HubertManne
@HubertManne@piefed.social
- Comment on Amazon Just ERASED Your Library. You Have 90 Days. 9 hours ago:
and people wonder how steam does so well.
- Comment on Why Video Games Cost So Much To Make - Jason Schreier 14 hours ago:
yeah you could potentially get rich if you saved enough and where lucky enough with investments but your not really rich until you are there. honestly I think what I have is still a bit low for rich. rich is like in town in manhattan and palatial estate somewhere else. could eat out if you want every night and likely hiring some sort of help and I would say more than two things or at least one full time position. like basically you have to start having stuff that people might not even want at all. like a yacht. I mean merely owning a yacht would not be enough. I know a guy who was super into sailing and had what is technically a yacht but the traditional type not the grandiose type.
- Comment on Why Video Games Cost So Much To Make - Jason Schreier 15 hours ago:
yeah with two incomes and no significant medical issues. believe me one income and a spouse who is sick would change your situation quick. And I get you live comfortably but can you stop working and live comfortably. Im just arguing he point of where one could be truly rich not just doing decently.
- Comment on Why Video Games Cost So Much To Make - Jason Schreier 16 hours ago:
I don’t think you are right with this. I live in one of the most affordable major cities and if a family is not running on 6 figures then your likely in the red unless you somehow have a very cheap situation. Lets assume 2 bedrooms here btw which I don’t think most people would consider high on the hog space. Now its true that technically you have all the overage to squirrel away but most folks have a hard time living on the edge of being in the red frugally. Once you have money you would like to have that lifestyle of going out once a week (especially if your job is stressful) and being able to take that once a year vacation. So yeah you have an extra 150 but 50 of that goes to taxes and the other 100 can be eaten up fast by wanting to live in a free standing house and having newer things and such. You will be able to fund your retirement well and live well wihtout concern but you won’t be able to stop working for the rest of your life unless you again live like a pauper for a few years to save enough and then live off of that like a pauper or go move to the boonies and that does not even broach if you have some sort of medical issue while your not working for the rest of your life. Its comfortable not rich. I mean I would not even consider a second home and car rich but that is because I am old enough to have seen a time when that was achievable for middle class. I would say rich is you could stop working and afford full medical insurance in the us while having a house and vacation house and new stuff.
- Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults? 20 hours ago:
its funny because I did not think much of it or I dream of jenie when they were pretty close to new but rewatching I have respect for the female leads who both played multiple chracters in the show pretty effectively. Where I am at they do a star trek evening block with TOS followed by TNG and now I see diana troys mom in nurse chappel and vice versa. Shows really seem to start going down hill in the late 70’s and through the 80’s but maybe Im forgetting something great.
- Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults? 21 hours ago:
many shows of that era. barney miller, sanford and son, star trek, mash. Heck even I dream of genie and bewitched had some moral tales. Honestly morality was really common in shows but the tv fare got sorta crappy at a certain point.
- Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults? 21 hours ago:
Piers anthony has a series called geoddysey that teaches history in the story. It kinda has a hard to explain gimmick. The story is cohesive but each chapter jumps in time. So it starts in the stone age and ends in the future but along the way goes through some significant eras of humanity. From the characters perspective though everything in the story happened to them in the era they are in. So its like your watching reincarnations of lives where the events of their lives reapeat.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 day ago:
unfortunately bush jr started a trend at nsf funding reducitons and of course trump has killed the board that runs it. obama kicked it up a notch but it never recovered to the level the us used to be in research.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 day ago:
ahh. the scrubs years.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 day ago:
could have both. wolf is a little uncommon but smith is very common. Of course the issue with that name is the spelling which often has a y or e thrown in and like the profession may work but I dunno. feels a bit cumbersome.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 day ago:
your a doctor?
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 day ago:
I go with shorter is better though. so one syllable better than two. With my first name Im asked what I prefer and I always respond with the one syllable version.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 day ago:
If I was changing my name I would like it short and easy to spell and by that its obvious there is not wierd. I knew a person with the last name wolf and I thought that was animal. its wolf spelt like the animal you can say on the phone. snow seems like it would be that way. I might say snow just like it sounds as I can’t think of snow like the weather or like the percipitate sounds that good.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I would like to live life like that but life makes me do the task list.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 days ago:
yeah I don’t know about buying now but I sure am glad I got one after the first price drop.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
the thing about linux is it depends what you put on it. there are lightweight distros. that being said if you can put an ssd in something do it as nothing outside of more ram when you are maxing it improves it as much as an ssd. I mean im sure if you go back far enough in cpu the drive may no longer be the bottleneck.
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 5 days ago:
yeah would be great if that was my particular thing. I overwrote windows and use an older machine for windows currently. I will need a new drive but I don’t really want to go into details with the niche thing im doing. Im actually moving from an ubuntu child distro to bazzite. a big issue was how appimages would work and I thought I had a big issue until I finally realized its an issue with how google does chrome. its looking good. taking a sit down before I finish it off. the chrome issue seems to be fixed by killing various caches it keeps btw (or for someone who comes across this and kinda has the same issue).
- Comment on From a socialist perspective, what are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)? 6 days ago:
in the doomer subs I used to engage in there was quite a bit of we are fucked but you have to do everything you can to stav it off as much as possible.
- Comment on From a socialist perspective, what are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)? 6 days ago:
Whats wrong with doomerism? It does not necessarily go with giveuperism. Many doomers want to fight like soldiers in a no win situation. Im not going to go out not doing everything I could.
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 6 days ago:
Its kinda dumb but I have this stuff setup and to move it to linux I need to buy a new drive and I have literally zero disposable income.
- Comment on If AI is so smart, how come it doesn't track the time and date? 6 days ago:
Looking at the things llms can’t do is a good way to see their limitations. They only seem they seem to be doing is vague and undefined. code is about the only thing measurable and its considered by many to be crappy at it. Its basically a bit of an improvement to talking to the rubber duck as it combines that with web searching.
- Comment on The 'death tax' debate is back. So what do Australians really pay when they die? 1 week ago:
the old unearned income tax.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I get that I like certain things and other people like others. Currently im not looking for a challenge in games im just looking to play with dolls.
- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 1 week ago:
as a matter of fact. forget the crypto.
- Comment on Would it be possible to model 9/11 using hot dogs for the planes? 1 week ago:
playing cards of course.
- Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 1 week ago:
do you mean user or community? I mean with a user you could always post a comment saying whoever blocked you but here would be your reply. Honestly im not even sure a user block even works that way. I assume you could reply but they would not get notified and none of your stuff would appear in their feed.
- Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 1 week ago:
Honestly I would just like it to be symetric so if someone blocks me it would basically set a shadowblock on my side so I don’t have to see their trump. for community ones I would like it to block me and the mod who blocked me from the community symetrically. If I block someone its kinda creepy to know they can see my stuff. I often compare it to having a creepy person and you block them by making them invisible. Anyway I don’t get mad about it I just want it to be useful to me by automatically cleaning up my feed better.
- Comment on Do young people still say words like "taped"? 1 week ago:
ok reading peoples interpretation helps a lot. I thought you were saying taped was some kind of slang but you mean I taped something vs recorded or such. I honestly just don’t record stuff enough now and did not back in the day I think for taped to stick. Sure I would call it taped but it was not so everyday that it ingrained as the thing. I mean I think sometimes would say they videod it or such sometimes. Ironically I think filmed has stuck around more than taped.
- Comment on When you are not employed but need to go to a workshop/conference/public events that require you to lost out your company and title, what do you put on without sounding awkward? 1 week ago:
I often put none or NA. I don’t put personal contractor or freelance or independent contractor unless I have been doing that work at least recently. I think one thing that is making unemployment especially bad for me this time around is I have a real problem with being dishonest and we are literally running on an economy that runs on bullshit. Sometimes I can talk with head hunters in a real way which is nice but I don’t think they can seel me. Its like dude I am mentioned in papers. I have been involved in many solutions but none of them are very code heavy and we were not looking for them to be. I have done day to day loads. Im not sure im employable unless places start hiring based on people having done stuff over particular skills they want.
- Comment on Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in? 1 week ago:
yeah. so heres the thing. I don’t even spell english words right all that often. but yeah that is what I meant.