potustheplant
@potustheplant@feddit.nl
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 17 hours ago:
Classic reddit comeback to feel superior. Clown.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 21 hours ago:
I don’t. I hate working in coffee shops, but I’ve been forced to do so several times for different reason. Maybe put your best foo forward next time and consider that the other person didn’t have a choice. Funny how you asked me if I was ok, but you’re the one scoffing at strangers for no good reason.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 22 hours ago:
I’m perfectly fine. It’s just kinda annoying when people assume that the guy taking a zoom call in a coffee shop does so becuse he chooses to. A lot of times the people doing that didn’t have a choice. And, after all, it’s just a person talking to another person. If they’re being loud, just tell them.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
A coworking space
A lot of them don’t have day/week passes.
A library with a meeting room/quiet study room
You’d be surprised by how many cities don’t have one of these.
At your home
What if I’m travelling?
At your company’s satellite branch if they have one
They don’t.
In the shade under a tree at a park away from people
Now wifi + might be unsafe depending on the city.
Thanks for nothing brub.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
So you’re just complaining about loud people, not people taking calls.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
You’re assuming (incorrectly) that people that do these things live there or that every country has libraries with those spaces. News flash, they don’t. If you’re travelling and working and your hotel/whatever has shitty internet or no desk, sometimes you just don’t have a choice. After all, it’s literally just a person talking. Is it really that annoying just because the person they’re talking to isn’t physically there? Maybe it’s you who is being annyoing for complaining about this.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Your first paragraph is like you talking to a mirror xD and the second one is flat out wrong. Most reviewers agree with me. This thing is way too outdated and expensive to make sense. It’s doa. I don’t care if you believe me or not, it will die anyway.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I boguht a steam deck. The difference, imo, is that the value proposition of the Deck was far better than that of the Machine. The latter is launching with outdated specs, doesn’t really offer something novel and costs way more than it should. Although, to be fair, the current price of the steam deck is also way too high right now. Specially considering how old it is.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
They’re not buying at the prices your local hardware store bought them at though, they’re buying at the future price of hardware when it actually gets built for them. It’s not price gouging.
That’s really not how pricing works, but ok.
The literal next sentence he says is “but blender put it near the 5600x”. You’re comparing it’s worst performing tasks to general performance.
It’s supposedly a pc, not just a console. There’s nothing unfair about the comparison
You are being melodramatic.
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
If you like to fanboy all over Valve so much then go ahead and buy it. Have fun. We’ve literally alredy seen how this plays out. Did you already forget about the og steam machine?
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
That’s not price gouging
They, a supplier that buys in bulk is charging a higher premium for storage than you’d pay if you bough the 512gb model and a 2tb ssd on your own. So yes, it kinda is price gouging.
I didn’t ask if you’ve seen SSD prices
You literally said “I don’t know if you’ve seen prices recently” and my complaint was about the device price, while also specifically mentioning the price premium for the 2TB model. So yeah, you kinda did ask.
no benchmark has it losing against a zen+ CPU that runs a GHz slower
My bad, it didn’t lose to a 2600, it matched it in decompression tests. Source, if you want to confirm it. The most it can do is get close to the 3600, which was released in 2019. If that’s not disappointing, I don’t know what is.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re looking in the mirror. I regularly go to what’s colloquially known as the “real world” and the vast majority of people don’t even know what a Steam Deck is, and that was a successful and cheaper product for Valve. This thing makes no sense. They kind of got dealt a bad hand due to timing but the machine itself is also kinda crap. 8gb of vram in 2026? Yikes.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
In that case just install Linux on your pc and buy more games. They’re not going to make much momey from Steam Machine sales.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
While it’s pretty close, the diy route leaves you with a device that can be completely upgraded and that also outperforms the steam machine. The performance sucks bad. In cpu tasks it even loses agains a ryzen 2600 in some cases.
The only reason “valve fans” will probably buy all of the units Valve makes is because they make fre of them, and they’re not available in every country. I have a steam deck, which is supposedly a huge success for valve, and literally everyone that sees it asks what it is.
These are niche products with an even more niche demographic.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
“Accounting for” ssd prices going up before they actually seems kinda like price gouging. Also, watch Gamer Nexus’ video. A comparable pc performs better than this. The steam machine cpu even loses against a ryzen 2600.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even have a pc price. It’s more expensive than diy (or even prebuilt in some cases) and the 2tb ssd is way more expensive that just buying the 512gb model and upgrading it. It also has a lot of proprietary hw. That’s pretty shitty imo. Who’s the target demographic for this?
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
/s?
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 4 weeks ago:
Also depends on the country you’re in. In my case “sick leave” doesn’t have a limit. If you’re sick you just don’t work.
Also, if you need to go to a bank appointment or something like that, most places will either not even ask you to “recover” those hours or (at worst) you’ll just work an extra hour a few days.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 2 months ago:
Except that they didn’t? I’m not stubborn, they’re just wrong.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 2 months ago:
Gottem
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 2 months ago:
That does not equate to having the same price for everything.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 2 months ago:
That’s completely besides the point. You said that they could have different prices due to having the same currency in the store. However, there are plenty of stores with the same currency and different prices.
Also, how much ARS is worth when compared to USD has absolutely nothing to do with why the store is in USD. It actually used to be in the local currency but, for a period of time a few years ago, there was quite a bit of inflation and prices had to be updated constantly. To avoid this, they switched it back to USD.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 2 months ago:
You’re comparing different states with different countries. So no, it’s not an accurate analogy.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 2 months ago:
Not really an analogy. OP is asking about different countries, not states. That thing about the euro being the same currency for all those countries doesn’t track either. Prices in the Argentinian store are in USD but it still has regional pricing.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' 2 months ago:
You can say “fuck”, it’s ok.
- Comment on America 2 months ago:
Same thing in Argentina. As usual, USA are the weird ones xD
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 2 months ago:
Kiwi Ears Astral
- Comment on Meirl 3 months ago:
Can’t believe no one mentioned Limmy yet.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 3 months ago:
They do but that’s regional pricing, meaning that basically if the median income of a country is lower, game prices are lower as well. According to the article, that you apparently did not read, Sony is showing different prices (up to 18% lower in some cases) to different users. I take that to mean that the geographical position of the users could be the same.
- Comment on The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less 6 months ago:
You’re talking as if this wasn’t a device that’s already available…
- Comment on The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less 6 months ago:
The legio go 2 was released in october. Hw comparison s with other options already exist. That’s not the point of this story.