NutinButNet
@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 6 days ago:
It is possible but it needs people to develop the OS for each brand of TV and jailbreak the TVs to run another OS.
Most TVs are like phones in that they have a locked down system and their bootloader/BIOS/UEFI is also locked down which is what ultimately needs to be unlocked to allow another OS to be installed.
Why there isn’t?
Just not really many developers interested in creating an OS for it. Probably because of so many different brands and models of TVs that would require lots of work since each one is pretty different from another.
- Comment on is it ok if i don't identify as latino?? please don't say otherwise please 1 week ago:
Nobody asked
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
Showing off your badass karate moves in the MRI room is strictly forbidden.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This happened in another state and this news station did a video on it which was kind of interesting youtu.be/mgh3xL5SieI?si=aM4aPRkfysSKBzIs
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you should leave the country if it upsets you that much
- Comment on HORI Steam Controller releases in the USA in December 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the article says they don’t mention anything about rumble and the same for the older article when this was announced for Japan’s release. The Amazon page seems to indicate the same that no rumble feature exists.
Such a weird choice to make.
- Comment on HORI Steam Controller releases in the USA in December 2 weeks ago:
I’m stoked. But sad it doesn’t have vibration. I wonder why they did that.
Does it have Hall effect sticks? I’m not seeing any information on that.
- Comment on Respect 2 weeks ago:
I love seeing all the people get mad that they can’t do this now that my local city has effectively banned visitors during flower season :)
You can still see it from afar, but a bunch of people got mad because they drove over two counties to trample and crowd the flower fields for their own selfish desires only to find that the area has been blocked off completely to cars and people.
Get fucked in the nicest way possible. Enjoy it from a distance like a normal person so everyone else can enjoy it and so the damn flowers can keep coming back each year.
- Comment on Why did the pope announce anime mascots? 2 weeks ago:
I’m still not convinced in this age of AI image generation.
- Comment on Orac 2 weeks ago:
They did use the same voice actress as the video game on the Windows version, I can confirm. Or at least it was a very good imitation.
I was really hyped for Cortana on Windows and then that faded pretty quick. But I remember hearing her voice and thinking how cool that was.
- Comment on Kill it with fire! 3 weeks ago:
But why? This makes it taste better!
- Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 3 weeks ago:
It’s a fantastic game. I haven’t finished it, but it was a really interesting atmosphere and I loved the horror game mechanics combined with that Bethesda feel it had. Felt in between Fallout 4 and Starfield with good components taken from each.
- Comment on The Fast and the Furriest Scrtiches 3 weeks ago:
Cats are family too
- Comment on Luma Island devs spent an 'enormous amount of effort' to make it smooth on Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
This sounds amazing. I’m just now hearing about this game and hearing it’s made with the Steam Deck in mind is an added bonus.
They know their audience because this is going to be very popular with people on the go and wanting something on the Deck.
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 3 weeks ago:
The irony of this post lol
- Comment on A scammer just tried to scam the Kroger pharmacy to get my info out of them by pretending to be my insurance company. 4 weeks ago:
Scammers are crafty assholes.
Your health insurance information may have been leaked. There’s been a ton of data leaks as of recent and it’s not unlikely that a list of health insurance providers and their customers are on the dark web somewhere and this is where they got that information about you.
Worse about these data leaks is that a lot of the ones being announced happened months ago, so it’s likely we still have some leaks that haven’t yet made it to the news to let people know their information is out there.
Getting your health data from the pharmacy may have just been the next step in their plan of getting to you to trick you into giving up money, or somehow using your information to do something illegal.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
Some home Internet plans do. I’ve seen AT&T had in their terms that if you hit 99GB, they would throttle your speeds.
This was years ago, so not sure if that changed or not.
Satellite plans often had limits too because they didn’t want to encourage lots of usage on their satellites. I haven’t checked in a few years, but last I checked, these weren’t throttle limits either, sometimes they had hard limits where you just couldn’t connect anymore once you hit the limit.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Maybe a YouTube prankster?
It’s close to Halloween, dressing up in white hoods is similar to the KKK attire, it’s a hot election season as usual…all sounds perfect for some idiot pranker to use for a new video.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Mirage arrives on Steam as Ubisoft return to Valve's store 5 weeks ago:
But still requiring that piece of shit, knock off launcher “Ubisoft Connect”, so this means nothing.
Only benefit to users is better customer service and refund practices through Valve and integration with Steam community. Other than that, fucking useless if you’re still requiring users to download and install that shitty launcher, Ubisoft.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 5 weeks ago:
Mine does that. It has a big button on the back that just turns on the brightest setting and then turns it off. The button on the handle will let you cycle through 3 brightness settings and then the strobe effect.
It’s just some off brand, probably from Amazon, that my uncle bought for my dad and I took when my dad passed away.
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- Comment on Whats the best search engine that looks similar to google 1 month ago:
Yeah but it’s a different experience, if that’s what OP is looking for in terms of how it delivers the search results.
But if this is solely about the quality of results, then yeah, my recommendation for Bing is irrelevant.
- Comment on Whats the best search engine that looks similar to google 1 month ago:
Have you tried Bing? I’ve been using Bing for over a decade now as my default search engine and while people give it crap, I’ve only had to go to Google a handful of times over this span of time and even then, I can’t remember a time that Google had what I was looking for either.
Bing is customizable so you can get rid of some of the fluff that comes with searches that you don’t want that bloats your results. Like you can get rid of the colorful background, the trending news sections, the Copilot LLM results, etc.
One plus that Bing Image search has had over Google for many years now is the ability to let you see the full screen image without doing any funky stuff. Like when you just want to load the jpg/png in the browser without the Google/Bing banner surrounding it…Bing Image search lets you do that with the click of a button. Google removed this feature years ago which was so shitty.
It’s not perfect, not like old Google perfect, but that combined with an adblocker like uBlock Origin and my PiHole works for me to remove from sponsored results (not all, unfortunately).
It has its own set of trackers too. I’m no fan of Microsoft and know this, but we’re at the bottom of the barrel with decent search engines anymore.
I like Bing for the other perks like trending news, Bing Rewards (no joke, I have cashed in for over $400 worth of free stuff from a PC VR headset to fast food gift cards just from doing daily searches), and I use Copilot from time to time as a quick ChatGPT alternative (using ChatGPT, but doesn’t require an account to use so good for a quick Incognito session if needed) and also nice with the history under your account. I prefer to use Copilot in Bing than the Windows app since I don’t want that crap installed to my computer and would rather keep it to the browser.
You may also check into extensions for whatever browser you end up going with. There are a few extensions that can help customize your search results like easily removing a website from the results, for example.
- Comment on I am getting inundated with calls from some sort of tax scam and it's driving me nuts. 1 month ago:
If you can, turn off unknown callers from being able to reach you.
I’ve done this and it’s been wonderful. The spams have actually decreased significantly since I don’t answer the phone for them at all anymore.
It’s under Settings > Phone (have to go into Apps in iOS 18) > Silence Unknown Callers
Anyone who is not in your contacts gets a ring but the ring doesn’t go to you so you don’t hear it and don’t answer. They can leave a voicemail but scammers never leave me voicemails.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare come to PC on October 29 1 month ago:
It’s kind of fitting since it follows the events of RDR2. There were a lot of people who had never played RDR, so they will get to experience it for the first time as the story is meant to be told, chronologically speaking.
I imagine a good handful of people will be disappointed by some of the outdated mechanics that were improved in RDR2. Hopefully people understand that this game came out 8 years before RDR2 and had massive differences.
One still annoying thing about this release is that according to the Steam page it “Requires 3rd-Party Account: Rockstar Games”. For a single-player game that’s always a nuisance since there’s no multiplayer content in this release.
This really sucks and makes zero sense. GTA V has it too, so not too much of a surprise considering how scummy every “AAA” game company is becoming.
- Comment on Palworld boldly announces upcoming mobile game despite Nintendo's lawsuit 1 month ago:
The mobile adaptation will be handled by PUBG Studios, the same team behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
TIL wow
- Comment on How do bigger organizations handle spam calls/large volumes of spam calls? 1 month ago:
I don’t think so. Either that or it’s going to be pricey and not likely to work with a cell phone natively like how it is now with your wireless carrier.
One of my pervious jobs used RingCentral which is what I had in mind with my comment. They do have an iPhone and Android app that can send and receive texts and calls, but it’s all strictly through their app. I suppose you could do a forward to your number, but you’re going to need to have an existing number for that which kind of defeats this purpose.
You can manage call queues and the like on the backend in the browser to create something like this where it would send callers through a maze of menus to eventually be able to get to you.
Additionally, you could program a key press to you that wouldn’t be made known to callers such as pressing 7 to immediately be “transferred” to you (something you’d only tell trusted callers calling you) but that’s not stated in the call queue prompt.
I also imagine any business VoIP has a set minimum of numbers/users to sign up with them since they’re really for business, not personal use. But hey! Give it a shot and see or try one of their competitors.
Kind of an interesting thing to think about since you mentioned it.
- Comment on How do bigger organizations handle spam calls/large volumes of spam calls? 1 month ago:
The VoIP services they subscribe to usually help with this to some degree in identifying common patterns to cut down on some of the spam.
Beyond that, businesses implementing call queues & bot menus is what helps cut down on the rest of it.
It’s becoming more rare to actually get in contact with a human from many businesses nowadays. Businesses seem to want users to use a bot that will help the customer do whatever it is they’re doing as much as possible.
And the only way to get to said human is through a series of menus and questions, usually confirming they actually are a customer.
Long gone are the days of calling and getting a human to give your information to.
When you call something like Bank of America, they prove you are a customer because you give them your account number or they recognize that based on your caller ID and also have to still provide SSN or date of birth, so even if someone spoofs an actual customer’s number, they’re stuck in the menu and never reach a human.
- Comment on XR glasses on Linux / Steam Deck get vastly better with the XR Gaming Plugin 1 month ago:
What was the issue you faced? Or was it multiple issues?
- Comment on How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden? 1 month ago:
One of the differences is that Osama bin Laden was not the leader of any recognized state in the world whereas Putin is.
Putting a literal bullseye on another country’s leader would be seen as an act of war.
Also, the US is not currently in (direct) war with Russia while the US was with Osama’s group.