BorgDrone
@BorgDrone@feddit.nl
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 days ago:
- Comment on Me_irl 5 days ago:
Ownership versus no ownership? That’s what matters.
All software is licensed, there’s no true ownership regardless of medium.
- Comment on Me_irl 5 days ago:
Of course interent is faster than 200Mbit, it’s 2026. 1Gbit is standard and if you’re willing to pay a little extra you can get up to 8Gbit up/down.
Also, bandwidth caps? On residential internet? WTF.
- Comment on Me_irl 5 days ago:
Why don’t you switch to a faster plan then?
- Comment on Me_irl 5 days ago:
LOL, I am this old.
- Comment on Me_irl 6 days ago:
Ah yes, put the disc in, wait 5 minutes for it to load.
- Comment on Me_irl 6 days ago:
You underestimate how slow blu-ray drives are.
- Comment on Me_irl 6 days ago:
Except installing from disc is slower than downloading
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
People in different regions are able to pay different amounts for a video game. You don’t want to sell a game for €40 to someone willing to pay €80, you also don’t want to miss out on the €40 from someone who’s only willing to pay that amount.
This is also why there are artificial tiers, like an ‘ultimate edition’ and shit like that.
Same goes for things like internet speeds. A 1gbit connection is actually slightly cheaper to sell than a 100/100 connection, but they offer different price tiers to extract the maximum amount someone is willing to pay.
- Comment on Anon buys a game 3 weeks ago:
Also, downloading the game is like 4 times faster than installing from disc.
- Comment on It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership 3 weeks ago:
I know I’m in what feels like a growing minority, but I will always pick up a physical copy if given a chance.
I bought a few physical games for my PS4 back in the day and I still regret it. I can still play all the digital games I bought back then but lost all physical games. No idea where they are. Digital games are linked to my account and impossible to misplace.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 3 weeks ago:
Why would you play a game a second time when you could he playing a new game instead?
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 3 weeks ago:
I assume that by the time they are delisted you’ve already finished them? So why does it matter?
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 3 weeks ago:
And here I was thinking the point was to play games. Silly me.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 1 month ago:
If I need any of those I simply set the machine to network-boot. I have all of those and more available as network boot images on my LAN.
Alternatively I can simply log in to the IPMI interface on any of my machines and attach the disk image as a virtual drive and boot it from that. No need to even physically go to the machine as all my x86 machines use server-grade hardware with remote management capabilities.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 1 month ago:
I don’t have internet spawning from my ass, so it works better in non-connected environments.
Yeah, if you’re in the middle of a desert, Antarctica or in some jungle then I can imagine. But the majority of people who are not on a safari somewhere and live in a normal, populated area will have internet practically everywhere. You’d have to go out of your way to find a place without internet.
More importantly I have no fucking clue what any of that means
Then maybe just buy a Mac and get 99% of the benefits of a *nix system without needing the appropriate knowledge.
Can I SCP my dad the pictures of my vacation from 3 states away? Maybe. Would he prefer I mail him a “zip drive?”
He would prefer you sending him a simple WhatsApp message with your pictures instead of having to mess with a thumb drive.
You really need your monthly 3rd redundant backup of your .kdbx file to be lightning fast?
No. I need my hourly incremental backup of my entire drive to be fast.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 1 month ago:
Linux distros (either install media or straight live boot disks like Tails)
What’s the advantage of using a slow USB drive instead of just network-booting the install media or mounting it through IPMI?
moving files larger than like fucking 2gb without relying on spyware or self hosting a cloud service
Just send the data between machines using SCP, much easier and faster.
redundant backups of your most important files
Backups you do either to a NAS or to a Thunderbolt-connected SSD, not a USB-A drive. Again, much too slow to use a USB drive.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 1 month ago:
Who the hell still uses flash drives in 2026? Especially a slow-ass USB-A one. I can’t think of a single use-case for them.
- Comment on On the seventh day, god created uranium 1 month ago:
Why would an all-knowing god need to test anything?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
What the hell are you on about, they added a new piece just last month.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 2 months ago:
Helldesk comes from the BOFH stories.
It’s because working for customer support is absolute hell.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 2 months ago:
Is this even social engineering?
According to Wikipedia:
In the context of information security, social engineering is the use of psychological pressure to influence people to perform actions or divulge confidential information.
No one got tricked or pressured, the helldesk employee was just following established procedure. They did exactly what they were supposed to do.
It’s just that Sony’s procedures are laughably insecure.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 2 months ago:
No one got hacked. No one found an exploit and broke into Sony’s servers.
They simply called Sony’s helldesk who handed over accounts with little to no verification. WTF.
- Comment on All in one 2 months ago:
Bold of you to assume my car is waxed.
Or wash for that matter.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 2 months ago:
Also, a racing game without VR support? What is even the point of that.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 months ago:
Solar is very common, and I suspect battery storage to become really popular (at least in my country) in the coming years due to legislation changes.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 months ago:
What environmental damage?
I’ve got 5400Wp of solar panels and a 15kWh home battery. Excess solar power generated during the day is stored and used at night. With the exception of a few months in winter all my power is self generated using solar.
Even when I use grid power in winter I have a contract with the energy company for 100% renewable energy. In winter it doesn’t matter anyway since that 3 watt eventually ends up as heat which means my heating system needs to produce 3W less.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 months ago:
How is that in any way equivalent?
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 months ago:
Oh no, 3 watts. How will I cope with the €0,00 that is going to cost me?
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 2 months ago:
Do you also turn off your phone at night? Or your tablet?