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- Comment on Can anyone scientists confirm? 4 days ago:
I speak to fish, and can confirm.
Although, I must admit that the fish words for “flee to safety or face my wrath, pitiful human!” and “oh! I think that’s a crumb of cracker. Yum!” are very similar in most fish dialects.
- Comment on One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4 4 days ago:
“They’re not breasts, Doctor. They are highly sophisticated Dalek implants!”
- Comment on Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand 5 days ago:
If someone says 10x it’s probably bullshit. 100x it’s definitely bullshit. I don’t even have a term for 1000x
The term we’re looking for is “fantastic investment opportunity”.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Being a great communicator and a generous lover is more attractive than most of the considerations discussed here, so far.
Many the challenges of being ace or on the ace spectrum in a relationship can be overcome by regular use of phrases like:
“Dear, would you like a handjob tonight?” and “I love the look on your face when I fuck you. Let’s fuck tonight.”
Just be sure it is what you really want - it would be kind of silly to put in the needed effort if it is not somehow also serving your needs.
Great communication and generousity are incredibly attractive in a sexual partner, and both can be cultivated by anyone who chooses to put in the practice.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Why would you want “steam” installed? It’s just a normal program, you can install it yourself in 5 minutes.
Because having Steam pre-installed signals that the hardware producer planned for gaming and has done some basic testing for gaming.
The new “Steam Machine Verified” badge is the most exciting part of all this.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
To top it off, the “benefits” you’re mentioning are literally the same as if you bought a prebuilt pc.
Do you have a favorite pre-built PC that ships with Linux and Steam installed?
That’s something I want pretty badly, but haven’t run across a good lead for.
With a good recommendation, I might not wait for January!
- Comment on Good news. The wife of Jeff Bezos is giving back some of the money her husband stole from Amazon employees 1 week ago:
There’s plenty of rich people who could give away money continuously for the rest of their lives and never run out. Bezo’s ex-wife is among them.
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 1 week ago:
I’m sorry but did a CEO write this?
I sure hope not. The CEOs should be leveraging their AI contracts to write things like this, to maximize synergy.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 weeks ago:
If the truth is theyre barely afloat theyre not going to change anything by delaying the report.
Sure. Long term.
But I can’t help but wonder how much a motivated executive could embezzle using some additional time…
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 weeks ago:
The rabbit hole goes deep on this one.
I found it surreally hard to find new dance game - until I discovered that much of the player community had (I guess?) moved to an open source game engine called StepMania.
I play StepMania happily enough, now. It is nice how many different songs I can now add with community contributed step configurations.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
but running SteamOS instead of Android sounds amazing.
I have put Android and carries flavors of Linux on a variety of weird hardware. I can go confirm, running a game on SteamOS rather than Android typically makes a big performance improvement.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
For the rumored price, I’d need to see more commitment from Valve and latest news right now are saying they aren’t developing a VR title.
Agreed. I feel the same.
But then I start to think about an Indie friendly VR platform might give us in six months. It could be very nice.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been saying for years that VR can get off my lawn until I can buy Linux native hardware. I guess I’m interested in VR, now.
“I may never financially recover from this.”
is well said.
I need to buy all of these.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As someone whose father probably had to do the same - it has meant so much to me, that he did. You have a lot to be proud of.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 weeks ago:
Outside? I try not to go there.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 2 weeks ago:
Just be sure not to mess with any electronics boards. Sourcing replacement boards for old proprietary hardware can be a huge pain, and they would have to leave the gate open while they wait for a new board to arrive and get installed.
That sounds uncomfortable, to the kind of person who needs a gate between them and society to feel secure.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 1 month ago:
says Andrew Castillo, a stock trader from Los Angeles. “It has no political affiliations at all to me.”
He’s getting a head start distancing himself…
In contrast, my car stands for high mileage, oil changes, and having a trusted local mechanic.
Anyone can tell just by a quick look at it.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 1 month ago:
Yes. Boox is nice, if you want it for adding Android apps.
I side load on mine a great deal.
Fast things like games and movies don’t play nice with the slow eInk screen.
But board games, puzzle games, digital comics, and simple websites all work great.
I was surprised that background processes do fine, with some patience. I have something running to back up my notes to my NAS.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 1 month ago:
Boox are great!
I don’t trust the services they default to, but they’re full unlocked Android, so they talk to my NAS and other services I choose.
If you don’t care for the battery life or screen refresh rate, be aware that there’s now a setting so you can pick your preference (faster refresh means shorter battery life).
- Comment on Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises 1 month ago:
What if we raise prices for as many people as possible so a few very rich people can have more money?
- Comment on Does anyone have tried minecraft java edition on mobile? 1 month ago:
It’s worth noting that the full version of Luanti runs natively on Android, is fully free, and plays fully cross platform will all Luanti servers and other copies of Luanti.
One Android phone copy of Luanti can even serve the game to a few other players playing on PC or Android.
- Comment on Harsh 1 month ago:
And the next night, try doing it again with Sony Walkmen.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 1 month ago:
My prediction: Minecraft crossover DLC within a year of release.
Advertised with a chicken jockey riding on a covenant walker.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 1 month ago:
This feels sad for everyone involved.
There’s so many okay games that could be remastered into excellent ones.
If I didn’t have the Master Chief Collection, I would obtain my copy before Microsoft makes it have an “accident”.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 1 month ago:
Yes. Halo CE plus changes on a new engine sounds strictly worse.
- Comment on How do I make pictures less blinding if I prefer dark apps? 1 month ago:
On Lemmy, I just block users who post images with white backgrounds. They’re delightful users, but there aren’t that many of them, and it is worth it to keep my feed dark room friendly.
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- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 1 month ago:
I’ve noticed that a number of politicians show signs of sociopathy.
I think that’s a key difference.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 month ago:
Uh…
You and I have visited very different speedways.
Where I come from, if the engine turns over, it is race eligible.
And if the engine doesn’t turn over, there’s a cool giant fire breathing robot we can still feed the car to.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 month ago:
but you guys are we really so sure that subjecting others to the coercion of a prison-industrial complex is justified when all they’re doing is following their instincts?
Assume we’re not talking desert highway street racing - or places that no one cares:
Their instincts could kill my kid. The prison industrial complex is the nicer response.
People who routinely behave in ways that endanger children are unaware of how many of the rest of us own a good shovel and know a spot to get rid of their body.
How do we know that we’re not the ones who are actually bad people?
Oh. The ethical implications are truly complex, but they don’t matter because we won’t agree to live with them. Child endangerment doesn’t routinely lead to deep ethical introspection. People tend to just go with the instincts that allowed children to survive over so many generations.
And yes, this is also why so many bad laws get passed “for the children”.
My advice for street racers: do it out of sight of any parents, and we’ll away from anywhere that children play.
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 1 month ago:
Microsoft Clippy says “Hello. You appear to be making an invoice. I can help!” Only we’re not making an invoice, and Clippy cannot help.
I can count the number of times that I have looked in an Excel sheet and thought, “I wish this was subtly wrong due to subtle changes made by a hallucination engine.” It is zero.