SuperSpruce
@SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
- Comment on pick your side 1 week ago:
English = green
Math = red
Science = blue
Social studies = yellow
- Comment on Zero to hero 1 week ago:
0 is not a natural number. 0 is a whole number.
The set of whole numbers is the union of the set of natural numbers and 0.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, I don’t expect the sequel’s base game to have more content than the previous game with all its DLCs, but I do expect the base game to have at least as much content as the previous game’s base game.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t hate short form content necessarily. It’s a mood thing. Sometimes, I want to see a rapid fire of motorcycling videos, for instance. But other times I want to see 20 minute videos, and other times I’m in the mood for videos over an hour.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 4 weeks ago:
There is a part of me that does want to scroll through short form videos, but they’re all run by companies I hate:
- TikTok (eeeeeeewwwwww, I won’t touch them with a 40 foot pole)
- Meta (Just no, why would I want to help Zuck)
- YT (I lost my trust in them with so many other things)
- Snapchat (this is probably the most plausible, as this company is E-tier while the others range from F tier to M tier)
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 5 weeks ago:
I mostly don’t like how it just feels like YouTube corporate wants me to watch shorts instead of regular videos. I don’t want to be their darling user bowing to the whims of the empire.
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
Look up East Germany for one of the milder examples.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 5 weeks ago:
The irony is if I had real control over the shorts I’d actually sometimes watch them. But currently YT is trying to force them on me, with no control over which shorts I watch.
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
It might not be opposition to communism the way Marx envisioned it, but it is absolutely opposition to communism the way communist governments have envisioned it
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
Because Communist governments see any opposition to communism as a threat to their power, so they do not tolerate dissidence even if they claim to tolerate dissidence. It’s just another example of the paradox of tolerance.
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
No no, you see. Its okay and normal to destroy your body for the glorious state.
The problem here is you enjoying yourself and experience happiness. Personal happiness is a sin in communism, because it might lead to thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, and thats the last thing the government wants. Just think of what it could do to the production!
/s because I know capitalism sucks, but communism sucks as well.
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 5 weeks ago:
Guess I partially stand corrected. Still doesn’t block the infuriating and irrelevant autoplaying videos.
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 5 weeks ago:
I can do that, but the adblocker (either Brave’s adblocker or AdBlock Plus) is much worse than uBlock origin because it only blocks ads, not other crap like autoplaying videos, trackers, and malware.
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 5 weeks ago:
This is actually one of the biggest reasons why I prefer Android over iOS. In the case where I am forced to use iOS, I use Brave because it comes with an adblocker. Not perfect, but it’s the best of a crappy situation.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
W11 is also just slower than W10 for no reason. The file manager especially is quite slow.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
The last [good] version of Windows.
- Comment on car insurance 1 month ago:
Driving loses your perspective on speed because you’re in a big metal box. Being on two wheels can regain the sense of speed at lower driving speeds, but I’ve noticed after 6 months of motorcycling that even those speeds can begin to feel slow on a motorcycle, especially on long rides. Sounds like that’s my calling for the track :)
- Comment on An update to how many boring, repetitive communities I need to block to make Lemmy enjoyable 1 month ago:
Most downvoted post on Lemmy?
- Comment on Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it 1 month ago:
My fix to this is to click the “airplane mode” button
- Comment on Inside the Republican Attacks on Electric Vehicles 1 month ago:
The market for electric motorcycles will grow, but it’s not mature yet unlike cars. Electric motorcycles that aren’t just competing with dirt bikes and Groms are super expensive, have low range (~100 miles at highway speeds), and have terrible charging speeds.
- Comment on Inside the Republican Attacks on Electric Vehicles 1 month ago:
What’s interesting is that they never mention that even if all gas cars are banned, you could still buy a gas powered motorcycle. (Which is my plan for my future assuming a free market, cheap EV for low-enissions commuting, and a fun gas-powered motorcycle for twisty road tours.
- Comment on Stamina Exploit 2 months ago:
This guy definitely watches TierZoo.
- Comment on Physical or Digital? 2 months ago:
PC: Digital if on a trusted platform like Steam or the game is free. Otherwise I’m just not buying the game.
Console: Physical, as I can resell the games I purchased.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
Google was attempting to make it even worse, by having it always happen no matter what. The only way to restore the regular volume was to manually click OK on the nag screen and press the volume up button.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
Google is already doing this with their photo editor app. All the new features require a subscription.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
- If this hasn’t been done already, being able to unlock the bootloader
- Adding “AI” integrated into the OS with vague benefits even though the processing is done on the cloud (like Windows) just so the OEM can spy on you better
- Forced volume limiters: The phone won’t let you stay at max volume for more than 5 minutes a day, even if connected to a BT device set at substantially under max volume
- Making it take more clicks to disable Internet, Bluetooth, other connected features
- DRM built into Android itself
- Being able to sideload
- Ads within the OS
All of these are already on their way to being implemented:
- Already the case with the vast majority of phones
- Pixels already have this. Samsung is focusing on this in 2024. Several Chinese OEMs already have some version of this.
- This was an idea Google attempted to implement in Android 14. Seems like it didn’t go through that year, but there’s always this year.
- Google already made it harder to do this in Android 12. Apple also does this with the toggles only disabling WiFi/BT until tomorrow. Other OEMs are good for now.
- After widespread disdain for Google’s Web Environment Integrity BS, Google is quietly pivoting to this stupid change.
- Google is now making it harder to do this on all Android phones. Now, you can only sideload apps targeting an Android version at most 8 behind the current one. This disables lots of little FOSS projects that were light on system resources.
- Most Chinese OEMs already do this, although you can usually turn it off. Samsung used to do this, but backpedaled. Also bloatware exists.
- Comment on You can only pick one 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t call $250 “a few bucks.” That’s over 10% of the cost of my motorcycle which I’ve been saving for for a couple years.
- Comment on You can only pick one 4 months ago:
As a car enthusiast, the Uber one would be a dream. I could drive any car, including all the supercars and hypercars.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 4 months ago:
I have a theory that they want you to get so annoyed that you suck it up and pay for premium.
Instead, I decreased my YouTube consumption, turned on my adblocker for low-quality content, or content from an unmonetized creator, or content showing something technically illegal (game OSTs or a motorcycle review involving going 2x the speed limit), and donated to some patreons and purchased a year of Nebula.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
Not only that, the storefront runs atrociously slow and the privacy policy is invasive.