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doctortofu , 6 days ago

“Ozymandias Clock” would perhaps be a more fitting name…

doctortofu , 10 days ago

Out of curiosity, since I switched from Windows to Mint recently so I’m not married to it just yet - what would be your recommended distro for Windows users that uses a better/newer tech stack? Mint worked out of the box for me, but if love to try other distros too if they’re better.

doctortofu , 11 days ago

The wildest part is that he’s surprised that Mastodon peeps would react negatively to their posts being scrapped without consent or even notification and fed into an AI model. Like, are you for real dude? Have you spent more than 4 seconds on Mastodon and noticed their (our?) general attitude towards AI? Come the hell on…

doctortofu , 11 days ago

The anti-AI knee-jerk reactions can be extreme, I agree, but at the same time one of important features of Mastodon is that your feed is nor controlled by an algorithm in any way.

So when a company comes, takes those posts and screws with them to create an algorithm to show them, I understand people getting angry - at least some of them joined to be free of that exact thing…

doctortofu , 13 days ago

Yet another childish tantrum? Wow, is it another day ending with “y” already? How time flies…

Do it you pathetic spoiled manchild, stop flapping your gums and actually bloody do it.

doctortofu , 13 days ago

The Bethesda of old is long dead. After the disappointment that was Starfield, it will take multiple rave reviews and watching a few streamers playing on Twitch for me to even consider giving them any money. And I sure as hell will not be paying for goddamned mods, not now and not ever. Eff that and eff the greedy assholes that now run Bethesda.

doctortofu , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

Riiiight. And, pray tell Adobe, why in the everloving fuck woul you ever need to “review” private content that’s not posted anywhere? Stop acting like you’re the goddamned pre-crime agency from Minority Report and keep your dirty paws off stuff people are creating privately.

You are providing tools, and that’s it. I can do horrible, illegal shit with my drill, but it doesn’t give Black&Decker any right to break into my house to do random checks and see if I’m drilling through kneecaps instead of wooden planks…

doctortofu , 16 days ago

Eating out of stress or boredom instead of when I’m actually hungry. I am getting better, but still, sometimes work pisses me off so much it’s back to angrily stuffing whatever food I have on hand into my gaping maw…

doctortofu , 16 days ago

Classic late stage capitalism, where humans’ sole reason for existence is being advertised to. Soon we’ll start putting ads in incubators too, and invalidate this Onion article: theonion.com/17-days-in-incubator-longest-time-pr…

doctortofu , 19 days ago

How soon do you think we’ll start seeing articles about indentured servitude being great for you and the next hot thing in work trends? Some Linkedin lunatics are probably praising it already…

Next big work “trend.” A fucking trend. Give me a goddamned break…

doctortofu , 29 days ago

If teachers could brainwash kids to the point of changing their sexual orientation, wouldn’t all schoolchildren become well-read, polite and clean well before they turn trans or gay?

doctortofu , 1 month ago

Maybe not ALL technology, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we get “AI free” labels similar to the “GMO free” ones we have for food…

doctortofu , 1 month ago

To jail, for the rest of his life, yes. Not that I’m holding my breath for it though - the international community has demonstrated time and again that genocide is compmetely fine, as long as it’s happening far away and not to “our people”.

doctortofu , 1 month ago

Same! It was actually a pretty big surprise that Mint worked flawlessly out of the box on my crappy pre-built PC. Everything’s working great including the printer! I’m seriously impressed.

doctortofu , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Meanwhile, FIFA players: “when can I pre-order the next edition of my game, and could I just pay for the cards in advance, or do I have to wait until release?”

Sadly, bamboozling players, dark patterns and nickle-and-diming work, and work VERY well at that - if they didn’t, people would stop doing it a long time ago…

doctortofu , 2 months ago

A safety can opener that doesn’t create any sharp edges, like this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_mLxyIXpSY (a LONG video, but quite an interesting one IMHO).

It’s nor even funny how much this thing is better than any other opener I’ve ever used, it’s just so bloody amazing!

doctortofu , 2 months ago

Microsoft, probably: “StartAllBack? Nope, ya little twit, you will use our start menu AND YOU WILL LIKE IT! No installing any of that crap on your our computer!”

doctortofu , 2 months ago

Wanna try some super entertaining pills, or would you prefer a syringe so you can pump entertainment straight into your veins? First round is free, don’t you want to be entertained?

doctortofu , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Let’s put it on the pile of all other war crimes over there, and then just ignore it like all the other ones. Maybe mention them in passing once in a while, but without any real consequences…

The feeling of complete powerlessness when I read news like these makes me so sad. I don’t have any hope for that area anymore - I don’t think a realisticsolution even exists anymore :(

doctortofu , 3 months ago

From Generative AI to Greed AI in one simple step, no need to change the acronym either!

EA: you thought our games were garbage before? Hold our beer!

doctortofu , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

These people only have one book (that most of them haven’t even read start to finish) and it’s enough for them - anything else is probably blasphemy, satanism and (worst of all) woke…

It’s just so sad and scary that even tough we now have access to sum total of human knowledge at our fingertips, and yet people like these, who would drag us all back to middle ages, still exist, and if anything become stronger and stronger…

doctortofu , 3 months ago

How about we try it with wages too, Wendy’s? It’s a busy time and you REALLY need me to finish a project? Well, my pay just surged, so pay up or come back later when I have nothing to do. How’s that for an “enhanced feature” you greedy fucking pricks?

doctortofu , 3 months ago

Let me tell you about my revolutionary way to prevent athlete’s foot! Also, did you know you can prevent testicular cancer with one simple snip step?

doctortofu , 3 months ago

EVERYTHING has risks. People have choked to death on food before - that’s not the reason to stop eating. There’s a risk the ceiling is going to fall down on your head at any moment, but then if you go outside, there’s a risk you might get hit by lightning or a bolt that fell off a Boeing flying above…

That’s not a dig at you by the way - it’s at people who argue in bad faith asking for 100% guarantees of safety, be it for vaccines or anything else. It is not possible, and people need to comprehend it - in this case the risk is on the level of being hit by lighting, so unless you’re afraid of going outside, you shouldnt be afraid of the darn vaccine…

doctortofu , 4 months ago

Will it come with its own proprietary chat?

doctortofu , 4 months ago

Wow. Also, the obsession of morons with Punisher is just baffling. It’s not a very complicated story at all, and yet all these idiots just completely misunderstand it and proudly wear this mark because Frank Castle is cool and kills people…

Screw the star of david, having a Punisher skull symbol anywere on or close to your damn uniform should be a fireable offense.

doctortofu , 4 months ago

Sigh, and here I was, thinking Microsoft trying to shove its useless (to me) AI down my throat at every opportunity was annoying… Quo vadis Mozilla, what are you guys doing… :(

doctortofu , 4 months ago

Same - I was mildly curious to be honest, but not nearly enough to give them my phone number.

doctortofu , 4 months ago

Syncthing is great! This fork has some extra options and enhancements: github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

doctortofu , 4 months ago

Funny how god never tells them to do something they don’t actually want to do in the first place or that doesn’t benefit them, innit?

doctortofu , 4 months ago

Greedy rent-seeking garbage humans would make breathing a subscription if they could. And the sad and scary part is that for some reason there are people ready and willing to pay for the Premium Oxygen Subscription Plus with unlimited breaths per day and the Gold Blinking Packaage added for free for the first month ($99.95 after that)…

doctortofu , 5 months ago

Or, it should be exactly as difficult/complicated to cancel as to sign in. Want a 15-step cancellation process involving phones, faxes and a blood offering? Gotta require all that to sign up too!

doctortofu , 5 months ago

Samsung lost me as a customer when they removed the audio jack and SD card slot - I’m typing this on a S10+ that I’ve loved for years, but my next phone is going to be made by someone else, so they can shove the whole AI crap and yet another damn subscription so deep that it tickles their tonsils from the other side.

doctortofu , 5 months ago

Another revolution in battery tech? Man, is it Friday already? Look how time flies…

doctortofu , 5 months ago

This will definitely push all accounting, data entry and other such office workers to the heights of creativity and inventiveness - just what they need! /s

doctortofu , 5 months ago

Oh I emphatically agree - I have a fully remote job and not even doubling my salary would make me consider switching to an office one. I was just clumsily trying to point out that a lot of corporate positions don’t require all that creativity and collaboration bullshit that clueless executives love to throw around in videos like this one.

doctortofu , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

They have! github.com/FossifyX

Edit: the name of the repo changed, now it’s github.com/FossifyOrg

doctortofu , 7 months ago

Why do I have a feeling that “conspicuous and neutral” was added there only because pharma companies would otherwise misinterpret “clear” as “see-through”?

doctortofu , 7 months ago

The internet is turning to shit really fast and is less fun than ever, episode #43364318

doctortofu , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Great list! Is there a way to easily add SearXNG as a default search engine in Firefox for Android? That’s the only thing I’d like to make it even more convenient

EDIT: found it! Search url with current options is hidden at the bottom of the “cookies” section in the settings. Would be nice to have the suggestions API link too, but oh well, I’ll take what I can get :)

doctortofu , 7 months ago

What I did was first set all the options up and save them, and then go to “Cookies” in the search engine settings and copy the “Search URL of the currently saved preferences”. Then, open Firefox settings -> Search -> Manage alternative search engines -> Add search engine and paste the thing into the “Search string URL” field, type in the name and press save. After that I just set it as default, and it works.

Hope this helps!

doctortofu , 8 months ago

Even Apple’s damn screen polishing cloth is not cheap - why would anyone hope for Apple branded ANYTHING to ever be cheap?

doctortofu , 9 months ago

It’s insane, isn’t it? Why do so many companies act like employees are their indentured servants and not professionals who provide their services to them in exchange for money?

If anything, the boss should have said “Are you sure just 3 days are enough? How about you take the whole week off instead and come back fully refreshed?”. I do hope the court throws the book at them - time off should be a goddamned sacred right if every employee.

doctortofu , 9 months ago

This price hike is absurd - fortunately the only game I play online (Warframe) is implementing cross-save soon, so I’ll be able to move away from Playstation and stop renewing Plus - 80 dollars for online pay and cloud saves is robbery, how greedy can you get?!

doctortofu , 9 months ago

Yeah, but recently PS+ subscriptions only get a around 20% discount on Black Friday, and Sony is hiking the price up by now than 30, so it’s more than likely that the discounted price is still going to be higher than the full price now…

doctortofu , 9 months ago

Even better - I can just let it lapse then and still play using my preferred controller - thanks for letting me know!

doctortofu , 9 months ago

We cannot debate each other well because everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a Zoom call.

Translation: “I want to be a dick to people face to face, so they can’t just turn the camera off and flip a bird towards the screen”.

doctortofu , 10 months ago

Amen to that - plants are delicious on their own, no need to try (and fail) to make fake meet with them. Just like I don’t want/need my pork chops to taste kinda-sorta but not quite like tofu or beans, I don’t want/need my tofu or beans to taste kinda-sorta but not quite like pork chops…