HubertManne

@HubertManne@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  there has got to be a stick leve that is cheap. I mean does it go down to 4gig sticks? I would think then you could make low ram high cpu laptops real cheap which actually I might have to look around for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking – Court of Appeal erodes independence of juries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like trump is giving all other countries facist right cart blanche because they can be like. well we are not as crazy as this guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  um im using zorin with kde. maybe im using the term wrong but for me it means I can use the super button and arrow or mouse and moving the window to the edges or corners to halvies the windows or in the case of corners use a quarter of the screen. Its the main reason I installed kde is for it. It does not have stuff like being able to adjust the windows in tandem but that is at best a minor nicety to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you don’t hear about it because its really not much of a thing nowadays. Like my distro zorin uses gnome and I was fine with it for awhile and I would belly ache on forums like this that they should switch to kde. Finally I got off my lazy but and installed kde. once I had the window manager just lists the options. I actually end up with a few because I installed all kde and zorin has its own (well its just a different preconfig of gnome) so I have a drop down for zorin, gnome, kde plasma, and kde x11. thats it done. by installing kde I got that with nothing further done on my part. So its so easy now you just don’t get people talking about it really. Personally I loved the next step machines which is why I liked osx but then when ios influence went into osx it drifted away from what I like. Now I mostly just want window snapping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux is definately better in 2026 and I really don’t think it has more driver issues than windows now (which its not like windows has zero if you do a fresh install of generic windows instead of the vendors copy). So virtually zero. They can crop up and I have not seen any but I have seen people online still mention issues. Again not commonly. I personally use zorin because its an out of the box distro that uses the lte and I feel its very stable and functional. Thing is if you are used to mac you either would have to use the paid version to get the gui switcher function, or mess with the settings yourself to get it to act like a mac, or use another distro like elementary os which I believe is setup to behave like a mac. I was a big mac fanboy in the late aughts but went away from it when it went to all about being small and sleak over powerful with many ports along with apple care no longer being legendarily good. They use chromebooks at the schools I substitute and oh how I hate the reverse scrolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the price is reasonable enough I can see it for gaming in general. Without gaming my laptop can have much more modest specs and I don’t really care about games running in the cloud unlike my documents and web browsing that I would prefer to keep control of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: International bank chiefs throw support behind Jerome Powell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  so they have more sense than judges or congressmen and know when to try and stop things before it hits them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but stinks is I have already been keeping old machines going. having replacement ram be expensive is going to suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you ended this with a question mark. are you adding more detail or asking yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  humanoid reptile? like a gorn from sto or something? does it change my personality. like do the hormones or such make you act differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No more Jackie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “A solid dude of hidden depths whose fate was sealed the moment he crossed paths with V.”. Um I think that is a bit backward. V did not push to do that mission. Its funny though they could do a pretty neat twist to reuse the assets and plot but where the chip stays in jackies head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshittifinancial Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See that is the thing. “If the company has no productive use of the capital”. Borrowing is essentially money creation. Utilizing it just to artificially increase stock value is just an economics game at that point precisely because its not doing something productive. Companies are supposed to be productive in the real world but now all companies spend more of their money playing economic games over making prducts or providing services. This is the classic complaint and the reason for the late stage capitalism thing. When money is the goal everything increasingly is setup to make money but not actually do the thing the money is supposed to incentivize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its sorta funny because often times the top of the line processors with bad cores were recycled into lower end processors. Seems perfect for this situation with a ramp up in production for industry and then sell the lower level things to consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshittifinancial Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That thing about the more you know about economics. We have to “invest” in our own retirements and its all just leves of scam. Without regulation investment is a dart throw. I mean companies can borrow money to buy their own stock. common!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why College Students Prefer Socialism—and Why They're Wrong⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  to be fair the communisits often insist socialism is communism to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why College Students Prefer Socialism—and Why They're Wrong⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  while I am, of course, from earth. I too do not seem to meet the definition of people in the us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux has had a great year, but there are two reasons I can't tear myself away from Windows⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it hard to believe. He was using ubuntu and both his wifi and trackpad and the lot broke. I remember in the aughts when a student came in to proudly say he through th latest suse on a laptop and everything worked out of box. Yeah things can have issues but much like windows its often just an update which even with windows you have to be ready to have a physical network connection or you could be screwed with wifi. I have not seen any issues with ubuntu. Did he intentionally say to not use 3rd party drivers which is what my thought is which to blog about that afterwards without repeating using third party sounds like a hit job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 21st⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still ff12 but I got past the shrine of miriam and up to the phon coast. Im going back and picking up optional espers which I had not done before so there are a few I can get.

  An update on my builds. So I was using this guys thing that combined having everyone have 3x speed and making sure people could get synergizing equipment. Thing is I really want to use all classes and his did not do that. In addition I noticed he skipped some of the equipment synergizing anyway. There is actually only one thing I had to get rid of from his rules to get all 12 classes and that is having the supposed top 3 weapons seperated between characters so they could be on the filed concurrently. Anyway I decided I could kick that out so my criteria is 3x speed, item synergy, and not combining two magic user types for survivability (mostly hit points).

  So my class pair start with the redmage/archer. This is easy as its a well known combo and its about maximizing the red mages capstone big damage spell ardur which is a fire spell. They either have to be paired with black mage which is verboten by my rule or archer for the burning bow and its a highly rated pairing by many people so its a no brainer. The peson to put it on was a bit difficult though. penelo makes the most sense for black mage because most mp and magic power and then fran has the highest vitality so is basically best for time mage. ashe is second with mp and magic power so she makes the most sense min/max wise but darnit. rp wise fran makes so much sense since she starts with a bow and the basic black and white mage spells. Its perfect for her but I went min/max and did ashe.

  Next im going to jump to some warriors. The guy whos guide I used says vann is best for the best bushi blade because of his one handed animation. Im assuming that is true. This is were we meet the crux of my difference. I find the knight absolutely has to have the bushi. excalibur needs mystic robes and the knight does not get 3x speed. only one class can bring that to him and that is knight. This puts two of the top three weapons on vann but im fine with that. I mean every class gets a top weapon and I am going to assume I will live with the possible third weapons that might be used which, you know, might more likley be a spell caster or technic. So bushi/knight is my second and goes on vann

  Next he similarly says balthier is apparently best with the ninja sword dark blade and im trusting him on that so he becomes the shikashi which has 3x speed and could benefit from mystic armor for the dark blade. Since all my other mages are marked for other individuals he gets white mage and oh boy. I am so happy with this combo. with the mane gouche or whatever you get high evasion and the shikashi gets lots of hp and shields. this makes a great tank for the period evasion is useful. So you essentially get a healer/support/tank all in one which gives you much more options for the other two in tough fights. Later the knight/bushi becomes another sorta option for that when espers help you unlock some white mage spells and a combo below should take over the role and be even better late game.

  Ok. So we got 3 of the six and next im going to pair fran’s time mage with something and it already has the 3x speed so can take one of the warrior classes that does not get 3x speed without extra squares. So one thing I noticed with monk was if you can unlock the squares you get the top white mage spells and if your combining mages the white/time mage is the ultimate support/healer. so using monk is practically as good as adding white mage (eventually) but then also you get the monk combat benefits which are substantial. monk is the class that is pretty nice with every class as it has all the combat and hp squares. So now you have a class combo that eventually will be as good an endgame support/healer/tank/warrior as your going to get. I saw another guy talking about how he stumbled across this mix but basically if it was an mmo this would be the class combo I would choose for my character.

  ok so we have 4 character and 8 classes used and actually we already said penelo was going to get black mage. At this point there is only one warrior class that gets 3x speed easily and that is the machinist. its not bad. nice having a range alternative for black mage but it sorta necessary as it does not bring a lot of tankiness. mystic robes help darkshot. easy access to steal and poach. probably the most meh of my combos but it works out fine.

  ok so we are down to one character and 2 classes. This would make basch a ulan/beserker. Thing is that will only be able to unlock 3x speed when you get ultima. So im eventually going to do this but 3x speed is real important to me so for most of the game my bash is a ulan/bushi.

  So I find in early game you don’t need magic much class wise because the girls give you white mage and fran black mage first level spells. I put everyone as their class that gives the 3x speed and make a race for those squares just getting equipment/spells thats I can access as more a priority which continues into the dual boards. Ultimately 4 of the 4 characters can heal/support to greater and lesser extent and everyone is a good warrior and to some extend tank with the squishiest ones having ranged attacks and offensive spells a plenty. The espers get spread out decently to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They really should have come out with a local llm poduct seperate from firefox that is compatible with using it out of box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Says Tariffs Have Brought in $18 Trillion. That's Impossible.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what has come has been spent many times over. ice has drones and military helicopters, a rediculous increase in personel and treats their vehicles as desposable. Then they throw gas canisters and shoot pepperballs like its confetti and trump just died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obamacare Subsidies Can't Fix a Broken System. Rand Paul's Bill Could.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  from what I read sounds like it wants to reduce state regulations. so yeah. bullshit enshitification. obamacares most significant thing is not pre existing conditions and requiring insurers to spend a minimum percentage of monies collected on healthcare which is pretty significant things. The only way to improve it is with single payer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope this becomes affordable enough to utilize. The main problem with optical disks is the length of time. Still would be nice to have something as convenient as a usb drive even if it can’t be rewritten. Disks were sorta of annoying to put some stuff on and then a bit more and a bit more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas / New Year Steam Game Giveaway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like rpg’s where you have a lot of options for character or team customization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the misunderstanding is with you.

  Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically inconvenient, or morally questionable by an authority or group.

  In this case the group is steam. Government censorship is not the only kind. You can have corporate and even self.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balcony Solar is coming to the USA, sort of⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah the main thing is no special wiring needs to be done or additional expensive setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balcony Solar is coming to the USA, sort of⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a balcony that already has a 120 plug. Can’t wait for this and honestly im hoping it will also allow for an easy battery to be used whole home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For small devices its mostly about not accidentally breaking the cable which magnetic attachers do just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  does it matter. weren’t those setup so they got a slice of every transaction? If I that is the case and I understand it right then any activity is essentially money to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  well by employed they mean they don’t want to pay contracted rates but they also don’t want to pay for benefits. so employ pay and contractor benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its sorta funny hearing the term for me because I can’t away from thinking about ascii dungeon crawls when I hear roguelike.