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- Comment on 📡📡📡 1 day ago:
Holy moly, this comment section.
Good job for defeating my very low expectations, Lemmy.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 1 day ago:
Is there a discount?
If no, then don’t.
The only case would be if you know you’re going to buy it anyway, even if its bad (just to support the franchise or something like that), and if there’s a discount. Otherwise there’s no logical reason to preorder.
- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 1 day ago:
It’s not a guess. Look at the price of any PC now.
$1000 is literally impossible for the specs it has. Even if they sell at a loss, it’s not even close.
- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 1 day ago:
Many games are sold on 1st party storefronts. Sometimes even indie ones, like Rimworld. I’d say they are less likely to yoink the game since they own all the rights, and they’re often downloaded as DRM-free executables.
So I’d check, in order:
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GoG
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The game dev/publisher storefront.
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Some storefront with a DRM-free download. I noticed EGS (for example) does this for many of their giveaways.
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Steam, as a last resort.
I wouldn’t trust PS5 discs though.
…But you should consider practicality, too.
In practice, your PS5 is going to be your most powerful machine until you get a bigger PC with a GPU. And FYI, the Steam Machine will not be $1000, not even close.
That, and launches less intense games on your Deck is way more convenient if bought through Steam.
So the PS5 discs aren’t impractical. Steam isn’t impractical. They should launch for a reasonably long time.
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- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 1 day ago:
Agreed…
It’s crazy it’s so controversial. Don’t dance on peoples graves.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 1 day ago:
It’s terrible for the health of the Fediverse, too. And probably a legal liability.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 1 day ago:
I think he was… wrong-ish?
I think he didn’t see the forest through the trees.
He was scared of government abuse of surveillance, as he should be. He was scared of a North Korean style surveillance state, basically.
But, IIRC, he didn’t fear corporate abuse enough.
He couldn’t imagine the attention trap the internet would turn into, but I think the signs were there, and he couldn’t imagine that all this would come out and people would choose to reject privacy, anyway. Especially at the scale they do in corporate software.
In other words, I think he should’ve been more worried about a post-truth corporate state than a censored, oldschool dictatorship, as the former seems to be what were barreling towards.
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 5 days ago:
At this point, it’s just insecurity about stuff not working right on Windows now.
At the moment, on my dual boot desktop, hardware acceleration and video playback are busted in Chromium browsers, but it works perfectly fine in Wayland linux. And I don’t really know why.
This is fascinating to me, as the situation was reversed about a year ago.
- Comment on Europe Stayed Out of the U.S.-Iran War. Now It’s ‘Ready to Act.’ 5 days ago:
*No one is supposed to control the strait. Per international maritime law, ships are not supposed to be subject to sovereignty as long as they are just “passing through,” and that only extends 12 miles out from the border of Iran.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 6 days 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 week 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] 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
And it’s a technical marvel. It’s like CryEngine was built for KCDII.
Also, it is so medieval it hurts.
- Comment on 1 week 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] 1 week 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! 1 week 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 ? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
But what’s the context?
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
The twist:
It’s actually a flat piece of paper.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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] 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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] 2 weeks ago:
Starsector.
I see you like space games and Rimworld, so I suspect you will love Starsector.
- Comment on Flipper!! 2 weeks ago:
I suggest autoreplacing it with a more technical term.
fucksexSEX
That’s a sexing dolphin.