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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of when I first tried to play Quake (I think? some old arena FPS) over dialup. I tried for a few minutes hoping my ping would even out. At one point I had ~4,500 ping. That’s 4.5 seconds between my input affection what I saw on the screen. Needless to say, I was often gibbed before I got to see my inputs manifest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there not a future in which the AI bubble bursts, and we are in a glut of datacentre memory and storage with no buyers?

  There is. Unfortunately, not even the chips on the memory used by data centers is compatible with consumer hardware. They use extremely high performance, expensive HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), we use DDR memory. Unless consumers start getting affordable devices that are compatible with such memory, there is not much hope of buying what has been or is in the process of being made for data centers.

  There should be a cataclysmic bottoming out of the market that leads to a period of cheap, abundant parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody needs any entertainment, but some people enjoy hobbies like gaming.

  no company has ever responded to more sales with lower prices

  Prices are going up rapidly thanks to AI data centers exploding demand by orders of magnitude more than retail customers. There is no end in sight to the price increases.

  If you want a gaming device, buy it sooner rather than later. That’s all I am saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I guess it depends on your anticipated financial situation and your priorities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the way shit is going, get what you can while you can. Gaming is only going to get worse and more expensive by the week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a DNS address ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a question that might require a bit of “prior knowledge” in order for an answer to make sense.

  Basically computers keep track of each other with complicated, unique numbers. This isn’t easy for humans to deal with so instead we have websites like netflix.com. DNS is a system that translates “netflix.com” to it’s more complicated unique computer address so that your computer connects to the netflix server when you type in that web address.

  There are a number of servers (DNS Servers) on the Internet with databases that keep track of which website has what computer address. Usually, the company (ISP or Internet Service Provider) that you get Internet from has their own DNS Server and tells your modem to tell your computer or phone to use that server to look things up when you browse the web, but it is possible to use alternative servers.

  Technically, the system is very trust-based - it’s just assumed that they are going to respond accurately and in good faith. It is possible to mess with this but there are other layers of security and authorities your computer should be using to make sure that you are actually visiting the website you think you are visiting. Usually ISPs just use this server to keep track of the websites you visit so they can sell your data to advertisers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a mortal who gets it!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the lore, running water can also stop vampires… though I suspect a squirt gun would not count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Struggle 😔⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I overheard someone considerably high up in my organization struggling to understand the concept of an email BCC (Blind Carbon Copy).

  He was trying to figure out how to notify a large number of people via email without letting them know who else was receiving the email.

  Some things may fall under IT but they should really fall under the category of things every professional should understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon time travels⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my shower thought this morning. Maybe some good will come of these circumstances in the form of optimization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Going early and going late often helps a lot with avoiding people who meander around blocking movement through the store.

  Unfortunately, where I live is pretty heavily populated so the shelves are also a lot more empty if I go late or go too early.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You nomster!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember it was a common prank in my office, for coworkers that didn’t lock their workstations, to set their homepage to hampster-dance.

  At a LAN party we once messed with a friend’s desktop background. He had a picture of himself and a girlfriend in what I assume was his dorm room as his background. We wanted to take the poster in the background and photoshopped it to something funny. Someone had a bizarre picture of a bunch of dudes in Ninja Turtle masks. One of them was holding some chick in a skirt upside down and I think holding a fist against her panties. That photo was so bizarre it sticks in my mind.

  I have no idea if he ever realized it. I felt bad afterward when I found out he was MIA at the LAN Party because of an unpleasant medical issue…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upvotes have been removed for your safety ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just another layer - the button did nothing to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the AI bubble bursts..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you fire half your staff while only making 400 units…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the demonstration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For instance, I too voted for Harris, and I’ve been called a gEnOciDe suPpOrTeR, a bOoTLiCkEr, and. bLuEmAga™. Just for voting against a fascist.

  The hatred between left leaning Lemmy users over the last election is crazy to me. Instead of focusing on getting rid of the current fascist regime together, so many just dogpile on anyone based on whether they voted for Harris. I feel like every other political post has a flame war that starts with a comment blaming the news on anyone and everyone on the left who didn’t vote Harris or criticized dems during the campaign.

  There are those of us with a bit of nuance though. I was and still am disgusted and disappointed with the Dem’s positions and empathize with those who sat out in 2024 but I voted Dems them over the party looking to fast track fascism and white nationalism. I regularly get flamed for suggesting we move on from blaming each other and focus on getting rid of the fascists here and now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He is. He’s more or less the USA’s shadow president - he maneuvered himself to be Trump’s right hand man and has the clown president’s trust for many domestic issues, particularly anything related to non-white people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the hoops… [they]… make you jump through with regard to layering

  I played around with a few atomic distros and it seems like rather than layering, running things in containers is the preferred solution.

  It won’t be the solution for everything that layering could “fix”, depending on your situation, but it is something that I wasn’t initially aware of when I started playing with Bazzite, Fedora Atomic, and now Aurora.

  Basically, if you could just run whatever you need to run in a container, that might be another solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Money, or more importantly the power and privilege that money provides, has always been more important than humanity, if you have enough of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s extremely profitable. If you have a problem with that, I’ll fucking ruin your life. If you look like you might be able to make ruining your life difficult and it’ll cost me a lot to ruin your life, I’ll just save myself the trouble and spend it to give you enough to make you forget what you were upset about. It’s a cost benefit analysis, really. Yay capitalism!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So once again, it’s capitalism. Surprise surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are only those companies for whom the incentives to betray you aren’t yet high enough. Either the incentives become high enough for the chosen company to betray you, or the incentives become enough for another company with enough money to buy the chosen company and betray you…or bury the chosen company in the hopes that you’ll open yourself to being betrayed or exploited by the other company.

  Welcome to unfettered/unregulated capitalism aka the natural end result that capitalism pushes society towards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, can you describe, with a bit more detail, the kind of work that was repetitive and became worse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tire of this life⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least until the corrupting force of micro-plastic-capitalism causes your house to get seized and you must begin the adventure of a lifetime to retrieve it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s at the point where it helps people code more easily, but maybe I’m just exclusively experiencing edge cases and turning to it for the wrong uses. I’ve only had failures. Hallucinations that waste my time, and flawed algorithms.

  My favorite was a few weeks ago when I was having a rough day and needed a complicated algorithm to make a decision based on an inputted date. I told it that if I plug in value A to its algorithm, the answer is wrong. It went step by step explaining its "reasoning"and it returned the correct answer and then at the pivotal step it plugged in a different year than was in A, for just that step, and then proceeded to confirm to itself that if you plug in A, you get the right answer.

  Maybe someday it will help, or maybe some problems it is useful for, I’ve just never had that experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, my partner loves BTBAM. I was going to mention them as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know Plini, will check out The Omnific!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another great band!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Arch Echo
  Intervals
  I’m also a fan, I just didn’t want to go too nuts with my list because I needed to get to sleep! I’ll check out the rest.

  Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker’s vocal talents and lyrics.

  Agreed. I honestly mentioned PtH just to mention them. I often can’t work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Even high level languages will consistently produce the same results. There may be low level differences depending on the compiler and the system’s architecture but if those are consistent you will get the same results.

  AI coding isn’t an extremely human readable higher level programming language. Using an LLM to generate code adds a literal black box and the interpretation of the user and LLM’s human language (which humans can’t even do consistently) to the equation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love working with instrumental metal, typically prog or “djenty” stuff, in the background. Sometimes a bit of post-rock.

  I was surprised how many of us there are. A lot of “professionals” I know listen to metal. Engineers, developers, IT folks. It will randomly come up and everyone will say something along the lines of “Oh, really, you too?”

  Been listening to a lot of Their Dogs Were Astronauts recently. In the interest of sharing my personal favorites bands to work to, because I found a number of them from random mentions in forums:
  Their Dogs Were Astronauts (mostly instrumental)
  Wide Eyes (mostly instrumental)
  Caligula’s Horse (instrumental only tracks available)
  Polyphia (mostly instrumental) Protest The Hero (instrumental only tracks available)
  TesseracT (instrumental only tracks available)
  Apocalyptica (started covering Metallica as cellos quartet instrumentals, now has a number of original songs with guest vocalists)
  Collapse Under The Empire (post rock, mostly instrumental)
  Parhelia (post rock, mostly instrumental)
  Opeth (occasional instrumental tracks, started as death metal, evolved into more prog metal)