JoMiran
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 1 week ago:
How in the world is the KGB, an institution disbanded before HTML was created, a problem for anyone on the Internet? MS13 and ISIS are fring examples used as boogiemen to obfuscate and distract. Anyway, the point of the laughter was the use of KGB. Is the Stasi tapping iPhones?
- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 1 week ago:
…KGB, MS13 and ISIS…
- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 1 week ago:
I have no problem giving everyone access to means of socializing online. We have or have had BBS, Usenet, IRC and many more ways to do this. The problem with “social media”, IMHO, are the algorithms and addictive design concepts as well as the fact that these platforms are designed to extract as much information from the user as possible. The information provided is not the product, the user is.
- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 1 week ago:
“This legislation is sponsored and brought to you by our good friends over at NordVPN…”
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 1 week ago:
Arguing against a ban or regulation, the paper says that “usage-based pricing can improve broadband affordability and, in turn, foster increased adoption. Under flat-rate pricing, all consumers pay the same amount regardless of usage, potentially leading to overuse by heavy users and cross-subsidization by light users. With usage-based pricing, consumers who use less data pay less, consumers who use more pay more, and no group of consumers cross-subsidizes usage by other users. Service that was unaffordable to some consumers under flat-rate pricing may become affordable to those who use less data, thereby expanding adoption among that cohort.”
Except that in markets with a single provider they use data caps a s a way to charge more for the same service. In Austin I had a choice between multiple providers and ended up paying $50/month for uncapped bidirectional 500mbps service. In Wyoming, the same service costs $349 because there is only one provider.
- Comment on HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack 4 weeks ago:
The ‘best printer’ category winner every year is whatever Brother laser printer is on sale during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 1 month ago:
What I meant by drives are NAS. I buy the drives on sale spin up a new array, migrate the data, and redirect the mount point.
I use to cold store until I realized that unless I have access to it, it might as well not exist. Now I keep everything live, even backups going back to 1997.
The only data I have “lost” are copies of my old warez CDs from eastern Europe because I have no idea where I have stashed them, and a pack of Zip Disks because I have no functioning Zip Drive.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 1 month ago:
I have a crate of old hard drives going back to the late nineties. Am I the only person that migrates the data to new drives regularly? At this point it is a yearly tradition for me to pick up larger drives during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales. Why rely on old 4tb drives when you can move them all to fresh 14tb drives?
- Comment on Spray Paint Simulator looks like it will suck me in as badly as PowerWash Simulator did 1 month ago:
I remember when SkillUp tweeted something making fun of the upcoming Powerwash Simulator. I told him that I unironically thought it would be amazing and I dared him to play it. Soon a bunch of people chimed in to agree, so he gave it a shot. Next thing you know, he was hooked.
Such a satisfying time killer.
- Comment on Popular APRG 'Last Epoch' to get Steam Deck Verified with a big update on September 19 1 month ago:
Last Epoch is so good.
- Comment on With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market [if it's going to compete] 2 months ago:
They can’t even offer a linux native XBox XCloud client that launches directly from Steam. How hard can that possibly be?
Also looking at you Geforce Now.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII arrives February 11, 2025 - Gameplay reveal trailer live 2 months ago:
Cool. I’ll pick it up in three to four years.
- Comment on Grab a load of hit digital board games in this new Humble Bundle 2 months ago:
Dune and Wingspan alone are worth the price of admission. I have Root too but I am yet to play it.
- Comment on Sci-fi coffee sipper Satisfactory gets a 1.0 release date, boasting its toilets will be fully flushable 3 months ago:
That headline is a brand new sentence.
- Comment on CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel 3 months ago:
The video game is fairly tame when it comes to themes like this, when compared to the source material and genre as a whole.
“Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration.” – Mike Pondsmith
- Comment on The Kingdom Hearts games are now out on Steam, don't ask me to explain them 4 months ago:
- Comment on The Kingdom Hearts games are now out on Steam, don't ask me to explain them 4 months ago:
Harder to explain is the order to play them in.
- Comment on Redfall will receive one final update after all, including an offline mode 5 months ago:
Offline mode and mod tools might have made it a good sandbox for modders. Or maybe not.
- Comment on Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation 5 months ago:
- Comment on Walmart shopper data will soon feed targeted ads on Disney Plus and Hulu 5 months ago:
- Comment on Jack Dorsey says he’s no longer on the Bluesky board 5 months ago:
I guess that depends on the Mastodon server you are on.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey says he’s no longer on the Bluesky board 5 months ago:
Mastodon > BlueSky
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 5 months ago:
Are you looking for clones or backups of layer builds. You can find builds on torrents and mega links.
- Comment on Skateboarding studio Roll7 is reportedly being closed down by parent company Take-Two 5 months ago:
I fell in love with Roll7 thanks to Olli Olli 2 on the PS Vita. This sucks.
- Comment on Skateboarding studio Roll7 is reportedly being closed down by parent company Take-Two 5 months ago:
- Comment on Catholic Priest AI chatbot is defrocked within a week after taking confession and okaying Gatorade baptisms 5 months ago:
AI Priest: "So wait a minute. What you’re saying is that you want me to use water to baptize?
The Pope: Yes.
AI Priest: Water. Like out the toilet?
The Pope: Well, I mean, it doesn’t have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that’s the idea.
AI Priest: But Gatorade’s got what souls crave. It’s got electrolytes.
- Comment on Outside of gaming, how do you guys use your Steam Deck? 7 months ago:
Did you ever make the custom mapping available on Steam?
- Comment on Outside of gaming, how do you guys use your Steam Deck? 7 months ago:
I literally just started the work this week so I’m still trying to figure out what bindings work best for me.
- Comment on Outside of gaming, how do you guys use your Steam Deck? 7 months ago:
Renoise music tracker DAW.
