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- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
The fun is literally joining in with the author.
- Comment on US farms have new steward for their safety nets: Palantir 2 weeks ago:
This coming from the company whose CEO openly admits that his products get people killed and he’s okay with it.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 2 weeks ago:
We as an American people have been conditioned for decades that we need larger and bigger vehicles when we absolutely don’t. This is because smaller cars have stricter regulations thanks to the “light truck” loophole in the CAFE standards. It’s literally less regulated, and thus highly profitable to get people to buy trucks instead of cars. The masculine thing, the “It’s safer because it’s bigger”, the “I need space for my family” - it’s all generated by marketing teams for car companies to convince each of us that we need a bigger (and less regulated) car.
When really… we don’t. We don’t at all, and it choosing a truck whether it’s intentional or not, is a selfish move. It’s large, it’s unnecessary, wasteful, it’s proven extremely deadly to pedestrians, bicyclists, and children. Choosing a vehicle like that is inherently accepting that you are risking other people’s lives, and that’s why I’m so against them.
Ignorance is excusable, but once informed then it’s no longer ignorance.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 2 weeks ago:
If you do it about once a week or more, then you do need it. If you need it any less than once a week, congrats it’s a status symbol. How do I know? Because the numbers don’t lie, and if you only actually haul monthly - or even every 2 weeks, it’s actually phenomenally cheaper to rent a truck from either a rental shop or something Home Depot. Trucks are crazy expensive, their fuel already was astronomical before, and now it’s even worse. It’s much much cheaper to have a modest sedan/van than it is to own a truck.
Speaking of vans, it’s actually more spacious and more carrying capacity to own a decent van than it is to own a truck. Go ahead, test out my knowledge. Vans have more carrying capacity, better fuel mileage, they’re closer to the ground so they’re easier to load, and they’re even covered so you don’t need a topper or tool box that takes up even more space.
So in short, if you haul less than once a week, you should have rented and saved a few dozen thousand dollars. If you haul more frequently than weekly, you probably should have bought a van.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 2 weeks ago:
Without reading, I’ll read it after this, but I’m zero percent surprised. Only people I’ve seen buy ram trucks are ones who do not care about others and want to be seen as big and tuff.
Hell the vast majority of truck drivers too, sorry not sorry folks but you do not need a truck to drive to your office daily, or to drive the family around, you got it as a status symbol. RAM drivers are just the worst of them all.
- Comment on Not a good sign 2 weeks ago:
It’s very interesting that the nukes dropped will be mentioned, but the real death toll of the century was plain simple greed and selfishness. Those two working together have and will kill countless more in the upcoming century
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 2 weeks ago:
If you’re on windows this is a relatively easy fix, I believe you’re looking for the “4GB patch”. I believe anyway. There’s a patcher out there that fixes it up easy.
I hate to say it but… Linux really shines here. The backwards compatibility is insane and it really does just work. If you have a deck it just sings, in fact the deck is one of the best ways to play the older games
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 2 weeks ago:
2030 - please insert your hand for blood testing to authorize online play.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 2 weeks ago:
Also “attestation”.
- Comment on THE HOUSEMAID'S SECRET Sets Release Date; Will Go Head-To-Head With AVENGERS: SECRET WARS Next Year 2 weeks ago:
Ugh more manufactured corporate social media engineering.
Barbenheimer made every marketer and social media manager wet themselves with excitedment and now they try to force it every year. Ironically now it means less and less every time they try to force something to be “viral”. It’s very “how do you do fellow kids”. Yes yes we are super hip and cool, now go see our movies.
- Comment on Oklahoma school principal takes down gunman 3 weeks ago:
Remember the entire Uvalde police department covered in body armor and automatic rifles peed themselves when confronted with the same thing.
Give this orincipal a medal and the keys to the city. He’s mayor now.
- Comment on A bill has been introduced that mandates OS level verification at the federal level. 3 weeks ago:
I’m definitely against this, but this YouTube puts a very bias spin on most things. Any other sources?
- Comment on Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refunds 3 weeks ago:
There are no requirements under SKG to force them to run games forever just FYI. Their wording is soft on purpose. It could mean running a server still sure, or releasing a dedicated server client, or even releasing the source code so independent developers and open source folks can figure out how to run them themselves.
- Comment on John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement 4 weeks ago:
Good. John Deer represents the worst in right to repair. Phones and laptops are bad, but John Deer is the worst. A near monopoly contractors that coat well into the 6 digits, with locked down softwarethat is required, and limits on repairs and replacement parks that go and their printer cartridges drool over. Apple and its glued batteries are nothing compared to the required certified John deer replacement parts.
I’ll gladly accept the 99mil, and also hope they get hit with more.
- Comment on Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply 4 weeks ago:
Federal jobs used to be nice. Stable solid employment for the rest of your life. Nothing glamorous but you wouldn’t have to worry while the market goes up and down.
And then last year that completely changed in a bad way
- Comment on Veteran Halo developer of 17 years accuses the studio of blacklisting, fraud, and "multiple harassment campaigns" 4 weeks ago:
Weirdly a non article, thought he’d give his own story.
Anyone who has worked a corporate gig is completely unsurprised though. Squeaky wheels and all.
- Comment on OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain’s AI ambitions 4 weeks ago:
Yeah regulations is why. Couldn’t possibly be because they’re out of money
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 weeks ago:
Nothing concrete, but their stated goal is to play any pc game on it, similar to what steam did with the deck. That was enough to scare off sony
- Comment on Steam lawsuits in a nutshell 5 weeks ago:
They made such a wonderful bug beautiful world and filled it with fetch quests and chests. I swear ubisoft should focus on making worlds, then hand it off together studios who know how to write stories and fill those worlds
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 weeks ago:
So, not defending them because it’s still a stupid choice, but their reasons were not because PC bad, but because Xbox announced their “Play PC games on the next Xbox”. Meaning Microsoft’s next console could play PS games now (if they bought the PC version). Sony doesn’t want their rival console to play their games, so they revoked it.
I still think it’s stupid, exclusives are stupid, but that’s the actual reason before many more people claim that sony hates PC players. (I mean they do, but not for the reason you think)
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 weeks ago:
It was Xbox. Their “You can play anything on the next xbox” made Sony pissed, and that’s ultimately why they scaled it back.
- Comment on Steam lawsuits in a nutshell 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen it put so well. Yes it’s a monopoly, but unlike most bad monopolies it didn’t get there from being predatory, or anti competitive. Ironically with the Deck I’d argue by allowing other launchers and stores they’re surprisingly pro-competition.
It’s that every single other store (except GOG) has done everything in their power to be as anti-consumer pro-business as they can and just have destroyed themselves. EA’s Origin from the start was a buggy mess with bad DLC. Ubisoft was just an Assassin’s Creed store and pissed everyone off by forcing it and not giving a single reason to be over there except “You can’t buy Valhalla anywhere else”, proving how little PC players needed to play Valhalla. Microsoft had a strict 5-install limit of installing games over the lifetime of the purchase, and you had to use their shitty “I solidly work 15% of the time” microsoft store. Everything other store was just hot garbage made up by MBAs who had zero interest of serving the consumer.
But now “We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 5 weeks ago:
I think we’re both right in a way. They won’t care about Windows specifically, but Windows to them isn’t the product anymore. It’s the entrypoint for users to Microsoft services, which is why they advertise so much in Windows now for OneDrive, Office, Copilot. You’re essentially already in their store just by using Windows. So the real loss isn’t that people aren’t using Windows, it’s that people are cancelling OneDrive and Office subscriptions. That is what is going to be noticed.
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 5 weeks ago:
What’s really interesting to me is these numbers:
OS Total % of Players Monthly Change Windows (Total) 92.33% -4.28% Windows 11 64 bit 66.85% +10.57% Windows 10 64 bit 25.36% -14.89% Linux (Total) 5.33% +3.10% Arch Linux 64 bit 0.34% +0.15% Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 0.27% +0.13% Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 0.14% +0.06% Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 0.07% +0.02% Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit 0.06% +0.06% Manjaro Linux 64 bit 0.06% +0.06% From this, it’s roughly that Windows 11 + Linux = (-) Windows 10. So people really are pissed about migrating to 11, and leaving in droves. 5% of the market is huge. This is not being ignored my Microsoft. Rough number I see is there are 14M Steam users in the US. 5.3% of that is 742,000 computers. 742,000 points of entry into OneDrive, Office, Xbox, and of course Copilot that will never be exposed to them. That’s millions in potential revenue lost.
- Comment on Starfield - Free Lanes Update 5 weeks ago:
It’s fine. It’s not going to get any better with age. Look people will say it’s crap, it’s shit, it’s horrible. It’s not. It’s just, fine. It’s not amazing, it’s not groundbreaking, it’s just plainly fine.
The real issue is that they obviously had a lot of really cool ideas that were all left half finished or cut it out for the sake of simplicity. We can’t have advanced mining, that’d be too complex. We can’t have too many story lines, it’d confuse people.
So, treat it as it is, it’s an okay game, it’s fun, it’s just not going to be RDR2 or Cyberpunk. I’d say it’s solidly worth 30-40 dollars. Pick it up if it’s on sale.
- Comment on How Do We Actually Know the Big Bang Happened? 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s the neat thing, that science doesn’t ever full know anything. Religion is the opposite, they “know” something and then try to prove it. Science is like “Evidence points to this, but who knows? If new evidence comes out that contradicts it we’ll look into that too”
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 5 weeks ago:
oh man watch out, you might be posted about here on mildlyinfuriating
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 5 weeks ago:
Christ, you’re offended by me saying it was a joke that no one got hurt by? The most you were inconvenienced was hitting delete, and that offended you? That’s your bar for offense there. One joke ad hitting your inbox one time offended you. This is why we’re made fun of, this right here, why people say we can’t joke anymore and this gives them credibility in that statement. There will always be someone who cannot simply move on. It always has to be a big thing that personally offended you.
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 5 weeks ago:
The joke I’m pretty sure was “Wouldn’t it be weird if we had ads here”, it’s cool man, no one got hurt, it was a joke. If it happens tomorrow I’ll be upset.
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah not in the best taste, but everything today should be taken with a grain of salt