tempest

@tempest@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo manufacturers way more than valve does. They were producing switch 2s for almost a year or more before releasing so the current product on the shelf was made with cheap RAM or with RAM that was purchased on contract. They might be able to ride their current stock level for some time and walking the price up slowly so it doesn’t look as big when they actually have to pay the price of current memory cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s not hard to do the math.

  Steam has 15 years of good will so they get the benefit of the doubt.

  The others have more sordid history so people are less charitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, that's crazy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A ‘man that sucks, but I gotta go … <insert whatever you gotta do>’ will get you out of this about 50 percent of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨power generator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What if the pipeline already existed… But it was made of light

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They love those the most because they integrate them and then use it to justify a promotion or move so they can get out of Dodge before the inevitable explosion happens on the next guys watch. The next guy blames the previous guy and then repeats the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ever create an account just to leave a negative review?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything where the person is visible is pretty much professional.

  Just because they’re on only fans or whatever doesn’t make it any less professional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was different vibe back then⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an Xbox with this dash.

  It belonged to my girlfriend and was never updated. It’s an interesting time capsule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He got 7 million to do this job. He’ll probably do a half ass job and spend half (if that) to do the actual work.

  In 2 months people will forget about this and that dude can basically retire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what they do now (and have done for the last 3 decades but Walmart is a lot older than that and you don’t get to be in that position by accident.

  They were sourcing cheap Chinese goods in the early 80s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they could 50 years ago but they decided then that Walmart was the way to go.

  Now all most of them can afford is Walmart

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banning from social media⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ban social media only criminals will have social media…

  Seriously though I’m not even sure how you define social media such that it couldn’t be gamed into meaninglessness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New gf⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was pretty sure it was gonna be a raccoon.

  Also I did not realize Shriek was a bird. I only knew it as the vehicle in the 2001 fps tribes 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any mistake I make is actually just my dialect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨klown show 6 x-treme⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pinta is more like a fancy paint alternative.

  It has layers but it way more accessable than gimp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨klown show 6 x-treme⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s something you might have called someone with a physical disability on the school yard in the 90s but I have not heard anyone use it in that way in a long long time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am low vision so I can’t see a phone unless it’s nice and close.

  This fact has saved me from many of these situations. If they are extra insistent I tell them to send me the link and reply with a laugh emoji as is expected in our culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we impeach the pedophiles now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always going to be razor thin margins because it’s a two party System and first past the post.

  Anything that doesn’t address that problem is just window dressing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we impeach the pedophiles now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if (big if) the Dems win this year it’s going to be like a 52 to 48 " landslide" . Then they will fix nothing and maybe punish 1 or 2 people but not address the principal cause, in the name of “unity”.

  Then you get to roll the dice again on 8 years but likely with someone a little more clever than the Dorito bonito.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SlopOS 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually a very good example of middle managers in a large organization getting marching orders and seeing which way the wind is blowing.

  IBM had a similar thing in the early 2010s when they decided they were all in on “cloud” (about 10 years too late). Every manager saw where things were headed and pivoted whatever their product was to “Cloud” regardless of the suitability.

  The higher ups like this too because it lets them put everything under the “cloud” or AI heading on earnings and revenue and makes them look like they are nimble and working on the new hotness, even if it’s just someone moving their calculator to a web app or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting older is so much fun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Superman does good, you do very well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAl: *decides to shut down their Al slop video generating model Sora*. Everyone else:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say. It still works. They just couldn’t find a customer willing to pay the high price at the moment. Someone will make another model to do what it did.

  I suspect the current government just didn’t want the plebs to have access and put Pentagon Pete in more videos and it was a small price to pay for open AI to make them happy and make sure they are the only ones who get to make shitty AI tiktok slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dang it, know I need new hardware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The gacha games just keep lowering the poly count until your waifu is 2d, so long as the loot boxes still open the customers won’t notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumb glasses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the marketing guys are doing their job which is to convince you that you are getting a video feed for your to do cool things with. The actual reason is free camera wearing automatons are cheaper than ones you have to pay for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BAAAAAABY SHARK DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It hurts to read “The original song dates back to the 20th century” in the Wikipedia article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a hard life but I’m working through it with my therapist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cigs w/o u⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point in the late 90s or early 2000s they banned cigarette advertising.

  I didn’t think about it but at this point i don’t know any brands anymore. My father smoked players when I was young, and Benson and hedges used to sponsor some public events but otherwise I guess it worked.

  That or cigs got too expensive to smoke brand name. My grandfather, before he died of lung cancer was smoking big clear bags of cigs from the reserve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an 82 inch TV that is wall mounted.

  My girlfriend can’t lift one side of it so if I ever need to take it off the wall I gotta get a friend to come over to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just google the tv model number and find an image of the inputs, then I go by feel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And like the rest of the Internet encouraged regardless of the rules

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is what they are technically doing but they often don’t always consider the consequences and often react poorly when they realize that an Amazon (it whatever) comes along and contributes nothing and monetizes their work while dumping the support and maintenance on them.

  That is the name of the game though if you use an MIT license.