BarbecueCowboy
@BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 7 hours ago:
I find most of the indoor bugs don’t care about the fly zappers. Not a set and forget solution, but in my experience nothing compares to sticky yellow things on a window. Hanging fly paper is good too, but getting what they walk on is best.
- Comment on Anon buys cigarettes 2 days ago:
It’s also best if the ‘right thing’ is not available in the store at all. Make sure to complain about things that the store has no control over as well like the CEOs political views. Position this as something for the cashier to solve personally.
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
So, Gen z just like doesn’t carry those or will have maybe one at a time if they have to just hanging loose. Yeah, it’s weird.
- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 3 days ago:
Oh shit, they’re letting the cannibal guy make movies again?
- 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 days ago:
That’s what you’re going to get!
- 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 days ago:
I mean fuck, better than what they’ve been doing.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
From experience, if you do, take a very long look at your neighbors. I almost ended up with what I now realize was suspiciously cheap land down the street from a cockfighting operation.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of companies thinking about it that are big enough that they don’t have to profit immediately. I think they’re mostly waiting to see Geforce Now raise prices and enshittify more. My prediction is we’ll have the various datacenter providers giving more deals on compute to make use of wasted cycles, maybe leading to various services renting that compute and dynamically tuning quality based on current cost. I.e., high performance gaming during off-peak hours and degraded performance during AI peak hours. Time limits will definitely become more frustrating.
Google might jump back in then if they didn’t have to run the service. For them, I think they exited because they established that they’d have to actually support the product if they wanted it to grow and there is nothing they hate more. Part of me feels like the dystopian future we’re heading to may be publisher based subscription passes similar to xbox game pass but more focused and providing drastically less value.
I think I’m out though, I don’t have to buy a battlepass for the chickens and if support ends I get to make curry.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Man, I feel ya there, I think I have Lenovo’s entire 2015 enterprise portfolio. There’s a channel called Hardware Haven on youtube and I realize I may have gone too far as whenever there’s a new video on old tech released it’s for something I already have in my basement.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
You’re probably right…
As an optimist, I really hope this hardware crunch leads to a greater focus on polish and optimization. I feel like a lot of development studios have let specs inflate to cover being unwilling to focus on building their games efficiently. It can feel crazy when you start comparing specs on games from different studios.
As a realist, I imagine we’re just going to have a lot more cloud gaming services and that may just end up being the norm. I’m still waiting for a AAA publisher to start releasing their games exclusively to cloud platforms, probably first as a pre-release or early access bonus of some sort. I have my money on Ubisoft as the first big one if they manage to keep it together as a company.
As an anarchist, I’ve been looking into selling all my electronics and investing in some farmland.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I think more of them will just quit using reddit and not come here either.
When you want to sign up for lemmy, there are questions and questions are friction. That feels easy for us because obviously we did it, we picked an instance, we got our approvals, we’re here, but I’ve seen it firsthand trying to get people to use lemmy and for a lot of types of people that you would want for establishing more variety in communities, that initial friction is more than enough to drive them away.
Reddit doesn’t even make you pick a username, they’ve gone almost as far as you could with making account creation frictionless. If we want to stay in our echo chamber with everyone who thinks that’s not a big deal then someone else who solves that friction is probably going to eventually be the real reddit replacement. Seriously y’all, know it’s been awhile, but people were picking discord as an alternative to reddit to move to instead of lemmy during the apicalypse and they barely even compare.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This dude has paid some electric bills.
- Comment on Waffle house coffee 4 weeks ago:
“Low Marks Again” - Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov
I’m not 100% sure the scribble that looks like a signature is related I think someone may have just doodled on the image, doesn’t seem to be present on the original painting.
- Comment on : Do people who were blind from birth see anything in their dreams, or is it just audio and textures? 4 weeks ago:
Actually, now that I think about it, kind of but mostly no. Things that happen in the waking world get incorporated into my dreams, but in my actual dreams, I mostly just tell myself I heard something, but I don’t actually hear it in the moment. I.e., if I hear music, it’s more like I’m reciting the lyrics in my head and working backwards.
- Comment on In some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear? 5 weeks ago:
The point of the hijab is effectively to not draw extra attention to yourself. Colors and patterns are pretty common in less strict countries though.
Slogans and logos are kind of problematic for somewhat similar reasons but companies like Adidas have been trying real hard for years to make it work. There’s also a drive that Islamic things specifically should not follow western ideals, and that could be the most western thing we’ve ever done.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 5 weeks ago:
It’s hyperbole in an attempt to weaponize methheads. But yeah, go grab a few and test it, maybe we weaponize meme skeptics too.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Man, no trying, it’s past and present tense now, doing and successfully did.
- Comment on Vought Rising trailer 1 month ago:
Believe he was planning to fuck and snort his way through Bogota. Either that or staying cool somewhere else.
- Comment on If AI is so smart, how come it doesn't track the time and date? 1 month ago:
They’ve trained on static knowledge at a point in time. Their ability to ‘learn’ and adapt is mostly just fancy tricks with hidden context and the ability to Google.
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 1 month ago:
Almost lost them too.
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 1 month ago:
Normally, I’d be like “Boo sealioning”, but yeah, I want to hear about some examples.
I’ve yet to see any other brand consistently compare. Every once in awhile you’ll get a one off where its like “Yeah, good job” but there’s so many reviews out there of copycat bricks that start with some variations of “Of course, the quality doesn’t compare to Lego”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
50/50 this dude is super attractive and has never had to learn any better. I knew several of these in college. This has worked for them.
- Comment on It's free real estate 2 months ago:
As a Factorio player, what’s more beautiful than an endless concrete sprawl.
- Comment on When did Saturday Night Live get so cringe? 2 months ago:
I realized I was old when I heard that some people unironically think Kenan is the funniest one
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I googled it and this is actually a crazy rabbithole to dive into.
No one really knows 100% for sure who this girl is or where she came from and everything is just guessing and whatever is actually in press releases. A lot of people seems to think her dad owns a restaurant, this seems to be very controversial for some reason. It does sound like the secrecy is pretty common in the industry though.
- Comment on Let's ask this AI app! 2 months ago:
I know the false one is toxic and fatal… But is it also delicious? We need to know.
- Comment on Finally someone we can get behind! 2 months ago:
I’ve got a plan, just give me 600 years.
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 2 months ago:
Hey look, you figured out where the scam is, congratulations.
- Comment on Pet Talk. 3 months ago:
Mine smells lightly of peanut butter and rotting compost. It’s not strong and you can’t smell him unless you get real close. I honestly kind of like it now.
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 3 months ago:
Also, can’t forget that those concerns come back when maintaining the panels. Along with the additional precautions needed to account for foot/other traffic.
It sucks though.