bilb
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- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
Most work laptops I’ve seen use smart cards for this. The computer is locked unless your card is inserted and a PIN is entered, and removing the card locks the computer.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
It’s as if I’m being gaslit into thinking I don’t know what the word means!
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 4 weeks ago:
My guess is that there was some guidance in the prompt for the names since a lot of them are similar.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 4 weeks ago:
/s is for cowards!
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 4 weeks ago:
I hope Nintendo is able to make emulation illegal once and for all and end all this. People really shouldn’t be allowed to run whatever software they want, they should only be allowed to run Microsoft Windows
- Comment on Conan just did Hot Ones 4 weeks ago:
What? No, he isn’t. These interviews always suck.
- Comment on Conan just did Hot Ones 4 weeks ago:
It’s bad. Pointing this out embarasses people who enjoy it though.
- Comment on every comment section 1 month ago:
It definitely has some compromises and I wouldn’t use it for hosting something in production or something like that. (Is that something people do?) It is situationally very useful though, usually for things I used to spin up a VM for. I’m happy to have it available as a tool when I need to use Windows.
- Comment on every comment section 1 month ago:
I think in threads where an obviously well informed computer user asks a question about how to accomplish something or troubleshoot something in Windows, it’s pretty much never helpful to recommend using Linux instead. They probably know about Linux. They either must, or want, to use Windows. It’s a pretty common occurrence, however.
Though these days, you might get to recommend Linux anyway by saying “you should use wsl2.”
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 3 months ago:
I wonder if it has to do with the region you try to load it from. The message in the screenshot seems to indicate that it might.
- Comment on Vintage Story - v1.19.0 Update is Out Now 3 months ago:
As cool as I think the knapping and clay working mechanics are, I also quickly decided that they were tedious. I do mean to get back to it though since I didn’t get much further than that, and I definitely missed a lot of what is there. Maybe playing solo did it no favors.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 4 months ago:
People pretending it’s not useful and/or not improving all the time are living in their own worlds. I think you can argue the legality and the ethics, but any anti-ai position based on low quality output (“it can’t even do hands!”) has a short shelf-life.
- Comment on What’s next for Mozilla? 4 months ago:
Local by default, option to go remote. Even the privacy-first types might want to offload that to a more powerful local machine.
They could even sell access to a Mozilla provided AI server like they do with the VPN service.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 4 months ago:
I thought Servo was basically dead since the layoffs at Mozilla in 2020, but your comment caused me to look into it and evidently funding was found to resume development on it at the beginning of last year. That’s good news! (to me!)
- Comment on Starfield End of the Year Update 4 months ago:
I think it’s perfectly capable of being used to make a compelling game, but Starfield seems to be a game that the strengths of the engine AND the strengths of the writers and designers at Bethesda are completely mismatched.
- Comment on An £8 sandwich in Starbucks 7 months ago:
They don’t make real coffee
The coffee at Starbucks is real, I’ve seen it in person
- Comment on What is wrong with some of you? 8 months ago:
From Northeastern PA, and yeah I immediately thought “oh, a sunshower?”
But yeah, the devil doesn’t have a wife wtf
- Comment on Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing 9 months ago:
A five day work week gives your employer more control over your life though. They will not give that up willingly.