frezik
@frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on car producers 1 week ago:
Whichever company owns Chrysler has been flailing around from one financial disaster to another for my whole life, and I ain’t that young anymore.
- Comment on car producers 1 week ago:
And Harley Davidson.
They go hard on branding. They’re one of the few motorcycle brands that let you go for a test ride (others might have a special event day at a dealership where you can ride around the parking lot). If you go for it, expect to be suited up in all the Harley leathers by the sales guy. It’s not a motorcycle, it’s a branded lifestyle where you ride around sometimes.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 week ago:
We should all aspire to be the Oceans 11 heist of having a library card.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 1 week ago:
If you didn’t know this, it’d be weird how many academics are in the Epstein files. Once you do know it, it’s obvious.
Oh, and Robert Maxwell was legitimately a badass in WW2. Everything terrible about him starts after that.
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 week ago:
The weather was terrible for a jump. Nobody who had training would have tried it.
He almost certainly died in the jump.
He also made an offhand comment about the airline, and that suggests a revenge motive.
- Comment on Only a few years left 1 week ago:
Do what? I thought this was a colonoscopy joke, and those are still important.
- Comment on Samus Aran drawing I made 1 week ago:
Yeah, just need to make some measurements and plan some things around other planned tattoos.
- Comment on Samus Aran drawing I made 2 weeks ago:
Shoot me a DM.
- Comment on Samus Aran drawing I made 2 weeks ago:
I would love a tattoo of this.
- Comment on This would be terrible for my ad revenue 2 weeks ago:
Eight words you can’t say on YouTube.
- Comment on True romance, despite everything. 2 weeks ago:
Grok is the unruly teenager of LLMs.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
Axiom Verge. I don’t know how they managed to improve on the feeling of Super Metroid, but they did it.
- Comment on Radon 2 weeks ago:
Is this really the message we want to send?
Yes, our society makes lots of bullshit jobs. That’s because capitalism can only keep people employed by creating bullshit jobs, and unemployed people are six missed meals away from revolution. That is not the fault of the people who have bullshit jobs.
And no, I won’t accept “this is just a shitposting sub, lighten up” as a response. This is just another form of kicking down, and it isn’t funny. The working class needs solidarity, not this.
- Comment on open source is a cult but it doesn't have to be 2 weeks ago:
That’s not how cults work.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 weeks ago:
I assume he doesn’t wipe for the same reasons.
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 2 weeks ago:
Is there any value to analyzing his DNA? The idea that evil is genetic is itself feeding into some Nazi ideas about eugenics that are deeply wrong.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 3 weeks ago:
Let’s just take the W on this one, ok?
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 3 weeks ago:
Utilikilt.com?
It’s something like Kleenex. It’s a specific brand, but got used generically. The rivet pattern around the crotch is the company’s trademark (and they’re not shy about suing others over it), but there are canvas kilts out there otherwise.
- Comment on Five years from launch the PS5 is a roaring success, so why doesn't it feel like it? [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
It’s because of this:
vgchartz.com/…/ps5-vs-ps4-sales-comparison-june-2…
Align PS4 and PS5 sales to their launch date, and you’ll see that the PS5 has been lagging behind. Not by a lot, but it’s noticeable. This is despite the fact that The Xbox Series X/S is doing a bit worse than the Xbox One, and the One did a lot worse than the 360. Nintendo, of course, is in another room doing its own thing.
Sony expected every generation to sell better than the last. The market has clearly hit a saturation point, so that expectation is no longer valid. Combine that with the fact that Moore’s Law (originally defined as the price per integrated component dropping) is completely dead. That means you can no longer expect better hardware to get cheaper. You might be able to find fabs that can give you more performance, but it’ll cost you.
This is why the GabeCube is a good idea from a business persepctive. It will likely have better performance than the Xbox Series X/S, but not as good as the PS5. What it can do is be affordable with good enough hardware. The specs appear to be a bit Frankenstein, which is what you’d expect if Valve grabbed whatever deals on things they could find to put something together.
- Comment on The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS 3 weeks ago:
Supposedly, God chose Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump as his prophets. What kind of shit ass God would chose those dirtbags? Even if he existed, why worship an asshole like that?
At least Zeus was up front about being an asshole.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 weeks ago:
Also, if the dealership is offering you 29% on a 7 year loan, please walk away. Stop giving in to that shit. It’s better for you, and it’s better for the rest of us.
- Comment on sad but trueueh, yeahh 3 weeks ago:
Astronomy still has imperialism problems. Best places for telescopes (radio or optical) aren’t around white people. Sometimes they’re more agreeable to the local population than others.
- Comment on Lymey Lizards 3 weeks ago:
Roddenberry loved his god-like children plots. Charlie X. Trelane. Even Q. Every time he had writers block, he’d spew out another one of those.
- Comment on Just how? 3 weeks ago:
I always try to park further back because of this. Then I still underestimate it and can’t find where I parked.
With motorcycles, it’s almost mandatory to park further back. People will try to pull in, hit the bike, knock it over, and then drive off like nothing happened. If confronted, it’s your fault for riding a bike.
- Comment on Valve has ‘a pretty good idea’ of what Steam Deck 2 is going to be, but it’s not ready yet [VGC] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not so concerned with the instruction set. The differences are generally overrated.
I’m concerned about monopoly power. Out of three companies that can legally make modern x86-64 processors, AMD is the only one worth talking about anymore. Unless China wants to throw some major weight into restarting VIA’s x86 line, that’s not likely to change. China seems fine with ARM and RISC-V, and ignoring x86.
The competition on the horizon is no longer AMD vs Intel. It’s AMD vs ARM vs RISC-V.
- Comment on Anon gets a pay raise 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t have anything to do with tax brackets, though.
The solution to assistance services is to have a scale where assistance is backed off slowly until it goes to zero, not have this cliff where you make $1 more than the maximum and you get nothing.
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 3 weeks ago:
They’re both calibrated against a stupid wet molecule that carbon based life on this planet is addicted to.
Introducing: the Nihon. 0Nh is the freezing point of Nihonium at 1 bar pressure, and 100Nh is the boiling point. Well, theoretical freezing and boiling points. Nihonium is one of those elements that doesn’t stick around long enough to be studied. But we thought really hard about it, did some shit with particle accelerators, and we’re pretty sure these numbers are good.
- Comment on Pansexuality 3 weeks ago:
Let’s just say that I’m very protective of my cast iron.
- Comment on grindr dump (in post body) 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and they don’t even have a clue how clueless they are.
- Comment on grindr dump (in post body) 4 weeks ago:
You sound like the reason women choose the bear.