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Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.

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  • Leon@pawb.socialtoNintendo@lemmy.worldI just fixed my joycon drift today!
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    11 days ago

    I genuinely have no idea. I’ve read online that it could be because of

    • Skin oils
    • Lotion
    • Alcohol
    • Other detergent

    Skin oils seems ridiculous because I’m not oilier than your average person, and it’s literally meant to be used with your fingers so if it can’t handle skin oil from your fingers without breaking the fuck down that’s a massive design flaw.

    I basically just left it in its case for ~9 months or so, closed in the TV bench. There’s no way UV reached it and broke down the plastic.

    The fact that a ~€20 pack of 2 replacement switches are mechanically better, and also designed to have the caps be removable so you can replace them is criminal, given that the controllers themselves cost like €80 by default. I’m definitely not buying the Switch 2.





  • Leon@pawb.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy so much hate toward AI?
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    11 days ago

    It’s honestly ridiculous too. Imagine saying that your whole business model is shooting people, and if you’re not allowed to shoot people then it’ll crash. So when accused of killing people, you go “nu uh” and hide the weapons you did it with, and the legal system is okay with that.

    It’s all so stupid.



  • Through the years I’ve bounced between different engines. I gave Bing a decent go some years back, mostly because I was interested in gauging the performance and wanted to just pit something against Google. After that I’ve swapped between Qwant and Startpage a bunch. I’m a big fan of Startpage’s “Anonymous view” function.

    Since then I’ve landed on Kagi, which I’ve used for almost a year now. It’s the first search engine I’ve used that you can make work for you. I use the lens feature to focus on specific tasks, and de-prioritise pages that annoy me, sometimes outright omitting results from sites I find useless or unserious. For example when I’m doing web stuff and need to reference the MDN, I don’t really care for w3schools polluting my results.

    I’m a big fan of using my own agency and making my own decisions, and the recent trend in making LLMs think for us is something I find rather worrying, it allows for a much subtler manipulation than what Google does with its rankings and sponsor inserts.

    Perplexity openly talking about wanting to buy Chrome and harvesting basically all the private data is also terrifying, thus I wouldn’t touch that service with a stick. That said, I appreciate their candour, somehow being open about being evil is a lot more palatable to me than all these companies pretending to be good.









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