ozymandias117
@ozymandias117@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's that time again 7 hours ago:
If they taught Shays Rebellion in your middle/high school, you went to a much better school than I
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 week ago:
The context of my comment was the previous poster thinking SteamOS should be up-to-date due to being Arch based.
I was explaining why it’s so far behind
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 week ago:
SteamOS takes snapshots of Arch and spends months testing and bug fixing for their hardware
It doesn’t pull directly from Arch
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 1 week ago:
They were introduced as a way to crowdsource OCR
Google would give two words, one they knew and one they didn’t
4chan screwed with them back in the day by all giving the same wrong answer on the second word so their OCR would scan wrong
- Comment on When they have signs like this I always give them a few bucks 2 weeks ago:
That seems inefficient. Surely they know a cheaper weed dealer than I do
- Comment on We were the best of friends 5 weeks ago:
I will point out that when selling cadavars was legal, murders went up from people looking to cash in.
It would be difficult to ensure the dead actually died through accident or natural causes rather than having been killed for their meat.
- Comment on Not being culturalist but are Koreans overtly kind? Story inside. 2 months ago:
I’ve had similar with Vietnamese, Chinese, and Indian friends in college
If their family found out I didn’t have an abundance of food, they’d drag me to their home and feed me until I was about to burst
- Comment on What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is "workable basis on which to negotiate"? 2 months ago:
Trump needs the war to end before elections later this year… I think it’s extremely likely the US agrees to giving Iran more power than it had before the beginning, Trump just needs one small concession so he can call it a “win” even if he’s lost
- Comment on Will an American remake of Squid Game be bad or better than the original? 2 months ago:
I think the question is less “should they” and more, there is one already announced and in production, so what do you think it’ll look like
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 3 months ago:
uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?
Hey now, it’s a Pixel 8 and Raspbian.
Two google apps in a separate profile with a different pin
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 3 months ago:
UserDB does hold data connected to individual user accounts
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 3 months ago:
You see it all the time in Disney animations, Pixar animations, you see it with sprites being the same for clouds and bushes in Mario…
I don’t really see an issue with asset reuse, as long as the actions make sense in the new context
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 4 months ago:
I currently do, maybe not twice, but about 20% more to avoid them
I also refuse to buy several cheaper car companies because of ads I saw years ago, and bought a more expensive car for my wife to avoid them
I’m sure lots of ads work on me, but if your ad is annoying enough, I will pay significantly more to your competitor
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 4 months ago:
The 99 pricing messes with me the other way…
I see like 399, and think it’s 400. Then when I think about whether I want it later, I remember the 4 and the 99 and believe it costs 500
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 5 months ago:
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned…
Slack was taking a big market share over MS Lync
Microsoft rebranded to Teams and gave it away /for free/ to companies, getting them to decide “well, it covers enough basic features… We can save x million dollars/year”
Without thinking about what happens once Teams is the standard
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 5 months ago:
A cosmic bitflip is unlikely to lose all the data
In a video, you’ll get one frame of distortion (if it’s a key frame, it may be several seconds of distortion)
Similarly for a text file, picture, etc.
99.999% of the time you wouldn’t notice
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 5 months ago:
If the US really tried to take Greenland by force, I think China would see the opportunity and try to align with the remnants of NATO
Whether the other countries in NATO agree or not… Dunno
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 5 months ago:
Forgejo is a fork of gitea, because gitea was heading to the GitLab model
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 7 months ago:
It’s been a few years, I dont know if they ever fixed it…
However, at least as of 2022, Wells Fargo (the 4th largest bank), had case insensitive passwords.
If you made your password
hUnTer2, you could also log in withHUNTER2,hunter2,HUntEr2, etc. - Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 8 months ago:
343 needs to go back and rewatch the VODs Bungie put out explaining their weapons triangle, and the reason for shields and armor
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 8 months ago:
Frets on Fire is the one I knew of back when Guitar hero was at its peak
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 9 months ago:
10 years ago, that was believed to be best practice.
If they’re still doing it in the last 2-3 years, they don’t have anyone keeping up with modern security standards
At least it’s not your data
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 9 months ago:
The majority of accounts I have don’t have an expiry
I wouldn’t trust personal data with anything that does - they certainly don’t have any security professionals on staff
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 9 months ago:
NIST’s official password guidelines state you should not have password expiry unless there is evidence of a compromise
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 9 months ago:
That is part of the genre, yeah.
They’re procedurally generated within a range of possible effects and damage based off the “manufacturer” in-game
You’ll end up finding one you really like and using it for like 5 levels, while selling other loot, until you find one that jives more with your play style and is more powerful than your current loadout
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 9 months ago:
::: spoiler If you’re having trouble with red flower buds, maybe explore a different area.
I found them much easier after I unlocked some other things :::
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Even those weren’t super great…
In many cases he provided experimental drugs unapproved by the FDA to test them in other countries
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 9 months ago:
Even with the PS4, the bluray couldn’t play the game.
It had to install to the internal drive and download updates
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 10 months ago:
That’s why all of the major players have been frothing at the mouth to get rid of discs
- Comment on Families took safety into their own hands by painting yellow cross walks. Now, the city of Los Angeles is removing them. 11 months ago:
I don’t understand why you would expect it not to increase safety.
It gives a visual cue to drivers that it is more likely someone is intending to cross at this location.