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- Comment on Is it worth selling on eBay in 2025? 2 days ago:
EBay is worth it for anything that is easy to ship (read: small) and has decent value. Particularly if that thing is fairly niche so you need a wider net to catch people. Do note there are effectively zero seller protections on EBay, it’s not hard for a buyer to scam you.
For anything that is hard to ship, Cragislist or FB Marketplace is a much better stop. And, since you sell with cash, the deal is complete once you part.
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 5 days ago:
An interesting fact: English-language adoption of Linux on Steam is over 2x the overall, all-language adoption. This mostly cuts out Chinese (25% of users), Russian (8% of users), and Spanish (5% of users). Seems America and Europe is adopting while China isn’t.
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 5 days ago:
Just avoid the games that use them.
Agreed. I have no desire to give EA root access to my system, full access to everything I do on it … just to play a game.
- Comment on AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning 1 week ago:
The cloud is just someone else’s computer.
you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything
Absolutely not. That data should be in at least two places. A local and a remote is the general setup. If a cloud provider is the main source of the data, the ‘remote’ location would probably be your house. ;p
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 1 week ago:
Thank you for the link, that is exactly what I was looking for.
For the chat, going to link the main graph with that info (page 8):
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 1 week ago:
I wish these reports would include required other costs, as solar needs to be paired with grid-scale storage or, more often, peaker natural gas plants. Both of witch are pretty expensive.
It may still be cheaper, I honestly don’t know, because all the reports leave such necessary, and expensive, things out.
- Comment on Battlefield 6's PC specs don't look too lofty despite all the booms, and Steam players won't need the pesky EA App 1 week ago:
And for Windows players, this means the game will have root access to everything on your machine. I can’t imagine desiring to give up that much control just for a game.
- Comment on Is it possible to make wireless charging broadcast electricity throught an entire house similar to how wifi can broadcast to the entire house? 1 week ago:
I believe you would end up inducing currents in any metal surface in the house. Causing them to heat up, or if they are un-shielded electronics, zapping them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
any game at max settings, 4K, future proofed
You basically asked for the beefiest computer possible. And those specs are certainly the beefiest computer possible.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 2 weeks ago:
You need hundreds of people all working together to drop a bomb on a US city. Commanders, officers, maintenance workers, ordinance loaders, pilots, navigators, even base MPs.
You really think you can get all of these people to agree to drop a bomb on a civilian US city?
Come now.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The ASUS Dumpster Fire 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, ASUS is in an awful state. Their Armory Crate malware* really just takes the cake on the whole thing.
*It literally survives through a full format and will run on your computer without any human interaction if you buy an ASUS mohterboard. It’s malware.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 3 weeks ago:
Better than VII!
- Comment on Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 3 weeks ago:
Please go submit yourself to the agency for anti-aging research. The world needs you!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Are the cops in the US really that bad?
News items are news because they are rare. The US amplifies it’s negatives in search of eyeballs and in search of fixing problems. The average officer is average, not the extreme you see on the news.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m just going to wait and see. If it’s good, I’ll buy it, otherwise I won’t.
- Comment on Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later 4 weeks ago:
Don’t finance DLC purchases. If you are that bad off for money, you need to just play the games you already own.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 4 weeks ago:
Not even that, releasing the server software as a compiled binary would fit the bill.
- Comment on 7-Zip for Windows goes massively parallel with first ‘Threadripper Edition’ — five years after Threadripper debut, Version 25.00 the first to support more than 64 threads 4 weeks ago:
I pack up full hard drive images from time to time (think 100+GB files). More threads is always welcome!
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 4 weeks ago:
How I read this: ‘This legislation banning toxins would make putting lead sweetener in wine very difficult’
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 5 weeks ago:
Smaller studios have been consistently putting out good games as of late anyway. Indy and AA studios have the freedom to make fun things instead of having to check every box on a spreadsheet.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 5 weeks ago:
you can safely use Windows 10 PCs connected to the internet for the next decade.
Do not, absolutely do not, hook an OS that is no longer receiving security updates to the internet. Out-of-date machines can get pwned simply by being on a network or loading a website’s ad, no user interaction required. Vulnerabilities are discovered, never patched, and thereafter every script kiddy can get in with little effort.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 5 weeks ago:
And the most “bloatware” are just windows apps
The Windows 11 Pro edition at my work had an entry for Whatsapp in the start menu after a fresh install…
This “Pro” edition had a popup ad for one of Microsoft’s games pushed as a notification. Literally a popup ad for a game in a Professional edition of the software. Something my company paid extra for.
I have 0 “ai integration” on my PC.
I’m constantly playing wack-a-mole with Copilot. It’s in Notepad by default…
Yeah, there is a reason my home PCs are all Linux Mint.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 5 weeks ago:
Looking to buy a new home right now, and every time I see one of those I see a multi-month project in my future to remove all that crap. Because I know they aren’t going to do it themselves…
- Comment on THE FINALS is getting new kernel-based anti-cheat, likely to break it on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck 5 weeks ago:
I’m just happy I don’t have to think about kernel-level anti-cheats now. No way in hell do I want any game to have that much power over my machine.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 5 weeks ago:
That’s the required amount for it to continue in the UK legal system, correct?
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 5 weeks ago:
It was discovered in pre-history, and almost certainly independently by many, many individuals. You aren’t going to get a name on it.
- Comment on Netflix is delisting some of its best indie games 1 month ago:
the website’s admins do not want you to have any control over your front page. The end result is utterly alienating.
This is one of the biggest things. Back when I would netflix often, I would constantly be annoyed when the ‘continue watching’ dialog was not the first one. Stop moving it around! Now I just watch everything locally. It’s so much nicer.
There is no reason streaming should be such a pain in the ass, and it amazes me the industry has made basic, paid access to shows a chore. And they wonder why viewership is not great*.
*Also the writing…one of the least expensive parts of shows, generally sucks ass and assumes I’m not paying attention. No, seriously, they assume you aren’t paying attention and write shows as such now. It makes so many things unwatchable.
- Comment on Netflix is delisting some of its best indie games 1 month ago:
I’m still confused on why Netflix has any games.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 month ago:
Men had privileged position in the society for millennia.
Other people had this privileged position in society for millennia. The people turning away from progressive politics aren’t wearing top hats, their hands are oil-covered. When you tell them they are privileged, that everything is just handed to them, they look around and wonder what you are talking about.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 month ago:
If 98% of Lemmy wants to kill all men, that’s a pretty shit state of affairs.
