chris
@chris@l.roofo.cc
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 1 day ago:
No game is good enough to convince me to pay a subscription to play it online. I refused back when WoW came out and I will continue to do so. There are enough exclusives on PC.
If the price of gamepass annoys you and you have a pc maybe you could also find games that don’t need it.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 1 day ago:
You could get a pc and not pay for online play. Just saying.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 1 week ago:
Paying for an IQ test is a test in itself. If you pay that much to get a number you can’t be that smart.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. Someone has to pay for it. The infrastructure, the bandwidth the creator payouts. That all costs money. A lot of money. We can talk about if the cut Google takes is too big and if they could do with less ads or cheaper premium but someone has to pay something.
Also happy cake day.
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 2 weeks ago:
I acknowledged problems with reliability and repairability in my own post.
Factoring in the lifespan of an appliance is definitely a good idea, but it’s also true that old appliances are often incredibly inefficient compared to their counterparts. As always you have to be a savvy shopper to find out what is good and what is bad. I’d never get myself a smart fridge but a modern one has features I wouldn’t want to miss.
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 2 weeks ago:
That sucks but how does that relate to my comment?
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 2 weeks ago:
My modern fridge automatically defrost itself and has an incredibly silent compressor. More than once I forgot to close the freezer door correctly and still it’s not covered in ice on the inside. It uses so little energy into its day to day operation.
My modern drier has a heat pump built in to effeciently heat the air. It also detects how long it needs to run to get my clothes to the perfect dryness.
My modern dishwasher has a heat exchanger system to retain the heat from the dirty water to warm the fresh water. This saves energy.
Modern devices maybe have their problems. Sometimes with cheaper components or worse repairability. But don’t pretend like the only innovation we had over the years was to add wifi to your appliances.
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 2 weeks ago:
And probably uses 3 times the energy. My drier has a heatpump built in. I can’t imagen the old one has that. Things get more complex net just to fuck with you but because they innovate.
- Comment on How will you celebrate? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have a problem with wishing bad things. My wishes don’t have any power. They won’t change a thing.
I also don’t believe in karma. Too many bad things happen to good people and vice versa.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 weeks ago:
I’m still mad that they won’t do a sequelto days gone. I want closure!
- Comment on Do YOU consider Kanji difficult? 3 weeks ago:
Partially. I recently wanted to type 𰻝𰻝面 but my keyboard didn’t suggest 𰻝 even when I tried biang or biang biang. The is that there are several characters with the same syllable and then I still have to know which character is the correct one. And even though there are so many the still sometimes have several meanings. For example in Chinese the character 面 means noodle or flour or side or face (maybe even more). And I still can only sometimes infer the sound from the character. If someone were to ask me I’d ditch Kanji in Japanese and only us Romaji. Unlike English the sounds are actually standardized and it would make writing more compatible with a lot of countries. I’d also accept Hiragana or Katakana. But only one of them. I’d also start a writing reform in English so that the spoken and the written English fit together better.
- Comment on Do YOU consider Kanji difficult? 3 weeks ago:
Yes I find them hard and also not a very good writing system. Especially in Japanese where you have four writing systems. Drawing pictograms means I have to learn a spoken word, a pictogram (or worse pictogram combination) and a meaning for both. I know that English isn’t always written as it is spoken but for the most part it is. Even if I only hear a word I can have a guess at how it’s written and from the writing I have an idea how it might be spoken.
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 3 weeks ago:
I know. I was just talking about the amount of data that is available that is hard to reproduce in the FOSS world.
- Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps? 3 weeks ago:
The biggest problem is scale. You need enough people to use it to even be remotely useful. Google has the movement data for so many phones that the can detect traffic problem only through the phones moving more slowly. Then there is waze where people actively add data. Even if there was an app that had the same functionality you wouldn’t get any benefit if you are the only in a 100km radius.
- Comment on billy 4 weeks ago:
The assumption is a billionaire in USD. Euros might work as well.
- Comment on meirl 1 month ago:
It could work. You’d just have to make sure to know when and where you will die. Then you could take your bones go back in time and die where you are supposed to.
- Comment on Jason Is Well-Done 1 month ago:
This here is a man that once has been told that his burger is tasty and now it’s his pride and love language.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 1 month ago:
A bit sad for me that I won’t be playing the next Horizon game. Oh well. Enough other games to play. Maybe I’ll buy the latest god of war game if the price comes down enough. I’m patient.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 4 months ago:
They are. They are okay. But very messy to eat.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 7 months ago:
Luckily it is not a finite resource.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 1 year ago:
I am very happy with Kagi. Can recommend. In the end someone has to pay for the service. With Kagi I know I don’t pay with my data but with money.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 year ago:
If you are not in for the dividents or the voting privileges stocks are always a game of “I hope someone is dumb enough to pay more than me for these shares”.
- Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together. 1 year ago:
Why do you want to disable updates? Just don’t. It’s unsafe. For you and others.
- Comment on Sign of the times? 1 year ago:
The double cigarette HDMI Adapter is also great:
- Comment on Sign of the times? 1 year ago:
Times are moving fast:
- Comment on a or b 1 year ago:
Whatever LaTeX does by default
- Comment on doot doot 1 year ago:
Fascinating. The model identifies the Harmonica by the hand position.
- Comment on They now put ads in cigarettes 2 years ago:
If you work on not buying cigarettes anymore you avoid the ads and something for your health and your pocket. Triple win.
- Comment on Seven Corndogs 2 years ago:
You are not supposed to make them. Just eat 7 of them.
- Comment on Why is there always that one part of an urban neighborhood where the 5G cell coverage suddenly ceases to exist, even though you can clearly see a tower nearby? 2 years ago:
- The tower doesn’t have 5G (yet)
