scintilla

@scintilla@crust.piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Before I figured out how to turn it off DDG’s (DuckDuckGo) AI usually sourced Wikipedia if there was an article available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Democrats' Bill Would Let Federal Workers Skip Paying Rent During Government Shutdowns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck is up with this website lmao. “It would be unreasonable for a landlord to evict an otherwise good tenant over something they can’t control” hasn’t stopped it from happening to people I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What apps are only available as a docker container? I know some are flatpak only but thata not really the same.

  I use an arch based distro though so maybe it’s an issue on smaller ones ive never run into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because there is a level of stability in subreddits with >50k ish subscribers that subs smaller than that just don't have. You might have a lot of MAU because a sub hit r/all multiple times but goes back down to a much smaller number following that because it's out of the news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't know what it is about reddit buy I find myself constantly feeling outraged when I stop by to browse something that's not on Lemmy. I don't have any accounts anymore luckily but for some reason reddit feels harder to disengage on then lemmy/piefed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If anyone is reading this scroll through their comments they have no real opinions and get off on making people mad. Not even worth the thought power to prove them wrong block and move on like I'm doing after sending this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not to someone who's a genocide denier but I don't think your opinions matter much to most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wean yourself off of Windows with Linuxfx — I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit its wubuntu again. Can't these people just go away lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we all agree that the UK is a literal police state now? It can't get more on the nose than this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I'm unsure of where I heard it so take with a grain of salt but I've heard they make about the same number of calls to Google servers as a stock android phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like there are just too many companies in general. In my non-expert opinion seems like it it was because the country was a little too gungho about making more solar so they said it would be one of the big groth areas leading to a bunch if new developments. Then because there were so many of them they started competing with eachother and driving the pices down until they were unable to continue.

  I would recommend reading the article tbh seems like good if dry information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think people realize quite how bad intel actually going under would be. AMD will be even worse than intel was if they have effectively no competitors in the x86_64 space.