jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 5 days ago:
It was the best selling console in the US this holiday season, but not sure how it’s sales compared to previous years. It also was on a big discount which definitely helped.
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 1 week ago:
They need a majority in house and senate to impeach and convict. Conviction is how Trump is removed, impeachment just means he did enough to investigate any wrongdoing.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I figured that hadn’t changed, but was too lazy to actually look up the source, thanks for adding it.
However, with box64 you can emulate x86_64 on arm, however I think macs don’t have the gpu integration. Crazy thing is on some phones with snapdragon chips you can emulate games up to cyberpunk 2077 decently well.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 week ago:
I don’t think bazzite runs on ARM macs.
- Comment on 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development 1 week ago:
To be honest I think BOTW has had a negative effect on Nintendos approach to game design. While BOTW had its highlights, TOTK doubling down on a very large empty world without real dungeons got boring fast.
- Comment on I ditched Netflix Premium for 4K Blu-ray, and I might never go back 2 weeks ago:
You can get an hdmi switcher for pretty cheap. They usually use a remote, but some can also autosense active ports and switch automatically.
- Comment on Ska ftw 2 weeks ago:
D&D: world is broken let’s adventure
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
I mean if you back to the Greeks and Roman’s, they also had some big payouts for sporting events.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, people always seem to forget that it’s about what you can purchase, not the $ amount. Similar to living in a city vs a rural area, the cost of food/housing varies widely even in the same country.
- Comment on My review on the AYN Odin 3 1 month ago:
Just a note, I’m pretty sure Arm is only “efficient” in low power modes. I’m not sure there is much (if any) energy saving when running heavy loads.
For example, running heavy ML workloads on a Apple Silicon still burns through battery.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 month ago:
It’s 2D, but the fire mechanic is pretty fun - Wildfire
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 month ago:
Lies of P did a great job of color coding things (and generally being more leinent/realistic with timing). It can still be a hard game, but the most approachable parrying based game of that ilk.
- Comment on One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4 1 month ago:
It’s definitely more interesting than 4. It’s been a while since I played either, but remember thinking 5 felt like a better game all around.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 month ago:
Sorry to disappoint, but Velma is Indian in the reboot, as Mindy Kaling is Indian.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption Coming to Netflix, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m surprised the original commentor is getting downvoted. This console generation has been terrible, PC is doing better, but really only due to smaller indie games.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption Coming to Netflix, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 1 month ago:
I think you get access to mobile games through your Netflix subscription. I know they released some games that were only playable on android through them.
- Comment on 'The PS5 is only in the middle of [it's lifespan],' says Sony CFO 2 months ago:
Based on this we’d expect the PS6 by 2027, meaning there is only one year left for the Ps5 as “current Gen”.
Sure the “lifespan” of the console will be longer, but most people think of it in terms of the console being the current generation of consoles.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
I absolutely agree with you, I got to a point where I had solved the “main” puzzle, but was struggling to complete other puzzles (that I knew the solution to) simply due to room draws.
I wanted to love the game, but it held itself back on the RNG design. It can be so detrimental to the game that I wouldn’t recommend it to most people.
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 2 months ago:
Isn’t this basically what turned into the “Manosphere” with people like Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, and Charlie Kirk.
Basically moving away from explicitly “dating” to general “manliness/Alpha” stuff, but still preying on typical male insecurities.
- Comment on "The King" (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 2 months ago:
It’s 20% off right now on Steam. I’ve been eyeing it but during the fall sale I decided to go with Lords of the Fallen over this.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 2 months ago:
Long Story Short - it’s not all rainbows and butterflies, but a realistic family working to get by.
Modern Family - Antics of an extended family. Since it’s a comedy it’s usually pretty wholesome and each family unit brings something different to the table.
While there are definitely more out there, I figured these would be good suggestions as they really focus on family dynamics.
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 2 months ago:
I don’t know, it feels like the US is at least heading towards a tipping point.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 2 months ago:
I have the Boox Palma I think. It’s basically just a phone with an e-ink display. Since it runs android, it means that I can use it with my self hosted services like “AudioBookshelf”.
The device itself is nothing special in my opinion. Maybe the screen is better than my old kindle (hard to say). Only real reason I got it was form factor and android OS so I could customize it.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 2 months ago:
I believe it’s the same thing I noted in another comment - lemmy.world/comment/19924290
Basically session key vs rotating session key, but to be honest I only skimmed your link as it got dense fast.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 2 months ago:
I think the biggest thing here is that beyond just a session key (to make sessions secure from each other), this approach uses a rotating session key. That means each transaction in a sesssion is unique ensuring forward and backward secrecy.
I may have read it wrong plus cybersecurity is not my forte.
- Comment on need games recommendation 3 months ago:
It’s possible you like the risk-reward elements of rougelites? If so (and with some gambling themes) you may like these:
Note: Like Balatro both these games have android/ios versions.
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 3 months ago:
To add to this, some spending is done in chunks for the year or doled out every month.
Some money may be given back to the government if it isn’t spent.
Some money is purposefully cryptic in its spending for national security reasons.
There are a lot of things that make it difficult to accurately track things against the entire government, which is why auditing individual departments/agencies is how it’s usually done. However, even then it should be better than it is.
- Comment on this level is amazing 3 months ago:
I liked Arkham City, it felt more like the game they initially wanted to make. Batmans movement is a bit smoother, you get some fun gliding elements, and it opens up the map so there is a bit more of an exploration/investigation element.
I think Arkham Knight might have gone too large, and I feel like the batmobile sections felt too tank like.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 3 months ago:
Based on what you wrote, it seems like you need to take a step back and look at the whole picture. Why are you at school and what do you want to study.
Goin to school can help you position yourself for a career, but is usually primarily about becoming educated (and isn’t for everyone).
If you’re primarily concerned about a career, then focus you’re studies on something you feel capable in. Physics requires a lot of mathematics (and nowadays usually some programming). Programming coursework may have mathematics, but usually relies more on logic than math. Writing is a great way to work on communication skills and analysis, but will have a less direct career path after school (becoming a professional writer is no guarantee).
On top of all of that, most people won’t even end up working in their field of study.
At the end of the day, no one really knows where the economy is going long term. That means there isn’t a surefire path to success, and why I recommend you think harder about what you feel good about pursuing.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 3 months ago:
I’m not saying the graph is the best graph ever, I’m saying it’s far from the worst I’ve seen.
Its also clearly not a line of best fit, as it isn’t trying to “fit” the data. It’s a trend line that’s a vertically offset line from lowest to highest. It’s a stupid line, but being used to convey how much growth their has been.
The only real issue with this graph is the information/context being ommited. We know there is a lot more to the autism debate beyond just the rate of diagnosis.