JohnEdwa
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox 1 week ago:
Most people tend to agree that a person that decides to kill a bunch of random people and then themselves for no good reason is mentally ill, even if they haven’t been officially diagnosed with anything specific.
Because normal, healthy people don’t tend to just go “welp, I feel like some good old casual Friday night mass murdering and suicide tonight”.And in this specific case, she was not a particularity stable individual.
- Comment on Next generation Xbox may launch in 2027 2 weeks ago:
Yes. But you claimed “about 5 to 6x the purchase price for a PC vs a console”. Which isn’t double or triple. And neither did I claim that you could build a PC at the same cost, I said 1-1.2k plus a few hundred more. Which is around double.
I don’t think you’ve realistically ever been able to build a matching PC at the same price, because they are almost always sold at cost or sometimes at a loss as the manufacturer gets their profit selling games, not the hardware. Same deal why VR hardware from Meta is so much cheaper compared to everyone else - because you need to then buy your games from Meta as well.
- Comment on Next generation Xbox may launch in 2027 2 weeks ago:
If the goal is to build a PC that’s the same performance level as the console in question, even with current ridiculously inflated prices it isn’t nearly that expensive.
PS5 Pro ($699) is an 8-core AMD Zen 2 with 16Gb of RAM (shared with the GPU), a 2TB SSD, and a GPU roughly in line with an RX 9060 XT or RTX 5060TI. Late last year, building a matching PC would have been somewhere in the $1-1.2k range. Today it’s few hundred more due to the RAM shortage.
It’s when you actually want to outperform consoles and push the graphics settings far beyond the optimizations and targets of console games when things start to get expensive fast.
- Comment on Some PCs are failing to boot after this month's Windows Update 3 weeks ago:
Bah, first people complain when suddenly they can’t turn their computers off, now they complain when they can’t turn them on…
- Comment on ChatGPT is rolling out YouTube-style age prediction 4 weeks ago:
AFAIK it’s a fedia (mbin) compatibility issue with Lemmy in general, some links posted from Fedia aren’t federated properly and just show up as an image.
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 1 month ago:
As an actual highway-legal car, certainly not. But there are plenty of other categories you can stuff random vehicles that could still be useful, such as the European L6e/L7e Quadricycle.
- Comment on Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did? 1 month ago:
Combining concepts is one of the core functions of a generative image AI - fairly sure nobody trained them on of videos with athletes made out of pasta either.
But they were trained on images of both naked people, as well as tons and tons of stock photos of children in swimwear and bikinis, so they know how to combine the two to create images of naked children.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 1 month ago:
All bicycles are velocipedes, but not all velocipedes are bicycles.
- Comment on No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them. 1 month ago:
But are you sure bicycle means two wheels, and not every other wheel? Maybe we should call them twicecyles to avoid the confusion.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 months ago:
GTA 6 is developed and being published by Rockstar Games. BG3 was developed and published by Larian. If you want to be that strict about the difference between CD project and CD project Red, we can ignore it.
Blue Prince was developed by Dogubomb and published by Raw Fury. It has a 3rd party publisher, therefore it’s not indie by your very clear definition, no?
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 months ago:
Which means Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3 and GTA 6 are indie titles, while the majority of the indie game award nominees and winners are not because they have 3rd party publishers.
Well defined indeed.
- Comment on Tesla is the most unreliable used car brand in America, even behind Jeep and Chrysler 2 months ago:
IIRC here in Finland they keep failing yearly inspections constantly because the balljoints and bushings etc are always completely shot as they can’t handle the extra weight of the batteries and massive torque from the motors.
- Comment on Could President Trump Bring Japan’s Tiny Cars to America? Not So Fast. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Valve Reveals New Hardware Lineup: A Controller, Compact Gaming PC, and VR-Ready Headset 3 months ago:
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 3 months ago:
It doesn’t. The website would ask for an id check, you would generate it on the provider side and give the randomized ID to the site so it could go check it’s valid and let you through. Without an account, it would act like a temporary 2FA code.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 3 months ago:
How would you propose I prove to you at a reasonable certainty that I am an adult, without showing you my ID, or showing it to someone else you trust to tell the truth?
And also somehow prove that the ID I gave was not fake without the government that issued it telling you that it’s genuine?Well, I actually could do it because I’m old enough that most of my accounts are already over 18 years old, but I don’t think requiring every new Pornhub user to wait 18 years is a reasonable solution.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 3 months ago:
If there is exactly one global service that does all the checks for every single internet user, which every single website uses, and the information going through them is always known, then sure, they could certainly block stuff.
But it’s quite clear by now “we aren’t going to implement age verification on the internet” isn’t going to happen, that verification is going to be implemented eventually, and in the rather near future, and places like the UK and many US states are extremely unlike to roll back the already implemented solutions.
So the question now is how it can be done with the least amount of invasion to privacy. - Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 3 months ago:
The way EU is planning on implementing it is seemingly rather okay on the privacy side.
Basic idea is that instead of sending your actual ID to every random shady website, which is fucking stupid and you should never ever do, you verify your ID once to a trusted processor, and the websites only receive a simple “Is adult: yes/no” answer connected to a randomised ID from them. - Comment on Everyone Who Worked On A Video Game Needs To Be In The Credits [Aftermath] 3 months ago:
That’s how you end up with Horizon Zero West having 3500 credits, because you credit every single employee of every single company and division that even looked at the game for those five seconds.
- Comment on X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles 3 months ago:
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 4 months ago:
Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity?
Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.
Touché .
- Comment on Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe 4 months ago:
Give the EU some time.
And if they don’t remove it, oooh I wanna see the GDPR report microsoft sends me after three years ehen I ask for it.
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 4 months ago:
Huh, seems that quite a few LShift + LCtrl + LAlt + LWin + <key> have hardcoded links: Y opens Yammer, L for Linkedin, T for teams, O for outlook and so on. TIL.
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 4 months ago:
Possibly, kinda depends how it’s implemented, does it need the software to trigger some AI software or not.
Back when Microsoft got some copilot hotkeys put on laptops, they send the perfectly reasonable “LShift+Win+F23” key combination :)
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is richly authentic, intriguingly written, dripping with brooding atmosphere, and… not very fun to play, unfortunately 5 months ago:
One of the best builds to make CP2077 absolutely horrible to play is stealth + tech weapons. You spend all of you time crouched behind boxes, first trying akwardly to sneak your way in, and then shooting through them with the wallhack weapons.
Meanwhile other players clear the same mission in 45 seconds looking like the worlds biggest action hero badass with sandevistan and katanas and hacks and shit :D
- Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 5 months ago:
Kinda. Same as me, they know why the launch failed, but don’t say anything about why the notifications didn’t get sent.
Steam has a section for the developers for setting up the release date. It specifically states that you need to be careful with it, because two weeks before that date you start getting visibility on the “upcoming releases” list, and will then show up in the “new releases” section, and once that happens, you can’t change it.
And Planet Centauri is showing their official release date as being “3 Jun, 2016”, not the 2024 date they left Early Access as it’s supposed to. So did they mess that up and the notifications were actually sent, but they went out nine years ago? - Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 5 months ago:
Why it happened I can’t say, but I know what caused the failed launch - the game has an early access date and release date both in 2016. Steam didn’t send the mail that the game had released when it left EA because from their point of view, it had already released nine years ago.
Other games that have recently left EA have their release date update to the date they leave EA.
- Comment on YouTube Live adding joint horizontal/vertical streams, side-by-side ads 5 months ago:
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 5 months ago:
If you are going for Lineage, you might as well go with some more customized variants like CrDroid or EvolutionX, as long as there is an official build. They are Lineage but with more customizability. And with pixels, you can always take your first step of de-googling by getting GrapheneOS.
Though
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 5 months ago:
I just upgraded from my trusty Pixel 4a to a refurbished Pixel 8, it would have turned 4 years old next week. The battery was completely shot at the end, I got maybe 2½ hours of screentime.
I would have been perfectly happy with just swapping the battery and using it for the next four years, but I got an okay deal on the p8 so eh.
