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- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 9 hours ago:
It’s a long history lesson. But the gist is that IBM made an architecture that allowed for modular LEGO style construction of computers. They were assholes and tried to make it lock down by keeping software secret and proprietary, but it was so popular that everyone else copied it and IBM/PC clones were born. Then the architecture became the standard, and everyone could make components for a PC with (more or less) assurance that any component made would be compatible and fit into (almost) any other computer.
Phones, on the other hand were born out of the necessity of being the smallest and most portable device possible. This meant bespoke solutions. The people who were chasing that format chose an architecture, ARM, that at the time required everything to be on a single chip. Memory, storage, CPU, CMOS, everything has to be on the chip. Which means exchanging parts is not possible. System on chip became the smart phone standard. Now, technically ARM doesn’t have to always be SOC. But it means two things, first is that every phone model is an unique and bespoke production that will never exist again once out of print. Second, it is a Titanic task to reverse engineer certain parts of it, firmware for sensor input is always unique, for example.
This means that FOSS is at a disadvantage. To make free open software for a phone means that, either a manufacturer is magnanimous and gives you all the firmware, or after a major effort to reverse engineer lots of pieces of software, it will be useless for the next model of phone. You either make your own open standard phone, which is a several billion dollar r&d endeavor. Or you’re constantly shooting at a fast moving target.
No one has created an open standard that allows small component manufacturing of mutually interchangeable parts for phones. Risc-v is close but not yet terribly financially viable.
- Comment on Do I fit into any subculture? (I'm from the UK if that helps) 21 hours ago:
When it comes to this type of things there are two camps or scenarios:
- You give yourself a label and define it through your actions. “I’m Emo, because I said so”. This is how many subcultures name themselves, social groups of the same interest give themselves a descriptor and run with it. Usually around a shared taste in music genre.
A. You do you spontaneously, then other people give you a label to describe you. Then groups usually adopt the name and run with it. A lot of labels come from this scenario as well.
The point is that both scenarios also interact and dialogue. Some people redefine the label through their actions, usually from terms that started as derogatory insults and are then appropriated by the in group then redefined as an identity. Sometimes self chosen labels are then reinterpreted by the public and resignified by the out group.
It’s all very fluid and always changing. Don’t fret too much over it. Whatever label you define yourself or get assigned to today might as well mean nothing in a couple of years because culture is alive and constantly moving.
- Comment on I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce] 1 day ago:
He’s a conman and very good at selling his reputation. (Artificially) deep voice, fancy words, and distracting audiences with a blackboard. It’s all it takes to project a strong and attractive image that gather audiences.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 6 days ago:
It’s mostly the TV. The input difference between wired and BT should be very small, though the switch is not optimized for wired controllers. The variability of TV response times on the other hand it massive in comparison. Specially modern TVs with heavy post processing who think they are clever trying to interpolate frames or other shit like bad HDR implementations, etc. HDMI DRM also adds latency.
All that causes most TVs to be subpar for gaming. I still game on TV, mostly cozy games. But I accept that nothing competitive will come out of gaming on a TV.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 2 weeks ago:
Anything can be a hard drive if you are creative enough.
- Comment on Is it okay to eat after brushing in the night 3 weeks ago:
Flossing is healthier than brushing in this scenario, without risk of wearing out enamel.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 4 weeks ago:
It is rather interesting that the kind of people that puts a punisher sticker in their car would be the firsts in line to eat a bullet by the punisher if he existed. Which is why marvel recently changed the logo. Though that doesn’t change anything IRL. At least the creators do show audiences that if a militia adopted punisher’s logo, and tried to associate it ideologically with their way of thinking. It would only target them as the punisher’s next victims.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 4 weeks ago:
Please don’t propagate the myth that all gays are ultra horny and promiscuous all the time. It is not true. Gay men deal with a shit ton of toxic standards as well.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 4 weeks ago:
if you were gay things would be easier.
If you don’t have standards, maybe …
Gays looking for a hookup are some of the most superficial and demanding dating pool members. Dudes looking like the Penguin on Batman Returns will demand Adonis or infant looking twinks and nothing else. It’s very hard and very rare to find people actually willing to give a chance to non-hegemonic looking guys.
- Comment on Bird 4 weeks ago:
I mean, for that matter, neither fish or bird technically exist (also, trees). So it doesn’t matter. Try feeding birdseed to a penguin and you’ll see.
- Comment on Bird 4 weeks ago:
Ok, so you say humans come from monkeys, right?
But then, who put the monkeys there in the first place, uh?
Have you ever thought of that?
/s
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No, they don’t. The increase on electric consumption is because of another factor in your house. If family is on summer vacation that could be why. Sometimes people forget that by virtue of having free time, they spend more time inside and generally use more gadgets, items, electronics, etc. for entertainment. That do increase the electricity use. A working and studying family spend over half of the day elsewhere. That’s halve of the same electric use as a family that’s watching tiktok, playing videogames and watching TV inside the whole day.
- Comment on US education 5 weeks ago:
Oh we do measure why’s, that’s the point of social sciences. You just have to accept that purpose and intent don’t exist in a vacuum and are the result of human perception and expression then study it as such. As a human phenomenon. From philosophy to psychology, there’s a vast body of analysis on the why of many things. Cultural artifacts for example are the equivalent of batteries, where meaning is concentrated, captured and can be measured, studied and analysed.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 1 month ago:
They ratted on themselves. Hundreds of couples get put on the screen on coldplay concerts and nobody remembers them. It was their stupid reaction, as if a sniper was going to shoot them, that made the clip go viral.
Had they not reacted at all they would’ve been forgotten like everyone else.
They were warned even, Chris Martin always warns audiences of the camera before hand so they could’ve gone into the back for a minute and been on zero risk of this happening. But a guilty consciousness ousted them.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 month ago:
This explains why I can’t buy games right now. I tried to use PayPal and it failed but now my account seems to be blocked from any purchase. Not even direct card. When I asked support they demanded a screenshot of my cart.
Dude, Gabe, I just want to play outer wilds. There’s no tits, let alone incest in Outer wilds. I’ve never bought a porn game in my life. Why am I being punished for a billionaire company’s moral panic?
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 month ago:
It’s all the cocaine. When I watched madmen I thought it was an exaggeration. Then I dated a guy who worked in marketing and met his coworkers.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
They probably are. But, this problem is also much larger for them than for other players. Oneplus is estimated to have sold 10 million phones over a one year. Samsung sold 4 times that number of s24 alone. If the suppliers can’t provide that level of manufacturing then they have to build the supply chain themselves, and that takes a lot of time, R&D and money.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 1 month ago:
God forbid the racist asshat doesn’t feel welcome on the internet. Fuck asmongold, he is stupid and this argument is stupid, racist and made in bad faith. He is plain wrong, don’t defend the racist.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 1 month ago:
Is this fish but with plants?
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
I find it funny, because it is not required at all. You could be the most casual lazy ass gamer, and still see and accomplish every piece of content inside the game. The game doesn’t penalize you, and instead goes out of the way to reward the player for everything they do, even if it is just loitering around and barely progressing stuff at random and by chance.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
Then you don’t engage with over 60% of the game anyways. Sounds to me like a balanced game that has something to offer to a variety of players, and anxieties, overfixation and stress with some gameplay and not other seems to be something the player brings in and is not caused by the game.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
I might be remembering wrong, but I think it is entirely possible to develop relationships with the town characters and see almost all of the cutscenes without ever upgrading any of those.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
You don’t find out what that means unless you made it to year two and it immediately tells you that you can keep trying anytime you want.
It’s not a one and done, you can literally retry the test infinitely. There is no crunch period at all, this anxiety comes from players misunderstanding things the game says in plain English.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
Some people have an money anxiety built in that translates into the game. The funny thing is they bring it all themselves, the game makes absolutely no fuzz at all about making money.
The very first scene is the main character running away from the ratrace to a farm. Yet the very first thing some players do is bring in the ratrace with them. Everything in the game makes money and no money at all is ever required by the game from the player, except to advance the farming itself. It doesn’t even have banks or debts like animal crossing.
It’s bizarre how people, when left to their owe devices, simply reproduce the worse habits of real life.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 month ago:
It is also controversial because sexual arousal is far from the only reason men have erections.
This study is an example, there’s an alternate interpretation that affirms homophobia is actually the result of repressed sexuality, in general. Thus any sexual stimuli would be arousing. Thus causing an erection, regardless of the gender displayed, and irrespective of the person’s sexual orientation.
This tracks with the fact that almost all homophobes are politically conservative, tend to be highly religious, or are very young and immature. They all coincide with environments prone to sexual repression.
The other variation is that anger also causes arousing.
This study was too small to control for those kind of factors.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
His obnoxious voice is fake, just as him. There are videos of him outside the streaming. His voice is artificially lowered for streams and videos. He’s all fake.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
“Not only I’m not gonna support it, I gonna actively tell people to not support it. Because this is stupid. This is shit. Eat my ass.”
— Thor “PirateSoftware” Hall, on the Stop Killing Games proposal.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
Deltarune didn’t exist yet. It’s an undertale ripoff.
Which is very telling, tobyfox released a whole game on his own. While this " I worked at blizzard, BTW" tool hasn’t with an (allegedly) entire company around him. He’s a grifter, he scams people around him to profit off of other’s work. That’s all he does.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 month ago:
The worst part it that this are far from the only two events. He has been kicked from several other guilds, for exactly the same narcissistic and egoistic behavior. If everywhere you go it smells like shit, at some point you have to start checking your own shoes. He is just always adamant that it’s other people’s fault that it smells like shit, when he has full diapers.
- Comment on Are display sizes always measured in inches? 1 month ago:
Tho relationship of nautical miles and knots for speed is really good for navigating over a sphere. There are some handy shortcuts that make quick mental calculations fast and intuitive, specially with an e6b flight computer (not an electronic).
The alternative would’ve been to use euclidean planes, projections and radian transformations, which would’ve been harder to use for navigating.