MrTolkinghoen
@MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 10 hours ago:
I love graphene.
- Comment on US | Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi 1 day ago:
Fuck that. I love my 6ghz WiFi.
- Comment on GeForce NOW on Steam Deck really can be a game-changer 6 days ago:
I stream from my PC with moonlight / sunshine and it really is a game changer for AAA games. I.E. oblivion remastered ATM ;)
- Comment on DJI Romo: DJI's first high-end robot vacuum spotted in close-up photo 1 week ago:
Valetudo is the only high end vacuum I’ll ever want.
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 1 week ago:
And there it is. Fuck xfinity/comcast
- Comment on So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller 1 week ago:
Or just a VR headset
- Comment on New Fairphone turns into a dumbphone at the flick of a switch 1 week ago:
Agreed. Maybe you can pick the default messaging app.
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 1 week ago:
I mean, they’re still doing the exact same shit, just a little more transparent about it: Treat your customers differently based on if they’re new or not. Basically these plans just make it more obvious to customers. If you don’t cancel your plan yearly and resubscribe as a new subscriber, you have to pay an extra $180 a year. Simple as that. And you still have to do that every 5 years.
Honestly it’s insane. Esp the I still have to cancel after 5 years to keep not getting fucked.
- Comment on Broken Arrow devs confirm their anti-cheat will not block Linux, SteamOS 1 week ago:
No no, I know that it’s not kernel level, I just fail to see how, someone with complete control of the memory, can’t defeat all anticheat. To be fair, if it isn’t a client authoritative game, it could.
- Comment on Stalker 2's broken A-life system is finally working as designed, according to GSC Game World 2 weeks ago:
I held off on buying this. Does it feel good / worth buying now?
- Comment on Broken Arrow devs confirm their anti-cheat will not block Linux, SteamOS 2 weeks ago:
So… You can cheat then.
Valve really needs to offer some sort of hardware attestation so the steamdeck can actually offer anticheat. As long as people can compile their own kernels any game has already lost from the start
- Comment on US | House Bans WhatsApp on Congressional Staff Devices Over Security Concerns 2 weeks ago:
How is it not actually an allow list vs a deny list. They should be clearing apps that can be installed and not the other way around.
- Comment on The Return of the Pebble Smartwatch Is a Sign People Crave Something Unique 2 months ago:
Yep. I can’t wait to get mine and be in complete control of my data. No cloud bullshit.
- Comment on How Marc Andreessen’s Signal group chats helped spawn the tech right 2 months ago:
Yeah idk why people are caught up on this. Encryption is good and absolutely fundamentally important to society. And yes, shitty people can use it too, it doesn’t make it bad.
- Comment on V Rising's first big post 1.0 update brings a bevy of additions, combat reworks, and Steam Deck support later this month 2 months ago:
After reading the reviews, I can’t believe the devs don’t make saves forwards compatible or have a migration process.
Would pick this up but that part is just insane. Unable to migrate your castle to another version of the game with new features…
- Comment on Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases 3 months ago:
Google continues to do everything they can to close android down and force everyone to use their os. Imo this is a direct attack on graphene OS and anyone based on aosp. Now for every release developers will have to manually merge basically an unusable mess of changes.
- Comment on The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury 3 months ago:
Right
- Comment on Google has a fix for all of the broken Chromecasts 3 months ago:
So you’re saying, that a private key within the TEE expired… So they probably had to write a custom TEE program in-order to rotate it? Along with actually securely delivering it.
So… Did we (someone) manage to capture it? Ultimately though each device is going to have to request a new key, so even with a jailbroken TEE you’re still only going to be capturing the key for that specific device. The key would be how they implemented the verification that an expired device was allowed to get a new key and that verification… Idk not an expert in widevine keys and such but I assume that cert chain expired.
- Comment on Google has a fix for all of the broken Chromecasts 3 months ago:
I actually can’t believe how long this took them to fix.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 months ago:
I really haven’t seen any details. Most comments I’ve read indicate they think you already have to have access to the device and that this is just undocumented opcode calls. I.e. not a remote Bluetooth stack issue or remotely exploitable.
Given an opcode, as noted in the article (vague on details) and yes, I did read it. This doesn’t give me much cause for alarm.
- Comment on Is Musk trying to prove haters wrong with X revaluation? 4 months ago:
Yep. It’s a bribe opportunity
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 4 months ago:
I agree, but enshitification marches on.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 4 months ago:
It seems that there may come a point where screenless and disconnected cars become more and more valuable. That and jailbreaking cars is going to become a requirement.
- Comment on More Google Spyware to Enjoy! 4 months ago:
Graphene OS says no
- Comment on DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses assembly-like PTX programming instead 5 months ago:
Hard to maintain. I.e. Nvidia will now try to break intentionally.
- Comment on Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought. 5 months ago:
Yeah and with everything thats happening. It will be the usual slowly boiling the frog approach all the inflation / price gouging / shrinkflation has taken this far.
Currently they’re already doing it, it’s just a little bit slower and less dynamic: Goal, increase price by 25%
Step 1. Reduce package contents by 33% and provide a coupon for a reduced price by 25%
Step 2. Slowly oscilate the coupon from not available to being a less reduction in price.
Step 3: profit – Increasing the total profit to vary between 8% and 33% more depending on the day.
This example was taken from the new 8 can la croixs, but plenty of other examples. It’s just items that have a fixed size / quantity are harder to shrinkflate. Other stuff just reduce the weight a little at a time.
- Comment on Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought. 5 months ago:
Rotisserie chicken for only $16.99*
*Surge pricing may apply. (At 6pm we add $4 to the price of our rotisserie chicken because…we can.)
Yeah, the writing is on the wall when it comes to digital pricing of grocery store products. The only way to fight this will be to refuse to shop at places that do it. Or get legislation to regulate it, but good luck getting that to happen, or even enforcing it. Especially with the current administration being bought and paid for by corporations… Sadly it’s doubtful we’ll get enough people boycotting it, especially since at first they’ll just keep the prices the same, when we need to be boycotting the store the moment it happens.
Then when they start switching to changing the pricing dynamically the digital price tags will already be installed across all their stores and there won’t be any way to protest against it besides going to a completely different retailer that doesn’t do it. If that’s even an option, which for the poorest or least capable people, it likely won’t be.
Surge pricing, coming to your dozen eggs at a corporate grocery store near you.
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 5 months ago:
I don’t think the government should get to control what apps, websites, etc… we can and can’t use to communicate with our fellow humans.
Strengthen data privacy laws. Algorithm transparency laws. Look at gdpr and TikTok being sued for sending their data back to China. Etc…
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 5 months ago:
Just such a bad precedent though.
- Comment on Death by a thousand substacks 6 months ago:
Good read. Self hosting and owning your own brand, domain, identity, etc… Is the future. Also to be clear, most people only need some simple HTML to properly share what they have to say.
Yet another enshittification service.
Enshittification is reallybjust another way to say bait and switch.