PoliteDudeInTheMood
@PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 17 hours ago:
But we still have to wait for a year after the console release. So they can make money off everyone who won’t get it for free
- Comment on The shrinkflation 2 days ago:
Bought a deep fryer a couple years back, once you’re done with it, and let it cool down. You can turn a knob and it will filter itself and empty into a storage container. Once the oil has gone bad, I have a Home Depot bucket with a lid that I dump it into, once that is full I take it to the dump. Once the filtered bits are dumped in the compost, everything else goes in the dishwasher.
I fry in peanut oil, I have 2 air fryers but some things need to be deep fried.
- Comment on "But why? You can just do that with a <big tech company> account." 1 week ago:
Honestly, I didn’t know what to do either. I’m a big iron sysadmin but I’m old now, so I’m mostly relegated to management. We have young guys who do all the cloud and virtualization crap and they make me look like the dinosaur that I am.
But like many companies we had AI forced on us, so when I didn’t know what filesystem to use on my array I asked Claude. Claude knows everything about unRaid. Every roadblock I hit was answered so thoroughly I hit my usage limit and had to make a note on my profile that Claude was not to make documentation unless I damn well asked for it.
I know AI is not a popular topic but it’s honestly made my life better. I’ve been running Linux since forever but still when an update breaks Arch, and reverting to a snapshot doesn’t fix it. I usually just reinstall. Now I don’t have to feel stupid asking younger guys how to fix an issue. I just type the issue into Claude, drop into TTY and I have all the info needed to fix it within minutes.
Just yesterday one of my coworkers calls me up and says Santa was good to him and gives me a Radeon that was leaps ahead of what I was running so I checked the CachyOS wiki, thought I was prepared to switch from Nvidia to Radeon and the second the switch was made everything went to shit. Claude to the rescue with all the commands to purge my system of nividia garbage and reinstall the Radeon versions. He also ran me through adding my old nividia card to unraid so I can use it for my vm’s.
- Comment on "But why? You can just do that with a <big tech company> account." 1 week ago:
My wife finally took a look at our finances and she’s like what’s this charge? I say it’s my seedbox. She walks over to my office, points at all my servers I nabbed from work and asks why I’m not running it myself. Laziness mostly. Bought unraid and I honestly don’t know how I didn’t use this years ago
- Comment on Engadget's favorite games of 2025 2 weeks ago:
I, as a sane person enjoyed watching the game being 100%'d by someone else.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 4 weeks ago:
YouTube made changes, and the YouTube reps who deal with creators have given them marching orders that they need to follow or else no money. Every one of the creators I sub has dedicated a video to how things have to be now, and they know we hate it, and they hate it. But there’s nothing they can do because YouTube is their source of income.
- Comment on What a relief! 1 month ago:
Oh my god, this gave me flashbacks to French class in the 90s.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 2 months ago:
Once Create Mod came out, vanilla was dead to me
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 months ago:
ENBoost?
- Comment on card game shop 2 months ago:
Can you imagine how much pressure the shower would have to generate to get enough flow through a single or even multiple RO filters to be able to recirculate the same shower water. It’s not going to be RO, 5 micron pre-filter and some type of carbon filter. A glorified Brita shower.
- Comment on card game shop 2 months ago:
It goes on at length about how the myriad filters remove everything. I hadn’t thought about that, but I don’t think it would clean the water THAT good.
- Comment on card game shop 2 months ago:
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
Seemingly many great dishes were born from impatient diners.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
Usually people say ground beef, but some call it hamburger meat, or just hamburger.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 months ago:
Certain grocery chains in Canada employ these types of self checkout scanners. Every item is weighed, your bags need to be on the scale from the start and there’s a camera over each checkout.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 months ago:
Are you painted blue while doing this?
- Comment on Anon checks up on a childhood friend 2 months ago:
I cheat my way through games, I may be losing some of the gameplay experience. But I like getting an hour to myself to play a game and not have to do repetitive in game tasks. Playing Roadcraft right now, and sure I could use the dump truck to drive back and forth to the sand pit 300 times or I could use a trainer, have unlimited sand and fill in anything that would prevent game progression. And increase the game speed so I can actually get things done in the small 60 minute timeframe I have. I envy those who can spend hours in the game getting absolutely nothing done.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 2 months ago:
I use Gemini for my web searches now. But still donate to the WMF. In most cases I just want an answer with the least amount of bullshit. Even using Startpage to get Google results without Google bullshit, it’s annoying. My wife demands sources, and Gemini will provide those as well.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 months ago:
You’re right, this was more common in the warez days. Nowadays, I generally trust Pirates. If you’re stupid and download a game from some rando site, and not a trusted repacker then you deserve what happens.
If you’re paranoid, stick to clean steam files and use Goldberg.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 months ago:
This is my go-to for anything that doesn’t want to run:
github.com/…/wine-dependency-hell-solver
I’ve switched a few friends to Linux and whenever they have trouble running a game outside steam, I just send them this. Hasn’t failed yet. While I, like many other Linux users enjoy scrolling through logs: this is easier.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
One of my subbed creators mentioned a drop in views and how disheartening it was. Guess they’re affected too.
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 4 months ago:
He linked to the Mass Activation Script. The same way I purchase all Microsoft products.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 4 months ago:
Well if they’re gonna charge those prices, they’re probably gonna opt for Denuvo and then we can’t pirate it. But if enough of them do it, then we might see a concerted effort into breaking denuvo
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 6 months ago:
I was on Effexor XR Max Dose, and one day when I realized that it had effectively killed all feelings I stopped cold turkey, zero side effects. My doctor thinks I have a very high drug tolerance, to the point that anything I’m put on nowadays is just started at close to the max dose. I’m on a drug right now that is prescribed at a level that would normally result in death for most people, and he thinks I can go higher if I need to.
Downside is pain drugs don’t work, at all. He told me they’d need to give me IV pain meds if I really needed any pain suppression.