Grombobulous

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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Maybe this is a naive statement, but it seems like full membership including open borders between Canada and other EU states and adoption of the Euro would also be beneficial to everyone involved. The UK should continue to be embarrassed an
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I fail to see how that matters to the end consumer specifically in the context of an email product. It’s still ultimately a service dealing with plain text data that’s moving between providers in ways you can’t control very well to begin wi
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Mail just isn’t something that’s built in a way that it can be a private service. I think most people should choose a provider based on price and features. Yes, it’s nice that if everyone you know uses proton then you can send end to end en
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Disagreeing politically is a perfectly valid reason to avoid a product, though the author will have a very hard time finding alternatives with CEOs that aren’t right-leaning. Not a lot of CEOs are on the side of labor. Sometimes you really
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
There are two themes in this article that end up both being flawed: - Proton’s not an honest/forthright company in terms of open source and for-profit status - Proton is flawed technically and isn’t really encrypting your data. Startin
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
This isn’t really the way they were using the analogy in the article. It’s more talking about how internet dating used to have a taboo that is gradually lost over time.
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Isn’t the whole point of police to protect property?
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I found that StarCraft 2 multiplayer wasn’t fun at all if you weren’t nearly giving yourself an anxiety attack trying to perfectly execute a laundry list of moves as fast as possible. I have never felt so stressed while gaming, even when we
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Finally Hugging Face is growing a pair. When this event happened I was confused why they didn’t file a police report and make OpenAI demonstrate in criminal court that they weren’t engaging in illegal corporate espionage and other rather fe
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I think Valve’s plan is that some of their engineers wanted to make the device. That was the plan. I also think they just couldn’t justify selling the valve index anymore because of the current state of technology, but didn’t want to discon
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I suspect the reason it wasn’t included by default was that pass through is not the intended experience. For a gaming focused device, pass through is not getting used very much. It’s only used for the kind of stuff the Vision Pro is trying
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Despite that experience that I’ve heard is lovely, it does compete with the $300 used iPad Air I bought years ago. The screen on a used iPad Air really doesn’t look half bad, it is far smaller and lighter in a bag, and it can play movies fo
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Valve’s DRM is just about the least invasive and easiest to crack DRM systems on the market. The only way to be less invasive is to not have DRM at all. Obviously that’s preferable, but Valve’s setup is one that keeps publishers on the plat
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I did the same thing (minus buying it). It was super fun but definitely not the same competitive experience. But it was really impressive how well it all worked.
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Halo Wars sold 16.7% of Halo 3’s first week sales according to Wikipedia. It was commercially successful but not in a mainstream mass audience kind of way. Yes, it proved that RTS can be done on a controller (arguably, StarCraft 64 kind of
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Blizzard being a generally terrible developer aside, I don’t think you’re right about this. RTS is not a very popular genre all things considered, and the ARTS/MOBA variants are dominated by DOTA and League of Legends. You also can’t p
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I totally agree with you, and that’s where platform regulation and privacy regulation has been failing parents. Most people really can’t fathom the amount of data that tech platforms are slurping up, and they can’t fathom the sophistication
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Yes, the platforms need to be regulated more for minors. But also, prohibition has never been a very effective method with teens. Just look at how college kids drink when they get to college. The sudden removal of parental restriction has a
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I’m not even sure how they would implement these features without them being interoperable. All the AI systems use pretty similar if not identical API standards.
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
You can download an app that does that. You don’t have to use Siri, and it can be turned off entirely, or decoupled from AI entirely, and the wake word can be disabled entirely. A lot of options are available. Make a Shortcut that will open
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I imagine that Google assistant only makes money for Google because they’re an advertising company. Alexa loses money for Amazon and it’s becoming more gated to Prime subscription features as a result. Amazon thought everyone would be buyin
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Apple should make their products edible as well.
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I sell all my previous devices on second hand markets like eBay. That question becomes "not my problem:" whoever else is buying it has some kind of use case even though I am done with the system and it no longer fits my use case a
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
I'm probably the millionth person to parrot this to you but my goodness you are a hero if you can tolerate the Intel Mac experience in 2026. I thought my Intel Mac from that era was incredibly weird. Little firmware-ish things were s
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Homebrew is incredibly useful for immutable Linux distributions. That said, after trying Bazzite I now prefer CachyOS and Arch as a whole. I can see the appeal of using Homebrew and Flatpak to keep OS updates a little more separate from app
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
Looks like you can purchase abliterated Kimi K3
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
IIRC the record labels made a deal with Spotify to own a percentage of the company in exchange for a lower royalty rate. This is a mathematically diabolical way to shut artists out of profits. Sure, the record label also takes a lower perce
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
If you lose on appeal perhaps your case wasn’t that strong to begin with. If I were the author if that article I would rest easy knowing that Google blew 5 figures on lawyers to recover $800 and enhance my journalism.
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
That’s a weird thing to say about “coup attempts.” Funny that we picked democracy for our government but we just left corporations as little feudal kingdoms. It seems like quite the oversight. In the world of AI I imagine that Automattic’s
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by Grombobulous 1mo ago
If you click the “docs” button on this page the definition of KVM and the purpose of the product explained immediately.

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