Appoxo
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Usually a lurker. If you want to talk to me you can usually find me of Discord.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 1 day ago:
5min ago some heresay said it would be easy to opt-out.
Can’t believe anything until it’s out.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
MediaMarkt and Saturn (our largest electronics retailers) first merged then were bought up by JD.com (chinese retailer)
Any other shop is a small chain/one-man-army type of shop which usually don’t have what I need :/Recently discovered a decent camera shop by coincidence while traveling :) That was cool.
They are both physical and online. And they werent pushy about their products. Which is great! - Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
May be.
Didnt know wages became affordable as well.This aint the US where you don’t pay for the social safety net :)
Also I’m not into sweatshop products if it can be avoided. - Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
Like what? 2x the price for worse hardware?
Feels like the only alternative for reasonable priced stuff is AliExpress (in regards to electronics) - Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
Exactly my philosophy.
I try to buy in this order (time and money is of no concern):
Local shops -> domestic Online shops -> AliExpress (electronics) or Amazon (branded electronics like storage) -> Amazon (anything else).If it aint available for a decent price and I don’t need it, I won’t buy it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
If it holds up longer, start by divind it by each year you use it daily for.
Once break even, determine if it’s still too expensive .
Buy cheap, buy twice.
Buy decent, buy once (for longer time). - Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
Difference is the quality.
The listed item may break after 10 months or is not comfortable.
Meanwhipe this holds up for >5 years and feels very good.You pay for actual wages, quality assurance and not being subject to cancerous dyes they use over there without preparing them.
I will never buy anything plastic on Amazon or AliExpress that will enter my body.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
I have a few local electronic shops.
It’s just that they dont have what I need or are way more expensive.It is almost impossible to buy RAM or a CPU in person outside of specialty shops.
SSDs or HDDs are only available in low capacity (<2TB) and/or low spec (M.2 Gen3).Nothing of use for an enthusiast.
The only worth they have to me are as a appliance seller (e.g. TVs, household appliance, general use audio equipment) - Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
More expensive AliExpress…
It feels like Amazon is flooded with dropshipping beyond repair. - Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 1 week ago:
Just preserved youtube history and culture.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 3 weeks ago:
I could see myself running a MacMini M anything.
But my issues with Apple:
- I don’t like their philosophy in hardware
- I don’t like needing to bow to their design/handling of any setting (e.g. accepting that the color of a menu can only be X but not Y)
- The hardware can never be upgraded.
At work I would only mildly care. But home pc? Nope.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 3 weeks ago:
Well…
I could also set my own resolution with the config files (rocket league at last at the time allowed it) or I also could set my own resolution in my gpu driver.So what’s the issue then?
For example, I can’t choose an ultrawide 1080p resolution in Cyberpunk2077.
Any game usually let’s me set the usual values (like 1920x1080, 1280x720, 4:3 resolutions, 16:10 resolutions, etc etc). So why not let me choose the custom resolution of 2560x1080p ??? - Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 3 weeks ago:
Let me choose my own resolution.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 3 weeks ago:
As open as the source? (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
- Comment on WhatsApp appears to have ads now. Good thing I don't really use it anymore. 3 weeks ago:
Yay EU
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 4 weeks ago:
It’s like OP thinks even bad representation is good representation.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 5 weeks ago:
AFAIK: It depends.
The Cube: No
The VR headset: Yes. But it’s rather an SoC. - Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 5 weeks ago:
_version2_final_finalfinal-edit2.bin
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 5 weeks ago:
Released on Wednesday (CET time). So on the third day of the week.
- Comment on Goodbye Windows, goodbye nvidia and sadly goodbye EVGA. 5 weeks ago:
Let’s hope AMD doesnt set the end of maintenance after only 5 years.
Even Microsoft gives more mainstream support for Windows Server…
- Comment on Homebrew, de facto standard package manager for macOS, now forces Apple's $99/yr notarization bullshit for all casks. 5 weeks ago:
*Unix
- Comment on How I'd fix Windows as a retired Windows Engineer 1 month ago:
“You do you but let me do (and fuck up) my own stuff. And stop preventing me doing that”
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 1 month ago:
The first time it was announced for Holiday season 2025, right?
Anyway: For AAA releases I always assume [Announced release year + 1 year]
It always get’s postponed for one year. So far every occurence has been confirming my hypothesis. - Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 1 month ago:
Sounds like something FlyTech would show.
But I don’t remember that happening. - Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 1 month ago:
Artificially supplied >_>
- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 2 months ago:
I was under the believe you need to have the game in question in your library to use Geforce Now?
Unlike xCloud
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 2 months ago:
Hades plays very nice on steam deck
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 months ago:
Virtual machine as in: Gapped purposes for different tasks.
For example: I don’t do my taxes on my gaming rig. - Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 months ago:
Sure. I could aslo limit myself to doing it on a separate machine or a VM that has different credentials than my usual PC.
But my phon e is more convenient :) - Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 months ago:
Reason why I am hesitant to do online banking on my PC and rather do it on my phone if possible.