UnfortunateShort
@UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 2 days ago:
1/3 of the Steam + Linux market, that accounted for an incredible 1.45% of Steam installs in February. This means there were roughly 67 Windows gamers for every Linux gamer (using Steam) that month.
So even if Linux gamers are 10 times more likely to care (and pay for) for game preservation, you are not even approaching the number of Windows users that might. Suppose 90% of Linux gamers care, while only 9% on Windows do, you still have roughly 6 Windows users for every Linux one. And this is a very generous assumption to make.
Maybe, eventually, at some point, this makes sense financially. But if your goal is to be profitable, you grab the low hanging fruits first, not invest in maybe 10% more potential users.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 days ago:
What if I told you that the intersection between people who care and the 5% of their potential audience that are Linux users is very small either way?
I’m not saying Linux isn’t a chance for them, but it’s also an investment and very like not a profitable one for quite a while.
- Comment on frenly warnin 2 weeks ago:
Since you can set temporary, server-only nicknames, you don’t even need to edit the page source or Photoshop to stage that
- Comment on Am I the only one? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty damn cool tech tho. Another step towards second heart cyberware
- Comment on Watch out for that 5G 4 weeks ago:
You think about it the wrong way. GPS is not passive, it is everywhere
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 1 month ago:
Jokes on you, I got mic and cam on a physical USB-switch. So unless I go in “conference mode”, your attack is futile
- Comment on I am a meat crayon 1 month ago:
I said you can use a bidet. Or have a poopy butt and live in denial if you prefer
- Comment on I am a meat crayon 1 month ago:
You should consider wet wipes. They are a total game changer, if a bidet is not an option. When you think the worst is gone, use one (1). Then dry with normal paper afterwards. It’s great.
Don’t flush them before making absolutely, 100% shure they decompose tho! If you can’t easily tear them with your hands, no matter what the packaging says, they will fuck up your plumbing. This can get really expensive, so when in doubt, use a trash can.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 month ago:
I meam, this is true, but labeling all modern conservatives fans of monarchy is disingenuous. There are also fans of unregulated capitalism, racism, facism und probably many other -isms going around!
- Comment on Fuck Red, Fuck Blue. Fly the black flag. 1 month ago:
More like black and a dark grey tbh
- Comment on Dad 1 month ago:
This is the English equivalent of random Chinese words printed on a shirt
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 1 month ago:
Or just plain Bratwurst im Brötchen. With ketchup and mustard typically applied by the customer, usually using these disgusting squeezy-bottle-thingies
- Comment on I didn't ask for any of this. 1 month ago:
Time to become an astronaut then. Where’s your ambition?!
- Comment on It really is like this 2 months ago:
As we all know, there has never been any chinese app trending in the US. This because people hate the Chinese and everything they touch /s
- Comment on Feelin free 2 months ago:
You know, if you lived self-sufficient you’d still have to work for meeting basic needs. Even in pretty much any form of socialism you are expected to work. So yeah, I don’t know what you think you are saying, but I think you are saying a whole lot of nothing here
- Comment on My computer will remember for me, I'm just along for the ride. 2 months ago:
Honestly, that’s a super green flag. I appreciate it a lot when people don’t blast some bs they think they have heard from whomever
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 2 months ago:
The problem are the shitty modern cars that are partly hard to repair so you have to pay for parts and service, partly because they want to sell you bs “features”, while they also break constantly, because they are made to be as cheap as possible. Brought to you by the generation that now makes fun about people stuck in the system they helped to create
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
Jokes on you, my dad took my mom’s name
- Comment on Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs 3 months ago:
You wanted to fuck you friends meatloaf?
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 3 months ago:
Is it legally wrong? Yes. Should it be legally persecuted? Absolutely. Is it, in this specific instance, morally justifiable or even admirable? I would say you could definitely argue that.
I’m not familiar enough with the dead guy to judge, but from what I have heard I’m leaning towards “yes and yes”.
- Comment on Good to see AAFES looking out for my health 3 months ago:
If you smoke, you better start vaping, if you vape, you better stop vaping, it’s that simple.
If you can’t, at least don’t use throwaway and sketchy products for anything you plan to inhale.
- Comment on Rust 3 months ago:
The thing is, much of the new stuff is intended to replace old stuff. Modern C++ is a completely different experience than old C++ - actually a much better one imo. But then there are two problems which makes things messy:
- Lagacy code, where introducing new concepts without updating the older parts increases complexity.
- People who don’t know or don’t care and just copy-paste whatever, mixing styles and standards.
In both cases, you end up needing to know how to do things the new way and the old way, while one of which would be sufficient.
There are exceptions of course (
try{ pun(); }catch(const NotFunnyException& err){ return NOT_INTENDED;}
). - Comment on Humans... Just The Worst 4 months ago:
THEY ARE DRAWING CLEARLY UNDERAGE GIRLS AND CLAIM THEY ARE 900, DAD! DAD? DAD WHAT IS THIS GREEN WEBSITE!? HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW LAPTOPS?! OH GOD! I MEAN, YOU, I MEAN… MICHAEL! MICHAEL HELP!
- Comment on Drink the climate change away 4 months ago:
There are alternatives tho, no reason to support them
- Comment on Average Steam User 4 months ago:
c/unixsocks in a nutshell
- Comment on It's a MASSIVE!!! burden 4 months ago:
There is always a bigger penis
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- Comment on “No” 4 months ago:
Well he’s Japanese, so between 0 and 31 I guess.
- Comment on (In Python) Can you save an object that is in memory to disk and reload it at a later time? 4 months ago:
You can stuff all the info into an object and use it this way, no problem. I just wanted to point out that this doesn’t have zero performance impact compared to what you currently have.
So (depending on how your OS caches files) you might not want to do this like twice in a lambda that you pass to an iterator over a huge slice or something.
- Comment on (In Python) Can you save an object that is in memory to disk and reload it at a later time? 4 months ago:
I think pickle is what you want.
Keep in mind that this might have a huge performance impact if you do it all the time - it’s still IO even when it’s not parsing.
- Comment on Get the hell out of my office 5 months ago:
IMO this is one of the best crime thrillers by a long shot… If you ignore the Scrubs-move at the end that is