TeaWithDani
@TeaWithDani@lemmy.world
- Comment on EA: Ruin Everything 23 hours ago:
Bioware also had a large number of employees in Montreal and Edmonton. Maga goons (Jared Kushner and Lourenco Goncalves) are just laying off Canadians to hurt the economy.
- Comment on Falling with style 4 days ago:
The Basque would like a word.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 4 days ago:
Im not critical, Im just saying 30% is a good business that pays well. They dont need to scalp more off the top.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 5 days ago:
Retail stores make way less than that. Their margins are razor thin.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 5 days ago:
My driver’s license couldn’t even include my proper eye colour: pers (or hazel). So it says my eyes are green… when they are not.
That’s about as correct as my gender designation. lol
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 5 days ago:
As long as it stays private, it really doesn’t matter. Enshitification comes from public stockholdership, venture capital or private equity trying to get insane returns on overpriced assets.
- Comment on Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat 1 week ago:
That is such a whiplash from the culture of engineering excellence Epic was known for.
- Comment on Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat 1 week ago:
Doubt it, the official “package” is just the entire file and you boot the “exe” with a command line prompt.
- Comment on Why? 1 week ago:
My cellphone doesnt even have the audio quality of an old landline…
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Listen, the marines were always cooler than the spartans. They were just normal humans against giant fuckin monsters with gravity hammers and energy swords.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 5 weeks ago:
Exactly, if you think about it for a second, what exactly is going to power these data centers if Patagonia is so remote and undeveloped?
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 1 month ago:
I thought you were going to say Ai… but then maybe you did.
- Comment on Why Big Tech’s Lobbyists Are Targeting Self-Hosted Servers 1 month ago:
Doth protest too much?
Listen I do the same and think its a worthwhile effort. I just have been hanging out in these virtual spaces long enough and I know what people run.
Did I say we should normalize anything else? lol
- Comment on Why Big Tech’s Lobbyists Are Targeting Self-Hosted Servers 1 month ago:
Oh that’s ok then! Good on you!
- Comment on Why Big Tech’s Lobbyists Are Targeting Self-Hosted Servers 1 month ago:
Honestly, it’s a tough case to defend. Sure game servers are fine and a bullshit claim by lobbyists, but who isn’t using their home server to stream pirated media?
I think we should normalize buying media again. I’ve been getting more and more albums off Bandcamp and buying DVDs and Blurays. It would be nice to see digital releases become decently abundant for TV and Film.
The real thing even has benefits. I enjoy having the ease of getting both english and french dubs to my favorite shows. Means I can watch them with my family.
- Comment on Why Big Tech’s Lobbyists Are Targeting Self-Hosted Servers 1 month ago:
Rent or finance, just like a car.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
I feel gig work locks you into a cycle of poverty and dependence. It’s not transferable experience and it usually locks you into car ownership. Not sustainable for getting into the workforce.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
Lots of people end up on welfare and in social housing under similar situations. We stigmatize those people so much that it never enters public discourse in the same way.
People who are unhoused tend to have even more severe difficulties resulting in that situation.
- Comment on Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs 2 months ago:
Mass Effect was really just Bioware not wanting to pay for Star Wars again. Why not do the same and make a new Mass Effect worthy IP?
The trilogy told the story. Andromeda didnt really add much.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 months ago:
Wow, stereo TV, fancy.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 2 months ago:
Most of the ‘‘smart money’’ is just in it for the short term. Get all the value possible out of their position and be the first out. The bagholders will be the same wallets with legs, us, who hold all that shit in our pension funds, IRAs and whatever.
- Comment on How do you make friends online? 2 months ago:
I played it when standalone came out. I enjoyed the feeling it gave you of walking out alone in the woods, orienting yourself on landmarks and stuff. Mostly avoided players and did my thing though lol
- Comment on How do you make friends online? 2 months ago:
Right? Friends? In this economy?
- Comment on How do you make friends online? 2 months ago:
I always wondered how much impact that has on interactions. It’s like road rage, people in cars are just way more aggressive than someone you meet on foot or even on a bike. You’ll never see people argue irl like they do online… but I still wonder how to avoid that overall and keep things positive?
- Comment on How do you make friends online? 2 months ago:
Yeah, questions are always less confrontational. It’s also a good equalizer, especially if you show you aren’t scared to appear foolish. Puts people at ease I think. Gives them the space to explain their thinking rather than defend themselves.
- Comment on How do you make friends online? 2 months ago:
Bitchin other people for no reason is a great bonding experience. lol
- Comment on How do you make friends online? 2 months ago:
Something tells me, this will be an ongoing theme in the comments. Let’s all do our best! :)
- Comment on How do you make friends online? 2 months ago:
Oh I have been doing that! Why did you say it would work for me? Are you out to get me? All these comments are the same. UGH! I should have known it all came down to this one thing. I don’t understand why people struggle with this. I’ll keep doing the same then.
/s lol
- Comment on How do I make the most out of a mediocre laptop? 2 months ago:
Not sure if you got your answer yet, but Windows 11 should be off the table. I don’t believe your CPU supports it at all. Therefore you get Windows 10, which is off security updates. If you must use your laptop and Linux is off the table, run Windows 10 (or even 7) offline.
Keeping it off the internet and just for your resource intensive tasks is your best bet.
Otherwise, install Linux on it to use it as a remote desktop and rent a VPS to run your stuff on it. It’ll run whatever latest distro you want and your laptop will stay cool as the VPS will do all the computing. That subscription can be very cheap, free even with some providers.
Don’t run windows 10 online. Same advice for outdated MacOS versions.
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