Aceticon
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- Comment on heater 2 days ago:
Alternativelly, having been bitten by a radioactive animal early that day, they’re now an animal themed superhero.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 days ago:
I got an N100 for about €130 last year but they same one is now about €240.
Still way more affordable than the usual game machine with a dedicated graphics card and perfectly fine for many Indie games which are fun and have tons of replayability.
Now, if one want to play the latest God Of War on it, forget about it, though myself I genuinely find something like Rimworld more fun.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 days ago:
Fun gaming machine 2027: N100 Mini-PC with integrated graphics and Linux for playing games like Rimworld.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 days ago:
The main argument against the idea that the steep price increases in PC consumer hardware will lead to a Future of “everything runs in the cloud” is that the makers of software that can’t run on the cloud and remain decent (most notably game makers, as proven by the totally failure of things like Stadia) will just target their software the the hardware that’s expected that people will have in 2 - 5 times, which as far as we can tell is “the same hardware as people have now” because only a small fraction of gamers can afford to upgrade.
I would even say that the trend towards that predates this shit - in the last decade or so it’s pretty much only AAA games who have been pushing the envelope in terms of hardware whilst increasingly Indie games are targetting lower end hardware.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 2 days ago:
Well, we can’t really download Hookers or Blow via the Internet, so instead we had to settle for Porn and Digital Piracy.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 3 days ago:
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 4 days ago:
It’s literally less than a cent (euro or dollar) for a whole bottle of tap water.
Out of curiosity I checked the price I pay for tap water in Portugal and 1 m³ (1000 l) costs around €0.5, so a 2l bottle of tap water costs all of 0.01 cents.
- Comment on Moving to the USA could be the Most Expensive Mistake of your Life 1 week ago:
Well, at least the American taxman accepted Euros.
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 1 week ago:
In my country we have a saying: “You can’t please both Greeks and Trojans” (which, to be Historically correct, should have been Athenians and Trojans)
Anyways, the point is that there will always be somebody who doesn’t like you or something you do even whilst others will.
No point in trying to please everybody and caring about what everybody things.
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 1 week ago:
Knowing how to spot genuine sexual enjoyment (from body reactions that can’t actually be willed into happening) really spoils most porn, even the “amateur” stuff.
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 1 week ago:
The Moral problem isn’t the Sex, it’s the Work, specifically the being forced to Work within an Economic and Political structure set-up de facto controlled by others, merelly to survive.
We’re born in a World were somebody else already owns all the stuff we need to survive (most notably Land), and unless lucky to have been born in a high net worth family, de facto slaves who have no option but to Work for the owners of everything in order to survive, and for some people that means Sex Work.
In this line of Work like in many others, I bet that if something like a proper Universal Income came along a lot of people, thus having an actual choice, would be doing something else.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
You seem to be running around with some serioulsy lack of life experience and understanding of people plus are probably subconsciously influenced by exposure to American-style hyperreductive politics (i.e. namelly the Red Scare bollocks) so let me tell you a story:
- I’m a member a small leftwing party in my country. Now, this country used to be under a Fascist dictatorship and had a Revolution which overthrew it about 50 years ago. The result of this is that some older people who fought against Fascism and were deeply involved in Politics during the Revolution are pretty hard-core leftwingers in older more traditional ways.
Now this party I’m in isn’t the Communist Party (yeah, my country has one), differing mainly because it’s against autoritarian approaches to improving people’s lives. That said, a number of members there are from the old generation, who grew up under Fascism with one or other variant of Communism as the lighthouse signalling their way to a better world.
Back when Russia invaded Ukraine, I was having a conversation with some “comrades” from the party (yeah, even though not being the Communist Party, the party I’m in has inherited a lot of elements from the anti-Fascism revolutionary origins of its founding members, and that includes that other party members are “comrades”) and one of the older ones immediatelly sided with Russia.
Now, I happen to understand were he’s coming from (and this is what YOU CLEARLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND JUDGING BY YOUR SIMPLETON JUDGEMENTALISM, DO NOT EVEN TRY) - his political birth was under a Fascist dictatorship, were the by far loudest political messaging for change and the main light illuminating the path out was the Soviet Union’s variant of Communism - most people rotting in the Fascist political prisons were Communists - so of course his instinctive reaction was to think “Russia must be doing this for a good reason” and side with them: that’s just tribalist fanboyism talking (and in my experience the one thing Soviet and Mao’s styles of Communism do well is turning people into unthinking tribalist fanboys, something which people like the OP with their blunt adversarial approach actually help).
Guess what: I actually talked with him about it, pointed out this was a very big nation invading the territory of a smaller nation, one which they couldn’t possibly fear because it was so much smaller - a clear aggressor and victim situation - and that I was on the side of the victim and against the aggressor, just like when the US invaded Iraq I was against the US and on the side of Iraq (and that, my older generation comrade shared) due to exactly the same Principle.
THAT got him thinking and him thinking got him to change his mind about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and side with Ukraine instead of Russia.
So, you see, not all tankies are alike and there are a whole lot of reasons why people end up with those beliefs, and doing like the OP did and just poking them like a little child and running back to your friends boasting about having poked them and how angry they got ain’t gonna change the ones who can change.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
It all feels kinda performative…
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Well, yeah, that’s like going into a German sub and saying how you detest the way of doing things of both Germans and French.
You’re criticizing their way of doing things and just because you’re criticizing somebody else, doesn’t make it any better (in fact, mentioning them like side by side makes it sound you think they’re equivalent, which will piss of a few more people).
Not that think the point you made in that post is incorrect, rather I’m criticizing your “surprise” at the reaction to what you did in the context you did it: I mean if you walked into a Nazi bar and called Hitler a cunt it would be both be true that “You’re correct” and “You set yourself up to be assaulted by Nazis”.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
I had exactly the same experience and I use the Linux machine for gaming.
Replacing Windows with Linux feels equivalent to a CPU and memory upgrade.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
From my own experience I would say that you’re probably not finding a chance to do intermediary upgrades because upfront you bought the top-range everything and maxed out things like memory and storage, and/or did not get a really good hobbyist motherboard (which the one part where you should really splurge).
I don’t get into the muggers’ game of top-range were you pay 2x-3x for just an extra 10% but instead get the stuff at the sweet-spot of price-performance, and then some years latter I can get stuff with what was before top-range performance at normal prices without a premium.
Similarly I don’t max out on things like memory and storage from the very start - I get what I need then and when I see that I need more I get more, by which point normally (not this shit going on right now) Moore’s Law means it’s way cheaper.
For example, the PC I’m using now for gaming recently got an improved CPU which wasn’t even out when I first bought this PC and which was top range back then (as server CPU, even), which would’ve been $200 back then but was only $17 second hand some years later.
Of course, this way of doing things got totally fucked up with this PC parts bubble. Frankly the last PC upgrade I did was replacing Windows with Linux which in terms of how it feels was equivalent to a speed and memory upgrade.
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
Jamie Bond, 001
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
I had a very similar feeling moving back from driving in The Netherlands to driving in Portugal.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
Sphericity of planet Earth ---------------------------------------------- /---------------------------- / / / Fraction of Mankind who believes the Earth is spherical -------------/
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Everybody has opinions.
Some people confuse being strongly and loudly opinionate about many things with intellectual capability.
Personally I think it’s the oposite: you have to be really dumb to believe anybody could possibly trully understand most things and, worse, to think you yourself are such a person.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 3 weeks ago:
“Normal” SUVs are something like 70% more likely to kill the pedestrian in a collision with one that cars like sedans.
SUVs are anti-social cars.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 3 weeks ago:
Clearly a Penis Compensation Device.
- Comment on 🥵🥵🥵 5 weeks ago:
Who needs catnip when there’s thick sliced almost raw beef?!
- Comment on Why do a majority of nation's flags use the rectangular shape except Nepal? 5 weeks ago:
A shape like a right-angled triangle is pretty easy to produce from a square or rectangle, so if it was only that reason we would also see a lot of right-angled triangle shaped flags.
Could it be that the physics of the shape makes rectangles more resiliant as flags (as in, remaining at least partially intact) in the wind?
Or maybe it’s some Historical reason that boils down to some common origin of that shape as tradition?
Or maybe a bit of all including ease of manufacturing?
- Comment on Future 5 weeks ago:
Go a little back and look at the prediction made in 1949 for the future, written in a book with the title “1984”.
Sure, it came a little late than forecast, but a lot of it came true.
Today’s society has been pretty predictable for quite a while:
- Political and social environments like now have been pretty common recurrences througout History, with the rise of Fascism in the early XX century being the previous time it happened (incredibly similar to nowadays, not just are most propaganda techniques and discourse used by the rightwing almost exactly same, but we even have a XXI century version of the NAZIs called Zionism doing pretty much the same thing as their predecessors did in 1930s Germany). Society and Economics seem to follow a grand-cycle with a period of around 100 years and we’re back at the point of the cycle of “Highest inequality and the Elites diverting the discontentment of the populus away from them by funding Far-Right politics scapegoating foreigners and using tools of authoritarianism in power” hence why this shit ressonates so much with the 1920 - 30s.
- The extreme desire for surveillance of open authoritarians and those with covert authoritarian leanings (lots of those in Europe plus the previous regime in the US was already the latter, though now it’s the former) and the forms it could take were pretty predictable by observing the secret police of the Fascist regimes in Southern Europe that lasted until the 70s and 80s as well in the Eastern Block, most notably the Stasi in Germany. It’s quite linear to map what Stasi would do with today’s technology and come up with using smartphones as mobile surveillance devices with the complicity of the Tech companies that control them (predictably so if you look at, for example, how IBM helped NAZI Germany), surveillance of citizen’s use of the Internet and modern digital communications (already done by the 7-eyes for ages and explaining things like the repeated attempts at imposing Chat Control on EU citizens) and the increasing automation of mass trawling surveillance made possible by ML to allow far wider civil society surveillance levels than were possible for the Stasi.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 1 month ago:
FYI, the actual circuit properly designed is stupidly simple:
- The 5V and Ground power lines come in from USB on dedicated pins
- Since that’s a USB-C connector you need 2x resistors for it CC line (they let the USB Host on the other side know that something is connected to it and wants power of a certain maximum current, and to figure out the orientation of the cable since it can be plugged in two orientations)
- To light the LED you need the actual LED and a resistor that limits the current that goes to the LED (since LEDs themselves don’t limit it and without external current limitation they’ll just light up very brightly and then release some “magic smoke” and stop working)
That’s it.
Now, assuming R3 and R4 are properly connect CC line resistors (though WHY THE FUCK are the two lines of R3 routed on the other side of the board!!?), the only two other things needed are R1 and D1, nothing else.
Instead, there are way too many extra components, most notably this thing on the middle, supposedly a microchip (judging by the “U” code, can’t see the actual writting in the device), maybe a voltage regulator but what would be the point!?
Worse, all 3 legs of that U1 device are wired together. If we’re really really lucky, they go nowhere. Otherwise at least one ends up connected to a Ground line (ultimatelly coming from USB) and the other to a power (most likely the 5V from USB) - in other words, it’s a short circuit of the power from USB. Not, just not good, but actually a seriously bad “I’ve never touched electronics in my life” mistake.
Also a basic rookie mistake, there is literally no topology where the 3 pins of a 3-pin component are wired together like that, since electrically that’s the same as not having it there at all (so even if connected to something else than 5V + GND, at best that component would never do anything). This is like something you figure out in the first hour of learning Electronics.
This shit is not just a little bad, it’s incredibly bad and probably a danger to connect to anything over USB.
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 1 month ago:
In a normal giraffe the neck (and the legs) is long in order to be able to reach the leafs high up on trees, so it makes sense that in a giraffe centaur arms would be at a that would let them use theirs arms to help with that, which would either be higher up or, alternativelly, lower down but long enough that they can both reach the leaves above AND the ground below whilst standing up.
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 1 month ago:
Also it depends on the tip used for the soldering iron: those large surfaces have a lot more volume of metal that needs heating (plus you also need more volume of solder) so if one uses a conical tip it doesn’t transmit heat fast enough and you ended up with an irregular solder hill like that.
If you’re use to soldering smaller components, doing something like that is quite different and won’t come out as well until you get used to its peculiarities.
If you’re not at all used to soldering, that’s actually pretty good.
Totally agree on “works” being the gold standard, especially on a something like that which isn’t subject to significant mechanical forces (like, for example, a push switch would).
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 1 month ago:
I read that from top to bottom and not a single thing was wrong or even an exaggeration.
It really is that bad.
- Comment on Real 1 month ago:
Thanks!
It definitelly looks nice, though the game play is IMHO what makes it fun or not.
