[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 months ago

"It has a gradient so you know it's AI." <- Uh, what does this mean?

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 50 points 5 months ago

I tried arguing against this, but it's no use. I tried pointing out how something can be branded illegal retroactively, like 20 years down the line, I tried the "give me your credit card info" approach, nothing took. 90% of the time the counter-argument is usually something to the effect of "big companies know everything about me anyway", which is just guessing on their part.

I'm just going to take care of my own privacy, because I'm clearly in the minority (present company excluded, of course). Almost everyone I know disregards online privacy completely, so I'm done trying to get a dialogue going with these people; it's every man for himself. The only way online privacy will become a hot topic among laymen is when something nasty happens and at that point, it will have been too late.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 58 points 5 months ago

Fellow IT guy here (welcome!). It's like everyone else said: have some proof that your boss was informed of the situation. As someone who worked for a few years in IT: avoid verbal agreements; you won't be able to prove they happened and they'll make it your fault. As an example, I refuse to do any work that might have long-term consequences if I don't have a ticket requesting as such or at the very least a mail in my mailbox. All agreements should be documented somewhere. Email is good, hard copies (paper) are even better.

Always, always, always document your requests. Bosses will not hesitate to throw you under the bus when something THEY fucked up goes wrong. Like southsamurai said: cover your ass, then follow orders. When shit inevitably hits the fan, you'll have something to point to.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 43 points 5 months ago

Sony be losing their marrbles if they think PC player's won't disarrm this requirement quite arrbitrarily. The adventures of snarrling Kratos and his charrge Atreiu in Asgarrd will be played on PC with or without this farrce.

Also, I must also apologize for my grammarr. I find arrticulating parrticularly harrd.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 59 points 6 months ago

I'm frankly astounded by the sheer ineptitude on display here. I don't know what's happening at Microsoft, but whatever it is, it's insanity. How tone deaf can you be? And this is only days after the gamepad fiasco.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 64 points 6 months ago

Oh wow, Razer was selling masks? Seriously? That's wild, I must've missed that completely. What's even wilder is that a bunch of people apparently decided that their best option for respiratory filters is, of all things, a gaming company. And one with a shaky QC history at that.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 38 points 8 months ago

No, you're not. But I like you anyway.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 64 points 8 months ago

I know, but just let me have my old man yells at cloud moment.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 year ago

Trollbait, it has to be. "no brand tie ins" is genuinely hilarious to me. I'm picturing a videogame reviewer going like: "The game is an artistic and a technical milestone. The gameplay is also the smoothest we've seen so far. Unfortunately, the game does not feature a Ronald McDonald skin or even a Slurpee coupon, so we have to give it a 7/10".

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

Man, I wish Bandcamp would catch a break already, I actually like (liked?) the platform. I like supporting artists I like and I like supporting platforms that sell DRM-free music. If Bandcamp goes away and no other DRM-free alternative comes up, it's back to piracy for me.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 year ago

Try to understand, not everyone likes windows. They require quite a bit of maintenance, are usually insecure and speaking personally, some setups just don't look good. It's why some people opt for skylights instead.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago

What are the R's and the I's under the picture?

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submitted 2 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

This is hilarious. Blizzard created Diablo Immortal with the express purpose of getting their foot into the Chinese market. Then some genius at Blizzard had the brilliant idea to make a post on Weibou (a social network in China) to make fun of Xi Jinping:

Picture of post

Welp, there goes that Tencent money. Couldn't have happened to a nicer company, too.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

For me, they're more trouble than they're worth. For wanting to support your favorite artists, I'm rewarded with unskippable trailers and FBI warnings, and if you want to play Blurays on PC, well... Just take a look at this. Keydb files? BD+ decryption? What happened to just putting the stupid disc in the machine and hitting play?

With pirated movies and shows, I just double-click on a file and away I go. Why would I ever want to go back to Blurays?

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submitted 3 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

There are so many options out there, it's kind of dizzying.

I'm looking for a cheap solution that I could hook up to a TV and ethernet, so it could run a flavor of Linux (or BSD) and play videos at 1080p. Bonus points if it can handle 1080p@60 FPS. Other than that, it would be used for light web browsing.

I was looking at Raspberry Pi 4, but is there anything else you would suggest?

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submitted 3 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm just screwing around with the OS, but I have to say, I'm a bit perplexed.

I wanted to install GIMP and LibreOffice, so I clicked on the AppCenter only to find out it couldn't find either of them. Which is bizzarre, because I can install both using apt just fine. As it turns out, the AppCenter only has 51 curated applications, completely ignoring the abundance of programs already available in the Ubuntu repositories, making the AppCenter a bit useless.

Then there's the desktop. I'm not entirely sure why I'm not allowed to have icons on it. macOS has desktop icons. As does Windows. Hell, almost every OS with a GUI does. Apparently, there's something called Elementary Tweaks which lets you enable them, but why would anyone have to jump through hoops to enable this basic functionality?

I guess I just don't understand who this OS is meant for.

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submitted 3 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'll be honest, this is as much a question as it is a vent.

Specifically, how do you deal with people you meet everyday like family, coworkers, etc. who just revel in conspiracy theories?

I have a coworker who is dead certain 5G somehow produces the coronavirus, despite easily verifiable facts in microbiology and physics showing otherwise. He's a nice guy in general with a degree in electronics, but dear lord, when he starts with this tin-foil hat bullshit it ruins my day.

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submitted 3 years ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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