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Uupis commented on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone idiallo.com/byte-size/can... · Posted by u/firefoxd

incrudible · 2 months ago

The problem with Linux is that there is no legitimate place to direct your rage at. It is free, nobody owes you anything and every installation is different. When Windows is awful, virtually everyone is being sympathetic. When Linux is awful, there is a genre of people that made using Linux an integral part of their identity, that will explain to you how your frustrations are really your own personal failures.

Uupis · 2 months ago

I'm slowly moving away from the Apple ecosystem, and this is what I rather like about Linux. I find it obviates the anger — there's no specific entity making decisions that make my user experience worse. If something's annoying me, it's quite likely to be my own fault.

Uupis commented on iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited macrumors.com/2025/12/12/... · Posted by u/akyuu

wilg · 2 months ago

You will not think about liquid glass after a day, especially if you turn on the new options. There's no need for everyone here to contort themselves into not installing these updates. The new features in all the OS upgrades are very much worth it.

You're not going to add text message spam filtering to your phone because they changed the border radius or blur or whatever?

Uupis · 2 months ago

On work devices I've been using iOS 26 since early betas and macOS 26 for a few weeks now, and I still think about the user experience degradation. On the bright side — it makes me appreciate iOS 18 and macOS 15 more.

At this point I'm not contorting myself into skipping an update; I'm looking at exiting the entire Apple ecosystem. I don't want Liquid Glass to be my computing experience for the next numerous years.

Uupis commented on German government comes out against Chat Control xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/... · Posted by u/SolonIslandus

varispeed · 4 months ago

The reaction is very weak, though. Chat Control is an act of terrorism and it should have triggered criminal investigation why this has gone this far.

Before you downvote:

If terrorism is defined as using violence or threats to intimidate a population for political or ideological ends, then “Chat Control” qualifies in substance. Violence doesn’t have to leave blood. Psychological and coercive violence is recognised in domestic law (see coercive control offences) and by the WHO. It causes measurable harm to bodies and minds.

The aim is intimidation. The whole purpose is to make people too scared to speak freely. That is intimidation of a population, by design.

It is ideological. The ideology is mass control - keeping people compliant by stripping them of private spaces to think, talk, and dissent.

The only reason it’s not “terrorism” on paper is because states write definitions that exempt themselves. But in plain terms, the act is indistinguishable in effect from terrorism: deliberate fear, coercion, and the destruction of free will.

You can argue legality if you like, but the substance matches the textbook definition.

These people should be arrested.

Uupis · 4 months ago

I'm inclined to agree. I do feel terrorized by the mere prospect of total surveillance, and I can't imagine that's not the end goal here.

Uupis commented on Chat Control Must Be Stopped privacyguides.org/article... · Posted by u/_p2zi

Geezus_42 · 5 months ago

Attackers only need to win once. Defenders have to win every round.

Uupis · 5 months ago

I think I like this phrasing. Thank you!

Uupis commented on iPhone Air apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte

hedgehog · 5 months ago

They didn't put the good cameras in the Minis so it wasn't really a good experiment. I don't want a cheaper phone, just a smaller one. The improved camera is the only reason I upgraded past the 1st gen SE.

Uupis · 5 months ago

They also made the displays have some weird scaling factor that caused an annoying bloom in dark mode. Took me a while to realize why it felt off, even though the form factor was right up my alley.

Uupis commented on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s ukrainetoday.org/us-ends-... · Posted by u/ctack

bamboozled · a year ago

It's getting the point where people are actively avoiding USA made goods as a protest. To tell you the truth, it's not as hard to do as avoiding Chinese made goods so I think America is going to lose out massively. Right now as it stands today, I feel a lot less guilty about buying Chinese than I have in the past. Not because China is "better" but because supporting the current regime feels just as not, if not more morally bankrupt.

Sure "tech" is hard to avoid but all the rest is still a massive loss for US companies and I suppose we'll see Europe and Asia working even hard to avoid American tech dependency now.

If political change is going to happen swiftly back to something more sane, it's going to be because of poor economic policy, and right now, that's looking like a given.

Uupis · a year ago

Yeah, I was surprised to find myself concluding that "tech" is, to me, quite literally the only hiccup.

Uupis commented on ChatGPT Search openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/thm

reddalo · a year ago

I agree with everything you said. Google is completely useless for searching; now I just use it as a glorified website URL finder.

YouTube search is also completely useless now.

Uupis · a year ago

It feels like YouTube search doesn't even deserve to be called search anymore. If I'm lucky, I get 1–3 not-totally-irrelevant videos, a row of shorts, then a couple tangential videos, then a bunch more shorts, then "Explore More" or "Previously Watched" or "People Also Watched"... and shorts. It's pretty disgusting all around, because it totally does not seem like there is any intent to surface actually relevant videos.

Uupis commented on Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now github.com/ggerganov/llam... · Posted by u/msoad

cubefox · 3 years ago

Even if using LLaMA turns out to be legal, I very much doubt it is ethical. The model got leaked while it was only intended for research purposes. Meta engineered and paid for the training of this model. It's theirs.

Uupis · 3 years ago

I feel like most-everything about these models gets really ethically-grey — at worst — very quickly.