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utopiah

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  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • The lesson here is that your assumption about how the system works is wrong.

    That means can mean 1 important thing :

    • it was not explained clearly enough for you during your onboarding.

    Consequently I suggest you recall when you started using Lemmy, how you heard about it, how you then understood how it work and thus potentially update the documentation (or whatever you relied on then) accordingly so that others don't make the same mistake.

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • everything you do on here is fully public.

    Even DMs?

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • Steam isn’t open source either

    ...and? I wish Steam also was open source but I don't see how that's relevant here.

    We're discussing about a position for someone who probably likes, or at least understand, open source because that's the motivation for most people when they consider Linux. It's important to highlight what it is and what it is not, unfortunately.

    There are open source games too, just to give a random examples GCompris is quite amazing and it keeps on growing. Countless examples on https://itch.io/games/tag-open-source

    What is the point of this very community? Is it "just" to play (and if so, one can "just" launch Steam on desktop or their SteamDeck, BTW AFAIK Steam does not suggest DRMs, it's up to the game dev) or rather is it to play better, whatever that might mean? I personally do not believe promoting proprietary software (especially when working ones already exist) helps go further but you might disagree. Can you please explain then WHY more proprietary launchers and games is good?

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • No mention of open source though.

  • Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

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  • you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way

    Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds https://doombuds.com/ which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.

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    In 2011, Elon Musk was asked about chinese company BYD. He started laughing. In 2025, BYD sold more electric cars worldwide than Tesla

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  • Worst part is ... he's still right according to the stock. That's just madness.

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    In 2011, Elon Musk was asked about chinese company BYD. He started laughing. In 2025, BYD sold more electric cars worldwide than Tesla

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  • Yes, that should be done in order to pass national certification and thus before allowing importation. Having cameras is fine when used in a closed loop, streaming data away from the car though, that's different.

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  • You mean compared to 996? Actually yes probably. Compared to forced labor though, I wouldn't go that far.

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  • All tech is used as such. You think Apple and Microsoft and Android aren’t ...

    At least "All popular consumer tech ..." then, because there are alternatives already.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Sorry buddy but you are not "smart enough" to use that super powerful tool that supposedly can do everything extremely convenient for you! /s

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Right, except that unlike Explorer or IE after that, it siphons everything it can to send it back to Redmond so even if one does not use it, it is STILL a problem.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • "bend the productivity curve" is such a beautiful way to say that they are running out of ideas on how to sell that damn thing.

    It basically went from :

    • it's going to change EVERYTHING! Humanity as we know it is a thing of the past!

    ... to "bend the productivity curve". It's not how it "radically increase productivity" no it's a lot more subtle than that, to the point that it can actually bend that curve down. What a shit show.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • 75% of the people I know that buy those huge quad cab trucks actually need a minivan because all they use it for is shuttling their kids around but, of course, minivans aren’t “cool”.

    Yeah... honestly I would go much further. I'd say 90% of people do NOT need a truck and 90% do not need a car either. They might want one, and that's perfectly fine, but I bet if people were to actually check their GPS data for the last year we would see a very obvious pattern : 9-5 on the ring road from home to work, picking up kids, grocery, etc. Yes, there WILL be few trips to a warehouse, yes there will be a trip to the country side (but not off road) but that's NOT the normal traffic. That something that could, just for the pleasure of it, be a rental that is adapted to it. I think there is a huge gap between how people IMAGINE themselves driving versus their very boring daily life. They get a car or a truck for the person they want to be, not who they actually are.

    To be clear, to anybody who DOES actually need a truck and do use it as a truck, or somebody with a wheelchair and needs an SUV to haul, please, pretty please those cars are made for you! Do buy one! It's for all the posers out there though that it's NOT ok.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • Ah, pesky tiny ball bearings but honestly it's not so tricky, mostly patience. Also I did welding workshops so naively confident I could actually make a frame, not a good one though! I'm a bit too lazy for all that though so... now I just ride :D

    FWIW nobody should use a fixie rather than a freewheel unless they absolutely genuinely want to... because the first moment of inattention initially, being a bump on the road or just a turn they'll fall over the bike. After a few cold sweats though then it becomes automatic again, no thinking, just riding, and it's genuinely fun.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • I have a gearless (fixie) bike since last Summer, I don't even have a manual for it, not do I really need one.

    Before that I had a fancy e-bike which nobody but the manufacturer could fix. Even bike shops would warn "We can fix the mechanical parts but we don't touch the electronics, if it fails while we fix it, it's on you." and basically saying they would prefer not to fix it.

    Now my bike is so basic I don't care and I think it's even safer from potential robbers.

    So... in my own experience, less is more! It's less maintenance, it's less money, it's less temptation for others, and ironically enough in this specific case it's even healthier. I use it everyday, from Sunny spring to rain and snow, it just works.

    Simplifying is empowering.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • Tough segment. There are examples like https://kilow.com/pages/la-bagnole of a cheap, small car but it's basic utilitarian. It is NOT a status symbol. It's equivalent to a cargo bike or long tail bike : it's not sexy, it's small range, you can't bring lots of people or furniture, it's JUST to go from A to B, mostly in small city or on the country side (if the roads are safe enough).

    Meanwhile cars keep on being advertised, and thus mostly perceived, as something to travel with, to show of, to protect oneself and your family against the "others" as dangers on the road. Cars keep on getting bigger, higher and consequently heavier, polluting more (yes, even EVs, at least for pollution come from tires erosion on roads) and the acceptance window keeps on moving up.

    Until laws get in place, like in Paris, to make SUVs expensive due to their impact on ourselves and our environment, car companies will keep on pushing for whatever makes the most money.

  • Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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  • Right, sorry maybe I got a bit excited by my point. It wasn't about this HDD example in particular, it was about the broader consumer hardware trend.

  • Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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  • Another interesting metric is piracy trends, checking a popular show, e.g Fallout and its latest episode namely S02E05 :

    • 1080p ~15k seeds
    • 720p ~3k seeds
    • 480p ~0.2 seeds

    ... and 2160p gets 50 seeds!

    Of course that's just 1 datapoint and it'd have to be replicated (maybe it was released after the other versions, maybe it's a show people do NOT want in high res, etc) but it's quite a big gap.

  • ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'

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  • Who needs competition between friends? That's just for suckers. Those guys don't being in capitalism, just in extortion.