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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was mostly stuck on the “the only way” part of your comment. In terms of accessibility, I don’t know that the domain method would really be any better - not to mention that it’s limited to Pro/Enterprise Windows editions that most consumers aren’t getting.

  The audit mode path is more GUI friendly but, similar to the Domain option, still requires pre-existing knowledge or web search.

  Here’s hoping Microsoft actually follows through on loosening this restriction, even though I largely hold the position that basic users’ security benefits from the MS Account setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only way to create a local user account on windows 11 now without fuckery is pretending you are going to domain join. No other method exists without under the hood tweaks. A similar workaround would work.

  Depending on your definition of “under the hood”, this isn’t really accurate. You can invoke CMD to create an account or enter Audit mode to do the same. Neither of these methods require preparation of separate installation media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crimson Desert sales top five million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still pretty early in, but the thing that really blows me away is how alive the world feels.

  Just moving through nature, there are all kinds of critters dipping in and out if bushes every which way.

  On my journey yesterday, I passed through a tannery, a quarry, textile production, and a small encampment that seemed dedicated to charcoal production. Most fantasy RPGs have big cities, small villages, maybe some mines and farmland, and then Wilderness.

  Crimson Desert is giving me the impression they really thought out and put in every little logistic that goes to supporting these kinds of societies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly just visual in terms of shine vs matte. For the quality of the joint itself, lead-free has a higher melting point so you need more heat to keep it flowing nicely.

  Your joints will do what they’re supposed so, so they’re fine. Chasing perfection is just a fun minigame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I run a repair shop, uGreen Anker Monoprice and CableMatters are our go-tos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radioactive Steel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also totally sucks for accessibility. Some communities strictly enforce having alt text for posts.

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  souldagger

  im sorry i just found out that all steel made post-ww2 has like subtly higher levels of radioactivity… bc the nuclear bombs increased the background radiation in the air slightly all across the world and so atmospheric air used in the production of steel contaminates it… and it’s completely negligible in everyday life and not at all dangerous (really, truly do not worry about it) but apparently it also means that whenever we need Special No Radiation Steel (like for scientific/medical equipment, ex. geiger counters or xray machines) we have to use scavenged steel made before ww2. and apparently shipwrecks are a great source of such steel. so a lot of such equipment is made from recycled shipwreck metal. what the fuck. what the fuck

  for anyone who like me was worried we will one day run out of shipwreck steel: thankfully the background radiation levels in the atmosphere have been dropping ever since nuclear testing was moved underground, so this will become less and less of an issue with time, and now for another radioactive metal from shipwrecks fan fact:

  apparently lead is really good for radiation shielding, which is why it’s important to many physics experiments, especially those concerned with studying dark matter and rare particles. unfortunately, lead is also inherently A Little Bit Radioactive (unrelated to nuclear bombs, it’s just a feature of the metal), but the radioactive element decays over time, so the older the lead, the less radioactive, and hence better for Physics Stuff. which is why ancient Roman lead is Ideal for this, so a lot of ancient bars of lead from Roman shipwrecks - tons of cargo that would’ve ended up as weapons or coins and stuff, if it didn’t sink to the bottom of the sea - are sold to physicists. it’s like a whole “preservation of cultural heritage vs revolutionary scientific research” thing. like a whole fucking feud btwn the archaeologists and physicists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield - Free Lanes Update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got it at launch, spent 80 hours in it, and had my fun. With that being said, Bethesda games have hooked me my entire life, starting with Morrowond at age 9.

  I keep meaning to go back and finish the main storyline for Starfield. It’s not as engrossing of a world as Fallout or Skyrim, but it’s fun enough for what it is - it’s just not “great” the way Bethesda’s other games are.

  Might be worth waiting for a sale price though, there’s always one around the corner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I do with a (jailbroken) iPad 1?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can find the old .ipa app packages, you could use it as an offline devices for old apps and games that no longer run on newer iOS versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  iPhone 16 Pro Max

  GrapheneOS is a “someday” that will rely on degoogling ither aspects of my digital life and setting up self hosted solutions for others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see - I don’t do well with the video format, I only read their article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to wonder if they, like me, were considering the potential rather than what was immediately in front of them.

  DLSS5 is, after all, an in-development project that currently runs on a second dedicated graphics card. Showing this off the way they did might have been a huge mistake, or maybe this reaction will course-correct what might have actually become a slop filter.

  Lighting and shadow some are the most computationally intensive aspects of a game, they’re usually the first settings I dial back when I need to improve performance.

  The possibility of running lower settings and having their visual fidelity improved as part of the upscaling pipeline is an appealing one for me. The key would be tuning it so that it can be an enhancement to what’s already there, not something that totally overrides it or makes it look like Gen-AI output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Context is important. The following sentence is:

  The use of two GPUs is required right now as DLSS 5 still has a long way to go in terms of optimisation - both in terms of performance and its VRAM footprint. However, DLSS 5 is designed for use on a single GPU and that’s how it will ship later this year. Quite how scalable it is also remains to be seen, but in common with other DLSS technologies, Nvidia tells us that the computational cost scales with resolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your graphics card is weaker than the minimum spec (GTX 1060 6GB)

  You might consider buying it anyways and refunding within 2 hours if you’re not happy with performance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully Modded Skyrim VR in Samsung Galaxy XR is Something Else⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been meaning to go back into this, played at launch and spent most of my time in the modding metagame that I don’t have time for anymore.

  Did you mod this yourself, use a Wabbajack list, or do a combination thereof? If you’re mostly using Wabbjack, how was the learning curve for the various VR systems? Fairly intuitive, or necessary to spend time reading outside of VR?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do Computer power supply issues look like?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  👋 Repair shop owner / operator here

  The two most common symptom manifestations of a defective power supply are abrupt shutdowns while in use or inability to power on whatsoever.

  We’ve had some edge case scenarios with weirder behaviors. In one case, power delivery to the GPU would randomly drop out which manifested as an abrupt cut to a blank screen, almost as though the GPU has been abruptly removed. In another case, a system would occasionally suffer an abrupt reboot when waking from sleep.

  Cases of BSODs, stuttering, or other instability diagnosed as the power supply have been few and far between, but they do exist.

  Fortunately, that hypothesis is pretty easy to test for. Power supplies aren’t terribly expensive, you can sit one next to an open chassis and satisfy its connections without completely installing it so it’s not a huge ordeal / time sink to isolate for a problem with that part.

  For the most part, stutters like you describe are often the result of corruption in the software environment, largely as a result of a defect in storage and memory (though, importantly, not always)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New packaging can warn you when meat has spoiled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meat spoilage is not always obvious. A piece of meat can look fresh and firm inside a sealed package, yet still harbor microorganisms that make it unsafe to eat.

  Literally the first line of the article

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this shuts down rumors that bethesda will move to unreal engine for ES6

  It shuts down rumors that Bethesda will move to pure Unreal Engine for ES6, though I never believed that to be the case.

  I see the Oblivion remaster as a bit of a proof of concept of sorts - the potential to have the world, scripts, logic, and physics running on the Creation Engine that devs (and modders!) are intimately familiar with while running the visuals on a separate Unreal Engine layer.

  Shedding the need to do extra work on fancy lighting and graphical effects so they can focus on optimizing the bones / structure seems logical to me, but then again this is the diluted Microsoft-era Bethesda we’re talking about so who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your thoughts on Reanimal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LN1 and LN2 were made by ThQNordic

  Both were made by Tarsier Studios, as is Reanimal. THQ Nordic is the parent company / publisher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DOA had a high - mid - low attack/defend/counter/hold system.

  A player who understands the core mechanics will have an easy time wrecking a button masher

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's flashing lights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a cool rock⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can’t I go back Anons?

  🍄‍🟫

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day, I bought some Fortnite VBucks to get a couple skins and emotes. It wasn’t really to “show off to others”, I was just tired of looking st the same starter character and all of the gameplay based aspects of the game are free so I figured “Why not”. I did the same in some F2P MMOs like Vindictus and Black Desert.

  In shooters, I usually don’t engage with skin mechanics because they are, in most cases, immersion breaking. I like my firearms black or maybe with some FDE furniture, I might do some cosmetic customization as long as it’s believable enough for the setting. Definitely not spending real money on any of that stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have Infuse and the pro subscription!

  It’s not really a “first party” (for lack of a better term) solution so the UI is not consistent with the other apps.

  Personally, I don’t really like Infuse’s UI arrangement and use it exclusively for content that has Dolby Atmos.

  Many of my friends / family aren’t all that techy, usability is key and having access to that content through a single app / single name is pretty important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  friends dont let friends use plex

  Emby and Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps. Many of us bought a Lifetime Plex Pass ages ago and it still does what it’s supposed to. Migrating / starting over with something else is quite an undertaking when what you already have is working fine.

  storage is very cheap now

  In what universe? I bought two refurbished 12TB enterprise HDDs for $80 USD each back in 2024. The same type of disks are now $250+ each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  John Woo’s Max Payne

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using MMOD doesn’t track playtime for the man game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $20 was the cost of a whole CD Album, I don’t remember singles selling for that much. Or maybe you’re referring to the phenomenon of having to buy a full Album just for the one song you like?

  I prefer to buy Albums, and these days new Vinyl usually comes with a lossless digital download redemption code.

  At the same time, I still subscribe to music streaming services. I’ve got some ambient / background music playlists that are days and even weeks long - I’m not going to allocate make local storage space to them, let alone pay $9,000

  These services are amazing for music discovery. I live having an album or playlist finish and then getting “radio” of similar music to hear and discover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell? Premise they’re going with just makes it any other gameshow. Missed opportunity to have each “Vault” have some kind of unique experiment or twist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Micron used to be our default go-to for SSDs and memory (independent repair shop)

  They are now blacklisted for purchase, even their SSDs, even if the competitor’s price is substantially higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to play a game...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of media with the same level of restrictions. The difference is that Steam is putting those restrictions in a convenient bulleted list right at the point of purchase - everywhere else, you’re expected to play ball and find out as you go along.