RamRabbit
@RamRabbit@lemmy.world
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 days ago:
Yeah, switching to PC is a significantly more effective boycott strategy. You can still play games and give Sony $0.
- Comment on Why are Pokemon Showdown Moderators SO against the discussion of "Eating Pokemon"? 4 days ago:
Meanwhile in Palworld, you can butcher your pals with a cleaver and feed them to others.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
That’s not true if you have bad enough credit
Lots of banks specifically cater to people with bad credit and banking histories as well. Here is a Forbes article about them with a list.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
When you’re too poor to have an account, you have to go to a check cashing place and pay to get paid.
Use that check to open a bank account. Virtually every bank will give you a free account if you deposit your paycheck with them.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
Are you saying that someone could actually be so poor that a bank will refuse them from opening a checking account?
Most banks only require a nominal initial deposit (something on the order of $20) in order to open a free account.
If you really don’t have any money other than your paycheck, you can open that bank account…with the check you need to deposit.
- Comment on Does Lemmy have a self-promo page for things like Go Fund Me? 2 weeks ago:
They do. At the very top of this page, click the heart.
- Comment on Why does dried pasta have an expiration date 3 weeks ago:
Shelf-stable food is almost permanently good to eat. The dates mean nothing.
Dried food can go bad if it gets wet, regardless of the date.
Canned food can go bad if the packaging is pierced, regardless of the date.
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 4 weeks ago:
The cheaper games easily make up for that. Particularly since games that you have owned for decades just work, no repurchase required. Have you seen how expensive Nintendo games are? Even on sale they are extremely expensive.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 4 weeks ago:
That shit annoys me (as it is real easy to avoid, the covers come off easily). At least swapping out an outlet and outlet cover is an easy and cheap fix if you are the owner. $10, 5-min job per outlet.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 4 weeks ago:
A shitload of effort and material goes into building a home, a home will always be the single most expensive thing people own. The idea people won’t care about it is a fantasy.
Now, what you do tend to get is people who settle down and pick a single home to live in the rest of their lives. Those tend to slowly bend more and more to the owner’s preferences. It’s easier to justify a $xxx,xxx renovation when you will live in the home for decades to come.
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 4 weeks ago:
If you already have a Switch, there doesn’t seem to be much point in buying the Switch 2. If you don’t have either, I would highly suggest looking at the Steam Deck, which has a significantly more vast library of great games and is overall a better product.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how they compare to schools abroad, but Community Colleges in the US are significantly cheaper than Universities in the US. (Community colleges get even cheaper if one goes to a community college in their home state.) It might be worth looking into those.
California, especially Los Angeles
You are also looking at one of the most expensive places in the US. Everything costs more there.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. Making it look good, while not doing the standard whites or muted pastels using standard trims is expensive.
You can sometimes find an old home that has a bunch of that done well, but to keep it affordable, it probably looks bad and needed a sand and refinish 30 years ago, which puts a ton of buyers off as they are buying a very visible, labor-intensive project.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m hearing, after burning, give the ashes a good stir.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Maybe they should try making good single player games again. Their massive-budget live-service games have proven unsustainable.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 5 weeks ago:
Note yours is only 70€ less because it is missing the storage and power supply prices.
Just mentioning this as it actually makes your point stronger.
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, GOG is at least offering DRM-free games. That gives them one big plus over Steam.
I can’t name a single thing Epic does better than Steam or GOG. (and no, free games doesn’t count once you start asking me for money when I don’t trust you)
- Comment on Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC? 1 month ago:
Firefox is pretty much the gold standard. But, it likely won’t do terribly better.
Can you get another 4gb in there? Would help a ton.
- Comment on Microsoft has considered spinning off Xbox, the Information reports 1 month ago:
They are only considering it now as they have driven the XBOX brand to an all-time low. Would have been best if they did this before all the weird PC branding* and Series X stuff. Made the entire brand a confusing mess.
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Why does the ROG XBOX ALLY not play XBOX games?
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Why does Windows have XBOX plastered all over it when it doesn’t play XBOX games?
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Since the XBOX consoles are literally just PCs under the hood, why not actually unify XBOX games?
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- Comment on Is it just me or does it seem Google is either AI filled or becoming obsolete? Is there an up and comer that can be what Google used to be? Or are we stuck oogling stuff forever? 2 months ago:
Google seems hell-bent on AI; DuckDuckGo lets you easily disable AI search. Try it out.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
Wealthy folks (in general) are heavily involved in property and consequently pay considerable property taxes.
It is taxed as such as it is a limited resource.
- Comment on What happened to the protesters or protests in Iran before Trump started his crap with Iran? Would screwing around with the leadership just empower the protesters? 2 months ago:
Iran mass-murdered the last protestors. They are scared of the same result.
- Comment on Do you think defense attorneys who defend cops who unjustly killed people are ‘good’ people? 2 months ago:
Our entire system is built on both the prosecution and defense having a competent lawyer. You get dumb shit like mistrials if the defense attorney is incompetent.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 months ago:
I appreciate it. <3
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 months ago:
From the video:
Even under the maximlist goals of AI companies, the projected increase of water use is small compared to what cities and industries already use.
He even mentions how US corn uses 80x more water than worldwide AI use; with 40% of that corn burned as ethanol.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 months ago:
The water gets used over and over and over in the data center. It’s in a loop. The reporting that data centers consume vast quantities of water completely misunderstand the core concept of a water loop.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
They look nice. Wear what you want.
- Comment on So... is Iran blocking the Strait thing and then the US is also blocking it? So is it like... double blocked? Is it like "no you can't close the Strait, I'm closing it"? 3 months ago:
Iran is blockading some traffic, notably not their own and those that pay protection.
The US is blockading some traffic, notably Iran’s traffic.
- Comment on can i still consider myself to be a valid asexual? 3 months ago:
Don’t worry about labeling yourself and over-complicating things. It’s not what defines you.
- Comment on The original Lemmy shitpost 3 months ago:
Please stop asking because I am not telling anyone the reason.
Is it spiders? I bet it is toilet spiders.
