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[warm egret]

https://news.sky.com/story/google-to-pay-compensation-to-millions-of-us-customers-after-play-store-court-case-13033858?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

When will Apple?

[rancid dock]

common google L

[warm egret]

At least android lets you install apps outside of google play. Where apple doesn't and warranty may void for jailbreakjng

[rancid dock]

I dont really care for apps outside of the app store. Google's play store is filled with horrible garbage, the quality control is really bad, all those scam mobile games and whatnot. Also google sells all your data to advertisers, and if you have a huawei or whatever your data also goes to the chinese gov.

[fossil frost]

the fact that you think apple dont allow a lot of that same junk through, is funny...

[rancid dock]

No its def an issue there as well, but from what i noticed google is doing a way worse job

[fossil frost]

tbh, the barrier to getting an app on in the first place is quite high for google, but, not so much for the updates after the initial acceptance

so you can put on a game thats quite basic, but not scammy... get accepted... and them immediately update it to be a massive scam... also fine..

but if you put the scam version up first... google will put it in the bin

[twilit pewter]

https://youtu.be/oBmUB4lfNv8?si=0T0ko4rwmkpjlRdw

[random jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/werewolf-gif-10467548915715717617

[arctic sun]

The i7 14700kf is a great CPU for a 4070 ti, right?

[manic torrent]

It is perfectly cromulent

[formal anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/have-at-thee-ratatouille-gif-11199067726130995678

[arctic sun]

Uhh what?

[low rain]

I feel like when I go to bed I’m automatically dehydrated cause I woke up at 3am couldn’t sleep for like an hour so went to my kitchen drank a bunch of water and went back to bed but now it’s 4:30 and im dehydrated again

[arctic sun]

nice

u must drink more water

at least 3 gallons

[low rain]

My kitchen is way to far I’m not going all the way back

I’m comfy in bed rn

[random jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/canada-flag-rat-raising-flag-canadian-flag-gif-15771085392968151135

[glad grotto]

Bad mouse

[chrome vector]

[formal anchor]

[surreal forge]

Why is nobody upset that windows changed the behavior of the compress function in the right click context menu? It no longer allows you select a directory.

It just puts your folder in a compressed folder with the same name. Who wants that?

[spice pine]

I'd imagine a lot of people, which is why they did that.

[chrome vector]

What like, Windows 11? I haven't noticed anything. Then again, I haven't been doing much since I may or may not have installed a keylogger and had to nuke everything from orbit and reinstall Windows

[formal anchor]

if its w11 its because everyone with anything of a workflow is clutching onto their 10 key with white knuckles

[surreal forge]

I just don't understand removing the functionality. apparently the new way is using the "sent to" option

[chrome vector]

I have like, ~7 sealed Windows 10 Pro boxes for the future, just in case. I got 6 of them off of Ebay for ~$70 a pop and then the other one from Newegg for full price. Ironically, I'm on Windows 11.

I need to tiny bit of extra power for my 13900k that only Windows 11 can provide.

I require unlimited power, it's the name of my PC and everything

[surreal forge]

Shit send to doesn't work either

I want to compress THE folder I choose. I don't want it inside another folder. Why are they making me go third party?

[chrome vector]

Are you sure it isn't a bug?

[surreal forge]

Test it yourself

[chrome vector]

what do you want me to do?

I got a zipped on and an unzipped one

Took it out of my trash can for now, it's just my MOBO's audio driver that I reinstalled earlier this week

[surreal forge]

it used to allow you to choose a directory to zip to which i would usually select the foler it is in compressing that exact folder. Now it puts it inside another folder with the same name. And I'm building a plugin for a system which requires a specific directory structure in the zip file

[hollow token]

Software Dev Interview tomorrow, are three good questions:
1.What's the tech stack for this position
2.What do you enjoy about the language concerned
3.What are my opportunities like learning off the clock

[rancid dock]

you are using a proprietary system, they can do whatever they want, either get used to being their bitch or stop using their product lol

[chrome vector]

Yeah I honestly don't remember it having that option, but I could be wrong. I found a video on YT from 2 years ago and it seems like it's still the same options as now, so unless they added and then removed it, idk. Seems stupid, though.

[surreal forge]

super helpful thank you so much for saying that. I had no idea

/s

[rancid dock]

im just saying there is no point in crying about such things, you are willingly using their proprietary system, knowing well that they can do whatever they want with it lol

[surreal forge]

You shit on the floor and crossed your arms and acted like you said something profound

[rancid dock]

kekw

[surreal forge]

Gotta love people that exist to diminish other people for no reason at all

You 're doing great work here

[rancid dock]

no lol you are crying that a billion dollar company changed something in their proprietary product that you dislike, like what did you expect

[surreal forge]

and you're defending a billion dollar company like they pay your or something so what does that make you?

[rancid dock]

no its the opposite actually, you are the one being their bitch lol

[surreal forge]

Can you try being more coherent? That makes no sense

[rancid dock]

i was coherent

i hate microsoft so i just stopped using their products, but you are crying here that they changed something kek

[surreal forge]

I just don't understand people like you. you could have said literally nothing and everything would be the same. I still have a valid complaint and you don't like that I have a complaint. Get over it?

What are you the arbitrator of what people can get upset about? who made you king shit of people's feelings?

That's what I thought.

Anyhow the behavior change is stupid and they are forcing me to use a third party product to compress a folder without it being put inside another folder with the same name.

[chrome vector]

Your average Linux user.

"aNy oNe cAn uSe LinUx"

Person tries Linux "Hey I have a problem"

drops github link

"I don't know how to use Github"

"wElL GiThUb iS fOr deVelOperS wHaT dO yOu exPecT?"

"aNyOnE cAn uSe LiNuX"

repeat.

[gilded forge]

ew why are you using the shitty default context menu

[surreal forge]

More people should be aware they did this so they can tell microsoft how they feel. I can see @rancid dock feverishly typing in floatplane chat to linus and luke telling them to get over it when they were trying to address the sleep issue with laptops in collaboaration with microsft. They probably think they should just shut up and deal with it.

What a stupid way to act towards people that are having an issue with something.

[rancid dock]

this is completely unrelated, what are you even on about

[surreal forge]

Blame them for using the thing they are having trouble with. The thing 90% of people in the world use.

[rancid dock]

i dont waste my money on subscription services, but yeah im sure the billion dollar company cares about your feelings

[chrome vector]

It's a fresh install, I'm lazy. I did manage to stop One Drive automatically putting my fucking files on One Drive instead of my PC and made File Explorer default to "My PC" instead of that other bullshit, though. I don't think I even know how to change the context menu ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[surreal forge]

Oh now they pretending like they don't get it when they do. I get so tired of people being intellectually dishonest to try and muddy a conversation. I've seen all these tactics before.

[gilded forge]

ah, makes sense. I've just uninstalled/disabled OneDrive using Chris Titus' debloater tool thing

[surreal forge]

Keep defending billion dollar companies that you claim you don't like.

[gilded forge]

WinAero Tweaker can change it. or you can manually do it using RegEdit.

[chrome vector]

I don't mind having access to OneDrive, I do actually use it for some things (I store manuals, photos of boxes before I throw them away, etc. on there) I just fucking hate that it tries to put shit like game files on OneDrive instead of my PC. I disable automatic backups, everything else I can do myself.

And I'll have to look into WinAero or doing a Registry edit later. I did use Rufus for my install this time, though. For whatever reason the local account thing didn't work (probably because of an outdated version of Rufus), but whatever. I am fine with the Microsoft account for now. It's fucking stupid as all hell they try and force it on you, though. Can't even do a fucking offline install of Windows anymore.

The more they push the harder people are going to push back. Thank god for tools like Rufus.

[full fossil]

My uni gave me 5TB Onedrive storage for free so why not

[chrome vector]

Hell yeah, that's nice. I haven't paid for OneDrive yet, I am still below my default minimums, lmao.

[full fossil]

Oh they downgraded it to 1TB

Still, it is very plenty considering I only store either homework, graphs, textbooks, and .tex files there

[hollow token]

do you use arch btw?

[full fossil]

I will be redoing my entire Onedrive, iCloud, and Google Drive once I got my 15 Pro Max.

[chrome vector]

I honestly don't know if they have a 5TB option, I wouldn't be surprised, just never looked into it. Either way, free storage is free storage, fuck it.

[full fossil]

Free online storage and I can edit it directly using VScode? Fuck yeah

I also need to do a lot of account overhaul, such as deleting my burner accounts and re-organizing stuffas

[ebon lantern]

no

[dense quail]

how many dediwated wams does it, does it take to, how many dedidacted wams does it take to uh, server?

[chrome vector]

VScode? Either way, hell yeah. I have plenty of local storage just on my PC's, but most of that goes to games right now. Eventually I may try to build a NAS. Sometime I may pay for something like OneDrive if I need it, but I am more than fine with just the free version right now on Google & with Microsoft.

[dense quail]

only four drives?

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-excited-this-guy-two-thumbs-jim-gif-14850417969904358366

[full fossil]

Yeah. I can open my Onedrive folder on it and edit my tex and bib files directly

So every time I save it, it's automatically saved and I can open it on my iPad/phone

Storage wise, from now, my MBP has 1TB, my iPad and phone has 256GB total.

[gilded forge]

I pay like $10/mo for 2TB on Gdrive and use Rclone to mount it as a drive

[full fossil]

Both my google drive and Onedrive mounted as an independent drive on both my mac and ipad

[chrome vector]

At least they're four NVME drives, I have space for up to two more 2.5in SSDS and two 3.5in (Or 2.5in) HDDs/SSDs, but I haven't used those spaces yet.

I am kinda salty that NVME prices fell after buying my 970 & 980 Pro NVMEs, though. I could have gotten 4TB drive. May replace a couple of them someday, but we'll see.

[full fossil]

Buying a thunderbolt/USB port that has SSD built in is tempting so I have double/triple backup

[chrome vector]

That's the stupid thing, I have 8tb of SSD storage on my PC right now, I got a fucking great deal on a brand new M1 iPad Pro 12.9in 2TB, but my phone only has like, 128gb (S22 Ultra)

[full fossil]

I only save memes and shit on my phone anyways

I might do a reset on my laptop and iPad during winter holidays so I can start fresh with everything cleaned up and such

But again, my laptop is practically also a storage for my iPad so why bother?

[chrome vector]

Yeah, I have filled up my phone in the past (fuck samsung for the lack of microSD), but it's whatever. Right now, not a big deal.

I went from the iPhone 4 > Galaxy S5 > Galaxy S7 Edge (was going to go with the Note 7, but they decided to explode that year) > S22 Ultra. Storage has gone up with every phone so far, and if my next phone will likely be the 24 Ultra, it should again.

Somehow I ended up with using my least favorite phone (S7 Edge), a phone I didn't even plan on getting in the first place, the longest out of any phone. Approximately 6 years.

Although, I use insurance on that fragile fucker a few times, so not the same phone the entire time

[full fossil]

My current phone is a $200 Xiaomi Note 10 5G whateverthefuckitwas

Will get the new 15 PM in February.

But yeah, what I have in mind for my accounts right now is to probably have 1 account and 1 account only for Google instead of 4 lol

So I need to migrate a lot of shit from this one main to a new one.

And also updating this and that.

[spice pine]

ah, the "only one google account" dream

I think I'm at around 14 google accounts

[full fossil]

Besides this one is completely formal with my proper name

So I don't need to juggle between accounts as I go

One of the shit I hate moving is Google Colab files

[waxen verge]

What a dream.

[full fossil]

Or should I make a new one and start from scratch? Lol

Nah, it would be a pain.

I already have a 'definitive one with my own name on it and no numbers' so might as well fix it.

[tropic latch]

hi

[storm obsidian]

hey can anyone help me in #1027757333117415424 idk what's wrong with my pc and he's acting weird the whole time

[full fossil]

I decided to take the easy way out and simply ignore the old gmail accounts.

I technically own 2 phones anyway at this point.

So why should I care? I can segregate my accounts.

I'll move my bank accounts to the "formal" account though.

So all Apple devices use the main, formal account, and all of my gmail burners are on my android.

[glad grotto]

There I'm blue happy

[grand trellis]

I kind of do the same but for college

I have an email all about software engineering and college, same with browser
And my other one is just for gaming and whatever I want

My second email uses opera and my first is fire fox dev edition

I'll probably get two phones soon because my current one dies too fast and it costs only 170 bucks

[stoic beacon]

It makes it a bit easier than the "containers" do in browsers. Mine is set up the same way. Firefox for personal, Edge for everything business related, Chrome for anything accounting/financial

[lilac bear]

Xperia 1 V, 512GB
then get 1TB microsd
and then get a USB-C drive for another 1TB
boom 2.5TB on the go

[grand trellis]

Yeah
But I'm also tempted to change to Fire Fox for good, it's way faster than GX and I'm starting to like it more
Plus I'm also trying to bring all my focus into software engineering

[stoic beacon]

There's a lot of reasons to use Firefox and a lot of reasons to not use GX. I would highly recommend switching.

[grand trellis]

I mostly use GX for games and YouTube now

Once I get the laptop I want for college, I'll still have both since GX still has all my passwords and stuff, but I'll probably mainly use fire fox

[full fossil]

My Xiaomi is now an alarm.

It will be my alarm and my homeland phone.

There's a chance that I will not turn off my iPhone once I got it.

I'll slow charge it overnight.

[stoic beacon]

GX having your passwords is part of the scary part.

You really should switch over to a password safe that isn't tied to a browser like Bitwarden or Proton Pass and store your passwords there, and then use Firefox/Chrome for all your "serious" stuff like banking, email, etc., and then if you REALLY have to keep GX installed on your computer for whatever reason, use that for all your random browsing

[grand trellis]

By passwords I mean YouTube passwords and emails

The worst password they have is my mother's Amazon account

[stoic beacon]

If they have the passwords to your email accounts, that's very unfortunate.

[grand trellis]

If something does happen then they can't really do much

Every login needs a passcode that's sent to my phone

[stoic beacon]

An authentication app? Aegis, Microsoft, Authy?

[grand trellis]

Doesn't email provide an option for 2 authorization

[stoic beacon]

Sometimes. But if it just goes to a text, you're in trouble there

If it's the built in Google one that works with Android, then it's fine

[grand trellis]

Yeah, it's the built in google one

[stoic beacon]

Okay, then that's not so bad

Still should get in the habit of using a password safe though

[full fossil]

Is it okay to leave your iPhone plugged in all night?

[stoic beacon]

Depends on how many years you're planning on keeping it

[grand trellis]

I'll put future important things on fire fox

[stoic beacon]

You shouldn't save passwords to any browser

[full fossil]

I mean there are people saying that Apple would take care of the charging i.e. 80% then trickle charge slowly until I wake up

[grand trellis]

It doesn't really matter to me since every browser isn't completely spyware free

[stoic beacon]

There's nothing that demonstrates that for iPhones, only Pixels have that feature "shown." Who knows if they actually do it or not on iPhones

[stoic beacon]

Yes, which is why you need an encrypted password safe.

[full fossil]

Optimized battery charging

[grand trellis]

It's not that big of a deal

[full fossil]

It's an option set on by default.

[stoic beacon]

Good luck

[grand trellis]

Microsoft steals everyone's info but nobody really defends against it

[stoic beacon]

Yeah, then you're good to go

[full fossil]

Yeah. Force of habit of me turning off my phone before I went to bed.

[stoic beacon]

That's very wrong. There are plenty of people defending against it. And storing your passwords in a password safe to improve security is not the same as an operating system stealing generic data.

Two very very different parts of computing.

[grand trellis]

Against the people who don't, it's very little

[wispy marsh]

P@ssw0rd123

[stoic beacon]

Privacy is not the same as security.

[wispy marsh]

That's 98% of your accounts right there

[stoic beacon]

It's a red herring fallacy

[wispy marsh]

Speaking of herring

I haven't had fried herring in a long time

[left dragon]

KeePass and 1pass ftw.

[gilded forge]

that's an awful take

[grand trellis]

How

I'm talking about me personally

[stoic beacon]

Because you're using the least secure and the least private browser, while simultaneously saying that encrypting your sensitive login data is "not that big of a deal."

[grand trellis]

I'm not worried if GX finds my YouTube recommendations with just tech videos

Or my Roblox account 💀

I'm just saying that I'm not worried

[stoic beacon]

Every breach that can happen is a potential breach into more accounts

[grand trellis]

When I start to care, I'll buy one of those physical password keys

[eager notch]

It's ADell.

He says Hello from the other side (of the desk)

[grand trellis]

Most of my passwords are the exact same anyway

[stoic beacon]

This is exactly why I recommended the password safe, but you're a bit beyond help, it would seem.

[dull granite]

hiiii :3 :3

[grand trellis]

I'm not doing all that for an email I hardly use and an old YouTube account

I clearly don't care that much if companies know my stuff so why is it a big deal

[stoic beacon]

Again, you're confusing privacy with security

Two very different things. You claim to be a software developer (obviously not), and it'll be unfortunate when all of your "work" gets stolen or ransomwared.

[grand trellis]

I never said I'm a software developer...

[grand trellis]

Oh that

[stoic beacon]

Might as well add Liar to your bio.

[grand trellis]

I didn't realize that's there

Either way, I'm not a software developer

[stoic beacon]

Maybe somebody logged into your Discord with all your shared passwords and changed it, I suppose...

[graceful burrow]

Me when I lie

[grand trellis]

I don't get why you're so upset with me not having better security

[stoic beacon]

Security and privacy in the digital world is like a really big boat. We're all different planks that make up that boat. When somebody has a rotten plank with holes in it, the boat sinks a little. When the boat sinks a little, more planks start to break.

The more that EVERYBODY improves both their security and privacy, the harder it is for any sort of breach to happen

[spice pine]

I don't feel like that's a good simile

[grand trellis]

I think you're just making it a bigger deal than it is

[stoic beacon]

Probably not the best example...if you have a better one, I'll start using it instead, whatever is easiest for people to understand

[grand trellis]

If I get breached, then so be it

[spice pine]

It'd be more like everybody's got their own boat in a big ocean, and there's a lot of people out there whose goal it is to sink others boats, so the more people that use better materials in their boats, the harder it is for the bad ships to get access to anyone's stuff.

[ruby latch]

I use a vpn

[stoic beacon]

Hmm...that sort of makes sense, but you miss the part where if one person's boat gets taken out, then it's easier to take out the next boat, and the next boat, and the next boat...

[spice pine]

It's a two-way thing when using better materials for your boat though, if you're using ultra premium grade shipbuilding materials, people might assume you're a better target. If you're using wood planks like everyone else, sure, it's easy to take you down, but is it worth the wasted effort for what little you have?

[stoic beacon]

Possibly, but remember, part of the 23andMe hack was due to somebody's Discord account getting hacked and then using social engineering on somebody else.

[chrome vector]

Mitten Squad (from Youtube) is dead. I gotta pour one out for the post apocalyptic Michigan homie. RIP

[waxen verge]

All it takes is one website to mess up and it's over

[stoic beacon]

A Discord account seems like a very innocuous gamerbro tool, but can be used for insane things

[waxen verge]

:/

[spice pine]

that's sad and all but idk who this is, or who you are

[waxen verge]

Idk who they are, but God bless his soul

[graceful burrow]

He used to do video game challenge runs

[chrome vector]

He did challenge runs of (mostly) Bethesda games on Youtube. And more importantly, he was from the greatest state in the Union.

[stoic beacon]

Probably was the orange water that did it...

[chrome vector]

Yeah this was his last post..

[stoic beacon]

That's a tough place to be

[grand trellis]

We' was talking about browsers

[waxen verge]

I am aware

[chrome vector]

Yeah, it's really shitty. Alcoholism sucks. I drank too much and would black out occasionally as a teenager, being an idiot, but by the time I turned 21 I really stopped caring about drinking. I've only been to a bar once since turning 21, and haven't really drank in years. I've done way more than my fair share of just about every other drug under the sun, but I luckily never got to a very desperate point with any of them, and have cooled off a lot since then.

Addiction sucks. As far as I know there is no word of what he died from, but alcohol or something alcohol adjacent is the obvious candidate.

[grand trellis]

Then why bring up websites

I don't go on websites I don't know

[waxen verge]

A password leak on a website you use

[stoic beacon]

Yup. I'm really surprised that there isn't more addiction awareness out there, since the majority of our world is addicted to something at this point

[stoic beacon]

He's already been caught lying, and his synapses are clearly at least 5,000 feet wide, you're wasting your time

[waxen verge]

I was not aware.

Have a good day then.

[grand trellis]

The websites I use are professional though
Even if I don't, I usually use different passwords for those

[lilac bear]

but have you considered using LastPass

[grand trellis]

Lying because of a typo and you take security more seriously than it should?

[stoic beacon]

I already suggested Bitwarden and Proton Pass earlier, which are much more secure (so far) than Lastpass, and he freaked out

[stoic beacon]

A typo? You have a full on job description in your bio that you lied about, and you call it a typo?

[lilac bear]

hack me once, shame on you
hack me twice, uhhh shit

[grand trellis]

Mobile in question

[stoic beacon]

This guy is worse at lying than a kid caught on an adult site

[grand trellis]

Also I never lied about being a game developer
But if you want to assume that 1 line is a whole description that's made up, good on you

[graceful burrow]

Why would you put game developer in your bio if you're not lol

[grand trellis]

You're a grown man that's upset over how I don't care about my password security 💀

[grand trellis]

💀

[stoic beacon]

It WaS a TYpO MoM, I wasn't doing anything!!!

[grand trellis]

Bro is actually upset that I don't care about security
That's crazy

This conversation is going nowhere anyway, so I'll take my leave

[stoic beacon]

Please do.

[full fossil]

Damn I already fucked up. 2025 is my year fr.

[lilac bear]

sorry you hate when people care about you
we should be more like your father and go for the milk

[chrome vector]

Rate my nephew's (~6) Christmas present. He likes super heros and this was on sale for like $60-$70

[fierce moth]

i have a problem

[summer sand]

bro how did this happen

[summer sand]

did you just unpack a lot of music?

[stoic beacon]

Anything Lego is fantastic. Good materials, multiple uses...always a great option

[cold ferry]

Dell optiplex 780 into a sleeper

[lilac bear]

Lego is thinking galaxies ahead when it comes to their designs

2nm precision I think it was

[fierce moth]

Lossless music + I'm a hoarder

[summer sand]

ahh ok

dyson hairdryers are yummy

[gilded forge]

I love Lego honestly. get me a big Lego set for Christmas and I'll be building it until it's done.

[long briar]

Dyson hairdryers are actually so nice

[summer sand]

mainly yummy

[long briar]

they actually get down to the root of the hair unlike basically every other hair dryer I've ever used

[lilac bear]

they made the hairdryers woke

[gilded forge]

vacuum company?

with the headphones

[desert dagger]

Wheres the problem

[mortal kraken]

Probably filled with FLACs

Imagine not living with 64Kb mp3

[crystal flare]

https://tenor.com/view/tuna-crab-crab-gif-25093003

[chrome vector]

@gilded forge Hell yeah, legos are cool. It's been a long time since I've built a lego set. Someday when I have more space I want to get a couple for myself just for fun.

[umbral jackal]

Nah
Music is good
The more, the better

[waxen verge]

Fr

[stoic beacon]

Yup. It's great to have them around too for when kids/grandkids are around. So much more engagement and creativity than plopping them down with an iPad

[waxen verge]

So, I'm noticing your folder is called FLAC. Does this mean you have more outside of FLAC??

[umbral jackal]

I do
But 99% of my stuff is in FLAC, so this might as well be all of it

[waxen verge]

Ah alright

Storing music > Streaming music ngl, it feels nice to actually store your own library

[umbral jackal]

The only benefit is that things like Spotify play nicely with my car, and friends can listen along on Discord

[waxen verge]

yeah that's about it

[mortal kraken]

Skill issue, I have no friends, works everytime

[waxen verge]

I just use Plexamp and store my music on my PC. It works great.

[umbral jackal]

This be true
I do infact have all of my FLAC on my Plex server as well

[waxen verge]

💪

[stoic beacon]

In addition to this, purchasing music through BandCamp gives the artists a significantly higher cut than streaming them on Spotify/YTM

[waxen verge]

Also true.

[stoic beacon]

If you buy a song for $1.00 on Bandcamp, the artist gets $0.82.

If you stream a song on Spotify 258 times, the artist gets $0.82.

And all you get out of it is lower quality audio, less control over your music, and you end up spending way more in the long run.

[paper gust]

my balls are itchy frequently

[stoic beacon]

They make powders for that

[paper gust]

I tried using chalk so the friction will make the bacteria trip, but it just get red

[glad grotto]

Am I special now that I'm blue

[spice pine]

no?

[hearty spear]

this is why you buy merch from the artist's stores.
It's one of the few ways they get money directly.

[tardy terrace]

Mornin'

[night heron]

nah imma keep using spotify

[fierce moth]

Fr

Although it's annoying when I cant buy a game ost

Cough cough Nintendo

[stoic beacon]

Yeah...I think the only real time they released anything like that in recent years was the Zelda 25th Anniversary CD

Koji Kondo's masterpiece

[fierce moth]

But in this case I just end up ripping the audio from my own game disc

Or find less legal methods...

[gilded quest]

Mega Uber cringe bro
Real Gs use YouTube Music

[night heron]

i pay for yt premium and still use spotify

i just like it :3

[gilded quest]

I don't understand how Spotify has so much market share

The mobile app is actively bad

It won't let me play downloaded podcast episodes without an Internet connection

[eager notch]

Do you? I would have to only buy like 5 albums a year to equal what I pay for YT music assuming half the price of what I pay for YouTube premium goes to YouTube music

I 100% agree that buying music is better for the artists though

[night heron]

yeah i have 1269 songs on my playlist and thats a pretty average amount

i have friends with 5-7000

[stoic beacon]

I think it depends on the person...most people I know that have Spotify/YTM have one playlist of their favorite 80 songs, and they listen to it every day on the drive to work, and then again on the drive home, and that's it

[fierce moth]

I use a mix of yt music and plex

As sometimes im too lazy to get music on my plex server

[stoic beacon]

YTM is probably the worst option, unless you're after YTP

The inability to sort playlists by artist, album, etc. is already absurd

[stoic beacon]

I think that Spotify or one of the other streaming services is the best option for those who listen to a wide variety of music and try and find new stuff all the time, and then buying your favorite 100-200 songs outright is the way to go

[eager notch]

I use it because I already pay for YouTube premium

[stoic beacon]

Yup, then it makes the most sense

[winged oyster]

i can finally rest from school

time for some good ol portal

[eager notch]

So you would say

[fierce moth]

I would pay more if youtube music had a hifi tier

[stoic beacon]

That's what I do. If I'm in a music discovery mood, I'll pay for Tidal for a month, without auto renewal on. I'll find a bunch of music I find interesting, and pick my favorites, and then buy them outright

[eager notch]

I put YouTube music radio on then just upvote the songs I like for music discovery

[zinc oasis]

Any decent chair recommendations

250 budget

[winged oyster]

i have finished portal

back to school stuff

[summer folio]

What song do you start base the music radio on?

Like, there is no radio general button?

hmm, scrolled down, seems there is make your own radio lmao nvm

Cool

[left island]

Anyone know a lot about Modems and routers and what not?

[stoic beacon]

Depends on what "a lot" is...how to plug in ethernet cables, or how to set up a homelab?

[carmine stirrup]

phrasing a question like that is going to lessen your chances of a response

[left island]

I need to replace my modem from comcast which I rent for one I just buy and use

[carmine stirrup]

Good plan 🙂

[left island]

I wanna get an Arris S33 I heard a lot of good reviews on comcast with it, I think we rent the XB6 right now

But I don’t know if I need a router or what

[carmine stirrup]

Probably. let me look up the Arris

[left island]

Thanks

[carmine stirrup]

Yes, you'd need a router with it

It doesn't have wifi, and you could only hook up 1 device to it

so that device will need to be a router

[left island]

I don’t understand what a router does tho is that what lets me use WiFi?

I’m guessing my XB6 is a modem/router or something right

[lilac bear]

using your phone as a server is good enough

[carmine stirrup]

yeah, the modems that comcast rents you also function as routers

[carmine stirrup]

essentially, yes 🙂

[tardy terrace]

Essentially the modem stands for modulator/demodulator, basically a media converter with some controlly-bits from the ISP. teeechnically it'd be called a wireless access point, but it's easier to just call it a router (or wifi router if you're redundantly redundant :D ). That bit basically works with the switchy-bits inside. So I guess it's like a 4-in-one device.

Modem
Basic firewall
Switch
Wireless AP

[smoky crest]

What is a gpu demanding game that is free

[manic torrent]

Need to know what is the best SFP+ connectivity between various brands of switches, obviously

[dry dust]

La comida italiana es buena :)

I have spent over an hour of my life playing Garfield kart furious racing, I don’t know how to feel

[gilded forge]

people are saying planetside 2

scratch that, that was 8 years ago

just run 3DMark or something

[lilac bear]

fortnite

[low rain]

At my school someone in my class always wears a Harvard hoodie n she always talks about how she’s gonna get into Harvard but bro she prolly has the worst grades in my school and most the time she’s skipping class 😭😭😭

[lilac bear]

women 🙄 😐 😂

[glacial crane]

need help asap

pixel 8 pro s23 z flip 5 or razr+

[lilac bear]

answer is hire a hitman

[glacial crane]

must choose one 😭

[lilac bear]

z flip or p8p

[glacial crane]

i wanted p8p tbh but I heard there were camera issues

don't trust myself with foldables so might as well get the pixel

[vapid smelt]

Took me a bit to connect p8p with pixel 8 pro

[glad grotto]

I'm blue I'm cool

[supple pawn]

I'm blue dah bah dee dah bah die

[gilded forge]

s23 ultra

[glad grotto]

Ima say smthing a lot will prob hate guettas I'm blue versions far better then eiffile 65s

Also my take I get a lot of older people dislike swearing but censoring songs with bleeps where they said a swear word is dumb and ruins the song

[gilded forge]

guettas version isnt blue

it uses the same melody, and samples the chorus.

but thats where the similarities end

[glad grotto]

I guess but my point is it's better

[supple pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/leespoons-u-wot-m8-gif-14609294

[glad grotto]

It is truly

I can't stand og I'm blue anymore

[supple pawn]

This is simply not true, and cannot stand!

[peak phoenix]

You could stand it originally?

[glad grotto]

For a few times yes

After that no.

[gilded forge]

david guetta's voice is almost as annoying as ed sheeran's

[supple pawn]

Now Ed Sheeran has the voice of an angel!

[manic torrent]

this is VERY american.

[stoic beacon]

S23 for best overall, Pixel for superior photos. I wouldn't get the Flip or Razr.

[glad grotto]

maybe so but if a songs meant to have a swear word in it why take it out it defeats purpose

its their for a reason.

[stoic beacon]

Do you ever listen to one song out of an album?

[manic torrent]

nono, I agree 100%, I'm saying that america has extreme swear word censorship

also what is old? I'm 42 and swear like a fucking pirate

[glad grotto]

i try all a albums songs, but i cant say ill like em all for 100%

[vapid smelt]

Here in Mormon Utah they try to replace the word with a good one or just cut it from the track

[stoic beacon]

I might like most of a song, but I may not like the swear words.

[glad grotto]

then listen to a diff song?

[peak phoenix]

The best song in terms of being censored is Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You" changed to "Forget You" - the song still worked.

[manic torrent]

yeah it really didn't

[stoic beacon]

Or maybe I want to listen to that song and not hear the swear words. I can do whatever I want.

[glad grotto]

then listen to it with swear words n tune it out

simple

[peak phoenix]

I mean, the censored version topped charts. So it did work, arguably.

[manic torrent]

although a good counter example is a b c d e f u - it works much better than the version with fuck in it.

[stoic beacon]

Maybe I don't want to do that. I can do what I want.

Simple.

[glad grotto]

so in your eyes every song that swears should have a version with it removed

[manic torrent]

... that's a very poor analysis, because it has no control.

[glad grotto]

which would be a LOT of work

[stoic beacon]

No. Don't extrapolate. The point is, I can do what I want. Why should you get to tell me how to enjoy music?

You don't get to do that.

You can listen to the uncensored version, and I can listen to the censored. We both get what we like.

[glad grotto]

i didnt think i was I said it shouldnt be removed which is a opinon of mine im not forcing u to listen to it

[sleek plover]

hello all

[glad grotto]

i personally think there shouldnt be censored versions as its dumb

[stoic beacon]

Why? More options is better.

[glad grotto]

not all songs swear but those that do shouldnt require a censored version

[manic torrent]

The whole not swearing thing in the US is the absolute push of a minority force with significant political power.

[vapid smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/wont-somebody-please-think-of-the-children-think-of-the-children-think-about-the-children-children-the-simpsons-gif-20004023

[gilded forge]

thats a pretty bad song to begin with.

[glad grotto]

and songs that dont swear shouldnt be redone to try and make it swear/be more like those that do

[peak phoenix]

You will listen to 5 hours of Eifel 65 Blue and you will like it

[stoic beacon]

They don't require it. They don't have to be played on the radio.

Simple.

[manic torrent]

... thanks for your opinion, I will regard it with the appropriate about of fucks

[peak phoenix]

Oh hai Tipper Gore.

[glad grotto]

thats the poiunt bands like hu dont play on radio cause they refuse to be censored which i love

[stoic beacon]

Good.

[manic torrent]

but take a significant financial hit to do so

[glad grotto]

hell there top 10 songs are explict ones when they have non explicit ones

[glad grotto]

yeah which is dumb imho i dont get the no swearing on radio its stupid

tune to a diff station if u prefer sfw

[manic torrent]

this is a very specific US legal thing

[glad grotto]

and usually country swears doesnt it

[peak phoenix]

I think this matters less and less. Radio isn't king anymore.

Internet killed the radio star.

[glad grotto]

country, rock, pop, metal

[glad grotto]

this too most newer cars have panels allowing spotify

[gilded forge]

kids.

[glad grotto]

like hollywood undead songs censored would sound horrendus cause its about drinking etc

[peak phoenix]

• carplay/android auto built in.

Unless you're GM anyway.

[glad grotto]

yet we let kids in movies with blood gore and murder at age 10

[gilded forge]

especially when most people playing radios now are mostly streaming anyhow. Pandora, Amazon, Sirius XM, etc.

[wispy crow]

Hello is there a way to stream my computer to my laptop from a far away? not only games but mainly work for example moonlight

[sleek plover]

isnt GM planning on building their own kind of system 😭

[gilded forge]

i ddint say it made sense. i just gave you the reason.

[peak phoenix]

Yup. Typical GM doing shit stuff.

[glad grotto]

like if were gonna let kids into movies with violence then hell let them listen to swears

[sleek plover]

finding solutions for problems that dont need fixing 😍

[peak phoenix]

I think only places that radio are used much are job sites (and even they now have bluetooth audio...) and when you're driving along that lonely stretch of road, have no cell service and don't have songs downloaded.

Or the rental car that you can't get your phone to connect to

[gilded forge]

i always have Random Access Memories downloaded in FLAC just in case.

[glad grotto]

also to who mentioned me listening to a whole album earlier somehow theres only been a 1 album from 1 band i liked evey song from xD

[peak phoenix]

I mean, between BMW subscription for heated seats and GM dumping Carplay/AA....I hate where cars are headed.

Carplay/AA give us the first time really where the maps built into the car don't require you to pay $120 every year for updated maps.

And here GM is saying "No we want that money still we can't innovate on our own!"

[glad grotto]

scratch that 2 albums from 1 band i like all the songs from thats it

both hollywood undead

[sleek plover]

never been a fan of BMW's nor GM so it doesn't bother me as much but I really hope this whole subscription thing doesn't spread to other manufacturers

[peak phoenix]

I think a lot of albums are 2-3 good songs (that become singles) and then filler to be able to fill a CD/LP/casette

[sleek plover]

im personally a fan of late 2000s, early 2010 Mercedes Benz E class and 90s- early 2000s S class models

[peak phoenix]

It will spread. Too much money to be had in it. Look at all the manufacturers locking down the ECUs so you can't code them yourself for example.

[sleek plover]

all the LED lights and weird design choices are not my thing

[gilded forge]

ive legit thought about buying a 7-10" android tablet, and connected via phone's hotspot

[thick oyster]

Is this for a car?

Whatever you do try and get one with a removable battery and run it without it

Direct sunlight and heat could legit cause battery issues

Whatever message he was replying to isn’t loading on my phone

I’m not sure what phones exist now that can both run the latest version of Android/LineageOS with a removable battery

[sleek plover]

i mean people are still able to crack ECU's and tune their cars , just like the latest Audi RS6 which had a locked ECU but then warranty and insurance step in and thats a whole different story 😔

[thick oyster]

A friend asked me to help him do this

His car has a broken tooth on some sort of timing gear mechanism

Not exactly the ECU

But he wants to override it with an electric system somehow

He is a mechanical engineer so i trust that it can be done

[sleek plover]

wait im confused

does he want to convert something about the car physically?

because if something regarding timing gears is broken, that would most likely mean something is wrong with the crankshaft, like the crankshaft position sensor or something of the sort

also crankshaft gear teeth tend to break pretty easily

[thick oyster]

Yea he wants to replace the crankshaft position sensor with a Hall effect mechanism and an Audio

[manic torrent]

Is it an old car? Because most cars I can think of use a hall effect CAS

[thick oyster]

I have no idea

Id have to ask him

[sleek plover]

do you know what car he has?

just the model perhaps?

[manic torrent]

(I've done a lot of hacking on car stuff, I built a custom canbus system for extra data acquisition)

[surreal blaze]

you do any ethical hacking?

[manic torrent]

no, only unethical

[surreal blaze]

how'd you get into it/start

[sleek plover]

the closest I've come to changing something about my car's system is accessing the engineering menu

[manic torrent]

25 years ago I started using linux and then I learned new cool stuff every day 🙂

step 1: git gud

[surreal blaze]

I'll try it out and get more into linux, thanks

[sleek plover]

impressive

I wasnt even born 25 years ago

[manic torrent]

some idiot decided he wanted to build a custom dash cluster, so I went down a massive rabbit hole of electronics etc.

[thick oyster]

I asked him

[glacial crane]

pixel 8 pro in bay is hot but also ugly at the same time

[thick oyster]

Lyk what he says

[glacial crane]

mby i just need obsidian

[thick oyster]

No no no

The opposite

[golden talon]

custom dash cluster mentioned

i cant figure out how to center the street name though on the bottom of the map

[thick oyster]

If Linux were on top people wouldn’t have to get good using it

[thick oyster]

Linux on desktop (especially back then) was a great way to learn the details because it’s all incredibly unreliable

[golden talon]

oh thats what you meant by custom dash cluster

[thick oyster]

BitLocker?

[golden talon]

i had to code mine

[manic torrent]

So did I 😛

[thick oyster]

…that’s also true of many Linux desktop things

[manic torrent]

That is absolute garbage

[golden talon]

Did you have to virginize the cluster and stuff beforehand?

[thick oyster]

GNOME Calculator refused to ever start for at least the last year for me

It immediately segfaults

No idea why

[manic torrent]

oh, it's absolutely butchered, I needed to do WAY more work than I realised. I started out just wanting to make small improvements 😄

[golden talon]

ahhh i see

[thick oyster]

Idk people who need to calculate shit ig

I didn’t open it because I wanted it to break

I opened it because vI needed a calculator

Specifically Linux desktop

I didn’t say phones

I didn’t say server

[manic torrent]

./create_segfault

[thick oyster]

My brother in Christ I literally have a math degree

[manic torrent]

2024, year of the linux desktop

[thick oyster]

Yea that guy got a block

[dreamy thorn]

this is the result of me making two games for a year, on linux, using the same appid 🐸

[manic torrent]

wow that's amazing, I didn't know

[rigid osprey]

There were weird problems with my Linux laptop and I eventually gave up

[thick oyster]

You developed the games on Linux or you targeted Linux for your game?

[surreal blaze]

honestly been tired of windows for a minute deving linux would be more fun than this

[dreamy thorn]

both

[thick oyster]

Very cool

[rigid osprey]

🤣

Beheaded laptop

Sad

[dreamy thorn]

in fact i'm currently working on the windows port of the new game

[thick oyster]

Awesome

[dusty moat]

hi

[thick oyster]

Has this DPR guy ever mentioned the specifics behind his AI stuff? He mentioned it in his bio and I’m considering unblocking him for details

[dreamy thorn]

the absolute state of linux game development

[thick oyster]

What have you done yourself to develop the AI exactly?

Oh so you didn’t actually develop any of the AI bits and youve just prompt engineered an existing model?

I thought OpenCV was mostly classical still

What are the outputs from OpemCV?

Oh I don’t have any ideas and don’t really see the value in developing these things

I have more of a classical probabilistic perspective

Also I work in an industry where the tolerance for failure is very close to zero

So the unexplainabiloty of complicated systems makes it a non-starter

[dreamy thorn]

opencv has used neural nets for ages

nn's are very good at generating matrices for detecting stuff

[thick oyster]

Huh guess i haven’t ran into that parts

[thick oyster]

Oh yea I get that

It depends on the complexity of the model tbh

Semiconductors

Yea but nobody can reason about the entirety of the model with enough certainty

Given a large enough model

You can think of things like lipschitz continuity to bound derivatives and things like SVDs to reduce cross-talk and get to the heart of the matter

The problem isn’t that it’s reliable or not really

The problem is I need to convince people it’s reliable enough

No amount of data I can get can prove it won’t go sideways unless I simplify it down to a point where it’s easily interpretable by others

And at that point it’s just a normal controls system

You aren’t that convincing

Nobody would believe you and not believe me

Either I can convince them or neither of us can

And besides I don’t see the value for anything I do

I work in hard real time systems

You can’t just run a neural net

[iron phoenix]

why 5800x is 105W and 5700x is 65w ?

[thick oyster]

Itll always be too big and the inference will always be too slow

The TLDR is this

1. Physical manufacturing has a lot of stakeholders and communicating understanding, confidence and reliability across the organization is the biggest issue
2. The faster systems can always react to new data faster and any slowdown with inference fundamentally costs a lot in terms of sampling rate

That’ll reveal too much about what I do tbh

Nah

We sell to the government a lot

But that’s not what we are known for

There are some quid pro quos going on

Something something industrial policy

[graceful burrow]

Google it and find out

[thick oyster]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quid_pro_quo

[peak phoenix]

You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

[polar fern]

The 5800x is a weird thing

It’s like more expensive & runs hotter/more watts but just a bit more clock speed

[peak phoenix]

Welcome to how CPUs have been sold for ages. You're paying for a better sample

AMD is doing some binning and charging more for it

Just means that most of the chips can't reliably do those higher boost clocks

[polar fern]

It is almost $100 more expensive and it has higher power requirements so it’s actually a double deficit in terms of pros and cons

You would need a more expensive cooler and a beefier power supply, which is stupid

But I guess some people have more dollars than sense

Man this mobile app is garbage

It literally hurts my brain to use it

[thick oyster]

Honestly reliability as it stands now isn’t a problem

Ye

Most of my effort has been studying and deploying this https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3/wiki#background

It’s like optimization when everything can’t be converted into linear algebra

Or like

Isn’t a smooth continuous differentiable manifold

It’s an incredibly versatile tool

I will say that a lot of the push for AI I see here comes from the marketing people because it’s sexy and cool and helps prop up speculative value

Nobody cares about synthesizing superoptimizers making code faster because hardly anybody knows what tf that is

[thick oyster]

Or this

[final escarp]

Just need the AIO

[gilded forge]

the Pixel 8 was named phone of the year by MKBHD

[mortal stratus]

My GTX 980 hasnt exploded after ten years of being used every day and overclocked to its limit

[graceful burrow]

Doesn't it only have 4gb vram

[dense coral]

my 960 had 2

[lilac bear]

tbf clockspeed isn't the end all for a powerful CPU

[peak phoenix]

Yes....but better than the 3.5GB of the 970

[lilac bear]

it is A factor but isn't the sole thing that makes a CPU good

[supple pawn]

Hasn't been for some time has it? Far as I know there have been diminishing gains for a long time.

[lilac bear]

yeah like if you could somehow overclock an Intel Atom to an absurd speed
would it be better than the newest i9-13900

[supple pawn]

Probably consume significantly less power

[lilac bear]

so it is better? lmao

[supple pawn]

No

Well...

[soft swan]

No

[supple pawn]

Of you only have a 300W power supply maybe

[lilac bear]

Intel Atom > i9 series

[soft swan]

It’s like celeron CPU’s ,even the new ones can’t beat a 3rd gen or even 2nd gen i5

[lilac bear]

who needs a new desktop when you just overclock old desktop

[supple pawn]

One could make that argument 🤣

[glacial crane]

PIXEL 8 PRO IS UGLY IN BAY 😭

[supple pawn]

If you carefully choose the proper goal post location

[glacial crane]

when i saw the google io intro with that ugly blue color and realized it was the pro 😭😭

[supple pawn]

Another reason not to buy a Google phone?

[glacial crane]

idk

forced to get s23 z flip 5 p8p or razr+

[lilac bear]

phone colors have been weak as hell for 2023

[supple pawn]

The are # 3 on my list of phone brands I'd never buy

[glacial crane]

(ip15)

otherwise ip15 is kinda hot this year

[lilac bear]

I'd vote the Z Flip 5 then

pretty popular foldable

[glacial crane]

true but I don't trust myself with foldables; I identify as drop-type Linus

[supple pawn]

Need to be a foldable? I have a Moto Edge + 2023 512gb model and I really am liking it.

[lilac bear]

hmm is S23+ not an option?

[glacial crane]

i have an s22 atm and the s8g1 battery life is killing me 😭

1. would cost me an extra $100 because carrier shit 2. p8p kinda better?

[lilac bear]

P8P is pretty good in the sense of focusing only on the Google Pro models

[supple pawn]

Get yourself an iPhone platinum sparkle model or whatever it's called? 🤣

[glacial crane]

can't go iPhone for reasons I can't explain

even though iPhone is my boo fr 😩

[supple pawn]

Lol I would have accepted 'because fuck Apple' as a valid reason not to buy an iPhone tbh

[glacial crane]

Honestly I'm just intrigued by the whole "Pixel Experience" and stock Android

[lilac bear]

it isn't exactly stock because of Pixel Experience

[glacial crane]

I'm one of those people who doesn't give a fuck about performance; Tensor G3 is good enough tbh

[supple pawn]

Opposite for me. I see iPhone as a blight.

[lilac bear]

lol

[glacial crane]

me 💞 tim apple

[peak phoenix]

Oooh the daily "I hate this phone OS" argument

[glacial crane]

not really

probably just gonna snag the p8p

[peak phoenix]

I mean, I got my "fuck apple" on the bingo card so

[supple pawn]

Nah, it's not the OS I hate, it's apple and their shady business practices. Also Samsung and their follow the leader shit.

[glacial crane]

iPhone is my boo <:(

but apple is shitty at times, admitted

T-Mobile is offering me 3 lines on their Go5G Plus or whatever for $120 inc. tax + free Netflix and Apple TV+ and two ip15s + p8p, is that a good deal?

[full fossil]

waffle

[supple pawn]

What's a p8p?

[glacial crane]

Pixel 8 Pro

[supple pawn]

Ah.

[full fossil]

whats p234162987569127856p

[glacial crane]

I'm currently a Verizon customer

but im tired of their 3-year contracts 😭 tmobile 💞

[supple pawn]

I got T-Mobile now. Tbh Verizon service seemed to be more reliable. But maybe not enough to be worth the cost tho.

[glacial crane]

I used to have T-Mobile a few years back and the service was horrible, so I went through a bunch of different MVNOs before deciding that Verizon MUST be better and switching to them

But my area is blanketed in 5GUC, and after their Sprint acquisition it doesn't seem all that bad for the perks atm - they're giving me their second-to-first flagship plan for cheaper than Verizon is charging for Unlimited Welcome

[gilded forge]

i have at&t and honestly? it sucks ass. but it has the best coverage in my area so its what i have to use.

[glacial crane]

att feels like that one company that isn't "RELIABLE AND MODERN" like Verizon or the "CHEAP RELIABLE UNCARRIER" like T-Mobile, just somewhere in between

[gilded forge]

verizon gets shitty coverage over here. and t-mobile only has 4G. i just love where i live /s

[prime solstice]

I might buy myself a Xbox series x

[harsh quartz]

Att is the most reliable round these here parts

[supple pawn]

I think I'll by myself a hoagie tomorrow. When's the last time I had a good hoagie?

[gilded forge]

idk why are you asking us

[supple pawn]

It was rhetorical lol

[lilac bear]

L take

[pseudo girder]

noones mentioning it..... but i just contacted my carrier cause finally i got a real person not in india, tech support to tell me yea the towers fucked after this almost hurricane that blew off roofs, and i saw 25 down trees on the way home, speeding around the carnage of wrecks like a madman lol. tiny sportscar, suvs off the road (learn to drive)..... XD

[olive stump]

AT&T is just old

[pseudo girder]

if i dont get a 5g phone made in the last 4 months, my plan is cancelled - _ -

wtf

i have until july

e-waste much? fam too.... aka.... brand new phone? welp, its trash now great, hundreds wasted, this cant be legal to force an entire population. and i was told this yesterday, talk about coincidental irony, its not just one carrier but all cancelling their customers.

my mahs is 5g, but its not made in the last 4 months so the imei isnt registered as such.

STILL FOR SALE

forced compliance, this is what these scumbags have gone to

[gilded forge]

and false marketing. the keep using things like "5GE" and "4G Advanced LTE"

[pseudo girder]

wtf is wrong with these companies, do they want another bell company lawsuit?

from the early days

theyre edging for some punishment lol

[olive stump]

Tbf this is what happens when you let tech companies define standards and “pick” “generations”

[pseudo girder]

ahhh so yall are on the same topic

they really want to piss people off enough to start a class action dont they, like a massive one.

showing off wealth of what?

potluck for punishment, is that what they want?

[lilac bear]

you mean "collective monopoly"

[pseudo girder]

yes

[lilac bear]

they all looked at each other and agreed pushing 5G would benefit each company

[pseudo girder]

these mofos are still the same as they were back then

theyre gonna get another with the forced 5g thing.... cancelling millions of people down on their luck.

this kind of thing seems to happen every 30 years or so with old companies.

im not, but it still makes me angry, even if i need to get a new phone cause its busted to hell.

gladly i hate phones

love pc tho

[prime solstice]

Honestly I’m considering switching isp cause at random times Roger’s shuts off my internet for 5 minutes while I’m in the middle of school work then turns it back on

Also Roger’s keeps messing with stuff

[pseudo girder]

thats a dickhead in the mix lol..... but forcing entire countries to switch to 4 month or newer phones..... what third party market is there? thats never been done, thats like wiping the fking slate.

[lilac bear]

Canada when Roger's messed up a line of code and fucked the entirety of your nations payment systems

[pseudo girder]

yes, all the homeless who have minutes on cards, now youre cancelled, go die on a sidewalk

flip phones? dead

[prime solstice]

Yeah that sucked

[pseudo girder]

all i can say, get rekt is all these companies are saying

[lilac bear]

tbf there are 5G versions but this is such a devils advocate and not the point you are making

[prime solstice]

Gotta find ways to make your own company and make it better than the others

[pseudo girder]

oh i wish...... but i dont wanna own a company. especially in todays world... best company in my opinion is decentcandles.com XDD

[gilded forge]

what about lttstore.com?

[pseudo girder]

first we had the whole completely illegal unity game engine debacle, the guy got driven out by investors. (second time) he was the hell that rained on EA game studios back in the day. fkin idiot. now forced brand new phones.... yea just came out today, you have to have it, or youre banned, hand over the dough!!

XD

and its not enforced by having 5g, its by imei..... aka you HAVE to have a new phone or you get one, and even if your fam has new phones, you have to either cancel their plans, or get new ones for them.... aka diligence is required. are they trying to cause a stir or? am i missing something.

new to me is the last year, not 4 months lol

here, we dont even get 5g, so id still get lte, why bro? XD

[lilac bear]

I would freak out about ruining LTTStore

[pseudo girder]

ill get banned for owning a device, great

that i bought from them

i have money, i just would rather not spend it on shit i dont want or need

cause it still serves 4g aroud here..... so why tf do i need a brand new ass phone XD

[gilded forge]

get s23 ultra. great phone

[lilac bear]

nah nah the 4G will be rebranded to 5G Lite

[pseudo girder]

is it in the last 4 months?

the imei will bounce if not

crackhead companies man.

[lilac bear]

unsure, hype for S24 Ultra is building up

[pseudo girder]

s256 coming soon

i just want a phone with onboard audio, cant find that in the details.

or ill just use my old one as a media player ffs lol

[lilac bear]

you joke but the S23 Ultra is 10 months old

[pseudo girder]

idk, cause i just wanna use a damn phone XD

[lilac bear]

Xperia and Zenfone have the 3.5mm

[pseudo girder]

withot getting banned that is

how is that legal, you can ban your customers for not purchasing more.

also, lte still exists.

[open pond]

Better performance, better cameras, better battery, etc

[pseudo girder]

does it cause any harm? no, can you still use it... yes, are they intentionally causing issues, yes..

[prime solstice]

Best phone was the iPhone 4

[pseudo girder]

might be the case, but forcing people, and there are many without anything who need their phones, and youd stop them from getting help for performance when they need it?

[lilac bear]

France tried to ban the iPhone 12 for "emitting too much radioactivity"

[pseudo girder]

LOL it doesnt do that.

fucking idiots running countries huh?

[lilac bear]

yeah France basically cherry picked the results and put a unrealistic scenario

[pseudo girder]

it emits too much uhhh...... ghost energy.

[lilac bear]

practically LMAO

[pseudo girder]

the spookies be bad man

XD

starts emmitting grindy sound AAAAHHHHHHHH...

grave encounters there ya go

lets just see if i get banned or charged for owning an old phone.. if i get charged, hah, now thats something.

[crystal mirage]

well the results of their testing showed that the ip12 had a Specific absorption rate of 5.74 while the EU standard was 4 Watts per kg

[pseudo girder]

idc anymore, these assholes are brazen nowadays.

[crystal mirage]

so the phone didn't follow eu standards

[lilac bear]

that's literally what Microsoft is going to do with Windows 10

after 2025

well just charge you for newer updates

[open pond]

Why r u getting banned or charged for owning an old phone?

[lilac bear]

it's the disabling of 4G bands

[prime solstice]

Windows 10 gets discontinued before gta 6 gets released

[pseudo girder]

well i will, cause if they fuckin cant fix vr issues in win 11, i wont upgrade, even met pros who did the same as me. and hah, try it. not doing diligence on things you own? not a crime, the crime is what youre doing asshat XD

doesnt matter, as theres a judge lol.

[manic torrent]

loooool, what the fucking shit are you idiots talking about. Maybe learn something, THEN talk about it, rather than just talking shit when you know nothing

[lilac bear]

maybe you should research and supply us proper answers

[pseudo girder]

apparantly were both pros cause we knew all of it.

[prime solstice]

Just wait till Microsoft makes it so you have to subscribe to use windows (atleast that’s what I heard while watching tech linked)

[pseudo girder]

piracy time

ngl

fuck this new ass bs

[prime solstice]

Watch as Microsoft prevents piracy by making it so you have to pay for windows cause no product key will work unless you buy one for $12.99 a month

[pseudo girder]

then someone finds a keyhole

[crystal mirage]

If windows gets a subscription then I wont mind having a watermark in the corner

[pseudo girder]

and another, then another XD..... is bill gates dead or something? cause he never seemed to care.

[prime solstice]

Im just gonna continue using Linux but with a windows skin

Like that windows 12 cd

[pseudo girder]

he even gave pirates windows 10 for free

[lilac bear]

oh god the rumor that Windows 12 would have a subscription cost

[pseudo girder]

knowing

[open pond]

We are currently shutting down some of the 3g bands cuz of cost problems. Maybe cost is the issue. But yeah LTE is pretty common still nowadays and it seems like a problem

[open pond]

Nah it's a different one apart from Windows 12

[prime solstice]

Who needs that when I got it early

[pseudo girder]

def a problem when a company demands you own a brand new phone, like right now.

[open pond]

Win 11 has VR issues? In 23H2?

[manic torrent]

.... you're an idiot

[manic torrent]

yes, because that's totally what happened

[prime solstice]

I just gotta figure out how to fix my nvidia drivers for Linux and I will be set

[pseudo girder]

i dont need another gates argument man.

stop

[manic torrent]

about how he hasn't run microsoft for decades?

[pseudo girder]

i said stop

[open pond]

I have it early fr.

[pseudo girder]

hes the benifactor yes, i am not gonna argue about this.

[prime solstice]

I’m telling Microsoft you leaked private info /j

[manic torrent]

when you stop spewing utter garbage from your stream of conciousness directly into discord, I will stop calling you out on it.

[pseudo girder]

so stop please youre very aggressive.

[manic torrent]

yes, and you are very stupid

[pseudo girder]

i already explained

stop bro, why so hostile, fucking stop.

[prime solstice]

🍿

[lilac bear]

lol

[lilac bear]

UP YOURS WOKE MORALIST

[pseudo girder]

man some people need to jump like a fuckin tiger

ooooo person of interest, lets attack anyone who speaks words. XD

[open pond]

Lol cuz in microsoft's perspective these individuals pirating Windows does not matter that much at this point. These individuals increases the market share of Windows and makes them use other MS products which is a benefit for MS. Instead, MS cares about big corporations using Windows and they earn most of the "Windows" profit from here

[chrome vector]

I just fucking love being sick

[lilac bear]

you're an idiot for not buying a 5G phone 😠

[pseudo girder]

that was my point

[open pond]

Well it's just a watermark

[manic torrent]

This plus more, basically.

[open pond]

Tbh at this point, buying a 5G phone seems more of a reasonable choice

[pseudo girder]

theres fanboys and haters.... im on neither side, hell what i get is what i get.

[prime solstice]

I’m still telling

[open pond]

Yep yep

[open pond]

Go ahead

[pseudo girder]

but the haters are the worst..... cause they cry about linux until you desire a deep fried tide pod.

[lilac bear]

technology gets outdated
you need to catch up with the times bro

[prime solstice]

I won’t

[gilded forge]

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/leaked-bradley-documents-war-thunder-forums-again/

how does this keep happening

[prime solstice]

Ms won’t do anything it’s Nintendo that will do something

[prime solstice]

It’s war thunder

[waxen verge]

How

[open pond]

Sensitive documents.....well ppl who have access to them seems to be so obsessed in the military conversation...

[chrome vector]

At this point playing War Thunder is going to fuck up my chances at a security clearance. I promise I'll only leak confidential documents on the WT forums if I'm really angry, Uncle Sam

Anything for that next tank

or plane

really anything other that boats

[open pond]

I never leak any sensitive info even to close ppl unless they have some sort of security clearance so yeah that's crazy fr

[lilac bear]

I always have to double check these leaks because people are so happy to jump the gun on it being illegal

[pseudo girder]

why are you using mutahars pic? are you? ngl hes a great guy.

[lilac bear]

like one of them was actually public documents from Russia

but everyone freaked out anyway

[pseudo girder]

the humor bleeds through and the anger at bullshit.

[waxen verge]

Same lol

Cant risk it

[prime solstice]

I kinda wanna see what happens if I claim I have sensitive info on the war hammer forums but it’s actually just Rick astley’s never gonna give you up

[open pond]

I mean leaking sensitive info time public might mess up that person's life but why....

[manic torrent]

Wow. You even got the name wrong.

[prime solstice]

Because maybe it will stop space time continuum

[prime solstice]

My brain no work

[lilac bear]

I mean have you seen Isreal

they're basically trying to create 40K but in real life

[open pond]

Wdym by 40k?

[prime solstice]

War hammer

[lilac bear]

warhammer 40k
the most popular of the franchise

[strange elk]

considering blocking youtube thumbnails

[gilded forge]

uh why

[strange elk]

If thats even possible

[strange elk]

Because funny and focus

I get annoyed by clickbait, and there wont be any to be annoyed by

Unless its the title then

[gilded forge]

just block the channels that's clickbait

[prime solstice]

YouTube does that already on Firefox if you have a ad blocker on

[strange elk]

Well considering I am on firefox with an adblocker and im saying this.. I dont think it does

[prime solstice]

Well I did read that YouTube doesn’t load properly on there with a adblocker

[strange elk]

Ive had absolutely 0 issues whatsoever

aside from home whining about my channel not having history

[prime solstice]

That’s why I have a Alexa

[strange elk]

Im never getting an alexa

[gilded forge]

I have firefox w/ ublock origin that has a couple lines of code that blocks YouTube's anti-adblock measures.

[gilded forge]

my echo dot never works the way I want it to

[pseudo girder]

i use adguard, got a lifetime license, and for my grandma from a random site for 20 dollars.. its a fullform adblocker, not per program, the entire device.

[strange elk]

I didnt even need that, nothing broke at any point in that regard

[prime solstice]

Everytime I had a google home it would randomly connect to my brothers it sisters

[pseudo girder]

set it up, if things dont work, turn it off.

[strange elk]

I dont even know how this is relevant

[prime solstice]

My echo pop works great

[pseudo girder]

also scamsa re scams, just dont be stupid enough to get scammed.

aint no two ways about it

[white pawn]

I use it too 🙂 both on computer and phone, it's so fantastic

[prime solstice]

What I’m saying is mine never worked for me

[gilded forge]

it always tries to play music from Amazon music when I clearly have Spotify set as default.

[strange elk]

Id get an alexa provided we had open source firmware for it

[prime solstice]

I just yell at it to play on Spotify

[pseudo girder]

lifetime, got two now, so my grandparents are protected now.

[strange elk]

Oh you mean GOOGLE home wtf, who was even talking about personal assistants

[pseudo girder]

tell em, open it and turn it off if some sites wont load, trusted sites.

[pseudo girder]

its a false positive.

[strange elk]

I was talking about that

[prime solstice]

https://hackaday.com/2021/03/22/amazon-echo-gets-open-source-brain-transplant/

[white pawn]

you have to specify spotify every time from what I've seen on em.

[strange elk]

Only if it were in a store, or on amazon on a heavy sale

Im considering making my own network anyway so it doesnt make much sense for me to get one

[prime solstice]

Also there is open source firmware for the Alexa

[white pawn]

only way i pay for subs if i can help it. causes me to sometimes choose less popular software otpions, but if I'm gonna support a company, I'd rather do it one time than a constant drain

[prime solstice]

I found a whole GitHub page

[white pawn]

you can pop alexa on a raspberry pi 0, would cost ya like 8 bucks or something

[pseudo girder]

if i like a game i buy, but vr games are so bad only the new ones i buy.

[prime solstice]

https://alexa.github.io/

[pseudo girder]

most i try and never play again

[strange elk]

Well the thing is I want it all ran locally

[pseudo girder]

i love vr, but vrchat is free and its better than most, except on pc its got bad performance, you need a nasa super computer.

[gilded forge]

I got my echo dot for like $10 with prime day and some gift card promotion thinf

[pseudo girder]

cause i can hangout, play games, chilll, hangout with a girl, anything i want.

[strange elk]

On quest its got bad performance too.

[prime solstice]

Then throw a rasp pi 0 in it

[white pawn]

because of microsofts policy of try before you buy ont he 360, i own an absolutely ridiculous amount of games, but they stopped it with the xbvox one, and i basically went back to only buying games i knew i was gonna want to play 😛

[pseudo girder]

minigolf etc

i have 360

but i cant access it anymore.

[strange elk]

Why do yall want me to buy an alexa so bad

[prime solstice]

I have 4 I think

[pseudo girder]

idc, dont need it.

[prime solstice]

I’m not saying to buy one

[white pawn]

theres a difference between telling you option in response to your concerns and wanting you to buy one

[gilded forge]

I have no say in whatever y'all are doing. I'm just saying my echo dot is a real bitch sometimes.

[pseudo girder]

dont get one, i personally thing theyre annoying

[strange elk]

idk might go the 0w route, but idk how likely that is

I need a stable server first

[white pawn]

i have one that resets back to zero volume twice a day, and all the resetting in the world hasn't helped so far. it's going up on the backboard for axe throwing i made in my back yard tomorrow 🙂

[pseudo girder]

i already have a cat that literally cant get out from under my feet, step on him so much i thik hes a masochist XD

[prime solstice]

Who needs a stable server have fun and enjoy the bugs

[pseudo girder]

think more like*

[gilded forge]

stomp on me instead /j I'm gay pls don't hurt me

[strange elk]

I can do that on a separate prod server

[pseudo girder]

lol, nty, not my thing, my cats just fuckin weird.

lil dude just sits for constant attention in front of doors, etc, although ive fallen down the stairs and gotten injured twice cause of him lol.

i was so pissed, hes lucky i love cats.

clingy to the point the middle of your legs is where he walks

[gilded forge]

I love cats they're so goofy little silly creatures

[pseudo girder]

he learns never lol

[strange elk]

creature.

[pseudo girder]

got so mad at him, cause he kept tripping me trying to go to work the other day, i dont want to feel bad for getting angry., and when he was trying to play with my vr strings that attatch to your wrists he caught me in the balls and i had to smack him off XD AAAAAHHHH WTF

and this bud doesnt know how to retract. omg.... the agony XD

thanks for neutering me too bud

nearly

hes 19 and acts like a kitten still

im sure he will live a long life

[old yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/wilkins-coffee-some-people-just-never-learn-you-never-learn-gif-24928374

[pseudo girder]

or cats

give him the benefit, but when im trying to walk down the staircase and we both fall.... man im pissed

clingy cat, although hes a good buddy.

[wispy marsh]

Why does Valve's steam link app work better than Meta's oculus link app on the Quest 2?

[gilded forge]

imagine accidentally placing an order of 500 fortune cookies instead of 50

[tardy terrace]

You didn't.

[wispy marsh]

Tell me you're Girl Scouts without telling me you're Girl Scouts

[gilded forge]

I did 😔

[tardy terrace]

Share

[gilded forge]

so like my parents wanted some fortune cookies for a small Christmas party thing they're having. so I go to order and accidentally mistype an extra zero.

what the fuck am I gonna do with an extra 450 fortune cookies

[vapid smelt]

eat them

[long briar]

Chinese news year is coming

in like 2.5 months

[old yacht]

nah

[carmine stirrup]

We're so glad you approve

[old yacht]

Nah

im not staff

maybe

[carmine stirrup]

There's a bit yes

Trying to come up with a good joke, there

Now I'm trying to make sense of this question

[vapid smelt]

he has a business and family to take care of

[carmine stirrup]

One more than you

[frail shale]

Just enough for motor functions, nothing else

[old yacht]

I have 1

[frail shale]

You're a roblox dev lmao

[carmine stirrup]

Ahhh... Much better

[frail shale]

I am doing something, I'm just waiting for OSX 10.4 to install

PowerBook G4 (3,5)

Had to re-partition and re-install to make room to hopefully dual boot OpenBSD and OSX

[wary grotto]

feels good to be back here after 4 years

[frail shale]

It's a shame you don't own an Xserve

[wary grotto]

thank you sunnyflops for the warm welcome

nice

[frail shale]

Linux would have been a more stable option in the long run imo

I have Debian 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 systems running on old C2D laptops like nothing

[tardy terrace]

A small collective of users share at least a fraction of one.

[gleaming harbor]

missing like 27 percent i think

[last solstice]

I need access to moist criticals discord server if he has one

too much drama I need moist man to boil it down for me

[graceful burrow]

We can't post discord servers here unless it's a link to specifically this one

[polar fern]

Apparently the Rite Aid pharmacy chain here in the US has secretly been using facial recognition software in areas with higher population numbers of minorities for years.

WAN topic for sure

Secretly obtaining biometric information which then could be used to profile people - including by hostile foreign governments - not a good look.

[graceful burrow]

sounds borderline illegal

idk the specific laws around that though

should be illegal at least

[polar fern]

It’s … yeah pretty serious.

I know, privacy is dead, but secretly monitoring people?