ZILtoid1991

ZILtoid1991 , 15 days ago to memes in Never forget what they took from us...

1. Just avoid AAA slop from big publishers, problem solved.
2. Quite ironic you’re using an AI generated image for it considering the same AAA publishers are considering using it. I really hope you don’t think “DEI” and “wokeness” are responsible for these AAA publishers pushing multiplayer-first games on us.

ZILtoid1991 , 15 days ago to aww in It's impossible that they could hurt me

We were “groomed” by plush toys…

ZILtoid1991 , 15 days ago to technology in All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration

They should add Mastodon integration instead.

ZILtoid1991 , 15 days ago to technology in All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration

Ironically yes.

ZILtoid1991 , 16 days ago to technology in AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips

Can its AI portion be used for something other than AI? If not then no big loss other than wasted silicon.

ZILtoid1991 , 17 days ago to memes in Elections

Elections are more like:

The wolf is in a shepherd dog’s skin, pointing at the black and rainbow sheeps while saying “they’re wolves in sheep skin, let me eat them!”.

ZILtoid1991 , 17 days ago to programmer_humor in std::underflow_error

Stockholm Syndrome + Sunk Cost Fallacy + some of the better languages have lackluster corporate backing and/or third party libraries

ZILtoid1991 , 17 days ago to technology in Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over OpenAI partnership

Elon Musk making his team to roll out XOS, a Linux distro with Grok integration…

ZILtoid1991 , 19 days ago to technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

Don’t forget the fact they’re locked onto luxury hardware, and you can’t build your own flavor for it. Even worse is, notebook manufacturers copied them so much there’s less variations among them. I was looking for some “subnotebook” as a potential portable PC, but I had like a few options (many of which would have included AliExpress junk), but there’s an endless supply of same-looking 14-16" ones, that are thin (“real” portability according to techbros), lightweight, “desktop replacements”, and run at a constant 95°C.

ZILtoid1991 , 21 days ago to technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

I think you also want to call me a tourist, mallcore, fashiongoth, fake metal Linux user, for not wanting to join the Arch cult…😉

ZILtoid1991 , 21 days ago to technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

Oh yeah, let’s get rid of a checks notes a common and basic feature of an OS, because it’s trendy with some programming languages to set everything to const, because people are not being taught what a debugger is and how to solve these issues with them…

ZILtoid1991 , 22 days ago to fediverse in Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

Someone should write an honest version of it.

ZILtoid1991 , 22 days ago to world in Putin says Trump conviction ‘burns’ idea of US as leading democracy

“Democracy is when your leaders can get away with anything, but their opposition gets jailed for nothing.” - antidemocratic dipshits

ZILtoid1991 , 22 days ago to memes in be honest

The whole “sugar is as addictive as drugs” thing comes from fitness gurus showing MRI scans of people under sugar rush and and coke, then concluded they’re thus the same exact things.

ZILtoid1991 , 22 days ago to technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

Some problems:

• Stability. For me, Linux on a VM (where I’m using it for development and getting myself familiarized with it) was a stability nightmare. Everything could go wrong after an update (I’m looking at you, Ubuntu 24.04), or even a restart, with no easy way to recover.
• Lack of an easy recovery. On Windows, you can recover your OS from a faultry update easily. If a bit more things have gone wrong, just use the installer, to resurrect your own installation. On Linux, you’re on your own, and while sometimes it’s an easy fix, other times you’re better off reinstalling your OS, leading you to have to restart a lot of other things, which leads to lost time that could have spent better with doing something productive. I’ve wasted hours on recovering data from a Ubuntu 24.04 installation which decided to no longer work in GUI mode, and it ultimately ruined my sleep schedule.
• A lot of settings are hidden deep within config files, which need manual editing, and even worse, googling, which on today’s internet, will likely lead you to an AI generated site filled with garbage. I managed to kill the Linux installation on my Raspberry Pi, which lead me to the previous point of having to reinstall, then having to google even more settings because Raspberry Pi OS had the great idea in the newer versions to “make setup easier”, thus tieing your location settings and your keyboard layout, so I had a Hungarian layout that I had to change, as it’s horrible to use for software development (a lot of commonly used characters are on the Alt Gr layer, and there’s only one Alt Gr key, the other Alt is a dedicated menu key - thanks IBM!).
• Production software and drivers. While Wine is fine for a lot of games, but try to use software with way more sophisticated copy protection schemes. They’re already a pain to use on Windows with the original keys and such, now imagine them on a Windows emulator. Good luck with trying to find VST plugins, which copy protection can be 100% removed!

I’m not a good UX designer, but my first two rules for anything GUI related are:

1. If it can be done by a single button press, it should be a single button press on the GUI.
2. If it can be an easy configuration, it should be an easy configuration on the GUI.

Linux, alongside with many other projects in the FOSS community, regularly fail both of these, in favor of scripts, which are fine, but have their own issues. Your average user’s average usecase does not involve “very repetitive tasks that are just perfect for some shell scripts”.