tiramichu
@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Every fucking time 1 week ago:
International foods might be “low interest” for many consumers, but for me it’s the most interesting aisle in the supermarket.
Nothing I like more than finding some new and interesting stuff, so I’m happy they put it all in the same place.
As far as price goes, it’s all over. You might find a bottle of Japanese Kewpie mayo for way more than speciality Asian supermarkets ask for, but on the other hand find a huge bag of pistachio nuts for way less money (by volume) than they’re charging for nuts in the ‘regular’ nuts section.
It’s genuinely like supermarkets know they need to sell this stuff but haven’t quite worked out what to do with it yet.
- Comment on Momma didn't raise no quiter, I know my mission 1 week ago:
Certainly.
The placement of the ceiling lights is messed up and doesn’t correspond to where the light beams are hitting the walls
- Comment on Sound of silence 1 week ago:
Music concert - everyone recording with their phone out.
Fireworks display - everyone recording with their phone out.
Bride comes down the aisle - everyone recording with their phone out.
It’s just pointless. You ruin your own experience of the event because you’re watching it on a screen instead of experiencing it directly, and you ruin other people’s experience too.
And the wedding one I’ve seen far too many times.
What do you think the official wedding photographer is there for? When the bride and groom watch their wedding video back they want to see a room of their happy family and friends, but instead they’ll get a video with aisles of people staring at their own little rectangles and pointing them at her as she comes down the aisle.
So yourself a favour and live in the moment sometimes, please.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 week ago:
That post looks like it’s mostly people who already hated Nintendo (i.e most of Lemmy) taking the opportunity to meme about it and make jokes rather than genuine criticism from the perspective of people who actually wanted to buy a Switch 2.
And that’s kinda a big difference.
One genuine thing to remember though is Nintendo are making absolute bank on games, because every game on the system goes through them.
They can take a loss on the console and still make money later. That’s not necessarily the case with the steam box.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 week ago:
I don’t think I can even answer that question. Inside-our tech has really evolved since the old days and I couldn’t say hardware was intrinsically better or worse based on that like I could at the time.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
I’ll be buying the Frame no matter what.
I also had the OG Rift but since I moved to Linux it’s been nothing more than a paperweight.
I could go to Meta, but I honestly don’t want to do that to myself. The way I see it, the Frame is the only way I get to keep a small amount of privacy and dignity in this world which increasingly has neither.
So I’m saving up my pennies.
- Comment on 🙄🙄🙄 3 weeks ago:
My friend asked why I’m looking both ways before crossing when it’s a one-way street.
Same deal. It’s legally one-way, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t some impatient dickhead driving down it the wrong way regardless.
First rule of road safety (as either a pedestrian or a driver) is to assume everyone else on the road is an absolute moron with no ability to drive.
- Comment on 🙄🙄🙄 3 weeks ago:
I freely formed the considered personal opinion that driving through a red light is a bad idea.
- Comment on poverty is a choice 4 weeks ago:
Active income, as it were.
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 4 weeks ago:
My comment was mostly hoping only to make a generalised point; although open source software often has certain (good) features, simply being open source doesn’t mandate or guarantee any feature at all.
On the username subject in particular then absolutely; an inability to change your username is not the same level of ‘bad’ as things like lock-in or spying. As other commentors have mentioned I’m sure it’s not intentional at all, and simply a consequence of the implementation difficulty with federating that sort of change.
Like the same way you can’t ‘change’ your email address. The email address is your identity - if you want a different one, you need to make a new one.
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 4 weeks ago:
Open source does not require the inclusion or absence of any specific feature - full stop.
Open source is simply licence terms which allows code to be legally modified and redistributed.
It would be entirely possible for the worst piece-of-shit, user-hostile spyware-filled data-snooping DRM-stuffed garbage software to be released as open source - except given the license terms, people would be free to quickly create a variant of it that stripped those anti-features out.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 4 weeks ago:
Always true, in music and in everything else too.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 5 weeks ago:
What are they supposed to do? RAM and storage prices are hardly factors in Valve’s control
- Comment on Anon went to a birthday party 1 month ago:
Old-school proprietary memory cards like that generally are, because they don’t mount a filesystem in the way a modern flash drive would.
You can safely remove the card as without problem as long as there is no current write operation happening.
You often needed to switch memory card to change between games, depending which card your save was on, and people would certainly not turn the console off to do that, nor does the GameCube manual say you should.
- Comment on That's clever 1 month ago:
It’s actually nothing to do with mixing mentos and coke but just funding the mission via corporate sponsorship
- Comment on yummy 1 month ago:
When someone messages just “hello” it’s a very useful indicator. They clearly don’t value their own efficiency (as well as not valuing yours) so you can assume their job mostly involves sitting in interviews and chatting to people, and does not in fact consist of actual ‘work’
- Comment on Why are some people deciding to switch to iOS as Android is putting on more (iOS-like) restrictions? 1 month ago:
There will be a cohort of people out there who have always been of the opinion “I would prefer an iPhone, but I want to sideload”
Now that android is becoming closed, the main reason they chose it is going away, and therefore they move to Apple.
Not a perspective I personally agree with, but I imagine it’s quite prevalent.
- Comment on Weeeeazels 2 months ago:
To be fair, a lot of ‘play’ behaviour in cats and dog is largely hunting instinct behaviour too.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 months ago:
Me too, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting one.
I haven’t had a VR headset since the original Oculus Rift. I’m still salty about them selling to Meta, and after I moved to Linux it turned into a paperweight anyway.
Since that point, no new headset had checked all the boxes for features, Linux support,and a vendor I could actually tolerate engaging with.
The Steam Frame is doubtless going to seem very expensive in comparison, but I see that as the price I have to pay to avoid an account on a platform I don’t want and all the associated data harvesting.
I will pay that price.
- Comment on So... is Iran blocking the Strait thing and then the US is also blocking it? So is it like... double blocked? Is it like "no you can't close the Strait, I'm closing it"? 2 months ago:
One cannot make sense of what is going on, for there is no sense to be made of it.
- Comment on Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option? 2 months ago:
100%.
Logitech mice work fine out of the box as a generic mouse. You only need third party software if you want to mess around with the Logitech special-sauce stuff.
Neither Windows or Mac have ‘support’ fo r that either, until you install Logitech’s software. Of course, Logitech as a company don’t provide any software for Linux.
So if anything, it’s not that “Linux doesn’t support Logitech” it’s that Logitech doesn’t Support Linux
- Comment on America 2 months ago:
12:30PM means 30 minutes after 12-noon.
People saying that and meaning the middle of the night are just wrong, and if that’s a genuine thing it would drive me quite mad.
30 minutes after midnight is 12:30AM
- Comment on 😎😎😎 2 months ago:
“What’s this in your holster?”
“Wow, that’s a nice piece you got there”
- Comment on Thank god 2 months ago:
Bro, don’t hit goats either
- Comment on Odo should have had a battle form ala Hulk, or He-Man 2 months ago:
It’s very interesting, and although frustrating at the time I wonder if in retrospect it was for the best. Without being able to fall back on effects as a crutch you have to make sure the show stands up on the story and actors alone, and that can only make those things better.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 3 months ago:
*can’t
- Comment on be a shark 3 months ago:
Sharks have a completely neutral attitude to human gender or sexual orientation.
Be more like a shark
- Comment on Bussin 3 months ago:
I can never understand why the tier list meme start ls at red (bad) for the best rank and goes to green (good) for the worst.
I wondeted if red was being used to indicate “hotness”, but then the bad colour should be " cold" like blue.
Is it just completely arbitrary?
- Comment on PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real 3 months ago:
What it’s all about is “market segregation”
The purpose being to chop up your product differently to get different groups of consumers to pay more based on what they can afford, or the urgency of the purchase.
This is something that business has known about forever, with things like dividing travel tickets up into first class, business, economy, early-bird tickets etc.
What tech has done is enable not only segregating by service and time, but to segregate down to the individual person and find the maximum you’re willing to pay.
And they can look at every factor. In a rush, pay more. Used the service twice last week? You must be in the habit now, so pay more. Using an iPhone not Android? You must be better off, pay more.
It’s hell, and it should be illegal.
- Comment on PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real 3 months ago:
Which is exactly why they want to get rid of physical sales completely