Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)T

techt

@ techt @lemmy.world

4
415
3 yr. ago

  • Guess that's the end of my install for the night.

  • ...once

    I would be so worried about destroying the GPU I'd sooner remove the motherboard and reinstall them both as a single component. Idk if it's just me but I always have an ass of a time getting the GPU in and out of the PCI slot with some trepidatious combination of rocking, pulling/pushing what feels like way too hard, and destroying my fingers trying to operate that little slot lock piece. Skill issue?

  • Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

  • Well, the original comment was about Microsoft products, which includes the OS. I understand if you say you meant to only refer to the Office software as "core services", but "we" are talking about Microsoft products and I would argue their flagship OS is the corest of them all, and as you said it's garbo.

  • Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

  • I will never forget the bewilderment I felt the first time the File Explorer crashed -- and that hasn't been the only time. Forget Office, they can't even get the start menu to work properly. Call it feature rich if you like, but of any modern OS they are the furthest away from the core stuff working reliably in my experience.

  • Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything.

  • Cool, thanks! Idols of Ash looked very interesting but the short playtime gave me pause. Good call on the current sale, I'll take another gander

  • Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything.

  • Go on...

  • Russia’s factories survived two years of Ukrainian deep strikes. Not anymore.

  • I had to try a couple times, seems to be in-and-out

  • Russia’s factories survived two years of Ukrainian deep strikes. Not anymore.

  • Oregon joins multi-state fight against Trump’s new Medicaid work requirement rule

  • You're right, actually -- let's talk about that. In reality, a system like I described would never be acceptable. I was being hyperbolic to emphasize that the idea of fraud doesn't bother me in the slightest, but it must operate within the bounds of reality, of course.

    Based on your responses I can guess you are a person of reason and not a troll, so I want to appeal to you as a human being. I spent some time looking at the example you gave, the NDIS. They've been in the headlines recently for fraud-related arrests, so I imagine that caught your attention? If you read nothing else, please keep this in mind:

    Publications emphasizing welfare fraud, especially without number citations, are trying to undermine your confidence in that system and associate anyone using it with criminals.

    The NDIS supports roughly 750k people with a budget of $70b (Butler, the Health Minister, aims to reduce this to 600k and $50b by 2030). If you see numbers in headlines about "plot to defraud NDIS of $200m", remember that's not realized fraud, only what would be if they were not stopped. Some realized numbers from a recent press release from the NDIS:

     text
        
Since the Taskforce was established in November 2022: 
* Courts have ordered the return of $3.5 million illegally obtained by criminals
* $50 million worth of assets linked to NDIS fraud have been seized by the AFP and state-based partners, including properties, gold and silver bullion and luxury vehicles
* more than 170 search warrants have been executed supporting NDIA investigations
* more than 660 investigations have been launched across 120-plus operations
* over 400 investigations are connected to the NDIS
* 60 individuals have been referred to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) for criminal prosecution.

    These numbers are not nothing, but it is eclipsed by the total output of the program. Wherever you got the notion that fraud is rampant and it's never just a few, I implore you to reconsider that as a valid source of information because they probably just want you to hate the poor and disabled. And recognize, too -- the few people committing fraud are being caught! From what I can tell, the NDIS is a healthy, functioning system that gives over a half-million people a chance at dignity and comfort.

    I didn't post links to any news articles for time reasons, but please let me know if you find anything that you want to discuss further, I am open to it. I'm not directing any frustration at you, but this whole conversation is very evocative of the myth of the "welfare queen" that has been debunked over and over and over.

  • Oregon joins multi-state fight against Trump’s new Medicaid work requirement rule

  • I would abide a hundred people engaging in fraud if it gave just one family the chance to live a normal life. You're so focused on the few gaming the system that you've completely forgot the entire point of the program.

  • Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

  • These are wonderful suggestions, I wholeheartedly agree and would like to add something else: nothing! I genuinely recommend dedicating some time for de-stimulating your mind.

    If you're accustomed to the taste of sugary snacks and drinks, you become desensitized to how cloyingly sweet they are. Go without for a day, a week, a month and they start to become unpalatable.

    The same thing happens with mental stimulation in our world. It's empowering to be content to sit and observe your surroundings, even for just a minute or two at a time. It's like taking back control over your brain. Being bored is good for you!

  • Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

  • Uh oh, they're waking up...

    Remember to visit your local library!

  • Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

  • The American mind cannot comprehend the outside or the book

  • Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring gun ‌owners to get explicit consent before carrying a gun onto restaurants and stores

  • "Hmph! Had enough of my wit?" they smugly replied with crossed arms, staring directly into the lifeless, beady eyes of a strawman. But rather than straw, it was excrement. And rather than the shape of a man, it instead was a toddler. Baffled onlookers wrinkled their noses before finding another place to be.

    Unbothered by the foul odor or soiling on their hands and trousers, their chuckles echoed off the walls of an empty room. "These kids never learn," they smirked.

  • A24 Fans Mourn Its Death Following $75 Million Google AI Deal

  • Now you're getting it, that's it!

  • A24 Fans Mourn Its Death Following $75 Million Google AI Deal

  • The idea is less of that scrolling for something to watch, that's what screen time is

  • Valve Steam Machine Review - Gamers Nexus

  • GN is wonderful, you should reconsider.

  • I discovered a large-scale malware distribution on GitHub

  • I think it serves a purpose even without the following sentence which accentuates that purpose:

    I opened a thread on GitHub, and three people replied with the same AI slop that was of no use at all.

  • In 2015, George Lucas pulled a reverse gentrification in Marin County CA, building low-income housing as revenge for the rich residents blocking his movie studio project.

  • At least they're not all terrible:

    “Everybody probably felt that he did it just for spite,” Mr. Taylor said. “But after thinking about it for a while, I guess I’d have to say that probably the site’s better suited for affordable housing than it was for the project he was intending to put there.”

  • In 2015, George Lucas pulled a reverse gentrification in Marin County CA, building low-income housing as revenge for the rich residents blocking his movie studio project.

  • The staunchest opponents of Lucasfilm’s expansion are now being accused of driving away the filmmaker and opening the door to a low-income housing development. That has created an atmosphere that one opponent, who asked not to be identified, saying she feared for her safety, described as “sheer terror” and likened to “Syria.”

    No comment

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    techt @lemmy.world

    Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol?

  • SteamOS and related technologies @lemmy.world
    techt @lemmy.world

    How do BIOS updates work for non-Valve devices running SteamOS?

  • Tip Of My Tongue @lemmy.world
    techt @lemmy.world

    Interlude track from an R&B or hiphop album with gospel choir

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    techt @lemmy.world

    dogs or kids