Kichae

@Kichae@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they ran out of logos that look like all-seeing robotic eyes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space Quarry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, in their defence, they’re wasted too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, when you post to a community, you’re posting to the local copy of it. Your host then forwards that post to the site that houses the community. When you’re banned from a remote site, nothing interferes with this process until the local host forwards things along. By that time, you’ve already posted.

  Now, the site that’s housing the community is responsible for federating content it receives back out again, so while you can continue to post to the community locally, those posts won’t make it to any other copy of the community. But because each instance’s copy of the community is quasi-independent from each other, you can, IIRC, still engage with other local users in that space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong, Nintendo fans will buy this. As a Nintendo fan, I will buy this - though, it’s gone from a Day 1, no-brainer purchase to “when I can justify the expense” - but Nintendo fans make up a small fraction of people who bought a Switch 1.

  See: Wii U, 3DS

  The Wii and DS printed money, and they assumed most of those users would move on to the new hardware. They did not. They had to slash the 3DS price within months, and nothing saved the Wii U.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a Masterpiece, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an Indulgence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This meshes pretty well with my feelings of thing. On the whole, TotK is more refined more of the same. I’ve enjoyed seeing how the world and characters have moved on, I enjoyed the side quests, and I enjoyed that feeling early on of the depths being new, mysterious, and dangerous.

  One of the things I decided early on was that I didn’t like the Lego Technic stuff, and I committed to using it as little as possible. Especially for speeding up travel. I’m an old, and my internal Hyrule is deeply and strictly… medieval? Mythical? Legendary? Electric drones just don’t fit into my schema for Zelda, even though the developers gave been slipping more and more magitech into the setting for going on 20 years now. I feel that this has given me more of a sense of the game as a meal, to use your analogy, but it’s definitely an indulgent one.

  I wasn’t looking for more BotW. I was just looking for more Link, Zelda, and Ganon. I got what I wanted, and I genuinely don’t understand the ire the game has drawn, other than, maybe, a lot of people getting what they wanted, discovering they were wrong about what they wanted, and being unwilling to accept that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bingo.

  You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, but you can bust skulls over the rank hypocracy of the tech CEOs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3's grip looks the most comfy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably 2, 6, or 7. I’ve always loved the V5/V7, but the liquid ink is messy, a bic is a classic for a reason, and the PaperMate flair has been my go-to felt-tip for a long time now. Though, the ultra-fine version is much better for writing than the medium one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chainlink blanet’ll do it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Northsky Social Cooperative announces project to build a new ATproto platform for the benefit of marginalized communities that prioritizes the 2SLGBTQIA+ community⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They seem to know something about marketing, and specifically about how to sell a website to the public, which would put them ad odds with everyone else running AP-based websites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kessler syndrome is specifically about LEO, and the damage done by debris from collissions, though. Like, that was Kessler’s whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone and their dog wants to gunk up LEO with their soon-to-end-space-flight-forever space junk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a place I'd love to work for⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most employers don’t truly care about productivity or output. They just care about getting to control other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, none of these people ever question Tesla’s valuation in the first place. Why is the stock losing all of this value?

  Maybe it’s because Tesla sells a tiny number of units, cannot turn a profit without government subsidies, and produces by most accounts a really meh fleet of vehicles. There was no sane reason for it to be valued equally to the rest of the auto industry combined.

  Even at half that value today, the number is beyond unjustifiable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome, new users!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It totally depends on how many people one needs in a community, and how much content they’re posting to feel served, doesn’t it?

  The persistent FOMO that has floated around Lemmy for the past two years has not been a positive for the space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome, new users!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not “instance tribalism”, it’s making sure the website you’re using isn’t just some dumb terminal, and preventing the network from collapsing down to “lemmy.world and some empty tributes”.

  It’s creating a space that is resilient to network splits, and accepting the fact that, at some point down the road, network splits will happen.

  It’s seeing the fediverse through a “Local+” lens, and encouraging people to treat their local site as meaningful. And rejecting the illusion that this is centralized social media.

  Look for what you want on other sites. But there’s no reason to look off-site first, if what serves you is already hosted locally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome, new users!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome, new neighbours!

  While checking out this wacky new space, I’d like to emcourage everyone to check out the Local tab, either at the top of your feed, or in your app menu. That’s where yoi’ll find posts from “communitues” (Lemmy’s “subreddits”) that are hosted on lemm.ee!

  A lot of communities are on different sites, and are ported (tarriff free!) for your enjoyment, but as with most things, it seems, the most sustainable way forward is to support Local!

  One thing that many people new to Lemmy and the wider “fediverse” (because it’s not just people on Lemmy-based websites that you’ll find posting in the communities here, surprisingly enough) struggle with is that each website on the network has its own “name space”, meaning that each community name can be used on each site. So, you can have, say, !pottery@lemmy.ca, !pottery@lemm.ee, and !pottery@lemmy.world. People often fret over “having to follow all of them”, and wanting ways to collapse them into a single forum. And for a really niche topic, that might make sense (the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and don’t worry about what’s going on on the other side of the fence). But for bigger topics, this “splintering” is often a godsend, since we can all have real discussions about the topic in smaller spaces. And, of course, !politics is going to just be meanibgfully different on .ca vs .ee vs .world.

  If you look to local first, it becomes much easier to stop worrying and love the bomb distributed network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been hiding behind that excuse for a decade now. How far do they get to take it? How far do they get to go before we’re “allowed” to tell them to eat shit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Waterfox. I started using it for the JXL support. But it’s significantly more memory-leaky than the current version of Firefox, and small FOSS teams seem to think the standard amount of RAM sold in laptops today is comically low and believe we’re all hauling 64+ GB or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Never have, never will.

  So, here’s the funny thing about “never will”. It’s not a promise you can go back on. “Never will” means “forever won’t”.

  Changing that language is a breech of trust. Getting all “nuanced” and weasel-wordy about it doesn’t change that.

  Folks should start looking into whether the previous promise is legally binding in any way, and start preparing for a class action suit if it is. Because Mozilla’s better dead than it is as zombie smoke screen for this horse shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads are a plague⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What is and is not a word? If it’s being used by writers, and is understood by readers, it kinda is a word.

  Linguistics is a desceiptive field, not a prescriptive one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, Brian Greene’s been drinking again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know where gamers’ hard-on for Valve comes from. They’re a monopolist software developer whose biggest product is a middle-man DRM platform masquerading as a game library utility. Their whole schtick is increasing the cost of your games, and limiting your right to access those games how, when, and where you want. Yet somehow, they’re the darling of the gaming scene.

  It’s fucking bizarre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait until someone shuts this prick up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads are coming to bit.ly links⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah!

  Companies tried to make this a thing 20 years ago, and people just dropped the middle-men like hot potatoes. Bitly thinks it’ll be different this time because people have become used to using their service, but all of the pressures that had people using link shorteners in the first place have already fallen by the wayside.

  This probably isn’t going to end well for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to Pez?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They gots them at the bulk barn here. And a tub of the candies.

  I bought a fistfull to use as D&D monster tokens last week

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can smell a Technology Connections link from a mile away, apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 bizarre AI TV features that simply shouldn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, the best we can do is always showing you subtitles by default, and not letting you permanently change that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Select a tip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rewarding the employer for underpaying the employees is not, in any way, the right direction, though? Not tipping is just telling the employees “I don’t care if you get paid, so long as I get what I want”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Business people will do almost anything to eliminate wages

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many people left Meta after Zuckerberg's changes, but user numbers have rebounded⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Numbers may rebound, but users having kicked the tires on other options means they’re less tightly bound than they were before. It’s up to us to create a welcoming and interesting environment in the spaces that they’ve looked at to get them to shift their usage.