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- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 1 day ago:
One spawns a pre-coded widget with obvious math equations inside, the other puts out values in a way you can’t tell if it calculated stuff or made it all up. I am sure it triggers a side-calculator too, but I can’t know if it exists, and if it was properly triggered this time after they presented the output like an answer from their Search Assist LLM tool.
This, and that you get a working multi-unit converter widget you can use again and again without asking DDG once more. I think the old way clearly wins.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 4 days ago:
As a Windows bro who learned Linux exists and can be used by a jock like me just two years ago, I don’t think you and me remember the time these mandatory updates arrived in the same way. I remember that as a young and stupid person a decade or more ago I did my worst to disable them initially, for they clogged the HDD drive I had at the time and made my machine unreliable whenever I wanted to game on it. That it didn’t schedule update tasks all that well for they are shut down when they aren’t in use.
As a more conscious individual, I apply all of them on initial install, but still keep myself cautious about them, for my growing fleet of machines has a couple of edge cases where it breaks core functionality unless prevented. One next security update on that exact version of Office we use disables autofill-on-drag in Excel - it’s a bug that never got fixed and is unaffected by ticking corresponding menu items; systems with multiple vcards of different generations get corrupted for Windows loads drivers to the latest ones without a nickel of care if older ones support that; oh, and I didn’t mention how Windows Update also loads unneded apps and straight up spyware while also randomly disabling apps that worked before update.
Linux sucks for major software vendors don’t care about it, except select projects and companies. At the time of writing, I don’t think there would be any problem in booting some Rocky Linux desktop and downloading programs for an industry professional. The lack of familiar software supporting Linux right now would hit them earlier than anything linux-related. I am an Adobe bitch, and acclimatization to new tools doesn’t go without friction. But I adore one simple and little thing: that, just like my video hardware, once I plug in a Linux machine into my production pipeline, it behaves in a predictable fashion and doesn’t do anything by itself.
For it not to feel like a thing of my spoiled imagination, a lot of providers of paid niche software got onto always-online licensing, and then started to sell usb keys for those who want their production machine to function as desired even offline. The need to have the same environment boot after boot is what can lead some teams to abandon Windows altogether. By I’m with you in thinking that it’s a niche case.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 4 days ago:
I serve lotsa untechy people who are annoyed by these updates for reasons as practical as “this PC does not follow my command to wake up or shut down immediately”. Sometimes they have older hardware that struggles with it (like if they have a HDD for a system drive as the worst case), sometimes they shut it down mid update being jn a hurry, they all do want their machine to function as a VHS player that is persistent between boots and just works. You are right that most people don’t dance around our ideological campfires, that they don’t understand the discourse around frequent updates at all, but as end users they get a frustrating expirience that often my clients shrug when I mention Windows Update for they already encountered at least one case of it randomly popping up when they were unprepared and didn’t want it.
Yet, I agree that it is insignificant for Microsoft, as they kept it that way even for pro users for more than a decade.
It is a different topic than my initial argument but I don’t mind to explore that branch.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 6 days ago:
Windows takes ultimate authority on too many questions without asking or informing users about that. It is wrong by default and leads to a lot of predictable problems and UX drgradation. To the point Microsoft managed to make people be anxious about updates, wanting to stop them.
- Comment on The Anonborn gets recruited 1 week ago:
How? When I tried to dodge that conflict, Todd was right-click-unzipping packs of fighting soldiers onto me. It felt like a meme interpretation of “If you aren’t interested in politics, politics are gonna start to be interested in you”.
- Comment on NO MORE 1 week ago:
NO MORE FUCKING POP UPS!
If you feel like there is an important message you definetely shall convey in an overlaying window, GUESS ONCE MORE FUCKFACE.
If you didn’t design your primary UI to inform me of something you find so important YOU DESIGNED IT WRONG.
Not only I should grab a mouse to interact with your ANNOYING BULLSHIT, you actually BLOCK MY SIGHT and usually TAKE FOCUS AND CONTROL from ME. Did I consent, on MY MACHINE, that a greasy son of an ass hooks into my system and randomly alt-tabs elsewhere when I work? I DID NOT.
The only pop up I want to see is the one about YOUR MOTHERFUCKING FUNERAL YOU BLISTERING CAVITY OF A HUMAN. Another one of your silly notifications and YOU ARE DEAD MEAT WALKING. You’d think I am joking but this time I AM PRETTY CLEARLY NOT.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The locked-down nature of the mod stinks, moreso this undisclosed DRM change, but the central piece is the terminal neuroprivilege of rando chuds. What (suddenly happened to them) LLM-magick can seemingly make up in their skills, doesn’t go to their manners, awareness and ability to read the room. Boo at them if they thought they are helping anyone by strongarming the non-problem, spit at them as they did it for their ego/rep/profit.
- Comment on Legos. 2 weeks ago:
Mom, I am 3d printer now!
- Comment on Close ad button 3 weeks ago:
Probably soc media algorhytms give preferntial treatment to images with original hash sums, so LLM recreation gets built into the usual repost bot pipeline.
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- Comment on _sings loudly_ 1 month ago:
With 18 yos’ birth date mark sliding past 2008, most of the 00s are there too. NFS U\U2\MW\Carbon\PS soundtracks are parents’ music now. Tony Hawk’s playlists are eldricht scriptures and forgotten prophecies O_O"
- Comment on [Mimi] Hungry. [230] 1 month ago:
Horsey with a low ELO player.
- Comment on B2C magic services 1 month ago:
When I played Oblivion at launch, it crossed my mind that there is an overlooked angle of proprietary magic for those not in the ranks of Magic Guild, a closed club of a few, and an ongoing fight against those questioning their monopoly. To sustain themselves as a business, afford funny dresses and enormous headquarters, they could’ve artifically created a market of cheaply produced soul gems and spellscrolls, and I’m pretty sure there can also be stories of how they outsourced their production to poorest provinces while leveraging Empire’s influence to beat traditional local producers/guilds - a conflict we see in Morrowind with Brotherhood/Thieves vs Morag/Camonna Tong. Necromants somehow appear as a double villain to MG, because, besides necromancy and stuff, their sect also produces their own black soul gems of bigger energy capacity.
That’s fine to have a facelift for Oblivion, but I would’ve prefered if they opened up their flagship franchise to other teams so we could have Oblout: New Skingrad or whatever, with a compelling and grounded story.
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on That does not spark joy 2 months ago:
I got it too late that I could’ve chosen politicalmemes or whatever instead. I’d do better next time.
- Comment on That does not spark joy 2 months ago:
Even worse, they want to be constantly reminded of the value of their surroundings to updoot their own ego. They outsource their self-esteem to material world around them, to other people’s remarks, and never feel themselves complete in solitude. Their cheapo-looking overpriced golden toilets, cruxifictions and eagles are show pieces of how they are fragile, limited and sad.
- Comment on A true prophet 2 months ago:
And right in the next line they predicted the deterioration of the US as a travel destination.
“Your best bet is to stay away, motherfucker”.
Things are so dire LB lyrics started to make sense.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 11 comments
- Comment on Battle.net's discord permissions 2 months ago:
On one hand, it could be useful with the likes of WoW to have a better chat app with guild servers and rooms. I think many players are already there. Blizz adapts to what is still hot.
But on the other, one’s personal discord account can hold a bit more value than an addon to BattleNet, it may have it’s secrets, even in the list of servers you joined, and it probably have friends not interested in that at all. I’d probably create a new acc if I need one for that purpose.
I am surprised Discord didn’t do something to sandbox Blizzard’s integration. Like creating a user who have access to these and those servers with these permissions. Probably they didn’t thought about that, but it could’ve made integrations more safe and viable.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You’d probably like to know major quickly deflected it by saying she’s not checking everyone’s private parts. She’s not a weirdo to indulge in invented problems and waste time. Trans people are just people and “trans ideology” is the one that demonizes them 24/7 while surprising amount of people wouldn’t otherwise have any opinion about what they do and get all worked up about that.
- Comment on Challenge everything 2 months ago:
That’s a thing you do just for your bros.
- Comment on Hooaaaaaa!! 2 months ago:
Sweeeeet.
- Comment on Good ole reviews 2 months ago:
Universal language.
- Comment on Rest in pepperoni 2 months ago:
These are cute, thanks for sharing!
- Comment on In tentacle monsterd we trust 🫡 2 months ago:
THIS NOT LEGAL FOR ALL DEPUBLIC
- JERE
- Comment on Anon orders food 2 months ago:
Or half a mile if you have a couple junctions with red lights ahead, like around the block. Anon could’ve been living in a flat over said pizza joint for all we know. Or they are just a liar, who also have a crush on delivery driver, so they order pizza to see them again.
- Comment on Anon orders food 2 months ago:
no
- Comment on Having friends for dinner 2 months ago:
Is it the Berserk manga people told me about?
- Comment on Help, Im just trying to relax 2 months ago:
Am I getting pumped, lol?
- Comment on Help, Im just trying to relax 2 months ago:
The joke is imperialism and reliance on fossil fuels.
