heavyboots

joined 2 years ago
[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Just log onto mastodon.social and be done with it. That's the one that will still be running until the they turn out the lights on the service, I figure. And then go kick in a buck or two a month on Patreon to help defray development and server costs. (Not being the product is worth a donation by itself, I figure.)

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

I have literally never downloaded pirated software since OS 9 went away and OS X became a thing. Open up your task manager and look at how many processes there are (Window, Mac or Linux) and ask yourself if you're going to notice the one extra process that is out of place.

As for files with extra extensions, this is why you should always set Explorer/Finder/whatever to show all file extensions the very first thing, regardless of what OS you're running too.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Interesting. Luckily I only needed it to power my docking station so I can plug in power, ethernet, USB and monitor with one plug so not an issue for me luckily.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yeah, the whole experience of going from lightning cables and mini display port and such has been less than overwhelming. I eventually had to buy a USB C from the Apple Store to get one that actually did 100W power instead of just lying about it on the box.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago
[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I wonder if you can run it off any USB C PD that will do 100w+ without buying the battery pack. I know my MBP USB C power supply does at least 100, if not more on MagSafe.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Cool trailer and all, but they seem to have copied the interiors, the exteriors and even the back story directly from Dredd? o_O

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you’re into Insta, be sure and check out PixelFed.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, but that's unavoidable. Whereas, Tesla and Waymo, etc getting to use our roads for self-driving testing is just our government not doing their job to protect the roads adequately, IMHO. This is veering way off topic, but I just recently watched a video that had stats on Teslas and the fact they're like 8.2x more likely to be in a crash than a standard level 2 car driving system.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, a search engine companion is probably its least offensive case, you're correct. Mostly, it makes me so mad because they are polluting our entire collected knowledge base, because there is no way to watermark anything as AI-generated (especially when it's text, not images) which means that every search you make from here on out returns worse results. It's like being forced to share the road with self-driving Teslas because the self-driving car companies (especially Tesla) have made us all involuntarily part of their beta test.

The "screw everyone else trying to use the same public resource" mentality is out of control.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would fucking rather pay not to have AI in my browser, FFS…

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