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- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 11 hours ago:
Out of all “internet commenters who could not admit they were wrong,” this is quite a high ranking.
I will remember you, friend.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
+1
Rage-bait drowning niche communities is poison to the Fediverse (and the graveyard of alternatives before it).
Also, information hygiene here is terrible. No mods seem to care.
And I just saw someone thinking Lemmy has an “algorithm,” asking why it hasn’t “figured out” to deprioritize furry posts from their feed yet. I bet they’re in the 99.9th percentile of the population in tech fluency, yet the way Lemmy works is completely alien to them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I mean, eventually.
It has nothing to do with contemporary LLMs though.
And I’m not an LLM skeptic. I’ve trained and manipulated them for work, I play with them as a hobby. They are dumb tools, like a hammer.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 3 days ago:
Yeah, +1
I think most write this off as a “MMO,” but it doesn’t feel like a WoW clone. Like (unfortunately) SWTOR did to me.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
That’s exactly what they think. They literally think Elon Musk is going to take them to Mars and automate work with AI robots and such, because nothing in their information sphere ever contradicts it.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 4 days ago:
And it’s a technical marvel. It’s like CryEngine was built for KCDII.
Also, it is so medieval it hurts.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
My controversial opinion:
We did this with sci-fi.
Too many people think their future actually looks like Star Trek or Mars terraforming movies or whatever, and buy Musk’s claim he’s going to make humanity an interplanetary race.
But it doesn’t work like that.
Space travel is impossibly hard. It is just impractical for human bodies, as they exist now, outside of specific scientific missions. Physics dictates that it is expensive. Basically, we’d have to advance to a point where all are Earth problems are already trivial to even begin mass manned space travel.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
You’re asking this because provocative “free speech” is now strongly correlated with engagement, thanks to social media.
Free speech is a right. But warping public discussion is not.
This kind of thing has always been a danger (see: Nazis rose to power on populism), but modern social media has definitely crossed a red line.
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 4 days ago:
Good.
It annoys me when I encounter it, too, but Reddit shouldn’t have a right to enthusiasts’ accumulated knowledge, if they want it gone.
They’re not even an “lesser evil” anymore. Reddit fan burn, though I acknowledge that will probably never happen.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 1 week ago:
Yes.
But what’s the context?
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 week ago:
Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored.
This is sad.
I’m American, and I want the Fediverse to be Euro, Africa, South America heavy. Basically anyone but the usual suspects that dominate news. I want to see stuff from other countries.
I was fortunate enough to even visit Tanzania, and it was great. It’d be nice if you guys took over the world. Please…
Anyway, be aware that many of the authoritarian shills actually live in the US, Western Europe or wherever. Some do not, but the bulk seem to.
They’re just terminally online.
They don’t know squat about what’s actually going on in North Korea or Iran or China because lemmy.ml is banned there.
- Comment on What exactly is a third party launcher? 1 week ago:
Other companies are taking advantage of their role as developer/publisher to insert their own launcher to force me to create an account on their service
Friend, no one is forcing you do anything. That’s how Steam sells you the game, and if Valve didn’t like it, they wouldn’t list the game.
You don’t like it? Don’t make an account.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 week ago:
That doesn’t fix the cost issue, though.
Basically, with the world’s current demographic trajectory, an absolutely massive chunk of global production needs to be allocated towards such caregivers and the elderly. There’s no way around it.
And yes, the management structure is completely screwed up, but I’m just saying that’s not seeing the forest through the trees. It masks the bigger issue. If you eliminated every single manager, every ancillary position, it wouldn’t even be close to enough.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 week ago:
…Because it’s ridiculously labor intensive? Have yall ever had to take care of someone really old, with failing health? Or really young?
I’m not saying there aren’t huge structural issues, but it’s fundamentally hard. Taking care of just a few others will absolutely drain a professional, and paying them a livable wage + tax/benefits, with no other expenses whatsoever, will drain bank accounts of those taken care of.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
The twist:
It’s actually a flat piece of paper.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because that’s what industries are pushing for?
For home use, tons of people don’t even own laptops anymore. Microsoft is working on Windows thin clients (albiet under a different name) for business. Nvidia and others are pushing subscription gaming, as they constrict consumer hardware.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This future, unfortunately, appears to be rented thin clients and smartphones/tablets, for most people.
So… technically, yes, the future is ARM? As those things will often use that.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 1 week ago:
It was stuck in South America, and eradicated from North America, with the Darian Gap as the barrier IIRC.
But it’s been spreading north since like 2023. There’s been a kind of inescapable dread that it would come to the US eventually, but it happened faster than was expected.
- Comment on Mr Incognito 1 week ago:
Lots of tracking can still be done.
Pick your poison for the situation, basically. If you really want to stop cross-site tracking for a browsing session, for example, use Cromite, which goes out of its way to actively spoof fingerprinting.
If you are really worried about surveillance for whatever reason, use a Mullad configs
If your ad profile is messed up, use an ad click spoofer instead of uBlock. If you’re concerned about security, use a browser inside a sandbox.
Zen with UBlock is just fine (I use it, sometimes), but there’s really no perfect solution. Keep a few browsers around, like tools for different situations.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Starsector.
I see you like space games and Rimworld, so I suspect you will love Starsector.
- Comment on Flipper!! 1 week ago:
I suggest autoreplacing it with a more technical term.
fucksexSEX
That’s a sexing dolphin.
- Comment on Conservative values 2 weeks ago:
It’s crazy we’re so far apart that this is a good meme for both.
- Comment on Polling suggests one nation preferred over labor, negative perceptions and low awareness of budget blamed. 2 weeks ago:
It’s probably just warped by social media, giving everyone their own little idealized version of One Nation while every little thing in Labor’s budget is peeled apart.
I hate to sound so cynical, but I’ve seen this movie before.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It got so shallow, though.
A long time ago, homesteading was the American dream. “Buy your own property, buy stuff for it, build your own life,” and that ethos extended to industrialization, post WWII (with the suburban boom), and even the 80s/90s.
I feel like that slowly broke with the rise of social media.
The “American urge” went from home/lifebuilding to encouraging short term, FOMO thinking. “Who cares about the future, look at this beatuful person, they’re using this thing and you need it NOW!” is what basically all modern ads say. Though there are some oldschool holdouts like Berkshire Hathaway, most big buisnesses seem to have adopted that mindset, too.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 2 weeks ago:
Meta comment, but I like that Lemmy can have these threads, and it’s probably mostly real.
It’s some human 4chan anon, whether they’re making it up or not.
Maybe the majority of comments here are legit.
Meanwhile, when I stumble into a Reddit thread like this (mostly when I miss old.reddit.com and get bombarded with weird engagement bait), it’s… mostly bots?
It’s either obvious, or very suspicious and likely engagement bait. What a dystopia.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
A “minimum RAM usage, minimum UI screen real estate” browser?
I’ve used many browser forks. But I needed one for that specific task, and my search landed me on Zen Browser.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I posit it’s a consumer culture issue.
Look at Temo, Tiktok, Amazon, YouTube; people are bombarded with “buy this on impulse!” every day, 24/7, through notifications. They’re urged to buy high by dozens of influencers.
So they do.
And now that’s the culture. Competition isn’t going to fix that, and doesn’t naturally arise in that kind of environment anyway.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 2 weeks ago:
I hope people here give Valve the same flack they gave Nintendo and Sony for raising prices.
Narrator: they did not.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 2 weeks ago:
The other half is that, at these prices, the manufacturing doesn’t have to be competitive.
They can use a less advanced fab process and still sell it for less than what Micron/SK/Samsung are charging.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 2 weeks ago:
That’s not going to decrease the cost, as Strix Halo is expensive. See: the Framework desktop.
And it needs LPDDR5X, though they could use SOCAMM modules. Framework tried, but I think they ran out of R&D time to work out the electrical gremlins.