Crozekiel
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- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, it’s not a win, mostly because enough people will think it is and stop thinking about it, let alone talking about it or pushing back.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
The slippery on that slope is there are already banking and government apps that refuse to work if your phone has enabled developer options.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Pig Butchering scams typically would rely on an app for the the “investing” portion of the scam. They use apps that are in the google play store, because that comes with a belief of some level of (completely false) security and legitimacy for people that don’t know better which makes people more likely to believe it is a real investing app and not a trap.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Even if they did, TeamViewer isn’t a sketchy app only distributed through back-alley websites…
- Comment on [Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent? 3 weeks ago:
Just because they can be summoned, doesn’t mean every one you run into has been. They exist outside of being conjured. That said, I think if it has been conjured, no it cannot give consent until the spell wears off. If I recall correctly, even if you hit them, they won’t attack you while summoned. I’d say that is a pretty clear indication that they cannot decide for themselves while under the effects of the spell.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t find one out in the wilds and “befriend” it the old fashioned way, without magic, in which case yes, it likely has the intelligence and autonomy to consent. Which really makes the spell to conjure them pretty fucked up in itself…
- Comment on This rugged phone lets you hot-swap batteries without turning it off 3 months ago:
It’s not solely an affordability problem though. A big problem for me is being expected to toss out a piece of tech that still works perfectly fine because the manufacturer said so.
Also, who’s to say this thing even still exists in 3 years to just buy another one. Realistically, the hope is what? They just keep releasing a new version every year so you can always just buy the newest one? Sorry. I hate the mobile phone market so much. :( I should be able to get excited by a phone that looks like you could throw it down a mountain and then still use it without issue, but this industry has me so beat down I just can’t.
- Comment on This rugged phone lets you hot-swap batteries without turning it off 3 months ago:
That’s kinda my point. Android 18 is likely to come out in or around 2028. So you’ll get 4-ish years of updates. I know batteries got headlines a few years back, but the complete lack of software support is the real “planned obsolescence” pandemic.
Also, this is not an gripe specifically about this phone, but the phone markets in general. 4 versions of Android is on the high side for a lot of Android phones… I’ve seen several that only get 2 and its disgraceful.
- Comment on This rugged phone lets you hot-swap batteries without turning it off 3 months ago:
Seems cool and all, but if it stops getting OS and security updates 2 years later, then I don’t really give a shit about the removable battery. My last 2 phones were replaced because the OS was SUPER old and no longer getting updates, and the batteries would still last long enough to get through the work day.
Really, the swappable battery is not the “headline” feature imo.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 7 months ago:
A big part the problem is also how they are marketed… Everyone is pushing AI as though it has the entire wealth of human knowledge inside it, it knows the right answer, and can explain it to you in seconds.
Not, you know, we fed this machine a bunch of words and trained it to spit back out words that look like they fit together.
- Comment on Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 7 months ago:
The company did, however, say that Big sis Billie “is not Kendall Jenner and does not purport to be Kendall Jenner.”
“We don’t want to get sued by someone with actual money and power.”
- Comment on Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS? 8 months ago:
Same. I gave up on Bazzite (for the time being) the second time it just stopped updating. The first time, I had to rebase it entirely to get it to work for a while again. I wouldn’t want to put a new person through that. I’m not sure why everyone has a hard-on for immutable distros “for beginners” suddenly.
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next 8 months ago:
Sure, if you are comparing to having no anti-cheat at all… But there are tons of competitive games out there using more “traditional” anti-cheat that don’t need kernal access that are doing fine.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 9 months ago:
Reads like it is going to be a generic slash 'em up game, but set in the DnD universe? What the fuck does dnd even bring to the table here besides advertising money? Sounds like it’s going to be a generic ass fantasy game filled to the brim with the micro-transactions that get Chris Cocks hard in the morning. I am unlikely to give it a second notice upon release.
- Comment on Third-party tool "Rebound 11" aims to improve the Windows 11 UI, while keeping system files intact 1 year ago:
This one in particular looks like AI crap. Which seems like what we get when we use Windows so maybe that’s genius?
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 1 year ago:
I took that as like a kid who grew up reading car magazines, but if you threw them behind the wheel would have no real idea what they are doing. I’m thinking of it kind of like fallout 3 where it won’t even let you wear the armor until you find someone willing to give you “power armor training”. Something something “if you don’t know what you’re doing, the armor will snap your bones”.
Also, as someone else said, Maximus is clearly a low-int build, so even if he’s read it, he didn’t retain all of it, lol.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 1 year ago:
lol, yea. Ghoul has levelled up a few times so he is more of a bullet sponge than random NPCs :)
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 1 year ago:
I feel like the vault stuff was explained pretty decently. Hank mentions telegrams back and forth and that it was a regular exchange (triennial I think? So every 3 years?). And, without giving anything away, the raiders intricately knew what they were doing so it makes some sense they’d be able to fake it well enough.
The ghoul VS power armor fight did require a significant suspension of disbelief, but two main characters fighting in like episode 1 or 2 (can’t remember), they can’t exactly kill one of them off. I guess you could complain they wrote themselves into a corner though, which could have been avoided.
Ultimately I enjoyed it, I’m just not sure I enjoyed it enough to recommend to people, especially people that don’t already have a significant love for fallout.