blind3rdeye

@blind3rdeye@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on enjoying your life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They just don't understand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Le Reddit Army is Here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of planes around (as well as fireworks).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a similar decision around 20 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: ✳️✴️❇️⭐ Monday, 30 December, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These dames wanting inclusivity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. That’s interesting.

  Earlier you were saying that you reckon people are oversensitive about use of ‘dude’. You took the angle that it can be ungendered, and so people shouldn’t be oversensitive about its use. But now you mention ‘race-swapping’ and trans women. Apparently it is you who is oversensitive. You are upset about the way people express themselves in cases where it has no practical impact on you. You could just ignore it completely, with no cost and no impact, but for some reason you rail against it instead. It’s interesting what riles some people up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty hard for GOG. Many of the things people don’t like about GOG are not really GOG’s fault, they are just a result of small market share. Steam is the bigger platform, and so naturally it gets priority for basically everything.

  You game doesn’t work on Steam? Then you’d better fix it immediately, because that’s where the bulk of players are. But if your game doesn’t work on GOG… well… maybe fix it when you get some spare time. (Or maybe don’t have a GOG version, because you don’t want to have to keep multiple platforms up-to-date.)

  So publishers and developers are generally less cooperative with GOG. And GOG themselves obviously have much more limited resources to do stuff themselves.

  Steam’s recent work with Linux has been great. And I do wish GOG would have something like that. But again, Valve has vast resources for that kind of thing - and they’ve been working on it ever since the Windows 8 appstore threatened to wipe them out. (That threat fizzled out; but nevertheless, that was what got the Linux ball rolling for Valve.) I’m in two minds about whether GOG should try to boost their Linux support. On the one hand, GOG is all about preservation and compatibility… and so it makes sense to have better Linux compatibility. On the other hand, it would be leaning further into a niche; and working on a problem that is kind of solved already. i.e. We can already run GOG games on Linux with or without a native linux version… it just could be nicer… Maybe it’s not a good use of GOG’s resources to go for that.

  (That said, when I look at their linux start.sh scripts and see cd “${CURRENT_DIR}/game” chmod +x * it makes me think they could probably put at least a bit more effort into their linux support.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Note, if you actually look at that list you’ll see it’s a very loose interpretation of DRM. All of the games on that list work without any kind of phone-home security check, or unlock code, or anything like that. The list is stuff like “getting the DLC requires a third party account”. It’s definitely a list of things people don’t like, but whether it is or isn’t ‘DRM’ is not so clear cut.

  GOG’s official position is that the store doesn’t allow DRM at all. They describe what they mean by DRM on that same page, and it sounds fairly reasonable; but its certainly understandable that some people would prefer a stricter set of rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So virtuous helping another⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I misread that and responded too quickly, Miles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget Big 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  when I talk about it it carries on reasons only knew

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wipes his ass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. Just be sure that the wipes really are “flushable”. I mean, you can flush basically anything - but most things are bad for your plumbing and for the wider sewage system. My understanding is that if the wipe doesn’t break apart easily when it is wet, then it is not suitable for flushing.

  In Australia, I noticed a heap of different ‘flushable’ wipe products vanished after new regulations were introduced. Actually, I don’t recall see any such products at all recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wipes his ass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bidet is the way, for sure. Butt if you don’t have access to that, and you are unfortunately enough to have a messy shit, I suggest spitting on the toilet paper (and give it an extra fold so that it doesn’t tear).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use it. At all. But nevertheless I still have to deal with people constantly telling me that I need to use their ‘app’, and or only giving information in the form of a QR code. I still have to navigate around zombie-people staring at their phones while they walk around. I still have to deal with the fall-out of bad online interactions that kids have had. and so on. The attention-span issue that the green-text mentions results in a dumbing-down of news and media and basically all kinds of information sharing…

  This stuff negatively affects me in obvious and measurable ways, even though I don’t use any of the features of this ‘tool’.