Carrot

@Carrot@lemmy.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, people can use the presets, but on a lower end machine, those aren’t perfect for getting the most out of your specific hardware. What I meant there was that consoles, and by extension the steam deck/steam machine, have the exact setting loadout for that hardware dialed in.

  Sure, he could pay someone to upgrade it for him, but at that point it loses a lot of the benefits that come with being able to upgrade in the first place.

  The Fractal Terra is actually larger than all modern consoles. The Fractal Terra is 11.4 liters. The PS5 is 7.2 liters. The Xbox series X is 6.9 liters. The steam machine is 3.8 liters, 3x smaller than the Fractal Terra. When it comes to dimensions, the Xbox series X is smaller in all dimensions, and while the PS5 is longer and wider, it’s height is half that of the Fractal Terra. The steam machine is pretty similar in two of the three dimensions, but the depth is less than half that of the Terra. The Fractal Terra is a really nice, small case, but it’s only small for a PC, not a console.

  As for normalizing incompetence, I doubt you have as extensive a knowledge as you do for computers for every single thing you interact with every day. Knowing “how to use one” is different from knowing how to build and upgrade one.

  You come across as someone who is smart, and yet doesn’t fully understand that half the population is below the 50th percentile. The generalizations you make for yourself and those you regularly interact with cannot be made for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I haven’t seen any evidence that Trump is straight. Evidence that he’s definitely not gay, sure, but no real evidence of straightness. Sure, he’s in a heterosexual marriage, but so is my wife and she’s bi, so that’s not much to go off of. He seems to pass legislation that harms the wellbeing of lgbtq folks, but it’s not uncommon for people in power to show disdain for lgbtq people while being one themselves. It’s also not uncommon for folks to experiment with their sexuality in their early adult years, even if he isn’t bi, that doesn’t take blowing someone completely off the table.

  The long and short of it is that I haven’t seen anything that would make me think Trump wouldn’t have blown some guy. It’s not hard to believe that he were willing to blow a guy, especially if it were a one-off thing he was trying in the spur of the moment at an Epstein sex party. It’s honestly a toss-up, and to act like it’s more or less likely to have gone one way or the other seems foolhardy here.

  Also, do you have links to anywhere that Trump has professed to being straight? I couldn’t find any personally, but if you have them then that would make it more likely this email was just a joke. But if you don’t have them I can’t help but feel you are doing the exact thing you claim to be against: spreading misinformation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You really do, and you not thinking so is telling of how skewed your view of what common knowledge really is. Where does someone start when building a computer if they don’t know what goes into a computer? How do they pick parts if they don’t know what changes will make their computer better or worse? I love PC part picker, but let’s be real, it’s for people who already know what they are looking for. PC part picker makes things so easy for you and I, but drop any tech-illiterate person into PC part picker, and they won’t actually get anywhere. Plus, I’ve had it get the dimensions of a GPU wrong before, and without verifying through a different website, I would have bought a card that didn’t fit in the case I was using. Even the gold standard sources of information make mistakes.

  As for the pre-built argument, to someone like my brother who knows nothing about computers, but regularly games on his PS5, the steam machine and a prebuilt are essentially the same. He wouldn’t know how to fix the computer without sending it off to the company, which is how he’d fix the steam machine as well. He also wouldn’t see the PC as something that could be upgraded. If a game wasn’t running well, he certainly wouldn’t know what part would need upgrading in his machine to make his experience better. In that sense, the pre-built is effectly non-upgradable. He might know to adjust the in-game settings, but wouldn’t know what settings to change. On a prebuilt, this would be an issue. On a device that millions of people use, all with the exact same specs, this information is readily available. Think of the steam deck, you could look up “<game name> steam deck settings” and get the best loadout for your exact hardware. Hell, a bunch of modern games have a “Steam Deck” settings loadout built in. With a prebuilt, that’s not possible. And finally, the steam machine is considerably smaller than any mini itx prebuilt I’ve seen on the market. Hell, a mini it’s motherboard couldn’t even fit in the steam machine’s case. To a lot of people, not having a big box in their living room matters. I’ve had a hard time convincing my partner to let me have a PC in a Fractal Design Terra case in the living room, and that’s a case that is small and clean looking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that and they taste completely different?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not trying to attack you or anything because you did say that you don’t see the appeal for your own casw, but that’s because this product isn’t for you. If you see building a PC and putting it in your living room as an alternative, it’s not meant for you. This is for everyone else who doesn’t see those things as easy. Being someone who has been building/upgrading my own gaming PCs since I was a preteen, I understand how simple it seems to you. But not everyone has that perspective. What seems like simple step-by-step instructions to you is actually really complicated. Part compatiblity alone is difficult, and even the best sources of info can get it wrong, and that’s really demoralizing for someone who doesn’t even know what RAM is. Step-by-step guides seem easy, but there are many predatory ones out there, which suggest using a free trial of paid software to do the things FOSS software can do. You and I know how to avoid it, but if someone doesn’t even understand the concept of an .iso file, how would they know that better alternatives exist? Also, an extremely common case when following tutorials online is that they are out of date, or an unexpected error happens when following them. You and I can quickly RCA these issues and get back on track, but when you don’t even understand what the steps you are taking are actually doing, these minor hiccups leave you dead in the water.

  What you are actually suggesting here is people do like, a year of introductory computer classes. It doesn’t feel like that to you because you’ve been figuring all this crap out as you go along, but having walked people through the most basic of IT problems, you are overestimating what a normal person finds intimidating when dealing with a computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, I really don’t like people saying it was Bill Clinton, there is currently only evidence against that claim. But your second statement seems disingenuous, as there isn’t any sign that it was purely a joke, either. A better way to say your second line without showing a bias would be to say that “There is no evidence to show whether or not it was a joke, or to be taken seriously.” To be clear, the quote from Mark Epstein was “For the avoidance of doubt, the reference to ‘Bubba’ in this correspondence is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton. Any attempt to conflate that reference with President Clinton, or to read sweeping implications into them, misrepresents both the purpose and the tone of the original correspondence.”

  There are a few ways to read this response, one being that it was all a joke, one being that it did happen and Bill Clinton wasn’t involved, and Putin doesn’t have the picture, and one being that it did happen, Bill Clinton wasn’t involved, and Putin does have the pictures. Without further clarification, we don’t know for certain which of these is the truth.

  I do appreciate your desire to keep the facts straight.I know that it’s fun to jump to conclusions and speculate, but we are doing the credibility of anyone left of republicans a disservice when we spread lies. It makes it much easier for the Rupublicans at the top to spin a narritive that their followers can dismiss the things we say. I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but he does enough stuff to paint himself a hypocrite that there’s no need to embellish the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be a friend to the animals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My neighbors planted blackberries on their side of the property line. It takes a good few days each year for me to cut them back off my side. Please, if you want blackberries, plant them in their own little zone, and be mindful of how they can spread

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TAKE MORE TYLENOL⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now, artificial neural networks aren’t always the bad kind of AI, they’ve been around a long time and I really enjoyed playing with them back during my time at University

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I completely agree that Steam is a pos for not letting you actually own your games, I personally keep mine all downloaded so that if Steam ever does something stupid I can run the DRM remover and still have all my games. This gives me peace of mind buying on Steam, but does take up like 10TB of space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, having to plug something in to charge is annoying, and requires you to have a changing cable close by, or be charging the device on a schedule. This eliminates that entirely. A keyboard that always has power sounds pretty nice. I only use a wireless keyboard when travelling, but imagine this with an Xbox controller, or wireless headphones. If you find either of those applications useful, you can at least understand the wireless keyboard application’s usefulness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨better than most I know in Florida⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guy, expect to see shit when in a shitposting community, that’s the whole point. If you don’t like shitposts (not sure why you are saying it isn’t a shitpost, it’s literally a perfect example of one) then block the community and save yourself some cycles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah, i didn’t know that the effect would be so drastic. I want to point out to those struggling to get it to work that, as diverging mentioned, your arm needs to be fully extended. Also, the blind spot is about a thumb’s width, at least for me, and is only visible at a specific x/y axis location. Any deviation from that single spot will cause it to stop working. I could tell I was close to the spot when parts of my thumb would disappear, and just had to slowly move it around until I found the spot that looked like the thumb was gone completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your homescreen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am selfhosting! And yeah, I actually forgot there was a theme on the phone/messaging/camera apps, the theme just came with the OS and I haven’t bothered changing anything. The browser isn’t themed, it’s just the GrapheneOS browser Vanadium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your homescreen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  50% chance of your 50% chance of you waifu becoming real becoming your waifu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t tried copperhead due to the small list of officially supported devices, but I did try calyx. Calyx is honestly pretty close in terms of overall experience, and continues to get better. However, being newer, it lacks the overall polish/stability of Graphene. Also, at the time I tried it, it was lacking the web installer which makes moving to a new OS much simpler, but it has it now. As mentioned before, Graphene has their own web browser, which simplifies startup. Most of my other preferences are pretty nitpicky. Honestly, if I hadn’t already had a pixel phone it probably wouldn’t make too much of a difference, but having the pixel means it’s kind of silly to turn down the extra base-level security Graphene provides. Honestly, given that I won’t need a new phone for at least 5 years, there’s a real chance of me getting the latest fairphone and calyx next, hoping that over that time they tighten things up.

  I totally understand your sentiment, and your best bet is probably the fairphone 5 when calyx is released for it, especially since they are committing to 8 years of security updates compared to pixel’s 7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not who you were talking to, but I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel 9. I don’t know if there’s a “lockdown” mode, but I have my phone set up where I can’t use biometrics to unlock the phone, but can use biometrics to log into my apps. As for the website/email based attacks, these are mostly rendered useless with the GrapheneOS subproject Vanadium, which is their security-hardened web browser, that I use by default. (grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing)

  I have a bunch of banking apps (chase, discover, american express, citi bank, ally, and my local bank) and while I did need to turn off some of the more extreme safety features for some of those apps (GrapheneOS has a toggle for them on a per-app basis), all of them work without Google Play Services, something I don’t have installed. Some of my other bills apps don’t work even with that setting turned on (student loans, local utilities, home loan, etc.) But I just add a link to their website to my home screen and it doesn’t really change my experience much. Also all my work apps (Slack, proprietary apps) have worked without Google Play Services. However, a bunch of apps do require google play services, and for my use cases most can be replaced with the website link, some can’t. Google Maps is the biggest one, and while I have devised a way to get the great search from Google Maps anonymously through TOR and import the coordinates into CoMaps (FOSS alternative map app), that’s the last part of my phone use that is still a pretty significant inconvenience.

  Any app that needs the stricter security turned off gets put in a separate user on my phone, that can’t run in the background, to prevent any shenanigans there as well.

  For all my security needs, I haven’t found a mobile OS that does everything I wanted as low-hassle as GrapheneOS, and I’ve tried a bunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Letter tier list. open for peer review⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP’s name? Sal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Notice is never legally required. You’re allowed to leave at any time, regardless of position. Would it screw over the company? Yes. Is it unprofessional? Yes. But you have zero obligation to give notice.

  I work a high-paying job in tech with plenty of responsibility, but due to how upper management completely screws me, I will likely be leaving with same-day notice. If the company wants respect, they must first give respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, my mistake was in assuming the acronym had to do with being gay, not just a general fetish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me, not gay but desperately trying to figure out what this post is saying: SPH: Small Penis Haver BPH: Big Penis Haver

  I really thought I was understanding the post until I read your comment, now I have no idea what those acronyms mean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like to brag, but⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just know that if you are a manager, everyone is reacting out of obligation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve really liked Ncuti as the doctor, I’ve liked the companions as well. I’ve liked a good bit of the overarching mysteries of the last season and this one. But as someone who grew up watching starting from Eccleston, and then went back to watch the original series, the only part of the new season I really dislike is the front and center focus of “Magic” villains. I understand that this was done a bit in the original series as well, but I disliked it there too. It really cheapens the entire narrative when the doctor can somehow overcome what are essentially gods with an almost unsurmountable level of power that doesn’t have to be rooted in some sort of scifi explanation.

  Obviously this is a personal opinion, and it does seem that the target audience has shifted a bit more mainstream (not that it was super niche before, it’s just that stories now feel very surface-level), it just saddens me that a show I liked has taken a turn for the worse, narratively speaking. I’m still mostly enjoying these seasons, and their more grounded stories feel pretty similar to the 2005 series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. The who point is to cram more seats than they are currently able

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still can brother 🏴‍☠️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo games are excellent games. Some of the highest quality games among AAA studios. What sucks is Nintendo as a company

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumpster fire in my ass Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨woag⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen so many of these I have gained the ability to read them straight on. In this case it doesn’t matter, but I always feel like I’ve got one over the meme creator when it says something like “You look dumb holding your phone like that”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tariff Live Updates: Trump Backs Down on Reciprocal Tariffs for 90 Days⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hold a firm belief he’s trying to temporarily crash the market, so 47 and all his friends can “buy the dip”, and then he’s going to back out of his terrifs, the market will go back up (most likely not all the way up) and they’ll now have a bunch of stock they got on the cheap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand where you’re coming from. I myself prefer using a terminal for most things, and use arch (btw) for the PC I game on. I understand that learning Linux is the best move for folks, but I don’t see that being an option, at least initially, for people on the fence.

  I know that, from a Linux user’s perspective, it is the wrong move, but I have plenty of friends that want a “no terminal, gaming ready” distro before they make the move. I see it more as a first step, removing the barrier for making the switch to Linux. Once they are already there, it’s much easier to convince themselves to learn Linux a bit deeper if needed over time.

  I don’t know, maybe I’m just naive and hopeful, but there are a good number of my friends that I think will make the switch to Linux that wouldn’t have without SteamOS.