vapeloki
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- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
Solid 5 here. And I love to read. I love the smell of books, I love the feeling in my hands and I love the stories of course. I don’t have an image of an character in my head, I don’t have an image if the landscape, but I still enjoy it.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 weeks ago:
As far as I remember, and I may be wrong, you could always the refund, but with a very short time frame.
And: no company has a perfect slate. How do you live? In a self build wood house in the outback?
If I would want a handheld, the only company that offers one for a fair price and with the right to repair, is fucking Valve. You can ignore this fact, but that does not make my statement false.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 weeks ago:
Am I? Proof? Srsly, it you have some hard fact’s (beside a single ruling some years ago because of geo blocked keys), let me know.
I bought my games on Humble, and GOG for a very long time. Since humble offers specific packages now only through a fucking Windows only Launcher and GOG likewise, I am FORCED to use steam…
But I prefer DRM free content.
That does not change the fact that I think valve is the most consumer friendly company on the market currently.
But this does not make me a fanboy or someone who must have steam the the good guy
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 weeks ago:
That was Charlie. He was a good boy. Died a year ago :( still muss him
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 weeks ago:
Ok, so answering after reading the first line and the again you are to young you have no ideas.
Even if I was that young, that is just a stupid line of argument.
But, considering the fact that I am in IT for over 20 years now, it is just hilarious.
Just for reference, the first picture with me and a PC on it. Maybe you can calculate my age from this…
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 weeks ago:
Downloading capacities where a major issue. Distribution required still discs. Doom was published 1995, not 2005.
Dwarf Fortress and cave story where “small games” considering the total binary size. But, games started to take up multiple hundred megabytes, leading to massiv traffic costs back in the day. I was working my first it job at this time. At a hosting company. Having 100GB of downloads a month was rare, and the price for it was massive.
Dude, I wish I would be under 40 again, but I am not.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 weeks ago:
Since you’re clearly too young. I’ll give you a history lesson.
I am clearly not to young, let me chime in.
20 years ago, publishers had the full Control. Indie publishing was not possible.
The big studios controlled what you can play, and on wahr price. They took a big big share of the profits.
Now, with platform like Steam, self publishing is a thing, and more.
Yes, of course they tried to get some traction on steam. Epic games, Sony PlayStation, Xbox, all do exclusivity deals!
Yes, valve takes 30% of every transaction on Steam. Publishers take up to 60% … And so you play games published by auch publishers? Yes? And you don’t feel bad about yourself?
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 weeks ago:
Yes Steam is a defacto monopoly. But not through the actions of Valve but through the actions of it competitors.
Valve does not behave like a monopoly, and it takes its money to improve gaming for all.
I would get it if someone here would be really simping for Gabe. But may I remind you all, this is a shitposting community and this is a meme.
If not for Valve and their openness towards Linux, Microsoft would long have followed Apple and made a walled garden out of Windows.
If you want to make sure that gaming is not getting a walled of eco system be Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, that you need Valve.
Just look at that release: NO AI bullshit, no walled garden, no vendor locking. No locked bootloader’s, repairability and consumer rights are in the focus.
If course you can point out that this is a profit oriented company and everything they do, they do to make money. And I would not argue with that.
But this? What is this? Why?
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 weeks ago:
You know, Valves decision years ago investing into the Linux eco system and literally pumping millions of dollars into open source development, contributing, hiring the sole maintainers of stuff like dxvk and more.
This brought Linux and especially the Linux desktop a lot further than without it.
We all gained through it.
And those new products are, like your Fairphone, designed with repairability and consumer rights in mind.
You talk like Fairphone does earn nothing in their phone’s and their are not in it for the money. Well, bad news. They made 54.400.000€ euro net profit last year.
So, go and stick your pseudo elitist behavior up your ass
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 3 weeks ago:
I’ll add on that with some more info:
Milt does not really like sugar. Not as a medium to grow in. So, anything high sugar you can, in fact just scoop it out. But, be aware, the mycelium of molt is toxic. So, anything where molt can grow through, like bread or a European Salsa (we don’t have that much sugar in them) throw it out . And if it grows back: THROW IT OUT.
- Comment on The limits of zero-knowledge for age-verification | Brave 3 weeks ago:
It was always NFC. But using your mobile as a reader is about 6 years old now. Und only because the whole client app is open source and somebody contributed it
- Comment on The limits of zero-knowledge for age-verification | Brave 3 weeks ago:
We already have zero knowledge proof in Germany, but nearly no one uses it.
Our ID cards have an embedded private key.
The theoretical flow is (very simplified of course)
- Webseite sends challenge to a locally running app
- App request the ID card (NFC, you can use your mobile phone as a reader)
- Reader asks for pin
- Requested information from website are show (for example pseudonym id, full data, age verification onlz, so older 18 or older 21)
- You acknowledge this
- Signed message with requested information is send back to server
- Server verifies signature with official key servers of the federal authority for our ID cards.
Works, secure and save.
But, because of privacy concerns, many users did not activate this feature and, besides some government websites, nobody essentially accepts it.
Also, it is hard to explain that, despite the fact that your ID card acting as the private key, your signature is anonymous if you don’t explicitly allow the websites to see your data
- Comment on Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents 1 month ago:
Yes! And the only thing in our way is fucking capitalism!
A world, where no living being has to do work in such bad conditions, as machines can do those jobs is possible. Unconditional basic income. Unconditional basic income!
- Comment on Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents 1 month ago:
Let me get this straight:
- everybody wants free same day logistics
- nobody want to work under those conditions
- if we deliagte inhumane jobs to robots, everybody is mad
Where is the logic?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If people would actually READ articles instead of just looking at the headline and pictures.
And if people would believe articles that do not reflect their view, then and only then, they could do that job
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Social Media was a mistake.
- Comment on Anyone interested? 3 months ago:
Don’t be afraid, that is no balls sweat.
The only option the get the leg imprints in those position is by kneeling on the chair, so that is most likely line and cum.
You thought those marks could be produced by a female user? I asked some and they told me it is unlikely that someone will sell her masturbation chair if it is comfy.
I wouldn’t know but for lube, that will be like a waxing every time you stand up for weeks. That much I know.
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 5 months ago:
EXACTLY! If i would experience such issues on my daily drivers i would reconsdier my choices. Thw question is, this it bother one enough to change things.
And: i didn’t need to fiddle anything on my Systems to get them (bsck) to running in the last 10 years. That may not always be the case, especially on Laptops. Now we start fiddling to keep Windows running on slightly oder Hardware. So as always, it depends
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 5 months ago:
I am fine with that. I personally just don’t see the point of fiddling with your os every time the vendor fucks up. I would just live with it or ditch it completely.
And yes, ans /s would have helped
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 5 months ago:
Did i write install Linux?
While I am a Linux user, this was a joke. Windows does random Windows stuff. Windows AI features cause GPU usage. The processes responsible, according to OP are Windows core services. So, what other fix is there to avoid this besides removing windows?
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 5 months ago:
Maybe AI garbage? Just guessing. There is an easy fix: remove windows from your system. Also good for privacy
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 5 months ago:
That part is responsible for 3 things:
- Noise. It reduces the amount of turbulence under the car
- fuel efficiency, same as Noise
- protection from the environment. It reduces the amount of dirt and water that hits parts like the engine and other stuff there
It is not critical and as others said, you could leave it of. I would recommend to have a look of there was any other damage done while it ripped off
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 6 months ago:
Says who? Do you have some quantifiable proof, studies, or is this just the same old " i don’t like it, baaaaaaad " bullshit?
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 6 months ago:
This comment brought me to: yes, there should be an AMA!
Srsly, polyamorous relationships are a complex beast. And no, they are not better or worse then other relationship models. They are just different.
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 6 months ago:
I am open to such an AMA. Any place on lemmy where this would work?
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 6 months ago:
I would have an issue with it, personally, because related. But this would be my personal limit
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 6 months ago:
I am poly, so, I have no troubles with this. As long as they keep separate bedroom action, I don’t see the issue
- Comment on sus 6 months ago:
As a poly person: no, it is not a “affiar-tolerant monogamy”. That is an open relationship.
Polyamorous partnerships are far more committed. Also, sex is not always a part of it.
Of course there is the concept of a primary partner, but there are lot of poly folks that thislike this idea.
But what all of those relationships have in common: there is no case where only one partner is poly. All is about communication and consent.
And to the core topic: There is this thing like a polycule. A network of people with somehow connected relationships. Breakups in those structures are often consensual and no big fuzz. But if it gets dirty, at least in my experience, the offending member of the polycoule gets shown the door. And most of the times, those are the new ones. People that think the could convince their partner to get monogamous because they are the only one that is needed.
Sorry for the long post, you hit a nerve there ;)
- Comment on [Opinion] Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction 7 months ago:
So, where is the issue?
I installed Fedora a few years back on a PC of an 70 yest old woman. Reason: EOL of windows 7.
Last week I visited her. Fedora is up2date, no issues, und besides the initial guided tour I did not provide any support.
So, apparently, we HAVE already those distributions. So:
what is your point?
- Comment on Why does it need more than one name? 2 years ago:
*american people
There, fixed it
