Bahnd
@Bahnd@lemmy.world
- Comment on When someone asks what I like 1 day ago:
Its the secret to cooking for guests. Everyone is like “wow, your an amazing home-chef”, and im just hoping noone notices the entire diced onion and minced garlic I carelessly threw into the meal.
- Comment on Iceland and Greenland 6 days ago:
The vikings discovered Iceland and Greenland and named them accordingly. Pranked!
- Comment on Actual theft 1 week ago:
What decade is it?
- Comment on Actual theft 1 week ago:
Best buy has been on my “one-bad-black-friday bankrupsy” bet for years, yet they seemed to have survived the death of Sears, Radioshack, Circuit City, and Frys Electronics…
For me, as a customer, they are the shop of last resort. I will go literally anywhere else because they will likely have the thing, but no specific models. If you need an SSD, RAM (lol no in todays market) or a cable they will likely have it, but its going to be a smaller range than Microcenter, if time is no object, just order exactly what you need.
The thing I will give them credit for is keeping the home theatre market, I feel that only a fool will buy a TV without physically looking at it first (they turn the blue up, just an FYI).
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
Avoiding slopification seems to be the main priority, and you would have to have the AI be incorporated into a game it would have to do something that AI is already passable at, otherwise it wont pass that barrier and will get shunned like the rest of the slop.
For example, you could have an LLM act as a character or have a neural net incorporated into the game-ai like how tool assisted DOTA2 competitions work.
I see three main problems, first is that you would need the hardware to run it locally, which may be a hard sell to some people depending on what the game it is, only online expirenes should endebt themselves to AWS, if its single player, its going to lose a ton of sales there. Two, its really hard to convince audiences electrons have feelings, remember Final Fantasy (2001)? Thats what happened last time someone tried to personify a digital construct, and well… It went swimmingly (Microsofts Tay, does not count). Lastly, impact, would a narrative focused title have the same impact of an AI wrote the script? How would you feel after playing through a title like “Papers, please” and when the credits roll it says “script generated by CoPilot”? I feel like it would ring hollow, the feelings would be cheapened by it…
I would be interested to see how this plays out, but im content to support the titles and studios that do things the traditional way.
- Comment on Tis the Season To Get Trampled 3 weeks ago:
Im very thankful that it appears this chapter of consumerist history is over. Last entry on Black Friday Death Count was from 2021 and I was going past my big local mall and I saw tons of parking. In past years that place was a zoo, but today, slightly more crowded than normal, but nothing dangerous.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 3 weeks ago:
I did the green bean casarolle this year and also have been asked to double the roaster carrots next year. I dont even like roasted carrots, but sure, people seem to like em.
- Comment on Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here? 5 weeks ago:
A bit of internet history, account age was a measure of clout on Slashdot.org. Your account ID was posted as part of your replies, so the lower the number, the longer you have been on the site.
Mine personally is in the 1.3M range, and I still read the site and I still see users posting on accounts as low as 500k ID, those have been around since the late 90s.
The site is just a news agrigator at this point with a comment section full of boomers and greybeards (sys admins that probably should consider retiring), but its been my home page for ~20 years and I have no intention of changing that.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The thing is that with W10 going EOL, everyone is going to be forced to learn a new OS, regardless if they want to or not (W11has been out for years, if you havent jumped, there is likely a reason). Lemmy users being the socially concious crusaders that they are, are encouraging people to make a better choice than defaulting to Windows again (given all its very real issues of useability and data harcesting).
Not having access to preditory games due to self-imposed tech limitations isnt high on the list of reasons to choose linux, but its good shitpost material.
- Comment on Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason! 5 weeks ago:
Gross…
Hey Canonical, hows that linux phone OS coming along?
- Comment on Are platforms like reddit just "internet noise" and bots or just genuinely the darkest parts of humanity? 1 month ago:
Shhh, we do not speak of such places. We do not wish for people to know their names and seek such dark recesses.
- Comment on A good boy 1 month ago:
I dont see nuttin in no rule book that a dog cant fly and airplane.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Honestly, I was only interested in the hardware. Nokia made most of the phones that ran Windows phone and they made bricks.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 1 month ago:
Sigh… Your supposed to let it run for a second when you switch drinks. Noone wants to drink homeopathic Fanta, or I-Cant-Believe-Its-Not Coke with lime.
- Comment on necessary read 1 month ago:
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
- Comment on The shitiest of them all 2 months ago:
Is this a Mr. Poopybutthole reference?
- Comment on this is your meme 2 months ago:
I raise thee…
I had a friend involved in the hunt for this… Was a sight to behold and the look of disbelief when the devs called them on their obsession.
- Comment on When a humble bard Graced a ride along 2 months ago:
Yah… Another casualty of the Netflix.
You know you messed up when the biggest fanboy of the IP (who is built like a greek statue) wants to play the main character, and then walks away because they feel that the producers are no longer adapting the thing they were a fan of and are off writing their own fanfic.
- Comment on Harsh 2 months ago:
I understood that reference.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
I dont mind that, so long as the food is cheap.
My personal limit for that is ~20$, anything less than that and within reason, I wont question buying anyone food. Calories are important and im not going to judge people that quickly, have a pizza.
I prefer to have that meal repaid in the future with an IOU or another meal rather dealing with money, also the social connections are more important.
On the flip side, if I never see that person again. 20$ well spent.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your third idea for a group costume 2 months ago:
Emporer Kuzko is the best Disney princess.
- Comment on Never meant to cause you any sorrow 2 months ago:
Not going to lie, Ive been using this joke ever since 47 tried doing that. Wasn’t it nice back when the daily distractions for the epstine files were attempts to rename shit instead of actual impeachable actions.
- Comment on Hello there 2 months ago:
Ni!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Most people live in the northern hemisphere, winter in January is cold and miserable for a lot of the planet. What do you think people are supposed to do inside? Play checkers?
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 3 months ago:
Seconding steam deck, but also need to add in the docking station. That formfactor has stolen my heart, it does mobile gaming, along with having the horse power to be a PC substitute at home.
In addition to SteamOS, but ill let others promote linux and sticking it to microsoft now that linux desktops are finally crossing the “it just works” finish line.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 3 months ago:
You dont write the number of feet in a mile as 14A0 (base-16 for this example).
Your complaining about ratios used for unit conversion, not base numeral systems… Fuck, this feels like a slashdot comment.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 3 months ago:
The feet to mile conversion is still in base-10… Its the ratios between the units that are seemingly arbitrary. Come on…
- Comment on Where have you been? 3 months ago:
Im getting Chuck Tingle vibes…
- Comment on Meanwhile in America 4 months ago:
You make me sad…
- Comment on Meanwhile in America 4 months ago:
Index, its the Waffle House Index! And its very important to FEMA.