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- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 day 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 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 Out-of-date machines can get pwned simply by being on a network or loading a website’s ad, no user interaction required.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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
That’s the required amount for it to continue in the UK legal system, correct?
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 ? 3 weeks 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 ? 3 weeks ago:
If 98% of Lemmy wants to kill all men, that’s a pretty shit state of affairs.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that was a very, very odd choice.
You have Eve Online, a PC exclusive MMO. And you try to sell the playerbase on a PS3 game? Most of them literally don’t have the proprietary hardware to run that game but 100% of them have a gaming PC sitting right in front of them…
This isn’t to say don’t include the PS3, but why the hell wasn’t it on PC where the entire Eve fanbase is?
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 3 weeks ago:
CCP and their affiliates have been incurring sizeable losses instead. They released a mobile game, EVE Echoes, via NetEase shortly after the acquisition, but this has apparently fallen short of expectations, and CCP are now focusing rather heavily on “web3” games fuelled by blockchain bullshit. They are also still trying to make an EVE Online FPS, despite screwing this up three times in a row.
CCP had a one-hit-wonder and never again figured out how to make a game.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 weeks ago:
Drop policies that have been consistent long-term losers like expanded gun control.
Suppressors are a literally a hearing safety device/noise pollution reducer and Democrat politicians describe them like they get all their information from a John Wick movie. It would be so easy for the party to drop the matter entirely and throw politically-homeless gun owners a bone by taking suppressors off the NFA.
Force through policies that improve their lives at the cost of others, for example, healthcare paid for by taxing billionaires
Yep! Follow that up with policies that improve people’s lives and we have a ticket that writes itself.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 weeks ago:
Start by no longer telling men who have done nothing wrong they are responsible for the misdeeds of others. It breeds resentment and closes people to anything else you have to say.
- Comment on Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler 3 weeks ago:
This is a good change. One of my friends had some confusion over the install button not appearing for some small games, he had to go toggle this on. It being available by default for all games is great!
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 3 weeks ago:
If you debate people and neutral onlookers find themselves agreeing more with the other guy than they were at the start, the answer is to re-evaluate your arguments. When you go to social shaming, while you may get people to shut up, you also solidify those people against you. You blocked off the mechanism for those onlookers to have their mind changed and created resentment for the social cost you impose on them.
Isn’t it weird how when you talk to someone online they generally won’t go against the grain, yet Trump now won a second term? And not only that, but he won the popular vote this time around with 14,317,752 more votes than he got the first time around.
That is what social shaming does. Instead of trying to convince people, you force them against you.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 3 weeks ago:
race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning
Physical traits are passed through genes onto kids. The kids have much the same traits as the parents. Asian parents have asian kids. Why are we doing elementary biology here?
This really isn’t the argument y’all should be latching onto.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 3 weeks ago:
doesn’t make much sense to group them so roughly
Just as I would not generally group people by eye color, the fact remains eye color is real.
tell them race isnt real
This is the shit I was responding too. And rhetoric like this is painfully contrary to even elementary biology.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 3 weeks ago:
tell them race isnt real
Regardless of culture/ethnicity: two asians have a baby, you get an asian baby.
Regardless of culture/ethnicity: two slavs have a baby, you get a salvic baby.
Race is most certainly real.
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 3 weeks ago:
That sounds like the connection itself somehow got fucked up. A flame probably isn’t going to fix that.
You can put a flame to a screen for a few seconds and they are usually fine. But really, you should be looking into a screen repair or new/used phone.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 4 weeks ago:
It’s actually a specially made glass that is thin and flexible
The foldable screens scratch at a Mohs hardness level of 2. Glass doesn’t scratch until 6.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 4 weeks ago:
Advantages:
- The screen is protected when the phone is closed
- It allows for a larger screen while maintaining portability
Disadvantages:
- The screen is plastic, instead of glass. Meaning it is very easy to scratch
- The screen has a hump where the hinge is
- The hinge can get dirt in it, at which point you start developing lots of problems
- They are very expensive
I personally buy mid-budget phones, which means these aren’t even a consideration. But, I probably wouldn’t buy one even at the same price due to the plastic screens being very easy to scratch and a larger screen not having much value for me. But, really it’s up to you what you value in your phone.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This morning I walk into the office and she greets me with a “hey!” and huge smile
Your cute coworker is greeting you with a huge smile. Almost no matter the cause, she is brightened by your presence which is something you should default to being a good thing.
Go have lunch with her and enjoy your day. Don’t stress over stuff you can’t change.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 5 weeks ago:
It’s the framerate jumping around that causes it. A consistent 30fps feels better than 30, 50, 30, 60, 45, etc. Many games will have a frame cap feature, which is helpful here. Cap the game off at whatever you can consistently hit in the game that your monitor can display. If you have a 60hz monitor, put the cap at 60.
Also, many games add motion blur, AI generated frames, and other things that really just fuck up everything. You can normally turn those off, but you have to know to go do it.
If you are on console, good fucking luck. Developers rarely include such options on console releases.