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AlexWIWA ,

I have yet to see that happen. If anything they’ll just raise their prices because they no longer have any competitors.

AlexWIWA , (edited )

This is honestly ridiculous. The security concerns are unwarranted. Any surveillance that these drones could accomplish if hacked can just be bought off of any GIS website.

“But military bases” go fly a drone by one and see what happens. This already isn’t a surveillance concern.

This is going to set the hobbyist and professional drone market back a decade.

AlexWIWA ,

Good point. Unfortunate that US consumers keep getting screwed by these bans

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I can assure you that we won’t. There has not been a time in the history of this country that lower competition has resulted in improved products or prices.

There is zero US based competition in the hobbyist and consumer spaces unless you DIY. US companies mostly do products for emergency services, large commerical operations like spraying pesticides, or military. There are a handful of brands making smaller drones, but they’re all a decade behind DJI in features and quality control, or they cost $20,000.

I’d be fine with a ban if there was a legitimate security concern, but there isn’t, this is just part of the trade war and it only stands to harm US consumers and small businesses. The entire aerial photography industry is going to collapse and one’s only option will be large companies with hex rotor drones and Red cameras.

AlexWIWA ,

Oh if you’re thinking diy then yeah this won’t affect DIY at all. DIYs are all Frankensteins anyway

AlexWIWA ,

I have pulled mine apart too. I have an old one from before the tracking law and I didn’t find anything nefarious. The one I have from after the tracking law went into effect is transmitting its location and ID but I didn’t find much else even on a network intercept.

Maybe there is some way to open a stream to China buried deep in the firmware, but I don’t see what use China would have for that. They have other methods of surveillance

AlexWIWA ,

Red Alert 2 remaster

AlexWIWA ,

I’m too much of a boomer sadly. I want a 1 to 1 remake

AlexWIWA ,

I played it today and it doesn’t bother me that much. That said, right click move would be better. I want that, decouple game speed and frame rate, and decouple zoom from resolution. The rest I’m fine with

AlexWIWA ,

That is a fear of mine lol. They did a good job with the first remaster but who knows if they’d keep it up

AlexWIWA ,

You torture me, friend 😅

AlexWIWA ,

40000 rpm wenkel engine with a muffler.

AlexWIWA ,

They should just release a new game with the graphical fidelity of Fallout 4, but with better performance and animations. They could probably cut their dev budget in half if they made a game with Skyrim’s scope and FO4’s graphics.

No one plays Bethesda games for their graphical fidelity so they really need to stop wasting time there.

AlexWIWA ,

Skyrim is almost three times as old now. I’m going to be honest, I’d rather just have another Skyrim expansion than a modern Bethesda game.

AlexWIWA ,

I’d be willing the buy another expansion for Skyrim. I want to return to Skyrim so badly but I’ve done literally everything that game has to offer

AlexWIWA ,

This looks awesome

AlexWIWA ,

Motion sickness. I can use vr for simulators though

AlexWIWA ,

Their statement started off with “I don’t think” which generally means it’s an opinion that may or may not have evidence. As long as they don’t present it as truth and fact, it doesn’t really need a citation.

AlexWIWA ,

Then you should simply call that person a dumb ass and move on in that scenario. And their statement was loaded with qualifiers that indicates to the audience to not take their claim seriously. This isn’t debate club or a Congressional hearing. It’s a niche internet forum.

AlexWIWA ,

I’m so excited for a good ARM machine for Linux. The battery life will be insane

AlexWIWA ,

Every person I’ve talked to IRL about Windows misses Windows 7. We didn’t realize how good we had it. Oh well, I’ll just switch to Linux

AlexWIWA ,

My company basically said they’re only going to update if they absolutely have to. IT and management are aligned for the first time in my entire career. There’s been talks of switching entirely to Linux and Mac. Microsoft really fucked up.

AlexWIWA ,

I still like it but I never really got into workspaces or anything like that. The only thing I miss when I’m on my 7 machine is dark mode.

AlexWIWA ,

Frutiger Aero was when design peaked

AlexWIWA ,

Damn this is depressing.

AlexWIWA ,

Meanwhile every update makes the app worse

AlexWIWA ,

What happened with WD? I’ve never had a drive from them go bad but I’d like to switch if that’s going to change

AlexWIWA ,

I’ll sadly be on Mac for work until there’s a Linux build that can compete with the M1 performance, thermals, and battery life. I can’t believe I lived so long with laptops that couldn’t be used on my lap.

AlexWIWA ,

I’ve tried it and it’s not ready for my daily workload. I’ll probably be able to switch in a year thankfully. I am sick of Mac os

AlexWIWA ,

Do Sobe next

AlexWIWA ,

Okay, brain organoid

How easy is it to switch back to windows?

I’m considering switching to linux but I’m not a computer savvy person, so I wanted to have the option to switch back to windows if unforeseen complications (I only have 1 pc). Is it just a download on usb and install? And what ways can I get the product key or “cleaner” debloated versions.

AlexWIWA ,

You can install Linux on a flash drive to test it out. Or spend $50 on a SSD and just have both

AlexWIWA ,

Maybe now software engineers will unionize.

AlexWIWA ,

Agreed. Always better to unload the gun rather than try to stop it with armor

AlexWIWA ,

The modern tech industry needs the old Linus to pay it a visit. Too many grifts

AlexWIWA ,

Old Linus with Woz and Schwartz is a dream.

I understand why Linus wanted to clean up his act with people he works with. That is a good and admirable thing to do. I wish he would have kept his smoke for companies though.

New “Recall” feature in Windows 11 is a privacy nightmare (www.theverge.com)

The new “Recall” feature really does look good on paper, but the taking in mind that it catalogues almost everything you do on your computer, it could turn out to be a privacy nightmare. “logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and...

AlexWIWA ,

The sad part is that this tool would be very useful if it wasn’t being made and operated by ghouls. If it was fully self hosted and encrypted then this would be amazing.

AlexWIWA ,

LLMs have been training on Reddit posts since at least 2012. Nothing really new here.

AlexWIWA ,

Lemmy is even easier to scrape. Just set up your own instance, then read the database after activity pub pushes everything to you.

AlexWIWA ,

Not even a year ago. Reddit has been used for training data for well over a decade. We used it in 2012 in an AI class.

AlexWIWA ,

My apologies. I missed it

AlexWIWA ,

Good game. It’s very unfinished, but I got my money’s worth from what is finished. Can’t wait to see how it turns out.

The developer was smart and did a vertical slice, and completely blocked off the unfinished parts. Where as other devs do horizontal slices which means every part of the game is buggy and reputation ruining.

Good game, good dev, good development story. Would buy again.

who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)

I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn’t see anything relating to it and I’m kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see. ive been paying attention to interactions but nothing is as good as just asking everyone.

AlexWIWA ,

People that miss forums

AlexWIWA ,

Also being underwater would make it very hard to develop technology.

Can you live without YouTube ?

Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?

AlexWIWA ,

YouTube is my streaming app. They have me by the throat. I could give up every other video app before I gave up YouTube. I wish it weren’t true, but it is. YouTube just has the best content.

AlexWIWA ,

Trepang2 if you like FPS with quick gameplay.

The soundtrack is incredible too

AlexWIWA ,

I think YouTube wouldn’t care as long as they got paid

AlexWIWA ,

Red Alert 2 again

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