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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • That is legitimately a problem.

    For some reason, YouTube’s algorithm heavily favors extremist content if you show even a casual interest in related material.

    It’s probably as simple as “shocking content gets more clicks”, but still, it’s not good for our society to have entertainment platforms recommending extremist views.

    In the old days, you’d have to seek out this kind of fringe content on your own. And you’d get pushback from your community if you started talking nonsense.

    Nowadays, my aunt is getting blasted with reptilian democrat stuff after showing an interest in typical conservative lady content years ago. And there is not much of a community left to help her out. The algorithms just amplify all the worst shit.







  • I converted one of these Chromebooks to Linux as a test project and the results were, not good.

    To start, they have a bootloader lock screw under the motherboard, so you have to take the entire laptop apart to load anything but unsupported ChromeOS.

    Then you have to use a Google tool, can’t remember the specific one, to swap the bootloader. That might be possible to automate but I didn’t look into it because…

    … The hardware sucks. We’re talking like 4GB of storage on a lot of these Chromebooks. The driver support is all over the place, and there are issues everywhere even on “supported” distros.

    With the vast amount of junk Chromebooks out there, I’m sure community hospice support will get better, but it’s never going to be an easy bulk conversion because of how common the bootloader locks are.












  • I buy steam games, even ones I’ve already pirated, for a few reasons.

    • Quick and easy downloads

    • Seamless updates

    • Almost all my other purchased games in one place.

    • Cloud saves

    • Durability, just knowing my games will be available to download on my next PC for the foreseeable future.

    And I pirate just about everything I watch mainly because I’m not willing to play musical subscriptions to watch the shows I want to see at the end of a long day.

    If the film industry had a service that offered a similar experience to a Plex share, I’d pay quite a bit for it. But instead they have this system designed to extract maximum value from every viewer, and I’m tired of it.

    Gabe Newell was right on the money when he said piracy is a service issue, not a price issue.