nagaram
@nagaram@startrek.website
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I am personally a huge fan of taking advantage of wealthy people.
You don’t really have iPhone 16 pro Max and Air pods money to throw away like this without having a one sided relationship with labor, in my opinion.
But that’s my cynical leftist view.
I imagine the biggest reason to not keep it is fear of your son getting spoiled or demanding gifts from you that are this same caliber.
However, he is 16. Certainly not the most rational age for many people, but he can understand the difference in financial statuses between you and his friend.
I think it would be distressing for you to take away this expensive thing on the grounds of “we’re too poor to have nice things” especially since it was a gift from his best friend. But having that discussion of “hey don’t let that get to your head. I still love you I just could not afford such an expensive gift. Here’s a vague breakdown of our expenses”
My dad had a similar discussion with me when I was getting ready to go to college the first time and he flat out told me how much he and mom made and broke down where the money goes. It really helped me understand our economic position instead of just assuming my parents made a good amount of money (they didn’t)
- Comment on Greg Sherman 2 weeks ago:
Very Greg shaped guy
- Comment on Interview: Kerrice Brooks And Bella Shephard On Why ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Is Not A YA Show 3 weeks ago:
If there’s anything I’ve learned from my fiance, it’s that there’s both nothing wrong with a piece of media being for younger audiences and theres nothing wrong with consuming stuff meant for younger audiences.
Shit, Prodigy is endlessly shilled by folks on Mastodon with 18+ only in their banners.
- Comment on Amazing. 3 weeks ago:
This man will repair your car in such a way it will both never break and when you do go to a normal mechanic for something they will gaze upon it in awe and horror.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 3 weeks ago:
Of the lines I draw in my gun purchasing decisions (you’re right they’re all war profitiers), IWI and the like is the only one that I actively disuade people from.
That being said, the engineering history nerd in me is easily compelled to learn about design philosophies
- Comment on NVIDIA stable driver 575.57.08 released for Linux 3 weeks ago:
Nice! Maybe I can get that AI server working then.
- Comment on The Human Workforce Behind AI Wants a Union 3 weeks ago:
Good. Everyone deserves a union.
I do hope they do good things for the greater good of humanity though, which is historically what Google devs have unionized over seeing as they most certainly aren’t hurting for money.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure the people of Gaza are always excited to play the “counter terrorists” on Dust 2 as well.
It took watching a bunch of videos on Israeli weapons development before I learned who uses the fucking Negev
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense. The government probably didn’t want to fund 2 games studios when 1 is fine.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 4 weeks ago:
I’m a fan generally of LLMs for work, but only if you’re already an expert or well versed at all in whatever you’re doing with the model because it isn’t trust worthy.
If you’re using a model to code you better already know how that language works and how to debug it because the AI will just lie.
If you need it to make an SOP then you better already have an idea for what that operation looks like because it will just lie.
It speeds up the work process by instantly doing the tedious parts of jobs, but it’s worthless if you can’t verify the accuracy. And I’m worried people don’t care about the accuracy.
- Comment on No dont look back! 5 weeks ago:
I’m pleased with this explanation. And I want this user to know I appreciate their joke that would have been funny 2000 years ago too.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That feels cursed as a fandom dot com wiki
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 5 weeks ago:
I completely forgot about the Kelvin Klingons.
I had to Google it. They’re not bad. I think there’s some fun to be had with the idea of their weird virus that messed with their ridges.
Like disco Klingons are the original pre-virus Klingon, ToS and Kelvin are some of the variants we get during the virus, and TNG is the Post virus
- Comment on Cox and charter merger announced 5 weeks ago:
Shit they weren’t merged?
I could have sworn this already happened
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 5 weeks ago:
That was a tech demo I’m pretty sure and not just a thing they do btw. A company was trying to make a more efficient sound based comms for AI(?)
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 1 month ago:
Well there’s all the problems then
Asking a AAA studio to make their game sub 128 GB AND optimize it in anyway is a tall ask
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 1 month ago:
Do they even make disks with enough space for a modern game? Secondly, would a spinning disk be fast enough for it?
I feel like the only way for truly physical media in the AAA space to be a thing again is if people are willing to pay an extra $60+ for an external SSD that holds the game.
- Comment on AMERICAN POPE LETS GO 1 month ago:
Were they not supposed to be funny normally?
Are we not all on the brink?
- Comment on ABSOLUTE MADNESS 1 month ago:
Dude SHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUPSHUTTHEFUCKUP
- Comment on He would have been a better choice as new Pope 1 month ago:
But is he a class traitor? He seemed awfully at home.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 month ago:
Bethesda game runs like ass
That’s not news
- Comment on CHICKEN JOCKEY vs JASON MOMOA - Christopher 5-Year-Old Creates Minecraft Movie Trailer and the Internet Loves It! 1 month ago:
That was among the most brain rot tier shit I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 month ago:
Odd since it’s arguably just as easy to make a new reddit account
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 1 month ago:
They didn’t say they’re poorly dressed. Just ugly
- Comment on What else do you need? 2 months ago:
I wish I had this rizz
- Comment on You see "him" everywhere including on ancient coins 2 months ago:
Twilight Zone music
- Comment on Forbidden weapon 2 months ago:
I was promised SHIT POSTS and now I get one! Thank you!
- Comment on >meme arrows 2 months ago:
Chat is this real? (I won’t download X you can’t make me)
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 9 months ago:
There’s a book I read that takes place in Faerun where a cleric is getting tortured by ogre clerics by having his limbs broken and then they use heal spells to heal his limbs at odd angles. After he’s freed, they break his limbs again, heal them in braces, but he had a permanent limp
DnD healing can only do so much before its just some high power reality changing magic.
- Comment on If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite? 9 months ago:
Beautiful redundancy. My one true love