BorgDrone
@BorgDrone@feddit.nl
- Comment on It hurts. 6 days ago:
Over here in 2026 we have satnav in our cars and on our bikes.
- Comment on It hurts. 6 days ago:
Ugh that grid pattern. Imagine living somewhere so uninspired.
- Comment on DST 6 days ago:
I live in northern Europe, summer days are long. We don’t get actual night for several months (best we get is astronomical twilight for a few hours). DST makes no sense here.
- Comment on DST 1 week ago:
That’s not an issue at all during summer. Do you really need sunlight until 22:00 at night? Right now you basically cannot be outdoors during summer nights because it’s too hot in the direct sunlight. By the time it cools down enough to be outdoors it’s already time for bed.
The best parts of summer nights are when the sun goes down and the world finally cools down enough to be outdoors. We should move the clock an hour back in summer to get more of that. Call it Moonlight Saving Time.
- Comment on DST 1 week ago:
Is there any benefit to DST? I can’t think of anything.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 1 week ago:
LOL, What do I know right. I only have a degree in computer engineering and 20 years of experience as a software engineer.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 1 week ago:
See my other post. A PC is a general purpose machine designed to be modular, this comes at a pretty significant cost in performance. Everything in technology is a trade-off, nothing comes for free.
A PS5 may use the same x86 architecture but the system architecture is not the same as a generic PC. It’s not that a PS5 punches above its weight, it’s actually the other way around: PC’s perform relatively poorly considering their specs. For example: the ability to replace the GPU comes at a massive cost in performance. PCs make up for this somewhat with sheer brute force. A purpose-built machine will always be more efficient.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 1 week ago:
The PS5 does still need some time to load anything, it’s not magic.
It’s not magic, it’s engineering. Games specifically designed for the PS5 can pretty much load instantly. It’s not just the SSDs raw bandwidth. The SSD controller plays a huge role. It can decompress data as it’s loading from the SSD, effectively acting as a bandwidth multiplier. It also communicates directly with the GPU cache.
Remember that PCs are held back by their modular architecture. To allow for an interchangeable GPU it needs to be on a PCIe card with its own separate VRAM. This all comes at a huge performance penalty. Data needs to be copied over the slow PCIe bus to the VRAM before it can be accessed by the GPU. On a PS5 with its unified memory architecture everything is immediately usable once it hits the system RAM. This is a massive advantage when streaming assets.
The big difference is latency. Not how much data it can load per second, but the time between starting a load and the data actually being available. Sony spent a lot of effort in getting this as short as possible throwing a lot of purpose-designed hardware at it. Something you can’t do in a PC because it’s a general purpose machine.
Another huge factor is that every PS5 has the same minimum performance level. The fact that you have a super fast SSD is meaningless because the game has to be designed to work with the crappiest spinning rust HDD that meets the minimum system requirements. So while a PS5 may not be as fast as the best PC that can run the game, it is much faster than the crappiest PC that can run the game, so the developers can optimize for a much faster machine than they can when they have to take into account that crappy low-end PC that has to be able to run it.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 2 weeks ago:
I was always under the impression that these were here specifically because loading screens broke immersion and were just as disruptive.
This is especially infuriating when you’re playing on a PS5 where there shouldn’t be a need for a loading screen but the game is cross platform and they need to design them into the levels because PC and PS4 need them.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
The math is just fine. Code reviews, even audit-level thorough ones, cost far less time than doing the actual coding.
But the problem never was typing in the actual code. The majority of coding is understanding the problem you’re trying to solve and figuring out a good solution. If you let the AI do the thinking for you, then you’re building AI slop. You can’t review your way out of it because a proper review still requires that level of understanding the problem. If you just let the AI do the typing for you, there’s very little to be gained there as the time spent typing is negligible.
AI may be good at building simple, boilerplate-level code. But that’s what we have junior developers for. Junior developers we need because they grow into medior and senior developers.
- Comment on Thank you, Enya 5 weeks ago:
Where is Vol. 1 ?
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 month ago:
My Miele was €1500, and they are known to be super reliable. They engineer for at least a 20 year life span.
- Comment on Fake moo 2 months ago:
The famous McDonalds quartertonner.
- Comment on He took it literally 2 months ago:
Just leaving this here.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 months ago:
Here in the Netherlands I’ve never had any medication that wasn’t in blister packs. They are always full boxes. Boxes have anti-tamper seals and a unique serial number that the pharmacist has to scan when issuing (to prevent fake medication). Pills are individually packaged to prevent contamination.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 months ago:
We CAN sustain everybody we have now.
Even if we could (which I doubt) is it even worth it living on a planet that’s this crowded?
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 3 months ago:
Why do they even have limited time licenses? This doesn’t happen for music streaming services.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 3 months ago:
It’s a Samsung.
- Comment on Dutch 5 months ago:
Zeg makker (͡•_ ͡• )
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Bigger TVs was always the point of higher resolutions. SD content looked perfectly fine on the small CRT screens we had at the time. HD made bigger screens possible, same goes for 4k.
My last CRT was a 28” beast which was considered huge at the time. Then I got a 50” HDTV which was considered huge at the time. Now I’ve got a 77” 4k TV which is considered huge at this time.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Plasma TV’s are beasts. They also get hot and use a lot of power. They look great though.
I have a 77” OLED and while it’s large it’s also very flat and sits flush to the wall. Really doesn’t take up much space at all. The thing that takes up more space than the actual screen are the 12 speakers you need for the surround sound system that goes with it.
- Comment on one bright second 5 months ago:
Supposedly this will happen just after the release of The Winds of Winter.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 5 months ago:
I’ve been in solitary confinement for going on seven years. I doubt you’d enjoy it as much as you think. We’re social creatures.
I don’t doubt it. While most people were going crazy during the corona lockdown it was probably the most peaceful and happy period in my life. As an autistic person social interactions aren’t exactly enjoyable.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 5 months ago:
mean, I left Facebook in 2014 and have never been on Instagram or TikTok.
I’ve never been on any social media, but we’re not exactly average people. For a lot of people it’s hugely important to their social lives. Giving up Facebook for them means being excluded from social events. They will no longer see event announcements from their social groups.
You and I may not care about these things, but to a lot of people these are hugely important.
And it’s not my fault they can’t see that.
It’s your fault for not being able to even consider that other people are different from you and have different needs.
You could put me on an uninhabited island for 10 years and I’d be perfectly happy. My brother by contrast will get depressed after 2 days without social contact.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 5 months ago:
Ah, but there is. Privacy.
Tell that to the masses who post their entire private lives on bookface and tictac. The overwhelming majority of people don’t give a fuck. Especially if it means having to give up all their favorite apps.
I don’t know why you think you have the moral high ground here
What makes you assume I think that?
there are people who don’t like being part of a surveillance economy, and as paid-off lawmakers aren’t going to do jack shit
Of course there are. The question was why mobile OSes that offer that don’t take off. And the answer is simply that very few people care enough for it to be a viable market. Very few people care enough to be willing to get excluded from iMessage or Facebook groups just to take a principled stance on privacy.
If you want these to take or you have to offer way more than some abstract promise of better privacy. Think of what you’re asking people to give up. To get them to switch you need a massive incentive.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 5 months ago:
People care about having an OS not controlled by Big Tech.
Sure. Ask the average person if they want to give up their Facebook or TikTok apps so they can have a ‘free’ OS. You’re absolutely delusional if you think that any significant number of consumers will choose that.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 5 months ago:
The massively different userlands, mutable root partition by default, root by default, etc.
And there’s your answer: that’s shit no one cares about other than a few super nerds on Lemmy.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 5 months ago:
What is the difference between Android and any of the other Linux based mobile OSes?
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 5 months ago:
“Why aren’t Linux based mobile OSes more popular if we ignore the fact that the most popular mobile OS by far is Linux based”.
Gee, I wonder why.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 5 months ago:
They aren’t popular because there already is a very popular linux based mobile OS: Android. What would be the point of another one? Why would anyone want to use a new OS with zero app support and no advantage to using it?
If you want to overcome the obstacle of being a new platform with no support then you have to provide a significant advantage to make it worth the pain, and there simply isn’t one.
Why did people switch to iOS and Android phones when companies like Nokia had the market cornered? Because they offer a massive improvement in UX over the established players. What advantage do those OSes you mentioned have?