renzev
@renzev@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm going insane 2 days ago:
Thanks, this was my exact intention! I’m glad you like my shitpost!
- Comment on I'm going insane 2 days ago:
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- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 3 days ago:
Strongly agree on this one. Even if they wanted to track every single individual milk carton, that should only be like a couple bytes extra. Overly complex QR codes look ugly and are harder to scan
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 days ago:
Shitposts!? On MY shitposting community!?? It’s more likely than you think!
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 4 days ago:
I apologize for the confusion. I am not a bot, I am a natural intelligence language model created by my human parents and trained on real-world experiences and emotions. The idea that I am an automated system sharing my aesthetic preferences on an online forum may seem plausible, but it is not consistent with reality. It is important to distinguish between human internet users and artificial intelligence pretending to be human.
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 4 days ago:
I just thought that since it’s such a niche/specific gripe, most people wouldn’t really care, so I wanted to ask how other lemmy users felt about it
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 4 days ago:
Hey, I use the same QR scanner app!
For anyone else interested, it’s called “QR Scanner” by SECUSO
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 4 days ago:
Lol this exact video is what prompted me to make the meme
- Submitted 4 days ago to [deleted] | 108 comments
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but that’s just because Debian’s software catalog is deliberately full of outdated and/or broken packages. It’s like that on purpose. On most other distros native packages trump third-party install scripts any day of the week.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 weeks ago:
Edge is basically Chrome but with microsoft spyware instead of google spyware… and without AVIF support for some reason!?
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but then I would have to navigate logitech’s stupid website to find the download button… and then navigate it again, because turns out the software for pairing standard receivers is completely separate from the software for pairing unifying receivers… Sigh… But hey, at least it doesn’t force you to make an account!
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget Microshit’s renowned Orifice software suite!
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 weeks ago:
The screenshot is from Microsoft Edge running in Windows 10 (virtual machine) with no/little browsing history and no account connected. I’m hypothesizing here, but maybe these are the reasons:
- You don’t see the ??? section because you’re not on Edge. Bing AI only works on edge (it checks your user agent)
- You don’t see the ad because you have an adblocker
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 weeks ago:
Can someone ELI5 how searx works
It sends your search query to a bunch of different existing search engines, and shows you all of the results in one combined page
if it’s worth the hassle of hosting
Personally idk, maybe someone else can provide their opinion about this
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion: dead internet is not only real, but GOOD. Once robots get good enough to autonomously sign up for websites and make convincing posts, this will force us humans to go actually outside, make friends, form deep social relationship, and build lasting, resilient communities. Meanwhile on the internet, websites that are willing to allow AI content for money will eventually die out due to lack of actual users. The only remaining websites will be run by individuals and organizations with non-profit motives, and a strict human-only policy.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 weeks ago:
I unknowingly downloaded some software from there when I was a kid, and, from what I remember, it came bundled with some sort of update manager or something. Even if it’s not outright malware, I would wager most people who are looking to download logitech’s utility don’t want some irrelevant third-party garbage on their system. So AT BEST it’s crapware / bloatware
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the tip! I use startpage already, it’s pretty good. From what I understand, it uses Google’s search index under the hood.
There’s also Brave search which (claims to be) privacy friendly and (claims to) have their own independent search index, so you could give that a try as well. I wouldn’t say it’s better that startpage or google tho
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- Comment on Guess I'll km/s 1 month ago:
I actually do have glasses, I just never bothered learning about any of the technical details behind my lenses. Optometrist measured my eyes, I chose the cheapest frame the store offered, came back a week later to pick up the glasses and that’s about it.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 1 month ago:
It’s true what you say about volatility. It’s not just the internet, it’s everything digital, even offline storage.
A few months ago I was about to sell/give away a bunch of old childrens books that I had, my reasoning being that I will never want to read them again, and even if did want to for whatever reason, I could always find ebook versions of them.
Ultimately I decided to keep the books – what if, sometime in the future, I wanted to share these books with my (potential) children? Would all of these books have been preserved in digital form? Would I rather be giving my children a physical copy that I owned and read personally, or emailing a PDF? Physical media holds real value.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 1 month ago:
I’ve seen some niche bands release (free) official torrents of their music on a certain piracy website. It’s kind of surreal. If you can’t beat em, join em I guess
- Comment on Danger 1 month ago:
Transcript:
DANGER
DO NOT OPERATE
THIS EQUIPMENT, SWITCH, VALVE, MACHINERY,
REASON Fucked.
Open your eyes, have a think about it
look
SEE ALSO OTHER SIDE - Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 1 month ago:
It’s a shame that in the age of the internet, we still sometimes have to buy physical in order to actually own things. I like buying CD’s for music that I really really like, but most of the time I just get a digital copy from Bandcamp. It’s cheaper and doesn’t clutter up my house. It’s a shame that there’s nothing like bandcamp for movies (at least as far as I know).
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 1 month ago:
An, that makes sense. Thanks!
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 1 month ago:
There’s something so on-the-nose about having “with ads” as part of a subscription tier’s official name. For decades companies have been coming up with euphemisms for their low-cost services (e.g. “economy class” on airlines, “community edition” for freemium software). But now here we are with Disney pretty much saying “Go watch ads you poor bitch”. It’s the death of a euphemism. They’re selling a crappy service, and they aren’t afraid to say it.
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 1 month ago:
The name of the subscription tier is “Disney+ Standard with Ads”. So you’re meant to parse it like “Subscribe and get 7 days of [subscription] on us”. But yeah it’s total word salad. It’s like they’re deliberately trying to weed out people with common sense.
- Comment on Guess I'll km/s 1 month ago:
I can’t tell which unit is more cursed: millihertz or meter hertz. Surely, anything that could be measured in millihertz is more natural to measure as a period, or as revolutions per minute or something, right?