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- Comment on For security reasons 7 months ago:
Here’s the thing, you own the domain, set up what ever email alias you want and send it to your primary.
- Comment on ODROID-H4 - A Compact Alder Lake N-Series SBC with up to dual 2.5GbE and four SATA III ports 8 months ago:
I don’t need to upgrade my NAS…
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 8 months ago:
Sadly doesn’t appear to be usable for SMS by Google Fi users who have web sync enabled. Guess I’ll be holding off.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 8 months ago:
Not sure who’s down voting you, but socks are meant to be in shoes and shoes are meant to be in contact with the ground. Shoes have rubber soles, socks are cloth. One of these things is much more durable than the other.
I have 90% hardwood floors and my socks get destroyed if I don’t wear slippers of some sort.
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 8 months ago:
Pihole has entered the chat.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
You’ve won! Thank for changing my mind.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
Just use the classic control panel if that’s the case. It’s still there.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
Hey, no skin off my back and you don’t know me from Adam. Could be lying for all you know.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
Some of these changes may not stick, but UI / UX is always evolving to the next thing. You have to try things to know if they are successful. I’ll use the new Apple Vision Pro as a example. Apple is taking a gamble here and this is a HUGE change in UI interactions, can you imagine if they never evolved past the old iPod scroll wheel? (maybe a bad example becuaee that was a great tactile user experience). But my point is people have evolved how they use technology, it’s “generally” more reliable and the under the hood stuff can be tucked away for the general user.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
So I don’t want this to come off as rude, but if you are using the pro version with proper workstation controls all of this is controllable. I work as a L5 engineer for the world’s largest outsourcing IT provider and we don’t have a single customer (from ITAR, HIPAA, Financial, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical etc) that has been unable to move because of compliance. Some take longer to harden and move but it’s 100% possible. MS knows their audience in this space and wouldn’t release and OS that wasn’t possible to comply. (for the MOST part, obviously things like EU antitrust has made them change some things in the past).
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 8 months ago:
Self hosted searxng is where it’s at. Seriously love it and have replaced my search engines on all my computers and phone.
I use this along with Vivaldi browser that will let me switch engines quickly with “search shortcuts” for those few times I need local Google results.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
I mean, read your comment,
Yeah I do update them weekly almost, every time I do yay there’s a new driver version, it updates and it works. No major issues besides the explicit sync but that’s being fixed soon and I installed a patch so yeah.
then read this:
I think we just need to agree Linux is fine for power users, but Windows is kinda always going to be for the masses and arguing against that is kind of a moot point because it’s just facts that Windows (~70%) > Linux (~4%) in OS market share. It’s also facts that you can strip out almost anything out of Windows and make it work, but that’s not a “for the masses” move either. So arguing that Linux is a better move than Windows because “muh customization” is a moot point for like 90% of people.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
I don’t disagree and I’m glad you aren’t making the “it would be easier in Linux” argument.
What I do think the changes are there to encourage access to BASIC functionality for the majority of users, but it does come across as dumbing down to folks that are power users. I really do think this is a case of “what would 90% of the population use” kinda thing.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
Cheers mate!
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
Recommended space isn’t for ads, it’s for newly installed programs. It might show some icons there like Spotify when the OS is installed, but once you remove them they are gone. New “ads” don’t show up later.
If you want less space dedicated to recently installed (recommendations) change the start menu density to “More Pins”
It’s just a different way of doing / labeling. Old start menu had “recently installed” this is the same as “recommend”
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
Ah yes, the “not easily done” crowd saying “just move to Linux”. Lot easier to remove those items than for most folks to learn a whole new platform.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
Me thinks Lemmy isn’t great at representing the larger world. Lots of tech folks here.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
All removable.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
Classic right click menu is a regkey away. Classic control panel is still there too. I have 4 monitors, task bar on all of them, not sure why yours doesn’t. Apps even go to the appropriate task bar per monitor when minimized. Suggested apps size can be minimized. They only should you “ad” ones on first boot, otherwise gone once you remove them. Me thinks you just like to complain lol
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 8 months ago:
I’ll probably get down voted to oblivion, but I remember EVERYONE had the same “I’ll never move” rhetoric with Windows 7, and before that Windows XP. Ya’ll eventually move.
I’ve moved 3 of my 6 windows boxes from 10 to 11 and it’s not that much different. I just debloat the stuff I don’t want and move on. Even that isn’t different, ya’ll remember nlite? We’ve been ripping crap we didn’t want out of the Os for as long as I can remember.
Hell, I even remeber getting doublespace.exe off my old dos 5 disks so I could use it on my dos 6 and Windows 3.1.1 install. People who use Windows are just more used to tearing down what they don’t want rather than building up what they do (*nix). Is it harder these days…marginally…is there more to remove…yup. But it’s still the same crap we’ve always done.
- Comment on Cerveza Cristal 8 months ago:
Nobody drinks the first part of that and thinks it’s pretty good.
- Comment on Palworld Has Huge Weekend, Sells 5 Million and Overtakes Cyberpunk 2077 in Steam’s Most-Played Games List - IGN 10 months ago:
Thier last game (released over three years ago) is still in Early Access and they already got thier pay day. This is why I hate modern gaming. Gamers can’t help but pre-maturely ejaculate over some new thing, so devs are able to keep shoveling eternal Early Access games. I vote with my wallet and don’t buy EA games, but my game group still does. I miss out on a lot of gaming sessions because of it.
Personally I think gaming companies should not be allowed to charge for Early Access and basically just go back to free betas for testing. Or if they do have an Early Access, they should be forced to have a published release date or automatic refund if they miss. That will prevent devs from releasing half baked content and coasting on it for years.
They can still provide content and fixes via standard updates.
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 11 months ago:
It’s for the lock pick mini game.
- Comment on If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless? 1 year ago:
SwiftKey does that if you give it access to your emails.
- Comment on If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless? 1 year ago:
It would have to be pretty specific and small to work on a phone and I think a side effect would be everyone’s conversations start to sound a lot more homogeneous.
- Comment on Starfield Review - Buy, Wait, Never touch 1 year ago:
As you said, “modders”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
9.5, yes
- Comment on It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now 1 year ago:
I really want to play with my kid, she loves DnD, but I was exploring one place and I opened a barn door to be greeted by an orc rawdogging an ogre. Can’t have that stuff popping up with my kid playing.
- Comment on Every game developer company should be like this 1 year ago:
I LOVE that the leaned into save scumming on BG3. They know their audience for sure. Lets get those outcomes folks!
- Comment on When did Christians get involved in politics in USA? I was watching young Turks clip on youtube. There was an exmuslim guy he said pat Robertson forced Christians into politics. So when was it? 1 year ago:
You should check out the book “Jesus and John Wayne”.
It’s a great book that describes the changing history of how evangelicals have interacted in politics for about the past 100 years. Worth the read.