themoonisacheese
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 4 weeks ago:
In a chat I ma in someone made the same point with “having sex with your coworkers is bad: a novel hash weakening technique”
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 month ago:
I agree with the overall sentiment, however:
Lootboxes are at least a conscious action you must take. They definitely have the same problems as gambling (because that’s what they are), but you can also choose not to engage with them. Ads however, are forced upon you, and do things that you cannot see (track you) and cannot turn off.
- Comment on Looking to build a new htpc. This is all that ever comes up. 1 month ago:
Not on Google. They work on kagi and I assume they do on DDG/searx etc
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 1 month ago:
My current daily driver is a 13€ blue switches thing for AliExpress with 20€ DSA keycaps also from AliExpress. Both are fine.
- Comment on Anon thinks the Spiderman script went too far 1 month ago:
The interactive betting minigame was also a bit much
- Comment on Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week 2 months ago:
Modern switches are all jailbreak able through mod chips.
- Comment on Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week 2 months ago:
You know, the timeline makes sense but I’ll leave this here anyway: 🤡
- Comment on The lost days 2 months ago:
Also, Jesus probably wasn’t born in 1AD. as a matter of fact is 1AD the year after Christmas where Jesus was born (so he was born in 1BC) or was Jesus not born for the vast majority of 1AD until a week before the end of year?
Crazy what assimilating pagan holidays will do to a religion
- Comment on Day 175 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
I suggest Titanfall 2 next
- Comment on Hurry 2 months ago:
Dunno I stole it for !femcelmemes
- Comment on Hurry 2 months ago:
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 3 months ago:
“sure our game has gambling elements, but we’re Nintendo so shut the fuck up and give us a better rating because you’re a private company in the business of giving ratings”
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 3 months ago:
Also: brand shield says they only wanted the url gone but you don’t get that when talking to the registrar. Registrar are all or nothing, so clearly they knew they were doing this
- Comment on Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs 3 months ago:
The statute of limitations may have passed, or the prosecutor may be uninterested
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 3 months ago:
Number for number, sure, if it’s actually available at that price.
The problem is that Intel’s drivers sucked in the past, so they definitely have to prove themselves with this launch. I definitely wouldn’t be buying it release day if I needed a GPU.
- Comment on I've had the same laptop for seven years. Don't know much about them besides buy a Toshiba. Is this Hp Essential Laptop a good deal? 3 months ago:
It’s… Not great. It’s on par with other $300 laptops, which isn’t saying much. 8Gb of RAM in current year isn’t really enough anymore, and the screen is basically the cheapest possible. You’re looking for a laptop with a screen resolution near 1920x1080, and ideally 16 Gb of RAM.
It’s gotten very hard to recommend laptops based on the brand name, since pretty much every brand has started pumping out crappy laptops to capitalize on the brand.
Like others said, try looking at business laptops, either surplus or liquidation sales. They’re not great either but at least you’re ideally not getting fleeced.
If you’re feeling adventurous (and I’m mincing my words, this won’t be a breeze if you don’t know much but you’ll learn a ton), the best bang for buck you can get in a portable format is a Steam Deck with USB hub + mouse and keyboard (could be travel size if you want). Can be had for less than $500, if you have the budget portable screens also exist, and for that price it beats any modern laptop under $1000. I understand that it’s not exactly for everyone though.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 3 months ago:
I love how this doesn’t even begin to cover bad kbs ms pushed out. The fact that windows admins think testing updates before deploying them is a routine operation that should always be done boggles my mind.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 3 months ago:
Jesus Christ.
I’ve been doing linux admin and honestly I haven’t been looking back. My breaking point was Microsoft pushing a kb that rebooted domain controllers for no reason.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 months ago:
Ready gaming fires away in this Kraber g200 montage!
- Comment on Claim Now! 4 months ago:
YES
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 4 months ago:
That’s nice, be sure to tell us how it goes when HSTS is enabled
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 4 months ago:
If you own track mania nations forever on steam, you will be unable to run it on a modern OS. You can install mods to make it work but the game is still for sale and if you’re unaware the mod exists, you’ll never be able to play it again
- Comment on Mama's boy 4 months ago:
It bothers me that Oedipus wasn’t even aware that she was his mother, and Freud named it that anyway
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 4 months ago:
Because the entire idea of online voting is terrible and we should never ever ever do it except when it’s to name a boat. This is coming from a dev and sysadmin, we are the people who know and we are telling you it’s a terrible idea.
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 4 months ago:
It’s probably expired.
- Comment on Ads 4 months ago:
Smarttubenext
- Comment on Whatever happened to racing games 4 months ago:
If you liked art of rally, I suggest Parking Garage Rally Circuit. Much of the same vibe.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 5 months ago:
I used to have these issues and I’m sorry to say you are, in fact, using it wrong.
If you find your coils burning out regularly when the tank is not empty, it’s most likely because you haven’t properly set the power on your vape. My coils have the appropriate power printed on them, and they only ever burn out when I forget to fill the tank. My current coil has been in operation for 7 months, I have 25785 puffs on it (the vape counts them). Before this vape, I didn’t care about setting the power and my coils would constantly burn out and I had the same frustration as you.
My current vape also does not leak, despite the fact that I manually replaced the seals when I broke the glass tank (so it’s not just that the factory made it well).
As for the liquide, yeah. Personally I buy base and flavor in the mail and mix them myself, but that’s probably also illegal for you.
Be careful with disposables. Their nicotine levels are way higher than advertised, because they want to build the addiction to their product.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 5 months ago:
Obviously prohibition doesn’t work, but banning disposables specifically should be mandated everywhere. It is insane that a product that contains rechargeable lithium batteries is not rechargeable, or if it is it must be thrown away after less than a month.
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 5 months ago:
I mean, not connecting machines to the internet is entirely reasonable (though in my opinion having them at all is insane).
That’s really interesting though, because your model creates a system where fraud can exist but can be checked (and thus it will, not doing it would be insane), whereas ours removes the problem entirely. I know that you personally don’t have the power to change it, of courses I’m just fascinated by the ways society manages to create deeply flawed systems and prop them up like we can’t do any better.
