HubertManne

@HubertManne@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshittifinancial Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  See that is the thing. “If the company has no productive use of the capital”. Borrowing is essentially money creation. Utilizing it just to artificially increase stock value is just an economics game at that point precisely because its not doing something productive. Companies are supposed to be productive in the real world but now all companies spend more of their money playing economic games over making prducts or providing services. This is the classic complaint and the reason for the late stage capitalism thing. When money is the goal everything increasingly is setup to make money but not actually do the thing the money is supposed to incentivize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its sorta funny because often times the top of the line processors with bad cores were recycled into lower end processors. Seems perfect for this situation with a ramp up in production for industry and then sell the lower level things to consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshittifinancial Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That thing about the more you know about economics. We have to “invest” in our own retirements and its all just leves of scam. Without regulation investment is a dart throw. I mean companies can borrow money to buy their own stock. common!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why College Students Prefer Socialism—and Why They're Wrong⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  to be fair the communisits often insist socialism is communism to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why College Students Prefer Socialism—and Why They're Wrong⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  while I am, of course, from earth. I too do not seem to meet the definition of people in the us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux has had a great year, but there are two reasons I can't tear myself away from Windows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it hard to believe. He was using ubuntu and both his wifi and trackpad and the lot broke. I remember in the aughts when a student came in to proudly say he through th latest suse on a laptop and everything worked out of box. Yeah things can have issues but much like windows its often just an update which even with windows you have to be ready to have a physical network connection or you could be screwed with wifi. I have not seen any issues with ubuntu. Did he intentionally say to not use 3rd party drivers which is what my thought is which to blog about that afterwards without repeating using third party sounds like a hit job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 21st⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Still ff12 but I got past the shrine of miriam and up to the phon coast. Im going back and picking up optional espers which I had not done before so there are a few I can get.

  An update on my builds. So I was using this guys thing that combined having everyone have 3x speed and making sure people could get synergizing equipment. Thing is I really want to use all classes and his did not do that. In addition I noticed he skipped some of the equipment synergizing anyway. There is actually only one thing I had to get rid of from his rules to get all 12 classes and that is having the supposed top 3 weapons seperated between characters so they could be on the filed concurrently. Anyway I decided I could kick that out so my criteria is 3x speed, item synergy, and not combining two magic user types for survivability (mostly hit points).

  So my class pair start with the redmage/archer. This is easy as its a well known combo and its about maximizing the red mages capstone big damage spell ardur which is a fire spell. They either have to be paired with black mage which is verboten by my rule or archer for the burning bow and its a highly rated pairing by many people so its a no brainer. The peson to put it on was a bit difficult though. penelo makes the most sense for black mage because most mp and magic power and then fran has the highest vitality so is basically best for time mage. ashe is second with mp and magic power so she makes the most sense min/max wise but darnit. rp wise fran makes so much sense since she starts with a bow and the basic black and white mage spells. Its perfect for her but I went min/max and did ashe.

  Next im going to jump to some warriors. The guy whos guide I used says vann is best for the best bushi blade because of his one handed animation. Im assuming that is true. This is were we meet the crux of my difference. I find the knight absolutely has to have the bushi. excalibur needs mystic robes and the knight does not get 3x speed. only one class can bring that to him and that is knight. This puts two of the top three weapons on vann but im fine with that. I mean every class gets a top weapon and I am going to assume I will live with the possible third weapons that might be used which, you know, might more likley be a spell caster or technic. So bushi/knight is my second and goes on vann

  Next he similarly says balthier is apparently best with the ninja sword dark blade and im trusting him on that so he becomes the shikashi which has 3x speed and could benefit from mystic armor for the dark blade. Since all my other mages are marked for other individuals he gets white mage and oh boy. I am so happy with this combo. with the mane gouche or whatever you get high evasion and the shikashi gets lots of hp and shields. this makes a great tank for the period evasion is useful. So you essentially get a healer/support/tank all in one which gives you much more options for the other two in tough fights. Later the knight/bushi becomes another sorta option for that when espers help you unlock some white mage spells and a combo below should take over the role and be even better late game.

  Ok. So we got 3 of the six and next im going to pair fran’s time mage with something and it already has the 3x speed so can take one of the warrior classes that does not get 3x speed without extra squares. So one thing I noticed with monk was if you can unlock the squares you get the top white mage spells and if your combining mages the white/time mage is the ultimate support/healer. so using monk is practically as good as adding white mage (eventually) but then also you get the monk combat benefits which are substantial. monk is the class that is pretty nice with every class as it has all the combat and hp squares. So now you have a class combo that eventually will be as good an endgame support/healer/tank/warrior as your going to get. I saw another guy talking about how he stumbled across this mix but basically if it was an mmo this would be the class combo I would choose for my character.

  ok so we have 4 character and 8 classes used and actually we already said penelo was going to get black mage. At this point there is only one warrior class that gets 3x speed easily and that is the machinist. its not bad. nice having a range alternative for black mage but it sorta necessary as it does not bring a lot of tankiness. mystic robes help darkshot. easy access to steal and poach. probably the most meh of my combos but it works out fine.

  ok so we are down to one character and 2 classes. This would make basch a ulan/beserker. Thing is that will only be able to unlock 3x speed when you get ultima. So im eventually going to do this but 3x speed is real important to me so for most of the game my bash is a ulan/bushi.

  So I find in early game you don’t need magic much class wise because the girls give you white mage and fran black mage first level spells. I put everyone as their class that gives the 3x speed and make a race for those squares just getting equipment/spells thats I can access as more a priority which continues into the dual boards. Ultimately 4 of the 4 characters can heal/support to greater and lesser extent and everyone is a good warrior and to some extend tank with the squishiest ones having ranged attacks and offensive spells a plenty. The espers get spread out decently to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They really should have come out with a local llm poduct seperate from firefox that is compatible with using it out of box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Says Tariffs Have Brought in $18 Trillion. That's Impossible.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what has come has been spent many times over. ice has drones and military helicopters, a rediculous increase in personel and treats their vehicles as desposable. Then they throw gas canisters and shoot pepperballs like its confetti and trump just died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obamacare Subsidies Can't Fix a Broken System. Rand Paul's Bill Could.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  from what I read sounds like it wants to reduce state regulations. so yeah. bullshit enshitification. obamacares most significant thing is not pre existing conditions and requiring insurers to spend a minimum percentage of monies collected on healthcare which is pretty significant things. The only way to improve it is with single payer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope this becomes affordable enough to utilize. The main problem with optical disks is the length of time. Still would be nice to have something as convenient as a usb drive even if it can’t be rewritten. Disks were sorta of annoying to put some stuff on and then a bit more and a bit more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas / New Year Steam Game Giveaway⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like rpg’s where you have a lot of options for character or team customization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the misunderstanding is with you.

  Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically inconvenient, or morally questionable by an authority or group.

  In this case the group is steam. Government censorship is not the only kind. You can have corporate and even self.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balcony Solar is coming to the USA, sort of⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah the main thing is no special wiring needs to be done or additional expensive setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balcony Solar is coming to the USA, sort of⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a balcony that already has a 120 plug. Can’t wait for this and honestly im hoping it will also allow for an easy battery to be used whole home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For small devices its mostly about not accidentally breaking the cable which magnetic attachers do just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  does it matter. weren’t those setup so they got a slice of every transaction? If I that is the case and I understand it right then any activity is essentially money to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well by employed they mean they don’t want to pay contracted rates but they also don’t want to pay for benefits. so employ pay and contractor benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its sorta funny hearing the term for me because I can’t away from thinking about ascii dungeon crawls when I hear roguelike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From my experience if you have something working then its fine. I mean if you are going to add the games and add them to the steam menu so she just needs to click on them to play. If she is not expecting to go out and find games and such which I assume she is not given she could not with the switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im pretty much always against censorship. As described it does not sound sexual as its just nudity and this riding thing. I mean nobody talks about lady gadiva like she fucked a horse. The hill to die on is weird to me to use in this situation. Its one conversation about something that neither of us has any ability to effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well of course. if the state said take it down it would be different but this situation does not seem to have any legal issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They were common enough in movie stores when I was in high school and college. I feel our society has gotten just that much more prudish in the new millenia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think obligated as much as they should not be concerned and there should be no backlash to them for stocking it as long as its separated appropriately. Video storms had porn rooms in the back of the store with some signage and people seemed to be able to handle it and get its an adult thing. Heck maybe even have a second but related steam.XXX site where you have to do bullshit verification to peruse. Then require any game that goes over some threshold of whatever to only be visible there. people can login with their steam accounts and have them connected provided they jump the additional hoops. these things are not impossible to work with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah but it should be on the author not the distributor and those people wigging out are more the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah but thats the point of X. its not R. I mean clock work orange is all kinds of effed up but its a great movie. X means graphic sex, or violence, or worse. I think they had another designation at some point that was like super X but I think folks never really paid attention to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems dumb. Give it an X rating or whatnot and limit it to adult purchases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  depends on the way you look at it. being paid for what you contribute or contributing to get pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Decided to click on some countries and im pretty sure some of irelands ones are for tv shows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oop. looks like I need to got nine characters!