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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome, new users!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I use to dislike lemmy.world, because I kept seeing divisive posts from them trying to stir up hate against other instances. I find that kind of unprovoked unnecessary shit-stirring to be ugly.

  But then I realised that these negative posts were always coming from the same couple of users, every time. So it wasn’t because lemmy.world had that attitude, but rather there were a couple of zealots who happen to be on that instance.

  And I think of that whenever someone says bad stuff about other instances; because it’s probably a similar situation - just a couple of people giving the instance a bad rep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do tell!!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sound is better than light for that kind of test - but also still not good; because there are many things that block sound but don’t block wifi, and visa versa. (eg. a well insulated double-glazed window is good vs sound, but doesn’t stop any wifi; and a metal mesh can block wifi while stopping very little sound.)

  I remember one time I spent ages trying to debug a wifi problem with my laptop. I was messing around with computer settings and router settings for ages trying to work out why my wifi had stopped working. But in the end, I found that it was entirely due to where I was sitting. I sitting in front of my desktop computer’s very large monitor, and the router directly behind the monitor on a shelf in the room next door. The monitor was blocking the wifi. If I move the laptop or the monitor, it worked fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do tell!!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah? Well I know shit all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What movies have you watched this week?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched:

  • The Wild Robot. I was hoping for something along the lines of Wall-E, and was disappointed. The Wild Robot doesn’t have that kind of broad appeal. It’s aimed at children only, and it’s pretty shallow.
  • Heretic. Very good mood building and pacing. Good acting. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t quite feel like the last parts held together well. Pretty good movie though.
  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. A bit of light-weight fun. This kind of movie doesn’t demand the kind of precision that Heretic needs - which is good, because certainly don’t have it! But I think it did a decent job of being what it was trying to be; a good sequel to the first movie. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would based on what I’d read.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The opposition party could obviously be better, but I think they were strong enough that “no preference” wasn’t the right choice. (After all, choosing not to vote is essentially a vote that says “I don’t care who wins”.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Previously I thought almost all of them were, but then I found out that someone I’ve known for years hold that view. Any mention that maybe voting for the democrats would be a good idea results in an angry speech about genocide; which somehow (I’m not sure how) even has them lean towards Trump.

  I appreciate the staunch opposition to genocide. But its kind of weird to see someone take a single issue so strongly to heart that their reasoning ends up inverted such that the candidate they favour is worse even on their one issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a couple games with stats like that; and I do play them a lot… but I think a big slice of the time is that I often leave the game open basically all day while dipping in and out to do other things.

  The play time is ticking up, but I’m having lunch, or doing laundry, or clearing the house or whatever; and I come back to the game when I’m done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Civ is a bit exploitative in that they deliberately release a half-arsed base product with glaring flaws, charging big $$$ for it; and then release a chain of expansion packs to flesh it out and make it complete.

  I was on the beta team for Civ 5; and it was a real eye-opener to see that this is a deliberate strategy. It isn’t just that games are hard to get right. They deliberately hold back to squeeze more cash out. I haven’t bought any civ game since then.

  But yeah, I agree that it isn’t the same type of exploitation as gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on enjoying your life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One must be careful with this kind of reasoning, because often the time is not a cost - but actually a valuable part of the experience in its own right. Walking to the corner store is slower than driving - but can be a worthwhile experience for its own sake - as it give a bit of time for quiet reflection, and light exercise, and fresh air. Depending on your tastes, a similar thing could be said about doing some maintenance work on your bike vs paying someone to do it for you.

  Getting too bogged down in time vs money can potentially lead to miscalculations and stress. Is it better to give someone a quick blowjob for a bit of extra cash so that you can pay someone to vacuum your house? Perhaps the calculation is not really one-dimensional.

  For me, simply spending less time thinking about money is worth quite a bit of ‘wasted’ money & time; because I value the headspace that would otherwise be consumed by that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a bookstore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Amusing greentext - but doesn’t match the bookshops that I was in recently. There are some really good bookshops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry it bothers you like that.

  I personally don’t feel alienated or attacked at all by the kinds of comments you are describing. When I see a comment like “men murder women”, I think of it in the same kind of way comments like “humans are horrible” or “Australians are racist” or “young people have no attention span”… That is to say it describes a trend or someone’s perception of a tendency but does not refer to any specific individual.

  People aren’t saying these things to attack you. They are saying them to communicate their own feelings of being unsafe. And to be frank, feeling that you shouldn’t go for a walk at night because it is too dangerous is a pretty serious thing which has obvious negative effects - and the concern is based in reality. It isn’t just a perception problem. So we should take these comments seriously - not just complain about the people saying them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble Wobble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re past the point of humour on that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They just don't understand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  some cables can lose some signal strength after a few years of usage

  Roughly how many years are you thinking about? I’ve been using the same 10m ethernet cable for more than 20 years. And my expectation was that only physical wear would damage it (eg. rolling and unrolling it to deploy in a different place; possibly closing a door on it accidentally… that kind of thing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure those are added in the step before. But what do I know about factory farming?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's PC works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One upside of AAA games turning into unimaginative shameless cash-grabs is that the biggest reason to upgrade is now gone. My computer is around 8 years old now. I still play games, including new games - but not the latest fancy massively marketed online rubbish games. (I bet there’s a funner backronym, but this is good enough for now.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wanna ROCK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprisingly, this even applies to black holes (i.e. Hawking radiation).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if you are getting “punched down” (aka offended) by a joke posted on lemmy, by a random guy, you should realize that it is simply not that deep

  I think you’ve misunderstood what punching down means. It has nothing to do with being offended. It’s about the relationship between the person telling the joke and the subject of the joke. For example, it’s generally fine for anyone to make jokes mocking rich people; but its not ok to make jokes mocking poor people unless you yourself are very obviously a poor person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably anyone who ever gotten any pressure about handling last-names after marriage might care. It’s definitely something that some people care about, and some people cop flack for their decision.

  The joke is just a joke, but the problem is that this joke punches down. That’s generally poor form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing pink is chaotic evil?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Le Reddit Army is Here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d suggest “nothing” for the time being.

  There are a lot of different people around here, and different people get angry about different things. So there’s always going to be a lot of different bad things said about a large instance like lemmy.world. But whether or not those things are actually a real problem is for you to decide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: 🎉🍾🍻🎇🎆 Wednesday, 1 January, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of planes around (as well as fireworks).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a similar decision around 20 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: ✳️✴️❇️⭐ Monday, 30 December, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get a bit like that when I’m not going outside enough. It sucks, because it also makes me not want to go outside (and I feel like I have no reason to).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess not. Its just that when I hear ‘theoretical physics’ I immediately think of particle physics (and related fields). I have this idea that in most branches of physics people just say the topic, eg. astronomy, material sciences, or whatever; and don’t usually specify whether they are doing theoretical work or experimental/empirical work. But in particle physics … my impression is that people are more likely to specify. Anyway, that’s just my own bias I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think 〉 means a very hungry (or at least large mouthed) crocodile, and > is just a normal one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The lines are the crocodiles wide-open mouth… … but yeah, I’m not a fan of this kind of mnemonic. It requires remembering a heap of details, such as which way the crocodile is facing, and does it prefer to attack the larger number or the smaller number - and how the relates to negatives… Which I think is surely more difficult than just remembering that the large end of the wedge is the larger number, and the small edge of the wedge is the smaller number.

  That said, having multiple different ways of remembering something is often helpful, particularly when getting started. (I remember having a bunch of different ways to remember which was “left” and which was “right” when I was a child. But now I don’t think about any of those things anymore.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely in theoretical physics, the most common use of > is in a ket (eg. |ψ>).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You pretty much said it. The Steam version often has all sorts of stuff for Steam integration… and the Steam version is the default version. So various hooks for achievements and networking and mod installation may be different. Messing with any of that could easily break something. Furthermore, GOG does have its own API that some games use (again, for achievements and cloud saves); so if a game has chosen to use those features they may accidentally break something.

  But even aside from possible difference between versions; bugs in the game itself still have to be addressed on every platform. Even if they don’t bother testing the new version, they still have to at least push the update - which is still more work than zero work. This is why it is fairly common to see games that are under active development only have their beta version on Steam (or in some cases only Epic), even when they intend to launch on a bunch of platforms.

  So for some games (certainly not all, but definitely some), patches come on Steam first and GOG at some point later. Maybe a day later, or a week later, or in some rare cases not at all. Similarly for DLC. And that definitely isn’t GOG’s fault. There isn’t really anything GOG can do about it. It’s just a side-effect of Steam being the far bigger platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve pretty much got it. It’s bad, but it’s not horrible. Trying to execute some random file such as a texture basically just doesn’t work… but only by luck. It’s possible, but unlikely that the data might look enough like an actual program to run and do something unpredictable.

  I’m not aware of any major reasons why its a problem to make everything as executable (and I know that when I open an NTFS drive from linux, all the files are executable by default - because NTFS doesn’t have that flag). From my point of view I just think its sloppy. I figure it can’t be hard for GOG to just correctly identify which files are meant to be executable. For most games its just a single executable file - the same one that GOG’s script is launching. And presumably the files that developers provided GOG have the correct flags in the first place.

  Anyway, not really a big deal. Like I said, I just think it’s a bit low-effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you seriously asking how a piece of computer software might fail to operate correctly?