BartyDeCanter
@BartyDeCanter@piefed.social
- Comment on Portlandia was spot on 1 week ago:
Yeah, I make jams most years, pickles regularly, and at my old house we had an extremely productive orange tree, so I made a lot of marmalade. My current house has a lemon tree, but it needs to be seen by an arborist. Then I’ll probably get into making lemon curd.
- Comment on Hackerman 2 weeks ago:
I just did this yesterday. Its MAC tables had gotten corrupted in a way that the PiHole connection was flapping. It was wacky, direct IP connections were solid, external DNS lookups were working but slow due to the fallback, and internal ones were working sporadically.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That is definitely part of it, but there’s also just plain more textures and models because people complain if they see the same texture or models reused a lot, and they want ever increasing visual quality. An uncompressed 256x256 RGBA texture takes 256 kilobytes to store. A 4k version takes 16 megabytes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As others have said, it’s mostly audio and textures, with some of it being the choice of engine. Lossless CD quality audio and ultra high resolution textures and bump maps for a jillion triangle models take up a lot of space. The actual executables are relatively small, though certainly the layers and layers of frameworks that make up modern software development are somewhat to blame.
- Comment on It's a peaceful life 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Growth 5 weeks ago:
Updated!
- Comment on Growth 5 weeks ago:
I’m not certain, but I wish you the best of luck in finding it. 😅
- Comment on Growth 5 weeks ago:
Bisexual - You’re over 35
Pansexual - You’re under 35
Omnisexual - You’ve spent way more time thinking about your sexuality than getting laid
Sapiosexual - You’re a straight guy trying to seem cool and intellectual
- Comment on Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC? 5 weeks ago:
I also run a very low end machine with 4GB ram. The issue often isn’t the browser or even the website, exactly, it’s the tons and tons of advertising and tracking crap that is in the background of most sites nowadays. Tue way around that is to run a solid ad blocker. uBlock Orgin is the best, but Google (and maybe MS? I don’t use windows) has fucked over plugins to specifically make things like it not work. So, what you want to do is run Firefox with uBlock Origin with the more aggressive blocking setting. Extra credit for setting up PiHole to block a different set of crap.
The one thing is that this will absolutely break certain sites. But fuck those sites, they’re fucking you.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 1 month ago:
Thanks! I figure all this grey in my beard should be good for something.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 1 month ago:
Oh definitely. And it really depends on your ISP. Before the ISP consolidation it took enough work that sending out those letters to every small local ISP that they wouldn’t bother for Jane Rando who downloaded a few episodes here and there. Now that (in the US at least) most people use one of two or three ISPs who all have a cozy corporate relationship, it’s harder to fly under the radar. But if you have a good privacy-forward ISP it’s not a worry.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 1 month ago:
The Piracy Eras:
- Pre-DMCA: The golden age of piracy, no one worried about anything.
- Post-DMCA: Possible prosecution from big copyright, but also hard to track individuals down, so not a lot of worry.
- iTunes Music Store: Did more to end music piracy than any legal action. Cheap enough and easy enough that a lot of people stopped bothering. Pirate Bay for the rest.
- Torrent tracking/poisoning and ISP consolidation: More prosecutions against small pirates put more of a damper on it.
- Cheap Streaming: Did to everything what iTMS did to music piracy
- Expensive Streaming: Now. Bringing back pirates, but people are more cautious due to 4.
- Comment on Must have apps 2 months ago:
Just use M-x M-butterfly
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 months ago:
Looking back… none of them. I had an OG Gameboy, GBA, PS2, Wii, 3DS, and now a Switch 2. My favorite was probably either the first Gameboy or the 3DS. I loved all of the weird streetpass stuff when I was traveling for work. But I have great memories of all of them, and the S2 has been a lot of fun with my kids.