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@ DFX4509B @lemmy.wtf

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So, this is the place where I'm going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I'm also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I'm making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I'll link the other socials I'm varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I'm demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

  • What is the worst sponsor segue you can imagine?

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  • I'm on the go all the time and don't necessarily have the time to prep my own food, you know who provides a good solution to this predicament? HelloFresh/Factor/Blue Apron/etc.

    • ..... Right in the middle of a travel vid.

    Less egregious is as someone else pointed out, LegalEagle shilling his own law firm or even Doug DeMuro shilling his own car auction site.

    Good news! This (insert car being reviewed here) is up for auction on Cars & Bids!

  • Warnings About Retrobright Damaging Plastics After 10 Year Test

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  • Retrobright will just accelerate that.

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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  • The fucked-up thing is these hulking beasts are a recent construct, we used to have genuinely small trucks here once.

    A stock S10 from the '80s, '90s, or early '00s is going to be significantly smaller than a stock Colorado you can pick up new off the lot right now, for example, and that S10 would've been more than good enough for things like basic junk runs to the scrapyard or for hardware store runs for things like bags of sand or whatever.

  • Criminal court ditches American software giant– Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?

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  • This would be a perfect sysadmin career pipeline if Dutch universities could move to FOSS tools and Linux; think about it - if the universities run on Linux, said universities could offer a sysadmin course and basically grow more sysadmins and open up a new line of work for people that may actually have some staying power.

    They'd both get job training and a degree that could be used outside the school at the same time.

  • Does it ever bother some of you that "I'm switching to Linux!" is just more of a way to appear rebellious than actually committing to the choice?

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  • I'm an old head, having daily-driven Linux since 2012, and so far it's been great. And the current pathetic state of Windows further reinforces my resolve to not go back to running that OS, or when or if I do end up running it, only doing so in a VM or on a secondary machine.

    Due to the downward spiral Windows is going on right now, it ain't touching baremetal on my main system, and that includes LTSC. I genuinely do not trust Windows outside of a VM or burner box.

  • What game or platform has the best character creation setting?

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  • TTRPGs in general do, to the degree where there's an entire scene of people making their own characters around that.

  • Why does it feel like there is currently less new games, songs, YouTube videos, valuable articles and creations in general?

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  • Because in the case of YT, Google incentivizes slop farms, or at least they used to, supposedly they're cracking down on slop farms now, but I don't believe for a second that it's for a good reason, instead why I think Google is allegedly cracking down on slop farms is to eliminate competition for their homegrown Veo 3 slop.

  • Bye, Copilot: Microsoft is making Copilot a hands-free experience on Windows

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  • If Copilot is permanently built into Windows with no way to remove it regardless of SKU, then bye Windows.

  • Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’

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  • RPis have been pulling off Linux on ARM pretty well in terms of software support for a while now, but they're also tinkering boards and not necessarily good for a daily driver.

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • I'm surprised they allow VMs, I would've assumed given shit like this is generally even worse than the worst gaming anticheats when it comes to invasiveness, that VMs would've been blocked too.

  • Microsoft has blocked Massgrave's KMS38 activation method for Windows

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  • Then I booted into Windows and in less than 10 minutes was fed up the whole OS. I realized I had to look up things just as often as I was on Linux, but in Linux it was because I didn’t know where it was, where as on Windows it was actively hidden from me and fighting me every step of the way. Windows is in no way easier, It’s just the struggle you’ve gotten so used to fighting with every single day that you’ve forgotten it exists.

    I'm not even going to sugarcoat it, Windows treats you like you're a freakin' idiot, and that applies to all SKUs, although the Home SKU is the absolute worst of the bunch about treating its users like they're too dumb for their own good.

    Linux, and also BSD too for that matter, at least actually respects its users' intelligence, because Windows sure as hell doesn't.

  • Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

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  • Oh, I did. Thankfully. I even predated smartphones becoming an actual problem in school, and I assume you did too.

  • Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’

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  • Can't say I'm surprised given how much Qualcomm has prioritized Windows over Linux support for years now.

  • Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

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  • If I were that ten-year-old, I still would rather actually draw, paint, or craft for real than to let an LLM do it for me. Hell, I still would rather create for real than let an LLM do it for me even now when I'm much older.

    No, but really, it's more fun especially for an actual kid, to play with things like crayons, paints, or any other sort of art or craft supplies, than to type in a prompt, let alone for older people.

    If you ever get the glitter out though, keep it in a tray or else you'll be cleaning it up for the rest of your life, lmao.

  • Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

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  • Corrected.

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • Not to mention for-profit schools, at least in the US.

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • For anticheat.

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • Not for kernel-level stuff, shit like this requires a baremetal Windows install generally.

  • Teaching open source to a child literally means taking them out of the aquarium like environment, and placing them in an ocean.

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  • Kid: I wanna do art

    You: here’s GIMP and Blender, have fun

    What else is needed?

    • They're not necessarily needed in this context but would probably be more enjoyable especially for an actual kid, but I'd give them paints and crayons, markers, etc. and some paper and let them have at it, and possibly even join in myself, as well.

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • Or, you know, paper.

    • That's what desk/workspace scanning in the most extreme cases is meant to detect. This is why I really don't like online schooling, because in the absolute worst case, your school will literally scan your place.

    You know what would be a really good way to show if your students learned your course material? Let them show it with a practical test of some kind...