Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on A succulent meal 1 day ago:
Plain bread is a travesty
This isn’t plain bread, good sir, this is a baguette! Well, rather small one, but still.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
Morrowind is practically exactly in the middle between Daggerfall and Oblivion, in terms of mechanics complexity. May elements are “dumbed down”, but many remain as complex (if changed). Oblivion “dumbs down” a couple of extra elements, but nothing as drastic as Skyrim.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 4 days ago:
I still cry myself to sleep after the premature death of Windows Mobile, so I use Launcher10, which brings the Tiles back to life.
I started experimenting with a super minimalist Folder Launcher, but it doesn’t seem ready for release yet, a couple of crucial (IMO) features (like default settings, bulk edits, proper apps list) are still missing.
There’s also Fossify Launcher Beta, which is an open source launcher. It’s fairly basic, but gets the job done. A super cool feature of the Fossify apps (since two releases ago) is the option to set your own fonts from a file, so I’m running their Calendar, Phone, Contacts, Calculator, etc., all with the Nothing Phone’s dot font.
- Comment on Still alive? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an attempt at the “out-conspiracy the conspiracy theory” approach.
You know: when someone says “wow, you believe humans have landed on the Moon??”, you go “lol, you believe in the Moon???”
Here we have: “Epstein was found dead in his cell, he was probably murdered”, being “out-conspiracied” into “lol, no, he faked his death so he can play Fortnite, his account was active a couple of days ago”.
- Comment on Still alive? 1 week ago:
They are that arrogant to not think they don’t have to try to make anything believable, the fix is in for them and they don’t think they need us in the reality based community.
Then they wouldn’t try doing anything as convoluted as a faked suicide, they’d do what they did in 2008 - do a fake court case, drop all the most egregious part, give him a great lawyer, send him against shit-tier prosecutors, and sentence him to three years of house arrest to make all the bad things go away.
- Comment on Still alive? 1 week ago:
Someone renamed their account to this after the latest release of the files.
But, yeah, people will latch on to the stupidest stuff. Like, the dude ran an underground ring of paedophile brothels for decades generating kompromat for the top-of-the-top most important people on the planet, but it’s his Fortnite account that will unravel the whole thing… Come on, guys…
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
Fusion(…) pose security risks
Wait, what kind? Doesn’t the reaction just fizzle out and become safely dormant if anything wrong happens?
- Comment on YouTube sponsorship starter pack 1 week ago:
This, plus the “anti-imperialism” which goes so far anti western imperialism that it goes round to being pro russian imperialism.
It’s like a clown show here sometimes.
- Comment on YouTube sponsorship starter pack 1 week ago:
God forbid someone gets popular and starts making money off of their passion!
- Comment on pride flag rule 1 week ago:
idk why
Because:
cis hetro white guy here
That’s literally it, as you can see from this comment.
“You’re in pain? Fuck off, we’re in pain more, so shut up” kind of vibes. Sad.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Don’t know how to poem
Even for you
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
First of all, nobody expects Linux to have much of market share in gaming anyway, so I don’t know who would think that a 100% increase is somehow not “preparing expectations”. Unless someone doesn’t undersand how percentages work, I guess.
Secondly, I specified what kind of increase it was.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
Well, I don’t think our antivirus would let that through anyway. But the reason we wanted an .exe is also because then I could pack it as Intune-deployed package and make it available for the users that work on the thing it’s automating (there were still some manual steps needed in the process).
Deploying an in-house built .exe solves the problem of the .exe not being certificate-signed, so things like SmartScreen stop blocking it.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
Why? It’s objective truth - it went from 1.5% to 3%, which is a 100% increase.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
A guy at work wrote a script to automate something for a department. The script was, I don’t know, sub-100 lines of JavaScript. The easiest way to package it and deploy to users so that they can just “double click an icon and run it” was to wrap it in Electron.
The original source file was 8 KB.
The application was 350 MB.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
It’s already doing it. Steam data showed a 100% increase in Linux clients after a “one too many” Windows updates fucked something up last year.
Note: it’s still hovering around the margin of error, but it’s strengthening. I think it went from 1.5% to 3%.
- Comment on Anon has a tip 3 weeks ago:
i kinda doubt any unexperienced user would do any of that. except for the bluetooth thing, since i know a lot of people use bluetooth (though i honestly didn’t even understand what that issue was)
Anyone with a secondary drive to store their documents and games library on (which is a lot of users) will run into the issue with the drive not being mounted on startup. Which means that every time you launch Steam and forget to mount the drive first, it throws errors and you can’t launch your games. Then you have to quit Steam, mount the drive manually, re-launch Steam, and hope that it will remember where your library is. Or, if you’re installing a new game, that it will remember to use your secondary drive as the default installation location.
i’m talking about the choice to drink it or not, but whatever
Yes, I know, you’re talking about something completely different.
is there a reason to ever use copilot over chatgpt
I was running the tests in two companies, basically sending identical prompts to both, comparing results. Sometimes one gives the better answer, sometimes the other. Often Copilot will start with less precise answer and you need to prod it to elaborate and it ends up with a near-identical answer as ChatGPT.
So, for personal use - might as well use Copilot since it’s already there. On top of that, if you have an M365 subscription, you get its integration with Office apps, which is actually kinda’ amazing. For example, you can ask Copilot to generate a table with formulas in Excel. Of course you need to check and verify if the formulas are correct, but that’s the case with all LLMs.
In a business setting, though, ChatGPT is hot garbage unless you’re a massive company. I was in a company of around 500 users and they weren’t even interested in giving us the Enterprise-tier license. The Teams-tier license didn’t have any form of user management. As in: the Owner or Admin could bulk-invite people through a CSV, and that’s it - no reporting, no sorting by activity, nothing. On top of that any user could invite anybody to the same tenant. I had an Admin account, invited my company email address as a Member, switched sessions, and invited my personal gmail account as a Member, which worked. What’s even worse, there’s no domain control or anything - I switched to the gmail account, and invited another personal email address.
So, if you’re a disgruntled user, you just download a CSV of a billion email addresses, upload that, and voila, you just bankrupted your company, because invoicing starts at invitation, not after the invited user activates the account.
It was 100% insanity.
And Copilot, again, integrates with all MS products, so it can, for example, remind you that you had a conversation on Teams with someone about a topic you’re asking it about.
- Comment on Anon has a tip 3 weeks ago:
yeah. idk where you keep seeing this “microsoft bad” thing
*points at this thread*
I also gave you a bunch of examples already. Just visit r/Windows or r/Windows11 and you’ll get an eye full.
if you don’t use one of the distros that come preinstalled with a bunch of ui apps that do stuff that used to require a terminal, sure.
That’s just completely wrong. You can’t set a secondary drive to auto-mount on boot without CLI, fixing a failing BT device connection requires CLI, if an AppImage fails to launch due to AppArmor, you need the CLI to fix it, can’t prevent the OS from switching a BT headset to the “hands free” mode without CLI, etc., etc., etc.
if you get orange juice shoved down your throat, you probably won’t like it, even if you generally like orange juice.
If you’re talking about the nutritional value of different juices, you wouldn’t say “orange juice is shit, has zero nutritional value” just because you don’t lie it, would you?
- Comment on Anon has a tip 3 weeks ago:
Let me rephrase: Linux used to be completely reliant on CLI for the most basic things.
- Comment on Anon has a tip 3 weeks ago:
what i meant by that is: people used to hate internet explorer because it was the worst. even though it changed completely, people still hate it because of it’s history.
That’s precisely my point though. People are not talking about the product, they’re talking about the company/history. Not only was the original Edge very much “not Internet Explorer”, but nowadays Edge is running on Chromium, making the whole comparison to IE even stupider. But people still do, because “Microsoft Bad”.
people think linux is hard because of it’s history of requiring the terminal for basic functions.
People think Linux is hard because it still requires terminal for basic functions. Source: a guy who moved to Linux full-time over a year ago.
people don’t want stuff shoved down their throats without consent, which seems to be what microsoft is really good at doing
I get that, but what’s the relation of that to what I was talking about? I’m talking about comparing the capabilities of various LLMs where people will swear on their mothers that Copilot is the worst shite they ever saw, not realising that it’s essentially the same as ChatGPT.
Source: ran LLM testing and implementation in two different companies.
that’s the same issue with edge, since whenever you uninstall it (which has to be done through unconventional means), it’ll just reappear the next time the system updates.
Yeah, that’s not the case for years now.
- Comment on Anon has a tip 3 weeks ago:
See? This is exactly the childish shit I’m talking about. “Microsoft bad” is all you need to get upvotes, but if you state some cut and dry facts that are not attacking Microsoft, you get downvoted.
- Comment on Anon has a tip 3 weeks ago:
edge used to be internet explorer, which used to be known as the worst browser ever
And Linux used to not have a GUI. Are you going to complain that Linux is too difficult to use because it used to be command-line based? What even is this point?
and if you care at all about privacy, the chrome-based microsoft browser isn’t a good idea.
When comparing Chromium-based browsers you don’t expect much privacy at all. But even comparing Chromium-based browsers people will still go “ughh, Chrome is better because Microsoft Bad”, which is just a stupid thing to say considering Edge has everything that Chrome has and then a bunch of features on top of that. Including better resource utilisation.
bing used to be really bad.
See first paragraph.
copilot gets shoved down every window user’s throats.
What’s the point you’re trying to make here?
- Comment on Anon has a tip 3 weeks ago:
I just have that in my browser. If I type
y search termI get a YouTube Search page for “search term”. - Comment on Anon has a tip 3 weeks ago:
People have this weird fetish for “Microsoft Bad”. If it comes from Microsoft, it’s bad by default. Reality doesn’t matter.
The fact that Edge is just objectively a better browser than Chrome is irrelevant, because “Microsoft Bad”.
The fact that Bing now provides just as good, if not better, results as Google, because Google enshittified its own product is irrelevant, because “Microsoft Bad”.
The fact that Copilot runs on the exact same models as ChatGPT and gives practically identical results is irrelevant because “Microsoft Bad”.
Etc., etc.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 weeks ago:
Yup! Some 90-95% of women wear the wrong bras. Especially those who have been extremely gifted by nature, this can lead to pain in their later years.
Going to an actual bra fitter and getting a fitted bra or two is something every woman should get. So, people, if you love your gals, get them a gift of an actually will-fitted bra. Doesn’t need to be fancy, but if it fits, she will love you for it!
Source: SO got a fitted bra, couldn’t shut up about it for three months, just being in complete shock about how comfortable it was.
- Comment on Hostile architecture 4 weeks ago:
Haha, classic newbie blunder! You think it’s better to spend money on fixing the problem, instead of making money on redesigning public architecture? Haha, oh my!
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 5 weeks ago:
Most people who look to extreme solutions tend to be hyperfocused on their immediate surroundings without paying attention to the fact that alternative solutions or states exist.
For instance - the US or UK law and law enforcement systems are faulty (to put it extremely mildly), sure… But that doesn’t mean we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater, it means we should look to, and take inspiration from, more positive examples. Countries such as Norway, Finland, Switzerland have judicial systems and law enforcement systems that people can (mostly) count on, and trust them.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 5 weeks ago:
Anarchism is probably the most naive of all the available systems. It’s like it’s been designed by someone who’s never met any other human being outside of a very small, and very tight friends circle.
You have it backwards. We didn’t invent civilisation and then the ruling class decided to oppress the working class by inventing laws. We had an honour system, but because people are greedy cunts, we had to gradually replace it with a law system. And because people are greedy cunts, many of them being plain evil, we had to add an enforcement system (which used to be angry mobs).
Like, what do you think religions are? These are early, pre-“formal law” attempts at ensuring people behave according to rules, allowing for the growth of the community.
Think about it - you’re complaining that the enforcement of law is not equal for everybody, meaning that some individuals are effectively exempt from being affected by law, and you know that the 1% on the top are practically all in that group, you can clearly see how this 1% is fucking over the entire world… all of which you conclude by saying “there should be no laws for nobody”… Make it make sense.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 5 weeks ago:
Wait… Do you think that “any law system” is essentially evil and only anarchism will save us…?
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 5 weeks ago:
There are far too many cases of the law being selective in who it protects and who it punishes
No. *There are too many cases where the interpretation of law is selective", and/or “there are too many cases where the enforcement of law is being selective”. There are no laws (that I know of, correct me if I’m wrong) that say “if you’re rich, this doesn’t apply to you”, or something like that.
I think it’s functioning exactly as its corrupt creators intended.
And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with “lizard people are controlling the government”.