halcyoncmdr

@halcyoncmdr@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No standard, no custom government specific distro designed for the use case and ensuring stability and consistency… every department can choose their own.

  So similar fragmentation that underpins the issues Linux has with consumer confusion when trying to switch. There are too many options all with weird quirks that isn’t an issue for technical people, but is impossible for the average person to wade through to find good options for them.

  Maybe they’ll specify more in the future, but at the moment it looking more like expecting each large government department to make fundamental decisions on their core IT infrastructure on their own, as opposed to a dedicated and specialized team with experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The service isn’t advertised as being for anonymity at all.

  Sign in with Apple allows you to use Hide My Email to keep your personal email private when you use Sign in with Apple to create a new account with an app or website.

  Hide My Email generates unique, random email addresses that automatically forward to your personal email inbox. Each address is unique to you. You can read and respond directly to emails sent to these addresses and your personal email address is kept private.

  That seems pretty clearly to be meant to avoid simple things like spam on your main email. I can’t imagine most people expecting much more than that. There is always a special level of idiot, but most people would never assume that this would keep you protected from police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Normies will turn it off and never update again leaving them vulnerable.

  That’s the exact reason they stopped letting you disable updates permanently in the first place.

  That being said, as it is currently, you already have the option of delaying the restart for multiple days. It only restarts automatically if you repeatedly delay the update for several days and ignore the multiple reminders along the way. And somehow people still complain saying their systems restart “without warning”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck is out of stock in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two tracks of thought here.

  1. The US Tariffs are raising the cost too high. So US inventory is not being restocked.

  2. The DRAM constraints are raising the cost to manufacture too high. That affects both the RAM and SSD in the system. This would affect all manufacturing of the Steam Deck.

  As for it only being the US, they’re not going to be shifting international inventory after already situating it in more local distribution centers and dealing with customs. So the question comes down to, are the international stores/distribution centers still being restocked, or is everything on hold and the US just happens to be the first to sell out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably have mitigations for many of these.

  Have you seen the state of testing for Microsoft products nowadays? Or rather the apparently complete lack of testing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like basically everything, that was enshittification as well, Cable TV used to not have ads. That was a big part of the marketing compared to broadcast TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Hulu was basically designed and owned by the cable companies. Not sure why that seems surprising for people.