cerebralhawks

@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's easiest account bypass gets the Microsoft boot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dealing with Microsoft is a choice. If my last PC didn’t shit the beef, it would be rubbing Linux. 4th gen Xeon, it never got 11 officially. I had the exploit done because it was easy. Kick me off it? There’s better options, especially now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desktop Linux is now inevitable. Here's why.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, SFF is what I’ve been looking at. Been mainly looking at Dell, but HP, IBM, Lenovo, I’m sure they’re all fine. I will eventually be looking at all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desktop Linux is now inevitable. Here's why.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to see all Windows users (on x86-64) who don’t absolutely need Windows try Linux.

  Linux is what I’d be running if I had an Intel Mac. Linux support of Apple silicon is sketchy at best, though I’ve heard progress is being made. I don’t see a good reason to dump macOS for Linux, but with Windows, it is absolutely a good drop-in replacement you can also run alongside Windows while you decide.

  I kinda want to get a gently used x86-64 desktop workstation to turn into a small server. 100% it will run Linux. I won’t run Windows in my home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I said when this was posted a day or two ago, if Rockstar is going to treat its workers like shit and bust unions, they don’t deserve $100 for GTA VI.

  Now let’s see if people stand with the workers or the union busting company treating workers like shit. At least then we’ll have our answer as to why companies do what they do. But maybe people will surprise me this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider it double dipping to charge 2026 prices on 2019 performance. They’re saving the money not using performant parts and they’re still charging full price. The old Nexus phones were the same way, except they were cheaper than flagships.

  Used is a thing but it’s kind of sketchy. And an older phone isn’t going to be supported as long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never said I needed the latest phone, and I’m not going to argue a point I don’t believe in. I have a 7 year old Android phone that still rocks. I also have a 2 year old iPhone. Guess which one has better typing? And a few other things better?

  All newer phones are good for is AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux, yes. GrapheneOS requires you to pay the piper. You have to buy a Google phone (i.e. pay iPhone 17 Pro money for an iPhone 11-powered phone), so Google already double dipped. You’re just preventing them from triple dipping by selling your data. You still have to contribute to their bullshit.

  They are coming out with Motorola phones that run GrapheneOS. Word is, they won’t be cheap.

  I’m curious about Linux. I’m hearing you can install it on any Android phone without root, but I fear I may be seeing AI slop in my YouTube feed. I don’t trust it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet still, PlayStation loyalists will say “never Xbox” even as Sony continues to stab them in their backs.

  Just like Android users who say they want to get away from Google, all the while shouting “never Apple” despite Apple claiming to stand for privacy while Google does not hide the fact that they sell your data to the highest bidder.

  Some people really are their own worst enemies.

  Not that “the other company” is always better. But still, it’s fine to switch sides when the company you’re with does you dirty. I was a PlayStation guy. I’m with Xbox now because Xbox had the All Access programme that let me get an Xbox for $35 a month (with GamePass). Yes I paid like $900 and was locked into GamePass for 2 years, but I was “locked in” at the original price when month-to-month payers were paying twice what I was paying. And I ultimately saved $20 overall. I would have a PS5 if Sony offered the same deal. At times I thought I was going PS6 next gen. Microsoft got my business this generation. I was willing to switch. I also switched to iPhone when Android phones all sucked one year and I needed one because the one I had needed to be factory reset every couple weeks. The carrier told me not to do it, that people stick with one or the other for a reason. I said nah, fuck that, look at my choices and tell me what you’d do. Right, the iPhone. No regrets. If I needed a phone right now, I’d grab a Fairphone 6+. Actually kind of want it, but I don’t need one right now (and can’t afford one right now either).

  Don’t be loyal to one camp when the other is doing better. Be willing to switch sides. But not just that. These companies have to know people are willing to switch. That they aren’t locked in. That they have a choice and have the stones to make it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the problem with that is…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Title didn’t mention podcasts, at all.

  But it says premium users, who are paying. If you’re paying, you should be able to skip ads. If they’re ad funded, they shouldn’t be charging for access. If they’re ad funded and aren’t charging for access, but Spotify is letting premium users skip the ads, Spotify should be paying them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen podcasts in Apple Music. Then again, I don’t go looking for them. I mainly do audiobooks… and the ones I play don’t have ads. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on Apple Music and I don’t get ads. Spotify Premium users do??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom developer slams Xbox after layoffs hit id Software: "They fundamentally don't understand art. They don't understand games"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t. They understand profit, which must increase year after year. Every business understands this. Every game company which started out small and passionate about art and gaming eventually got big and started putting profits ahead of the love of the game. Look at Valve, everyone likes to glaze them, but their company’s story is that they stopped making games once they realised they could just sell those of other companies. It’s not that Half-Life 3 and Portal 3 wouldn’t sell boatloads, it’s that the return on investment wouldn’t be as great as simply sitting back and selling stuff other people made. So why should they?

  Make a game, lay off the staff. Hire them back when you want to make another game. It’s like people with Netflix, what they should do anyway. Pay for a month, binge a series, then cancel. You don’t need to keep the streaming service month after month. Same with GamePass, it isn’t adding any new games that are worth the price of the subscription. Watch the sales, buy games on deep discount (e.g. I got The Witcher 3 complete edition for about $10, and Saints Row IV + Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell for about $4… and Mass Effect Trilogy: Legendary Edition for $6 and Mass Effect: Andromeda for $4 — all of which totals the cost of one month of GamePass Ultimate, but provides many months of gaming), drop GamePass every now and then. Xbox is doing it to developers. Gamers need to do it to them. It’s gotta go both ways.

  “Things rich people do that poor/working people have no idea of. Number four will shock you!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least something is. I thought Seagate drives were good for stopping spinning on their own, typically right after the warranty is up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dBrand Companion Cube cancelled:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda burying the lede that they shadow announced Half-Life 3 at the end of the video. I mean, unless you cut it off early.

  It was a cool video. I assumed it was legit to some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Mac, so it has things like WiFi and Bluetooth that most Wintel boxes don’t tend to have. (I used to build PCs. I know those motherboards exist, and what it costs over base to get those features. So I know they exist and why they’re not common.) What it does not have is a camera. My MacBook has one, but any site that wants to use it needs to ask permission first. When I say no, it does not see the camera. It’s not saying “I see camera, can I use it” it’s asking “can I use camera?” An answer of no returns the message “no camera.”

  I suspect it’s the same with all platforms. Meaning anyone who wants this can use it and the rest of us will just default to identifying sidewalks to train the cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumers sue Amazon for not refunding Trump tariff costs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They will probably lose, and they should.

  The problem with the class-action lawsuit is, only those who led the class will be “made whole”, as it were; the rest will get table scraps. That’s not justice, except for the lawyers, who are the real winners.

  Legally speaking, Amazon paid the tariffs to import those goods and sold them for cost plus a fee they determined on their own. They don’t owe the customer shit.

  The best thing the government could have done is cut every American a check for their share of the tariffs. The best thing Amazon (and others like them) can do is, use the money to improve their infrastructure and/or to lower the prices of other products. Paying 2-3 people what they’re rightly owed (if anything), lawyers millions, and hundreds of thousands of others a buck or two isn’t right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots could be making you stupider⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that what they said about the automatic transmission, calculators, typewriters, and who knows how many other things they themselves use while shaming you for doing the same?

  I wonder why…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gen X and the only streaming service I pay for is Apple TV (as part of my Apple One family plan), because Severance, Silo, and Foundation are awesome and they have the highest quality:filler ratio of any streaming service. Used to be the best value, too. Now it’s at least close.

  And I don’t buy video games at full price. EA wants $60 for the Mass Effect Legendary trilogy (the first three games with all the DLC except one they lost the source code to), but it goes on sale for $6 all the time and that’s what I paid. The first game is the worst of the four, but it sets up the trilogy and a lot of choices from it affect the other two (the fourth doesn’t care about anything you do in the trilogy, but IIRC it asks if you played a guy or a girl and then never references the choice). Oh, I got the fourth one for $4 because I opted for deluxe, the base was $3. Joke’s on me, Deluxe includes online content and the servers were shut down years ago. Still not mad, for $4 I still got like 20-30 hours out of it.

  If you like Betheslop games, those go on sale for $10 or less all the time (at least Skyrim and Fallout 4, anything after sucked ass and I don’t think Starfield even goes on sale). The better ones (Oblivion and Fallout 3) go on sale for $5 or less quite often, and that’s with all their DLC.

  Mostly I play Xbox 360 games on my Xbox Series X. I still think the graphics were good then, and IMO the games are better. More story, less slop. Oblivion started the DLC craze in 2006 with the Horse Armour, and Mass Effect 3 started the loot crate craze in 2012 (advantage to the Legendary Edition version of ME3, all that shit’s stripped out). Anything before then is going to be a lot better, because it was more about entertaining you and less about fleecing you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re easily moddable and have a decent screen size?

  I recently modded my wife’s old 3DS XL, and that’s all well and good, but the screen sucks and I found out my MacBook can play 3DS games perfectly (via emulation) so now I’ve been dumping my carts through the 3DS (which also decrypts them) and just running them on the computer. Funny thing about Animal Crossing in particular, those games will generally ramp up to whatever hardware you have. Why they do this I have no idea since Nintendo hardware is so underpowered. But I have Animal Crossing New Leaf running in 4K (albeit in 4:3 or whatever the top screen was) and it looks almost as good as the Switch version (New Horizons). It’s insane how good this old 3DS game from 10-15 years ago looks today on modern hardware. The Switch couldn’t make New Leaf look this good if it wanted to. Maybe the Switch 2 could?

  Interested to see if I can push City Folk (the DS version) or Wild World (the Wii version) this far.

  But yeah, PSP is known to be an emulation beast. The problem was always the UMD drive, it drank battery like a frat guy drinks lite beer from a keg. But a modded PSP doesn’t need the UMD drive at all; it loads everything from the memory card. Including ISOs of UMD games. So the battery life goes way up, since the battery was intended to support the UMD drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They weren’t asking you before. What’s the difference?

  Before, you assumed they were asking someone like you, that your opinion was being echoed by someone else. Now, you’re hoping the AI is speaking for you.

  The web has the technology to ask most people. So why don’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever wonder if that’s the idea?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ Creator Calls Out 'Fake' Mac App Over Trademark Violation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame on that other site for implying the Notepad++ dev can code a text editor for macOS!

  Is it really that lucrative being exclusive to Microsoft?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that while there are legit types of AI content on the platform, the company is considering Face ID and other passkey verification methods to ensure there's human behind⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and that hive mind is often accused of being leftist and progressive, but often seems to serve the imperialists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that while there are legit types of AI content on the platform, the company is considering Face ID and other passkey verification methods to ensure there's human behind⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guy also probably diddles kids and/or enjoys watching others do so, so I’m not sure we can trust what he says. They not like us.

  (I say that as someone who was banned from Reddit for suggesting child predators face stricter sentencing. Banned for hate speech. Figured it was a bot so I appealed, ban was upheld by a human, or so they said.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it. Hard games are having a moment. But rather than some kind of autoplay, how about some kind of built in cheat system?

  I’d rather gaming be accessible to everybody. I’m fine with some games being too hard for me, just so long as I know what they are in advance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And then Ars Technica used an AI to write an article about it, and then this Scott guy came in and corrected them, people called them out… and they deleted the article. I saw the comments before they deleted it. It wasn’t pretty. So this is where we are now on the timeline. AI writing hit pieces and articles about doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, this only applies to home users, not Pro/Corporate users… right?

  Right?

  /s if it’s not immediately obvious. In Windows 10, BitLocker required Pro. I’m not actually sure that is the case in 11, but I would assume so. Corporations almost always turn it on, the idea being if their computer is stolen, their data is not. Maybe the drive can be wiped, but the data could not be stolen. At least, that is the idea.

  Meta makes computers? You mean the Meta Quest VR headsets?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop"⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, the vast majority by volume.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom can now run as your Windows screen saver⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s the maze screensaver from Windows 95 but with gore and violence? I always liked that screensaver. Wished it did more. Moved less predictably. The idea of a game being autoplayed seems like it should work, but there are a lot of games I’d pick over Doom. Zelda 3, for one. Myst comes to mind. Throwing it way back, Mind Walker for the Amiga.