magic_smoke
@magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 3 days ago:
Different commercial entity.
Their public comms division that makes those and radios for cops is a different company.
The cell phone Motorola is a division of lenovo.
- Comment on It do be like that 2 weeks ago:
Am grill but:
- Comment on Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration 2 weeks ago:
I usually don’t buy a ups unless I can off the shelf battery replacements.
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
I like collecting physical media but its mostly just physical license keys now.
DRM-free digital copies that can run on open-source software like proton or an emulator. With multiple copies on different production batches, manufacturers, and types of media at different sites.
Individual disks rot, data rotated across redundant disks will last forever. That’s how you preserve games for the next generation.
- Comment on Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration 2 weeks ago:
My apartment has fucked wiring, its killed things through decent surge protectors.
At this point all of my computers that I run daily are on APC UPS’s.
Good luck nuking shit through one of those.
- Comment on Simply Bananas 2 weeks ago:
maybe they faked the manned moon landing but sent an unmanned probe to the moon, which is why the soviets didn’t make a fuss.
Eh human life is expendable to the government, especially back then. If they could probe it I wouldn’t be shocked if they’d send dudes up there just to say they did.
maybe the 9/11 attacks were real but the attackers were actually real guys who were persuaded to do it by some gov.
They had enough reason to hate us to do it on their own but I’d buy DC saw it coming and let it happen as an excuse to pass the patriot act.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 weeks ago:
Is it that, or is it that they don’t want to pay for graphic designers anymore?
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 weeks ago:
You ever notice how graphic design is dine moving? 1987, 1997, 2007, and 2017 all would’ve had different designs for everything.
Change the price and you could convince me you took this picture yesterday.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 5 weeks ago:
Cut pieces of paper with a 90 degree fold.
Place them on the shelf with the fold in front of the camera.
Bonus pts if you buy a cheap box of lil magnets to keep em there.
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 5 weeks ago:
Your generation was also one of the few to literally fucking try nothing.
Say what you will about boomers, they had the civil rights movement, they had the ant-war movement. You don’t get a Kent state without pissing off the right people. Don’t get me wrong, they all became fucking turncoats at 25 when they fucked off to daddies company, but for a split second they did something that mattered.
Between the civil rights movement and the post-9/11 anti-war movement there was barely any fucking political action here in the states. The only thing I could think of was the LA Riots, and a huge chunk of you assholes spent it praising “roof Koreans.”
The only bit of youthful rebellion your generation had was manufactured and sold to you by your parents generation via music videos pre-packaged by one of three major record labels, and delivered by a cable channel owned and operated by viacom. Fucking VIACOM.
Y’all where a bunch of fucking posers who said “good enough”, because yall collectively thought what came next would be your kids problems and not yours.
- Comment on Drop OSS - an open-source, self-hosted alternative to platforms like Steam and Epic. 1 month ago:
Not if they’re re-packs :)
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 month ago:
Anyone who puts their own art on a pedastol deserves the anguish that comes from people enjoying it the “wrong” way.
I say this as someone who’s been making games since their early teens.
Furthermore, as much as they are the norm in gaming, proprietary software licenses where a fucking mistake, and I’d staple my ballsack to the ceiling before I’d license any code I care about with one.
Even if that means not getting cutting edge toolkits.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 month ago:
Maybe stop treating private server owners like criminals, and get back to releasing server binaries like we used to?
The original developers of these games aren’t the only ones capable of hosting them.
Furthermore, for many games, these are tacked on features to an already competent single player that doesn’t need online support.
This argument falls apart for anything that isn’t live service, which is basically everything I play…
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 month ago:
For centuries stories have never been owned by one person.
Bards would re-tell them, adding their own twists and artistic choices.
Stories where never meant to be owned.
- Comment on Bought a "less than lethal" launcher with pepper balls. Tried loading it. Ball exploded in the mag after I pat it into the launcher. Should have done better. 1 month ago:
As someone who’s had their closest family member eat their own gun, good choice.
Your loved ones thank you for it.
- Comment on AI banners: what owner sees vs what I see 2 months ago:
- Comment on Nintendo Confirms EU‑Only Switch 2 Revision With User‑Replaceable Batteries 2 months ago:
Or just use an American usb-c wall wart.
- Comment on Apparently, calling out hellaverse for bad writing and characterization is a homophobic hate crime. (Saying this as a bisexual man who supports his transgender brother) 3 months ago:
South Park
Okay, fuck off.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 months ago:
So the frame is either gonna be two grand or just cancelled I guess lmao.
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 4 months ago:
No they’re right, Bethesda’s technical team is on crack and needs to fuck off next door to idtech and ask them nicely how to make a real engine.
- Comment on US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America 5 months ago:
Doing routing/firewall in software is a lot more flexible, and easier to patch when vulnerabilities come out. Keep in mind those edgerouters look like they have dual core embedded MIPS CPUs. My dell power edge is a full blown rack-mount server that could run your plex instance.
That’s what makes up for the lack of dedicated asics.
As for the four NICs they are as follows:
1gb - wan (to modem) 1gb - config (to config vlan on switch) 10gbps - main lan trunk to LAN switch 10gbps - trunk line to public server VM host (DMZ’d from rest of lan, each VM has its own vlan/subnet/firewall ruleset)
They don’t act as a switch because it handles packets, not frames, allowing/dropping/denying them based on rules set in software.
- Comment on US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America 5 months ago:
Tell that to the poweredge r210 ii in my closet running PFsense with its CPU barely getting touched despite four NICS, two of them 10gbps.
You’re thinking of switching hardware.
That being said I might go hit up mikrotik while I still can.
Worst case I just buy em like I do my FPV flight controllers: from Ali Express
- Comment on AI generated t-shirts... 5 months ago:
You scared the shit outta me because I thought this was official femtanyl merchant for a second.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 5 months ago:
Mod mic is a stick on mic so you wouldn’t have anywhere to stick it.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 5 months ago:
A good pear of over the head headphones and a modmic.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Fake money for criminals because that also means diy hrt, recreational drugs, and piracy.
Its not all money laundering y’know! Sometimes its the good criminals!
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 6 months ago:
How much of that money goes into marketing, and executive pay checks?
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 7 months ago:
I mean yeah normally I’d agree with you but progress was still going in kind of the right direction, albiet slowly then.
We’ve spent some years backsliding now, and honestly I do miss the part where things felt like they where getting better, not worse.
- Comment on So disappointing 7 months ago:
AI slop
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 7 months ago:
Pay for hosting with XMR and stop fucking re-using usernames.
Releasing software anonymously/pseudonymously isn’t that difficult…
