that instead of exporting the photos with EXIF data exactly as you've uploaded them, which was the original behavior and how platforms such as OneDrive do it, they are going to completely delete all EXIF from the image and instead also create a .json containing the original data, in a non-standard format. This script is an open and free version of a paid tool that goes through each image, finds the corresponding .json, and puts the EXIF data back on.

If you don't do that, when you reupload these photos into a new service, the date will be reverted to the day you've downloaded them and location data will be missing entirely.

kadu , 2 months ago

I really hope the EU doesn't find this "compliance" good enough - it's absolutely not free sideloading of apps like on Android, or any PC ever. It's pretty much the App Store, but with a smaller fee for a while and with Apple wasting less money on server costs.