atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 12 hours ago:
I think I would be more okay with having to undo a screw or two as long as it was still just as easy to get the battery out. The way the Advance SP and DSs handled it. Lithium batteries are slightly more unfriendly to being handled than AAs and this is a device aimed at children. Your point stands though.
- Comment on Wanna tell the class the joke 1 day ago:
I actually knew a guy who had a stroke fairly young and lost partial use off the right side of his body but regained some of his mobility. His car had the gas on the left.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 4 days ago:
Where I am from several years ago the city renamed the Christmas Parade to Holiday Parade in a bid to be inclusive of other winter holidays. A small subset of citizens got butt hurt and have held a competing Christmas Parade several times.
Apparently the war on Christmas is acknowledging that there are other options.
- Comment on Don't kink shame Oklahoma City. 5 days ago:
The locals still call it the cock ring though.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 6 days ago:
A piece of advice I wish I had listened to is “don’t turn your hobbies into a vocation”.
- Comment on game has multiple factions fighting each other 1 week ago:
As somebody from Tulsa I can confirm that Oklahoma is a weird mishmash of ‘anything goes’. People will literally say “soda pop”.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 1 week ago:
IIRC Apple drives, like those in the Mac Studio, use a version of NVMe that doesn’t have the controller onboard which is why they were so hard to reverse engineer.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 week ago:
I still remember using Windows machine for the first time after only having a Commodore 64 and Nintendos. I specifically remember thinking it was dumb because it didn’t have a cartridge slot.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 week ago:
Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.
- Comment on Exclusive: Kevin Smith opens the Pearly gates on plans for a 4K Steelbook version of Dogma 2 weeks ago:
The Phantom Menace was released the same year and was quite famously recorded digitally in 1080p. I doubt Dogma did this but it is possible.
- Comment on Held back no longer 3 weeks ago:
My grandpa was a truck driver. He told me he hated bobtailing (driving with no trailer) because he didn’t get paid for it.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 3 weeks ago:
No, I don’t think not being able to make change or not stopping touching a screen no matter how many times you are told that it isn’t a touch screen is cultural momentum. I genuinely think that we the older generations have failed Gen Z at a common sense and problem solving level and I very much hope that we don’t keep failing Gen Alpha. I was in school still when no child left behind went into effect and the difference was stark. It was said then that it was designed to create a generation of Republican voters and based on the most recent election it looks like it might have worked.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 3 weeks ago:
Working at a university I have seen some astounding shit; people just barely 10 years younger than me who can’t read analog clocks or make change let alone use a mouse or move a file to a flash drive.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 5 weeks ago:
That’s step two.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 5 weeks ago:
Start with Plex and learn from there.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 5 weeks ago:
Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.
- Comment on Need a tiebreaker 1 month ago:
Seems like they need to make a wastebasket that fits the paper sacks?
- Comment on Sagan, you look high. 1 month ago:
I mean… if you are always high then that isn’t wrong is it?
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 2 months ago:
What if you could math the monkeys?
- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 2 months ago:
What kind of Mandela effect shit is this?
I’ve spent more time than I would like to admit trying to fact check this. I swear when the special editions came out one of the behind the scenes was about restoring the scene with the fur coat Jabba that had appeared in the first pre-title-crawl version. Now all I can find are references to it being rereleased at least 4 times before the special edition but nothing about scene edits.
- Comment on it's the intent that counts 2 months ago:
It’s about having options.
- Comment on Simple and clear 2 months ago:
I haven’t heard that in a long time, most people just say iHole now.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 2 months ago:
I would have bet real money if you had asked me yesterday that it would have been limited to 1080p to reduce cost. I am very curious to know more about how it actually performs in each setting, how much of it is upscaling, etc. I imagine that most 4k games won’t have much in the way of better graphics than the Switch 1, the higher memory bandwidth could help with higher res textures though.
- Comment on Unstable 2 months ago:
Depending on the severity and type of the burn, and the amount of time that has passed (ideally none), actually yes you would.
- Comment on Unstable 2 months ago:
Cold is water is the opposite of what you want to put on a burn. Blisters are a reaction to the rapid change in temperature not the heat.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 2 months ago:
These things can’t think and they don’t reason no matter what they call the model. Toddlers can do both of those things.
Until we have another breakthrough at the level of neural networks AI will only be as good as the sum total of the training data and therefore only as good (or bad) as humans can be, never better.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 2 months ago:
I don’t understand it. It’s like people don’t just want AI to be the next big thing, they NEED it to be the next big thing. Suggesting that current AI is about as useful as NFTs is personally insulting for some reason.
- Comment on Amazon MGM's Best Bet to Protect James Bond's Legacy: Hire Christopher Nolan 3 months ago:
The best chance for a campy spy series that has already tried the gritty reboot ploy???
- Comment on Current chain of command 3 months ago:
I don’t know… I am starting to think that’s the plan. That way they have somebody divorced from the situation waiting on the bench when shit finally hits the fan.