Banzai51
@Banzai51@midwest.social
- Comment on Authorities urge U.S. citizens to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers 2 weeks ago:
Quick, everybody pick a different app! Chaos ensues.
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 1 month ago:
But bandwidth is only limited in points in time, not usage over a month. Makes sense to limit in times of congestion, but not outside that. That is the OP’s point.
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 1 month ago:
The data caps also discourage 4k adoption.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 1 month ago:
I’ve played the game since 2015 when all we could do was walk around a hanger. When it comes to where SQ42 is at, we are being lied to about where it is. Them saying at Citcon that SQ42 is just 2 more years away is a dead giveaway that they are absolutely no where near a release, and the 2026 year is pure fiction. Like I said, they’ve been saying 2 years away since 2016.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 1 month ago:
And this CitCon didn’t do anything to stem that tide if true.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure Chris Roberts views Squadron 42 as the main game.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 2 months ago:
They claimed it was feature complete in 2023. And now they claim it is two years away from release. You really think polish and optimization takes three years? Of course, they’ve claimed it is just two years away every year since 2016.
They are lying to you.
- Comment on Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable 2 months ago:
The steam engine won’t replace John Henry!!!
- Comment on PS5 Dashboards Flooded with Unwanted Ads—Sony Claims It Wasn't Intentional 2 months ago:
…yet!
- Comment on Microsoft Ruined Windows 4 months ago:
Switch to Linux. I did it a few months ago and I have zero complaints, even in gaming.
- Comment on Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year 6 months ago:
Whole point of the Hyperloop was to stop California from building out high speed rail. And it worked. Musky thought it would cut into his EV sales.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Confronting ASUS Face-to-Face 6 months ago:
Steve did it with Newegg. Tech Jesus has balls when gamers/enthusiasts are getting screwed.
- Comment on Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week 6 months ago:
Use Firefox. The crypto bros running Brave have been caught multiple times gathering and selling user data. You use Chrome as the base when you want to hoover data.
- Comment on For The First Time In A Decade, Nobody Is Working On Cyberpunk 2077 6 months ago:
Yes, but the bulk of the dev team is working on The Witcher 4.
- Comment on Minimum ! 6 months ago:
It’s the 90s webguru all over again!
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 7 months ago:
Part of it is management that can’t handle their duties if they can’t walk over and intimidate workers. The other bit is many companies have cash reserves invested in commercial real estate instruments, and can’t handle the profoilo hit. And many of those company leaders are also personally invested in that same real estate.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 7 months ago:
Working from home does help the local economy, just not the right ones for the C-suite.
- Comment on Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement 7 months ago:
This is going to be a pyric victory like when they sued Google where they won, but then the traffic and views dropped through the floor.
- Comment on Tales Of The Shire's First Trailer Reveals It Is Middle-Earth Animal Crossing With Hobbits - Game Informer 7 months ago:
Looks a lot like Palia. Can’t wait to play it.
- Comment on He revealed the secrets ! 8 months ago:
My best comment ever in Reddit was describing Lord of the Rings to programming.
- Comment on He revealed the secrets ! 8 months ago:
The job of a programmer is to reintroduce a bug that was fixed in the last patch.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
From my experience, the wireless carriers are trying their best not to laugh in the same areas for home Internet. They’re trying hard to avoid the competition like they do in phone service. Example: I get T-Mobile home Internet, but Verizon doesn’t in my area. Asking friends, I’m finding that to be a common situation where one or the other is offered, but rarely both. Completely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
NO TRUE SCOTTSMAN!
- Comment on "Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives 8 months ago:
And you’ll get the same story.
- Comment on "Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives 8 months ago:
Libre office and Linux desktops are not line of business apps. They are platforms to run/supplement line of business apps. There are very few line of business apps that run HR, the finance department, EMR if you’re in a hospital system, etc, etc, etc as open source or run on open source solutions. For decades Open Source advocates kept thinking it was the ability to run Office that shut down “The year of Linux desktops!!!” But that isn’t it at all. It’s those specialized apps that run the businesses that prevented it. I work in a hospital system, our line of business app is Epic or Cerner. Apps that digitize the health records. The requirements to run these apps is Windows Server, because that is what the front ends are built on. And these apps, especially the front ends, are heavy and complex. Any attempt to turn them into web apps has failed miserably because the performance just isn’t there vs running say, the Epic/Cerner front end in a Citrix solution. Client-Server isn’t dead, it just doesn’t get sexy press anymore. Obviously if you work in web development, it is a very different story. But even in those shops, I’ll bet the business support apps (HR, finance, etc) run heavily on Windows.
Lord knows I’ve tried to advocate for open source solutions where I can, but if the apps the business picks to suit their needs only runs in Windows? You’re infrastructure has already been chosen for you. And THAT is what the average wannabe IT person on the internet doesn’t understand in the slightest.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Because these access companies DO NOT COMPETE with each other. Without that competition we all get the shit end of capitalism. The landlines all have their own fiefdoms. Wireless is balkanizing based on tower placement, and satellite is for rural areas that don’t rate wired connections or cell towers. The politicians can point to all this and say we have options, but really you’re lucky if you have two options.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
We did do something permanent: We let the private sector fuck us all in the ass while the rest of the world passed us by.
- Comment on "Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives 8 months ago:
Then the brutal reality hits: Your app vendor, “We don’t support that.”
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 8 months ago:
It’s ok. 99% of the AI articles are about how AI is going to kill us all with the proof being the movie Terminator.
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 8 months ago:
A TOS isn’t legally binding.