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*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We are losing the class war.

I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago

Tech is a tool. It can be benefitting the oligarchs and restrictive, or benefitting society and open source.

This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They have been moving things to apps so they can substitute piecemeal the open source OS with their close sources: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/

That article is 12 years old. It has only gotten worse.

The U.S. just pledged hundreds of billions to protect its AI leadership. A Chinese startup with a ‘joke of a budget‘ may have already undercut those hopes in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Well taken care citizens are more productive (yet can revolt better) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

There's a solution for reducing population while increasing birthrates: war, pandemias and forced ~~inoculations~~ inseminations (physically or by peer pressure).

Edit: I'm not an antivaxxer, that's just idiotic. I'm talking antiabortion and religion.

Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

For racing, you have Fly Dangerous. It is also a successful FOSS game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1781750/Fly_Dangerous/

TIL Obama from ages 6 to 10 lived in Indonesia and can speak Indonesian. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Bahasa is incredibly simple. It has no articles, genders, time conjugations or adverbs. You just say "I eat yesterday cake" for example

AMD’s laptop OEMs decry poor support, chip supply, and communication — OEM complains the company has "left billions of US dollars lying around" due to poor execution: Reports in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Example: https://pcengines.ch/eol.htm

Failing Manufacturers Are Pushing the Narrative That Consoles Are Dying, Says Ex-Xbox Exec in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I upgraded my Steamdeck joysticks to a 3rd party with hall effect sensors, the ssd to one with double the capacity, and the fan to one that is silent. There's people that have upgraded even more things, to the point of using a pcie flat cable to connect a full pcie GPU card.

How can we return to techno-optimism? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Open source.

Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Didn't you leave Lemmy?

Why are so many leaders in tech evil? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He is now slowly trying to buy what rich people normally can't buy; acceptance and recognition. Don't fall for it. He keeps doing the same criminal things in parallel. The world would be better without him and people like him.