rumschlumpel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The potato fidelity I mentioned was because my system literally couldn’t do any better with that game, but I really wanted to play it. Usually I don’t bother with games that my system won’t be able to run well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s not overkill performance. Having a consistent framerate is worth a lot, and like enjoying the sound of a game without headphones, too. I should probably look into getting an aftermarket cooling solution again, but chances are that I’ll need to a bigger PC case for that, which is kind of a pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when I was playing the early access version of Baldur’s Gate 3 at potato fidelity. I bought a new (to me) GPU since then, but I’m pretty sure FSR and its Linux implementation massively improved since then, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Asian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, literal race fetish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not “no true scotsman” this, that only leads to madness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL dammit, fixed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For context, 0.0003 Wh are 0.3 Wh, i.e. ten times less than a ChatGPT query.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid oven mounts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My bass had a completely unused pickup for like a year because I can’t be arsed to figure out how to wire it in a way that makes any sense. Good thumbrest though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with recreating that environment on a wooden boat is that the sea is really, really wet. Sailing boats definitely had issues with spoiling citrus fruit, it’s part of why they switched to citrus syrup at one point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly does “stored correctly” mean? I assume dry and cool?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On a boat, possibly in the tropics, without spoiling? Doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That wasn’t the question, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently meat contains enough vitamin c to fend off scurvy if you eat it fresh and raw (I don’t remember how raw it has to be, but definitely fresh). Depending on where your route takes you, that might have been an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fresh fruit spoil easily. How do you preserve fruit for months without destroying the vitamin c, before refrigerators were a thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but the point is that tv shows or movies generally don’t pretend like that - you cannot make those on your own, but it has been possible in the past to make a successful YouTube channel on your own, which is why it’s possible to pretend in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The audience you need to make good money on YouTube, without external deals, is orders of magnitudes larger than on Twitch, though.

  It’s true that getting a large audience on Twitch is really hard nowadays, though. Seems like it was a lot easier a couple of years ago, not sure if it’s just because of changed algorithms or because of supply-side market saturation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who believes that content producers can finance themselves through voluntary donations is usually completely wrong

  It works quite well on Twitch - if you have a lot of viewers on Twitch, you usually get enough donations to live off of. YouTube just never managed to find a good way to make creators profit directly from their content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of them are pretending that they aren’t corporate. YouTubers are generally trying to keep up the illusion of authenticity, which on YouTube usually includes pretending that you’re on your own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It gets there too, but not as much. The dust comes from outside the closet, not inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anon describes conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t think most conservatives would become anti-car for even a second, even if they got run over but a giant truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It has also been done in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (the one where Harry was smart). Unfortunately for Harry, Voldemort was also smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon crunches some numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I could totally see an antiquity-level society that’s built on wood and paper. Cultures are weird, the Celts seemed to be fairly advanced for their time (apparently they invented a number of fairly intricate and important technologies) but left practically no writing for religious reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon crunches some numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The hunter-gatherer cultures we see today actually seem to have a lot of free time. Seems like technological and cultural progress has different mechanics.

  I’d say agriculture’s influence is that it’s a big incentive for people to stay in one place and develop relative dense communities, that density is what is actually speeding up progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a diet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like smooching or oral sex would take care of the urge …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Word. Updates are annoying, I hate it when things start working differently and I have to problemsolve it into working my way.

  • typed from my unsupported LTS distro
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a certain period where a lot of people really had a PC, and they learned because the PC had what they wanted. Nowadays there’s relatively little incentive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This shit is how you turn into Voldemort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

  I just downloaded the pdf. Only 2005 pages! I genuinely love it when fanfiction projects get into insane wordcounts. Let’s see if the prose is something I actually want to read for 2005 pages …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I cast Mundane Missile.