brucethemoose
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- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 days ago:
10% is still a wild fluctuation for a company with the market cap of Tesla. In this case, I think its not “that” deceptive, as zero is not usually a reference in this case.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 days ago:
This ^
It seems like a dismissive statement, but Tesla is the embodiment of this era’s “hype” investing. So many players have it leveraged like a big casino game, and the end result is (mostly) that small time or “slow” investors (like your retirement fund) get screwed over.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Yep!
And this is true for many Linux native games in general. You can’t assume the native version will even be in the same ballpark as the proton path, you just have to try and see.
Sometimes there is a big advantage for native Linux, too. Modded Minecraft and Starsector (both Java and OpenGL on all platforms) are the concrete examples I personally tested, where the simulation and frame rate are, similarly, massively faster in Linux than Windows.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
I tried heavily modded and almost vanilla, just with harmony and DBH. I did not try vanilla Stellaris, but modding is all just text scripting, so it’s not possible to change to the underlying engine.
The problem seems fairly evident to me: the Linux versions of the engines fall back to OpenGL and are poorly supported by the devs, while the dx9 (now dx11 for Stellaris) backends receive the optimizations.
- Comment on Apple Loses $1 Billion Annually on Apple TV+ | Report 1 week ago:
Yeah I mean I am praising Apple TV here.
Severance, For All Mankind, Silo, they’ve been making lots of sci-fi worth watching. Morning Show was good too.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Modded, both cases.
- Comment on Divided and conquered 1 week ago:
In much of the public’s eye, it is a culture war. That’s what determined their vote and support.
- Comment on Apple Loses $1 Billion Annually on Apple TV+ | Report 1 week ago:
Doesn’t count synergy bonuses. How many more devices do they sell, how many more users do they retain in the ecosystem, from pushing Apple TV?
Especially since, frankly, it’s very good. I much prefer their “quality over quantity” approach and the stuff they are willing to fund.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Even worse, better TPS. Days chug along in Linux compared to Windows, along the lines of a 1.5x slowdown.
FPS spikes are much worse, too. I tested both extensively.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Depends how familiar with disk partitioning you already are, but it’s generally not that bad.
I guess this is the thing with Linux, at various levels it skews DIY and more time intense. And honestly the market seems to be bifurcating between that and the opposite extreme: Android/iOS, which many use as their main PCs now.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Consider this: why do you have 2TB of games installed?
IDK what your gaming habits are, but I find myself bouncing between a few at most, 1 big AAA at most, and found keeping the rest… to be blunt, data hoarding.
You can redownload what you use, progressively.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
This is not always true. I measured that the Proton version of Rimworld and Stellaris, for instance, are massively faster than the Linux one.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
What I do is dual boot Windows/Linux and have them share big NTFS partitions for bulk data they can both access.
You could try getting autocad running?
github.com/…/Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux#fusion…
But TBH, neutering Windows down to a “software tool” to the point I could wipe it and not really care, and spending most of my desktop time on Linux, has been wonderful.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Depends what you do on your computer.
Macs are amazing and unique and, at the same time, extremely infuriating and very expensive.
- Comment on Nicole in my lemmy DMs be like 1 week ago:
Ahh. I missed dead space, but that seems right.
- Comment on Nicole in my lemmy DMs be like 1 week ago:
I know that part, but is the screenshot from a game or something?
- Comment on Nicole in my lemmy DMs be like 1 week ago:
Forgive me, what’s the meme referencing?
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake Will Reportedly Be Revealed Soon, and Released Not Long After That 2 weeks ago:
I bet the remake will be fine, it’s just technical upgrades, no new writing or anything.
What I am more worried about is “fun” writing and storytelling in newer games.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake Will Reportedly Be Revealed Soon, and Released Not Long After That 2 weeks ago:
I mean, Starfield should have been my dream game, but after that…
I dunno. All my enthusiasm for BGS has been sapped, and I adored Oblvion.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake Will Reportedly Be Revealed Soon, and Released Not Long After That 2 weeks ago:
Aww man, are they going to take down Skyblivion right when its done?
- Comment on Pockets 2 weeks ago:
For sure.
Her city’s fashion is 1920s-esque, through with more of a colorful/futuristic flair. TBH one could write a whole thesis on it.
- Comment on JD Vance’s cousin says vice-president and Trump are ‘useful idiots’ to Putin 2 weeks ago:
It’s a great example of disinformation splitting up families.
Mine had a “moment” where my aunt tried to stop my very elderly grandparents from getting a COVID vaccine. And that’s not even the worst bit.
- Comment on Pockets 2 weeks ago:
And a shock glove. Just in case.
- Comment on Pockets 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tiny Face Vance 2 weeks ago:
Banned from Reddit for advocating violence?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 2 weeks ago:
Funny thing is SWTOR has some great art, heartfelt voice acting and quests, great soundtrack and such, but at the end of the day it’s buried in a grindy.
On the other hand, I tried Fallout 76 (after it was patched up) drunk with friends, and it was boring as heck. The quests were so dull, gameplay so arbitrarily janky and grindy. Drunk! With friends! Do you know how low a bar that is :/
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 2 weeks ago:
I’m a sucker for wandering lush bucolic landscapes though.
You should play KC Deliverance 2 if you haven’t. Its forests and rural villages are freaking gorgeous, especially for how “easy” it is to run.
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 2 weeks ago:
Funny thing about AMD is the MI300X is supposedly not selling well. Other than the Framework desktop, they are desperate to stay as uncompetitive in the AI space as they possibly can.
Wasn’t the Intel B580 a good launch, though? It seems to have gotten rave reviews, and it’s in stock, yet has exited the hype cycle.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 2 weeks ago:
all scientists I know (and I work in academia) care very little for misinformation on their day to day lives.
Well in the US, that misinformation is coming for scientists now. Their funding is no longer a given, especially diverging from orthodoxy. Self-censorship is becoming the norm.
It can happen elsewhere, too. Use us as a warning.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 2 weeks ago:
It’s polished and undoubtedly one of the best games of all time.
My only gripe is that I find the pause-based combat lengthy, though not bad.
