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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The shrinkflation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, last time I went there was over a year ago and had a similar experience to op, now I go to my local shop. Same price now as mcds, but I get almost 2x the food and it’s better quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 2025 Steam Awards Winners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  God I’ve tried three times to enjoy no man’s sky and I just can’t. It’s just endless grinding, no real reward for it, and no way to automate any of the tasks so you can move onto more fun things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprise! You get your surprise spoiled by some rag article site. Aren’t you surprised?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Luckily with RAM, you know pretty quickly if a stick is dead. Yeah the test can run for hours, but in my experience if a stick is dead, memtest will go red almost immediately, most of the time not even making it 2 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In fact they should try. Due to dual/quad mode the only thing testing multiple sticks at once will tell you is if any of the sticks have failed. Only going one by one will tell you which ones or how many, otherwise you’ll have red herrings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah two sticks at once to me says mobo issue. Maybe not fried, I’d be hesitant to try them in a better mobo to not fry a slot too, but they might still be fine.

  Did you test each stick individually to confirm both are dead? If two sticks are in there and it fails all that means is “at least one failed”. That’s just an indicator to go one stick at a time to determine which one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless it’s ddr5 check your local ewaste recyclers, most have shops where you can buy used parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People like this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly my use case, I’m on a couple communities that I’m sure there are people out there don’t like, but for the few of us who do really like the community we enjoy it. Those who don’t enjoy it are welcome to block us or not subscribe to us, but they insist instead on downvoting every single post because they personally don’t like it, ruining the experience for the actual people who do care about the community. You’re also right that it’s a small community, we’re not talking about Ask Lemmy, we’re talking about a small community with less than 100 people. Where a post may get a few up votes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People like this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not at all what I’m talking about. Random downvotes are a constant, those don’t matter to me. However if you really hit 80% downvotes in my community alone, then to me I’m doing you a favor. You should have just blocked my community, so I’ll do it for you. It is honestly difficult to get that high or a downvote rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People like this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I factor this in with bans on my communities. I very rarely ban, but I do if I notice people like this, who I dub “downvote trolls”. They don’t participate (or when they do it’s negatively), the just downvote constantly.

  Now I’m fine with downvotes, I downvote, I think it’s healthy to say “I don’t like this content”. However if all you do is downvote (especially in a specific community) then I view a ban as a win win. We don’t have to deal with your negativity and obviously you don’t enjoy being here anyway from your voting patterns, so everyone wins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Year's broadcasts behind paywalls⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even those are being locked down behind DRM now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨vavo/lora-pilot: an ultimate docker image for all Stable Diffusion LoRA trainers. Features shared models, modules, custom integrations and automatization scripts.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just thinking how it’s becoming cumbersome to manage all of these pipelines and different dependencies, models, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG and CD Projekt founder Michał Kiciński acquires 100% ownership of GOG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as they offer DRM free games I’ll buy. No sense worrying now about something that may not come to pass. They’re still a massive underdog who have seen epic and ea fail at stores, and they know their edge is DRM free

  As soon as they give up DRM free I’ll stop giving them money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember, you’re bor ong their hours from AI data centers, and AI takes precedence. Don’t use this service

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thought this on point on Christmas.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know far too many people who happily put Christmas on debt this year rather than make small cuts to their Christmas magic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  actually… probably true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things pop into mind

  • Power hungry mods always do stupid things that drive people away from their communities
  • Why was anyone with a C-Suite title a mod of an online community?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard good things about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll keep an eye out, but yeah looks like I shouldn’t get in line quite yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they had made an event Tacoma I would have bought that instantly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a common argument, but the vast majority of people at home do not carry gravel or sand on a weekly basis. What they need is a rental truck for those items. The cost of 100k is ludicrous. Comparing to a rental truck you would need to be carrying raw material like that on average 2x a week to even break even with the payments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I wanted was a nice little ranger style truck - 2 seater, can pick up some lumber, decent sized bed, for in my garage. What they made was a giant crew cab monstrosity that takes up 2 parking spaces and costs 2x what I would have spent.

  Car companies keep trying to tell us customers what we want then are surprised when we don’t buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another on the list for “no marketers, I refuse to get hyped about anything when your company is probably just going to kill the project”

• [LTT / YouTube Drama] "What happened to Linus Tech Tips with followup in description
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapflation: The Kroger brand "shake and bake" seasoning no longer comes with the bag to shake it in 😠⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing those seasoning crumbs are a pretty standard mixture, one that is easily googled, and can be bought for pennies compared to that bag. Some olive oil, that seasoning, and a bug bowl and you could have weeks of it ready to go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapflation: The Kroger brand "shake and bake" seasoning no longer comes with the bag to shake it in 😠⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lived long enough where I definitely see this as the reason.

  It starts with one person saying “hey wait, if we do this thing we waste a little less!”. Good intentions and idea. It grows and catches on. Companies see that and see the triple hitter: they can

  • reduce overhead costs by not doing the wasteful thing
  • go on a PR blitz making it look like they’re doing amazing things, people clapping all the way
  • continue charging the same amount.

  Happens all the time. Tipping is the best example. You feel bad for the driver or server so you tip a little more. Companies see this and make it easier for you to tip, saying they really value their workers and want to let you tell them. Meanwhile they do nothing for actual pay, screwing you and the employees at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is that they’ve completely bent over to shareholders and shareholders are both A) non tech people and B) believe AI will print money for them.

  A company with a backbone would say “No you know what, this is insane and it’s clear customers aren’t biting. We will win long run if we make quality products people want”. Instead they bend over to shareholders and, from my understanding they say something like “deeper plz”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latitudes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many colors on a map looks busy, as long as none are touching with the same color then it’s good. In fact, the fewest number of colors you can use without any touching is usually the best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very high resolution indeed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Recognize that anywhere. From Pink Floyd’s P.U.L.S.E. live show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not crying, you are!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These were always sweet, especially having friends in the military and being there for a couple.

  Then influencers caught on and started taking them. I swear to God I’ve seen AI ones now. Absolutely ruined the heartfelt videos.