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- Comment on Have you noticed 2 days ago:
I know Lemmy is mostly populated by computer touchers (I’m one of them) but Pep Guardiola is probably one of the most recognizable human beings on planet earth
- Comment on we are not the same 1 week ago:
Hm. Interesting how negatively coded this scene is when I hear people talk about their own “that one dream public bathroom”.
I distinctively remember mine having knee-high cloudy water, but it was very dark. My innate “understanding” in the dream is that the water is some kind of natural feature, not sewage. I don’t remember the sinks, tissues, cleanliness or of the bowls, or anything, just the incredibly weird layout and flooding, and the weird lack of privacy due to the doors and walls of the stalls being higher to accommodate the water.
US style stalls where you can conveniently park your XXXL truck under the divider aren’t a thing here.
- Comment on Mindfulness 2 weeks ago:
Driving leisurely through a nice lush valley? God what a marvel of engineering this crumbling manual 1994 Kia shitbox is. Driving is so calming. Radio off, windows down, I want to hear the birds and the terrible engine. I don’t even care that second gear doesn’t bite anymore. This is nice.
Driving in start stop traffic? God I hate how we’ve defaced our planet, our home, just to enrich these blood sucking oil companies. The Ottomans and the French built railroads and streetcars here during our servitude. And what did we do with that silver lining? Tore it all out to sell more cars and petrol. For shame. All of these people’s lives are measurably worse from wasting their lives on the road.
Driving at a normal speed in a normal area with people driving around me at normal speed, pedestrians, street lights, traffic cops, nobody is crashing, I’m not crashing, I’m barely even thinking about doing it? bro what tHE FUCK WHAT
- Comment on I am bereaved 3 weeks ago:
Here’s another one, professionally voice acted for maximum effect.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on LOVE THEM 4 weeks ago:
Extremely underrated game, even after it received popular sequels. I’m shocked nobody talks about the original Witcher game. I played it way after it was released in around 2017 and found it refreshing, like a slightly more modern classic RPG with actual classic game design, plus a few quirks (combat stances and so on).
The enhanced edition looks perfectly fine. I think I’ve hit the stage in my life where I care more about graphics looking cohesive and how the art style serves the game’s vibe than I care about garish post-processing and needlessly complex models and textures.
TW1, visually, has a sort of dreamy fantastical blandness with bursts of really cool visual interest. Isn’t that enough? Doesn’t that serve the concept of a video game well?
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
I’m now thinking of that classic post from the old site that shows someone’s painstakingly cursive-written note of the entire text of a bluescreen (the old bluescreen with a lot of characters on screen) for tech support.
And thinking of a slightly more tech inclined grandma who doesn’t quite get all of it having a problem with a torrent and just reading the infohash/magnet link to the ISP’s support call center.
- Comment on Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom 5 weeks ago:
Posy is my spirit animal.
This happened to me too and the Ublock filter fixed it. I dread to think of the day YouTube is made to be completely unfixable.
- Comment on How I view others in social media 5 weeks ago:
Punchline Situation is Diabolical
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- Comment on Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation 1 month ago:
Been thinking of getting a used Switch Mini exclusively to solder in a chip and use it as a nice emulation handheld. As long as it doesn’t rat itself out over Bluetooth or something to its older brother gathering dust behind the tv (which has never been touched by the light of piracy), I should still be good I guess.
It’s unfortunate, but what I’m actually worried about is that world where different devices will report on each other.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 1 month ago:
I think the Raspberry Pi 4 -> Pi 5 is a very clear demonstration of this.
The power requirements went way up, and therefore the needed cooling, after years of the 1->2->3->4 being pretty similar. And most importantly, the prices for those were similar (35 USD MSRP I think, or usually around 60 USD here). The new one is much more expensive than that and that hasn’t gone down without controversy.
Maybe consoles are more visible to most people but the different versions of Pis are much more apples to apples and are designed to be drop-in upgrades.
I think I’ll still be using Pi 4s for a long time personally.
- Comment on Stumbled upon this art (?) in Korea 1 month ago:
Huh. The image was very weird to me, but I’ve played some version of this as a kid. Team one makes this structure against a wall, team two send people to jump and crawl forward, the goal being to break the “bridge”. I can’t even remember what we fucking called this game, this was in Lebanon in the late aughts/early tens.
There’s something about how most teenage boys are wired that made it feel exceptionally badass when your team was on the bottom and you didn’t crumple when it was the turn of one of the large gentlemen on the other team to jump.
- Comment on Relatable 1 month ago:
It’s called talent, learn it.
- Comment on I know you all have big plans for this man 1 month ago:
I don’t know if I’d say Daggerfall to Morrowind was a step backwards. In terms of years they’re not all that far apart. But in terms of capturing the philosophy of their respective eras? I’d call them two different types of maximalism, before things coalesced into the distilled Skyrim experience.
Both of those games were before my time, but the impression I get with Daggerfall is that this was right when PCs started getting enough memory to go crazy and build giant procedurally generated worlds. Morrowind is like that with maximizing graphics and sounds, it’s in that first generation of games that aged differently to everything that came before. As dated as Morrowind looks, it still looks really high effort and (dare I say it) artfully designed. It’s much more of a game, while DF feels to me like a game program. Am I making any sense?
- Comment on Necromancer skill 2 months ago:
They said they thought it was great. Surely it can only be one of these two?
- Comment on Unstable 2 months ago:
Oh man, the lower half of this image was everywhere ten odd years ago. Or maybe longer. Shit.
It’s just “Oooooh, burn!” in a sarcastically distant tone. Almost like it’s a daily occurrence.
I never quite liked it even if it looks very fake. The particular stab at humor it went for didn’t really do it for me.
- Comment on I am the one who's aware of my own identity 2 months ago:
I thought about that as I was writing but it would be a little contrived to a general audience, maybe.
I’ve commented about this link before. The gym bro thing is what made me wrap my mind around some things myself.
- Comment on I am the one who's aware of my own identity 2 months ago:
Honestly that could actually be interesting. Would probably be able to discuss some nuances and make the mainstream a bit more comfortable with some currently uncomfortable conversations. People can remember complicated things if they’re invested in the narrative.
I’m a cis-het potato. If any of this sounds insensitive, I can fix it:
Guy who doesn’t meet the stereotype of a “drug guy” has to cook up drugs to make ends meet. <Narrative device> makes him start making <common drug> for <uncontroversial illness>, which turns out to also be used by <some queer people> for <hormoney things>. At first he sees them as nothing more than the users he was profiting from in an hour of desperation, people who twist their sad lives around acquiring and consuming a substance, but over time as he gets further down this path he begins to understand them in a way that he (and most people) has never had to. “Upstanding-man-who-is-a-secret-chemical-man ally” can go in so many directions.
With all its many many faults, I remember seeing Dallas Buyers Club as a judgmental kid, and it was successfully able to split “queer identity” from “sexual perversion” for me. I think this understanding was beginning to spread before a tipping point in the past decade. Personally I think people saw a lot of (Western) companies really go all in on rainbow marketing, going directly from “queer identities exist” to “these are being celebrated openly” without the critical middle “this isn’t a sex thing”.
If you think it’s bad in the US or Europe (and it’s not always great, it’s not a competition) let me assure you the heightened negative attention has also made people who were able to be themselves under the radar here in the Middle East face more bullshit. The average person around me has gone from “This person gives me the ick but it has no effect on my life really, just stay away from me and my kids, it’s between them and God” to “This person should be fixed immediately before they shove their perversion down everyone’s throats.” The former is abysmal, but at that point they weren’t really seen as an active, growing threat. Unfortunately it’s not just “this isn’t a sex thing” that’s missing here, historically most people have thought “queer” = “perversion” = “pedophilia”, and this was fading slowly before being supercharged by all this torrent of negative attention.
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 2 months ago:
I’ve been really interested in the LoRa stuff especially as the state of communication infrastructure (and the electrical infrastructure behind it) is always at the brink of collapse where I am. The only problem is that there is zero chance I can even buy the parts for this “strange encrypted radio” without being arrested under accusation of espionage. If not by the government then by the other guys.
As a backup emergency messaging system we really need it but I really need to not rot in a jail cell that smells of death 20 meters under Beirut street level and need both of my kneecaps.
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 months ago:
One day I’ll get around to playing Nomifactory CE. I’ve somehow played the base one twice over the past five years.
I’ve been so alienated from friends playing the most popular game on the planet in multiplayer because I can’t play Vanilla for shit. Not since 1.2.5 probably.
I’ll play no Minecraft for two years and then immediately nolife a modpack for two months.
Good shit. The best value game I have ever bought, no question about it.
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 3 months ago:
I think that one used simple Markov chains and was really entertaining for years.
I also remember there was a bot you could summon that would simulate a comment written by you, and it was funny to see those.
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 3 months ago:
The invention of the torque wrench didn’t severely impede my ability to retrieve stored information, and everyone else’s, affecting me by proxy.
The tech four years ago was impressive but for me it’s only done two things since becoming widely available: thinned the soup of Internet fun things, and made some pellets disproportionally executives at my work, abandon a solid third of their critical thinking skills.
I use AI models locally, to turn around little jokes for friends, you could say I’ve put more effort into machine learning tools than many daily AI users. And I’ll be the first to call the article described by OP as a true, shameful indictment of us as a species.
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 3 months ago:
I’ve also wondered if there’s varieties. Maybe where I live, they’re different tasting and smelling? Broccoli has only ever been one of the vegetables to me. Nothing repulsive (or even noteworthy).
Even as a kid it was weird to see cartoon characters complain about specifically broccoli while I literally munched it while watching.
Now when it spoils, yes, it can get a little sulfury, as can cauliflower, its cousin. But fresh broccoli?
- Comment on Algorithms are breaking how we think - Technology Connections 3 months ago:
That’s really cool, I miss more things being outwardly interoperable. Very useful feature, I can’t wait until they deem it too usable and remove it.
I was explaining RSS to a friend (I follow their Substack blog via RSS, yes, I read it in the ugly Feedbro interface) and they were a bit weirded out by the idea until I went into how this was kind of a default option a few years ago.
One day I’ll have a home server setup that will keep the Web 2.0 dream alive for me.
- Comment on Anon makes first contact 4 months ago:
Would love to know the context of this
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 4 months ago:
This photo makes my skin crawl.
- Comment on Why Iraq says this road will fix the Middle East | CaspianReport [19:05] 5 months ago:
I was intrigued by this channel back when I was vaguely interested in geopolitics on a surface level but before I really started learning about history. Think Paradox player level interest in history.
When the 2022 round of fighting started between Armenia and Azerbaijan I was pretty appalled at this channel’s coverage. I’m Lebanese so I’ll definitely have a bias in that conflict as well, but it was pretty blatant and unapologetic. That half video was probably the last I’ve seen from them.
- Comment on Is Soviet playground! Is fun! Go play on playground while Papa reads Pushkin. 5 months ago:
Unexpected Babbdi
- Comment on Me at CES today 5 months ago:
My understanding of the tech is that there are virtually no scenarios where having the 3D cache on the second CCD would actually help right now, unless I’ve got something wrong? Like even applications with enough threads to saturate the 3D CCD couldn’t possibly need that many threads that that
Unless you’re running multiple high-thread-count programs that benefit from the lower latency, and I don’t know what a realistic scenario for that would be. Some kind of multi-user scenario.
Granted I would have liked to see identical CCDs. I’m sure asymmetry is something they’ve figured out by now, but for the $$$ they’re asking for, a few extra overkill headroom can’t be a ridiculous ask.
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 5 months ago:
The souls games weren’t on sale, but I’ve passed the message along about the mods. I think he’s taking a break after pushing those games to the absolute limit but I’m glad something like that exists.
