firebyte

joined 1 year ago
[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Trump's malignant narcissism won't let him be subordinate to someone else. So that idea is out.

[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Carr continued: "The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns."

Waiting for Fox News to be called out...

[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Bezos probably does give a shit about using WaPo as influence though, so whilst he might not be losing money, he's certainly losing influence (however small that may be).

And it's not necessarily influence over the election, but influence over Amazon's presentation in WaPo to its readers.

If 10% of WaPo's subscribers aren't reading WaPo anymore, as is the implication with cancelling their subscription, then Bezos loses that influence, however small, with those people.

[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't be. Dude's not mellow, chill, or cool.

[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Same here, still on Windows 10 though it's desperately trying to reinstall it's crapware removed from the image with NTLite.

Will be switching to some flavour of Linux at some point (we also use this PC for some Steam games), so I'll check SteamOS out!

[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I was skeptical at first though let me tell you, Kagi is so much better. I get exact search terms, which is immensely useful as a programmer, rather than providing results for what Google thinks I want to search for. It's also really, really nice not seeing ads as search results anymore, ad blocker or no ad blocker.

Is it as comprehensive as Google search? It meets about 95-96% of my needs. I still use Google very infrequently for some really obscure domain specific searches if Kagi doesn't find anything useful, though that's getting rarer and rarer.

It's also easy to block AI generated sites that pop up providing just enough likeness, but really are regurgitated AI trash, or are 'Wikipedia clones'.

I have no financial interest in Kagi, other than paying to use it. It has certainly been worth it for me.

[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Same here, and additionally NTLite.

Having the ability to build custom Windows installations, including 'in-place' editing, and the ability to update Windows without Microsoft silently reinstalling shit I don't want or need, with NTLite's 'Host Update' wizard, it has been well worth the 40€ for each version (no subscription too!)

I really don't want to sound like an ad, though NTLite has really made Windows a decent operating system again.

It certainly notable that Windows, once all of Microsoft's crud is stripped out, doesn't touch the CPU at idle, whereas a fresh install of Windows without customisation always consumed 2-3% of the CPU at idle.