atrielienz

@atrielienz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android "Media Control" "tool"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I had a glitch happened today where it started playing a song (I think I inadvertently tapped play while looking at a playlist. I couldn’t shut it off in the app, I pressed pause and the screen said it was paused but it clearly was not), and had to turn it off in the media tool. I don’t know what’s going on with it but this isn’t the first time one or the other has glitched out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never not been able to call them and threaten to cancel if they didn’t lower my rate though. That’s the crazy thing. I don’t have them anymore (thank God) but I had Comcast for close to 15 years and did this repeatedly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even Comcast will allow you to sign up as a new customer with whatever deal they are running if your previous account is closed. That’s saying a lot because they’re an absolute dogshit company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They definitely updated it because I could see the link for login and my page doesn’t look the same now as it did the first time I went to look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on the website looking at each of their deals. There’s no fine print that I can see except this:

  “The specially discounted price of US$35.88 is valid for the first 12 months. Then it will automatically be renewed at US$79.95 for 12 months. You can cancel at any time. Renewal pricing subject to change according to terms and conditions.”

  The terms and conditions may involved some, but it should be visible on the deals page at least when you click through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna get the freeware version just for the nostalgia. I used to beat the piss out of my little brother in this game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember one must fall w 2097!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A blog re-used one of my Reddit posts as a genuine comment on their blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a question. Is the mildly infuriating part for you the part where there is account masquerading as you on the internet, using your words and proliferating data/information essentially in your name?

  Or is it that you wanted to deprive the internet at large of whatever advice or information was imparted in that comment and someone else/a bot is reuploading that information without your consent?

  Because on the one hand, I agree that using your username and your written comment to validate an account that’s likely a bot account is dodgy and underhanded and messed up.

  But on the other hand, if that advice is valuable to other people and the intent was to impart that information to others outside of reddit and this is attempt to attribute it to you, rather than an attempt at plagiarism, I’m not sure I would necessarily agree.

  But this is unfortunately one of the downside to putting any comments/information on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp appears to have ads now. Good thing I don't really use it anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The main problem with this (from a stock android perspective) is Google play services. Your private phone/daily driver would literally have to be a non-stock rom or one that doesn’t come with Google play services installed at all. Because otherwise Google and other companies linked to them will fingerprint your device and link it that way because those two devices are often in the same place at the same time or on the same network at the same or similar times etc. The and even when you think you’ve given the apps no permissions, Google has a habit of turning this stuff on (location data, telemetry etc) and gathering it in the background.

  www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/…/105844066

  https://www.howtogeek.com/how-google-tracks-and-scans-everything-on-your-android-device/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a website tells you that you broke a rule, but doesn't tell you what the rule is.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I don’t get this message in mobile Firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a website tells you that you broke a rule, but doesn't tell you what the rule is.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also s3nd.pics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Being able to replay a cutscene would also be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But asking them to verify their age via selfie. We live in the worst time line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly yes. I’m consider going back to my previous place of work because somehow, even though it was just differently bad, I miss it.

  It was the same when I left the military.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Edible Wood⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to eat the shells on sun flower seeds. That’s basically wood and it was indeed edible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog…

  The people who own the company that’s trying to buy EA are the people who ordered the assassination of Khashoggi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not me, but I pirated sims 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to make sure it got quoted by my app doesn’t do well with copying the user so I did it this way so people would know it certainly wasn’t me who saw the flaw.

  If it helps UFD tech on YouTube also reported off the Tom’s Guide article, spouting the same flawed data as the headline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone else already explained (after watching the video) why this test is flawed.

  "This is purely from a broken test. Watch the video and you’ll see that its not testing with the same power limits.

  17w tests are actually 16w vs 20w+ and 35w test is 25w vs 35w

  This leads to drastically higher clock speeds on both cpu and gpu as seen in the video and thus higher fps (and power draw, so lower battery life)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they defend MS and Cloudstrike?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These nonprofits lobbied to regulate OpenAI — then the subpoenas came⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So basically, Open AI is upset that Musk sued to prevent them becoming a for profit company, and they’re upset that so many tiny non-profit companies are opposing them for various reasons. So they have decided to subpoena and or sue all those tiny non-profits under the ‘assumption’ that they must be funded but Musk in order to further his opposition to the company and their for profit plans. And intimidate these small non-profits, which kills two birds with one stone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I did figure it out and it’s been awesome although I don’t know what the difference is between high refresh and regal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to figure out how to do that because I’ve been manually refreshing if I need to and keeping the refresh rate somewhere in the middle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I own the Boox Tab Mini C. It’s fine for reading ebooks. The screen refresh isn’t really fast enough for a lot of apps , especially apps with pictures or things other than text. This causes a lot of artifacting.

  You can read news papers, magazines, ebooks, and comics and it’s fine for that although I think perhaps would be better without the color e-ink for most things. If it had a color setting and a grey scale setting I’d like that.

  But it makes the page illegible if you scroll for too long otherwise, so stuff you would use it for like reading web pages get progressively more difficult the longer you scroll.

  I think the size is good and I also think you’re likely to have the same problem on a Kindle to some extent.

  Additionally, it is android but it doesn’t natively come with a lot of android apps you might be used to. You can remove some of the apps but it’s not as easy as just going to the app store and deleting them.

  It’s nice to see this kind of thing in person before you buy it.

  I recommend buying it from a store where you can return it if you don’t like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers achieve breakthrough integration of 2D materials on standard silicon chips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How do they know/how did they measure the 10 year data retention?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly not sure (given the price the cable likely adds to the price of the device vs the quality/longevity of the cable) that I want it. Apple has been notorious for selling their charging cables at a premium while making them basically as cheaply as possibly. Other companies have literally made their brand on being better than the OEM cables and chargers you get with devices.

  Other phone manufacturers aren’t exempt from the phone cable failure thing either. It’s crazy to me that they were allowed to sell such shoddy accessories in the first place.

  When you add in the ways that countries are trying to cut down on e-waste I can’t say I’m surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t mean the Board doesn’t think that “the CEO stepping down” will make the company look better to the people they pissed off by shoehorning AI into everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably their Board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they going to be paying for extended support? My job is still on windows 10 (after they tried to upgrade to 11 and ended up having business applications not work as they should), but they are paying for extended support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why she’s being banned from criticizing the company? Like she signed a “non NDA” that included a clause about disparagement of the company, I get that, but I don’t really understand how that’s not a violation of her rights and therefore an invalidation of the contract.

  And on further reading it’s claimed that she hasn’t been forced to pay any damages for breach of that contract so how is she on the verge of bankruptcy? Is it that she can’t promote her book?