fartsparkles
@fartsparkles@lemmy.world
- Comment on 🤓☝️ 1 day ago:
I feel you and I ought to fight crime together or something.
- Comment on 🤓☝️ 1 day ago:
Auto corrected with autocapitalization turned off is a thing… I just tried it with my phone.
- Comment on 🤓☝️ 1 day ago:
The could have auto capitalization turned off
- Comment on 🤓☝️ 1 day ago:
Or their phone keyboard offered an autocorrection… Google have been doing that for years now.
- Comment on No rent control for you 1 week ago:
I prefer the idea of regulating against corporate ownership of housing stock and limiting private ownership to individuals and say 2 maybe 3 properties per individual.
Homes should not be seen as assets to build a portfolio of.
- Comment on Day 733 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Agreed, I thought the assassin had been pasted on top of a screenshot from a Pokémon game!
- Comment on Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects 2 weeks ago:
Strange Horticulture -You run an occult plant shop and identify plants by leafing through a botanical guidebook, matching illustrations and descriptions.
HighFleet - Intercepting enemy radio transmissions means using the in-game codebook and manual tables to decode messages and triangulate positions.
The Signal State - A Zachlike about repairing farm equipment with modular synth racks; module documentation is your constant companion.
Retro Gadgets - You build electronic gadgets from scratch, and reading the chip documentation is basically the whole game.
Sethian - You learn a dead alien language by studying an in-game dictionary/manual to converse with a computer.
Carrier Command 2 - Co-op crewing a carrier where the in-game manual is dense and necessary, giving strong Tin Can/submarine-crew vibes.
Objects in Space - Space sim, flying a submarine-like ship, reading dials and signals.
Jalopy - Roadtrip / car maintenance game set in Eastern Bloc.
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 3 weeks ago:
You’re all wrong! There is another…
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 3 weeks ago:
That’s what you’re going to get.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 3 weeks ago:
Everyone is a they. It’s been a singular third person pronoun since the 1300s.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 3 weeks ago:
P.T. was the announcement teaser that Kojima was to be directing Silent Hills with del Toro but then Konami cancelled it as the company exited the video game industry and Kojima left to found his own studio.
Why blame Kojima for something Konami did without their involvement at all and long after they’d left the company?
- Comment on Do you know examples of mistranslations of in-game dialog from cutscenes via subtitles whilst playing in another language? 4 weeks ago:
Final Fantasy VII has the classic mistranslation right at the start when Cloud says “Barret, be careful! Attack while its tail is up! It’s gonna counterattack with its laser!” when the complete opposite is true and it should have been translated more as “Watch the tail! You don’t want to be hit by that laser!” (i.e. DON’T attack while the tail is up).
- Comment on Overrated GTA hype 4 weeks ago:
This is the real reason - same thing happened with GTA5 and RDR2. They crunched hard to hit the target platform consoles and then had to crunch again to get it working well across the various GPUs, aspect ratios, and resolutions on PC.
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 5 weeks ago:
And the last driver shipped by AMD for Linux for those cards was in 2015…
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 5 weeks ago:
So if I buy Valve, I’ll gain the benefit of support and the hardware. Nice!
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 5 weeks ago:
Given Valve have been the ones keeping older AMD GPUs working and up to date on Linux, pushing upstream etc, I’d argue we kind of do rely on a company to provide support.
I’d rather spend my money on something I have stronger confidence will have developers maintaining and committing patches etc for all the components in the box than a box of components I can’t be sure will all have the same level of support across all its components into the years to come.
Take x86-64-v1/v2 (and even v3 in some cases) CPUs for example. They’re “supported” on Linux but many distros’ packages don’t support it, meaning you’re often compiling from source to get a package functioning. Sure the kernel isn’t the issue but the rest of userspace is.
With Valve seemingly having no intention of ending maintenance support for their hardware even after end of sale, and their huge contributions to Arch and other parts of the Linux ecosystem, it’s nice to have an option to buy a complete system that will be maintained, and remain a target/reference platform for their distro (which means binaries will be around should I want to distro hop).
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 5 weeks ago:
For instance my 11 year old Steam Link box, discontinued in 2018, got a firmware update 17 hours ago by Valve.
That kind of support.
- Comment on They be chompin 1 month ago:
Technically they’re Chicken Dippers not chicken nuggets.
- Comment on They be chompin 1 month ago:
Dinos could also be turkey.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 1 month ago:
Anything older than 5 years ago has the odds of being A, B, Mini A, Mini B, Micro A, Micro B, etc.
C is the standard. If you need legacy support, there’s hubs and adapters. No need to perpetuate legacy ports. I’d love a serial and a parallel connector - there’s plenty of modern industrial gear still using them. But we do that with C -> Serial adapters.
A device has a limited number of ports. Would one rather two USB-C, or one A and one C?
That A port will have diminishing value if one intends to use the device for 5 to 10 years and increases the probability someone discards the device early given the limited number of modern, high value ports.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 1 month ago:
USB-C is over 11 years old.
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 3 months ago:
All tortoises are turtles (but not all turtles are tortoises) from a biology point of view. Tortoises specifically being exclusively land-based members of the turtle (Testudines) order. So there is a difference.
And “spring” doesn’t really have different meanings - as per the root of the word, it always means some variant of “to burst forth”. There’s lots of different definitions for the word but they’re all rooted in the same place, from an etymology point of view.
The season bursting forth from the winter darkness and cold, the metal coil as it bursts forth when released from compression, the source of water as it bursts forth from the ground, bursting forth someone out of jail, etc.
Homographs are the real problem - when two different words, over time, become spelled the same.
Sow, lead, close, bear. All have multiple etymologies where different words eventually became spelled the same. Those are the worst!
English is a truly crazy mashup of Latin, Greek, French, German, Celtic, Norse and more.
- Comment on You can do anything 3 months ago:
Great BBC article on this.
- Comment on the artemis program is a trainwreck 3 months ago:
Allegedly
- Comment on Bet you wish you had one of these in your car 4 months ago:
Most had inserts you could pull/slide out to empty.
Fuck I feel old.
- Comment on "Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead 4 months ago:
The true answer.
- Comment on What is this red Arch Linux logo? 4 months ago:
This isn’t the Arch logo file as it’s been redrawn to make it 3D. Blackarch have always used the original design but red and with a sword.
My guess these are fan made stickers given out / sold at conferences. They could be fan stickers for Blackarch but they also could just be red Arch stickers for the fun of it.
Redbubble is full of the stuff. It’s pretty typical to see playful project logo stickers all over conferences that people have ordered online. My buddy buys a load of these off Redbubble to stick on laptops people leave around at cybersecurity conferences:
- Comment on Me when I installed a game on Steam with only 150 downloads 4 months ago:
- Comment on Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner 5 months ago:
How can one of the most ubiquitous and popular ales in the UK not be financially sustainable? What did they do to that brewery? Lump it with a bunch of debt or something and write it off?
- Comment on Eurovision 2026: Electronic artist and YouTuber Look Mum No Computer to represent UK in Vienna - BBC News 5 months ago:
I’m not disagreeing with your sentiment but just pointing out it’s highly unlikely to see the UK go against Israel - from the Balfour Declaration to the Palestine Act 1948, the UK played a critical part in forming Israel as we know it today and are ultimately the catalyst of the war.
The history of the two states are deeply intertwined and no doubt benefit both parties (e.g a British ally to strengthen access to the Suez Canal).
Unless there’s a monumental shift in the entire political landscape of the UK (even the rise of anti-immigration sentiment is actually in favour of Israel), the two states will continue their long-standing support of one another.
