So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts.
I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.
I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.
Anyone who has an old car still has gotta feel some level of vindication right now as new cars for all price brackets are screwed right now on multiple levels.
This was in high school, but the way universities are going in the US right now, I’m feeling kinda vindicated in opting not to go to university.
I’m targeting them specifically because although Nintendo says they’re portable and will last, what if Nintendo decides to revoke all those download keys when they sunset the Switch 2 instead of allowing them to be redeemed on the Switch 3, if there even will be a Switch 3 and the entire gaming industry doesn’t collapse before such a console has a chance to even go into conception?
You’ll have larger amounts of now-useless plastic littering landfills than with the optical discs that are glorified license keys on the PS and Xbox consoles.
I’ve never personally dealt with them and don’t ever intend to get a Switch 2 so I probably won’t deal with them, although I can imagine them being catastrophic when Nintendo eventually sunsets the console in question, but Switch 2 Game-Key Cards.
My PC in terms of being able to swap everything out, at least while parts are still available, I won’t be surprised if the RAM shortage was an attempt to try to kill parts sales for PCs at some point.
This is something that Robots of all movies tried to warn everyone about 20 years ago, specifically with (spoilers for a freakin’ 20-year-old movie that no one cares about) Ratchet killing spare parts in order to push his expensive upgrade packages. That sound familiar to what’s going on IRL right now?
PeerSuite doesn’t require an account and optionally lets you save chat logs in an encrypted file.
That’s actually already a thing potentially, TV and even appliance makers have been fielding using meshnet tech to spy on users regardless of if they’re connected to the web or not for a while now.
Assuming they don’t start using meshnet to spy on you anyways.
I’m an old head, having daily-driven Linux since 2012, and so far it’s been great. And the current pathetic state of Windows further reinforces my resolve to not go back to running that OS, or when or if I do end up running it, only doing so in a VM or on a secondary machine.
Due to the downward spiral Windows is going on right now, it ain’t touching baremetal on my main system, and that includes LTSC. I genuinely do not trust Windows outside of a VM or burner box.
No, the US needs to really heavily regulate AI before it destroys every line of work other than slinging a mop or working a skilled trade, and before it destroys everyone’s water supply and potentially the power grid itself.
In fact, if the EPA wasn’t gutted, AI companies would be in deep shit right now for how they’re ravaging the environment with their datacenters currently.
Oh shit, who would’ve guessed Meta tried to abuse their userbase and then sweep it under the rug… /sarcasm
Of course they’d do this, this is fully expected behavior for them.
Then I booted into Windows and in less than 10 minutes was fed up the whole OS. I realized I had to look up things just as often as I was on Linux, but in Linux it was because I didn’t know where it was, where as on Windows it was actively hidden from me and fighting me every step of the way. Windows is in no way easier, It’s just the struggle you’ve gotten so used to fighting with every single day that you’ve forgotten it exists.
I’m not even going to sugarcoat it, Windows treats you like you’re a freakin’ idiot, and that applies to all SKUs, although the Home SKU is the absolute worst of the bunch about treating its users like they’re too dumb for their own good.
Linux, and also BSD too for that matter, at least actually respects its users’ intelligence, because Windows sure as hell doesn’t.
Fooyin is great as a FOSS and also Linux-native Foobar2k replacement if playing back locally-stored music. Also, MPD and your choice of a client for streaming from another server in your place.
If agentic AI is a security risk, why the hell is MS trying to force it in as an integral part of Windows, then? I mean, unless they want people to get malware…
So far Google services aren’t being mandated on the desktop like they increasingly are on phones, yet, at least.
WEI threatened to push that once already, plus Google trying, again, this time with an actual chance of success given the Win10 EOL combined with the dumpster fire that Win11 is for the SKUs that normal people can legally access, to push Android to desktops in addition to mobile devices, certainly doesn’t help matters either, and if Google gets away with locking down Android successfully, that’ll probably embolden them to try to lock down the web at large with WEI again too.
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Given BSD is supposed to be a complete package while Linux has a separate kernel and userland, that’s probably why.
Do you think IBM wouldn’t make Red Hat completely proprietary if they had the chance?
Adding to this, Google would make Android fully proprietary in a heartbeat if they could, given they’re already closing down more and more portions of the AOSP and trying to lock down app development and distribution as well.
And conceivably all it would take to turn Android fully proprietary ala Windows, is to hard-fork AOSP to keep the Lineage/Graphene/etc. users happy, and then rewrite main Android as closed-source.
Although, it’s kinda ironic that Windows, a fully closed environment, is less restrictive in terms of app dev and distribution, than Android, a supposedly semi-open environment, is. Like, MS isn’t mandating signed exes or trying to fully lock Windows into the MS Store, yet, while Google is trying to mandate signed APKs and also trying to lock Android into the Play Store.
And before anyone says, ‘But SmartScreen,’ unless that option is specifically disabled, you can just run unsigned exes by clicking ‘Run anyway’ still, Android doesn’t have a ‘Run anyway’ equivalent option AFAIK.