TORFdot0

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to technology in Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare"

What kind of fantasy land do you live in that people replace their phone every two years and car every 3 years? You might as well lease a car if you are replacing it that fast.

This might be anecdotally true in your circle but if it was true for the market at large then every manufacturer wouldn’t be forecasting major downturns in smartphone sales and the used car market wouldn’t be so far upside down as there would be a glut of supply from people selling their used car every 3 years.

I think your points about privacy features, micro transactions, and headphone jacks are valid but I think it’s a stretch to apply that to cellphones and cars and say that companies are against right to repair because of consumer attitudes. My observation is that the companies (ie John Deere) that have opposed right to repair are about protecting revenue streams from part sales and franchising/licensing fees and decreasing support costs from having to service products with non-genuine parts.

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to news in Steve Harwell, Smash Mouth Founding Singer, Dead at 56

Smash mouth were not one-hit wonders. “Walking’ on the sun”, “Then the morning comes”, “I’m a believer” (ok that’s technically also a Shrek song), and “Can’t get enough of you baby” were also Top 40 hits.

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to technology in Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches

Seriously, considering there is no dedicated server browser and even lobbies are not consistent. What on earth does random voice chat add to the experience? I just hit the mute button on my console as soon as I boot the game

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to asklemmy in Why are you on lemmy right now?

Everyone here has already reached that conclusion or they’d be on corporate social media. You must be doing a bang up job! Thank you for your service

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to asklemmy in Why are you on lemmy right now?

Same reason I was on Reddit at work before. I’m taking a dump and need something to do. And now my bowel movements are free of corporate interests

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to fediverse in Is Mastodon’s strictly chronological news feed based on a wrong assumption?

Technically sort by top and some by new are algorithms. But that’s not what people talk about when they say algorithm with regards to social media it’s secret sauce engagement based algorithms used to show content.

The active and rising sort options are fairly simple and open source so we know exactly how it works

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to selfhosted in PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing

Thank you! That’s a clear and concise explanation of section 230. I’ve always heard it in reference to big social media companies but your link clearly shows the protections extend to individuals and users as well

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to selfhosted in PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing

Are individuals granted the same 230 protections as organizations when it comes to self-hosting an instance? I doubt people are forming non-profits for their self hosting endeavors

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to technology in Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone

I agree to some extent and think that defederation of instances that promote harmful viewpoints such as explodingheads and their users. For others I’d rather promote good behavior rather than engaging with them with a hostile attitude and let attitudes change organically. OP doesn’t exactly fit the bill of a proud boy but has one bad take. If someone wants to block him I understand but I’d rather change his mind

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to selfhosted in It's Hard to Stay Motivated

That’s part of the cost benefit equation for self hosted vs cloud hosted.

I got tired of dealing with maintenance on my VPS and on my on-prem hardware and so now I pretty much just do SaaS or run front ends that connect to public cloud backends

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to technology in Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone

You seem like a pretty solid poster except for this one pretty bad take. Don’t let dramatic internet discourse and a few attention grabbing media personalities or allies shape your viewpoint for an entire group.

I know you probably already know this but I don’t want good posters leaving Lemmy because of silly disagreements or pet peeves. There are annoying people pushing toxic discourse on any issue. Generally people will live and let live if you don’t personally attack them. Someone specifying their pronouns isn’t attention seeking behavior (usually) it’s just a courtesy. Your comment is just begging for the kind of responses that will require you to give people the kind of attention you claim to hate giving them.

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to games in Lara Croft will be joining Call of Duty as an Operator in September

I don’t have the same time to devote to gaming as I did during my “golden years” so I mostly just follow the big releases that get the most media coverage. That is definitely a me problem. I’m mostly just venting. I just now finally beat red dead redemption 2 so I have plenty of backlog to catch up on.

It’s as much nostalgia pining for what Call of Duty was around the time of vCod and MoH:AA when it used to beat genre defining instead of just another money pit.

The other part is my disgust as a parent of how predatory monetization is in popular kids games these days. Putt Putt didn’t have any season passes or mtx dammit

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to games in Lara Croft will be joining Call of Duty as an Operator in September

You are incredibly right. Call of Duty is a bad example to point to the gaming industry as a whole. I’m just am frustrated because it used to be good.

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to games in Lara Croft will be joining Call of Duty as an Operator in September

Call of Duty is a absolute joke. I don’t know why people waste money on this trash.

Kids grew up playing Roblox and now they’ve ruined gaming as a whole because they buy every stupid little thing with mommy’s credit card because they got used to spending robux on everything

Sorry this is an angry and over generalized comment but I’m just disappointed that we get like one good game a year. This year was BG3, last year was elden ring, year before God of War.

I will take the PS3/360 era of gaming where we were still in the modern era but every game didn’t try to nickel and dime you to death. Even the PS2 era that I grew up with was better than this.

TORFdot0 , 10 months ago to programmerhumor in All other licenses are cuck licenses

The meme is gigachad not 9000 IQ so your objection is overruled