NutinButNet

@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But people forget about the DLC that is expected of the consumer to buy for the “full experience”. Some games don’t have a complete story if you don’t buy the DLC or you can’t access all the features without DLC, such as multiplayer games that don’t let you play with your friends if you don’t have that specific DLC pack.

  So not only is it a $70 price up front, they also want you to spend, at least, an extra $30 on the new DLC season pass or buy the DLC separately at a slightly higher cost over time. Also not including the special edition packs with extras, either physical or digital, that add to that initial $70. Ubisoft is the biggest asshole in this space, going as high as $120 for a day 1 release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you combat boredom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eating lol. Trying to stop that now.

  Now I’ve been developing better habits like choosing to eat better foods, eat less (especially when I’m bored), exercise, and got a new hobby making videos for YouTube/other platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Places are changing this especially now that tap to pay and Apple Pay/Google Pay/etc are getting more popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the easiest way to get your own wikipedia page without committing a crime?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did this and they removed it and I reposted it and then they threatened to ban me lol

  Granted this was decades ago when I was a teen, but I doubt they have changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When someone asks for help/asks what something is on Reddit and the top comments are just stupid jokes that don't answer OP's question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy’s isn’t jokes as much as something the community is going to circlejerk and rage over for the millionth and a half time.

  I don’t even go to the comments on some things anymore because I just know it’s going to be someone raging over something and everyone else joining in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When someone asks for help/asks what something is on Reddit and the top comments are just stupid jokes that don't answer OP's question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play a game with myself and try to guess the top comments on a Reddit thread. I was usually accurate…

  Post about a box? Top comment is going to be about the cumbox.

  Post about broken bones? Top comment is about sexual activities with mother.

  Post about a toilet? Top comment is about a poop knife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I and many others agree. But I got like 75 games for free off there. Only played like 3 of them lol but I think of it as my backup if anything happens with steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online Order Tracking Numbers Linked to 3rd Party Site Trackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got into an argument with my local post office for doing that. The mailman was notorious for marking packages as delivered when he hadn’t even left the damn parking lot. Every morning at 8 AM I would get a delivered notification to my email.

  The USPS employee I was talking to said “oh that’s normal, we all do that.” Huh? You mark a package as delivered and you haven’t even left the parking lot?! How does that make any sense? Why even provide a status update to me at all if you do that??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That Spider-Man box for Gameboy Advance gave me serious nostalgia. I never owned the game but I think because I saw it dozens of times behind the glass as Walmart growing up. I haven’t seen it in years. Back when they had the controllers out so you could stare up and give yourself wild neck pains from playing games while mom shopped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would Harvey Birdman cartoon look like to a color blind person?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe because it’s very colorful. It is one of more colorful shows I can think of, of cartoons, especially ones made for adult audiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you wash a weighted blanket, is it just the outside you wash after removing it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never had one so asking others, is there any way a dry cleaner would take it and clean it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Not so)Smartphone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Siri legit has gotten dumber over the last few years and it only got worse with “Apple Intelligence”.

  I used to rely on her a lot more but I can’t trust her for the most basic shit anymore. It’s easier to go into my phone app and pick my contact to call. At least I know it’s not going to do something dumb like call my ex when I said call my mom.

  I used to like having the option to tell Siri to “play that album” when playing a random song and she forgot how to do that. Also the whole change to just playing the song instead of playing the song with the album, or remembering my choice to keep repeat on. It’s infuriating because all they had to do was leave it alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just another example of Nintendo sucking.

  I’m so glad I didn’t buy this piece of shit. Keep your junk, Nintendo. I’ll enjoy your games on PC when emulation comes.

  Which is funny because I would have been a paying customer. But now I don’t have to!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wells Fargo used to do that to me.

  We charged you to transfer money from your savings account to your checking account.

  Yeah because that robot needed to be reimbursed for their time lost moving MY money from one account to another.

  I had money transferred into savings because that was the requirement to have a “free” checking account despite me not wanting to use their bullshit savings account. It finally led to me canceling it because “you transfer too often from your savings account” and they cited this stupid law that says I can only transfer from savings so many times before triggering yet another fee that goes to the bank.

  Fuck all these big banks and the banking system that enables this shitty behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is me on nearly every level.

  But my little sister just ends up getting drunk, eating all the food and falling off the boat hahaha. So we put her ass in the jail sell till she sobers up.

  When I first read this, I thought your sister was doing this IRL lol

  My brother and I played a few times, but he’s not into it.

  I like playing alone sometimes but then it gets boring and repetitive playing by myself. I’m not into PvP either so I’m okay with meeting AI enemies, but as soon as another human comes around, I usually noped out because I just don’t want to be bothered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people especially men care if someone forgives a cheating partner⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because most cheaters will repeat the behavior again. At least, that’s the way it appears. I don’t have statistics to back that up, but this is what a lot of people believe.

  And they may not necessarily be wrong because most things you do, you’ll do again, especially something as heinous as cheating, which is a betrayal of someone you supposedly have a lot of love and care for yet can go behind their back and do things with someone else that was meant only for that person who’s special to you. Many cheaters have an attitude of “who cares? It wasn’t that big of a deal.” which minimizes the act and seems like a way to justify it if it happens again or gets close to that point.

  I wouldn’t put cheating on the same level as murder, but I think it’s more similar to abuse and may be classified as a type of emotional abuse on some level. It’s really harmful and damaging and can be traumatic. I’ve dated some women who were cheated on and it changed their lives so much and made them very insecure and somewhat broken for future relationships. My last ex was a mess from her spouse cheating on her and leaving her and it greatly affected our relationship and how she interacted with me and eventually led to our downfall.

  People care about the person who was cheated on and don’t want them to be hurt again. They know the hardship that person endured and the pain they felt and don’t want them to experience more pain if that happens again, which seems likely to many people. And like abuse, if a friend told me their partner was abusing them, I’d feel very concerned especially if they have decided to get back together with this person after going through that. And I and many others feel very similarly about cheating.

  And in the case of relationships, it is super easy to overlook someone’s bad qualities and even evil deeds because of how you feel about them. I, to this day, struggle with reminding myself of the evil things some of my exes did to me that caused us to break apart and instead have “rose tinted glasses” and want them back despite the hell they put me through. Good friends remind you of the reality of that person and that relationship and do so because they care.

  That’s not to say that cheating should never be forgiven and you should always be branded as a cheater and never experience real love and you can never fully stop cheating. Nor to say that your boyfriend is wrong and you will most definitely cheat again. No, not saying that in the slightest.

  Just saying, that’s where most people come from and I hesitate to say that they’re wrong up to a certain point.

  If I were a friend of your boyfriend’s, I’d likely be in that camp too, telling him that I feel he’s making a bad decision to continue in the relationship with you for the cheating alone, just on that basis. But there does come a time where as a friend, you should back off and let someone make their own choices for their own life, you’ve given them everything you hope is truth and will benefit their life, and you earnestly hope and pray that you’re proven wrong and the decision they’ve made ends up working well for them. Thankfully cheating isn’t life ending, so no worries there, but a broken heart can last years and is really damaging and sad. No one wants to see their friend get hurt again if they really care about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom reveals Resident Evil Requiem started as an online game, ‘but we realised fans didn’t want it’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking finally. I am getting so sick of this online trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm OBSESSED with Diagonal Elevators in Games [20m YT]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the only one that comes to mind for me and they missed it???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I place little value on someone’s educational experience anymore since a lot of this can and is usually learned from nearly any place on the web or dark web.

  It seems that for an evil maid attack to occur, someone would need to leave the device unattended, specifically with their admin/sudo account logged in so they can create the access they want later. That is, unless they discovered an exploit in the system that enabled them to gain that access by some other means.

  The three best ways someone would be proactive against this attack are:

  • never leave your device logged in and unattended without some sort of passcode system being necessary to get in and execute commands/programs.
  • never leave “guest” accounts active on your device, even if they don’t have admin permissions. This can make it easier for someone to find other exploits to gain admin access.
  • always separate your accounts. Have a dedicated account for admin level escalations and use it only for that purpose and nothing else. If an attacker is to somehow get your attention away and leave your device unattended, at least this leaves them with no admin access on your main account

  If you suspect your device has been compromised, the best thing to do is to shut down and disconnect from the network (unplug Ethernet cable and consider removing the WiFi card; even with the device powered off) and have a professional inspect it. I say that because even if you reinstall the OS or even get another OS, there’s no way to tell if something hardware was added to allow intrusion if we’re worried about physical access being compromised to the device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best laptop under $200 to buy for YunoHost Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No TVs either? Most laptops over the last 15+ years have HDMI/VGA which is generally available on TVs made in the last 15+ years too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Kepler Tells Gamers To "Get Ready For The First <$1000 Console"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people have been recommending Bazzite recently. It’s like SteamOS in a lot of ways and focused heavily on gaming.

  SteamOS is unofficially available as well now but you’ll run into issues if you have Nvidia GPU like me.

  I’ve heard Pop!_os being good for gaming too, and while I’ve used it, I didn’t use it for gaming.

  This site has 11 that it recommends for gaming focused distros itsfoss.com/linux-gaming-distributions/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 won't be "making jokes every minute", because it's set in a totalitarian world⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the game franchise itself is now the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Kepler Tells Gamers To "Get Ready For The First <$1000 Console"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to PC gaming, console players.

  Only with more steps in between.

  That price point might as well just get you to buy a prebuilt or save money and buy the parts individually and build it yourself. Throw on a free Linux distro that gives you that console feel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people gurgling the switch 2 so hard?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Game prices? I understand the Nintendo cult is always stiff. But for the last 10 years these people bitched about $70 games. And now they are just throwing excuse after excuse defending $80 games now. But the lie I’ve been hearing is “Sony has been selling $80 games since the PS5 came out” No… No it hasn’t. There is not one base PS5 game for $80 ever made.

  I’m very much against this and always have been, but I think not everyone has been. Some people will buy these games at any cost, especially when it comes to Nintendo and children. Children don’t understand the true costs and parents just want a happy kid and think it’s not that bad of a price for their kid to be happy. Most probably don’t pay attention to the price to see that it once was $50 and now is $80 for the new games.

  It’s infuriating for me because my boycott effectively means nothing when these people exist. But no matter, I’m happy with my PC and waiting on emulation when it comes to play these games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You forget that the companies making those cheap cars are often the same companies of the fancier cars. Thinking Hyundai and their Genesis line.

  Hyundai will never make a Sonata look like a fancy super car because then they won’t have any reason for someone to want to pay more for the fancier models that their Genesis line has for 3x the cost.

  The people buying the fancier cars want something exotic that no one else is driving on the roads. They will willingly pay the premium for that luxury to not look like the rest of the cars on the road. Many also don’t care what’s under the hood, i.e. doesn’t matter if a cheaper Chevy can beat their Maserati, they’re buying the car for the exotic looks.

  And then you also have some people who don’t want something flashy even if it is cheap. When I lived in a not so great area, I specifically did not want anything that drew attention to me. For example, I didn’t even want to wear knock offs of high end clothing like a knock off of Gucci clothing because it makes people think I have money and am a target for being robbed. So yes, I want the generic 4 door sedan the broke college kids are driving. Maybe the local thief won’t be so likely to smash my windows or try to carjack me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my turn signal all the time so I’m not one of these people, but here’s what I’ve heard from others over the years:

  • there’s a video of one woman being asked on a college campus and she said it’s not “manly” for men to use their turn signals
  • one cop on Reddit said he doesn’t use it when he “knows” no one is around
  • my dad would get on my mom about it and she said it was a bad habit of not putting it on (whereas my dad stressed us to use ours when teaching us how to drive)
  • I had a friend who brushed it off because “it’s just me being a girly girl” while making a stupid cute face gesture
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be someone wanting to share the WiFi on something like a tablet. Or someone using an Android phone as an “iPod Touch”, basically everything the phone has minus cellular capabilities but still wanting to share the WiFi with other devices.

  I could see this being very popular on flights and cruises where they charge you per device to pay for this one device and then share with other devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They shut down third party apps like Apollo. That was my last draw.

  Fuck using that garbage official app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We should assume that our chats/calls are being recorded on services like this. But why exactly is this done? Seems like it leaves a lot of liability on their end and then added costs for the storage of all that data.

  Are they required to or are they selling the data?