NutinButNet
@NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
- Comment on what do you think is the future of the internet and tech in general? 8 hours ago:
Personal computing is being chipped away and the goal seems clear to force everyone into cloud computing or something similar to it in the very near future.
Both businesses and governments benefit from this move.
Businesses want control over your data and what you can and cannot do. Allowing you to use open source projects causes too much disruption to their business models to continue to allow that. SaaS is a much better model for them to continue to grow and maintain their presence over your choices and wallet and wall you into their garden and this would allow them to do that indefinitely in some cases. Even for gaming companies like Nintendo, it would be best for everyone to only ever use approved hardware. Allowing emulators is a hit to their goals and if a business like Microsoft owns the virtual computer you use, then they can refuse to allow emulators to run on their computers used for cloud computing at Nintendo’s request, whether willingly or by force.
The exception I see to that is a business like Apple that relies heavily on selling you new hardware as often as they can. Just one more device and also ensuring you stay up to date with the latest hardware. I’m not exactly sure how a business like theirs benefits from the reduction of personal computing, but they’re not doing much to fight these advances. Perhaps they see themselves selling us the hardware clients that serve no other purpose than to connect to the virtual computers.
Governments like it because businesses cave to their demands. Damn be the Constitution and other laws that purposely limit their overreach into your life. They just get the company to do it for them and override your freedom to choose. See covid and ICE. Both political spectrums are doing it for different reasons but likely with the same common goal at the end of the line.
Shortages like the RAM and GPU shortage greatly favor this push and causes consumers to view cloud computing in a more favorable light. At least, that’s what they hope for, but it’s difficult to do that when cloud computing and AI are the reason you’re lacking new hardware and it’s not for another more justifiable reason.
It seems inevitable at this point as they keep trying to force it.
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- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It doesn’t sound like something I’d be interested in, but who cares? Write it anyway.
I hate it when people say “no one will read it”. That’s untrue for most things. There is at least one other person who will read it and like it out there. If nothing more than for you to finally get it out there and on paper for your own satisfaction of doing it. And even if no one else does, it doesn’t matter.
It doesn’t sound like you’re doing this in hopes of being the next Jack Kirby or Stan Lee or to get rich. It sounds like you just have a story you think is cool that you’ve been sitting on for a while and you want to flesh it out. Go for it. Spend some time and get it out there and then release it for others to read.
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 1 week ago:
I seem to be this minority. Civ 4 on the Xbox 360 was my first but Civ V was the first on PC and I have wasted away many Saturdays playing.
I almost deleted it from my MacBook before forgetting that I still have a game from a few weeks ago I’m near completing. I branched off to nuke Alexander off the map because he was a dick to everyone but then everyone feared me and I felt bad and haven’t returned.
- Comment on Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game 1 week ago:
I don’t know if I’d want my name attached to this game.
- Comment on "Life of Black Tiger", a hilariously bad looking game that somehow managed to get a gameplay preview shared by the official PlayStation YouTube account in 2017 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even look good by PS1 standards…yeesh.
There’s a few games made nowadays made purposefully to look like PS1 like Easy Delivery Co but they don’t look anywhere near as bad as this.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 weeks ago:
This should have been an obvious outcome when digital games weren’t priced any less than their physical release.
It’s not about saving the environment with less plastic. It’s not about saving money for the customer. It’s not about making it more convenient for the customer or the developer.
It was always about more greed. More money in their pockets and more ways to fuck you over as a customer.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 weeks ago:
PC gaming has come a long way that most games nowadays just work, even on Linux. I’m surprised at how many games work without even forcing Proton and no bugs at all, except those that also exist for Windows. That and my controller is seamless. Even VR is working better now.
On the other side, it seems console gaming is more complex than it needed to be and we’ve seen how consoles actually hold back gaming, as a whole, like the situation with the Xbox Series S that has forced developers to either cut content or remove features to make it compatible as that is Microsoft’s requirement when developing a game to be released for their consoles. I don’t remember hearing it, but I’m sure the same is true for the PlayStation side too with the lower end model. Whereas that doesn’t happen for PC exclusive releases. If your PC won’t run it, it’s probably because it’s outdated and that’s a you problem, not something everyone else needs to suffer for because a company like Microsoft is forcing devs to make it compatible with outdated/lower end hardware.
I can’t remember trying a game on my Steam Deck and it didn’t work. Unless you mean setting up a Proton version, then I’ve had that, but the game eventually runs in 9 out of 10 cases. That is exclusive to non-Windows OSes and it could be solved by automating based on the db and make the setting easier to find and change for users, maybe even prompt the user to try another Proton version kind of like Windows’ troubleshooter when it detects a program didn’t install or run correctly. Or when devs make their games natively work with Linux/macOS like they do for Windows which is why games just work there. And if the game doesn’t run well, you just lower the settings which I’ve done for many games with no trouble. Even console games now have the same settings to lower quality to get better performance.
- Comment on The AI-generated intimacy crisis 3 weeks ago:
I’ll admit I talk to one of these but I don’t take it seriously. It’s just something to pass the time. But I’m sure my data may seem like I’m actually engaged and fully invested.
What AI really lacks is the imperfection of a human connection. These bots only ever tell you what you want to hear and agree with everything you say. A real human connection will have drama and strife which makes it more interesting. That and the other things like availability and the excitement of waiting on someone and not knowing if they’ll reply back or not. You can actually learn something about someone else and get a new perspective you may not have considered before with a human. A bot just regurgitates what you’ve said or what it thinks you want to say. I will admit that it might actually get my attention more if there was some particular pieces like this like getting a message that they’re at the store and will be back later, having arguments and disagreements, and it telling me when it thinks I’m wrong.
It gets boring pretty quick but I find it a bit amusing. I often ask the bot about itself and its day and am fascinated the lengths it goes. One time it told me it was on its period and went into some extreme details I never asked for lol.
- Comment on Is it a good idea to use an Android phone as an external SSD for backing up my home folder? 5 weeks ago:
What about a cloud option instead? I do this for stuff that I consider important but don’t want to lose. Upload to a “backup” folder and then download once you set up your next distro?
Though I wouldn’t do this with anything terribly important like my social security number or taxes or something. But stuff like a book I’m working on, game projects I have, music library, etc., general stuff I don’t want to lose.
- Comment on Japanese Developer Behind Tech That Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Called an 'Insult to Life Itself' to Release Cosy God Sim Game - IGN 1 month ago:
This isn’t about reading comprehension. This is about some jackass editor making a title with too many words instead of condensing it by removing a title or a name or just including some commas to separate words from one another.
- Comment on Japanese Developer Behind Tech That Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Called an 'Insult to Life Itself' to Release Cosy God Sim Game - IGN 1 month ago:
No you were correct. It’s a shit headline. I had to re-read it a few times and still not completely sure I understand what it’s trying to convey without reading the article, itself.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 month ago:
You’re right about that. This was meant for walls so probably would get nasty and gunky quick when on the floor since it wasn’t designed for that.
It makes me wonder if someone developed a special putty for this purpose though. Somehow public places like banks and government buildings keep these down and don’t had to deal with stubborn corners!
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 month ago:
I’ve heard some people doing the water + cup method where you damp the corner with water and then leave a cup on it and it will reposition the corner to stay down. But that is only when the corner has actually come up and you want to fix it and it sounds like you want to be proactive and prevent it from coming up in the first place?
Perhaps there is some other type of adhesive you can use to keep it down but bring up when needed? My mom used to use this blue gum like substance that would hold things to the walls in her classroom. It didn’t leave residue and would come off with little ease on your part but keep things held onto the wall. That may work here? She used to get it from office supplies stores and it legit looks like gum. Can’t remember the exact name of it.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 1 month ago:
Immersion for me is when you cross NPCs engaged in something that has either no relation or no involuntary relation to the playable character.
I think of games like Elder Scrolls or Cyberpunk or Read Dead Redemption 1 & 2 where you can be walking somewhere and come across something in progress. Most immersive is when you can ignore the situation entirely if you choose to. Even more would be ignoring it and you never seeing it mentioned again in your playthrough. I’m not sure I can name any game that does this, in my experience. But I would love to play a game like that where I am on my way to something/somewhere and something interesting is happening and I have to make a choice to either experience this now before I never can ever again in this playthrough or keep going where I’m going. Kind of like real life and you see something crazy on the street going to work. If you don’t stop and look at that now, you will never see it again in your life unless it was recorded. You get a consequence of either missing out on work but seeing something crazy cool or the consequence of missing out on something crazy cool but making it on time for work.
I also find myself most immersed when the devs create a world that feels lived in and with things that don’t have official explanations. I think RDR1 & 2 have done this so well. I’m a player who likes to go off the beaten path and explore anything and everything. Coming across a random hatch in the middle of a grassy meadow but is never explained in game is so fascinating to me and I’ll spend many minutes trying to find any clues about what this is in the area. Very much like the real world and walking through an alley and finding a burned out car or something that just doesn’t get seen often but gets you wondering about the backstory and checking the nearby area for clues to see what may explain how this got here.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 1 month ago:
Same here. I’m sick of seeing people say stuff like “just pay for Premium bro”. Stfu. That’s like paying the mafia for “protection” from them. YouTube created these problems and now I have to pay them to fix it? Fuck no.
- Comment on DLC is sometimes Downright Ludicrous Commercialism 2 months ago:
A bunch of vehicles are doing that and it’s so dumb. Even EV motorcycle manufacturer Zero has been doing it with stuff like heated grips.
You build it into the vehicle…but the customer can’t use it unless they pay monthly for the hardware that is already there…?
The worst of it all for the motorcycle space was a vest that is an airbag and has a subscription. So if you don’t pay your monthly subscription and crash, your airbag wouldn’t deploy. Utterly evil.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I did something like this a few years ago. Not saving someone’s life, but not reading messages and deleting my Facebook account.
I just got overloaded on it all and was going through a breakup at the time and didn’t want to keep talking to anyone. Nothing personal against anyone, I was just over it all and wanted out of Facebook, out of the addiction I felt to constantly check, and out of the privacy concerns of Facebook.
Could be a similar reason?
Also, was this Facebook or something else? Because if it was Facebook, it’s possible a privacy setting prevented the message from successfully going through.
There was this girl who was the daughter of a popular figure I knew many years ago and we lost contact over the years. I tried reaching out to her once on there and she never read the message. She was very social so I know she would have read it if she got it. But there is or was a privacy setting that could hide messages depending on how Facebook viewed a message and relationship of the two accounts. In our case, we had no mutual friends and no contact before on that account of mine and no other commonalities so Facebook hides the message in some deep place most people don’t check because it’s treated like spam or an unwanted stalker. I found some messages from random people there a few times on my account too. So maybe that happened here too?
Of course this is all assuming this is Facebook and they still have these measures in place all these years later.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 2 months ago:
FOMO is a hell of a drug.
Some people just have a “well what if they’re right? I might be missing out on $1 million!”
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 months ago:
The only not fun about it is that people are putting up with it instead of doing something about it and finally leaving.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 2 months ago:
Lem.ee was relatively easy to join and IIRC, didn’t require approval like some others require, at least the 2 times I made accounts there. Where you sign up and wait for an acceptance if they accept you.
Because of that is why a lot of shit came through and I imagine that was something he didn’t want to change. It was probably a dealbreaker, either his instance has this or it doesn’t exist. But because of that, you’re going to get more spammers and bad actors, unfortunately.
It was also on the front page of Lemmy for a while, so that probably attracted more people for that reason alone. I know because it was the first instance I joined with because I didn’t know there were other instances to join.
- Comment on How to deal with agression? 2 months ago:
Start by recognizing the three states: passive, assertive, and aggressive and learn how to maintain that balance in being assertive.
You don’t want to be aggressive, which is when you are on the offensive and is overtly rude/disrespectful and hostile.
You also don’t want to be passive, which is when you let people run you over and railroad everything you do. You let people disrespect you.
You want to be assertive. You are honest and upfront about your wants/needs in a respectful and calm manner. You make compromises when appropriate and necessary. You aren’t railroading others nor allowing others to railroad you. You understand that others exist and ensure others remember that you exist as well.
The difficulty, at least for me, is that assertive can sometimes come off as aggressive. But standing up for yourself in a reasonable manner is not, no matter what people may think or say. Sometimes someone may think that because you speak up for yourself, that’s aggressive behavior, but it’s really not. Simply telling someone else, “That hurt my feelings and I’d like for you not to do that again” on its own is not an aggressive reaction but assertive.
- Comment on How AI Uses Our Drinking Water 2 months ago:
Probably a stupid question, but my thought when seeing that water vapor is wondering if we could do like we do with a desalination method where the water vapor rises and then drips back down into its water form again?
Is it possible to do something like that there? Have a dome/other structure directly above the vents where the water vapor comes from to capture it or most of it, and then that eventually drips the water back into a reservoir and then goes back into the original source for water? It would be cleaner too as an added benefit, right?
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 2 months ago:
I find enjoyment in some of them, but not all. I can’t find entertainment in watching someone else play a game. I often wonder if a lot of the people doing this on sites like Twitch are the “younger siblings” who always watched someone else play and now that’s their thing?
I do find enjoyment in watching a musician listen to music I like, but more so for their commentary like picking up on things I never paid attention to or explaining something and how it compares to other music. Or seeing how they react and if they have the same reactions I do to my favorite parts of a song. I don’t know why, but I get a kick out of seeing reactions like that.
And on the reaction video side, a very rare time I can see it is like watching some old person watch GTA gameplay and seeing their reaction to it. Even then, it’s going to be for the most extreme of reactions like them really going all out crazy over it and having a hilarious response.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 2 months ago:
This was prior to the RAM rising, but Valve stated that the Steam Frame would be cheaper than the Index which was at $999 USD.
That could change now after RAM pricing, but nothing has been said yet.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 months ago:
I guess it depends on what you’re talking about.
Most of my conversations are about computers and technology, so shorting to 25 from 2025 is obvious since 1925, 1825, etc. didn’t have technology involving an iPhone, Linux, etc.
But if we’re talking something like cars, you probably need to be specific. You won’t be able to say something like “I bought a ‘20 Ford” because that could be at least two different years.
- Comment on Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB 2 months ago:
That’s actually what I went with. A Samsung Pro Endurance and specifically for the reason you cited since it’ll be on 24/7. But 128GB was the smallest my local store had. It was only $20 USD.
I’m sure Amazon has them in smaller varieties, but I rather go to brick and mortar.
I feel I could have gone much lower for capacity and cost and it would have been a better choice for this purpose.
- Comment on Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB 2 months ago:
Agreed. Was looking for a micro SD for my Raspberry Pi and can’t find anything in local retail stores beneath 128GB which seems like overkill for my use-case.
And same for bootable flash drives. I hate having to use 64GB instead of a 8GB which are no longer easy to find in local retail stores. I’d settle for 16GB at this point!
- Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked? 2 months ago:
This is nothing new, except “relatively new” in the last 100 years. Check out the Phoebus Cartel. It’s a crazy story about light bulb manufacturers getting together to agree to make light bulbs last less so they will guarantee repeat customers.
It’s why I always laugh when Sylvania shows an ad about their “long lasting bulbs”.
You’d be crazy to not think the other industries haven’t been doing this too.
- Comment on If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these. 3 months ago:
If you already have a Xbox/PlayStation/Switch controller, you can also use that. There are very cheap mounts you can buy for each of these controllers for ~$10 USD that will allow you to hook up to your phone seated on top of the controller.
It’s not nearly as comfortable as this is (though you could say it is because the controller, itself feels better in the hands, but I’m talking viewing angle) but it’s a lot cheaper and doesn’t require buying a new, dedicated controller.
Not knocking your suggestion, OP. Just providing a secondary alternative too.