cerebralhawks

@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good protest songs from the past few years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, but Green Day and Rise Against are two bands I like that do political music and both are still active.

  Maybe subconsciously that’s one reason I like Japanese rock; it doesn’t feel as influenced by current events as western music does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield has sold 140K copies on PS5⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  140K isn’t bad for 3 year old trash

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think FH5 had a story. Well, the story is, Forza Horizon is a racing celebration (held annually?) and you’re doing races and other activities to entertain the locals.

  I think it’s a matter of whether or not you like the driving.

  Mario Kart doesn’t have a story either, and I think it’s the most successful racing franchise? Seems like it would be. Certainly the oldest still around, going back to the Super NES.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Forza is a racing sim. Forza Horizon is more casual. Burnout Paradise is a good comparison. I think that’s the same one I played on PC years ago. Big city, tracks made up of existing streets but you can basically go wherever? Yeah, that’s Forza Horizon.

  I’m not a racing fan. I don’t like the racing sims. I have zero interest in regular Forza, or Gran Turismo, or any of those. The problem is that you need a wheel, otherwise you’re eating wall. Horizon is much more forgiving! I played 3-6 hours when I had FH5 on GamePass, and it was a LOT of fun. I personally did not find it very engaging, though, so I didn’t stick with it, but there’s a lot to love there.

  FH5 was way bigger than Burnout Paradise and I would imagine so is FH6.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google removes Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be absolutely fair, the point of the game is to mislead you, though it does signpost it very well (I imagine because someone told them they had to — it doesn’t make sense if the signposts were part of the original design).

  I downloaded it, started it up, and got rid of all the signposts, then sat my wife down and had her play through the whole thing. (Yes, we’re still married.) I wish I’d filmed it… what a ride. To this day she hates the Monika wallpaper I have. If you’ve finished the game, you probably know exactly what scene I mean. Maybe you have one too.

  Anyway, it’s probably best played on Steam on a computer (Mac and Linux should be as fine as Windows) rather than a phone or a game console, for reasons I feel should be obvious to people who have finished the game. I know it exists on consoles, and I can’t imagine that part being plausible on consoles.

  If anyone who has NO intention of playing the game wants to know what I mean, I’ll elaborate under a spoiler tag:

  spoiler

  At one point, the Monika character becomes self-aware of herself as a video game character, and takes her beef with you outside of the game, addressing you by your real name (as it’s registered to Steam — games weren’t supposed to get access to this, but nothing stopped them from doing so, so the game was able to call you by your real name, which shocked a lot of people at the time). The way you “beat” her is by going into the system files and deleting the MONIKA file. This isn’t something your average computer user would know or think to do, I think it’s vaguely signposted, but in any case, it would be a lot harder on a phone (especially an iPhone) and impossible on a console (or an iPhone, actually). So I imagine there’s some other mechanism to let you do a similar thing… but it wouldn’t feel as authentic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is, even if I was in the top 1%, it’s not like I’m working at NASA or anything. I’m just a regular guy. So I don’t think the test was worth shit. If it was even an IQ test, official or otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …Tell us you don’t mind re-traumatising survivors because you have a weird fetish without… or maybe people are more complicated than one opinion? Either way, I stand by compassion, and if that makes me a cunt, so be it. I’d rather be hated by people who like to hurt others than revered by the same. You’re telling us as much about yourself as you say I’m telling you about me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect my brother is smarter than I am.

  I tested very highly. I can’t remember what the number was. Triple digits at least. It impressed people. I was placed in advanced classes and did very well in school, but I also got bullied and didn’t get girls.

  My brother tested very low. People told him he was smarter than that. He said, “prove it.” He attended normal classes, had more friends, and had plenty of girlfriends.

  Neither of us attended university. We both work for a living and do alright.

  I think he threw his test. So who’s smarter?

  Also to be clear: I don’t put much stock in the test itself. We were tested in elementary school. It’s been almost 40 years, so I don’t remember much. Not all students were tested. We were tested at my elementary school, but I don’t remember if it was the office or a classroom or even the library or cafeteria. We were also tested at different ages — I’m 3 years older. So I can’t even say it was a real IQ test. Some kind of aptitude or placement test though. But after, they all said I was some kind of genius. But I never felt like they proved I was any smarter than anyone, just singled out to excel, and for what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so sick of incest fetishisation, and while Game of Thrones contributed to it, I don’t think it started there. While I agree there are more important things Parliament could be focused on, I think it is important for victims of incest to not have it fetishised and thrown in their faces. If it stayed a niche it wouldn’t have gotten attention, but it’s everywhere these days and it’s not okay.

  Givers have to know when to say “enough” because takers never do, and never will. The people pushing incest porn are takers. They’re enjoying and profiting off the trauma of survivors. And they’ve been taking more and more each passing year. I’m 100% okay with the government telling them to let the survivors up, they’ve had enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How? Xbox increased more, and first. And Xbox always did poorly in Japan.

  If anyone doesn’t know the history, I think it was NEC, was a big electronics company in Japan that tried to make computers that competed with Windows 95 (because they ran something else, I forgot which) and they got their asses handed to them. So the Japanese have been salty toward Microsoft since then. The grudge has started to fade a bit, but it was still going strong at the start of the Series X|S generation (2020). The problem is twofold: Japanese developers won’t make games for Xbox, only Nintendo and/or PlayStation. And two, gamers aren’t buying Xbox in Japan.

  I wonder if Xbox went up at all in Japan. It never moved much there. I wonder if they even bothered installing GamePass CDNs there. I wouldn’t.

  Also worth noting, a lot of gamers/power user types in the west have been turning against Microsoft for issues with Windows 11 and Copilot. I got tired of their shit years ago and went to Mac for computers, but I still game on an Xbox Series X.

  I do like seeing PlayStation get taken down a peg, because for all Microsoft’s issues, PlayStation has always been more anti-consumer. Trophies exist on PlayStation because Achievements were so popular on Xbox that PlayStation (and Steam) were practically forced to adopt them. Xbox has pushed for cross-play and PlayStation has always rejected it. Backwards compatibility is what the PS2 was known for, and the PS3 did it at first, but since then, they haven’t been as good, whereas Xbox has been great about backwards compatibility. Not perfect but great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the first thing the internet says whenever a relationship post comes up is: "Red Flag"/"Break Up"/"Divorce"/"Don't Walk, Run"/"Go No-Contact"/"Let them die in a nursing home"/etc...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought “dump him” was followed by an unspoken “and give me a chance.” In other words, incel culture.

  Might not be all cases, but that is what I generally assume when I see/hear about stuff like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to "like" or at least not care seeing people suffer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s largely fallen out of favour in the common vernacular, as in, people generally don’t use it.

  There used to be a site (one of the popular dictionaries) that would show you how commonly a word has been used in publications (and, I suppose, online now) over time, but I can’t find it now. It would be interesting to see how less common words rank.

  FWIW, I did find a dictionary entry that said it merely means to declare something untrue, with no mention of saying it to gain social status over the person, but that’s how I learned it. Not sure where I picked it up, but if I learned it from a movie or a book, it was being used in that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to "like" or at least not care seeing people suffer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of bad shit happening in the world, and none of us care about all of it as we do about what’s closest to home. Maybe some do, but they’d be miserable all the time. No one likes being miserable, so we tune some of it out. The easy answer is “well it’s on the other side of the planet so it doesn’t affect me.” And while most people will agree, a complete lack of empathy makes a person a psychopath, most people also don’t have empathy for everyone in the world. We all have a filter. Do I agree with what the west is doing to Iran? No, but my heart doesn’t break for them like it might if it were in the next country over. Does that make me a monster? Maybe, to the Iranians, but empathy has to have reasonable limits, because sanity definitely has limits.

  Now, if it’s right outside your door (or in your home) and it doesn’t affect you, I think that’s different. But also, everybody mourns differently. I never cried for my father when he passed almost 23 years ago. I do think of him almost every day though. Like our favourite author (Stephen King) said, you do not forget the face of your father (paraphrased from the Dark Tower series). The face meaning, what he taught you. And, like my father before me, I am an Atheist, and we both believe that life is finite, and it is to be enjoyed while we have it, and being upset about someone who lived, not living anymore, is selfish, and unfair to the billions or trillions who were never born. Darwin said it better than I could. Anyway, he didn’t view death as a sadness, but rather life as happiness, and I’m the same. I remember the good. I remember the bad, and I try to learn from it. No one ever called me psycho to my face. Maybe some of them thought it, but I don’t think I am.

  How is it the British say it? “Keep calm and carry on”? Yeah, that’s me as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to "like" or at least not care seeing people suffer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re probably not going to answer that. But like I said in defence of their previous account (assuming, it’s the same person), they do spark discussion and anyone is free to ignore or block them.

  What I see a lot of is people spamming the same article, with the article headline copies and pasted into the subject line and the alt text (so we see it 3x per post), to multiple communities. But you tap their name and all they do is post. They do not engage in discussion. It’s basic karma farming techniques that worked on Reddit, only Lemmy doesn’t have a karma system. Your overall/community score does not raise the value of your posts. So the deal on Reddit was, you did that for a while, then you sold the account and bad actors would use the karma gained to post scams to make their money back. That doesn’t work on Lemmy, so those people are just… I dunno. Littering?

  This user/those users may ask questions that aren’t the smartest, but they do create conversation. I think they’re a net positive to the site. Even if their questions are made in bad faith, seeing people come together and post good answers makes Lemmy better, IMO. It’s like Cunningham’s Law states, the best way to get a good answer online isn’t to ask the question, but to confidently post the wrong answer. If you ask the question, people who aren’t sure won’t risk sticking their neck out and having someone come along and gainsay [1] them. However, if you state the wrong answer, those same people will take the time to get the correct answer (it’s the same instinct, for one Internet user to gainsay another). Asking questions in bad faith achieves the same result.

  [1] Gainsay is an old, antiquated word that I really think needs to come back, especially in regards to online discourse (or any discourse, really). To gainsay someone is to speak out against them for your own gain. Like you can disagree, you can correct, but if you’re doing either in a way to make yourself look better than them, you’re gainsaying them. Simple word that is almost too obvious in its meaning, yet so specific and IMO we don’t have a better word for it. Trolling covers it, but it covers a lot more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a good alternative Android app to Micro$oft Lens (to scan and concatenate images as pdf)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I didn’t know — I actually use ScannerPro, which isn’t free (good developer, and Ukrainian though). I just hear a lot of people saying Notes does it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a good alternative Android app to Micro$oft Lens (to scan and concatenate images as pdf)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Over on iOS, we can just do that in Notes (the Apple one). Check to see if your notes app has a similar feature.

  I think Google has an app for it as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think my sister asked this. But why can't we have a pirate community? Like not teaching how to pirate but just articles on streaming is raising prices, stuff from torrentfreak.com and other things?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  dbzer0, the instance I’m on. You can sub to db0 comms from lemmy.world and participate in discussions there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will an American remake of Squid Game be bad or better than the original?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As you say, Squid Game is a Korean game, its rules nonsensical to westerners, and it has not taken off in the west, because we all collectively agreed the game is fucking stupid.

  So maybe they call the remake something else. Squid Game is only called that, one, because they play children’s games; and two, because Squid Game is the final game in the first season.

  A remake wouldn’t be impossible, but they’d have to change the name to something more culturally relevant. There is actually a Hide and Seek movie IIRC. Maybe Capture the Flag?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else looking forward to the new Starfield dlc and update?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My answer is the same as when Brewster asks me if I want pigeon milk in my coffee in Animal Crossing: “Ew, no.” (Look up pigeon milk. Or Starfield, for that matter.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else looking forward to the new Starfield dlc and update?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like 4 people but like vegans and CrossFit folks, they’ll tell you all about it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good communities to follow for someone who is just getting into lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t. Tell him to browse /all and block the ones he doesn’t like. And sub to the ones he likes.

  I also came from Reddit, and I tried to use a community migration tool. Like for example, I like Animal Crossing (the Nintendo game), and there are 3-4 Animal Crossing communities, but none are active. One is posted to by a bot. There is basically no Animal Crossing community on Lemmy, even though spaces exist. Same for my favourite band, favourite singer, favourite film — all of which had active communities on Reddit.

  So the point is to discover them.

  That said, I’m a fan of Casual Conversation, Ask Lemmy, and this one — the ones that get people talking.

  Also, tell him to ignore content mills — accounts (not sure if bot or person) that just post stuff but don’t discuss anything. A dead giveaway is when they post something that is freely available but they post blog spam. Like it would have cost you nothing to just link to the content, but you’re hiding it behind ads. So either it’s your business or you’re the tool of whomever’s business it is. And that’s not really a user you want to follow. Block a few of those and you’ll see more of the “real” Lemmy. (Also, become part of the “real” Lemmy by engaging others in discussion. Not everyone, and definitely don’t entertain rude people or people who are trying to herd you into an answer so they can gainsay you — karma isn’t a thing on Lemmy, and people who act like it is are, at best, a waste of time, and safely ignored.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield - Free Lanes Update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do Constellation NPCs (e.g. the four you can romance) still turn on you if you kill the leader of a crew holding a hostage or attacking your ship?

  So there’s been this bug since launch, and it’s been reported to Bethesda several times through official channels, and they never cared about it for like a year (up to Shattered Space) and they just did not seem to care. You would get a misc. quest (e.g. through the Akila City bounty board, or you could happen upon it in space) and there would be a crew of pirates (or sometimes the snake guys, or spacers, or any other enemy faction) and you would have to rescue the ship’s crew. You could kill all the bad guys, but if you killed their leader — which was the trigger to complete the side quest — every member of Constellation would turn on you, saying you disappointed them and you had to go apologise to each one of them. And then if you did it a second time, they would not forgive you.

  I did all 240 temples to maximise all 24 Starborn powers. I must have done Vanguard 7-8 times, pirates 5-6 times (mostly for the pirates but sometimes for the other faction), rangers 4-5 times, and the Deus Ex inspired shit show faction twice. I forget their name. They’re on Neon City, but passing by any advertisement booth will trigger the quest line to start. Best gun is obviously the one at the end of the pirate quest, but even the standard, unnamed one is nearly as good, and my first stop was always to Neon to steal it out of the shop, because why pay for it when you can go invisible and take it off the wall? Then they nerfed invisibility but still refused to fix the Constellation faction bug. That sucked.

  One comment says Starfield is Todd Howard’s baby, but the impression I got was that the game existed to sell paid mods and that Bethesda really did not give two shits about the game. Meanwhile, the Mass Effect Legendary Edition came out like a decade prior, goes on sale for six bucks all the time, and is a far better story, and game. I am a sucker for the shooting in Bethesda games, and Starfield is no exception. I own Shattered Space on Xbox, but not the base game (I played it on GamePass). Still might pick it up if it goes on sale low enough. I don’t even really hate Starfield, I just wish Bethesda cared about it as much as some of the fans. And not even the crazy ones saying you’re a fool (or something else bad) if you don’t see the genius… I just mean people who enjoy Starfield. I wish they liked it that much. I wish they cared about those fans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely do not think any less of people who bond with their cats (my wife, for instance — she was very upset when our last cat got hit by a car). I just don’t. I like cats, but again, I see of them more… maybe “as a thing” is less humane than I meant to be. Maybe “as a force of nature” would be a better way? But not as a family member or friend. I like cats, but I like more the idea of cats, I guess.

  And I consider myself a cat person.

  I’m also on the spectrum, so I don’t really bond well with people. It’s easier with kids, who basically have a “if you’re nice to me I will be nice to you” kind of ethos. Or adults who are exceptionally kind. Everyone else is like hard mode. I also realise I’m the weird one. So the experiences I speak from, I do not expect to be a base line for humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are defense attorneys ‘good people’?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I’ve heard it, they will give rotten people the best possible defence so they can’t appeal as easily.

  Say you want to be an ethical defence attorney. So you tank your client’s cases because they’re rotten. First of all, they get appeals because their new lawyer can show where you messed up. Second, you don’t get new cases, so you go deeper into debt to pay off law school. Make it make sense.

  I think a lot of new lawyers dabble in defence while reaching for more lucrative work, because law school is expensive and they want more of their paycheck to go to paying the bills, and eventually buying nice things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a tough question. I’ve had to put down a dog and a cat. They were both basically messed up beyond any kind of reasonable care. Like we could have spent tens of thousands of dollars to keep them alive, but they would have been suffering. I haven’t had a dog since that dog, and was almost brought to tears when I saw a dog like him last weekend, but it was cool because the owner let me pet it and it was super friendly.

  Cats I honestly don’t care as much about, I guess because cats don’t really bond with people like dogs do. I see cats as more of a utility. You get a cat and it kills things. They’re also way cooler, IMO. But cats like to get hit by cars, they’re dumb as hell, you get another cat, it’s fine. I guess dogs do too, they chase cars, they don’t know any better. My dog was an inside dog (small breed). You can’t do that with cats (or big dogs).

  As for people… there are ways. I mean, once you’re of legal age and if you aren’t impaired, you can get a DNR (do not resuscitate) order. There are bracelets. Some people get it tattooed on them. If you’re DNR and you go to the hospital, they can treat you with your consent, but if you cannot consent, they are not allowed to treat you. If they do, it’s legally considered assault. So they won’t do it. They will make you comfortable, but they will let you die. They won’t do anything to quicken your death, either — except in some places where they will.

  I believe anyone should be able to choose to have their life medically terminated, if they are suffering and of sound mind and body. I have no religious opposition to it. If someone I loved made that choice, I would be sad, but I would not tell them they can’t. That’s not for me to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4′s New $30 Expansion Pack Isn’t Winning Over Fans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For context, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion came out about 20 years ago in 2006, most notable for its controversial “Horse Armor” DLC, which added armour to horses and was mostly lampooned for being unnecessary. That game also featured a $30 DLC called “Shivering Isles” which added about 5-6 hours of gameplay across a huge island. Most of the time was spent running from place to place as it was way too big, but gamers loved it, and rightly so. You’re working for the god of (literally) madness, who is at war with (minor spoiler) himself, and you’re to be his pawn, whether you like it or not. (Shivering Isles is included in the Oblivion remake that came out a couple years ago.)

  I never thought Borderlands games were all that good, personally. The first one was a lot of fun, but it seemed like most people wanted to be either fake Roland (the soldier who could drop a shielded turret) or Lilith (the alien power infused Siren who could phase in and out of reality), and either way you were gonna have a good time. Then there was actual Roland, as in Roland Deschain from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, only he was called something else (“because ‘Roland’ was already taken! get it? he he”) and some other character we didn’t care about. I liked those choices. The choices felt weaker all around in Borderlands 2 (I went with the Mechromancer, the little girl who could summon the mech, because she was cool) but the stakes and difficulty were higher, with obtuse areas with more obtuse maps. And the story held my interest much less. Rather than treasure hunters and a back story with corporate greed, we’re still treasure hunters, but now we gotta save the treasure hunters from the first game for some reason. I never played 3 or Pre-Sequel (wherever that fits), but I tried BL4 on GamePass, and it just felt soulless? But I only played the first area.

  I feel like these games are best bought on sale at deep discount. I couldn’t tell you what I’d do differently with the newer ones but to gesture wildly at the first one. Either the first one got it right and the rest failed to do that, or the series is a one trick pony and they never should have made sequels. I’m open to that possibility, but I don’t like defeatism. I think there was something BL2 could have done better, I just can’t figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I use a "proper" password manager instead of Firefox?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LastPass is shit now.

  Firefox is fine if it’s all you use. I use the Apple Passwords app, because I have all Apple stuff (Macs and an iPhone). It works very well.

  You can also use BitWarden. That’s free, it’s open source, and it’s highly regarded. It works whether you use iPhone or Android; whether your computer runs macOS, Linux, or Windows.

  You don’t need to pay for a password manager. Anyone who says you do has a vested interest in you spending money (it typically directly relates to them making money), and if they can’t respect you enough to be transparent about it, they don’t deserve your money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I wanna know where an Xbox Series X lands in those requirements. All I know is it has 16GB of RAM. I don’t know where its CPU and GPU fall, though.

  I probably won’t buy the game. It looks fun, but I never got much into the Forza Horizon games. I think they are worth playing, but I’m real picky about driving games. I played a bit of Horizon 5 because I had GamePass at the time. When it was $15, it made sense. Since it’s doubled, it no longer does. Maybe if they let you keep a game every 1-3 months, I could see it, but without ever owning any of the games… nah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s relevant because he’s the one most people liked, but Steve Jobs did all the keynotes (until he got too sick to, and then he died) so that’s who people see. The balding windbag in the black turtleneck and jeans who talks like he’s your friend but just wants to own you. Steve Wozniak was his friend (and remained so until he died AFAIK) who was encouraging him to make products for humans, not shareholders.

  Wozniak doesn’t have to do a fucking thing. He never wanted to live like a king and he probably still lives in a modest house and drives a beater of a car. He’s also an Apple investor. He had enough shares to comfortably live on for life before he left Apple. He’s probably bought more. He probably has a lot of things that work very well, but he probably doesn’t have flashy things. I’m not saying he drives a 1988 Honda Accord, but he’s not driving a Bugatti or a Lamborghini to the grocery store. He’s you and I but with unlimited money (or at least more money than he’ll ever need). Maybe he’s got a vast Gundam collection or something like that, I dunno (something niche and expensive).

  But yeah, look him up if you want. I’m just spitballing. I really don’t know how he lives. He’s just never seemed extravagant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steve Wozniak is our guy.

  If you like Android, if you hate Apple, if you don’t like the way things are going in tech… you probably have more in common with Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak than you think.

  Co-founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 (-04-01, 50th anniversary coming soon) (plus an investor), Woz wanted Apple to make PCs for tinkerers with open ports, open source, all that good stuff. Jobs on the other hand, wanted a closed system end to end.

  Woz is also quoted as saying something like, “they send me the latest and greatest iPhone every year. They’re pretty, but I wish they did half the shit my Android phone does.” He doesn’t open them. He stacks the boxes in his closet, or he used to. He uses an Android phone. I think he’s rocking GrapheneOS on a Pixel. He probably posts on Lemmy under an alias. (No, I’m not him. He probably wouldn’t be on db0. Though, he might be.) (Please don’t say I’m him. I’m nowhere near that cool. And I use an iPhone 16 Pro Max 512GB. My Android phone is 7 years old, though I do like a few things about it more. If I were Woz and I used an iPhone, I wouldn’t still use the 16 Pro Max, I’d be using the 17 Pro Max, and I’d have the 2TB one.)