kadu

kadu , 4 days ago

YouTube didn’t “kill the competition”. They never had to.

All YouTube competitors very quickly faced the issues relating to ingesting, storing and moderating video. The scalability is a nightmare.

kadu , 5 days ago

Manufacturers love the “it doesn’t affect the functionality or durability” excuse, but to me that’s insufficient.

That’s like a display manufacturer ignoring a dead pixel. Yes, the monitor will work, and yes, it probably won’t mean new dead pixels appearing. So what? I didn’t pay for a monitor with one less pixel.

I didn’t pay for a phone with bumps on the screen, and the adverts about the phone didn’t include the possibility of bumps.

The mere fact I dislike bumps is enough.

kadu , 5 days ago

Do you own one?

I made a generalist point about manufacturer replies to user-raised concerns. I don’t have to own one. My example didn’t even relate to smartphones.

Can you see the bumps with the screen on?

I don’t know. A good amount of users noticed it, so it’s certainly something different from other panels and that stuck out to new owners. What I do know is that I wouldn’t trust Google’s evaluation if it’s noticeable or not.

Can you see the bumps with the screen on?

That’s for me to decide when I get a device. If it bothers me and I want a return, I don’t care if you think it’s okay. Usually, those “under the display components” appear when you use it in bright lights, like outside in a sunny day. Plus, people kept claiming those optical fingerprint sensors were invisible but I saw the outline from the sensor all the time when using my previous phone.

kadu , 4 days ago

Cool. So you can be the smart guy paying the same for a panel with defective pixels.

I’ll take my panel with all working, thanks.

kadu , 4 days ago

Sure, whatever you say, keep buying them. Makes things easier for me when I trade the defective panel for a better one.

kadu , 4 days ago

I’m a Brazilian biologist working directly with strategies to restore degraded spots of our local biome.

But sure bud, if that’s what you need to tell yourself to keep paying the same for a defective product, I won’t shatter that illusion.

You’re very smart for buying the broken product, and I hate the environment. There. It’s okay. You didn’t waste money now.

kadu , 4 days ago

You know what you just did, buddy? They just called me - I’m no longer allowed in the research group.

They told me I returned a TV, and that instead you kept yours - they said if everyone was just like you, we would be saved. But I doomed things. I returned the TV.

Are you happy now? You saved the planet, and I condemned it. You’re a hero now.

kadu , 4 days ago

Too bad, I won’t have the chance. As we speak, I’m being moved to a federal prison - the fact I returned the defective TV meant about 15 species went extinct. I got a life sentence.

kadu , 5 days ago

remove the password from a Windows account

That used to be true, but no longer works

kadu , 5 days ago

unfortunately

Unfortunately? How is encryption by default a bad thing? It’s amazingly good at protecting data from people who wouldn’t even know what encryption is.

The number of lost laptops in coffee shops protected by BitLocker is insane.

kadu , 6 days ago

That’s obvious. But the test was made on Ubuntu, so they can only report about their results on Ubuntu. They did not claim they can’t be similar in other distros.

Lemmy’s “Ubuntu bad” sentiment gets a bit ridiculous sometimes.

kadu , 6 days ago

Two things, one they’ll openly admit, one they’ll pretend is not a factor but it’s the main reason.

The first are snaps. Snaps are a way of package distribution created by Canonical with the goal of solving a few problems on Linux: snaps allow a piece of software to be installed bundling the exact dependencies it wants, run inside a sandboxed container, and be updated with ease regardless of the rest of the system. If you’re familiar with Flatpaks, you might think they sound similar - that’s because they are, the difference being snaps came first and are hosted by Canonical, while Flatpaks came later and are hosted by the community.

Snaps, like all similar packages on Linux, suffered with slower app launch speeds, issues with drivers or other system components not interacting correctly with the sandbox, and so on. Those issues have been mostly fixed, and snaps are loved by people who use Canonical’s solutions to workstations and servers.

“Snap bad too slow, canonical le evil” stayed though. It’s worth noting that while enabled by default, snaps can be disabled. So that’s reason number one.

Reason number two is simple: Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro for desktop usage, and the most often recommended for beginners.

This means Ubuntu goes against the “we aren’t normies” mentality that dominates a portion of the Linux community. It’s hard to feel like a super genius for using Linux when your neighbor who can barely understand a keyboard can simply install Ubuntu in an afternoon and everything works great. Ubuntu being the home for newcomers also means said newcomers will often appear in Linux forums asking for help, and lots of tutorials are written for Ubuntu - which angers users from other distros.

So that’s it. That’s why Lemmy hates Ubuntu. Every other argument like “oh no Ubuntu is too closely tied to Canonical’s objectives” or “Oh no, Ubuntu is too opinionated and will change tradition in other to appease newcomers” could be applied to a million other distros, but you won’t see people complaining about them.

kadu , 6 days ago

I wonder if the open source driver will ever be able to replicate quite advanced features such as frame generation.

DLSS is easy enough - make the driver have a generic hook compatible with the Windows DLL, which Proton already can use.

But frame generation? It actually requires the driver to intercept quite a lot of calls from the game engine.

kadu , 7 days ago

The most information I could find about it is a forum thread where angry FreeBSD fans react to an article talking about how the Nintendo Switch used FreeBSD components, which led to people mentioning the PlayStation 3 which led to a user talking about how Sony contributed upstream.

Which means I found literally nothing.

kadu , 7 days ago

That may not automatically imply 100% contribution

Thus the angry fans on the forum.

kadu , 7 days ago

That’ll be the death of epic

Don’t threaten me with a good time

kadu , 7 days ago

Nope.

Dead serious.

I’d love it if the company who decides to sign exclusivity agreements for PC games stopped existing. And I would doubly love if we could go an entire generation without all games relying on a bugged version of Unreal Engine.

kadu , 7 days ago

It’s so comical that you had to search so hard to “find Valve doing the same” that your link is a 2005 forum post, and you still failed, as it’s absolutely not the same thing.

kadu , 7 days ago

Oh no I’m so offended!

What made you so angry, my dude? Your shaders not compiling correctly? Overpaying for an exclusive release that lacks basic features present in the discounted Steam release that came after the agreement ended?

kadu , 7 days ago

I love FPS games. I love MMOs. Heard about Destiny 2 and downloaded it.

Gave up after 2 hours.

Gameplay is great, graphics are great, gunplay is excellent.

However, the experience for newcomers is abysmal. It’s unclear where to go, what to do, who the fuck matters or not to the story, what the story even is, and what mechanics matter or not.

And then there are “full beginner’s guide” articles that actually assume you already understand every location and jargon, and after reading a literal wall of text, they drop some information like “btw during the first 30 seconds of gameplay if you didn’t use this specific resource to craft this specific item, you’re an absolute moron and you’ll develop liver failure and you’ll never enjoy a game ever again”

So yeah, not playing that. Cool for those that got into it when it first released and somehow are able to keep up with the meta.

kadu , 7 days ago

Well, when I join a Discord group for books, I don’t automatically join all book Discord channels ever created.

I don’t see what the difference is, unless you’re willing to explain.

kadu , 7 days ago

If a Lemmy user searches “woodworking” and the biggest woodworking community isn’t on your instance, you have to leave Lemmy

It seems like you have a misunderstanding about how Lemmy works. This is incorrect.

You’ll be able to see all “woodworking” communities that exist in your instance or that are federated with your instance. This difference isn’t subtle, because as long as somebody from your instance has interacted with the external one, they’ll immediately start syncing.

For instance, I can search for “gaming” on my Lemmy.world account and the biggest communities aren’t even hosted here. Yet, I can follow them and interact normally, and I needed zero external sites or tools to find them.

The only possible friction is hosting your own l Lemmy instance, or joining one that is likely to be defederated from others. But most users will not create an account on a shady instance, they’ll likely join the biggest “normal looking” public ones, and so far, federation hasn’t been an issue (apart from debates regarding very politically noisy instances).

This very chain of comments exists because I, a Lemmy.world user, had zero issues joining this Lemmy.ml community.

Oh, and by the way, downvoting my comment means absolutely nothing - you’ve accomplished nothing, because that button doesn’t mean “I disagree”.

kadu , 6 days ago

The way he described how it works is objectively and verifiably wrong - it simply does not work like that. Whether he likes Lemmy or not is a separate matter, that doesn’t change how it works.

kadu , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

When I dual boot Linux and Windows, I like to have two separate drives and not ever mix up the bootloaders. I then use my motherboards boot selector to choose which one, and I leave the main OS as the first priority one.

Works perfectly, avoids Windows overwriting Linux and avoids GRUB breaking for the 11th time this month because it’s a terrible piece of software. The only downside is it takes 10 seconds longer, because whenever I want to change I need to wait for my motherboard to recognize the boot selection key.

kadu , 8 days ago

I agree most motherboards should at least come with 2 or 4 USB-C ports.

That being said, people upgrading all their peripherals happens significantly less often than the PC upgrade itself, and 90% of my current setup relies on USB type A, so if a motherboard (specially mATX) needs to decide what ports to fit into limited space, I’d prioritize USB A for sure.

kadu , 8 days ago

It sounded like a quick way of making your irrelevant company show up in headlines, and it worked.

This “use a Mac somewhere as a proxy for iMessage” thing has existed at least two times before, and failed for the exact same reasons.

kadu , 8 days ago

How else would I get great signal integrity for the bathroom 4K camera?

kadu , 8 days ago

Then adamantiumnet followed by runenet, but it requires you to complete Dragon Slayer before being allowed to use shielded cables.

After that you can just use dragonet if you’re trying to show off or bandosnet for some solid defense.

kadu , 7 days ago

This statement is literally true for every single language on Earth.

kadu , 9 days ago

To be fair, CS2 sucks for people already heavily trained on older versions of CS. Newcomers will have a significantly better experience on CS2 than CS:GO.

kadu , 10 days ago

I can take a quick walk over my bio lab and find about 6 different machines whose software require Windows.

Some people work, and they care about their work being done, not spending a week masturbating over tiling window managers.

kadu , 10 days ago

No, not really. If you know how to configure Windows, you don’t deal with ads, forced defaults, privacy issues.

My Windows 11 install contains no Edge, no Microsoft update, no ads, no telemetry, and so on. I can set it up in a new computer in less than 15 minutes, too.

There’s no argument here.

kadu , 10 days ago

I hope you got a backup solution

Reinstalling Windows on another machine?

it must be impprsnt if you’re prioritizing it over yet i software freedom

Yes, getting machines that cost over ten thousand dollars and are crucial for research working is indeed more important than a flawed philosophical attachment to Linux.

But hey, if “software freedom” is so important to you, I’m curious to see how you disabled the mandatory proprietary management engine inside your CPU. And how about flashing that motherboard BIOS with open firmware? Which BIOS recorder chip did you use? Man, it must be so tiresome only using websites whose servers open source their code…

Oh, wait, no, you too use proprietary software on a daily basis. It’s just that the argument only works when criticizing somebody else’s needs right? Gotcha.

kadu , 10 days ago

Are you sure it has no telemetry?

All components that would collect data are removed - my computer doesn’t even connect to Microsoft’s clock syncing server. That being said, my entire network uses NextDNS so I can also tell (and possibly block) all remote connections to servers I disapprove of.

Keep in mind, I’m not talking about using the settings in the installer or the control panel that allow you to “disable telemetry” I mean those components simply do not exist in my system, I have a custom install

kadu , 10 days ago

you now they will re-enable that on the next update

I have my own update procedure that I do periodically. I do not rely on Windows Update and nothing gets “re enabled”. Though once I did use Windows Update and nothing came back, so you’re either mistaken or if it actually happened it was one specific update.

And here’s the thing, Ubuntu broke because I updated my system and it created a dependency conflict. You can use Arch, but then you need a lot of time and knowledge to tweak it and make it work - well, if I need that time and knowledge, why not apply it to Windows instead and get perfect software compatibility?

I have 4 computers at home. 3 run Linux. I don’t have “a dog in this fight” but I find Lemmy’s “Windows bad, Linux perfect” instance on every single conversation simply immature, filled with lies and exaggerations, and honestly, part of the reason why I don’t interact with the Linux community as often as I could, even to provide help.

If a user goes on Lemmy and says anything positive about Windows - or explains why they do indeed need Windows and not Linux - they get downvoted to the point of being removed from the conversation.

kadu , 8 days ago

Do not use dots for things that aren’t extensions.

kadu , 11 days ago

It’s Apple. They’ll probably support it, but make messages received look ugly, have missing features, have obtuse issues that aren’t clear to the user, instantly explode a built in fart smell cartridge inside the iPhone whenever someone sends you a message

kadu , 11 days ago

SMS, the entire protocol, is not secure. It doesn’t matter what app you’re downloading.

kadu , 11 days ago

Explain that to my Ubuntu install that killed itself over a package dependency no longer existing in the repo.

kadu , 11 days ago

A normal software installation never broke a Windows install in my life.

kadu , 11 days ago

GameScope is mostly targeted towards the Steam Deck, where it works perfectly fine natively.

kadu , 11 days ago

Shame? I do it with pride. I could be a multi billionaire, I’d pirate content with a smile on my face.

Indie stuff? I’ll buy.

Stuff from big studios, companies, publishers and so on? I’ll pirate it, I’ll help my friends pirate it, I’ll pirate it again just as a backup, and I will feel amazing about it.

kadu , 11 days ago

That logic would be valid… Two centuries ago.

These gigantic companies lobbied your government to change how fair use and, most importantly, intellectual property laws worked.

Disney took classic stories in the public domain and made bank on top of them - and used this same money to prevent you from ever doing the same with their content.

So they abused their size to change the dynamic here.

kadu , 12 days ago

If the conclusion was that it wasn’t justified… I’d pirate anyway.

kadu , 12 days ago

A Canadian would call 25 C a very hot day. As a Brazilian I’d be laughing and considering using warmer clothing.

Claiming that one scale works better for human perception of temperature is quite literally wrong, by definition, as your scale can’t account for how extremely subjective this is.

With Celsius, however, the subjectivity is gone: everybody knows what a fucking ice cube is, everybody has boiled water, everybody knows roughly how warm a body should be. It’s super easy.

Also, what the fuck are you talking about scales that “only go to 38” and comparing it to test scores? Celsius can go to temperatures in the -200 range and essentially infinitely up. A soldering iron is hotter than 38 C, I can guarantee you that.

kadu , 11 days ago

If you use TikTok on a fresh account to test, you’ll see you’re not quite right. It’s scary just how fast and precise the algorithm actually optimizes for your taste and your political views.

And the boosted content is quite clearly associated with how many people liked it.

There’s no deep conspiracy here.

kadu , 13 days ago

Gnarly commentary, darling

kadu , 14 days ago

There’s a difference between enabling encryption in the HD where you store client nudes, versus screaming that people should selfhost all their apps and only use their computers on a RAM disk that filters all traffic through Tor.