BromSwolligans

@BromSwolligans@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how I feel more and more. I do IT stuff for non-technical folks on the side and they’re just squirming with these machines that can’t upgrade to Win11. I dump Linux Mint on there, and they run like a dream, even at 10 or 11 years old. In some cases, the RAM cannot be upgraded beyond the 4 or 8GB it shipped with, and even so, they can watch streaming video, they can video conference…you know, of course, they can do office work in LibreOffice. It’s a fucking joke that Microsoft is trying to lie to them—to all of us—and say their computers are no good any longer. And between the homelabbing I’ve been doing lately and all the machines I’ve been rehabbing for people, it just reminds me how much I enjoy using Linux. Even if it can be a pain in the ass. Even if it can be cryptic. It feels like honest-to-god computing in a way macOS hasn’t felt like for a long time, and Windows no longer even resembles.

  I use a Mac laptop because I always have, and I appreciate the convenience of the ecosystem (AirPods snapping right to the machine, iMessage letting me text from a desktop app, and so forth) but just because macOS’s descent into enshittification is slower doesn’t mean it’s any less noticeable. I want a Framework laptop so damn bad, so I at least have the option to daily Linux. Dual-booting on an M-series Mac is just a little too inelegant. I want something with good support and flexibility, where the maintainers aren’t fighting an upward battle to make a black box transparent, you know?

  Anyway, I really believe this is “the year of the Linux desktop” as they’ve been saying, and I have become that annoying part of my friend group who won’t stop recommending it. Seems like every week someone bitches about Windows 11, and every time, I dump three more articles or videos about how 90% of games work, and some even work better on Linux, or whatever, to try and tempt them out of their Windows-shaped box. We’ll see if it ever takes. But we know this much for sure: Windows is only getting worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 463 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You gotta throw some sick shaders on there fam 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Not so)Smartphone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, or, when I’m driving through the mountains, “Hey, Siri, play [some song I’ve owned 20 years and have downloaded locally to my device] in my Music app”; “I’m sorry, I’m having trouble getting a connection.” You useless fuck, you never needed a connection back when it was Voice Control; it was only after we moved to the awful Siri future some 15 years ago or whatever that this unbelievably basic, used-to-be-built-in-so-I-know-you-know-how-to-do-it function was replaced with something that has to call out to the Internet to do anything of value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s rich, from a company that stops making or never makes enough its first-party accessories. Ask anyone interested in getting an Ethernet adapter for Switch, or a first-party Gamecube adapter more than like 8 months after those products launched. Get on Amazon and try to buy an official Switch dock from Nintendo; there is no official outlet for them there, so you’re either buying pre-owned, or a lookalike knockoff, or an explicit knockoff, or something that MIGHT be real but it’s from a weird seller, at a suspiciously low price, with some random text in the item name. Christ, get on Gamestop’s website! They only have refurbs and pre-owned ones. It’s been like this for as long as I can remember. Nintendo cannot be trusted to make their own shit and trying to stop third parties from doing what they won’t is peak anti-consumer behavior. A classic Nintendo Move™.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every news result on duckduckgo links to MSN⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the ad services plugged into every website have already cross referenced each other and know who you are even if you use a service like DDG that supposedly doesn’t track. Incidentally, Kagi supposedly doesn’t track either, (which they’d better not since you’re paying them), so while it doesn’t mitigate the above issue of your being traceable by pure virtue of browsing the web, it certainly isn’t “tying your porn results to credit cards and search results.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every news result on duckduckgo links to MSN⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Switch to Kagi. It’s worth the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean. Yeah. When Goldeneye came out for the N64 it was like $90 and that was in nintiesbux. We got real used to standardized pricing when discs came around but it’s true that you can’t have it both ways. Now, there’s a reasonable argument to be had over whether Mario Kart World and GTA6 are both gonna be worth >$80. I bought Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey for whatever they retailed for. Was that $70? I can’t remember. But I had more fun and put more hours that year into Hollow Knight, which cost me $15 and kept dumping free DLC for like a year or so afterward. The price was great. The DLC was free. But it also didn’t cost like $2bln or whatever dumbass cost they’re saying GTA6 cost to make.

  I didn’t ask them to make it that stupid big and expensive. But some fans did. They’re in that Smash Bros situation where they aren’t allowed not to top the previous entry in terms of scope. So it is what it is.

  Should all games be $80-90? Of course not. Should games that cost a billion or more to develop and promise hundreds or thousands of hours of gameplay cost $80-90? I think it’s embarrassing and immature to suggest otherwise. Even if you just go back to 2006 and the $60 standard, and adjust that for inflation, you end up at $95. So this isn’t really an argument any serious person should be having when we talk about whether the most expensive game ever made should cost functionally less than its Xbox 360 forerunner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on enjoying your life⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just downloaded to Kindle. Thanks for reminding me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  If Lemmy had awards this succinct answer would get a pile of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just subscribed to Lifehacker a few days ago, and now I've unsubscribed. The articles are nothing but tech product-shilling, non-stop. Mostly Samsung and Apple.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything that is, or once was affiliated with Gawker / GMG is, in its current state, a cringe-inducing, shambling husk of whatever it once was. My muscle memory still directs me to a number of those blogs and everyday I recoil at what has become of them.