Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on New World will stop receiving updates following Amazon layoffs 6 days ago:
I knew that this game was overhyped and its life would be limited, but now is the time to try to preserve this game as much as possible ahead of shutdown date.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 1 week ago:
Brthday sut
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 week ago:
Yes, and in some places especially small towns, it is for some people, since it’s the main hangout spot (3rd place) in town.
Though I don’t think young people do that as much, “regulars” tend to mean 1-3 times a week. My university had a bar that had a “ritual” where Friday afternoons it would be a completely full house.
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 1 week ago:
With CoD BO3 extensive ability to be modded and workshop support, it could be theoretically possible.
- GamersNexus: You'll Own Nothing and It's Awful | Taking Control of Your Media, ft. Wendellwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192 2 weeks ago:
I do expect operational savings from this optimization, but my guesstimate would be a 2-5x savings rather than the reported 9x savings when looked at over a fixed time period.
- Comment on Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192 2 weeks ago:
It should be noted, how much will that affect the lifespan of those GPUs running double-dutyx8?
AI’s still replaceable but it will emulate human-like burnout.
- Comment on How FEMA Is Pushing Communities to Fend for Themselves 2 weeks ago:
Federal Emergency Mismanagement Agency, then you don’t even have to change the acronym.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
Welcome back, I’ve been here the whole time and currently it seems a bit more toxic and hostile than when RIF shut down, I feel there are a couple more contrarians now than before but it hasn’t been a steady decline. There has always been the odd jerk and troll on this site. I would say the time Lemmy was most wholesome when !cat@lemmy.world flooded the front page with black cats, it was such a cute problem for us to have. Anyone else remember that?
Like others I’d say it’s cyclical month to month. This year there’s daily doom in the news with US politics. If you want to avoid that then block !news@lemmy.world, !politics@world, !usa@midwest.social, and other news and politics if it fills up with Trump posts. 2024 was a lot more hopeful and I think that reflected in the average user’s demeanor even if there was bothsidesism, Gaza stuff, Ukraine stuff and Trumpism stuff. You’ll be informed of important developments as Trump stuff leaks out on occasion but you don’t need to be constantly engaged.
Also: If you see a crapton of comments on a post with low votes then you know best to turn and run from the thread where most of the comments are.
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 3 weeks ago:
They raised money to dig a hole to then fill it in ahain, for similar reasons.
- Comment on WinBoat for containerised Windows apps on Linux adds custom install path, home folder sharing and more 3 weeks ago:
This is about as good as one can get to a Linux Subsystem for Windows.
- Comment on Punch Time 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah you are right… let me edit it
- Comment on Punch Time 3 weeks ago:
I will transliterate where I want to preserve the original context of words. Otherwise I generally just go for stage 3 to get the gist of what a writer or speaker means, and usually it’s a combination of the two, I don’t try to use different idioms.
So “I’ll punch your lights out” might likely become “I’ll beat you so that the lights in your eyes go out” if I were to translate to Japanese (transliterated back).
It’s a neat way to show how each person translating has their own style. (And how Japanese news and diplomatic translators have had a rough time with Trump, forced to sanewash a lot).
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 4 weeks ago:
You won’t find me stepping foot in the US while it is ruled by stupidity.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 4 weeks ago:
One could imagine that conveniently, Microsoft’s online support pages and the support staff were designed to only handle hundreds of thousands of cancelations at a time.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 5 weeks ago:
I consider trust a network, where you are the root CA (certificate authority) or like a tree where you are the trunk, with a locus of control. You have to figure out where your ground truth comes from and re-establish if it if you can’t locate it, whether it’s your upbringing, your life experiences, your family, the books you’ve read or the shows you’ve watched, where you’ve been or the friends you have/had.
Everybody sees the world at least a little bit differently, so you have to kinda figure out where they get their beliefs from and try to connect on the common points while also respectfully figuring out where and why there are differences.
So as just a random internet person I can only recommend two things:
- Ignore most stuff coming from influencers and people that change their principles willy-nilly to suit themselves or chase every fad, there’s very little for you to gain from that.
- If you get stressed or panicked thinking about the chaos of the whole world, slow down, step back, remember the locus of control, think about the things you want to change, can change and can’t change and take the first step of action from amongst the things you have direct control over, and worry less about trying to do anything more than your best to make the situation better.
- Comment on I decided he should melt. I don't know why 5 weeks ago:
Jabba the Hump
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 1 month ago:
Has anyone (in Utah) asked: What was he wearing when this happened to him????????
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
From NYT (cw: gift link to live report with details of shooting):
“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 1 month ago:
I grant you that it’s not perfect and it doesn’t prevent the abuse in the first place, but calling it out is important. There are still plenty of drama about people DMing each other, but there’s less hearsay involved, and appropriate suspicion is cast upon any mod that’s too vague with their ban comments or any user that doesn’t want to reveal their old banned username.
In terms of what users can do about mod abuse: There have been coordinated community shifts in response. A couple examples:
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone was created because the !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone mods wanted to forcibly move the community to !196@lemmy.world, but most users didn’t like that because BZ has more LBGTQ+ friendly policy. So the new community got set up with new mods.
!risa@startrek.website more or less moved or splintered to !tenforward@lemmy.world after some mod beefing and people getting banned for some rules even though it was a “no real rules” community.
- Comment on That'd be helpful 1 month ago:
I do feel bad for making people paying hundreds to come visit, not to eat at least some local restaurants.
But for more frequent hangouts it would be nice to hangout informally.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 1 month ago:
The public modlog is one of the best features of Lemmy, IMO. When a Lemmy user appeals to the public of stuff mods/admins have done, we can call BS on them since we can read through stuff if they’ve been toxic, or if it’s the mods on a power-trip, or if it’s controversially borderline but reasonable discretion given the circumstances.
- Comment on YAYAYA CONGRATS!!!! 2 months ago:
A series of Taylor Series
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 months ago:
That is definitely a problem that needs to be dealt with, since AI scrapers hogging bandwidth or making sites inaccessible means it is hampering equal access to everyone. Ignoring conventions and not rate limiting itself are harmful to the open internet.
So yes, those kinds of AI scraping behaviours should be mitigated, but on the principle of AI ingesting my public data, I’m not against it, if it can access it reasonably and fairly like anyone else.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 months ago:
If I’m going to share my information and knowledge publicly on an Internet site, I’d like everyone to have fair and open access to it, not at the whims of a multinational corp to gatekeep for me. So the fact that AI can access it too doesn’t discourage me.
You have information from me because I choose to share it, not because a site has demanded I give it up without a clear benefit to me in return.
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 2 months ago:
- Comment on Ottawa intervenes in Air Canada-union dispute, sending them to binding arbitration 2 months ago:
There was a >90% strike mandate. This is not going to go over well.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors is getting an official board game 2 months ago:
I’m just imagining one person moves a character around while the others move pieces with ten fingers and ten toes.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 months ago:
Thanks, now my mental image of the AI bubble is now shit-coloured.
- Comment on fr Lemmy really do be like 2 months ago:
help I don’t know which upvote button to click