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- Comment on Everytime I click this I'm called to the Dark Side 52 minutes ago:
Yes but that doesn’t make the joke very funny. I also made this before that setting existed.
- Submitted 1 hour ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 2 days ago:
Hey now, I’ve been here for 3 years and my reddit accounts haven’t seen a login since. If everyone else went back that’d on them.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 2 days ago:
I thought that was the stupidest thing, the Reddit “blackout”. Company doesn’t care. It’s a metric. It’s a line on a graph. When stakeholders ask they’ll point to it and say “This was are anticipated backlash from the Q2 decision to ban 3rd party APIs, but as you can see we already recovered and have grown at our normal pace.”
- Comment on What are y'all's opinions on the Fitbit Air? 4 days ago:
Google switched a lot of free things to a monthly subscription, and their remake of Google health is indicative of more to come. It’s enshittifying fast, I wouldn’t.
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 6 days ago:
Wow, that’s very bad, I don’t think I’ve had one that bad. Outright insulting you in the interview is simply uncalled for. Cutting the interview short is fine for both sides, hey it’s not a match, any questions? Then goodbye.
In tech we have some thing like that called the “Bar Raiser” interview. Typically it’s the second to last interview, last one being with people/culture/HR. The bar raiser is to “See if the candidate raises the bar”. It’s a horseshit way to justify “Belittle them and make them question themselves so much to see if they crumple under pressure”. Amazon did it to me, after 3 hours of straight interviews the 4th hour was the bar raiser. At that point I hadn’t eaten since breakfast, I had shakey hands, and was asked to implement binary search from memory on a white board. The “manager” then berated my implementation for 30 minutes and questioned every detail. I was very close to just passing out because I was so hungry. I remember literally stumbling nextdoor to mcdonalds and eating 3 cheeseburgers in under 5 minutes. No one offered me coffee, water, or a snack.
I bring this up now because maybe they were trying to do that, but they did it very poorly. The one credit I give that shite manager was that he didn’t belittle me, only everything I did. He never raised his voice either, only interrupted me constantly and rudely brushed off my answers. Granted, I hear that’s standard at Amazon.
In both of our cases, they do a great job at showing their place is toxic as fuck, and it was good we moved on. (Fun thing, I was laid off a few years ago and had the opportunity to reapply at Amazon, but luckily got another offer last minute. I ended up turning down Amazon, and man they do not like when people do that. You can tell they have just reports on reports to figure out why someone wouldn’t want to work there!)
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 6 days ago:
Agreed Nintendo, done!
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 6 days ago:
Care to give any examples? I’ve been through some shit interviews too, wondering how bad they are now.
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 1 week ago:
I know they make some great IP, but come on folks, look at how shitty they treat all of us. We have to stop giving them money.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 1 week ago:
Technically not emulated. They recompiled them for x86. They do need special Microsoft apis though.
- Comment on Drop OSS - an open-source, self-hosted alternative to platforms like Steam and Epic. 1 week ago:
So far it’s hit and miss, it is early RC code so I expected some bumps.
I run in kubernetes, but any docker environment would work.
- your data does need to be in a specific format, but it wasn’t horrible to figure out how. From GOG games you essentially extract the .exe files into <<volumeMount>>/<<gameName>>/<<version>> and then you do a dual import step. First you import the game, then you import the version. The game is just metadata, the version is essentially "Run this exe file"
- I had to give it fairly hefty resources, 4 CPUs, this is so it has enough to shard out and extract files and pack them for distribution. I’d like to see this, and more developers in general, rely on using another container for jobs like this. In k8s it’s very easy to say “Start a one-off job and run to the end” and let the container orchestration handle it. It’s harder in docker compose, but I’d like to see a “This container runs the app, this other container runs heavy jobs”.
- OIDC from the start is very nice. I hooked it in easily with Authentik.
I’ll update this as I learn more. Haven’t gotten to the stage where I download and install yet.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I like story driven rpgs, and so yes for me it does. You do have to push yourself to get through the first training area though, that’d a slog. Once you get through and into the open world it’s one if the top games.
- Comment on Drop OSS - an open-source, self-hosted alternative to platforms like Steam and Epic. 1 week ago:
Good, I’ll set it up tonight and see how it goes
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I do have a preference, and who cares about the age of the game as long as the content is good? Last time it was blood and wine, an 80 hour expansion. They haven’t let me down yet with content quality.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Out of all the games, Witcher 3 is probably at the top for best bang for the buck there buddy.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Lines up with the 20th anniversary of the first Witcher game
- Comment on Drop OSS - an open-source, self-hosted alternative to platforms like Steam and Epic. 1 week ago:
Very cool! So is it a full launcher? Can I install my games and run them with proton?
- Comment on Pentagone leader Peter Hegseth in the Capitol. This is what power looks like. 1 week ago:
Walking through arguably one of the safest buildings on the planet and still needs guards around him constantly. That doesn’t exactly say strong and confident to me.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
Please no emotions, I don’t want to get my snowflake fee-fees hurt while suffering from the consequences of my moronic actions
- Comment on Dumbass 1 week ago:
God fox news is stretching more and more
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Why is no one visiting us anymore?!
- Comment on The World's Most Encouraged Drug 1 week ago:
Whenever I hear this it’s always some holier than thou person.
Yes, alcohol is bad if you’re an alcoholic and you can’t stop, or find the need to drink. If you do it too much sure.
“But alcohol is a poison”. Yes. One that we haven’t enjoyed for millennia. The pharos enjoyed it. Jesus enjoyed it. We continue to. We are also aware of the health risks. However, we also choose to enjoy life a little.
Feel free not to partake, but the annoying “its killing you” is a big eye-roll from me. I’m going to continue drinking socially, and I really don’t care if it shaves a few years off.
- Comment on Georgia homeowners are being forced from their homes to help power AI data centers: "It's theft" 1 week ago:
Personally that’s my POV. We need it anyway, regardless of AI.
- Comment on Christian nationalists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd agree that "women need to shut up" 1 week ago:
Was this posted as “holy fuck look at this incel” or do you actually believe this?
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 2 weeks ago:
There’s also the nice “trust us” under is it legal?
Its a parody on how all of the data was stolen in the first place, also I caught some subtle nids to how fucked the maintenance will be.
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 2 weeks ago:
Its satire bud.
- Comment on Georgia homeowners are being forced from their homes to help power AI data centers: "It's theft" 2 weeks ago:
Ugh okay I’ll say I’m torn. Put AI aside for just a second, pur grid and transmission lines are HORRIBLY in need of upgrading. Ask any Republican pre AI and they would have parrotted the same thing about EVs being too much for our grid.
So, I’m not happy that it’s because of AI and datacenters. I do see we need to upgrade, and I have been also someone who is actually okay with eminent domain IF and only if the owners get full MARKET value (and I would throw on moving expenses). Of course we know things can be abused but ina just society I would say that if it means a few families moving for a more robust power grid, then I’m okay with it, even if it had to be me.
That being said I feel that I have a nuanced take here and I fully expect to be downvoted to hell.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Being a Parent is Way Too Expensive Now [15:54] 2 weeks ago:
I personally like her for the same reasons. Very level headed about financial literacy and how easily we part ways with our money, calling out trends like fast fashion and it’s toll on supply chains and our wallets.
I will say my only thing that I’ve soured on is she seems to think anything “fun” is wasteful. Which it is, but if properly budgeted is fine. Like she doesn’t drink because it’s too expensive, but I wish she’d give more nuance of if you’re drinking daily - yes you need to cap that off. If you go out monthly, that’s a different story.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 2 comments