Dojan
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- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 17 hours ago:
Usually Questions and Answers.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 20 hours ago:
There is evidence, and there’s been conspiracies around it.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 1 day ago:
Calm down there, Okarin.
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 5 days ago:
Paradise Lost is a fun read.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 5 days ago:
I’m stuck on Windows 11 at work. It’s not a bad laptop, but Windows is insanely slow. Opening the commandline isn’t instant. Explorer takes well over a second to open. It’s like treacle.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 5 days ago:
I don’t even remember my progression. I do remember what first piqued my interest though. A guy came from BUIT (Barn-och-ungdoms IT enhet), which no longer exists, and he was troubleshooting some IT stuff at my school back in 2003. Being the nosy and tech-interested bratty nerd that I was, I hovered around the guy. He was super nice, and had no problem with my prodding questions about his laptop, which was running Red Hat Linux. He explained in simple terms what exactly that meant, and it stuck with me.
Then, years later when I found out about Ubuntu (at the library I think) and the fact that they sent out LiveCDs I was like “Yes please!” and the rest is history. I didn’t use Linux for many years, between having hardware that didn’t play nice with it, and just not feeling like it. Then the other year I went back to Linux and been using it since.
Every so often I boot into Windows to do some texture work in Substance Painter, but I don’t think that’s going to last. I’m very keen on trying Armor Paint, and if I like the workflow there I might as well wipe Windows entirely.
Now, if only I could run Linux on my work PC.
- Comment on exam cheating 5 days ago:
I wrote a comment along these lines, he brought up “agents” in that SciShow episode without directly saying the word, and modern agents are really just a bunch of scripts tied together with an LLM. It’s not that complicated, and they absolutely suck at performing tasks that aren’t narrowly defined. Like you can’t throw it at some issues on GitHub and expect it to actually come up with solutions. People have tried that and the success rates are absurdly low.
SciShow can be incredibly sloppy at times. They had this episode about knitting a while back and lots of knitters basically fired back with “…did you guys try to talk to knitters about this?”
Hank Green seems really affable, it’s hard not to like him (knowing very little about him) but SciShow really needs more rigorous fact checking.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 5 days ago:
The main reason I left was because I wanted to switch to btrfs (for snapshot rollbacks), and Tumbleweed had that OOTB so I gave it a shot.
This is precisely why I went with Tumbleweed as well. I wanted a rolling release distro because having initially gotten into Linux via Ubuntu back in 2007, I didn’t really like the “upgrade twice a year to keep up to date with new features” method. It felt really cumbersome back then, as a regular distro upgrade often brought problems with it.
When I looked into other features I wanted, I discovered Snapper and I was all “that’s the one for me!”
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 5 days ago:
They said Steam OS, not Steam Deck.
If you click on “Linux Version” it expands into a list. Steam OS Holo is the largest portion, but not the majority portion. Image
- Comment on NOW! 1 week ago:
It’s illegal here in Sweden, for example the lowest price within the last 30 days also need to be listed alongside the discount offer. The effect this has is that 31 days before Black Friday, the retailers bump up the price.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
Yeah, there’s anti cheat software that doesn’t run in the kernel. You can bypass that and still cheat, but if you’re insistent you can do that even with kernel-level anti-cheat. There’s a whole big debate on this, lots of differing opinions.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
No I think you got the message of what they were saying correct. Linux doesn’t have kernel level anti-cheat at the moment, and they’re saying that if you are a proponent of it, then don’t use Linux because it’s something we’d like to continue not having.
There are layers of abstraction between the kernel and the userspace, and few applications need kernel level access. Anti-cheat poking around in the kernel is very invasive. I know plenty of people who equate it to spyware, myself included.
- Comment on Progress 2 weeks ago:
The furry community has your back!
- Comment on Progress 2 weeks ago:
You’re describing Ubuntu’s Convergence, something Canonical was working on back in like 2011 I think.
Sucks nothing really came of it. By 2014 there were a few functional demos of it but you don’t really see it nowadays.
- Comment on Progress 2 weeks ago:
Shit. Get Lovense or something instead. Still has Bluetooth connectivity but there are so many open source clients to make use of.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 2 weeks ago:
This is my belief as well.
My mother fell deep into the qanon bullshit hole. I was very surprised to find her pro-Palestine, but realised that a big part is likely just antisemitism.
It’s always just been lip service when it comes to her.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 2 weeks ago:
What the hell? Somehow the idea of a super racist being all “yeah but them Palestinians deserve better” or something tickles me.
I just don’t see how being pro-enslavement and anti-genocide is a compatible viewpoint.
- Comment on bingo 2 weeks ago:
- So if you bomb everything does it get rebuilt over time?
No. The closest any of the games have to buildings evolving/changing on their own is Sims 4’s Eco Lifestyle world where the neighbourhoods change depending on the neighbourhood’s eco footprint.
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Is the game worth getting into a recent version? 💰 No 🏴☠️ Absolutely
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I’ve stayed away because it sounded like they started charging for a bunch of crap after buying the game
That’s always been the model, though. The Sims 1 had several expansions. The Sims 2 added stuff packs. The Sims 3 had the store with digital currency. The Sims 4 removed the store and added kits.
When Sims 4 launched it was very meagre in terms of content, they’d started development in the middle of the “social networks are cool” era and pivoted when SimCity 5 failed. They tossed together an underwhelming mess, but over the years they’ve fleshed out the base game. There’s a lot of expansions now, to the point that they’re starting to cover similar themes they’ve already covered.
Given EA’s proclivities I wouldn’t recommend buying the game. In light of their recent acquisition by Trump and the Saudi Arabian government, I would urge against buying the game. But it can be an enjoyable experience.
- Comment on God DAMN 3 weeks ago:
I keep forgetting his name but every time I think of him, I search for “the actor with the eyebrows” and my search engine knows exactly who I’m talking about.
- Comment on Priorities 4 weeks ago:
I don’t see how these are equal. Also, they’re clearly both a dinosaur and a person.
And I think I’d prefer to be turned into a dinosaur, too.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 4 weeks ago:
One I recall that rubbed me the wrong way was one of her videos on “is being trans a social fad?”
One the one side you have people claiming that it’s a socially contagious fad among the brainwashed woke who want to mutilate your innocent children. On the other side there are those saying that it’s saving the lives of minorities who’ve been forced to stay in the closet for too long. And then there are normal people, like you and I, who think both sides are crazy and could someone please summarise the facts in simple words, which is what I’m here for.
Not super fond of the “both sides are crazy” idea when one side is arguing “people should have equal access to medical care and be left to live in peace” and the other is trying to legislate the former people out of existence.
She further goes on to platform ideas like “rapid onset gender dysphoria” which is based on spurious data gathered on a “parents of trans children” forum. None of the actual studies on the subject have supported the idea at all. The science is against it, yet she’s presenting it like it’s some “other side of the coin” nuanced take, and not just utter nonsense. It’s a bit like lending credence to the idea that the Earth is flat because there’s a whole group of flat-earthers out there who believe it is.
Ultimately though, I think my main reason for avoiding her is that she just doesn’t post sources. They’re all hidden on her Patreon, and I just don’t think that’s how it should work. I know educational videos aren’t exactly scientific papers, but hiding your sources just strikes me as bad manners. If the goal is to educate and nurture an interest in a subject, why obscure the path you took to get it? It just doesn’t make sense to me, and most other channels like hers do publish their sources.
- Comment on Why do they call it rule when... 4 weeks ago:
Have you ever had a dream where you wanted him to do you so much you could do anything?
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
I’d not heard of handicapped, but I have heard of Postcode File.
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
I mean, honestly? Yeah. This isn’t how you should translate if you wish to adhere to the original material. You need to understand meaning and context in both languages. AI doesn’t grasp that on account of not grasping anything at all, and the game of telephone that the image is suggesting is completely obliterating it as well.
Example; Lipton, in an ice tea advert had an actress dance and sing, and in the middle of it, took a sip of tea and said 「美味ちい」
If you were to translate that directly, she sips the tea and says “Tasty!” or “Yummy!” which is acceptable. However, you’ve lost the double entendre of how チー (ちい) sounds like the English word tea, which is kind of relevant given what they’re advertising and so you’d lose the opportunity to make the same pun in English; “Tealicious!”
Now apply it on a larger scale and suddenly characters and stories end up diverging between the versions. Sure the overall picture might be similar but the nuance can be vastly different. I saw it all the time in Final Fantasy XIV. Sure, not all media needs that kind of meticulousness and hell, a lot of media doesn’t even care for it. People can be perfectly happy with basic, but they also don’t necessarily know what they’re missing.
Granted, sometimes you have to settle for that method of translation, because you can’t easily or appropriately convey the original intent in another language.
- Comment on Updates that don't tell me what is being updated 4 weeks ago:
My bank’s app recently went like “We’ve implemented a feature if you use our widget, and also one hidden feature.” Like fucking just tell me what the fuck that’s about? I’m not looking for easter eggs in my fucking bank app.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 4 weeks ago:
Be careful, you might get wooted on wafrn.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s nice. It’s torn the wings off of the Bluesky logo.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s what was subtly hinting at.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 weeks ago:
Right, they’re supposed to be best at letting you cancel their services. They could handle the traffic, I’m just sure they choose not to.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 weeks ago:
Right. Microsoft’s website is struggling. The same Microsoft whose core business model is selling server/cloud infrastructure? Yeah, I definitely believe that.
