Sina

@Sina@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that using an image based system with flatpak is one of the best ways for newbies to transition to Linux. Whether that’s SteamOS, Bazzite, Bluefin or Aurora, that doesn’t matter all that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is especially funny in South Korea. Go to a Casino and burn $2000 and you may even get jail time, but gatcha is A ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨11 Best Indie Games of All Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Celeste has to be 1. right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Energy costs money in China too, they still have coal plants and crazy energy cutback mandates every once in a while.

  The truth of the matter is that you need the user interactions from the free model to train and that value cannot be understated and if you are playing catchup it’s a must.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now give me half that performance for $150, without enforcing that whatever it’s called bar thing! (neither of these two things will happen)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic gave Celeste to me for free & oh boy it’s one of the best games I have ever played.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best games these days are almost all indie games, stuff about AAA & ray tracing etc etc is more of a nerd hobby fueled by the industry rather than entertainment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  foobar2000 is a counter example, but yeah the mobile space has none of those

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is testing verified checkmarks in search⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily duck is good enough-ish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he was at the very least rather gifted in some ways. Then his brain declined and then declined again and again. Substances + alcohol + covid fog + aging?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So do I still need to do WvW to get the warclaw?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  think not, you`ll get it from JW story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wireless mouse with silent switches recommendation⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could buy any Asus gaming mouse with user replaceable switches and order a bag of Huano silent switches from AE. (if the noise increases or the switch dies just replace the switc+h)

  This is not a cheap option, but could potentially endure for a longer time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody has experience with GW2 on Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Forget Wine for GW2. If you are lazy just install Steam & add GW2 as an external game to run with Proton.

  If you are not lazy, then install Bottles, give it permissions to the correct GW2 folder with Flatseal & then download the soda 7 runner in Bottles settings. After all this make a default gaming bottle, then change the runner in that bottle to soda 7, enable latency flex to lower the latency at the cost of slightly lower average fps & play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is Firefox supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chrome needs to be reinstalled every once in a while for some reason, or it will underperform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Consistent illumination and shadows is a rabbit hole we really don’t want to hop into.

  Outside of very obvious anomalies even a trained eye will have a hard time discerning what’s going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is Firefox supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mozilla refocus the resources to improve performance, or let FF disappear.

  This whole thing with the private data collection is meaningless, if the browser is increasingly niche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend: “The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spent 5 minutes thinking about this just now and it seems plausible to me. xD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just use invidious, it’s a bit of a chore to use, but it’s increasingly worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding government ID to their data would hardly be anymore of a privacy invasion

  Are you listening to yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe roofies all of their customers (Louis Rossmann's reaction)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Photoshop has unmatched tools to get work done 15 to 30 times faster than Gimp. This does not apply to everything of course and in some niche stuff Gimp’s even faster. However what I use Photoshop for, such as removing unwanted distractions like trash cans, trash, overhead electric cables and such Gimp is like 30 years behind. It’s not realistic that someone would spend many minutes just selecting hair outline in Gimp.

  Ultimately developing these tools has cost evil Adobe many millions of dollars. 1-3 extremely talented and enthusiastic programmers cannot compete with this. Then again in the near future we will either not need Photoshop anymore, or open source projects like Gimp or a more open minded fork could use Ai generated code to develop similar automated tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets | Game World Observer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Celeste, Hollow Knight, Talos Principle, Hyper Light Drifter…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Many retro games are better. AA games were made with heart back then & that made it possible to make games that are incredible both in terms of artistry, grandeur and gameplay. Games like Baldur’s Gate 1-2, Chrono Cross etc are not possible in today’s climate.

  On the other hand we have been handed indie games like Celeste and Hollow Knight, so I don’t know. Amazing games still exists, it’s just not really comparable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you guys actually move aroung your ascended gear to play your alts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t play my alts anymore, but used to just fly with exotics, it’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  , or you think every single person that age is a “vertical video crazy”.

  Sounds about right to me ^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people that are very interested in TikTok largely overlap with the vertical video crazies :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guild Wars 3 | Most Wanted Wish List⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Top 1 wish: no GW3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s amazing. (and FF8 is best FF)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, Skyrim was a huge disappointment for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Linux is Best for Most People⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have set up a Linux computer for my dad just this week. As the other are saying the biggest hurdle is support. Mostly the part where reliable automated update mechanisms don’t exist. The system I created has a WM & a panel and it’s even simpler than chrome OS, but here is no way my dad could deal with a message, where apt would ask him, if he wanted to update to the maintainer’s grub version. Making an update script is very easy, but whether you use Debian stable, Ubuntu or Arch eventually some kind of intervention is going to be required beyond just typing sudo passwords…

  Though truth to be told Windows has a lot of garbage problems (perhaps even more than L) as well, it’s just people have gotten used to them after 20 years of NT on desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the past 10 years I have only used public toilets like 20 times, probably had to pay for half that.

  Also it just occurred to me that here most tourist attractions have paid toilets as well. (castles and such) As for malls, I’m talking about the fancy mall with restaurants, jewelry stores and a multiplex, not the Walmart type.