laurelraven
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- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 4 months ago:
Cloud, blockchain, now AI… They’re all good for some things but I swear the execs making decisions subscribe to my Aunt Fran’s philosophy with cheese: if a little is good, way too much must be even better!
- Comment on "We have no official information on an Oblivion remake," say Bethesda, which isn't a denial, is it 4 months ago:
Starfield wasn’t an MMO…
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
I’ve not run into that either, but YouTube doesn’t show me ads, fortunately
It’s definitely a dark pattern
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
Thanks for that downvote, I’ll hang it on the wall with the others you’ve given me
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
At this point in time, the term “enshittification” gets broadly applied to things being made progressively shittier, which is exactly what the term sounds like it says. Feel free to downvote me for saying that, but it’s how people are using it, and it fits. No part of that word suggests anything about it being specifically about online products and services, so I don’t really get the hostility towards people using it outside of that.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
I don’t have personal experience trying to do that specifically but the zero is a really underpowered device that’s sluggish even updating itself. I’ve tried streaming games through a pi 4 which is way more powerful and even it struggled with the video being choppy, though it is more intensive than just streaming video by itself.
You’d probably have good luck with a pi 4 or 5, though, and they aren’t very big either.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
Huh…I must have gotten lucky because all of mine have a mute button…
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
They want nesting yachts.
And once they have a nesting yacht, they want an even bigger yacht to nest that one in.
It’s yachts all the way up.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
Whether it was coined for all products or not, it’s definitely applying to all products
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
That plus the gross manipulation techniques they employ for me
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 6 months ago:
If you can’t dodge it, ram it
- Comment on Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc 6 months ago:
Their own browser?
- Comment on New rules bring PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay under federal oversight 9 months ago:
This was, more or less, my immediate thought
- Comment on FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills 10 months ago:
Well of course, that makes perfect sense to me! What would we do if the ISPs ran out of bits? Can’t just use them anywhere you know, those suckers aren’t cheap!
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 10 months ago:
I think it does, but only blocks competing advertisers
(Note: I actually have no clue if they do and I’m talking out my ass; that said, I would absolutely not be surprised one bit if they did exactly that)
- Comment on Researchers achieve first successful communication between dreaming individuals 10 months ago:
Such an underrated movie
- Comment on Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study 10 months ago:
This. Any time paying customers get treated worse than pirates, they’re only incentivised to pirate next time. It absolutely blows my mind that corpos seem incapable of figuring that out.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 10 months ago:
Heavy emphasis on maybe
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 10 months ago:
Python exists but I personally like PowerShell more. I’m not crazy about it being Microsoft owned, but it’s at least open source at this point, for whatever that’s worth.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 10 months ago:
I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it’ll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there’s no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 10 months ago:
PowerShell is another advantage, oddly enough, though I’ve been worried for a bit the direction they’re going with that… Everything they’re doing now is Azure and they’re pushing everything to Graph, and the way all of it works is a massive pain for anyone trying to use PowerShell the way it was designed to be used
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 10 months ago:
Just pointing out, Plex and *arr work on Linux too…
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 10 months ago:
I dunno, I’ve got a laptop who’s CPU was too new for win 8.1 to have drivers or support for it, and is too old to put win 11 on it…
This is the first time they’ve intentionally cut off the ability to run their OS at all just based on hardware age when it could otherwise run it just fine.
Not dedicating support to old hardware is one thing, blocking it intentionally is something else entirely.
Oh, that laptop? High end gaming laptop that was 6 years old when Windows 11 released. The fact it’s blocked is flat out ridiculous, and defending it is equally ridiculous.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 10 months ago:
Or I could switch to Linux…
OH WAIT, I already did that, darn. Such a shame I can’t ditch Windows twice.
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 11 months ago:
I’m not sure I follow your logic there, it looks to me like it has the opposite long term effect by removing what competition actually is there
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 11 months ago:
This sort of buy-fatten-milk-kill acquisition should just be flat out illegal
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 11 months ago:
Not just any corporation, but one that’s done this exact kind of thing themselves
There is no good guy here
- Comment on AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds 11 months ago:
I’m not sure why that’s so surprising actually
- Comment on HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack 11 months ago:
I bypassed their DRM ink cartridges years ago by buying literally anything other than an HP
- Comment on Researchers build AI-powered security systems that predict criminal behavior, claim 82.8% accuracy in predicting felonies with CCTV monitoring 11 months ago:
I mean, if someone gets arrested because a machine predicted they would shoplift but no actual shoplift had been attempted, I’d like to believe the case would be thrown out for lack of any crime having been committed, but I don’t know if I have that much faith left in humanity anymore