cley_faye
@cley_faye@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 4 days ago:
Either prayers don’t work, or they make god super duper angry.
- Comment on dating profile 5 days ago:
One of them couldn’t digest cheese, so they had to go.
- Comment on dating profile 5 days ago:
I sense a secret underlying passion for dairy product, barely hidden beind the gamer introduction.
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 6 days ago:
Don’t invite them? If you know what’s going to happen, and you don’t like it, avoid it.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 1 week ago:
Most of the time when I see a “community note” I mentally picture the people doing a slight facepalm and sighing. This one seems it’d require a two-hand facepalm.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 1 week ago:
Better than seeing weird letters and 80 style colored geometric shape sliding around.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure they all choose.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 2 weeks ago:
Goddamn I wish I could build a custom phone OS like Arch. I would actually take the time and do that.
You totally can. Android phones are basically a Linux kernel with a nice GUI. Just find the appropriate modules for your specific hardware, then assemble a suitable set of software to provide an user interface, and voila. We even already have good support for touch screen, phone calls, and a lot of other things available as separate pieces. I’m sure people will be happy to have this, myself included. Oh, and once you get all the pieces, remember to fix all the weird quirks, who would want a phone where the gyroscope stop working when you enable the camera, right?
What? That’s too much work? Yeah. That’s exactly why people are seeking for a large, resourceful entity to do that. Because it requires a truckload of time, effort, and knowledge. Today, “building” a linux distro is possible because of the vast amount of effort invested in it for decades.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 2 weeks ago:
Openness. So far, Valve hardware offering is not trying to coerce you into a closed ecosystem, is not trying to forbid you from doing whatever the fuck you want with your device, and is not trying to force you to do things their way. They come with Steam, but you can basically do anything with them. Including removing Steam if you desire. And you can peek under the hood all you want.
The current mobile phone market is either walled garden jail from Apple, where you have to follow their value to the T, broken iphone where you have to jump through hoops to get something that may or may not survive the next update at the whim of our corporate overlords, or Android, which I like the most, where Google can pull a fast one on you installing an app by hand if they so desire (yes, I know they sort of walked back… for now).
Today, I see the phone I own as a necessary liability because of banking apps and such. I’d like a phone that would feel more like a device I own and can somewhat trust.
Is Valve the best player for that? No idea. But no current player is. At best we got some software offering built to support a very limited subset of hardware, and that software offering is still tied to the upstream (usually AOSP) playing nice.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 weeks ago:
There are better way to live. But we’re used to a certain level of comfort, that includes not doing the many, many upkeep tasks to grow food, maintain home, clothing, etc. so we trade some time for currencies, that is then traded with other people, and the leftover currency allows us to indulge in fun things that are also complex and high maintenance, so they’re done by other.
Well, that’s the theory. In practice, working a full-time job barely, if even, covers the minimum expanses required to live, which keep going up anyway, so you have to work more to barely go by, which thankfully will let you forget that you won’t make anywhere near enough money for leisure time. Good thing you won’t have any, eh?
sigh knowing we have the technologies, right now, to cover all basic needs, including food and housing, for cheap, but still do with the charade of inflation so that a few select individual can extract all our time from us is really sad.
- Comment on The Perfect Picture of Helth 2 weeks ago:
It does not usually contain candy however.
There’s a market to look into then.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 4 weeks ago:
The rest of the world is slowly routing everything around the USA. Assuming things turns back, there will be a lot to rebuild in matter of trust and commerce.
Now, if you’re talking about what happens inside the USA, well, what do you propose other countries do? Invade? Because that’s not happening. There’s enough to do for damage control outside of it.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 4 weeks ago:
If you’re having sex with random, unknown, untrusted people, you better use a condom anyway, because pregnancy isn’t the worst thing that can happen, so the point is kinda moot anyway.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 4 weeks ago:
I have built-in birth control.
Also, I’d jump on a pill that allows safe (as in, no kid) sex with more fun, but it seems that’s hard to do.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 4 weeks ago:
Uh. I don’t know how it is on the other side of the ocean, but around here, it’s a nice goal, but there’s much more care going into making messes than implementing accessible websites. Even official government services sometimes just barely slaps an “accessibility conformity: partial/none” and keep going on.
I’m not sure having an accessible web is enough to overcome the thirst for ad money and control.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 5 weeks ago:
Cue detection of “realistic” human activity on the UI and preventing streaming if the server determine this activity does not match a human enough pattern.
I’m exaggerating on that one, but… that’s not even that implausible these days.
My point was, dancing this dance with “big website”, whoever it is, will always be an endless uphill battle.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 5 weeks ago:
People don’t realize how much shit youtube/google ignores over time, for whatever reasons (but mostly because it’s cheaper to ignoer I’d guess). With most major consumer VPN providers, this is very easy to detect. Adblockers are easy to detect. Tampering with the website structure? Believe it or not, quite easy to detect when someone hide a component or change a title or a button.
If they decided to seriously get after people that circumvent geofencing, people that block ads, people that change the interface to their liking, or people that plainly use alternative websites, they could easily. And it would require far less effort on their end to keep things complicated than it would require on our end to keep things working at an acceptable level.
- Comment on #environmentalist 5 weeks ago:
As a person with skin surrounding his skull, I don’t really get why that’s an issue.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
Can’t wait for the “Jarjargasm” category to pop up… in places.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
It was just a soke ;)
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
No, fuck you
/j
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 1 month ago:
The interactions with developers and players
I don’t want to have interactions with developers, nor other players. Cramming “social media” above the game advertisement itself is… something.
- Comment on am I cooked chat 1 month ago:
Kick back and relax, is what I’d say. If you’re minimum wage, it’s not your problem.
- Comment on soda 1 month ago:
Not anymore anyway, they’ve been dissolved in the soda bin.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 1 month ago:
Let alone the issue that moderation remain troubling, even on the fediverse. I ended up having two different accounts because some things I follow are blocked by servers where there are other things I follow, who blocks the previous ones.
So much for openness. If the only solution is to spawn my own instance to get something workable, there’s no way this will take off with the general public.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 1 month ago:
We can. Individual sites still exists. Simpler pages still exist. In some way, wikipedia is a large project that’s mostly “old school” (despite many attempts to change that). Old communication tools still work, mail can still be done with ease by small or even individual providers. Forums are still a thing in some communities. RSS to get informations about many sites in one place still exists and never stopped existing (it’s surprising how many recent websites still implement it). Some people still use IRC and newsgroups on a daily basis.
I’d even argue that google search, the old, simple, easy one, still exist. Look up udm14, set this in your browser, and your done. And contrary to the apparently largely accepted trend, this one still gives great results.
Firefox, despite recent attempts (that will probably keep coming) can still be trimmed to be a basic browser for the most part. Large surface to open an HTML page, bookmarks, tabs on top (fancy), and nothing else in the way. I don’t know how long this will persist, but it’s still possible.
There are many things that are still around, the presence of huge behemoths in the front row doesn’t change that. The only difference is that using the web in this manner requires a bit of involvement and a bit of work. When it was the only way to do things, people got involved and spent effort to do so. Nowadays, with large services providing one click stop to seemingly everything, most people won’t put up the effort to look somewhere else. And they don’t care about the consequences of this centralization on privacy, bias, censorship, etc.
But a lot of the old web is still available. Heck, even old reddit is still around (although the content itself is still reddit).
And it is a simpler life. Taking back control of our digital activities requires some minor involvement, but not being crushed by the endless content and notification machine is real nice in this overstressed world.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
I have my NAS on a private VPN running on my own server. The NAS have my music (roughly 2/3 from physical media, 1/3 from various DRM-free source). I use it with a simple mobile app (CloudBeat) that can work in both online and offline mode where you can download what you want ahead of time by ticking a checkbox.
It doesn’t cost much: the VPN server do other stuff and is cheap to begin with, the NAS have some maintenance cost for storage, but that’s like a drive every two years top, content never change of disappear, it doesn’t slurp my bandwidth constantly, etc.
Even factoring the cost of a separate backup, since the whole setup store a bunch of other stuff and services, it’s probably more cost efficient too, if you don’t consider the initial setup cost.
And if needed, I can “lift” some content from streaming services too and put them there.
The only reason paying for a streaming service still exist is convenience, at the cost of bending over whatever craziness they come up with.
- Comment on Are you? 1 month ago:
“What about the president?
- What about the president.”
- Comment on oui oui 1 month ago:
Remember this meme: “you mess with Ratatouille, you get Stabatouille”.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 2 months ago:
Yours maybe.