rozodru

@rozodru@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Zone of the Enders 1 and 2
  Shadowhearts
  SSX Tricky
  Burnout
  Katamari Damacey
  Ribbit King
  Roommania #201
  SkyGunner
  Oni
  Dead or Alive 2
  Silent Hill 2 and 3
  Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front
  Mobile Suit Gundam: The Lost War Chronicles
  Xenosaga
  .dot Hack
  Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain
  Def Jam Vendetta
  GunGrave
  Capcom vs SNK
  Marvel vs Capcom 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  stopped using Amazon when they switched to Bluetooth lockers that can ONLY be opened via their shitty amazon app. Prior to that? was easy and the lockers were great. either enter the code you get emailed or scan the barcode and boom locker opens. NOW you need to have the amazon app which tries to connect to the locker via bluetooth. It’s hit or miss. I don’t want to use your amazon app, I just want my stuff. The thing doesn’t even work most of the time. I remember once I was waiting in line to pick up my package and of the 5 people standing in line with me at the locker 3 of them couldn’t get the locker to open. Contact customer service? it’s a known issue…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yup they’ll go the route of Sega. The writing has been on the wall with the Xbox Division for awhile now that I’m honestly surprised they’re still trying to “make it work”.

  Xbox was a weird one. I haven’t used one since the 360 and honestly I couldn’t even begin to tell you what the next console in the line was after the 360. was it the series x? was it the one? I dont’ know. I mean after buying like 5 360s because of red ring or whatever why would I continue that idiocy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it WAS a good deal early on. Also when they introduced their partnership with RIOT and it would allow you to unlock all the characters in LoL that was a very good deal if you were a League player.

  but the price increases and what have you…meh. it was good to get access to some games and not have to pay full retail for them. I’m thankful I didn’t pay full price for Starfield and just played it on gamepass but there would be months on end where there was nothing on there worth playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WoW dies with the Lich King⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shadowlands was where I finally stopped. Playing since day one I’ll never forget when I decided to stop. I got the the “fairy land” part of the expansion, was running my Orc Hunter through and then I just stopped and asked myself “What are you doing?” It wasn’t fun. It became a chore to get through the content to the eventual gear grind at the end just like ALL the previous expansions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OR they could grow a spine and actually back up the shit they claim to advocate for. You can simply geoblock that area/state/country and state to your users there that you value free speech and you won’t bend the whims of a authoritarian government. Let the people who are now being denied a service complain and get it changed. Other companies have done this most recently Imgur.

  For a company to immediately bend the knee and institute ID checks doesn’t fly right with me. They’re stating that they are more than willing to change their policies at the whim of whatever government body. Also they are more than happy to start collecting MORE data on users to then do god knows what with. How do I know Bluesky isn’t going to sell said data they’ve obtained? how do I know how secure my ID is with them? And I do have to question their motivations when they consistently, immediately, agree to collect data on their users this way. Bluesky is essentially still a start up and they need funding, what better way to get more cash flowing in then harvesting their users data?

  I wouldn’t trust Bluesky as far as I could throw them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Saudi Arabia all of a sudden has become a Teenager from the late 90s/early 00s. Just buying Wrestlemania, Videogame companies and events, etc.

  Next thing you know they’re going to buy Mountain Dew, Doritos, JNCO jeans and the band KoRn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yup, am a Canuck :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a problem for me just because of the cost. I want to play Expedition 33 but I’m not sure I want to pay $70 to do so.

  I’m happy just playing my old ROM collections or booting up Cyberpunk or whatever. but now I just can’t justify dropping $70+ on a game anymore.

  sigh, I’ll probably just end up going back to EVE Online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  please, don’t. I’m on another 3 month break from EVE and I don’t want to go back just yet but….please…don’t I’m tired boss.

  this has been my life since 2003. EVE, take a break, EVE, another break, EVE, so on and so forth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn set to start to train its AI on member profiles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the hell are they going to train it on? jerking itself off? cause that’s all it’s going to “learn” if it trains on Linkedin profiles and posts.

  It’s just going to slurp up a bunch of tech bros posts that think AI is the second coming. it’s just going to learn that it thinks it’s hot shit when it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infected Steam game downloads malware disguised as patch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  glad I use NixOS in all honesty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pink Visual. They were located in an undisclosed decent sized building on Speedway or Pima, can’t remember which it’s been awhile since I lived there.

  They primarily focused on DVD content, they had several sides and an affiliate program named TopBucks. They were owned by this very eccentric dude from Vietnam who drove a massively “blinged out” hummer that would be constantly parked out front. Thing is…only like a handful of people actually saw him in the building. it was weird. I never met the dude and I worked there for like 3 or 4 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  welp good thing Pink Visual shut down in Tucson, AZ cause….yeah that would have been awkward.

  Food was great there though, lunches were always decent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s bursting now. within the past few months to a year I’ve made more money switching my focus from freelance/consultion dev work to, essentially, a freelance digital janitor targeting AI. I get clients that desperately need to fix the slop they’ve produced and have me code review it to see how practical that is (9 times out of 10, it isn’t.)

  The calls/emails I’m getting from potential new clients are becoming more frequent on a weekly basis. People are panicking. And I know when it finally does finish bursting that it’s going to be hell out there. So since I’m now making more money than ever I’m saving AS MUCH as possible because I hope to come out of this shit on the other side and retire.

  To other devs potentially reading this, Get good at code reviewing and start leveraging that. it’s a skill that IS in demand right now and will be for awhile. Just the tech bros on linkedin are unwilling to admit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it's true that it has gotten better with sources. However remember the context of the conversation? much worse. But I can see the direction OpenAI is trying to take it. short one off responses/solutions with little followup.

  It is better than Claude though. Claude will just make stuff up or say EVERYTHING is a "known issue" when it isn't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your experiences using Linux for gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use CachyOS (Arch) and NixOS and haven't had any problems. Modding on NixOS is a bit more of a headache but it's not a deal breaker. Everything just works. Sure I can't play League or Valorant or EA multiplayer games but not like I was playing those anyways. IF you do enjoy those games then your linux gaming experience isn't going to be great.

  As far as distros go? hell you can play on whatever one you want. Like I said I sometimes game on NixOS. I know a guy that even play games on Kali when he's not doing his pen testing stuff.

  Even for older games with Emulation it's great. NixOS is my defacto remote emulation machine because it's so painfully easy to set up retroarch on it. Otherwise I have Ubuntu on my private server and I run RomM on it and it has all my roms on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethical alternatives to Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to pay artists I like directly either via merch, patreon, or going to their concerts.

  for my music? soulseek/nicotine+ on my server.

  the problem is Spotify is by far the best streaming platform out there, bar none. I've tried the other's like Tidal and Deezer and what have you and just didn't like them. Amazon Music was absolutely horrible. The only other alternative would be youtube music with an adblocker. How do I find new artists? youtube shorts believe it or not.

  But yeah I'd rather pay the artists directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do freelance/consultation dev work and I'd say most of my clients are having this problem right now. But this is a problem of their own doing. Most got rid of their dev teams and instead leveraged AI and less than a handful of junior devs to essentially just be prompt monkeys. I eventually get called into these places to code review the slop that got churned out and the majority of the time the solution is to start from scratch without heavily utilizing LLM's that got them into this situation in the first place. The problem is though they now need to hire competent senior level devs again. But they can't.

  They place ads on linkedin, indeed, etc and then get absolutely hammered with resumes written by AI. The vast majority of which are resumes from people that are either incredibly unqualified or are from like India. They again had to stop using AI to read them because naturally it's just pulling the bullshit from the pile of bullshit it's being fed. The ACTUAL devs that are applying get lost in the shuffle. Now they have to manually comb through all the resumes and verify that they're not AI crap before even attempting to read it.

  So it wouldn't surprise me if places are just giving up and no one is getting hired. I can speak for myself and other consultants I personally know that we're having to turn down work because we're booked solid and don't have the time. I've run out of people to refer jobs to cause we're all in the same boat.

  The industry axed a metric shit ton of people and now needs them back and they simply can't find them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got no sympathy for anyone that is disappointed and continues to "pledge" to this "game". I mean hell a few years ago they got me and I "pledged" $200 for a ship that I may or may not still have. but then afterwards I felt like a rube.

  So I get it, I fell for it once, but still no sympathy for anyone that continues to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts At Request Of Cybersecurity Agency⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  self host? it's not expensive and generally will be cheaper then paying $12+ a month with other places

  For example I'm in Canada and while I do have my own dedicated ubuntu server I also have a web hosting plan with a local company here. I pay $50 a year for a decent sized server to host my portfolio and various other websites as well as unlimited IMAP and/or SMTP emails. I just went with that. the domain was included with the price of everything. So now I have personal email account, a client facing email account, a general inquiry email account, and a bullshit spam/account verification email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  docker is painfully easy to learn...hell you really don't need to even "learn" anything. think of a docker compose.yml as very basic instructions on what you want the thing to install and what you want it to do. save it. and then run docker compose up -d on your server and you're done. that's it.

  for example the docker-compose.yml for Romm is like 10 lines and you just tell it what version to download and run, what API to use to get the meta info for your games, user name and pw for romm and that's it really. Most cases whatever you want to use in a docker will have a yml file for you anyways to copy and paste. you can have it up and running in less than 10 minutes.

  The beauty of Romm also is if you have A LOT of roms you can upload them all in one go, then let it scrap the meta data and walk away, turn off your browser, check it in the morning or whatever. It's a pretty good setup. all the emulators and what have you run off your server and are installed automatically via Romm depending on what roms you upload to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do it. I have a dedicated Ubuntu server with a bunch of docker instances on it. one of them being Romm. I just upload all my roms to it and I can play any game in any browser on any device connected to the internet. I have NES, SNES, Genesis, Saturn, PSX, PS2, Dreamcast, Saturn, Jaguar, 3DO, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, Gameboy/Color, GBA, DS, etc, etc, etc all ready to go.

  Don't shell out $70 again to play these. they're already available free o charge online. Just set up dolphin and have at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a PC with the Dolphin emulator that runs both of them for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  thought this was a very early april fools joke with the literal 1/100 scale Virtual Boy "accessory"

  I mean as someone who is old enough to remember calling Blockbuster every 30min to see when they got the thing in stock to rent out...sure have at it I guess. But man you REALLY need to take breaks otherwise your retinas will crust over. Although when you are done playing it was neat to see the entire world in a shade of red afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on the humble bundle this month?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  isn't speed freaks free?

  I mean there's like a couple of ok games there. If that Destiny bundle includes all the expansions and you're into those type of games then maybe...or you could just play Warframe. but yeah I'd pass on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when Coloumbine happened and politicians started blaming DOOM (a several year old game at that point) and Quake? Hell didn't they also try to blame the Matrix simply because the shooters were wearing trench coats? meanwhile the film came out like what? one or two weeks before the shootings?

  Politicians just LOVE their scapegoats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm old enough to remember "Mortal Monday" with the release of the first Mortal Kombat on consoles and everyone was CONVINCED that it would result in kids ripping the spines and hearts out of peoples bodies.

  Hell I remember when the original TMNT and Power Rangers was bad because it would encourage kids to do "ninja stuff" to the point where in the UK they changed "Ninja" to "Hero" and eventually Michaelangleo wasn't allowed to use nunchucks anymore because out of ALL the weapons the turtles had, THOSE were a no-no. Sword? Sai? that's fine...even the boe! but heaven forbid a child crafted their own nuncucks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean...it's kinda silly to go into Silksong without playing Hollow Knight yeah? Unless Silksong has something at the beginning that sort of catches you up to speed OR is like a Souls or Final Fantasy where it has nothing to do with the previous game entry.

  But If I were a fan of the series I would hope the game ramped up difficulty and didn't hold my hand for the sequel. That, in my opinion, would be a worthy purchase. I had playing sequels that kind of "reset".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I know but you still have to wait for ships to show up to get their parts right? unless they changed it you don't have access to ALL ship parts right off the bat in creative mode do you?